(a very brief history) In 2007 I was asked by artist (and McKnight Photography Fellow) Monica Haller to assist her in designing a book from content that was the culmination of a three-year conversation between Haller and Iraq War Veteran, Riley Sharbonno. The resulting book, Riley and his story., has just been released in a second edition by onestar press — and our collaborative efforts have continued…

Newly established Edition MK (a small-scale, independent publishing platform founded in Minneapolis as an extension of Making Known) announces the release of its debut title, DDDDoomed—Or, Collectors & Curators of the Image: A Brief Future History of the Image Aggregator, which forms Vol. I of VIII of a series titled Img Ctrl—texts regarding the contemporary image world. DDDDoomed, crafted as a…

It’s that time of year! The NY Art Book Fair will be in full swing, November 5–7, 2010 and IFS, Ltd. will be there on the 3rd floor at booth CC01. The site specific collaboration and publication The Book Trust Prospectus is, in non-equal parts: a local currency, a stock prospectus for The Book Trust, an exploration into the nature of small-scale publishing and its presence at the NY Art Book Fair (Rob…

In 2002, I took a photography workshop in Santa Fe and failed to immediately recognize that one of my classmates was in fact J. Grant Brittain, one of the pioneers of skate photography. If you looked at an issue of Transworld Skateboarding from 1983 until 2004, you have seen his work. I recently caught up with Grant, who is now the Director of Photography, Production Manager and Co-Owner of The…

If you receive our bi-monthly magazine, you might have noticed that things look a bit different. We just sent the second issue of our redesign to the printers and it should be in your mailbox later this month! The push for a redesign was prompted by a need to better understand how our communications work in concert: what purpose should our printed magazine serve in relationship to our website…

Had I been asked, I might’ve described LoR/E, a recently developed and continually in-progress project of mine, in its earliest stages as something like an online, text-based Cabinet of Curiosity for the designer. LoR/E began and still is, much like the Cabinet of Curiosity (also known as a Wunderkammer), largely an encyclopedic collection. Only LoR/E is an indexed collection of keywords, ideas, names…

Investment Futures Strategy, Ltd. is pleased to announce The Book Trust, a site specific collaboration and publication to be presented at the New York Art Book Fair, 5–7 November, 2010. The semi-fictional IFS, Ltd., comprised of five graduate students from the Department of Graphic Design at the Yale School of Art – Benjamin Critton, Harry Gassel, Brendan Griffiths, Zak Klauck, and Mylinh Nguyen- will offer…

Matthew Carter, widely considered to be “the most significant designer of type in America”, was recently named as one of theMacArthur Fellows for 2010. Here’s a little Walker history for you—what follows is an entry on Matthew Carter from our 2005 Permanent Collection catalogue: Since its inception, the Walker Art Center has embraced design not only as a programming activity but also as an important…

The General Public Library is a library/reading room project located at Art in General‘s Storefront Project Space. The project opens September 16-November 13, 2010 and will be accessible as an online resource as well. To start the library, I invited designers, publishers, curators, artists, galleries, and musicians to contribute publications to the project that reflect the donor’s practice, methodology…