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Monthly Archives: November 2010

IMPENDING DOOM

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

After the recent fad of apocalyptic films, television and video games such as The Road, Fallout New Vegas, the so-so Book of Eli, and the excellent new AMC series The Walking Dead, had all had effects on my psychological wellbeing and possibly making me believe that the end of the world is imminent. As always [...]

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OUT O’ TUNE

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Whoa, David, or: Mr. Lynch goes Auto-Tune.

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MONO.KLUB #33: ANNIVERSARY BASH

Monday, November 29, 2010

Dear Friends,
we’ve been meaning to do this for a while, but we certainly cannot let the year end without properly celebrating our, lo and behold, fifth anniversary one last time. So please join us this Saturday for our proper Anniversary Bash in the beautiful space of Roderich Kultursalon in Berlin Kreuzberg.
Five years ago, we [...]

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UPCYCLING

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Instead of bemoaning the disappearance of things once loved and treasured – your cassette mix tapes, your old BMX bicycle, etc – Leipzig-based design collective diefabrik have come up with the idea of ‘upcycling’, meaning to update out-of-use items to function in our modern and digital world. Such as, for instance, their beautiful tomboxes: formerly [...]

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HOW TO FUND AN INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Trying to secure advertiser support for independent magazines can sometimes feel like panhandling or worse. If your publication attracts under 10,000 readers, you fall outside any media planner’s consideration. Even if those 10,000 readers are devoted, intelligent, influential followers who would likely transfer some of their loyalty to brands that help keep their favourite indie mag [...]

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DOES THAT ANSWER THE QUESTION?

Friday, November 26, 2010

We were recently interviewed by design student Hugo Hoppmann who is gathering quite an impressive amount of material on editorial design and independent publishing – so, if you’d like to know more about the work of German and European design heavyweights such as Mike Meiré, Mirko Borsche or Jop van Bennekom, Hoppmann is collecting his [...]

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BOOKSTORE OF THE MONTH: TORPEDO

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Oslo is not exactly bursting with art book stores – in fact, there only really is one. But what a store it is – you wouldn’t exactly expect to find a whole half dozen of extremely rare and out of print titles such as Ryan McGinley’s Sun and Health in Norway, of all places. In [...]

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DEMOCRATIC PRINTING

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Print-Process is a brand new project, sister to Blanka, an already existing online print shop. In their own words ‘Blanka is a collection of original, vintage and limited edition posters and prints.’ So the idea behind Print-Process is now to conjugate Blanka’s main insight with a kind of print-on-demand approach, therefore being able to bring [...]

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AWESOME SHOW, GREAT JOB!

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Always worth checking what Eric Wareheim and Tim Heidecker of Tim and Eric are up to. Best known for their hilarious television show Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job, they’re doing live shows in the USA at the moment and there’s lots of their stuff on the internet.

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Alec Soth’s America

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

‘For me, art books are the ultimate extension of children’s literature. They are the creative weaving of text, design and image between the tactile covers of a book. No parent would tell you that the children’s book is in danger of extinction. Toddler’s want to gnaw on board books, not iPads. The same is true [...]

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