October 2011
EAMES: The Architect and The Painter - Trailer
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Soulellis: James Clough's Roman letter →
Some notes from James Clough’s fascinating workshop on 2,000 years of western typography.
The inscription at the Trajan column (AD 114) is considered to be most famous, and one of the most beautiful examples of the Roman letter. (More on that tomorrow when we actually visit it.)
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Design notes from OURS publication
The exhibition design of OURS operates as a participatory framework, actively shaping and altering visitors’ experiences. Employing dislocative processes and visual form, the design strategy enacts the innate conflict in the democratic process between centralized control and individual choice.
Upon entering the exhibition, visitors are asked to wear an...
Taking its name from Donald Judd’s seminal essay, Specific Object is David Platzker’s aggregation of artists’ books and editions, multiples, unique works of art, literature, audio work, and more, available on view at his Chelsea-based gallery space and online in a cross-indexed database. Specific Object also hosts projects curated by Platzker including recent exhibitions of...
Organized by Creative Time, “The Plain of Heaven” was a group exhibition in a vacant meatpacking warehouse at the southern terminus of the High Line in Manhattan. Project Projects designed the show’s exhibition graphics, catalog, website, and collateral materials. Anticipating the building’s demolition following the show’s conclusion, the exhibition graphics were spray-painted directly onto its...
Project Projects worked with twelve graduate students from Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies to conceptualize and produce this catalog and exhibition. Forty-seven artists and writers responded to the curators’ prompt regarding the relevance of cultural institutions. Visitors to the exhibition, located at Art in General in New York, assembled their own portable exhibition from the...
Speed Limits, an exhibition curated by Jeffrey Schnapp, examined the pivotal role played by speed in art, architecture, urbanism, graphics, economics, and modern life. Focused particularly on material cultures of the industrial and information eras, the exhibition marked the centenary of the foundation of the Italian Futurist movement.
The installation at the Canadian Centre for Architecture was...
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1. Autonomous design is at best a myth; at worst, a backwards, solipsistic slide away from responsibility and broader societal engagement. Instead of pursuing separation from external ideas and impetuses, designers ought to embrace the discipline’s communal and contingent nature. Design is embedded in culture and always in dialogue with specific conditions and contexts.
2. History is...
WHAT IS DESIGN? A Manifesto for the Gwangju Design Biennale 2011
How to Get Started, 1989– is a permanent installation at Slought Foundation created in partnership with the John Cage Trust, with exhibition design by Saylor + Sirola and exhibition graphics by Project Projects. The installation builds upon a set of methods employed by John Cage in a 1989 performance, in which he spoke briefly on ten previously determined topics while a sound engineer gradually...
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Print magazine relaunched in January 2011 with an editorial concept focused on collaborating with different contemporary design practices for each issue. Project Projects was invited to initiate this program by guest editing and art directing a special section on the theme of “Collaboration” itself. Running throughout the section, a transcript of a roundtable discussion between a...
Le nouvel esprit du capitalisme Luc Boltanski et Eve Chiapello
Le nouvel esprit du capitalisme, Luc Boltanski et Eve Chiapello
éd. Gallimard, 1999, 843p., 29,80 euros.
Eric Barbo
Alternatives Economiques Poche n° 021 - novembre 2005
Résumé
Ou comment le capitalisme est en train de tourner la page du fordisme au profit d’une organisation en réseau, génératrice pour certains...
