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From the office of Mark Simmonds
Project by: Self initiated
Designer: Mark Simmonds
Format: 297 x 210 mm mm
Price: € 7,00
The office of Mark Simmonds newsletter is a monthly newsletter of sorts. It is typed using an AEG Olympia Traveller de Luxe typewriter, copied and currently posted to 72 readers in 24 countries (July 2012).
Project by: Self initiated
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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
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.
Project by: DAI / Dutch Art Institute, CasCo
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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?!". -
WT Speelplaats: Cosmic Mental Therapy (in the Realm of the Necessary Decision)
Project by: Werkplaats Typografie
Designer: Noah Venezia
Pages: 256
Format: 110 x 170 mm mm
Price: € 13,00
There was an empty room in the back of the Werkplaats Typografie. One day, that void has been pushed out of the two doors. In 2012 eighteen people had to find that space somewhere else. During six separate excursions, throughout Arnhem and the Netherlands, they explored the potentialities of the destruction and construction of new lands. They searched for the room that they had lost, or for the conditions and materials with which to rebuild it, and in doing so began to expand the walls of the school along a whole new set of trajectories and possibilities. Cosmic Mental Therapy is a guide for escape from sovereignty and a manual for creating new trajectories.
It consists of a collection of texts that were gathered through Year 12 and Year 13 WT participants. Contributions from Stefano Faoro, Ine Meganck, Corina Neuenschwander, Mark Simmonds, Rutger de Vries, Noah Venezia and Manuel Zenner.Project by: Werkplaats Typografie
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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
Price: € 9,50
The magazine is a production of Werkplaats Typografie. The title of the magazine depends on the number of contributions to the issue. Each issue will be passed on from reader to reader. The magazines editions will never exceed 30.
Project by: WT
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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’.
Project by: DAI / Dutch Art Institute
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