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From the bottom of the chin to the top of the head
Project by: DAI / Dutch Art Institute
Designer: Manuel Zenner
Pages: 64
Format: 147 x 210 mm mm
Price: € 10,00
This is a publication with the Artist Patricia Sousa. The booklet is a space of expression of the norm of the passport pictures and regulations. The grid is the norm and the type evolves through the book in order to fill in the space of the spread, as the face should fill in the space of the photography. The 300 copies, like the passports, present a common state, personnalized by the hand glued colored pictures. With Texts by Sophie Nield and Raqs Media Collective.
DAI PUBLICATIONS is a collection of artist’s books issued by the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) and designed in collaboration with the Werkplaats Typografie (WT). The 2011 edition consists of 16 publications. In close collaboration with one or more guest authors, artists team up with designers to produce an artwork in the form of printed matter. From very diverse perspectives they reflect on publishing as a versatile medium.
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Biscotti di Vento
Project by: Dutch Art Institute
Designer: Laure Giletti
Pages: 84
Format: 120 x 170 mm mm
Price: € 10,00
Biscotti di Vento is a research project by artist Vittoria Soddu in collaboration with authors Manlio Brigalia, Bianca Pitzorno and Celestino Tabasso. Their contributions to Biscotti di Vento have been inspired by conversations filmed by Soddu in 2010 with Antonella Baralla and Salvatorica Manca around the origins and secrets of a contended biscuit.
DAI PUBLICATIONS is a collection of artist’s books issued by the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) and designed in collaboration with the Werkplaats Typografie (WT). The 2011 edition consists of 16 publications. In close collaboration with one or more guest authors, artists team up with designers to produce an artwork in the form of printed matter. From very diverse perspectives they reflect on publishing as a versatile medium. -
Air Inside the Bones
Project by: DAI / Dutch Art Institute , Gonçalo Sena, Robert Macfarlane, Pedro A.H. Paixao
Designer: Stefano Faoro
Pages: 30
Format: 240 x 340 mm mm
Price: € 10,00
First published in 1856, John Ruskin’s “Modern Painters vol.IV: Of Mountain Beauty” reflects on the geology of the Alps i terms of landscape observation and its moral and spiritual influences on those living nearby. The “mountainous mask” list derives from the original Index of that book.
Note on Pedro A.H. Paixao’s text: The text presented here is the development of a selection of notes written, at first, on the margins of the red drawings series, and after – conserving its informal shape, without reference notes -, as a reflection on affinities to Goncalo Senas use of drawing in his projects. The double ‘||’ within the text means not so much a paragraph division, but a lapse in time, allowing the text to remain as a condensed block, and to exhibit its journal nature, here exempted of places and dates.
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A lamb named Beauty
Project by: KASK Gent
Designer: Ine Meganck
Pages: 52
Format: 173 x 250 mm mm
Price: € 15,00
A Lamb Named Beauty shows the life of two twin sisters Kimberly and Gwendolyn. The series started in 2007, when the sisters were 10 years old. An- Sofie Kesteleyn tried to give a candid impression about how the twins take care of each other, and the many animals that are gathered around them. The twins seem to live in a domain all of their own, taking strength from their love from one another.
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Metal Meltdown Needs You!
Designer: Mark Simmonds
Pages: 77
Format: 210 x 291 mm mm
Price: € 5,00
One day magazine (issue 2) Realized during a one day workshop with participant of WT in 2010.
