After his interpretation on ‘Gangnam Style‘, Ai Weiwei continues exploring his musical side and has been working on a Metal album.  ’Dumbass’ is the first song from the album ‘ Divine Comedy’. Have a look. I’ve also included the lyrics below, I’m curious what you think. The lyrics: When you’re ready to...

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‘Platform for Typography and Type Design’ is the motto of the first IMPRINT Fair in Mainz. The trade show for font designers and font publishers will be held on the 8th of June as part of the Call for Type exhibition at the Gutenberg-Museum in Mainz. Conceived as a platform for type...

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E-Presse is the new publishing imprint of Enclave. It will serve as a platform to highlight artists and artwork leaning to the overall Enclave aesthetic. Their first publication comes from the very talented Jennifer Mehigan. OF THE HOLY BLOOD / Jennifer Mehigan presents a selection of work that assimilates digital and analogue methods...

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“The graphic designer as alchemist” is Corbin Mahieu’s masterproject at Sint-Lucas Ghent. It’s a sect of graphic designers and artists who try to explain and represent their vision on alchemy/occultism and graphic design and exhibit these results. Let’s use alchemy as a metaphor for graphic design. Alchemists are trying to...

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The first book published by Theophile’s Papers and designed by Alexis Jacob ; Elements 01 along with Valerian Goalec’s Module 01 presented both in the Tome III show at Artisan Social Designer. Elements, horizontal structure — 01 results from a collect of everyday objects. The subject of these photographs is individuated in order to build a series....

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Design, l’Anthologie is the first anthology dedicated to design history and theory in french. Curated by Alexandra Midal, over half of the texts running from 1841 until 2007 have never been translated nor published in french before. Design, l’Anthologie aims for the curious reader who wonders what issues design raises, and which streams...

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Young, Fresh and Relevant is a yearly open submission journal with the aim of carving a space for writing within the visual arts. Issue 3 features texts by seventeen artists, some of which have exhibited internationally and been widely published, others who are being published here for the first time....

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Once more the Belgian ‘printlab’ Topo Copy made a two-colour series of RISO prints with 27 different artists. Risographia #2 ! Again they pulled the paper twice through their beloved RISOGRAPH (RP3700) duplicator (thats the same one we have, and last week we posted a guide on how to use it by...

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The second edition of the annual Art bookfair in Waregem (thats a small village in Belgium). From 14:00 and on, talks and presentation are being organized to coincide the fair. Programmation: 14:00: Delphine Bedel (Monospace Press, organiser of Amsterdam Art/Book Fair) 15:00: Bookpresentations - ‘2 Steps Aside’, Stijn Cole,  ‘Façades’...

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Published by the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College on the occasion of the exhibition less like an object more like the weather, curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. John Cage characterized his longtime collaboration with Merce Cunningham by stating: “It’s less...

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Fraser Clark compiled a book containing 240 versions of Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’ found online. According to the original file name, the images are sorted into alphabetical order and combined to form an archetypal hybrid of the Mona Lisa along the fore-edge of the book. In an edition of...

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A small and quick pocket-sized introductory guide to printing with a risograph machine by the London based office Ponto. It collects knowledge passed on from Hato Press as well as based on personal experience from the studio. Other books of Ponto you can find in our very own shop and to...

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