Author Archives for Pieterjan Grandry

  • Erase #3

    ERASE is an art & photography publication edited by Barcelona based photographer David Urbano. The aim of the magazine is to show people who have something visually special to tell. Erase shows the creative and unknown aspects of the contributors and their way of expression which is not always related to their...
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  • Open Set – summer school

    OPEN SET Dutch Graphic Design Summer School consists in a two-week series of workshops emphasizing on the interaction between noted Dutch and International graphic designers within a studio environment. This year’s edition takes place in Breda, The Netherlands, from 19th till 31st of August 2013. As the theme for this year’s edition we will question...
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  • From The Office of Horton-Stephens

    Freddy Taylor was commissioned to design and curate a publication which showcased the 19 Photographers represented by Horton-Stephens. Alongside editor Louis-Jack Horton-Stephens, he invited a selection of Creatives to write a short piece reflecting on a given quote about advertising, then paired their responses with an image from each artist...
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  • FLAG ISSUE—02 Call for Submissions

    Flag magazine started to work on the second issue of FLAG, the France issue and is searching for new talents to feature in the magazine. Have a look at their website for more information

  • Play Time

    Next thursday the 20th of June,  Mattia Van Severen and Inge Rylant presented their collaborative work ‘Play Time’ in Antwerp. Mattia is fashion designer and graduate at the Antwerp fashion Academy and Inge works as illsutrator and graphic designer. Mattia’s graduation project is based on ‘Flocking‘, an old somewhat ‘wrong’ technique which...
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  • Dissident Desire – Open Call

    How does one introduce desire into thought, into discourse, into action? How can and must desire deploy its forces within the political domain and grow more intense in the process of overturning the established order? Ars erotica, ars theoretica, ars politica. Michel Foucault, Introduction: Arts of Living, from Anti-Oedipus OPEN CALL –...
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  • The Other Brother

    After many hours of Riso printing, shuffling pages and staple fun ‘Crap is Good Press’ is proud to present its newest title! ‘The Other Brother’ by Aristide Antonas! Unfortunately I can not tell to much about the story as I don’t want to spoil someones reading fun, other then some...
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  • The Molem Collective

    The Molem Collective gathers a collection of hip hop sneakers of the young Morocco-born Zakaria Haddou aka Zak from Molem. He was commissioned by the Croatian-Belgian artist Hana Miletic to portray his collection of 24 pairs of sneakers, bought during the last eighteen months. The succession of different sneakers can...
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  • The Word Magazine

    The Word Magazine has just embarked on a new adventure with the magazine, giving it a new design, a new format, double the amount of pages (200) and two new editorial sections (photography and art). They’ve also, more importantly, started selling the magazine (it now costs 15 euros whereas it...
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  • Ai Weiwei – Dumbass

    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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  • IMPRINT

    ‘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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  • Of the holy blood

    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

    “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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  • Elements 01

    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

    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 issue 3

    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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  • Risographia #2

    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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  • Waregem Artist’s bookfair

    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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