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What you get.

A club for your thing that holds you to a challenge, so you get better. Everyone shows off their work in a magazine: the proof.

Accountability for a community A standing hour, in everyone’s calendar.
Zine Machine at a table, cutting and gluing paper for their issue.
Organize a community challenge Your host sets it. The deadline closes itself.
A maker’s wall on Drex: polaroids and the published issues they appear in, with hand-drawn doodles scattered over it.
Seamlessly make a portfolio Every issue lands on your wall.
who’s using Drex

Baristas, models, letterers, your people.

I’m addicted to chocolate.
barista · Michaela · Beans

Read the zine→

I didn’t know what was possible until I saw someone else do it.
model · @tergel · XChange Models

Read the zine→

I learned how to choose a theme … shading can be used to highlight the letter!
letterer · Kurtis · Penmanship

Read the zine→

A real Drex club issue, “Drawing at the Cafe” — a taped photo of a maker holding her sketch, with the creative challenge highlighted. read it → A maker at a cafe table, phone in hand, placing pages in the zine editor watch it get made →

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Each issue is a new challenge.

Silk Road 001, by XChange Models — pages of the real issue.
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why nothing gets made

Everyone has a group chat. Nobody has a system.

the group chat
4,000 messages. Nothing made.
a club
the challenge

Shoot a roll you'd normally be scared to.

due friday
one issue, everyone's name in it
A finished thing.

We make sure people show up, know what’s up, and put their work up.

We nag for you. In everyone’s calendar and text messages.

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See what people are doing. Then join them.

the library The drex reader open on a real issue, Drawing at the Cafe. Read what clubs published →

Automatic portfolio.

the club’s portfolio Photo Phloor's wall on Drex: the table, a corkboard of night photographs pinned up by the club's makers. see what Photo Phloor keeps →
your portfolio 1.44 MB's wall on Drex: their name across the top of a cork board with their face beside it, the line “i take photos with a floppy diskette camera”, the clubs they edit, and the photo they pinned as their pick. the work you’ve put up →

See it in action.

Watch the Photo Phloor club complete the challenge: snap a Chinatown story.

  1. Jul15

    Host sets the challenge

    And puts a date on it.

    Photo Phloor’s circle in Drex: a live circle-time bar across the top, the host @144mb, and the challenge “Chinatown Story — make a story out of the Chinatown photo walk” with two pinned resources and two people already submitted.
    snap a Chinatown story
  2. 1st & 3rd Wed

    Club Hour comes round

    This one, they walked Chinatown. Other hours, they work online.

    Photo Phloor on the Chinatown photo walk: five of them talking and shooting among the racks of red qipao in the shop they pinned to the circle.
    in person, this week
  3. Aug10

    Make the issue — together

    Everyone’s work in one editor, and what they learned.

    A submission in the issue: a photograph captioned “friend (the apprentice) shows qipao” of a woman in a red qipao in a bridal shop, and under it the maker’s written answer about the master and the apprentice of a Chinatown bridal shop who have made qipaos for forty years.
    “Chinatown Story”, so far
  4. on thedue date

    It goes out: submissions close

    A link you can send anyone.

    The cover of the published issue [ 3 A M, 2 0 0 1 ] by Photo Phloor: the title in red type over two night photographs pinned to a board, an empty lit stairwell captioned “Wow” and a glass-block window.
    “[ 3 A M, 2 0 0 1 ]” — their last issue
  5. then

    …and the next challenge goes up.

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A hand resting on a notebook page filled with rows of pointed-pen drill strokes in blue ink, a phone in the other hand.

Kurtis had never done this before.

He turned up to Penmanship, filled a page, and put it in the issue. He runs that club now.

who’s building it

Want to grow your gifts, but are stuck?

I researched how people get good at their craft: next to someone on the same journey, with the accountability and resources to supercharge the journey. Nothing online works that way, so we built it.

Chielo

Chielo Mbaezue · CEO & Co-founder

Chielo Mbaezue, CEO and co-founder of Drex
↑ that’s me
Chiamaka Ezeonyebuchi, head of community and growth at Drex
Chiamaka Head of Community & Growth
Uko, designer at Drex
Uko Designer
Lucero, designer at Drex
Lucero Designer

p.s. write to any of us — hi@drex.style

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