Uppercase 51

Issue 51: October/November/December 2021

Dear Reader,

Quilts are personal.

Whether created by hand or machine, the seams and stitches that make up a quilt are from the heart and mind of the maker.

Things that had little utility on their own are brought together are reinvigorated as a patchworked object of self-expression.

Quilts are poetry.

And for those of us who aren't professional textile artists or even casual quilters, their tradition and visual history evoke emotion, memory and story.

Quilts are renvention.

Quilts and patchwork can inspire us to create work that is written, drawn, painted or collaged.

Assembling the unique pieces of ourselves into a blanket of shared cultures and values, we take fragments of ideas, scraps of fabric and pieces of ourselves and reassemble them into a greater whole.

Janine Vangool, editor

114 pages

UPPERCASE is a quarterly magazine for the creative and curious inspired by craft, design, typography and illustration. Published since 2009, the magazine has an enthusiastic and loyal readership of designers, illustrators, craftspeople, creative entrepreneurs and paper lovers around the world. Ads-free, with high-quality production values and a unique design aesthetic, the content of each issue is eclectic and inspiring.