Few things turn our heads quite like a good old-fashioned piece of slow media. Which is why we’re always telling you about them. Recently we’ve written about Flaneur, Swallow and Special Request but our latest discovery, Nous, grapples with something entirely different to the usual travel, culture or gastronomic fayre.

Brought to life by graphic design student Lisa Lorenz, Nous is a crowd-funded quarterly mag that aims to raise awareness of mental illness through the mediums of photography, illustration, poetry and creative writing. Each issue deals with a different aspect of mental illness: first came the insomnia issue, and next up it’s disconnection. Printed from risograph, Nous’s deliberate hand-made aesthetic diminishes the sense disposability, and hopefully evokes more of an emotional response than standard scientific or medical literature would.
New publications might be cropping up here, there and everywhere but few intersect art, creativity and wellbeing. And the way in which Nous aspires to de-stigmatise such a worthy cause, and dissolve the sense of alienation common to those suffering from depression is laudable.