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Reformed 3

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A publication featuring work by students in “Newly Formed”—an advanced graphic design course at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Reformed 3 spotlights a selection of new compositions produced for Newly Formed, a course which focuses on experimental form-making and image-making using iterative and generative approaches. The publication includes posters, typography, and treated and manipulated images, as well as a short text about the publication.

The central section features fourteen portraits: each design student in the class wearing a mask they created or invented. Hiding in plain sight, behind and within their work, these images can serve as a metaphor for the relationship between a designer and their work: designers are always part of the designs they create, however modulated their presence may be.

Featuring work by Noah Beckwith, Olivia de Salve Villediu, Helen Gao, Joel Kern, Mei Lenehan, Eunice Li, Jenny Li, Izzi Mordini, Jinhwa Oh, Marie Otsuka, Jay Park, Yeon Ryoo, Kendra Xu, and Can Yang.

First edition, 2018

32 pages, full color, 8.5 × 11 inches

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The Art Happens Here: Net Art Anthology

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The Art Happens Here: Net Art Anthology

The Art Happens Here: Net Art Anthology

This richly illustrated volume retells the history of net art from the 1980s to the present day through thematic essays and interview extracts.

It centers around the 100 works selected, restored and presented as part of the Net Art Anthology initiative, which originated as an online exhibition series in 2016 and continued with a touring gallery exhibition through January 2019. Featured artists include Morehshin Allahyari, Cory Arcangel, Shu Lea Cheang, DIS, Constant Dullaart, Cécile B. Evans, exonemo, Cao Fei, Lynn Hershman Leeson, JODI, Oliver Laric, Olia Lialina, Eva & Franco Mattes, Jayson Musson, Paper Rad, Pope.L, Jon Rafman, Rafaël Rozendaal, Wolfgang Staehle, Martine Syms, Ryan Trecartin, UBERMORGEN, Amalia Ulman, Artie Vierkant, Miao Ying and others.

The book and exhibition are the work of Rhizome, the born-digital art organization founded by artist Mark Tribe in 1996. Leveraging more than two decades of experience with net art and digital culture, The Art Happens Here represents Rhizome’s most complete effort to date to contextualize the art forms it champions.

Bringing to life the artistic communities, the surrounding social and political realities, and the changing technological contexts that have shaped artistic uses of the internet over a period of decades, The Art Happens Here features a unique design by Jiminie Ha/With Projects. Intended to function as an “informational object,” the book boasts a chroma-key green cover, “scrolling” text that spills off the top and bottom of the page and wraps around the back cover and images that ask the reader to rotate the book as they would a smartphone.

Edited by Michael Connor, Aria Dean, and Dragan Espenschied.

With texts by manuel arturo abreu, Josephine Bosma, Megan Driscoll, Ceci Moss, Lila Pagola, Paul Soulellis, and Elvia Wilk

Designed by Jiminie Ha / With Projects

Published by Rhizome, 2019

Softcover, 400 pages, 325 color + 25 b&w images, 8.25 × 11.75 inches

ISBN: 978-0-69-217308-4

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Myths of the Near Future — Rob Stephenson

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Myths of the Near Future
Rob Stephenson

When the last Space Shuttle took off from Kennedy Space Center in 2011 a population and generation defined by the dreams of the Space Age lost the most potent symbol of its identity. This project looks at the landscape of the “Space Coast” of Florida in wake of the closing of the shuttle program and on the many contradictions the program and its demise engendered.

In his collection of short stories, Memories of the Space Age, novelist JG Ballard describes a near future in which the infrastructure of the US Space Program has been abandoned, its gantries left to decay into the Florida swamp while inanimate astronauts circle the earth in an endless orbit. While the reality is not quite as dystopic as he suggests, the slow decline of the space program and its effects on the local economy and landscape have made many of Ballard’s descriptions eerily prescient.

Ballard’s recurring motifs – derelict motels, overgrown jungles and dead satellites tumbling through the darkness of space, occupy that ambiguous realm between dream and reality, between past and future, and between nature and technology. These photographs explore those in between states, depicting a nostalgia for the future as the promise of the Space Age slowly fades away.

Myths of the Near Future includes a text from Margaret Lazarus Dean author of The Time It Takes to Fall and leaving Orbit: Noted from the Last Days of American Spaceflight

Rob Stephenson

Rob Stephenson is a landscape and architectural photographer who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums including The Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Center for Architecture, and The Museum of the City of New York. He has been awarded fellowships from the Design Trust for Public Space, The Camera Club of New York and the New York Foundation for Arts. Rob’s editorial work has been featured in T Magazine, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. His first book, From Roof to Table, documenting the urban agriculture movement in New York City, was published in 2012.

7″ x 9″, 96 pages,
Perfect Bound
Edition Size 300
ISBN : 978-1-944005-32-0
Published by : Aint–Bad

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Fabien Baron: Works 1983-2019

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Fabien Baron: Works 1983-2019

The much-anticipated book from one of the most sought-after art directors in the world, showcasing 30+ years of his talent.

Part design manual, part manifesto, the first career retrospective of Fabien Baron, whom Vanity Fair called ‘the most sought-after creative director in the world,’ is an immersive visual survey of more than 30 years of award-winning art direction, design, and image-making. Using examples taken from across the entire range of his work – including typography, packaging, product, furniture, and interior design – Baron’s book communicates his aesthetic logic with clarity and style. Replete with text by acclaimed author Adam Gopnik and a foreword by worldfamous super model Kate Moss, this is an intimate insider’s visit with a true fashion, photography, and design visionary.

Format: Hardback
Size: 380 x 292 mm (15 x 11 1/8 in)
Pages: 424 pp
Illustrations: 450 illustrations
ISBN: 9780714879932

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Great Women Artists

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Great Women Artists

Five centuries of fascinating female creativity presented in more than 400 compelling artworks and one comprehensive volume.

The most extensive fully illustrated book of women artists ever published, Great Women Artists reflects an era where art made by women is more prominent than ever. In museums, galleries, and the art market, previously overlooked female artists, past and present, are now gaining recognition and value. Featuring more than 400 artists from more than 50 countries and spanning 500 years of creativity, each artist is represented here by a key artwork and short text. This essential volume reveals a parallel yet equally engaging history of art for an age that champions a greater diversity of voices.

“Real changes are upon us, and today one can reel off the names of a number of first-rate women artists. Nevertheless, women are just getting started.”—The New Yorker

Format: Hardback
Size: 290 x 250 mm (11 3/8 x 9 7/8 in)
Pages: 464 pp
Illustrations: 450 illustrations
ISBN: 9780714878775

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Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Houses

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Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Houses

A groundbreaking global survey of the finest mid-20th-century homes – one of the most popular styles of our time.

A fascinating collection of more than 400 of the world’s most glamorous homes from more than 290 architects, the Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Houses showcases work by such icons as Marcel Breuer, Richard Neutra, Alvar Aalto, and Oscar Niemeyer alongside extraordinary but virtually unknown houses in Australia, Africa, and Asia. A thoroughly researched, comprehensive appraisal, this book is a must-have for all design aficionados, Mid-Century Modern collectors, and readers looking for inspiration for their own homes.

Format: Hardback
Size: 340 x 240 mm (13 3/8 x 9 1/2 in)
Pages: 500 pp
Illustrations: 250 illustrations
ISBN: 9780714876740

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