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Mind Games
Designer: Noah Venezia
Pages: 160
Format: 117 x 171 mm mm
Price: € 15,00
A quadrangled story about shades and variations in co-dependence and sovereignty, inspired by a musician (John Lennon), a theorist (Henry Lefebre), an author (Halldor Laxness) and a demnted ruler of Rome (Caligula). Mindgames is constituted by four parts – ordered in alternating sequence – to form thirteen chapters in total. Each of the four sections holds a biographical account of its subject: Caligula, Henri Lefebvre, John Lennon and Halldór Laxness. The chapters can be read separately, as they have been conceived to be independent wholes, forming biographies that present portraits of associations rather than particular statements about individual lives. The text, however, is constructed to alternate rhythmically between the main motives. The motives in turn produce variations on particular themes as they modulate into different parts within the totality of the work as a whole. Mindgames was conceived as a way to enjoy information in the tradition of autodidacts of the past – but in a style which is commingled with a reverence towards traditional modes of archiving the world. The author will give a talk about the ideas behind the work and selected chapters will be read.
Geirþrúður Finnbogadóttir Hjörvar was born in 1977. She received her MFA from the Malmö Art Academy in 2005 and her BFA from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2002. She attended the Rijksakadamie residency program in 2007-2008 in Amsterdam. She works with sculpture, text, performance, painting and installations.
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Marina / Buba. Whispering
Project by: Dutch Art Institute (DAI), CasCo
Designer: Marc Hollenstein
Pages: 16
Format: 160 x 210 mm mm
Year: 2009
Price: € 14,00
A set of 2 booklets: Marina + Buba. Buba Cvoric and Marina Tomic were born in Serbia 1980 and 1982, and are a collaborative artist team performing actively since 2005. Their performances present an exploration and study of a collective identity, intimacy and behaviour within mutual experience. In most of the works they strive to reveal and understand a marginal and subconscious nature of the collective mind.
These booklets are part of a growing collection of artists publications issued by the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) produced in collaboration with the Werkplaats Typografie and edited by artist/ curator Delphine Bedel. The 2009 edition consists of 15 publications by different artists, varying from printed matter, book and artist edition to performance artefact. For each project, the artist teamed up with a graphic designer from Werkplaats Typografie, and invited a guest author to contribute. Over the period of one year, various aspects of publishing- concept, editing and design, production and distribution – were addressed, while the artists were invited to see the publication process, as a way of generation work or conversation, rather than just representing it. -
The Cultural Side of Innovation: Adding Values, by Dany Jacobs
Project by: Veenman Publishers & ArtEZ Press
Designer: David Bennewith
Pages: 192
Format: 135 x 190 mm mm
Price: € 20,00
This book includes an updated version of Dany Jacobs’ essay ‘Creativity and the Economy’, written as a preparation for the Innovation Lecture 2005 of the Dutch Ministry of economics Affairs on ‘Competing with Creativity’. In this book Dany Jacobs illustrates to what extent the cultural side of innovations is even more important than their technology. Moreover, he explains how to think about creativity in a more productive way, in order to increase the chance of success of innovations. This is illustrated with concrete cases from different industries.
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Dutch Resource: Collaborative Exercises in Graphic Design
Project by: Werkplaats Typografie with Valiz Publishers
Designer: Various
Pages: 360
Format: 170 x 235 mm mm
ISBN: 978-9080818576
Year: 2006
Price: € 25,00
Ten WT participants asked an equal number of Dutch graphic designers to join forces with them during their work period for the Chaumont Graphic Arts Festival in the summer of 2005. ‘Dutch Resource’ is a report of that collaboration; in ten different sections, each person’s working method becomes apparent and we are shown how the dialogue was put into effect. The book gives an accurate picture of the uncompromising practice of today’s graphic designer, a specialist and jack-of-all trades in one, who is not only meant to be a good designer but often works as a writer, researcher, editor, curator, critic and photographer as well. It shows work from: Lust, Mevis & Van Deursen, Julia Born, Roma Publications, Irma Boom, Maureen Mooren & Daniël van der Velden, Stuart Bailey, Will Holder, Experimental Jetset & Jop van Bennekom.
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Recollected Work
Project by: Mevis & Van Deursen
Designer: Mevis & Van Deursen
Pages: 206
Format: 205 x 275 mm mm
Price: € 35,00
Nothing about Dutch graphic design duo Mevis & van Deursen conforms to type. Praised for their innovative but clear presentation, they have designed everything from artist’s books for Gabriel Orozco and Rineke Dijkstra to an official government stamp commemorating the marriage of Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, based on the number two, since the wedding date was 02-02-02. This book represents a range of work from the past 15 years, mostly books but also posters and smaller pieces. However, the artists have chosen not simply to present the work again but to make it new through collage and reinterpretative interplay, thus "recycling" their innovative designs.
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WT reader: Not really being Anywhere except Everywhere. A Spring reader
Designer: Toshi & Marie
Pages: 96
Format: 230 x 340 mm mm
Price: € 10,00
The second WT reader publication done with all participants of WT year 05 and 06. A theme ‘the global picked out from the local and the local seeped through the global’ was developed, researched and illustrated with in-house-generated-brand-spanking-new content as well as some carefully selected existing material. Participants formed the editorial team, worked as contributors and, naturally, designers.
With contributions by: Sven Herzog, Peter Robinson, Italo Calvino, Maxine Kopsa, Dirk Herzog, Susanne Stetzer, José Da Fonseca & Pedro Carolino, Eric Cruz, Red Zinia, Louise Dossing, Darcy D. Jeffs, Toshimasa Kimura, Karen van de Kraats, Jeffrey C. Ramsey and Layla Tweedie-Cullen -
Gap Reader
Project by: Schloss Ringenberg, Hamminkeln
Designer: Cecilia Costa
Pages: 256
Format: 170 x 230 mm mm
Year: 2000
Price: € 15,00
Der Reader dokumenteert het programma en de activiteiten van het Duits-Nederlandse project over de periode 1.7.2005-1.7.2008