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Alan Rapp

@criticalterrain.bsky.social
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I make books with cool people and manage content projects. Editorial director @signalspress.bsky.social. Banner: "a mirthless chuckle"

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Signals Press @signalspress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As our campaign for Industrial Music / Graphics draws down to its final minutes, we are sending thanks again to our nearly 400 backers. This book has a specific community in mind, and we're making a small (1–2") embroidered patch as thanks for you all. More updates as the book develops!
Embroidered orange patch with the books title/logo, "IM/G"
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Alan @gammacounter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Figure 3, Melancholy. From “The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser” by R.V. Pierce, MD.
Drawing of a well dressed men with a mustache holding his head like he is in sadness or grief hand in the pocket next to a fireplace
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Alan Rapp @criticalterrain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Deep gratitude to all of our supporters, and only through @loclode.bsky.social did we learn that our campaign made the goal. We are ecstatic and thankful tonight, with updates to come shortly!
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LODE @loclode.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lil under $800 more needed with 4 days left to go!!!!! Check out Industrial Music/Graphics: A Visual History of a Movement by SIGNALS Press on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/sig...
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Alan Rapp @criticalterrain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm ½ of Signals Press and coauthor of this book. Would love for you to know more about it and the publishing program we're developing.
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Alan Rapp @criticalterrain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Here's the thing about the purported impending Blue Wave. It may happen through pure revulsion on the one hand and apathy on the other. Dems articulating positions goes how far? Their rightward drift is corrupt and lazy. Horrible compacts are being made at the expense of the most vulnerable.
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ReGen Magazine @regenmag.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
News: Kickstarter Campaign initiated for new publication focusing on visual and graphic design history of industrial music regenmag.com/news/news-ki...
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News: Kickstarter Campaign initiated for new publication focusing on visual and graphic design history of industrial music
Just as important as the music is the visual component – the logos, cover artwork, type fonts, stage design, and more that gives the industrial music scene its striking aesthetic. To that end, Chris G...
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Signals Press @signalspress.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Those in the know will recognize the custom typeface that Gilmore designed for Skinny Puppy's 1988 release VIVIsectVI. Own a piece of this design legacy and support the expansive preservation project of the book. www.kickstarter.com/projects/sig... #industrialmusic #limitededition #graphicdesign
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Industrial Music/Graphics: A Visual History of a Movement
Industrial music built a visual language as confrontational as its sound—Throbbing Gristle to Nine Inch Nails, told by its designers.
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Signals Press @signalspress.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Steven R. Gilmore has, by far, more credits in our research archive than any other designer in our book, Industrial Music / Graphics. His work defined the look of Nettwerk and its foremost industrial exponent, Skinny Puppy. He has now created two exclusive T-shirt designs for the campaign. 1/3
Two black T-shirts, one with a vintage hypodermic needle against a skull in profile on one, and two mirrored, bandaged faces in profile in the other, with the word "INDUSTRIAL" overlaid on both. Designed by Steven R. Gilmore for the IM/G Kickstarter campaign.
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Alan Rapp @criticalterrain.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We are insanely proud of how this book is developing and I hope you check out the campaign.
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Signals Press @signalspress.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
You should see these hallowed contributors to Industrial Music / Graphics live in Chicago.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
these people really want to make "racist" akin to a slur rather than what it is, a straightforward label for a set of beliefs and views. if you don't like the label because you, correctly, associate it with degenerate chuds, then get better beliefs
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Signals Press @signalspress.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
IT'S LIVE. Industrial Music/Graphics: A Visual History is on Kickstarter. Two years in the making, collecting the design that gave this music its face, the first time industrial's graphic history has been gathered in one place. This is the object the scene never got. Back it now. Link in bio.
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Alan Rapp @criticalterrain.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
When I met @heroicproject.bsky.social I was surprised that we were both #industrialmusic fans, and agreed that the graphics and packaging for this movement had been sorely overlooked in the annals of ‘80s/‘90s #design. Today the campaign for the book is live: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sig...
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Industrial Music/Graphics: A Visual History of a Movement
Industrial music built a visual language as confrontational as its sound—Throbbing Gristle to Nine Inch Nails, told by its designers.
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Signals Press @signalspress.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Industrial music didn't just change how music sounds. It changed how it looks. Industrial Music/Graphics is the first visual history of the graphic design behind the movement, from TG to NIN, told by the designers who built it. Live @kickstarter.com 8/18 at 8:18am EST. Link in bio.
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Alan Rapp @criticalterrain.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
www.signals.press
signals.press
SIGNALS Press
Architecture, design, and music imprint.
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Signals Press @signalspress.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Something we've been building for a long time: Industrial Music / Graphics, the first comprehensive visual history of the design language that grew up with industrial music. 320 pages. Live on Kickstarter August 11. Follow the pre-launch page now (link in bio).
A quote from Front 242 cofounder and graphic designer Simon Granger, printed over a Nitzer Ebb graphic: That Total Age was definitely constructivism. Belief was Chanel. Showtime was Ilford film packaging, the bold Futura and bright colours. Ebbhead was Gilbert and George. The influences were almost entirely non-music."
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Alan Rapp @criticalterrain.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We learned so much about Steven R. Gilmore's creative process and technical innovations in our discussion with him, and can't wait to share that with you in the book.
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Signals Press @signalspress.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“Design and graphics took on almost as much importance as the music itself, a vehicle to reinforce our image.” –Patrick Codenys, Front 242 Industrial graphic design collected in one place. Live on @kickstarter.com Aug. 11, backers get early access! Follow the prelaunch page now (link in bio).
Design and graphics took on almost as much importance as the music itself
–Patrick Codenys, Front 242
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Alan Rapp @criticalterrain.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
ONE WEEK out from the campaign launch for Industrial Music/Graphics. Follow early for updates on book development, participating designers, new reward tiers, events, and more. www.kickstarter.com/projects/sig...
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Coming soon: Industrial Music/Graphics: A Visual History of a Movement
Industrial music built a visual language as confrontational as its sound—Throbbing Gristle to Nine Inch Nails, told by its designers.
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Alan Rapp @criticalterrain.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Thrilled to pre-launch the campaign for Industrial Music/Graphics, lead title for @signalspress.bsky.social. A trove of album covers and band/label identities, but also a preservation project to document these amazing designers in their own words.
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Coming soon: Industrial Music/Graphics: A Visual History of a Movement
Industrial music built a visual language as confrontational as its sound—Throbbing Gristle to Nine Inch Nails, told by its designers.
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
*Why is this so amazing *If you recognized the existent oligarchy rather than pretending that there is some kind of international order, all of this would make sense
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Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Randolph Mantooth is dead but that fuckface is still alive.
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Bárbara Scarambone @babee.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Fugazi has decided to make Steve’s entire original mix officially available for the first time in transfers pulled directly from the master tapes. This is a digital-only release and the band is donating its share of the proceeds to Letters Charity"
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/07/2026
Call 311 if you see someone outside who might need assistance, and call 911 for emergencies. 

