SKREAM: The Rave Issue

SKREAM: The Rave Issue
Concept and Design by Florian Mecklenburg 
Format 180 x 285, 28 Pages

SKREAM is a publication series that explores specific youth cultural currents as preservers of pop cultural phenomena. Each edition taps into zine culture by creating a new zine about zines—an investigation into fashion, attitude, iconography, and visual language sampled from early '90s zines and subcultural artefacts. It documents how visual culture becomes a form of resistance by shaping its own identity.

The Rave Issue draws on distressed typography, rave iconography, and DIY print aesthetics, treating fashion and design as forms of cultural memory—symbols that recur, shift, and signal belonging. In this way, the series acts as both archive and reinterpretation, offering a tactile record of evolving youth expression.

More than nostalgia, Skream uses the cyclical return of certain aesthetics as a lens for understanding how culture processes itself—what it chooses to remember, remix, and reimagine. It asks: how do past subcultures survive through image and style, and what does their reappearance say about now?

Published by CURRENT MATTER® in 2025