me news

year zero

index book have issued a call for entries for the ‘OFFF festival’ book 2011, the annual event takes place this time in barcelona next june & the brief for submissions is very ‘open’… and the deadline is mid january

m / 05-12-2010 11:30 - tags: , ,  

hello, welcome (and other greetings)

in fact there are one thousand of them, in this new book featuring some of my work, released this week… not terribly interesting really, merely a ‘tumblr’ in book form…

m / 02-12-2010 08:22 - tags: ,  

unruly alphabet

a new book entitled ‘unruly type’ has just been released which sort of abuses the alphabet in all kinds of weird ways, although upon taking a second look, i think i’ve seen enough already, a fun idea yeah… but would i want to buy it?… no

not to be confused with the other typographical unruly of course… (via twitter)

m / 02-12-2010 08:11 - tags: ,  

rietveld times ten

…we stripped down his red and blue chair and created 10 different chairs…

‘lernert & sander’ are making so many good projects at the moment that i seem to be writing about them very week… like this smart idea for a newspaper for the sikkens prize 2010

m / 01-12-2010 09:10 - tags: , ,  

history, rewritten

…i took my favorite book… and by removing words carved out a new story. It was hardly an original idea: it’s a technique that has, in different ways, been practiced for as long as there has been writing…

the ‘tree of codes’ book which i posted about earlier this month, has been reviewed by steven heller who has also interviewed the author on the why & how…

my own copy also arrived in the post today, it’s a fascinating object to hold and examine but the idea alone, of actually attempting to read it makes me feel tired…

m / 25-11-2010 09:22 - tags: , ,