Bring the world with you

Here’s an interesting excerpt of AA Bronson’s take on art book publishing, as told in a 500 Words article with Art Forum:

[B]ook and art-book designers have been influenced a great deal by artists’ books, so we’re getting used to seeing mainstream catalogues that are quite unusual. The format of the book has become much looser over the past five to ten years. But more than that, I think there’s been a generational shift. For example, here at Printed Matter, two-thirds of the people who shop are under thirty-five. The norm at book fairs is that everyone’s over fifty—when you go to a book fair and look around, it’s all old people. When you come to the NY Art Book Fair, you see a huge population of young people. I think that bodes very well for the publishing and art worlds in general. But it also says something about young people themselves—they have a level of interest in books that nobody was quite aware of before.

And here’s Art Fag City, which happened to profile the same quote.

Maybe this is something more for you, Andre, but I wouldn’t mind picking up one of these for myself:

As one of the most influential and inspirational graphic designers of the twentieth century, Paul Rand defined modern American graphic design. His iconic logo designs for IBM, UPS, and the ABC television network distilled the essences of modernity for his corporate patrons.

This latest volume of the popular Conversations with Students series presents Rand’s last interview, recorded at Arizona State University one year before his death in 1996. Beginners and seasoned design professionals alike will be informed by Rand’s words and thoughts on varied topics ranging from design philosophy to design education.

Available at Magic Pony.

Yeah! Issue Two is finally here.

As she is a babe of gargantuan breadth, I will be awaiting this Rita Ackermann short that is also promising soundtrack…

His bad-boy antics made him a regular on the gossip page circuit, but the fashion designer Kai Kühne, formerly a member of the artsy quartet known as As Four (now known as Three as Four), seems to be making a serious comeback this season. His recent collection that he showed during New York fashion week was applauded for its expert tailoring and razor-sharp silhouettes. We caught up with him to learn about his latest project.

The day I left for Paris fashion week, I organized a video shoot with my friend and collaborator Marcelo Krasilcic. This shoot was to be a follow-up to the video we made with Chloë Sevigny a few seasons back. (Ed Note: It’s pretty amazing.)

I found my new muse in the artist Rita Ackermann — she has great style, is so creative, and she is so sexy. She even recorded a few musical tracks to sing during our shoot, which are beyond amazing. I can’t get her voice out of my head.

Read more here.
Via The Moment

After much talk of his models after his Paris show this past Monday, it is a disappointing/surprising rumour that Martin Margiela might be leaving his own fashion house, Masion Martin Margiela:

The big rumor floating around the Paris shows this week is that Martin Margiela, the influential and enigmatic designer, is preparing his final disappearing act. Over the last year, Mr. Margiela, known as fashion’s “Invisible Man” because he never gives interviews and has rarely been photographed, has told colleagues that he wants to stop designing and that he has begun a search for his successor at the house…

Read more here.

“Award winning Berlin based artist Natascha Stellmach has acquired the ashes of Nirvana frontman, Kurt Cobain.”

Three months ago Kurt Cobain’s ashes were stolen from Courtney Love’s place. At the time it seemed as though the urn in which they were contained had been mistaken for something valuable by crooks who, no doubt, disposed of it when they realised it was full of ashen smackhead. But apparently not! No, according to a press release which arrived in my mail box today, the theft of the ashes was actually a bespoke crime, carried out for the good of conceptual art… read more here.

In fact, she has rolled Cobain’s dust into a spliff and promises to smoke it at the culmination of her exhibition Set Me Free at the Gallerie Wagner + Partner in Berlin…“This final act”, Stellmach says, “will release Cobain from the media circus and into the ether”.

VIA Viceland