Inventory of Inventories

(via ::Devo-Obsesso.com: DEVO Pinback Gallery::)

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:14:43 -0400

(via ::Devo-Obsesso.com: DEVO Pinback Gallery::)

(via ‘[no title]’, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi | Tate)

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:55:37 -0500

(via ‘[no title]’, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi | Tate)

(via MoMA | The Collection | Dan Flavin. Untitled from The New...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:37:00 -0500

(via MoMA | The Collection | Dan Flavin. Untitled from The New York Collection for Stockholm. 1973)

(via Mot à mot - Editions Xavier Barral)

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:05:00 -0500

(via Mot à mot - Editions Xavier Barral)

SOL LEWITTA Square of Chicago Without a Circle and...

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:41:59 -0500

SOL LEWITT
A Square of Chicago Without a Circle and Triangle
1979
Photographic reproduction on paper with areas removed
24 x 24 inches (61 x 61 cm)
© The LeWitt Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

(via Sol LeWitt - January 10 - February 9, 2013 - Selected Works - James Cohan Gallery)

(via Serge Chermayeff Architect Book Plate on “These Poor...

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:39:56 -0500

(via Serge Chermayeff Architect Book Plate on “These Poor Hands” B L Coombes 1939 | eBay)

US: A Paperback Magazine #1 More info (and videos showing all...

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:37:00 -0400

US: A Paperback Magazine #1

More info (and videos showing all interior spreads for the three-issue run of US) on the AIGA blog today

Throughout this week, Project Projects will be posting Electric...

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:04:00 -0400

Throughout this week, Project Projects will be posting Electric Information Age Book outtakes and extras on the AIGA’s blog:

In 1966, media theorist Marshall McLuhan, designer Quentin Fiore and producer Jerome Agel set the scene for a new publishing genre with the release of The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects. Utilizing collaged, cinematic combinations of text and image, Massage and the subsequent “non-book” titles produced in the following decade were made to appeal to the short attention spans of the television (or electric information) age. Though now nearly half a century old, this short-lived set of experimental books provides a set of possibilities for counteracting anxieties on the role of print in today’s media landscape of socially-networked, data-saturated prosumers.

The books are a core inspiration for the Inventory Books series (edited and designed by Project Projects co-founder Adam Michaels), and are the subject matter of the most recent series release, The Electric Information Age Book. Drawing upon research and visuals that couldn’t fit into the book, this week we’ll be showing some highlights of the genre.

We’ll begin, fittingly, with a book by Agel—an all-around enabler, writer, editor, designer, advertiser, producer and packager for whom a book was considered both a business and a media event. Published in 1972, Is Today Tomorrow? A Synergistic Collage of Alternative Futures combines a mosaic of quotations and a school curriculum on futurology; bits of wisdom from the likes of Guy Debord, Claude Levi-Strauss, Lewis Mumford and others; clippings of Peanuts and other comic strips; pagination and running headers that remain scattershot until the final section; immersive full-bleed imagery; and several Hitchcockian photo references pointing to Agel, the producer behind it all.

Impressive Typographische Monatsblätter cover archive neatly...

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:27:00 -0400

Impressive Typographische Monatsblätter cover archive neatly displays the working-out of a full range of mid- to late-20th-century Swiss Modernist ideas and styles.

(image from TM Research Archive – 1978 Issue 3)

The Electric Information Age Album, by The Masses, is out now!...

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:49:00 -0400

The Electric Information Age Album, by The Masses, is out now! More info here — including purchase info for the limited edition vinyl LP.

The LP will be available at the Project Projects table at the NY Art Book Fair this weekend at PS1 (9/27-9/30). Additionally — The Masses will play a live set on Sunday, 9/30 at 1 pm in the PS1 performance dome.

PiL “Careering”

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:53:25 -0400

PiL “Careering”

from Free City set #2, by the The Free City Collective, San...

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:21:23 -0400

from Free City set #2, by the The Free City Collective, San Francisco, Spring 1968

more here

thanks for the EIAB shout-out, david! & nice to see more of...

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:52:35 -0400

thanks for the EIAB shout-out, david!
& nice to see more of Is Today Tomorrow? online

momalibrary:

some spreads from Is Today Tomorrow?

For more info on this genre of experimental paperbacks, check out this new book: The electric information age book : McLuhan/Agel/Fiore and the experimental paperback -ds

(via DZINE: Quaderna, the series designed by Superstudio in 1970...

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:23:00 -0400

(via DZINE: Quaderna, the series designed by Superstudio in 1970 for Zanotta, celebrates 40 years)

Photo

Tue, 22 May 2012 13:39:21 -0400

Such a pleasure to see Raymond Pettibon’s Sir Drone at...

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:24:00 -0400

Such a pleasure to see Raymond Pettibon’s Sir Drone at Anthology Film Archives last night. Mike Watt (who plays the part of Duane, requiring a heroic struggle to play bass badly) writes:

pettibon presents the early days of los angeles punk rock not as simple metaphor for the human condition, but as a singular attempt to break the organic chain of metaphysical fate. there and then and forever after, music was to be no longer music. hippies were to be no longer hippies. everything was instead to be punk. but punk as an end - a squelching of artistic attempt. more, a transcendence of artistic statement itself, by starting with human material that is entirely artless - punk!

(image via EAI at Migrating Forms)

May Day 2012New York City

Wed, 02 May 2012 18:06:42 -0400

May Day 2012
New York City

robertrauschenberg: Robert Rauschenberg, Dream of William...

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:48:57 -0400

robertrauschenberg:

Robert Rauschenberg, Dream of William Burroughs, offset lithograph, 1972

This Rauschenberg-Burroughs collaboration is a potent reminder of Earth Day 2012’s “Mobilize the Earth” campaign message: the Earth won’t wait. Learn more about what you can do to take action.

“Karel Teige, proposal of the reform of Herbert...

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:32:59 -0400

“Karel Teige, proposal of the reform of Herbert Bayer’s Universal typeface (1925), as featured in ReD (vol. 2, no.8) in 1929”

(via Typotheque: Julien — the making of by Peter Biľak)

(via De Jong Situationist Times : Boo-Hooray)

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:52:25 -0400

(via De Jong Situationist Times : Boo-Hooray)