Author Archives for Pieterjan Grandry

  • Collection — issue 3

    Collection is a magazine that presents drawing in many forms, from contemporary art to graphic novels to graphic design. All artists themselves, the Collection team proposes neither a journalistic viewpoint nor a critic’s vision, but instead aspires to defend drawing, with no barriers between genres, by letting the actors themselves speak....
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  • Library Paper

    Library Paper is an up-to-date representation of varied design/art practices from all around the world giving readers an insight into the artists thoughts.  Library Paper is designed and curated by Catalogue and is published by Catalogue Library. The new magazine has announced its artists: [wpcol_1half id=”” class=”” style=””] Barriobajero Côme de Bouchony Drawswords Hassan...
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  • From the archives

    Don Hudson is an amateur photographer born in 1950 in Michigan, USA. ‘From The Archives’ shows nearly fifteen years of personal archives and presents for the first time these photographs in an unique editorial project, published by FP&CF. Native of Detroit, the Motown (Motor Town), Don Hudson lived the heyday of the automobile, which Michigan was then the region of global production. From The Archives is his...
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  • Studio mw

    Studio mw is a graphic studio founded by Jeanne Moinon and Pierre-Olivier Thiriet in 2009 in Paris’ suburb. Their work is centered on printed design for public, private and institutional partners. They also perfect their « savoir-faire » through artistic collaborations and experimental researches trying to create a conceptual impression echoing to personal graphic...
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  • Jon Rafman

    Rafman’s art explores the paradoxes of modernity by mixing irony, humour, and melancholy. As an artist using digital media, his work is informed by the rich potential provided by contemporary technology in its possibility for celebrating and critiquing contemporary experience. But as an artist, whose subject is the human experience,...
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  • Zbigniew Strzebonski

    I recently stumbled upon the work of Polish designer Zbigniew Strzebonski, also known as Modestwork. A strange mix between mid-century and modernism marks his work. His ‘Loft chair’ reminds us a lot on a previous post ‘The Farmhouse chair‘, elegantly bended metal always does the trick.  

  • Knauf and Brown

    Some random work by Vancouver based design duo Knauf and Brown

  • Team Thursday

    Work by Rotterdam based Team thursday. With attention to the process or the action, team thursday works with a special interest for tactility and analogue printing. Ripped off posters or painting by hand over printed matter, their work contains many aspects and holds a very high… well, lets call it…...
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  • Stiankorntvedruud

    IO (interacting object)Flute  deals with the tactile interaction between people and computers in creative processes. The majority of the current digital instruments are manufactured in such a way that they lose the good tactile feeling that is inherently present in a well built acoustic instrument. To explore this relationship,  Stiankorntvedruud made...
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  • Studio Lin

    Studio Lin is the graphic design practice of Alex Lin. Their work process is founded on a desire to explore new territory through challenging collaborations with creative visionaries in the fields of architecture, industrial design, art and fashion. By combining the studio’s analytical rigor with strong input from external forces,...
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  • Sleeperhold #6

    Sleeperhold publications brings us a new release. 3 brand new tracks by the strangely beautiful and intoxicating sound of Tropic Of Cancer and a picture etching by Miranda Lehman. Tropic of Cancer is the solo project of LA-based Camella Lobo; Taylor Burch of Dva Damas  joins her for live performances, and Juan Mendez (aka Silent Servant)...
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  • Vancouver Art/Book Fair

    Project Space and presenting partner Fillip host the first annual Vancouver Art/Book Fair. Drawing from publishers local and international, VA/BF showcases emerging practices and contemporary dialogues in publication through a series of talks, book launches, readings and more, as well as more than seventy publishers of books, magazines, zines and...
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  • Tout va bien

    A random selection of works from french studio Tout va bien.

  • Krister Klassman

    Krister Klassman’s sculptures engage with the possibilities and traditions of the medium, utilising a range of processes along the way. In his first solo show Klassman incorporates ink drawings, digital manipulations, domestic printing and chemical reactions to produce a body of work that suggests a way of approaching a poetic dimension via...
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  • Lee Materazzi

    A wonderful series of images by photographer Lee Materazzi which somehow I’m sure we can all relate to. Ever been attacked by a foldable lawn chair which was a bit to complex to set up? Or experienced the problems of needing a proper sized tupper which just happen to be in...
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  • Lucky Prawn

    Lucky Prawn is a Melbourne based artistic co-operative, fueled by creative collaborations and the results they achieve. Regularly taunted by the vast and un-predictable online sea, They hold utmost respect for tangible forms of individual expression. Their intentions are to cultivate and distribute some of the best items coming out...
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  • Études Studio

    Études studio is the joining together of the clothing brand Hixsept and JSBJ publishers founded in 2007 by Aurélien Arbet and Jérémie Egry. Considered as independent but not unrelated, these two units evolved side by side, embracing the same creative vision. Based on the same values, they ended up growing...
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  • Art Handling in Oblivion

    A Catalogue about Conspiracy, Theft, Possession and Heritage. Art Handling in Oblivion assembles five art collections that have been stolen during wartime, either by regimes or organized individuals. Seizure of art is one of most hidden and underestimated objectives of war. Behind conquering campaigns lurk hidden stories of deprived cultural...
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