February 2012
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January 2012
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Jonathan Franzen warns ebooks are corroding values →
“Maybe nobody will care about printed books 50 years from now, but I do. When I read a book, I’m handling a specific object in a specific time and place. The fact that when I take the book off the shelf it still says the same thing – that’s reassuring.” Jonathan Frazen
Jan 30th
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MOREPUBLISHERS
“MOREpublishers is a publishing platform that I started, together with Amélie Laplanche in the autumn of 2009. As an answer to the question: ‘how to organize exhibitions, events, etc, when we don’t have the space for it” Tim Ryckaert SUNDAY “Our first series of editions, ‘sunday’, consists of a an A1page, folded to A4. Accompanied by a signed and numbered colophon page, bundled in...
Jan 18th
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Jan 6th
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Presentation is Everything →
“Due to the call to reach wider audiences, museums are giving designers ever greater roles in presenting their exhibitions. These experts in communication have become so influential that they seem even more important than the curators.”
Jan 4th
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December 2011
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Dec 22nd
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WITTE DE WITH DIGITAL PUBLICATIONS →
“Our attitude is that books constitute a unique medium: distinct from exhibitions and events, they travel easily and have a lasting quality, becoming archives of the activity of writers, artists, curators, designers, editors, and readers alike.” “Accompanying the exhibition Making is Thinking (23 January – 1 May 2011) Witte de With presents its first digital publication. To...
Dec 21st
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Ciclo de Conferências de Mário Moura →
“A ideia de partida para cada uma das seis conferências de Mário Moura […] é escolher um objecto, um livro, que permita, por sua vez, apontar para outros objectos, outros livros, mas também para exposições, filosofias, políticas, etc. As escolhas, longe de obedecerem a determinada ordem, cronológica ou temática, assentam num critério difuso: cada livro, na sua forma física, na maneira...
Dec 21st
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CORPORATE IDENTITY AND WEB DESIGN (AN EXAMPLE)
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB) Cultures of the Curatorial (HGB postgraduate study programme) Studio International (HGB Leipzig gallery)
Dec 21st
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Dec 16th
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November 2011
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"A FRACTION OF THE WHOLE NOW AND AGAIN"
Published in Tate Etc. with the article Now is For Ever Again (2005), with the following subtitle: David Hammons performing ‘Bliz-aard Ball Sale’ (1983), Cooper Square, New York City. Courtesy Migros Museum, Zurich © David Hammons. Photo: Dawood Bey Published in Frieze Magazine with the article A Fraction of the Whole (2009), with the following subtitle: Bliz-aard Ball Sale...
Nov 29th
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Nov 25th
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Um Livro Não Quer Dizer “Edição” →
”[…] Porém, o Livro de Artista é talvez a parte mais chata da edição actual ligada às artes. O que tem interessado nos últimos tempos não é tanto o livro como arte mas a edição como arte. […]”
Nov 21st
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NOTES FROM "THE ARTISTRY OF INCONSPICUOUS QUALITY"
What is good design? Something that does the job well? That looks and feels good? That’s environmentally and ethically responsible? That does something new with technology? That enables us to do something we couldn’t do before, or to do it better? Good design does any or all of those things, and more. But it needn’t necessarily do them noisily or conspicuously. Some of the most inspiring design...
Nov 15th
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October 2011
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Identity →
“Identity” is an exhibition that charts the emergence and proliferation of graphic identity since the turn of the twentieth century, with particular reference to contemporary art institutions – museums, galleries, and so-called alternative spaces.
Oct 28th
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Oct 26th
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Judy Radul. World Rehearsal Court →
Catalogue of an exhibition […] World Rehearsal Court repeats and mimics the way visual technologies are gradually colonizing the courtroom, mirroring the mirrors and screens of the court. Scholarly discussion of the judicial visual has mainly addressed the veracity and trustworthiness of images as evidence. But the pluri-visual staging of World Rehearsal Court is much more important. It...
Oct 14th
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Oct 12th
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Notes from "VISITING THE MUSEUM?..."
[…] “We’re thinking of making imaginary exhibitions with images of works in the collection,” says Nancy Proctor, the Smithsonian’s head of mobile strategy and initiatives. “It will probably take us a year to pull this off, but I think it’s going to be very, very cool.” The National Postal Museum may issue an app that enables users to point a smartphone at the new stamp commemorating Owney,...
Oct 11th
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The Piracy Project →
An international publishing and exhibition project exploring the philosophical, legal and practical implications of book piracy and creative modes of reproduction. Part of this is The Piracy Project, which is inspired by book piracy that exists in many emerging countries. This phenomenon has reached global scale, and book pirates in Peru for example go beyond creating unlicensed reprints – they...
Oct 10th
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Onomatopee →
Onomatopee is an institution for reflection and communication. The foundation aims to question the parameters of our (designed) culture through research and presentations.
Oct 10th
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Bookishness
[…] considered “bookish ” and a “sissy ,” which prompted him into bodybuilding […] […] His geeky bookishness is coupled with a razor-sharp wit […] […] pseudo bookishness occasionally irritate […] […] bookishness shyness […] […] he word took on connotations of bookishness and social ineptitude […] […]...
Oct 10th
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This Long Century →
“This Long Century is an ever-evolving collection of exclusive insights from artists, authors, filmmakers, musicians and cultural icons the world over. Bringing together such intimate work as sketchbooks, personal memorabilia, annotated typescripts, short essays, home movies and near impossible to find archival work, THIS LONG CENTURY serves as a direct line to the contributers...
Oct 4th
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Kaleidoscope’s Cahiers →
“Digital books, ready for download, realized in collaboration with groundbreaking artists or theorists who want to overtake the limits of traditional publishing, Kaleidoscope’s e-books are the digital-era adaptation of our love for printed matter.”
Oct 3rd
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MACBA's Quaderns Portàtils →
“Quaderns Portàtils (Portable Notebooks) is a line of quarterly publications available free of charge through the Internet. In general, the texts proceed from lectures and seminars that have taken place at the MACBA, as well as from previously published exhibition catalogues. The texts are presented as a PDF file that can be downloaded and printed. The text layout feature allows for...
Oct 3rd
September 2011
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Sep 30th
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“I hate artists’ books. I hate it, I hate it. I think “artists’...”
– Irma Boom (Interview by Michael Silverberg, printmag.com)
Sep 30th
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Sep 30th
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Notes from "SEEING STUDIES" by institute for...
Casco Projects “Unlike a work of literature, translation does not find itself in the centre of the language forest but on the outside facing the wooded ridge; it calls into it without entering it, aiming at that single spot where the echo is able to give, in its own language, the reverberation of the work of the alien one.” - Walter Benjamin, The Task of the Translator Casco is pleased to...
Sep 29th