In April 1987 Jeffrey A. VanderClute wrote “Metal Meltdown needs you!” – in April 2011, a motley crew of graphic design students responded. Metal Meltdown was the title of a metal zine produced in Maryland, USA, by Jeffrey A. VanderClute. Aside from merely being a strange and quirky piece of graphic design, Metal Meltdown was taken very seriously by its original author-editor, who when in zine-writing mode summoned his alter-ego, the sick and twisted KLUKE, to write reviews and spread the sound, smell and word of metal. Mark Simmonds discovered Volume I of Metal Meltdown at a New York zine stall in late 2010 and organised a gathering to coincide with the 24th anniversary of Volume I of Metal Meltdown, set in the basement of the Werkplaats Typografie. The aim of this memorable night was simple – to attempt to answer Jeffrey’s request for contributions. Although 24 years late, these new contributions were sent to the P.O. BOX address mentioned in the magazine. Surprisingly enough, the KLUKE replied: “You had a 24th anniversary party for METAL MELTDOWN and you forgot to invite the eDICKtor-in-chief?!”. -
Journey Through My Room. A Story by J.M.A. Biesheuvel, a translation / actualisation by Jort van der Laan
Project by: DAI / Dutch Art Institute
Designer: Ine Meganck & Mark Simmonds
Pages: 81
Format: 125 x 200 mm mm
Price: € 10,00
A book about writing, storytelling, translation and interpretation. Artist Jort van der Laan translated ‘A Journey Through My Room’, a story by Dutch writer J.M.A Biesheuvel from Dutch to English (prior to this book’s publication in June 2011 the story was not available to read in English). Yet this translation is incomplete. The missing lines and paragraphs of the story are made visible throughout the book as blank spaces. The format of the book and design of the interior was copied from a 1972 collection of Biesheuvel’s stories owned by the artist which includes ‘Reis Door Mijn Kamer’ or ‘A Journey Through My Room’.
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Mary Shelly Facsimile Library
Designer: Ine Meganck, Corina Neuenschwander, Manuel Zenner, Noah Venezia
Pages: 136
Format: 128 x 190 mm mm
Price: € 5,00
Werkplaats Typografie’s Mary Shelley Facsimile Library is a collection of facsimile-format thesis bibliographies intended as an accumulating reference library for future participants. The library was relocated from Arnhem to New York from the 30th September to the 2nd October 2011. This publication is a companion to the library, within these pages are texts, spells and reading lists gathered by current participants regarding their research.
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Everybody’s Card
Designer: Xavier Fernández Fuentes & Martine Derks
Pages: 60
Format: 195 x 305 mm
Price: € 22,00
Avoiding the use of personal imagery, intimate photographs become generic due to small interventions; collage, modified poker cards and excerpts from magicians’ handbooks are combined to create a narrative that compares a deck of cards with any collection of photographs found in a traditional photo album. Starting from a series of nearly identical elements, it’s only the way we play them that provides a different result for each game .
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The White Elephant by Lauren Alexander
Project by: DAI / Dutch Art Institute
Designer: Ghalia Elsrakbi, Foundland
Pages: 84
Format: 165 x 230 mm
Price: € 12,00
A publication with texts by Lauren Alexander, Clare Butcher and extracts from David Blom (Oom Bolo) and Charles Nkosi. This publication forms part of the Cardboard Monument project, carried out in Soweto, Johannesburg from January – March 2011. It reflects on the significance and impact of community driven activist public art, using the Cardboard Monument project as a case study.
Published by the Dutch Art Institute & Mediafonds, this book intends to document, but also to create a platform for reflection following the Cardboard Monument project, and its influence on the Kliptown area, in Soweto Johannesburg. Cover Illustrations: Victor Mofokeng, Funda Community College. -
What happens behind this wall, stays behind this wall
Project by: Dutch Art Institute
Designer: Rutger de Vries
Format: 170 x 240 mm mm
Price: € 7,00
This publication starts in 2011 in Beirut’s Sassin Square, close to the Green Line, where some of the most severe fights of the civil war took place. In the backyard of one of the area’s buildings I discovered a piece of graffiti that read: “Behind this wall in 1988…nothing happened”. Within the context of Lebanon’s history and Jalal Toufic’s lecture on surpassing the disaster of war, this sentence cast a poetic spell over the unspeakable. What happens behind the wall tells the story of meeting its author, Phat. In so doing the book touches upon the general interpretation of historical events and our own expectations, while reflecting on ways of codifying memories and building individual historical narrations, leaving the reader with no easy answers.
