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“Print isn’t coming back,” says Tallow, the former art director. “But the feeling of holding a well-designed story in your hands? That’s never left. It just changed its file extension.” “I download PDFs of Indie Scope and Screen
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But for now, the static, beautiful, intentional page of a PDF magazine remains a quiet rebellion against the chaotic infinite scroll of the social media feed.