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Insights 2013: Geoff McFetridge
The Gradient
Mar 7
Here’s a peak at Geoff McFetridge’s fence design for the Walker Art Center. It’s only half installed right now, and as soon as we get the rest of it up (hopefully within a week or so), we will be presenting an in-depth interview with the artist about the project. Also Geoff’s recent Insights talk is […]
Here’s a peak at Geoff McFetridge’s fence design for the Walker Art Center. It’s only half installed…
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How to balance on a strip of Möbius: Insights 2013
The Gradient
Mar 4
Above: Trailer for the lecture series. Best viewed at 720p Above: The main print run of the poster was printed in CMYK. Pictured is one of five limited edition prints with combinations of ink channels turned on/off, here in black only. The identity for Insights: Surface Readings—as detailed here—employs a collection of Möbius strips […]
Above: Trailer for the lecture series. Best viewed at 720p
Above: The…
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Insights Design Lecture Series 2013: Surface Readings
The Gradient
Feb 13
“If surface is a kind of place, or site, the designer is its geographer. Surface is folded out in order to produce value, while it is folded in to secure it.” —Metahaven For the 28th edition of the Insights Design Lecture Series, we’ve invited leading designers from around the world to bring […]
“If surface is a kind of place, or site, the designer is its geographer. Surface is folded out in order to produce…
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Over-booked: Adam Michaels
The Gradient
Jan 30
Adam Michaels, co-founder of Projects Projects, who also edits and designs the Inventory Books paperback series (published by Princeton Architectural Press), has extended his passion for print and sound in another role: a rock(or should we say book-rock?) musician in the band The Masses. The Masses released their “spoken arts record that you can dance […]
Adam Michaels, co-founder of Projects Projects, who…
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A Broad Answer Would Be
The Gradient
Dec 2012
So Matt Olson of ROLU (the Minneapolis-based landscape and furniture design studio) approached me a few weeks ago to talk about a potential project for their big display at this year’s Art Basel Miami/Design Miami. He came to me with the idea of coming up with a cheap zine that would talk about ROLU, include […]
So Matt Olson of ROLU (the Minneapolis-based landscape and furniture design studio…
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Hang-Over: Art Basel Miami Banners are Cultural Bank Notes
The Gradient
Dec 2012
Here in Miami, Art Basel and related fairs are now far-past, full-swing. Art has been shown. Parties have been thrown. Many flights have departed, and tents will now come down. For now and a little longer we are all hung-over on Art, Basel and our drugs of choice. Mine is graphic design.
A few weeks ago—largely overnight—a sea of printed banners popped up all over Miami. Their function was to announce…
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Catalog and Archive: two Szeemann designs
The Gradient
Dec 2012
For Craig Buckley’s fall workshop “Publication, Politics, and Print: Episodes from the Twentieth Century” each first and second-year student of the Yale Graphic Design MFA presented one or more publications from the special collections of either the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library or the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library. I picked the catalogue […]
For Craig Buckley’s fall workshop “Publication…
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The Making of the Lifelike Catalog
The Gradient
Nov 2012
Lifelike, a Walker-organized exhibition curated by Siri Engberg, and now on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art, is documented by its eponymous catalog. I sat down last March with João Doria to talk about the making (and thinking) of the book. Transcript of João Doria with Andrea Hyde on the Lifelike catalog J: […]
Lifelike, a Walker-organized exhibition curated by Siri Engberg, and now on view at the New…
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Creating Promotional Photos for BodyCartography’s Super Nature
The Gradient
Oct 2012
The promotional photography shoot for BodyCartography’s Super Nature, which you can check out tonight here at the Walker, was one of those times when all of the elements come together. I got to work with a collaborative group of dancers at a fascinating location on a beautiful day in May. We shot at the University of […]
The promotional photography shoot for BodyCartography’s Super Nature,which you…