Metahaven’s Wikileaks Fundraiser on eBay
Metahaven (the designers behind the Facestate installation in the exhibition Graphic Design: Now in Production) has created a series of WikiLeaks-inspired products to raise funds for the whistleblower...
View ArticleInsights 2012 Trailer
Check out our Insights 2012 trailer, which is an inside look at a printing press and how a poster is produced. Many thanks to (executive producers) Joe Avery and Laura Nelson and the fine people at...
View ArticleInsights 2012: Michael Lejeune (in conversation with Lisa Middag)
As seemingly dissimilar as two cities could be, Minneapolis and Los Angeles have parallel histories in terms of public transportation. Minneapolis once had 530 miles of streetcar service, while LA’s...
View ArticleBooksfromthefuture Summer School 2012
Booksfromthefuture presents a ten-day summer course in London on conceptual book design and print production for students and graduates. Taught by designers and educators Yvan Martinez and Joshua...
View ArticleOpen Field Badges
Open Field, now in it’s third year, is a summer gathering place that brings together relaxation and imagination, recreation, and exploration. We invite the public to come up with their own programs or...
View ArticleOver-Booked: Joshua Trees and Yvan Martinez on Booksfromthefuture
A book has four dimensions. Or, in the words of Ulises Carrión, “a book is a sequence of spaces”, involving both temporal and spatial aspects. Without books, Art, Design & Theory would be nothing....
View ArticleOver-Booked: Eric Wrenn
It was probably sometime in 2003 when Eric Wrenn and I noticed that we were the only ones on LiveJournal that had “Josef Müller-Brockmann” as a shared interest. This is something that still is both a...
View ArticleOver-Booked: Temporary housing + shelter
Live from the New York Art Book Fair! Literally fresh from the Toyko Art Book Fair just a week ago, Temporary housing + shelter is a collaboratively edited project between New Zealand-based...
View ArticleRecent Work
As an in-house design studio for a cultural institution, we’re always churning out something for our internal clients, whether it’s a shop coupon, a gallery guide, and everything in between. Here’s a...
View ArticleA broad answer would be—everywhere. Ridiculous, but true: A ROLU Reader
So Matt Olson of ROLU (the Minneapolis-based landscape and furniture design studio) approached me a few weeks ago to talk about a potential project for their big display at this year’s Art Basel...
View ArticlePainter Painter: Exhibition Identity
Painter Painter, co-curated by Eric Crosby and Bartholomew Ryan, is the Walker’s latest contemporary painting show. Comprised entirely of new works, it serves as a open conversation on the medium of...
View ArticleA Warm System—The Autoconstrucción Suites
Autoconstrucción: a definitely unfinished inefficient unstable affective emotional delirious joyful affirmative sweaty fragmentary empiric weak happy contradictory solitary indecent sensual amorphous...
View ArticleArt & Leisure and Art & Leisure
Li Po Cocktail Lounge was my place for a rough gin and tonic, a drink to distract from bad days at work. It sticks out among San Francisco dive bars, with its gilded cave entrance and giant lantern...
View ArticleMuriel Cooper: Turning Time into Space
We hope to make the tools and to use them. “She often wandered around barefoot… and climbed up on tables when she was excited about a project… Muriel was clearly in her element, making trouble,”...
View ArticleBooksfromthefuture Summer School 2014
Booksfromthefuture is a ten-day summer workshop in London on book design that focuses on self-initiated, practice-based inquiry. Participants of the programme will each design a section of the 1884...
View Article2014: The Year According to Tiffany Malakooti
To commemorate the year that was, we invited an array of artists, writers, designers, and curators—from graphic designers Eric Hu and Omar Sosa to artist Korakrit Arunanondchai and Arab Image...
View Article2014: The Year According to Eric Hu
To commemorate the year that was, we invited an array of artists, writers, designers, and curators—from designer Tiffany Malakooti and musician Grant Hart to artists Kalup Linzy and Alejandro...
View Article2014: The Year According to The Office of Culture and Design
To commemorate the year that was, we invited an array of artists, writers, designers, and curators—from designer Tiffany Malakooti and musician Grant Hart to artists Kalup Linzy and Alejandro...
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