Graphic Design: History In The Writing (1983-2011). Occasional Papers.

Posted in graphic design, typography, writing on June 13th, 2012
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Graphic Design: History In The Writing (1983-2011).

The first anthology of its kind, Graphic Design: History in the Writing (1984–2011) comprises some of the most influential published texts about graphic design history. The book documents the development of the relatively young field of graphic design history from 1983 to today, underscoring the aesthetic, theoretical, political and social tensions that have underpinned it from the beginning. Included in the anthology are texts by:

Jeremy Aynsley
Steve Baker
Andrew Blauvelt
Piers Carey
François Chastanet
Wen Huei Chou
Denise Gonzales Crisp
Brian Donnelly
Johanna Drucker
Steven Heller
Richard Hollis
Robin Kinross
Ellen Lupton
Victor Margolin
Ellen Mazur Thomson
Philip B. Meggs
Gérard Mermoz
Abbott Miller
Rick Poynor
Martha Scotford
Catherine de Smet
Teal Triggs
Massimo Vignelli
Bridget Wilkins

Edited by Catherine de Smet and Sara De Bondt

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Types We Can Make. ECAL.

Posted in graphic design, typography on January 20th, 2012
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Types We Can Make. ECAL.

Depuis le 8 septembre 2010 et jusqu’au 25 février 2011, l’ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne présente «Types We Can Make» au MIT Museum/Compton Gallery. Cette exposition imaginée par l’ECAL en collaboration avec le Consulat de Suisse/swissnex Boston et le MIT Museum/Massachussets Institute of Technology offre une sélection de typographies contemporaines suisses. A l’occasion de cet événement, l’ECAL publie un livre de 150 pages.

Par le biais de cette exposition à la Compton Gallery du MIT Museum, produite avec le Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), le Consulat général de Suisse et Swissnex à Boston, l’ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne est fière de confronter la tradition suisse à une approche irréverencieuse plus contemporaine. Les deux d’ailleurs s’inscrivent parfaitement dans la ligne de ce qui a été fait à l’ECAL depuis l’arrivée en 1995 de Pierre Keller en tant que directeur. Notamment grâce à l’Unité de design graphique dirigée jusqu’en 2009 par François Rappo (présent dans l’exposition avec diverses fontes) et aujourd’hui responsable avec Pierre Fantys du Master in Art Direction lancé à l’automne dernier.
Cette exposition reflète totalement la politique instaurée dans cette école. On y trouve ainsi tout ce qui a permis d’hisser cette institution dans le club très select des dix meilleures écoles d’art et de design du monde. A commencer par la présence d’intervenants et professeurs de renommée internationale tels que Ludovic Balland, Cornel Windlin, Jonas Voegeli, NORM (Dimitri Bruni et Manuel Krebs). Des personnalités qui ont su dispenser leur savoir-faire tant en matière de Corporate Identity (fonte, logo, affiche…) que de design de caractères. L’apprentissage de la courbe qui va droit au but!

On y trouve également les travaux d’un grand nombre d’anciens étudiants qui ont pu expérimenter par eux-mêmes ou avec le concours de l’ECAL les différents champs de l’art typographique et les nombreuses applications qui en découlent. Qu’il s’agisse de la création pure de fontes comme celles d’Aurèle Sack, Nicolas Eigenheer, Philippe Desarzens, Mathieu Cortat, Emmanuel Rey, Jeremy Schorderet ou Ian Party. Du lancement d’un magazine tel que Sang Bleu par Maxime Büchi dont les qualités sont louées aux quatre coins du globe. D’un travail de recherche par David Keshavjee et Julien Tavelli mis en application dans l’ouvrage Typeface as program édité par JRP/Ringier et l’ECAL. De monographies d’artistes, de revues et magazines, voire même de logos comme celui réalisé pour RocNation du célèbre rappeur américain Jay-Z, par Gilles Gavillet et David Rust. De projets de scripting qui confinent au design interactif comme ceux initiés par Jürg Lehni et Alex Rich. De travaux de direction artistique par FAGETA composé d’Adeline Mollard et Philippe Egger pour Gestalten Verlag, d’Annina Mettler pour Das Magazin ou encore de Marie Lusa pour Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst à Zurich. Sans oublier des affiches illustrées par Körner Union (formé de Guy Meldem, Tarik Hayward, Sami Benhadj) et Tatiana Rihs.
La scénographie réalisée par Alexis Georgacopoulos, responsable du Master en design de produit, met en lumière les typographies grâce à des affiches au format mondial (F4), qui est celui utilisé dans les rues en Suisse. Elles sont directement imprimées sur du carton «nid d’abeilles», un matériau rigide, léger et respectueux de l’environnement.

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Return to Leptis Magna. Anna Barham

Posted in typography, writing on October 22nd, 2011
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Return to Leptis Magna. Anna Barham

Design by Anna Barham & Julia
Typeset in Leptis, designed by Julia

Edition of 500
96 pages / English

Single Color Lithography
Sewn Binding plus Soft Cover with Folded Jacket
Published by Anna Barham, 2010

D 18.00€

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Theatre of Thought – Snejanka Mihaylova – Critique & Humanism

Posted in theatre, Theory, typography on July 28th, 2011
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Theatre of Thought – Snejanka Mihaylova – Critique & Humanism

“Theatre of Thought ” measures the possibility of a theatre based on languages in state of trans, from which emerges its own paradox of representation and the opening to a language-in-between. The author is a philosopher in her background and a performing artist. She proposes this highly original work as a performance-in-a-form-of-a-book or as a-book-in-a-form-of-a-performance.

