Graphic Magazine #15: Printing Journal

This issue is a “Printing Journal”, presented as a magazine within a magazine. It explores the map of contemporary printing culture and how printing actually operates by visiting printers and seeing their work in person, by interviewing an eminent graphic designer and asking how his previous work relates to printing, by having a designer’s talk to present their varying interests in the printing culture, and by inviting a few designers to fill their own pages with print work.

Contributions by Calff & Meischke Drukkerij, Extrapool (Knust),  Veenman Drukkers,  Wyber Zeefdruk, Hans Gremmen,  Harmen Liemburg,  The Uses of Literacy,  Karel Martens, Kees Maas and Richard Niessen

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N + 1: Recherche et expérimentation en design graphique, numérique et sonore dans les écoles supérieures d’art et design

Serving as an extension, rather than catalogue, of the International Design Biennial 2008, Saint-Etienne. Featuring contributions from Linda Hillfling, Paul Thek, Michael Rock and Pierre di Sciullo, amongst others.

Published by Les éditions de la Cité

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Red Flags, Joe Scanlan. 2009.
Paraguay Press.
Edition of 500.

Over the past several years, Joe Scanlan has read a lot of seminal economic texts and noticed that a strange thing kept happening: where the original authors were talking about absentee ownership, stagnating markets, colonialism and government subsidies, in the artist’s head he heard them talking about artists’ neighborhoods, Chelsea galleries, tae kwon do lessons, Jack Kerouac. Fascinated with these recurrent, uncontrollable synapses, Scanlan rewrote the texts as he heard them in his head and color-coded each alteration. Produced for his exhibition at castillo/corrales in May 2009, Joe Scanlan’s Red Flags contains four essays that the artist has refracted from original texts by Thorstein Veblen, Joseph Schumpeter, Milton Friedman and Edward Said, gathered in a slim, elegant book, beautifully designed by Francesca Grassi.

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Klasse Troxler – Troxler Class by Eva-Maria Offermann and Benjamin Kivikoski (akb-Stuttgart)

A collection of Graphic Design student’s work from Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart under the tutorledge of Professor Niklaus Troxler.

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Trinity – Andrew McClintock

Edition of 150 copies, published by Für immer

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1:1:1 # 1 Eylem Aladogan Niessen and de Vries Drukkerij Mart. Spruijt

1:1:1 is a series of publications in which printing matter converges with the subject matter, the image with the text, the reproduction with the original and the designer and the printer with the client. An artist, designer or musician is the point of departure for each of the numbers in this series, and the subject of conversation is the basis for investigating graphic design and printing as a form of expression.

Published by Uitgeverij Boek

Edition of 500

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Uncorporate Identity by Metahaven

An adventurous collection of design projects around visual identity and politics which presents the visual projects and writings of design studio Metahaven, along with a host of contributing writers

Published by Lars Müller Publishers.

Out Of Print

The K. Protocol by Karl Holmqvist

Published by Akiyoshidai International Art Village and Karl Holmqvist.

Dispersion by Seth Price.

A provocative 14 page essay in which artist Seth Price examines the classical model of conceptualism, calling for a new public art, and arguing for less of a rupture between artistic interventions and distributed media. Complete with numerous illustrations and a spray-painted glossy cover.

Published by 38th Street Publishers

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Famous # 10, Nobody is Famous in New York

The primier concept of Famous was that of an entirely white magazine, empty, devoid of any visual representation. Only names, of real or virtual “anti-contributors”, would have come to the light of such an immaculate matter. Thereafter, Famous became a polymorphous magazine, with fluctuation directive lines and variable contents. Dissolving subjective identities on behalf of the purpose, Famous can also take the decision to use star system’s codes in order to have diverse individualities emerge. Famous wants to be theoretical and practical, intimate and mundane.

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