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SMAX #3
Project by: Schloss Ringenberg
Designer: Mathew Whittington
Pages: 114
Format: 240 x 340 mm mm
Price: € 10,00
Smax is a magazine commissioned by Schloss Ringenberg, an institute that offers Residency Programmes for artists and curators, but also hosts exhibitions and organises events. Smax #3 documents the outcome of 2011-2012, exhibitions, events and theoretical insights. The magazine can be read from both sides, from one side text is in German, the other in Dutch. Content and illustrations however are not repeated within the two parts but rather complement each other. The different color sections help to navigate through the four different categories within the publication. Since there are a lot of cross references within the categories, such as artists in residence are part of an exhibition curated by a curator in residence, a letter / number code is introduced to indicate these collaborations clearly. The result is a layout that avoids translations filling the same page, and gives more space to the illustrations.
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Another room
Designer: Eva Olthof, Stefano Faoro
Pages: 14
Format: 195 x 270 mm mm
Price: € 5,00
In December 2011 Stefano and Eva worked together on an exhibition in a small artist-run space in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The exhibition was called At the end of the world I exist and consisted of two diverse installations. The work on display was mirroring an ongoing discourse about traveling, distance and the transportive potentialities of the image starting from each our interests – respectively photography and architecture. Six months later, they organized an event at Schloss Ringenberg, Germany. During the night the work took the form of two presentations and a book, in order to broaden the performative side of the installation presented before and to transport the previous space into the new room, the Rittersaal. The presentations and the book touch, amongst other things, upon a postcard from Tenerife and the portrait of Emily Dickinson, respectively the features of the two specific exhibition spaces and the furniture that inhabits them. Artist and writer Miek Zwamborn was invited to write a contribution to the book as a third link. The sentence At the end of the world I exist was used as a point of departure point for a short story titled Legacies of the moon.
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12″. WT Speelplaats vinyl record
Project by: Werkplaats Typografie
Designer: Ines Cox and Boris Van den Eynden
Format: 315 x 310 mm
Price: € 15,00
This 12-inch vinyl record is the result of the WT speelplaats 2010-2011 program, curated by Boris Van den Eynden and Ines Cox. They proposed a specific formula upon the concept of emancipation found within Jacques Rancière’s The Ignorant Schoolmaster (1991). The record does not aim to provide an explication for what speelplaats 2010-2011 was.
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Discipline No.4
Project by: Helen Hughes
Designer: Robert Milne
Pages: 192
Format: 230 x 300 mm mm
Price: € 25,00
Discipline is a publisher and contemporary art journal edited by Nicholas Croggon, David Homewood, and Helen Hughes. Alongside artist pages and interviews, it publishes research essays about contemporary Australian art, and histories and theories of contemporary art as a global industry or phenomenon. For each issue a guest editor, from somewhere else in the world, is invited to contribute a guest edited section. Guest editors since 2011 are: Vivian Ziherl, Maria Fusco, Raimundas Malašauskas, and Ferdiansyah Thajib, KUNCI Cultural Studies Center.
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SMAX #2
Project by: Schloss Ringenberg
Designer: Corina Neuenschwander
Pages: 80
Format: 240 x 340 mm mm
Year: 2012
Price: € 10,00
Smax is a magazine commissioned by Schloss Ringenberg, an institute that offers Residency Programmes for artists and curators, but also hosts exhibitions and organises events. Smax #2 documents the outcome of 2010-2011, exhibitions, events and theoretical insights. The magazine can be read from both sides, from one side text is in German, the other in Dutch. Content and illustrations however are not repeated within the two parts but rather complement each other. The different color sections help to navigate through the four different categories within the publication. Since there are a lot of cross references within the categories, such as artists in residence are part of an exhibition curated by a curator in residence, a letter / number code is introduced to indicate these collaborations clearly. The result is a layout that avoids translations filling the same page, and gives more space to the illustrations.
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Theatre of the Best Books 2010
Project by: Werkplaats Typografie
Designer: Boris Van den Eijnden and all involved
Pages: 48
Format: 240 x 340 mm mm
Year: 2011
Price: € 7,00
Each year Werkplaats Typografie organises its own Best Book selection. Every participant chooses a book that is important for him in that year. The project is supervised by a guest tutor. This year artist Joëlle Tuerlinckx directed a series of acts in which the participants became their most significant book.
