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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

What to Know

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.

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Mårten Lange and Daniel Everett: Vantage Point

11 November 2022 in Books Comment

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Vantage Point is a collaborative publication between American artist Daniel Everett and Swedish artist Mårten Lange.

The project started as a conversation in 2016 at an exhibition for Daniel’s book “Throughout the Universe in Perpetuity” (Études, 2015) during the ‘One Thousand Books’ Art Book Festival at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen. Mårten was in attendance and instantly recognized one of Daniel’s images. It turned out that he had taken the exact same image from the exact same place/vantage point that Daniel had, just a short time apart in Tokyo. This amazing coincidence prompted the two to begin working together to compile more images from their individual trips to Japan to be shown together in a book. In 2020 FOAM published an excerpt from the project in issue #56 and this book is the full compilation of images.

176 Pages
Ota Bound w/ wrapped boards on front and back
Essays by Jesus Vasallo and Paola Paleari
Designed and Published by ACTUAL SOURCE books

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Uta Eisenreich, As If

15 May 2022 in Books Comment

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This book of photographs is the sequel to A NOT B (2010), wherein quotidian items are again staged and captured through the camera’s unblinking eye. Yet the images are no longer set in the innocent atmosphere of the preschool years, when the world is read through analogies, but catapulted into a darker space of representation at the cusp of adolescence, against the backdrop of a hyper-commercialised world. The compositions create a distinctive play with logic, language, and meaning. Objects transform from their humble selves into abstract shapes discharged of meaning, or alternately into advertisements for themselves, charged with desire or bad omens of an ominous future.

156 pages
22 x 29 cm
Roma Publications (Amsterdam)

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Raygun: The Bible of Music and Style

31 August 2020 in Books Comment

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Founded in 1992, Ray Gun was the only magazine wherein a die-hard culture seeker could find information on alternative music and the street-inspired style that really mattered. Punk rock had torn pop music to shreds and created a hunger for an original lifestyle beyond mainstream culture, and Ray Gun was its graphic chronicler: across its pages blasted a visual feast made up of era-defining artists such as Sonic Youth or Iggy Pop, music-inspired art, and a complete redefinition of sartorial style. The magazine’s original art director, David Carson, and his peers who followed, created an entirely new visual culture that shattered the limitations of graphic design.

Ray Gun was as radical as the lifestyle it reported on, deeply committed to visually representing an alternative culture as a new way of seeing and being in the world. With over 200 full-color photographs, Ray Gun: The Bible of Music and Style gathers the most outrageous pages from the magazine that helped to shape the ’90s. This epic anthology features exclusive photographs and articles on rock legends such as R.E.M., HenryRollins, Jane’s Addiction, The Pixies, Dinosaur Jr., U2, Marilyn Manson, Smashing Pumpkins, NineInch Nails, Mudhoney, Pearl Jam, Bjork, Morrissey, PJ Harvey, Beastie Boys, Soundgarden, Beck and an exclusive interview with David Bowie.

Marvin Scott Jarrett is a celebrated creative force in the worlds of publishing, film, and television, as well as founder of Ray Gun and Nylon. Liz Phair is a legendary alt-rock goddess; Wayne Coyne is frontman of The Flaming Lips; Dean Kuipers is an arts and environmental writer; Steven Heller is an art director and co-chair of the MFA Design Department at the School of Visual Arts.

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Actual Source Final Shot Basketball Hoop Projects

25 July 2020 in Design Comment

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Final Shot Basketball
Hoop Projects

29.5” Indoor Basketball.
Illustrations by Stefan Marx based on the play by play call of Michael Jordan’s final shot.

Limited run of 100 made

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Shoplifters Issue 9: Drawings Poster

18 July 2020 in Books Comment

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Shoplifters Issue 9: DRAWINGS poster by Actual Source

Buy Shoplifters Issue 9 here

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