PLATES 3: Conditions of Migration approaches migration as a condition of exchange through which ecological systems, political realities, cultural identities, visual languages and technological landscapes are continually reconfigured. It frames mobility and immobility as intertwined forces that extend beyond physical movement into digital infrastructures and networked forms of communication.

In an era where images, data, and capital traverse borders with unprecedented speed while people remain increasingly constrained by geopolitical boundaries, migration emerges as both material and virtual, embodied and mediated. 

PLATES serves an editorial and curatorial response to contemporary design practice and criticism, published by Page Bureau. Each issue dives into a specific topic that is pertinent to the design reality we live in, presented and archived in a series of image and textual plates in an organic, iterative and evolving format. 

Contributors include Benoit Bodhuin, Copyright/Reserved, Darius Ou / hyperpress, gideon-jamie / Temporary Press, Grafis Nusantara, Halim Lee, Nao Lee / undefinedtomato, Nick Massarelli / Pharmacy Books, Studio Pianpian He & Max Harvey, Somnath Bhatt, Sungil Noh / Sojanggak, and Waterproof Exhibitions.

Creative Direction & Design: RELATED DEPARTMENT & Copyright/Reserved  

Published by Page Bureau, 2026

Softcover (signatures bound with elastic string), [56 pages, including a fold-out poster], full color offset, 8.25 × 11.25 inches