Alex Russell

Editor-in-Chief

Jakob Millard

Co-Editor | Designer Misplacement Editor

Turns out not only can anyone do it, most people do! Why not us? We have good taste and can sometimes hit a deadline.

We publish miscellanea, some of that is art and literature, but what ties it all together is that we love it. We set up Placeholder in 2019 out of a desire to make a book we could hand to anyone to say “I love everything in this.”

The Red Issue launched in December 2019 with some our favourite artists and writers scrawled across its innards, followed by a reflection on the past decade in our digital issue, Archive. Across 2020 we published Amy Shimshon-Santo’s Endless Bowls of Sky and Adrienne Walser’s Entertainer of the Year Runner up, before following up with The Orange Issue.

In 2021 we birthed Misplacement, originally envisaged as an imprint of Placeholder, the first book Liquorice was pitch black and filled to bursting with dark art and literature

Since then, we’ve mostly been checking emails. We’re taking things a little slow for now. After launching six publications in just a little over a year, we are focusing on the small things.