Graphic Design 13 Publications in Random Order

?? This publication takes shape as an alphabet book and a typographic specimen shedding light onto the cartazistas’ craft, unique to the Brazilian scene. Employee or freelance, he or she elaborates by hand the visual communication material for many businesses (supermarkets, butchers, convenience stores, bakeries…). Mostly self-taught, trained through observation” or via internet, these professional calligraphers have developed the art of handwriting and composition. They have adopted, each one in their own manner and with specific tools, a unique craftsmanship in letter drawing.

The encounter and interview with three Cartazistas constitutes the contents of the publication.

?? Esta publicación toma la forma de un libro del alfabeto y una muestra tipográfica que arroja luz sobre la artesanía de los cartazistas, única en la escena brasileña. Empleado o freelance, él o ella elabora a mano el material de comunicación visual para muchas empresas (supermercados, carnicerías, tiendas de conveniencia, panaderías …). En su mayoría autodidacta, capacitados a través de la observación ”o por Internet, estos calígrafos profesionales han desarrollado el arte de la escritura y la composición. Han adoptado, cada uno a su manera y con herramientas específicas, una artesanía única en el dibujo de letras.

El encuentro y entrevista con tres cartazistas constituye el contenido de la publicación.

La Perruque is a 1 × 90 cm-long magazine publishing nonstandard type specimens printed in the margins of regular documents.

La Perruque hacks unused paper surfaces from print shop production, so they become carte blanche for type designers instead of waste.

Each issue is a specimen of a typeface. All of them together draw the portrait of a contemporary typography scene. La Perruque showcases experimental typography projects. It is also a place for type manifestos and in-progress fonts.

Besides being an online archive of the magazine issues, www.la-perruque.org also gives access to the font design processes documented by the type designers themselves.

“A ‘homer’ [«perruque» in french] is an artifact that a worker produces using company tools and materials outside normal production plans but at the workplace and during workhours. Despite legal, artistic and ethnographic evidence of their existence, silence surrounds [perruques]. […] this silence is not linked just to the marginal and illegal quality of these artifacts. [Perruques] shed light on a high degree of ‘complicity’ between employees regardless of their position in the hierarchy.” Michel Anteby, “Factory ‘homers’: Understanding a highly elusive, marginal, and illegal practice“, in Sociologie du travail, 45, 2003, p. 453.

The magazine is now published by Surfaces Utiles, a publishing house runned with a similar mindset, trying to publish parallelepiped books through these non-standard production methods.

Guanli de shou: The managed hand es una publicación que nace del proyecto homónimo expuesto en Barcelona entre septiembre y octubre del 2019. Se trata de una recopilación de textos sobre el cuidado (los cuidados), en concreto sobre el papel fundamental de las mujeres migrantes racializadas en los salones de uñas. Es un experimento en el que se mezclan las imágenes de las obras en sala con imágenes sacadas de internet, letras de canciones, corredoras afroamericanas y vapores tóxicos. Es un cuento contemporáneo sobre la explotación y el trabajo feminizado. Eso sí, teñido de rosa.

“Cada vez más, tendemos a externalizar también los cuidados sin pensar en las personas que los realizan por nosotros y mucho menos reflexionamos acerca de por qué lo hacemos o qué consecuencias puede tener. Simplemente, no nos queda tiempo. Como dice la Zowi “mi dinero es tu ocio” y el tiempo, tenga la forma que tenga, es siempre monetizable por la máquina del turbocapitalismo. Nuestras depresiones, nuestras desviaciones emocionales y nuestro cansancio es también productivo. Alexa, Siri, Cortana, Aura, Irene, Viv, Erika, Alice… hacen lo que sea por ti, están encantadas de ayudarte, nunca se cansan y esperan que tú tampoco lo hagas. Por eso nos hacen las uñas otras mujeres, para que desfallecer en el sofá mientras nos pintamos torpemente los dedos de los pies no pueda ser una opción de posibilidad, para que no nos miremos el cuerpo dentro de un espacio en el que nadie nos mira, para que no empleemos un tiempo monetizable en conocer nuestras propias necesidades y para que no dejemos de comunicarnos con el otro, para que no consigamos hablarnos con cariño a nosotras mismas.”

>el libro no ha llegado a imprimirse debido a la crisis del Covid-19. Tan pronto como sea posible realizaremos una primera edición de ejemplares limitados y procederemos a su envío. Cómpralo ya en preventa!

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Crida Festival editorial → [140 x 250mm, 24 pages]. Speculative and critical design: New ways of reusing abandoned places. → 7,99 €

Libro que recopila más de un centenar de flyers o volantes impresos entre 1993 y el 2003 relacionados con la cultura del techno y los clubes en Chile. El libro incluye una serie de textos de personalidades relevantes de la época entre los que se incluyen Jorge González y Sebastián Lelio.

