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O.oo: No Magic In Riso

28 January 2023 in Books Comment

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O.oo: No Magic In Riso

A bilingual risograph tool book

By Lu Ihwa, Liu Yuxian, and Vivian Wang

Risograph is a brand of digital duplicators that are designed mainly for high-volume photocopying and printing. The process creates micro-imperfections in printing, similar to spontaneity, or even comparable to how improvisation in jazz can lead to an unexpected but pleasant result.

The result of two years of research by O.OO, a graphic design studio based in Taipei, the main focus of this publication is color separation and experimentation with images. The studio does not claim the color separation methods described here to be absolute or the “right” way, but offer resources in hopes that they can provide helpful advice in practice while on the path to professionalism in this field.

“Made with 15 RISO colors, 660 masters, 3 fans, 4 people, 74 tubes of soy ink, 695,000 sheets of paper and 2 RISO digital duplicators in 850 working days.”

Designed by Lu Ihwa and Pamina Reisinger

Published by O.oo Risograph & Design
Third printing, limited edition of 1,500 copies

Softcover
360 pages
Color and b&w (15 Riso colors, 660 masters)
4.5 × 7.2 inches

ISBN: 978-9-86-975880-2

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Yves Klein: Dreaming in the Dream of Others

28 January 2023 in Books Comment

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Yves Klein: Dreaming in the Dream of Others / Rêver dans le rêve des autres

Published on the occasion of the homonymous exhibition held at the Opale Foundation (in Lens, Switzerland), the book Rêver dans le rêve des autres (Dreaming in the dream of others) presents the work of Yves Klein alongside with works by twelve Aboriginal artists (Angkaliya Curtis, Bardayal “Lofty” Nadjamerrek, Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri, Danie Mellor, Dhambit Munungurr, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Ignatia Djanghara, Paddy Bedford, Waigan Djanghara, Wattie Karruwara, Judy Watson, and Paji Honeychild Yankarr), showing how the link between the French artist and the world of the Australian Aborigines is anything but arbitrary. Klein was very interested in the non-Western: works from his youth have been discovered in his archives that were later identified as copies of Aboriginal motifs, and his writings confirm that he was familiar with the cave paintings of north-western Australia. In the ’50s, Aboriginal art, which was little known, was seen not as the expression of a different spirit, but rather as the survival of a vanished spirit, in short, that of the Neolithic: Yves Klein, like his parents, was fascinated by prehistory.

Edited by Mousse
Texts by Georges Petitjean, Wally Caruana, Didier Semin, and Kim Akerman

2022
English / French
224 pages
Hardcover, 20 x 27 cm
ISBN 9788867495610

Mousse Publishing

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Letters from M/M (Paris)

24 January 2023 in Books Comment

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Letters from M/M (Paris)

A fabulous typographic exploration of the letter forms and typography of one of Europe’s leading design studios.

Letters from M/M (Paris) is a comprehensive study of the typefaces produced by Michaël Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak since they founded their influential art and design practice, M/M (Paris).

For the first time, ninety of the designers’ typefaces are catalogued chronologically in a three-part volume, comprising the history of their development; exclusive type specimens; and detailed illustrations of projects in which they appear.

With a foreword by Björk – whose collaboration with M/M spans over two decades – this encyclopaedic volume traces the distinctive and integral nature of type, lettering and signs in the work of M/M, from one-off artistic commissions to fashion branding and their long-lasting collaborations with musicians and theatres.

This complete typographic collection is the perfect companion to the two-volume monograph M to M of M/M (Paris), and will appeal not only to graphic designers, historians and students, but to anyone interested in art and visual culture.

Publisher Thames and Hudson Ltd
Publication date 24 November 2022
Number of pages 480
Format Hardback
Foreword by Björk
Dimensions 22.3 x 26.9 cm

Thames and Hudson

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Software for Artists Book: Untethering the Web

23 January 2023 in Books Comment

Software for Artists Book: Untethering the Web

Software for Artists Book: Untethering the Web

What will the internet of the future make possible?

Untethering the Web explores the technologies, strategies and anxieties that coalesced in 2022 to shape a new digital paradigm. As naturalized citizens of today’s always-online world and as survivors of a multiyear pandemic, the need to reform our digital tools and approaches is more pressing than ever before. Evolved models for virtual convening, collective organizing and digital ownership are making this possible, and a reckoning for the platformed web and its monolithic tech giants is beginning to feel imminent–but how will it all unfold, and what new pitfalls will emerge?

