me news
not an issue
my friend ‘martin de waal’ asked me to take part in a performance exhibition entitled ‘the non issue – activism in fabric’ and to create something on a large piece of textile reacting to the theme of the show ‘non-issue’, here is a preview of the fabric piece i made and a spread for the catalogue, shown below
the show was due to open this evening but has been delayed till later this year…
even more books
polish designer iwona przybyla has created an unusual pop-up book ’90 degrees’ which she created with a series of threads sewn through sheets that literally pop up to form letters as the pages are turned, great idea this… even though it is a sketch at this stage, it reminds me a little of this other experimental book project we posted recently
‘steidl’ publishers have teamed up with ‘karl lagerfeld’ to create a book that encases a bottle of perfume… all sounds very cool, but judging by the available images there isn’t much more to it than that and a lot of hype… above all it has been done before or something rather similar: this book of which i own a copy called ‘kyoteau’ by della chang
more books
‘index book’ have recently posted an inspiring little interview with my friend and passionate magazine designer ‘luis mendo’, plus ‘gestalten’ have just released a volume on talented local designer/typographer ‘job wouters’ a.k.a. letman
shooting back
a copy of the first and (very) limted edition book from artist hester scheurwater arrived in the mail this week…