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Ficciones Typografika, 1642

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Typographic exploration in a public space.

Curated by Erik Brandt, Ficciones Typografika was a project dedicated to typographic exploration in a public space. Over a five year period, a modest poster board hung in a Minneapolis neighborhood became a barometer for experimental typographic practice within the global design community.

At 624 pages, 1642 is a dense tome that documents the complete project, featuring works ranging from big-name designers to talented students. Conceptually approached as the last Ficciones Typografika (hence the title 1642), the book is an expressive and visceral experience, rather than an encyclopedic documentation. Every installation of works is reproduced along with an overprint of the original posters at 1:1 scale. The overprints are essential to the poster experience and provide the reader with an actual size window into the Ficciones Typografika project.

The volume features a meditative text by Ben DuVall, as well as an enlightening conversation between project curator, Erik Brandt and Paul Schmelzer from the Walker Reader. Typeset in a custom Formist typeface, Ficciones Typografika, 1642 is an appropriately authentic and fantastically diverse design experience.

Paperback with foil stamped dust jacket
624 Pages
210 × 300 mm
Edition: 1,000
Editor: Mark Gowing
Design: Formist
Authors: Ben DuVall, Paul Schmelzer, Erik Brandt
Typeset in Formist Fiction (coming 2019)
ISBN: 978-0-6484650-0-3
2019 FE018

Formist Editions, 2019 (pre-order).

Bubbletecture

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Bubbletecture

Following in the footsteps of Nanotecture, Mobitecture, and Pet-tecture, a fascinating and fun guide to everything inflatable.

Although inflatable objects have been around for more than 200 years, architects, artists, and designers keep rediscovering this deceptively simple – often playful, and occasionally bizarre – technology. Bubbletecture brings together inflatables in every conceivable size, shape, and hue across the realms of architecture, design, art, and fashion. From inflatable dresses and hats to buildings employing cutting-edge technologies, from ingenious chairs, lights, bowls, and even egg cups to children’s toys and provocative art installations, Bubbletecture demonstrates that inflatable design is simply irresistible.

Format: Hardback
Size: 184 x 124 mm (7 1/4 x 4 7/8 in)
Pages: 288 pp
Illustrations: 250 illustrations
ISBN: 9780714877778

Phaidon

Interlogue 01

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What happens when art evolves through dialogue? Interlogue seeks to answer this question by engaging an anonymous conversation between a photographer and a writer. Not knowing each others identity, they converse through an exchange of text and images, each piece interpreting and feeding off the previous, ultimately creating art that is unaffected by prejudice. Each edition of Interlogue explores a new set of conversations.

ISSN: 977-2535-5562-01
100 x 150mm
42 pages
250 copies

Pseudonym Publishing

Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA)

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Institute of Contemporary Art
Los Angeles (ICA LA)

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA) is an epicenter of artistic experimentation and incubator of new ideas.

Founded in 1984 as the Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMoA) and reestablished in 2017 with a new identity and home in Downtown Los Angeles, ICA LA builds upon a distinguished history of bold curatorial vision and innovative programming to illuminate the important untold stories and emerging voices in contemporary art and culture. The museum’s 12,700 square-foot renovated industrial building—designed by wHY Architecture under the leadership of Kulapat Yantrasast—features ample space for exhibitions, public programs, retail pop-ups, integrated offices, and special projects.

ICA LA’s mission is to support art that sparks the pleasure of discovery and challenges the way we see and experience the world, ourselves, and each other. ICA LA is committed to upending hierarchies of race, class, gender, and culture. Through exhibitions, education programs, and community partnerships, ICA LA fosters critique of the familiar and empathy with the different.

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Pseudo — Pseudonym Publishing

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Pseudo

Pseudo is a collection of interviews with Scandinavian designers, on the topic of concepts and rhetoric in today’s design scene. Revolving around themes such as ‘what differentiates an idea and a concept’ and the consequence of talking to much in abstract terms. Loose discussions shining a light on the current discourse of what we designers sell today, what’s our primary point of delivery – and where are we as an industry headed?

ISBN: 978-82-690810-0-8
155 x 210mm
226 pages
250 copies

Pseudonym Publishing