Beginning in the Werkplaats Typografie library, the ensemble relocated to Netwerk Art Center, Aalst in Belgium, gradually utilising costume, props, light and sound to create a theatre of the best books. Despite being amateur thespians, the theatre was a serious attempt to assume a character based on the interpretation of a book. Perhaps one can be lead to a new reading of each significant book, an experience that is both insightful and bewildering. -
Oman 1971
Project by: The Empty Quarter Gallery, Dubai, Hester Keijser
Designer: Anna Haas
Pages: 138
Format: 224 x 295 mm
Year: 2011
Price: € 30,00
Shortly after Sultan Said bin Taimur was deposed in a bloodless coup (1970) by his son Qaboos bin Said, ex-Magnum photographer Bruno Barbey was send to Oman to catch the change on film. At that time, war was expected, but nothing happened. 30 years later re-discovered by imitation rolex sea dweller a Omani businessman, the images were used for this book, made in honor of the Sultan Qaboos. A discussion about the views in ethnographic photography was the starting point for the concept of this book. Dividing Ireland Online Vape Shop, Best E-cigarette Now! the images in two groups: images where the photographer/viewer is the observant and images where the viewer is the object of observation.
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Downey’s Ordinary Talking. Yunjoo Kwak
Project by: DAI / Dutch Art Institute, Yunjoo Kwak
Designer: Isabelle Vaverka, Lu Liang
Pages: 60
Format: 135 x 210 mm
ISBN: 9789490294311
Year: 2011
Price: € 7,00
The publication uses the format of a leporello and presents two essays and the documentary transcription of the Downey’s Ordinary Talking, a film project from Korean artist Yunjoo Kwak.
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The Time Capsule Happening
Project by: WT
Designer: Host: Anna Haas. Editors and contributors: Ines Cox (Vernacular), Boris Van den Eynden (Strategy vs. tactic), Anna Haas (introduction), Annett Höland (The library at night excerpt), Simone Koller (Man without qualities, excerpt), Ine Meganck (Dark side of the moon), Corina Neuenschwander (Technical terms of the printing industry), Mark Simmonds (captain cook, the collector), Noah Venezia (Buck Owens), Manuel Zenner (Mirror)
Pages: 44
Format: 205 x 286 mm mm
Year: 2011
Price: € 9,50
The magazine is a production of Werkplaats Typografie. The title of the magazine wholesale replica rolex datejust m279178 0014 ladies rolex calibre 2813 12mm depends on the number of contributions to the issue. Each issue will be passed on from reader to reader. The products magazines editions will never exceed 30.
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The Helix and The Museum, The Archival Architecture of an Anachronicle
Project by: DAI / Dutch Art Institute, CasCo
Designer: Corina Neuenschwander
Pages: 68
Format: 200 x 280 mm mm
Year: 2011
Price: € 12,00
DAI PUBLICATIONS is a collection of artist’s books issued by the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) and designed in collaboration with the Werkplaats Typografie (WT). As of 2006 the series is supervised by an annually appointed collection editor; for 2011, visual artist Rebecca Sakoun. The 2011 edition consists of 16 publications.
This artist publication attempts to give shape to a long-lived rumour that has been in circulation for the last hundred years, concerning a copy of the Rijksmuseum building in Amsterdam called the Helix which is located in Maasmechelen, Belgium. This rumour never made it’s way to Amsterdam. The publication consists out of two parts, the first being a script or play inspired by and based on a meeting between two gentlemen who are both connaisseurs of either building. In coffee and fruitcake they meet in a piano showroom across the street from the so-called Copy, where they excavate the relationship established by the existence of this unofficial knowledge. In the three acts of this script laughter is used in a formal sense to surface latent feelings and a complex relationship embedded within this particular history where this history is not fixed but rather a daily practice. The general story line is supported on findings from prior research into five different archives, both in the Netherlands and Belgium, part of which is included in the publication. -
The Happy Slave, Intern for a Year
Project by: DAI / Dutch Art Institute, CasCo
Designer: Mark Simmonds
Pages: 30
Format: 211 x 297 mm mm
Year: 2011
Price: € 7,00
This publication is about making a publication, produced during an internship about an internship. It’s an overview of an artist working as an intern for a year. I gave up my studio and my autonomy in return for experience in the institutional art world.