This is the first publication of the Critique & Humanism collection “One Day I Discovered To My Own Great Astonishement”, dedicated to the relation between theoretical thinking and performing arts. The name of the series is an homage to Sigmund Freud’s ‘Interpretation of Dreams’.

Design by Céline Wouters

Published by Critique & Humanism, Sofia

Edition of 1000

D 12.50€

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Bulletins of the Serving Library #1 – Sternberg Press + Dexter Sinister

Posted in graphic design, typography, writing on June 10th, 2011

Bulletins of the Serving Library #1 – Sternberg Press + Dexter Sinister

Bulletins of The Serving Library is the new biannual publication from Dexter Sinister, which continues where the final issue of their previous house journal DOT DOT DOT left off. It will be published under the umbrella of their nascent Serving Library, a non-profit institution founded on a cooperatively-built archive that assembles itself by publishing. The pilot issue addresses the twin themes of Time generally and Libraries specifically, and includes texts by Angie Keefer, Rob Giampietro and David Reinfurt, and Bruce Sterling.

Edited by David Reinfurt, Stuart Bailey, Angie Keefer
Published by Sternberg Press (Europe) and Dexter Sinister (U.S.A.)
96 pages

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Formen Lesen – Ein Plädoyer für bewusste Gestaltung – Paulus M. Dreibholz – Gaffa Editions

Posted in graphic design, typography on June 6th, 2011

Formen Lesen – Ein Plädoyer für bewusste Gestaltung – Paulus M. Dreibholz – Gaffa Editions

Formen Lesen – Ein Plädoyer für bewusste Gestaltung engages with elemental questions of design and typography. In short articles it touches the subjects of reading and understanding our environment, natural or cultural. It talks about the responsibility of the designer and assesses the speed of the design process.

Formen Lesen is a personal account of the activity of designing the things that surround us, mainly printed matters, but allows conceptual and practical insight into how this complex subject can be approached and offers opinions and arguments for further personal investigation.

Written by Paulus M. Dreibholz / Edited by Roland Früh
126 x 210mm (portrait)
56 pages / single colour throughout
Language: German only (English to come)
ISBN:978-0-9555220-8-6

D 12€

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It’s Nice That – Issue #5

Posted in graphic design, illustration, magazines, Motto Berlin store, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, typography, writing on April 6th, 2011




The fifth issue of our magazine, released on 17 March 2011 includes 128 pages of advertising-free content, documenting the best of the work recently featured on the site, alongside a series of never previously published interviews and features with, and by, current practitioners.

Content includes features written by Adrian Shaughnessy, Tony Hayward, Trevor Jackson and Justin Taylor; a visual feature by Letman and Qiu Yang; and interviews with Erwin Wurm, Matt Pyke, Isabella Rozendaal, Wilford Barrington and Rob Ryan.

128 pages, 27.5 x 21 cm

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One Century of Type and Teaching Typefaces in Leipzig – Julia Blume and Fred Smeijers

Posted in Motto Berlin store, typography on March 21st, 2011
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One Century of Type and Teaching Typefaces in Leipzig / Ein Jahrhundert Schrift und Schriftunterricht in Leipzig – Julia Blume and Fred Smeijers.

Text in English and German

Published by Institut für Buchkunst Leipzig 2010.

D 39.90 €
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25th International Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana. 2003. Jrp-Ringier

Posted in Exhibition catalogue, graphic design, illustration, Motto Berlin store, Motto Vancouver store, Motto Zürich store, typography on March 16th, 2011
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25th International Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana.

This catalog brings together all the projects represented at the 25th Biennal of Ljubljana.

Organised in six chapters, it includes an introduction by Christophe Cherix, an overview of the history of the Biennal, artists’ texts, and interviews, as well as numerous illustrations in black and white. With contributions by artists such as John Armleder, Isa Genzken, Lucy McKenzie, Robert Morris, Seth Price, and Allen Ruppersberg.

Published in collaboration with the International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana. Edited by Christophe Cherix. Designed by Gilles Gavillet, and given an award at the “Most Beautiful Swiss Books” competition, 2003.

English / Slovenian
June 2003
ISBN: 978-2-940271-26-9
Softcover, 189 x 229 mm
274 pages
Images 88 b/w

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Karel Martens: Printed Matter / Drukwerk (3rd reprint)

Posted in Editions, graphic design, history, Motto Berlin store, printmaking, typography, writing on December 19th, 2010
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Printed Matter / Drukwerk, Karel Martens with Jaap van Triest and Robin Kinross

Revised and extended, third edition, 50 years of work.
Published by Hyphen Press

The work of Karel Martens occupies an intriguing place in the present European art-and-design landscape. Martens can be placed in the tradition of Dutch modernism – in the line of figures such as Piet Zwart, H.N. Werkman, Willem Sandberg. Yet he maintains some distance from the main developments of our time: from both the practices of routinized modernism and of the facile reactions against this. His work is both personal and experimental. At the same time, it is publicly answerable. Over the now 50 years of his practice, Martens has been prolific as a designer of books. He has also made contributions in a wide range of design commissions, including stamps, coins, signs on buildings. Intimately connected with this design work has been his practice as an artist. This started with geometric and kinetic constructions, and was later developed in work with the very material of paper; more recently he has been making relief prints from found industrial artefacts. This book looks for new ways to show and discuss the work of a designer and artist, and is offered in the same spirit of experiment and dialogue that characterizes the work it presents.

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