Design & Art Reader
Documents of Contemporary Art
Whitechapel Art Gallery / MIT Press
In January 2006, we were approached by UK art critic Alex Coles, who was working on 'Design & Art: Documents of Contemporary Art', a book that would be published a year later (in 2007) by Whitechapel Art Gallery (UK) and MIT Press (US).
Alex Coles' intention was that 'Design & Art' would function as a 'reader', a collection of previously published texts. In short, he was interested in including an interview with us, an interview that he read in Lucienne Roberts' ...
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Miltos Manetas
Marx & Marinetti & Miltos & Manetas
(Before we start, here is already a spoiler: the book we are discussing in this chapter was never actually published. It is a project that was never realized).
Towards the end of 2005, the artist Miltos Manetas approached us to design a monograph about his work. We came up with a pretty basic lay-out, a grid that could accommodate all his material: paintings, videos, manifestos, essays, etc. As a title, we thought up 'Marx & Marinetti & Miltos & Manetas'.
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Zang! Tumb Tumb
...if you want it.
Poster for GraficEurope 2003
We were actually 'double-invited' to participate in the GraficEurope conference that took place in 2003 in Barcelona. First of all, we were invited to give a lecture in the main program of the conference (see Blow-Up). Secondly, we were nominated by Wim Crouwel to contribute to an exhibition that would take place during the conference, a group show on 'emerging designers'.
Participating 'emerging designers' included Manuel Raeder (nominated by Graphic Thought Facility), Kerr/Noble (nominat...
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Vreeland
Book- and CD-cover
De Arbeiderspers
Designed in 2006, published in 2008. Full story later.
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