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the journal, entry no 29

Contributors issue 29:
Tim Barber Katherine Bernard Jonathan Black Joanne Blades David Blaine Joe Bradley Sarah Braman Coley Brown Christian Brylle Julia Burlingham Cody Chandler Irina Cocimarov Lily Cole Meghan Collison Eliza Cummings Lucia della Paolera Julia Dippelhofer Julia Frakes Oto Gillen Mark Gonzales Dennis Gots Phil Grauer Darius Greyson Alizée Guinochet Roni Horn Leigh Johnson Maciek Kobielski Harmony Korine Andrew Kuo Kathy Lo Nate Lowman Bill Saylor Peter Miles Keegan Monaghan Michael Nevin Kaoru Okubu Caroline Polacheck Naomi Preizler Jordan Robin Natasha Royt Jason Schwartzman Laura Selfridge, Romy Soleimani Juergen Teller Vanessa Traina Magnus Unnar Poppie van Herwerden Eugene Wasserman Martynka Wawzryniak Coco Young

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Condiment issue 2

Adventures in Food and Form is a publication and project-base exploring the relationship between food and creativity and food and community.

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Close-Ups
Boabooks
17.12.2010, 18h
jusqu’au 08.01.2011

Forde invite l’éditeur Boabooks et l’artiste Izet Sheshivari pour le dernier événement de l’année 2010. La librairie Forde Motto est le lieu de présentation temporaire des projets de Boabooks : exemplaires uniques, livres d’artistes, et oeuvres multiples. Les travaux de Carola Bonfilli, Nicolas Giraud, Anne Minazio, Yann L. Popper et Christophe Rey, ainsi qu’un ensemble de livres uniques de Izet Sheshivari sont présentés. Des Boa Cocktails seront servis.

www.izet.ch
www.boabooks.com

PIN-UP issue 9 – Magazine for Architectural Entertainment – THE L.A. SPECIAL, Fall Winter 10/11

Featuring: Thom Mayne, Johnston Marklee, Greg Lynn, Retna and Hedi Slimane

Also at home with: Jeffrey Deitch, Jess Harnell, Lisa Eisneran and Norwood Young

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20. November – 5. Dezember 2010

Eröffnung: Freitag, 19. November, 18 – 22 Uhr
Öffnungszeiten: Dienstag bis Samstag 12 – 19 Uhr

«If ever there was a yardstick in book-design, Switzerland is the country to furnish it in 1946/47.»
Charles Rosner, 1947

«Das Wachstum des Schweizer Verlages spiegelt sich am deutlichsten in Zahlen. Eindrücklich ist die Entwicklung der Gesamtzahl der in der Schweiz pro Jahr gedruckten Bücher: 1914 : 1470; 1918 : 1764; 1921 : 1332; 1925 : 1748; 1938 : 2162; 1940 : 1705; 1941 : 2510; 1943 : 3358; 1946 : 4001. […] Im Jahr 1966 waren es über 6000 Titel.»
Willy Rotzler, 1969

«Seinen Text in ein Dreieck oder in einen Block zu zwängen, ihn in den Umriss eines Stundenglases oder einen Rhombus zu pressen, ist ein Vergehen, das eine überzeugendere Rechtfertigung braucht als nur die Existenz italienischer und französischer Vorbilder im fünfzehnten und sechzehnten Jahrhundert oder den Ehrgeiz, im zwanzigsten etwas Neues zu schaffen.»
Stanley Morison, 1955/1987

«But basically, books are for reading; the looking-at function is secondary.»
Ruari McLean, 1972

«Tschichold ist daran die Schweiz zu verlassen, und so werden wir das Übel endlich los, das wir von vornherein eingeladen haben.»
Max Bill, 1946

«History: what explains, and complicates.»
Robin Kinross, 2010

„Schlechte Typografie schadet der Gesundheit“ schrieb der Buchgestalter, Typograf und Theoretiker Jan Tschichold. Heute sind wir weit entfernt von ähnlich polarisierenden, Stil predigenden Grundsatzdiskussionen über Buchgestaltung. Es bleibt jedoch fraglich, ob die Absenz einer Diskussion über Qualität von Grafik Design dieser zuträglich ist. Gerade in einer Umbruchphase, wo das auf Papier gedruckte und gestaltete Buch unter digitalen Druck gerät, scheint es mehr denn je relevant zu sein, Fragen nach den Bedingungen der Buchproduktion zu stellen. Die Ausstellung „1946, 1947, 1948 – Die vergessenen Jahre der schönsten Schweizer Bücher“ wird diesen und weiteren Fragestellungen nachgehen, in dem sie einen Blick in die Vergangenheit unternimmt und den Rückblick als Schablone auf den aktuellen Grafik-Design-Diskurs legt. Hierzu findet in den Räumen des Perla-Mode einerseits eine Ausstellung statt, die von verschiedenen Veranstaltungen inhaltlich gerahmt wird.

Eine Ausstellung übers Büchermachen. Ein Blick zurück, einer nach vorn.

Corner College

Perla-Mode
Langstrasse 84 / Brauerstrasse 37
CH-8004 Zürich

Gastronomica-The Journal of Food and Culture, Fall 2010

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Motto Brooklyn
200 Schermerhorn, Ground Floor.
Nearest subway stops: Hoyt–Schermerhorn (A/C/G), Nevins St. (2/3/4/5)

EXTENDED OPENING DATES!
Saturday Nov. 20
Saturday Nov. 27
Saturday Dec. 4
Saturday Dec. 11
12-7 pm

Motto Brooklyn
November 10th–16th, 2010; 12–7 pm
200 Schermerhorn, Ground Floor.
Nearest subway stops: Hoyt–Schermerhorn (A/C/G), Nevins St. (2/3/4/5)

Motto will occupy a storefront in Downtown Brooklyn as a space for presentation and discussion of contemporary publishing practices. The selection will feature a wide range of magazine, books and artists’ publications. As part of the week-long event, an ongoing series of talks, classes, and presentations will be held in the store. Each night’s schedule will be hosted by a different organization, publisher, or individual of interest.

