Maximage Formula Guide – Special Colors for Offset Printing

The Maximage Formula Guide Special Colors for Offset Printing is an 80-page book of colors developed by 1CVdg students during a workshop held by Körner Union and Maximage, with the kind help of Carole Courtillé and Violène Pont. Papers printed on include: Uncoated – Amber Graphic 200g/m², Coated – INAPA Imagine gloss 200g/m², Color – Pop’set Colors 120g/m².

Printed at ECAL by Benjamin Plantier in an edition of 100.

D 35€

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Local Myths/Love Spells – Jennifer Tee – Eastside Projects

Local Myths/Love Spells is a 24-page cut-book with 22 inserts, including foldout posters, postcards, and booklets. It was printed on the occasion of Jennifer Tee’s September 25 to November 6, 2010 exhibition of the same name at Eastside Projects. Also includes a prologue by Gavin Wade and an essay by Monika Szewcyk.

Designed by Niessen & de Vries and James Langdon
Printed by Mart. Spruijt, Amsterdam

D 23.50€

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Elias Arnér & Per Hüttner & Åbäke – (In)Visible Dialogues, Dent-De-Leone

(In)Visible Dialogues is a project at Konstakademien in Stockholm which includes a number of internationally acclaimed speakers from different disciplines. Predrag Petrovic´, A Constructed World, Konrad Kaufmann, Arijana Kajfes, Sandra Masur, Laurent Devèze, Véronique Wiesinger & Hugo Lagercrantz.(In)Visible Dialogues allow art and science to meet in harmony as well as friction. The project brings together leading specialists from Europe, Asia, Australia and USA to stimulate meaningful dialogues about life and the boundaries of reality. (In)Visible Dialogues was initiated by artist Per Hüttner and Elias Arnér, professor in biochemistry at Karolinska Institutet in close collaboration with graphic designers Åbäke in London and a group of sound artists from all over the world. The project is a continuation of Begrepp – en Samling (Concepts – a collection) that was realized by the two former in 1992 at Konstakademin.

www.invisibledialogues.org

Author / Editor: Elias Arnér & Per Hüttner & Åbäke
Pages: 240
First Edition: 900 copies
Language: English & Swedish
Published by: Dent-De-Leone

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Frog Numero 10, été 2011

25 exhibitions reviews, 3 interviews, a dozen exhibitions in pictures, some artists special projects, and the chronicles.

This issue Featuring: Pierre Huyghe, Didier Marcel, Guy Debord, son art et son temps, Benoît-Marie Moriceau, Les psychonautes, Elmgreen & Dragset, John McCracken, Jean Veilhan, 8th Qwangju Biennale, Oscar Niemeyer, Allan McCollum, Olaf Nicolai, Herzog & de Meuron, Karen Kilimnik, Paul Winstanley, Sgrafo vs Fat Lava, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Marina Faust…

Edited by Eric Troncy and Stéphanie Moisdon, Frog is an international art and architecture magazine.
Graphic design: M/M (Paris).
Text only in French

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Karl Holmqvist – Peep-Hole Sheet #08, A Trip to Tangier . Mousse Publishing

Working mainly with written, spoken, or performed texts, poet and artist Karl Holmqvist experiments here the potential of the ‘empty spread’ of Peep-Hole Sheet. Investigating thus the inner nature of the medium and its open, ambiguous and sometimes contradictory relations with the ‘caravan of signs moving across it’. His A Trip to Tangier is in fact not only a travel in time and space, conveying a strong sense of awareness and freedom, but is also an hypnotic wandering through the possibilities and limits of language. As for many of his publications and videos, Holmqvist opts here for the sharpness of black and white: “I have stuck with black-and-white because it ’s stylish and refers back to text, and to the idea that all of reality could be seen as a type of writing or an act of communication.”

Published by Mousse Publishing
Text in English and Italian

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How I Came to Photograph Paul Thek’s Nativity Play. Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, 1973. Reinhardt Voigt
Published by BQ. Köln 2009.
Text in German and English

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Kurt Kranz: Die Programmierung des Schönen [Programming Beauty] – Spector Books

For many years, the artist Kurt Kranz explored the foundations of visual design – colour, form and structure – through consistently new and quasi-scientific processes. In doing so, he drew on theories of geometry, colour and cognitive psychology. During his studies at the Bauhaus, Kranz was inspired in important ways by his teachers Josef Albers, Walter Peterhans, Joost Schmidt, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. His research into the foundations of visual art led Kranz to develop design principles that, in the strict sense of the Bauhaus program, he implemented in the fields of both free and applied art, including painting, drawing, typography, graphic design, exhibition design, book design and film.

The works selected for this publication are representative of individual groups of works, each of which is based on a different generative technique. “I look for rules, principles, methods or processes that generate change by visual means and lead to a consistent process that is governed by intuition” (Kurt Kranz). Although the developments occur within a certain framework, there are often phases where the visual experiment develops its own dynamic and Kurt Kranz gives his artistic intuition free reign.

Published by Spector Books
Edition of 700
Designed by Müller & Wesse
Dessau / Leipzig 2011

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Davide Cascio – E.N. , Spector Books

The idea for this catalogue came about in the spring of 2008 when Davide Cascio began planning a series of exhibitions to be held that fall at four locations: the art space FormContent in London, the gallery Agenzia04 in Bologna, The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art in Riga, and at the Kunsthalle Basel. Each of the exhibitions came together by means of a unique process, presented a different perspective and originated from the same idea: to examine the ambivalence of esprit nouveau thinking within the different contexts of the individual institutions. The series of exhibitions serve as the backdrop for this catalogue. This book — a collection of texts and images brought together and discussed as the exhibitions were being prepared and after they concluded — is intended as a system of footnotes to the works by Davide Cascio.

Published by Spector Books
128 pages, English
Design: Pascal Storz
Edited by Egija Inzule
Leipzig 2011

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Kurt Kranz – schwarz : weiß/weiß : schwarz, Spector Books

schwarz : weiß/weiß : schwarz [black : white/white : black] Kurt Kranz developed the form series “schwarz : weiß/weiß : schwarz” (1928/29) at the age of 18 during his lithography apprenticeship. He created the forty ink drawings with a drawing pen, compass and angle iron. At a lecture in Bielefeld he showed the work to László Moholy-Nagy who then supported Kranz’s application to Bauhaus Dessau. One of Kurt Kranz’s central artistic strategies is already visible in “schwarz : weiß/ weiß : schwarz”, working with series, variations and transformations. In the early 1930s Wassily Kandinsky planned to publish this work, but the Great Depression prevented it. In 1972 Kranz realized the form series as an experimental film. This publication is a reproduction of the only bound copy of the work from 1929.

Published by Spector Books

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‘Profilo Continuo’ (Testa di Mussolini), 1933

publication released by Grotto publications on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Looking for the border’
production: BKSM
Fernand Baudin Nomination 2008
17 x 24 cm, 150 copies, 80 p.

D 15€

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