A place in print: Feels Like Home Volume III

Feels Like Home Volume III is out, the final chapter of the trilogy from the collective co-founded by designer Drew White. We don't stock it, and this isn't a product story. We wanted to write about it because Feels Like Home stands for something we care about, which is giving creative communities a place to be seen. Over three volumes, the project has grown alongside White's footwear work as something made with and for friends.

Feels Like Home was founded by Drew White, Mike Janey, Abhi Chandra, and Sam Del Pilar. White and Janey lead the art direction, while Chandra and Del Pilar handle the scouting and organization. The aim is to give under-represented creatives in the Northeast a printed platform. The founders have also said they want the books to carry an educational tone, not only a showcase.

The first two volumes built that community page by page. The second gathered more than 40 contributors. White, who spent 14 years at the Boston store Bodega, also makes album art for regional artists like Cousin Stizz. Feels Like Home is where that local network becomes a book.

Volume III closes the series on a much bigger scale. The collective describes it as an exploration of the people, places, ideas, and stories that shape how we see the world. It was made over years of research, conversations, travel, and creative exchange. The result brings together 150 contributors from around the world, a big step up from the 40-plus of the second volume.

The book itself is built to be handled. It runs to 500 pages in an 8 by 10 inch format, offset printed on four different paper stocks with an eggshell paper cover. Photography, writing, art, and interactive spreads sit side by side. Each copy also includes exclusive tear-out posters with work from legendary photographers, so the book is meant to be lived with, not only read.

Independent print is hard to make and even harder to fund. Every page in a book like this is paid for in time, favors, and trust between friends. That is why projects like Feels Like Home matter to us. They document a scene from the inside, made by the people who are part of it rather than by outsiders looking in.

We try to bring the same spirit to our own corner of Madrid. Our store has always been a meeting point for people who make things, from designers to photographers and runners. Supporting a book like this, even from across the Atlantic, is part of the same idea. Communities grow when people who share a way of seeing things back each other up.

If you have followed Drew White's work, you can find Volume III on the Feels Like Home site. For more on his year, read our story on the A-Feeling x Saucony ProGrid Paramount. We will keep following the collective and whatever it does next.