The 300 editions of the publication were printed, bound and rubber stamped at the Office of Mark Simmonds, WT.DAI PUBLICATIONS is a collection of artist’s books issued by the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) and designed in collaboration with the Werkplaats Typografie (WT). The 2011 edition consists of 16 publications. As of 2006 the series is supervised by an annually appointed collection editor; for 2011: visual artist Rebecca Sakoun.
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Stupendous #2
Designer: Noah Venezia
Format: 150 x 212 mm
Year: 2011
Price: € 10,00
“In 1969 the unique and pioneering psychedelic rock band Lothar & the Hand People released their second album, Space Hymn. Just as they sought to create an aural ‘space hymn,’ the second issue of Stupendous attempts to create a visual space hymn. This edition is dedicated to the vibrations, meditations, contemplations and incantations of spaces and voids.” –from the publisher
Each of the six interior pages of this issue of Stupendous folds out into a 80 x 53 cm. poster with a black and white design printed on both sides. Contributing artists include Luke Allen, Davide Balliano, Max Bode, Kim Boske, Peter Kleeman, Darri Lorenzen, Katja Mater, Anders Nordby, Agnieszka Polska, Misha de Ridder, Rich Samis, and Clare Wohlnik.
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Stupendous #1
Designer: Noah Venezia
Format: 150 x 212 mm mm
Year: 2011
Price: € 10,00
Stupendous is a biannual publication designed and printed in New York, NY. Randomly thematic, Stupendous remains free of design constraints while managing to achieve a distinct tone throughout.
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Pearlstreet 165
Project by: KASK, Gent
Designer: Ine Meganck
Pages: 51
Format: 173x250mm mm
Year: 2011
Price: € 15,00
Photos from the Fitzsimmons family, Maine USA
An-Sofie Kesteleyn was born in Oudenaarde, Belgium, and took up photography when she was 18. In 2011 she gained a master’s degree in photography from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent (KASK). After that, An-Sofie started working as a freelance photographer for the Dutch daily de Volkskrant, de Standaard and Vrij Nederland. She also works on independent photo-essays, focusing mainly on people and the ways they live.
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Once Upon A Time In The West
Project by: Dutch Art Institute, Bárbara Wagner
Designer: Noah Venezia
Pages: 36
Format: 160 x 240 mm mm
Year: 2011
Price: € 7,00
This publication is an exercise between performance and documentary photography.
“As a narrative that takes the format of a video projection and a fotonovela (1), Once upon a time… concentrates on the story of Nieding and Hendrikje Wolters, ex-travellers (2) who became notorious in the North of the Netherlands after publishing a book about their own lives, ranging from criminal convictions to evangelic belief (3). With specific attention to performance and documentary practices, a photographic sequence is enveloped within a conversation that attempts to describe what we are seeing in order to problematize what we are not seeing, being facts and fictions equally subjected to speculation. The work is the result of three moments of production. In the first, I work in collaboration with the Wolters on the construction of photographs that document the staging of specific passages in their biography. In a second moment, discarding the use of talking heads or speech bubbles and avoiding moral impositions (often used in fotonovelas) I invite curator Inti Guerrero to enter into a dialogue about the pictures produced. Using the recorded and transcribed version of this conversation as the textual part of the narrative, the third moment of production is further developed with references to theatre scripts, film stills and newspaper reports to the final form of a video projection and a publication.”DAI PUBLICATIONS is a collection of artist’s books issued by the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) and designed in collaboration with the Werkplaats Typografie (WT). The 2011 edition consists of 16 publications. In close collaboration with one or more guest authors, artists team up with designers to produce an artwork in the form of printed matter. From very diverse perspectives they reflect on publishing as a versatile medium. DAI and WT, both located in Arnhem are Master’s programs of ArtEZ, one of the major arts universities (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten) in the Netherlands. Gabriëlle Schleijpen , head of program at the DAI, founded DAI PUBLICSATIONS in 2003. It began as an experimental and innnovative research and publishing platform aiming to address the specific process of arts books production, it is now an acclaimed editorial project. Since its inception more then 90 artist books have been published. As of 2006 the series is supervised by an annually appointed collection editor; for 2011, visual artist Rebecca Sakoun.
