There have been several welcomed additions to Berlin’s retail offerings in the past couple of weeks. One is the Image Mouvement video art space and DVD shop on Oranienbergerstrasse; another is the international magazine boutique Do You Read Me? Their website features highlights from current issues of some of the magazines they stock (and employs [...]
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Always a fall highlight for me, the New York Art Book Fair opens tonight and runs through the weekend. Looks like both the fair and the conference will feature a solid roster of participants. Sad to miss this.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
A new addition to the Historical Fiction Press catalogue. Eriko Miyagawa’s casting photos from the Kite Runner, a film she worked on over a year ago. The photos feature faces of ethnic minorities from the Western Chinese province of Xinjiang. When we saw the photos, we were amazed by the diversity of ethnicities, ages and [...]
Monday, September 15, 2008
Saddened to read that David Foster Wallace was found dead on Friday, an apparent suicide. I first encountered his writing during my freshman year at Kenyon and immediately became a dedicated fan. I recall reading his collection of short stories, The Girl With Curious Hair, a minimum of three times that year. It was my [...]
Our little publishing concern, Historical Fiction Press, is now distributing Pash Buzari’s book Rainbows in Curved Air. The book was printed in 2003 as a component of Buzari’s contribution to the 50th Venice Biennale (Utopia Station). It’s a fascinating collection of images of Buzari’s architecturally concerned work and research, with texts by Philippe Parreno, Doreen [...]
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Princeton Architectural Press has just released a monograph of work by British designer Daniel Eatock. Looking forward to this one - I’ve long been a fan of Eatock’s quirky-conceptual approach to design. In addition, each copy of the first edition of Imprint has been inked by Eatock with his own thumbprint.
Justin Guariglia’s new book, Planet Shanghai, follows the topological archive format that has become quite popular with attempts to address visual culture in Asia. He offers dozens of images of bike visors, nylon socks, outdoor pajamas, street vendors, food stalls, owners with their dogs, rubble and high rises. His eye for composition and uniform presentation [...]
I’m happy to hear that Christoph Keller’s KIOSK project, a traveling exhibition of nearly 6,000 publications by about 400 independent publishers, will soon have a permanent home in Berlin! Christoph has been developing and exhibiting the archive internationally for 8 years, but the increasing cost and logistic difficulty of moving around 2.5 tons of books [...]
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
I’m really enjoying Berlin’s Mono-Kultur magazine. The bi-monthly publication features one interview along with related images and a unique format for each release. The current issue is devoted to Miranda July, while the previous one offered a great interview and design concept for Taryn Simon.
Thought we’d try to get a sense of the German advertising landscape with a trip to the Art Directors Club exhibition in Berlin. The show, entitled Gipfel der Kreativität 08 (Creative Summit 08), featured work from designers and agencies from all over Germany as well as presentations from Karl Lagerfeld and Jonathan Meese. The exhibition [...]