"Mikolai argues that magazines are, at least in part, a response to the "increasingly horrible, online experience we all have to deal with" - AI slop, pop-up banner ads, SEO rubbish and the dead internet theory. "We've almost broken this amazing thing we invented," says Mikolai. "As the world moves faster and gets more chaotic, there's something nostalgic and comforting about sitting down with a coffee and a physical magazine you can read.""
""The problem was I couldn't decide on a single game that encapsulated that blue skies ethos. So eventually I decided that a series of postcards featuring different Sega games would be a fun way to let people choose and create their own front cover design," says Mikolai. And that's where Will 'Devil's Blush' Stevenson comes in. "I'd been a fan of this work since I first came across it a few years back. He takes these amazing, scanline heavy images of classic video games."
Forgotten Worlds is a print project built around four double-sided postcards with a die-cut front cover that allows readers to swap Sega-themed covers. The project features Will 'Devil's Blush' Stevenson's scanline-heavy reinterpretations of classic video games, highlighting crunchy pixel detail and recontextualised imagery. The magazine is positioned as an antidote to intrusive online experiences such as AI-generated content, pop-up ads, SEO-driven noise and the dead internet theory, advocating slow, coffee-and-print reading. The name evokes abandoned futures and aims to restore an 1980s-style optimism with a pixellated, clear-eyed vision of happiness.
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