In conjunction with Pioneer Works’ seventh Software for Artists Day in October 2022, creators, technologists and members of our community share their visions for a flourishing digital multiverse, and how they imagine it manifesting over time.

Featuring Jace Clayton, Aria Dean, Mat Dryhurst, Nora N. Khan, Jenson Leonard, Umber Majeed, Trevor McFedries, Everest Pipkin, Billy Rennekamp, and Mindy Seu

Designed by Daniel Kent
Edited by Willa Köerner and Tommy Martinez

Published by Pioneer Works Press, 2022

Softcover
128 pages
43 b&w images
8.2 × 4.8 inches

ISBN: 978-1-94-571116-9

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No Finish Line, a Design Vision for the Next 50 Years

19 January 2023 in Books Comment

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Nike Releases “No Finish Line,” a Design Vision for the Next 50 Years

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Nike is releasing “No Finish Line,” a new book that invites and inspires the next generation of athletes to imagine the infinite possibilities of design and sport.

“No Finish Line” celebrates Nike’s 50 years of game-changing design and innovation in the service of athletes and sport — and sets a vision for the next 50 years.

The book includes a foreword by Nike’s Chief Design Officer, John Hoke, speculative fiction by journalist Geoff Manaugh, and essays by author Sam Grawe that describe five major shifts design may undergo in the coming decades.

“It’s been said that the best way to predict the future is to create it. At Nike, we wholeheartedly agree. For over 50 years, we’ve endeavored to create a better future for athletes. This compels us forward, always. When we say, ‘There is no finish line,’ it’s not a lazy reference to an unending grind or destination-less journey, but rather an expression of our belief in the limitless potential of sport — and design.”

With this opening paragraph from a foreword by Nike’s Chief Design Officer, John Hoke, the tone is set for “No Finish Line,” a new book that aims to invite, inspire and provoke the next generation of athletes to create a better world through design and sport.

Through exploratory, multilevel conversations on design and critical inputs to it ­­— such as sport research, technology and manufacturing — “No Finish Line” charts Nike’s 50 years of game-changing design and innovation in the service of athletes and sport and projects a vision for the next 50 years. In addition to the foreword from Hoke, the book includes speculative fiction by journalist Geoff Manaugh and essays from Sam Grawe, the author of “Nike: Better Is Temporary.” The essays describe five major shifts design may undergo in the coming decades. To arrive at these shifts, Grawe interviewed more than a dozen of Nike’s most inspiring designers, scientists, engineers, researchers and leaders, yielding unprecedented insights into Nike’s creative process. The collective voices projected a future of design that evolves from product to platform, performance to promise, elite to everyone, sustainable to symbiotic, and static to sensorial.

This sense of promise and evolution propels readers forward as “No Finish Line” defines Nike’s culture of innovation through the lens of the athletes, designers and scientists at its cutting edge; celebrates design not as an outcome, but as an endless journey; and suggests we can shape a better future by simply daring to create it.

“No Finish Line” is designed by Zak Group with custom illustrations by Bráulio Amado and synthesized imagery by PWR. Fluidly combining text and found imagery to create graphic-rich layouts and visual collages, the pocket-size paperback interprets the rich tradition of progressive bookmaking for a new era.

Published by Actual Source, “No Finish Line” retails for $26 and is available February 14 through booksellers, including Actual Source Books and Machus in the United States; Artwords Bookshop, Counterpoint, Design Museum Den Bosch, do you read me?!, ICA Bookstore, Librairie Sans Titre, MagCulture, Papercut, Vitra Design Museum and Yvon Lambert in Europe; and Bianji, Commune, DAIKANYAMA T-SITE and NADiff a/p/a/r/t in Japan.

Nike

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Acne Paper Issue 17, Atticus

13 November 2022 in Books Comment

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When Acne Paper was relaunched last year, it arrived as a hybrid between a book and a magazine, reimagined in a new format and bold design direction: expanding to 500 pages. The new issue of Acne Paper has taken the idea of a hybrid one step further. Part biography, part novel, part cultural art journal, part fashion magazine, this experimental and interdisciplinary issue is imagined around the story of Atticus: a fictional personality in the art world who will celebrate his one hundred-year birthday during the Acne Paper launch in Milan in November. Explore more on acnepaper.com.

Acne Paper Issue 17: Atticus
Hardback
Style ID: Acne Paper issue 17
27 cm x 22 cm x 5 cm
Shell: 100% Paper

Acne Paper

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