Shelf Life

Related Tactics (Michele Carlson, Weston Teruya, and Nate Watson)
design by Vivian Sming (Sming Sming Books)
custom sticker sheet
2019

This special edition of Shelf Life was designed by Sming Sming Books as a special color accessible one-sheet. For backstock inventory sales, contact info [at] relatedtactics [dot] com.

Shelf Life is a series of actions and a starting point for examining larger systems of power a reader might overlook for the merits or enjoyment of an individual book. The publication, created by Related Tactics, contains prompts that invite readers to reflect on how our collected knowledge may be incomplete, even if there are some sections that feature a diversity of voices. Are there other areas where we may need to seek out more authors, resources, or publishers, and continue expanding our perspectives?

Shelf Life notably asks readers to sticker categories of books that might otherwise be viewed as normative, therefore the unmarked, invisible center.