Talks and performances
As part of the week-long event, an ongoing series of talks, classes, and presentations will be held in the store. Each night’s schedule will be hosted by a different organization, publisher, or individual of interest.

Schedule of Events:
Wed 11/10/2010 at 7pm: “Desire in Representation” talk by Till Gathmann (Spector Press) & Erik Steinbrecher (Kodoji Press) “I’ll be back in a minute.”

“Desire in Representation” traces the production of two artist books, and the outcome of research conducted by artist Peggy Buth on representations of colonialism in the Belgian Royal Museum for Central Africa. The first book led to an installation of various media covering eleven rooms at the Kunstverein in Stuttgart/Germany. The second book, “Catalogue,” is an attempt to record this installation in its dense complexity. “Desire in Representation” marks the ambivalence designers and artists experience when questioning and transforming historical form and content.

“I’ll be back in a minute” is an audiovisual performance with a doll, a cassette player, printed material and a slideshow. Berlin based Swiss artist Erik Steinbrecher is absent. Instead his talking doll will speak and tell about the artist’s work. (Voice by Elena Habicher, Zurich)

Thurs 11/11/2010 at 6pm: Talk by Meredith Tenhoor & Common Room.

Meredith TenHoor presents research on the planning of the Fulton Mall area of Downtown Brooklyn and talks about the implications of operating an art space in its vicinity. Common Room will discuss publications and furniture pieces related to public spaces, publishing, distribution and reading Informal reading areas as a form of public practice.

Fri 11/12/2010 at 9pm: Performance by Joe Milutis & Sam Frank.

Joe Milutis will introduce his new multimedia essay on literary minutiae, “The Quiddities,” to be published in Triple Canopy’s eleventh issue. Presenting the results of a data search sure to strain the capacities of any computer, Milutis will proceed to give an exceedingly close reading of what he modestly calls “the fundamental core of all literature.” Triple Canopy editor Sam Frank will read an adaptation of issue 10’s “Happy Moscow,” which he isn’t sure how to characterize, and maybe something more he hasn’t written yet but has maybe only dreamed.

Sun 11/14/2010 at 1pm: “Extreme Constraints Writing” class presented by Public School New York.

Inspired by Oulipo group and extreme ironing, this participatory workshop will create and practice extreme constraints writing. Participants will brainstorm extreme constraint for creative writing. It can be extreme in term of physical endurance (such as pseudo-sports for writing), duration (such as overnight automatic writing), level of concentration (such as writing a novel collaboratively within one hour) and in terms of structural difficulty (developing upon various constraint writing techniques, systems art, and computer algorithm).

Sun 11/14/2010 at 4pm: “This Bodes Some Strange Eruption to Our State” class presented by Alexander Provan & Joe Milutis (Triple Canopy).

A talk and discussion around Shakespeare’s Hamlet and its relation to experimental language practices in contemporary poetics and film.

Tues 11/16/2010 at 7pm: “AAAARG.ORG” class presented by Public School New York.

In this class, we will consider AAAARG as a model for distribution in a digital environment, and the political and economic implications of such a model. Our goal is not to reject or affirm its politics categorically—if such a politics can be assigned—but to question, probe, and assess the outcomes of this project, and others like it, as we consider the future of publishing, writing, and readership more generally.

Ongoing 11/10/2010–11/16/2010: Jen Tildman & Liz Linden (Contemporary Feminism) present Pilot Press.

Pilot Press is a platform for critical exchange taking the shape of a feminist publishing house open and available to all. Our installation will offer the services of a publishing apprentice, who will, during opening hours, publish the works of anyone interested in having their text produced by our imprint. In exchange for this free publication service, the author is required to leave a single bound copy of their work on the growing shelf of our imprint’s library.

Featured Publishers

0–100, 38th Street Publishers, 4478Zine, AA Bookshop & Bedford Press, Aglec, A-Jump Books, Alphabet Prime, Arc, argobooks, Archive Books, Artspeak, Bad Day, Boa Books, BQ, cneai=, de Appel, Dent De Leone, Eastside Projects, edition fink, e-flux, Ein Magazin Uber Orte, Fillip, FormContent, Four Corners Books, Fw:, GAGARIN, Gottlund Verlag, Graphic, Himaa, David Horvitz, innen, Kodoji Press, Komfort, Kunstverein, Yvon Lambert, Lay Flat, Libraryman, May, MER. Paper Kunsthalle, mono.kultur, Mousse Publishing, Nieves, Occasional Papers, Onomatopee, Palais/, Paraguay Press, Petunia, Piktogram, Post Editions, PROVENCE, Roma Publications, Specter Press, Spector Books, Spin, Starship, The Exhibitionist Journal, The Institute Of Social Hypocrisy, TRUE TRUE TRUE, UltraViolet Magazine, Erik van der Weijde, Werkplaats Typografie, Witte de With, Zug, (…)

Motto would like to thank everybody who helped make this project happen, in particular: Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, Issue Project Room, Carlos Solis, McNally Jackson Books, Post Editions, 38th Street Publishers, Gagarin, Todd Rouhe, Peter Russo, Lawrence Kumpf, Anne Callahan, Roger Willems, Emily Bellingham, Alexander Fleming, David Horvitz, and Ted Christiansen.