PROFILE: An in-depth look at the career and personality of photographer NADAV KANDER (interview conducted by Lachlan Blackley)
MUSIC & GRAPHICS:
Mairi Duthie nterviews with record labels WARP, LEX and NINJA TUNES on how they commission their graphics and identify new trends in visual arts. What kind of work turns them on, and why? Work ranging from Eh? to er, well, lots of others.
Adrian Shaughnessy (founder of Intro) examines the relationship between graphics & music and the phenomenon of graphic-designers that make music (examples ranging from Kim Hiorthoy to Julian House and Studio Tome)
Sebastian Campos in conversation with writer Rick Poynor (founder of Eye Magazine & author of, among others, seminal books such as Typography Now, Obey The Giant and No More Rules). They try to put events in context and tell the story, or a kind of a story, of graphic design in the past 20 years.
Mazair Raein admits to having spent an appalling amount of time in front of his tv set (both in the UK and in the US) and looks at our fascination with the phenomenon of Makeovers and Makeover programs.
Marc Valli and Aidan Onn talk about toy culture and recent toy design exhibition/competition put together by Playlab
Lachlan Blackley interviews artist Maya Hayuk
Byron Parr lists his favourite found objects
Constance F. Iker and his mate Afficionado to a close look (too close?) at the phenomenon of blogging.
Contributions from:
Benrik (authors of This Diary Will Change Your Life)
Coast (graphics, Belgium)
Billie Jean (illustration, UK/Sri Lanka)
Daisy De Villeneuve (illustration, UK)
WIG-01(graphics, Hong Kong)
Eduardo Recife (collage, Brazil)
Stjin Ghijsen & Marie-Jose Jongerious (photography, US)
Rachel Cattle (illustration, UK)
Ryan Wallace (painting, US)
Dan Eatock (graphics, UK)
Joanna Niemayer & Tal Rosner (illustration)
Frederico Galvani (graphics, Italy)
Hector Pottie (graphics, and in the case of this issue maps, UK)
Yomar Augusto (graphics, Brazil)
Sort (typography & advice to parents, UK)
etc & etc.
Dimensions: 9?x11.75? (inches) Pages: 180 Edition: Softcover Languages: English
