The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) features Low-tech Magazine's solar powered website in its latest show: "Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film".
Our installation titled: Photograph of a beach that no longer exists focuses on the historical technique we use to compress our...
2025-05-29 13:46:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Low-tech Magazine is working on four more books to expand the thematic series. The first one will be available in a few weeks. Choosing the themes for the books and selecting the articles is often challenging. We want to publish each article only in one thematic book, while many articles cover several themes. The photo shows the preliminary sele...
2025-05-13 13:10:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Low-tech Magazine is not made by robots, but by flesh-and-blood people, with all their imperfections. In this series, we give a look behind the scenes. In this photo, from left to right: intern Hugo Lopez, founder Kris De Decker, and designer Marie Verdeil. The image was taken by Gui Maglio on the last day of a month of building solar cooker pro...
2025-05-02 08:41:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Coming Tuesday we organize a book launch event in Brussels where we talk about the design process behind the Compressed Book Edition. The presentation, by Kris De Decker and Marie Verdeil, is followed a by a discussion on sustainability...
2025-04-27 13:56:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Earlier this year Rachel Donald interviewed me for her podcast "Planet: critical". Here's the video. Also check out the other episodes, there's lot of interesting stuff there. https://www.planetcritical.com
2024-09-18 11:59:28 +0000 UTC View Post
We published a new article on Low-tech Magazine: Communal Luxury: The Public Bathhouse. Here's two images that did not make the final version. They show the interior and exterior of a public shower bathhouse in Amsterdam, the N...
2024-09-17 11:18:44 +0000 UTC View PostOur new thematic book is now available as a epub.
It is free to download for all patrons who are contributing as a "bike generator" or "windmill".
2024-07-23 21:45:21 +0000 UTC View Post
It took some time, but here's the video of our event in February in Barcelona this year. The (short) intro is in Spanish, but all talks are in English.
2024-06-29 18:13:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Patrons who subscribe to the "windmill" tier receive ten Low-tech Magazine stickers (1 design) and six postcards (3 designs) in their postbox. We will publish at least one new collection of stickers and postcards every year, which you will receive automatically.
2024-05-23 13:10:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Low-tech Magazine opened its first physical bookstore. It is located in AkashaHub, a co-working and event space in Barcelona, Spain. The bookshop - built by Marie Verdeil - is open Monday to Friday 10:00 to 18:00. Visit upon request: hub@akasha.barcelona. The address is Carrer de la Verneda, 19, Nave 1, Sant Martí, 08018 Barcelona.
2024-05-07 11:47:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Patrons can now download the complete Ebook collection of Low-tech Magazine for free.
The ebooks are free for Patrons who support us as a "bike generator", "windmill" or "sailboat".
The ebook collection will be further expanded in the future.
2024-05-01 11:29:15 +0000 UTC View Post
More info: https://www.meetup.com/akashabarcelona/events/299157033/
Poster design: Johanna Gratzer.
2024-02-12 23:17:07 +0000 UTC View Post
The accessibility of the solar-powered website depends on the season. Finding the right time to publish new content and send newsletters can be challenging in winter. Furthermore, as the battery of the solar systems ages, the website will go offline more often.
We are working on more offline reading options 2024-01-03 22:43:52 +0000 UTC View Post
This weekend I published a new article and this morning I sent out a newsletter to 14,000 subscribers. Unfortunately, I did so during one of the worst summer storms ever in Barcelona, being unaware of it because I am in another part of Spain. Lesson learned: always check the weather report before publishing, even in summer. This is the first tim...
2023-08-27 21:04:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Spotted at the Schesaplana (2,996 metres), the summit of Vorarlberg in Austria. Images by Marie Verdeil. We have printed 1,000 stickers for promotion purposes and are curious to know if Patrons are interested.
2023-08-23 21:29:21 +0000 UTC View PostWe have redesigned the tiers for the Patreon page. From now on, there are four tiers, each with their own benefits to which we will adhere to. We will be producing more exclusive content in the coming days, weeks and months. We also have two new books coming later this month.
1. Solar panel ($1). You are doing what you can...
2023-06-13 14:21:59 +0000 UTC View Post
During the last months we have been working on switching the solar powered website from one static site generator platform (Pelican) to another (Hugo). Many readers will not not...
2023-06-11 09:26:34 +0000 UTC View Post
As promised, here's a Patreon preview of the comic that Guillaume Lion made about Low-tech Magazine. It was first published in the Belgian magazine Médor and translated from French by Mira Matthew.
2023-05-12 21:52:44 +0000 UTC View Post
We resumed the publishing of our video series, showcasing the possibilities of human power generation. The video above will be released next week but Patrons can see it already.
2023-05-12 21:37:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Almost every article I write leaves a paper trail, and these printed and scribbled draft versions pile up every few years. This time, before offering the paper for recycling, I photographed all drafts for the two-article series on the bow and arrow. I also include one picture of all draft versions for another article, where the final title only ...
2023-04-30 20:41:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Germán Canyelles on guitar, Lorenzo Patuzzo on the bike.
More about the bike generator: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2022/03/how-to-build-bike-generator.html
2023-04-04 21:08:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Musician Germán Canyelles uses Low-tech Magazine's bike generator to power his electric guitar in Barcelona last Friday.
2023-04-04 21:05:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Getting the complete solar web team in one place at the same time is a challenge. This is the closest we got in Barcelona last week. From left to right: Kris De Decker, Roel Roscam Abbing, Marie Otsuka, and Marie Verdeil. Kathy Vanhout is still missing. We will soon present the fruits of our work.
2023-03-27 18:09:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The complete solar web team is in Barcelona to continue work on the project. Here's a presentation and Q&A we did yesterday at Akasha Hub.
2023-03-17 21:20:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Guillaume Lion, a filmmaker and cartoonist based in Brussels, spent a few weeks behind the scenes of Low-tech Magazine to make a comic for the Belgian magazine "Médor". See the PDF below. (CC BY NC SA...
2023-01-07 21:36:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe newest Low-tech Magazine book collects 18 articles published between 2018 and 2021. Patrons can order it before everyone else, at a reduced price (-20%). This offer is valid un...
2021-11-27 11:54:20 +0000 UTC View Post
We're launching several new books in the coming weeks & months.
The first one available is a second edition of the first book we published in 2019. This new edition has almost twice as many images. In contrast to the first edition, the images are not "dithered" and of higher quality.
We used a smaller font to pack mor...
2021-11-01 16:53:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe second volume of the printed website contains 32 articles originally published between 2007 and 2012. The book has 620 pages and 268 images, and sells for $25.20 in the Lulu Bookstore. It will be launched next week, but patrons can already order it: 2019-11-26 18:23:48 +0000 UTC View Post
The Low-tech Magazine book is finally for sale -- and it has 159 illustrations. The 710-page paperback contains the 37 most recent articles from the blog.
Patrons who bought a non-illustrated version and prefer to replace their collectors i...
2019-04-02 18:48:37 +0000 UTC View PostRenewable energy production is almost entirely aimed at the generation of electricity. However, we use more energy in the form of heat, which solar panels and wind turbines can supply only indirectly and inefficiently. Thermal energy is required for many industrial processes and for space and water heating in buildings.
Solar thermal colle...
2019-02-26 19:05:12 +0000 UTC View Post