Niche Design
by Itay Dreyfus
Some products are quietly perfect and never go mainstream — and never want to. Niche Design is a zine about that long tail: the passion-driven corners of design the market overlooks.
For 2026, Itay turns to pseudoanonymity as a vehicle for culture-making. For the first time, deliberate pseudonymous cultural identities (often called "anon" accounts) are being recognized as legitimate voices, marking a shift from identity as something fixed to something you create and deploy.
The artifact is the second volume of Niche Design: a self-funded study of design culture, now extended into pseudoanonymity as an evolving form of authorship.
Keywords
- Design research
- Cultural anthropology
- Publishing
- Pseudoanonymity
- Identity
- Zines
- Long tail
Character
Exploratory
Amount granted
$2,000
Year
2026
Sourcing channel
Scouted