'The home front' issue maps and values the experience of looking in, before looking out and challenges us to consider the nature of our 'uniqueness' whilst recognising the multitude of external factors that influence, challenge and connect the home front. Collaborating with practitioners and designers from Draft FCB, We Love Inc, Cut Collectiveand Auckland Print Studio expanding our network of contributors who directly and indirectly express the theme of Ed.8 in their profiles.

Threaded Edition 8 is a call to make visible the creative geography of 'the Antipodes and the contemporary Antipodean', and instates the mantra that we are here because we want to be here.