borrowed from South Willard

TATE ETC., beautifully designed by Cornel Windlin.

Samuel Nyholm
SANY-MIX IIX (Wrong Joke) 2007
Ink and gouache on paper, 49.5 × 35cm

Slavs & Tatars, World Tour 2002–2003 Archive, available at Stand Up Comedy.

Slavs & Tatars is the collaboration between Kasia Korczak and Payam Sharifi. Equal parts artist project and publishing concern, its goal is to explore the mutual and multicultural influences of ancient and contemporary Eurasia.

This reader in Whitechapel’s Documents of Contemporary Art series investigates the interchange between art and design. Since the the Pop and Minimalist eras–as the work of artists ranging from Andy Warhol to Dan Graham demonstrates — the traditional boundaries between art and architectural, graphic, and product design have dissolved in critically significant ways. Design and Art traces the rise of the “design-art” phenomenon through the writings of critics and practitioners active in both fields.

Edited by Alex Coles
With contributions by David Bourdon, Peter Cook/Archigram, Douglas Coupland, Kees Dorst, Charles Eames, Experimental Jetset, Vilêm Flusser, Hal Foster, Liam Gillick, Dan Graham, Clement Greenberg, Richard Hamilton, Donald Judd, Frederick Kiesler, Miwon Kwon, Maria Lind, M/M, N55, George L. Nelson, Lucy Orta, Jorge Pardo, Norman Potter, Rick Poynor, Paul Rand, Tobias Rehberger, Ed Ruscha, Joe Scanlan, Mary Anne Staniszewski, Superflex, Manfredo Tafuri, Rikrit Tiravanija, Paul Virilio, Joep van Lieshout, Andy Warhol, Benjamin Weil, Mark Wigley and Andrea Zittel

Thank you Tiffany!

After several weeks of preparation with Harsh and 9 straight days of intense/hard work by our students at CalArts (and our Teachers Assistant Diego), we are finished with Practicum! For our Practicum (Textfield Workshop), we had the students make their own book/mag/zine. In order to make a magazine in such a short period, Harsh and I selected 2 formats for them to work with, developed a Content Library and a limited Type Library. Students paired themselves into groups of 2 — each group was responsible for selecting a topic and compiling, editing and laying out their own 16-page Signature (112 pages total). We couldn’t have been more excited with the results.

Special thanks goes to our Teachers Assistant Diego Padilla, who went above and beyond to make sure the students kept on top of their work and contributed so much to the critiques, really outstanding — Also Stacey Hauge Printing in Valencia, who did an amazing job of folding, trimming and binding our Project. Dennis (owner), Bryan and their staff, spent over 3 hours working closely with us and (unexpectedly) did our job Pro Bono — we cannot thank you enough for your time, experience and generosity.

Dennis has 8 adopted German Shepherds — please visit the German Shepherd Rescue website for more information.

Textfield Publication Workshop
24 January — 1 February 2008
Instructors Jonathan Maghen and Harsh Patel

Tank Books, “Try one and you’ll be hooked”.

I mean this in the most constructive way possible: this is case-and-point about re-examining the book as a medium, and how far design and consumption methods in that arena have fallen.

There is something for everyone here: Bibliobit.

A project about ownership, piracy, and brave new media from my favorite US art gallery, The Art Gallery of Knoxville.

A pirate screening of Battle Royale, ohhh yeah.