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Inverted Reality of the Self-Colonized Space
Project by: DAI / Dutch Art Institute
Designer: Corina Neuenschwander
Pages: 16
Format: 240 x 340 mm mm
Year: 2011
Price: € 12,00
An artist publication for Petra Vacková with texts by Marina Gržinić and Petra Vacková
DAI PUBLICATIONS is a collection of artist’s books issued by the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) and designed in collaboration with the Werkplaats Typografie (WT). The 2011 edition consists of 16 publications. In close collaboration with one or more guest authors, artists team up with designers to produce an artwork in the form of printed matter. From very diverse perspectives they reflect on publishing as a versatile medium. DAI and WT, both loacated in Arnhem are Master’s programs of ArtEZ, one of the major arts universities (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten) in the Netherlands. Gabriëlle Schleijpen , head of program at the DAI, founded DAI PUBLICATIONS in 2003. It began as an experimental and innnovative research and publishing platform aiming to address the specific process of arts books production, it is now an acclaimed editorial project. Since its inception more then 90 artist books have been published. As of 2006 the series is supervised by an annually appointed collection editor; for 2011, visual artist Rebecca Sakoun.
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In Between Visible/Invisible
Project by: DAI / Dutch Art Institute
Designer: Ine Meganck
Pages: 134
Format: 175 x 240 mm mm
Year: 2011
Price: € 9,00
In between Visible/Invisible is a publication published on July 2011, and is based on a project called Invisible City(In between Visible/Invisible), which is a photographic exploration, realized in December 2010. For this publication researcher, writer and documentary maker on civil liberties works Rick Van Amersfoort and researcher, writer Nishant Shah were invited to write a contribution.
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Impossible Calibrations of an Imaginary Sherrie
Project by: DAI / Dutch Art Institute
Designer: Laure Giletti
Format: 230 x 170 mm mm
Price: € 9,00
Impossible calibrations of an imaginary Sherry is an artist book, it consists out of photographs taken of a miniature model with a darkroom on the left side that connects to an artist studio on the right. The Maquette itself is inhabited by an imaginery version of a person who is dealing with issues that refer to the concept of this book. The book comes with a little magnifier glass to enable the viewer to see more details.
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I have never seen volcanoes
Project by: DAI / Dutch Art Institute
Designer: Stefano Faoro
Format: 195 x 270 mm
ISBN: 9789490294274
Year: 2011
Price: € 9,00
Off the coast in the north of the Netherlands, an extinct, prehistoric volcano lies dormant in the layers of the earth and beneath the waters of the Wadden Sea. This volcano is 160 million years old and it was active for several million years. In the 1970s, while drilling for gas, volcanic specimens were found and thereby this volcano was discovered. Eva Olthof invited filmmaker/writer Peter Delpeut, researcher/writer Siri Driessen and visual artist Roman Signer to write a contribution for this publication. Delpeut wrote a fictive story, Driessen wrote an analysis of the photograph, and Signer send me a publication of his works on the phenomenon of volcanoes.
The publication is part of the series DAI PUBLICATIONS which is a collection of artist’s books issued by the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) and designed in collaboration with the Werkplaats Typografie (WT). The 2011 edition consists of 16 publications. -
WT Punch-out activity book. Play with us!
Project by: Werkplaats Typografie, NYC Art Book Fair, 2010
Designer: Anna Haas
Pages: 12
Format: 210 x 297 mm mm
Year: 2010
Price: € 7,00
Tutorial WT Punch-out activity book. Play with us! Glue the Werkplaats Typografie building together and discover the forgotten joy of rebuilding the world in miniature size. Perfect for use with your favorite WT action figures. This model was made for the WT project “Feed the Library” at the 2010 New York Art Book Fair from November 5-6- at MoMA P.S.1.