Text NOTIFYNYC to 692-692 to sign up for emergency updates.
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Alan Rapp @criticalterrain.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
dad-coded
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The Complete Kubrick
A titan of cinema whose influence extends across visual art, philosophy, politics, technology, fashion, and beyond, Stanley Kubrick created an unprecedented string of masterpieces, from Paths of Glory...
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Alan Rapp @criticalterrain.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Just started on an archive project of someone who had been profiled and interviewed a lot, and going through their magazine collection. Some have direct or indirect relevance, but a lot are just magazines that hadn't been tossed. Reminded how much mid-80s media is just abundant cigarette ads.
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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A plurality of Democratic voters aren't going to suddenly start being socialists between now and November or 2028. However! A plurality of them are already one billion percent done with a party of weak, milquetoast, reach-across-the-aisle-till-they-bite-you losers desperate to return to 2000.
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Alan Rapp @criticalterrain.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Good god such incredulity, @thehill.com. Simply parroting empty accusations by cheap propagandists thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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Pirro vows to prosecute Reflection Pool vandals
Jeanine Pirro, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, on Sunday said her office would prosecute individuals caught vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after the Trump administrati…
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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This is what cops do. This is who cops are.
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Alan Rapp @criticalterrain.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Please do this.
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Alan Rapp @criticalterrain.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
@stellagarp.bsky.social thots
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026
as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Democrats will likely retake the House and maybe even the Senate this fall. What they *do* with that power depends a lot on the demands we make of them now and the promises for reform and accountability we extract. They -- and the media -- need to see the midterms as a mandate for real change.
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Alan Rapp @criticalterrain.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Oh it's on. #Albini
An announcement from Publishers Lunch 04/13:
Nonfiction
Culture/Pop Culture
Late musician and recording engineer Steve Albini’s STILL DON’T CARE, a posthumous curation of the artist’s writings, art, and ephemera, compiled and with an introduction by the author’s widow, activist Heather Whinna; ranging from early music criticism in zines to short stories to correspondence with clients and friends Nirvana and Pixies, as well as studio notes and writing on pop culture, the music industry, and food, to Ben Greenberg at Random House, by Peter McGuigan at Ultra Literary (NA). Rights also to Dan Papps at Faber & Faber (UK), by Abner Stein.
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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
It seems American civilization has already died.
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The Melody Chamber @themelodychamber.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
💫Released on this day 1986💥 #musicsky #recordingsky #recordingstudiosky #musicchallenge #musicmoments #musicthread #musicproduction #onthisday #nowspinning #vinylsky #vinylrecords #postpunk #indiepop #britpop #newwave #punk #synthpop
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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
$11.3 billion to destroy rather than build up is a scandal and evil.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 05/03/2026
[Exit Murderer.]
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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Walter was back, saying “DHS says they are going after the worst of the worst. They are not. They said Renee Good ran over that ICE officer. She did not. They said Alex Pretti was an assassin but he was not so when DHS describes their facility as safe, secure and humane, they are obviously not.”
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Surely this marriage won’t inspire any weirdness on the American right.
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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
shelter is pretty neat technology, keeps people alive and able to live dignified lives
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Alan Rapp @criticalterrain.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Still have the original vinyl bought in high school (it skips on Time It's Time, so frustrating). One of my favorite albums, hands down.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Everything’s fine
Stuntman does a trick the wrong way in The Road Warrior
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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Every time bluesky isn't loading, I think maybe It Happened.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/02/2026
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Alan Rapp @criticalterrain.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Ppl, now more than ever: sever your reliance on Amazon.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The red headed stepchildren of journalism, despite often putting themselves in great physical danger for their photos.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
i wrote about a sandwich* *and being trans buttondown.com/theswordandt...
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Notable Sandwiches #135: Patty Melt
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where David and I trip merrily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches, in alphabetical order. This...
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