Book that compiles more than a hundred flyers printed between 1993 and 2003 related to techno culture and clubs in Chile. The book includes a series of texts by relevant personalities of the time, including Jorge González and Sebastián Lelio.

A really impressive third issue from the MA Graphic Media Design course; this is what independent magazine-making is all about.
MagCulture

A Line Which Forms a Volume is a publication and event of graphic design-led research both entirely organised by MA Graphic Media Design masters course participants at the London College of Communication (UAL).

The publication explores the use of graphic design as a critical tool to investigate the complexities of contemporary society. Employing established and emergent methods and technologies, the projects work towards producing new and unlikely perspectives on and for the world.

Featuring external contributions by:
Evening Class (UK)
Paul Soulellis, (US)
Anja Kaiser+Rebecca Stephany (DE)
Legrand Jäger (UK)

This and previous issues can be entirely read for free here.

This project seeks to take a new approach to traditional user manuals based on sampling, a musical production technique that is very common in hip-hop. Sampling (and resampling) is a working process that takes pieces from different elements and combines them to create a unique and new item. This technique extracts these pieces from their natural habitat to de-contextualise them; it chops them up, changes, deforms, serialises and combines them with a view to generating a new message.

We live in a world bloated with data, images, videos, news, messages and constant inputs. We live in a world where collective forms of sharing knowledge generate a massive amount of information that is constantly doing the rounds. And just like hip hop lifts portions of audio to compose, this user manual has been scanned and compiled with these elements that do the rounds, such as photos, articles, chats or illustrations, which redefine or complement the content. The outcome is a sampled manual.

THE BEST FROM THE WEST – Andrey Kasay

This is a collection of the best works by Andrey Kasay, a Russian visual artist based in Moscow, by the summer of 2019. His metaphoric, surreal and crazy illustrations and animated videos are based on a satiric look at contemporary society. Since 2010 he took part in various group exhibitions and had solo shows in Europe, Asia, North and South America. He worked with brands like MTV, Nike, Red Bull, CNN, Washington Post, New Yorker, Adidas; and was featured by VICE, WIRED, Juxtapoz and It’s Nice That. 170 x 230 mm, 200 pages Edition of 300 copies ISBN 978-989-54589-1-2 Stolen Books // Published March 2020

THE TREE AS AN ANTENNA TO A SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION – Mantraste

“I wanted to pay homage to all the trees for a long time, so I picked sticks in my village, drew the memories of my childhood by sight and crumpled the paper pulp that shaped the fruits of my spirit. How many have found enlightenment through a tree?” 190 × 250 mm 32 pages 2 color risography printing on Fedrigoni Arena Rough 90g paper. 2 color silkscreen cover printed by Telmo Chaparra (Stolen Prints) on Pop Set Fawn 170g paper. Each copy comes with a 2 color risograph print by the artist, size approx. 300 x 410 mm, printed on Munken Print White 90g. Limited edition of 100 copies, signed and numbered.

SOLIN SALA RA – Manuel Donada

It is not talking about the origin of this book, because this book, infinite, varied, diverse, always similar and always different, perpetual and changing, has existed from all eternity. Nothing has been discovered, everything has been found. But in the heart of this artifact everything changes, everything is transformed, everything evolves. These pages have not existed at any time or any place, the message itself has an origin and the magic emanating from each of its pages can never be trained. At this point, there is nothing to do. It would be lovely to wait for the revolution of an admirable science. This book is dedicated, in part, to all those punks of sectarian mentality and false morals, those who feed the annihilation of the individual and those who are part of a camouflaged class, who die of fear and grief with the idea of being isolated. To all those who do not violently reject the supporters of an absurd and pestilent elite. To the loose dogs of abstract camaraderie that obstructs the spiritual, individual and cosmic revolution. To the victims of the revolution block, accomplices of permanent repression, duck-faced corpses and wild manners, all obstacles of the universal protest. 245 x 310 mm, 96 pages 978-989-54589-2-9 Stolen Books

Throughout recent months our realities have changed drastically, with the coronavirus taking centre-stage in the quarantine world tour that has so quickly made its way across the globe.

And with every tour comes its accompanying merchandise (even the uncomfortably apocalyptic science-fiction ones). In the hopes of producing something positive from a situation so negative, and of coming together in times that pull us apart, this t-shirt – now available on @everpresshq – was designed in collaboration with Pedro Mata Nogueira → 31,00 €.

Available until May 12

Editorial portfolio for the photographer Mark Yareham, which collect, his work from recent years. [210 x 297 mm]. → Contact @enric.pe for buy it.