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THE BOOK OF NOW
‘Someone had to do it’, as our friends at It’s Nice That put it so well, because yes, someone had to, and messieurs designers Felix Heyes and Ben West did it first: A weighty tome on and courtesy of...
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MADE IN GERMANY: IGNANT
Our little column cat Made in Germany had gone missing for the past few months, and we have been wondering ourselves what she’s been up to, when today she just walked in through the front door and...
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01001110
Nice touch: the revered Swiss newspaper Neue Züricher Zeitung launched their first complete digital edition with a front page in binary code. Those innocent ones and zeros that have transformed our...
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PAPERWEIGHT
You might think jumping into independent publishing really is an insane idea, considering what must be overcome: non-existent profit margins, time constraints, onerous distribution terms, snooty shop...
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THE BOOK COVER ARCHIVE
Book covers, in Germany, are mostly something to be ashamed of, for no good reason – it’s really inexplicable why virtually all German publishers have such appalling taste in design, or presume their...
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ALIVE AND KICKSTARTING
As we are about to finally release our first artist book with Robert Montgomery, here is a quick thank you to not just all of you who supported the project in the making, but to the platform who made...
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WIND MAPS
Nature, of course, is amazing and violent and beautiful and many more things, as we all know. In the wake of hurricane Sandy ravaging the east coast of the US, see a live data visualisation by Fernanda...
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ECM COVER ART COMBINED
We received a newsletter from our cover stars ECM Records today announcing that they had a Facebook page – which they actually had for some time and anyway, so what, but then it caught my eye that they...
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IMAGE ATLAS
The Image Atlas is a recent project by Taryn Simon, and her first venture into the digital realm, but bearing all her signature interests in politics, society, cultural differences and visual...
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What The World Needs Now
It’s funny, but this latest gif paradise called The Anthropocene Man somehow seems to be the most accurate portrayal of life (and death) in early 2013. Also, and quite unrelated: RIP online dating...
View ArticleSound and Vision Digital
Beck recently reimagined Bowie’s “Sound and Vision” staging more than 160 musicians for an interactive 360º experience.
View ArticleBrian Eno On Work, Technology and Deadlines
‘Daddy, how do you actually finish any of these?’ ‘When there’s a deadline. And that’s really true and I’ll tell you why that’s true. When there’s a deadline there’s also a destination, a context, a...
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ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: 032C
It’s interesting to see the impact of the Internet on printed media, and not just on the superficial level of distribution and advertising, but also how it’s affected the content of printed media as a...
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ENOISMS #02: BLOOM & SCAPE
If anything becomes obvious from our new issue with Brian Eno, then it’s that here is a mind endlessly at work detecting and uncoding context, different relationships between people, technology,...
View ArticleSILENCE/SOUND
Evolution of Silence, Matthias Lohscheidt. 2013. Degeneration of sound to the finer development of listening pleasures. Might be interesting to read with Luigi Russolo’s Art of Noise.
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FOUND
The venerable publishing house of National Geographic is celebrating its 125th anniversary, and have graciously installed a new site to share the best of their infinitely vast archives of photographs...
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NOT THAT KIND OF PRINT
1 R.I.P. Alexander Mcqueen. 2 Democratically or not, today’s sartorial companies increasingly busy themselves with producing competent chic for the lowest common denominator leaving the modern...
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THE MODERN MAGAZINE
We’re thrilled to be included in the coffee table book The Modern Magazine by magCulture’s Jeremy Leslie, taking an in-depth look at the diverse world of contemporary publishing (fittingly, in the...
View ArticleSELF I E-LOVE
If you feel a shame-tinge when sneaking a selfie in the H&M changing room, here’s some validation. Moving Image Art Fair London is holding a National #Selfie Portrait Gallery, featuring works by...
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