Special thanks to The Desktop Issue’s contributors: A. While reading, you can also listen to our Spotify playlist curated for this edition!Īlong with the zine, we are releasing the Adobe Illustrator file used to create the front and back cover elements, which includes a wood texture, sticky notes, a phone, an open book, lined paper, notebooks, highlighters, an eraser, a pencil, and a pen! EratoZine1-DeskElements.ai is licensed by Erato under CC BY-NC. A desk is also a reflection of current experiences, littered with objects indicating beginnings and endings, a surface of subtle intimacies ripe for examination.Ĭlick here to read The Desktop Issue. On each desk is a student’s identity, spread across the tabletop.

Some might keep their desk simple and organized, while others might have a system that works only inside their mind. Papers are written on and put away, drawings made and scrapped, laptops opened and closed, candy wrappers set aside to be discarded later. The limited horizontal real estate in a student’s room results in a student’s desk being in constant flux. This is a quick, fun read for history buffs.Erato is excited to share our first online-exclusive zine! The Desktop Issue focuses on a student’s desk as a microcosm of identity: The flavor of the era and the pathos of the protagonist are beautifully conveyed and highlighted with educational tidbits about the period. It’s said that she was the most beautiful of of the nine Muses because of what she represented. She’s often shown as a young and very beautiful maiden, like her sisters, being seated with a wreath of roses and myrtle on her head. The conflicts, the angst, the scandals, and twisted alliances that ensue are deftly handled with humor and charm. Erato’s name means ‘lovely’ or ‘desired’ in Greek and this can be seen in how she’s usually depicted. Meanwhile, Brummel, a young coronet under the Prince's command seems born to establish the standards of good taste in London society and is socially elevated by his association with the Prince.

The Prince was passionately in love with Maria Herbert, whom he was not, by law, allowed to marry, and spent most of his adult life trying to dictate men's fashion, as his path to secure elusive popularity. Few political details are explored here, for Prinny largely left governing to others. Prinny, a star-crossed royal who wants little more than to be publicly admired, states his case in first person, spanning the years from his young adulthood through his Regency, while his father was incapacitated. Taking you back to the era of Mad King George, The Cut of the Clothes explores the complicated relationship of Prince George (known to many as 'Prinny') with young George 'Beau' Brummel, the maker of modern men's fashion.

The Cut of the Clothes by Erato