This one feels like Juxtapoz in full holiday-mode confidence: bright, varied, and stacked with artists who were shaping that mid-2010s art-pop moment. It opens with Bryan Derballa’s restless street-level photography, a kind of visual hum that runs through the issue, before dropping into Lucy McLauchlan’s fluid, monochrome murals—those looping, organic lines that feel like wind brushing a city wall. Andy Mueller’s Studio Time segment peels back the curtain on The Quiet Life’s visual universe, setting up perfectly for the fashion feature that doubles down on that laid-back, skate-adjacent LA energy.
From there the magazine shifts into colour-heavy territory with Craig & Karl’s punchy design work, a burst of pop geometry that bounces right into a Bryan Derballa photo spread, keeping the pace quick and curated. The Influences section with Seth Hernandez adds a quieter, reflective breather before the heavyweight: a focused celebration of Keith Haring—bold lines, activist fire, and the late-80s Manhattan pulse echoing through the pages. Eddie Martinez follows with thick, muscular abstractions, a gritty counterpoint to the clean commercial polish elsewhere in the issue.
