quarta-feira, 31 de outubro de 2012

Mad


Mad #125, March 1969. Cover photographer: Irving Schild
 
 Mad #151, June 1972. Cover art: Norman Mingo

 Mad #166, April 1974. Cover art: Norman Mingo

 Mad #20, February 1955. Cover art: Harvey Kurtzman

Mad #83, December 1963. Logo: Harvey Kurtzman
 

segunda-feira, 29 de outubro de 2012

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

172 mm × 245 mm 512 pages, 256 color illustrations, softcover ISBN 978-3-943514-08-7

Started in 1998, the Lichtzwang series consists today of more than 300 watercolors, all on 15 x 21 cm sheets of graph paper.

Most works in the series are made up of groups of several watercolors wherein each successive work is a variation of the previous, showing a transformation. The last watercolor usually matches the first one, so that each group forms a loop that could be installed in any order.

The process of realization is, however, guided by simple rules (play with the grid on the sheet, each item that appears in the watercolor lasts for three sheets), rules that bind while allowing improvisation and the introduction of a certain randomness in the process.

These watercolors have the generic title Lichtzwang (lightduress or lightconstraint) which in turn is the title of a book of poems by Paul Celan. Between 2000 and 2003 Daniel dedicated himself exclusively to this work, and it was at this time and through these watercolors that many of the interests and issues later explored in other media came to the fore, such as: color; space; time; structure; movement; modularity; variation; permutation; narrative; language; the loop ...

This publication comprises a selection of 256 watercolours made between 1998 and 2012 and was typed with the new Lichtzwang typeface and is published on the occasion of the presentation of the work at the 2012 São Paulo Biennial The Imminence of Poetics.

30 copies include an original drawing signed and numbered by the artist available at Mendes Wood gallery who through their generous support made this publication possible.

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané was born in Barcelona in 1977 and since 2004 lives in Brazil.

http://www.bomdiaboatardeboanoite.de/lichtzwang

quarta-feira, 24 de outubro de 2012

Franz Mon

 
1926, Frankfurt, Alemanha - Vive em Frankfurt
​ Como poeta e artista, Franz Mon joga com aspectos essenciais da linguagem e do texto. Mon aproveita-se de mídias prontas e disponíveis: máquinas de escrever, xilogravuras, adesivos de letras e gravações de áudio, entre outras. Desde a década de 1960, as máquinas de escrever têm sido seu principal instrumento para dar forma a constelações em letras de poesia concreta e experimental. Suas colagens e poemas visuais transmitem mensagens com conotações surreais e desafiam a legibilidade habitual: texto e imagem coincidem e juntos informam a percepção.(http://www.bienal.org.br)

Zansky


Gravura em letterpress em 2 cores sobre papel 300g – 33cm x 47cm
http://www.base-v.org/prints/mar-de-duvidas/

terça-feira, 23 de outubro de 2012

Sigurdur Gudmundsson

Extension, 1974

Cor










A cor pode assumir diversas funções na capa, além de chamar a atenção. Pode servir para destacar um texto, para criar alusões, estabelecer hierarquia, etc.

Jeremy Jansen

Jeremy Jansen, from Digitized by Google (2007)

via  http://verysmallkitchen.com/2012/02/02/lemonmelon-verysmallkitchen-conversation-on-publishing/