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
me news
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…
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)
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
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…