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Objects of vertu, Artist Instruments and Thingamajigs.

This book finalizes the architectural investigation by Seth de Rooij, into both the Erlwein-Speicher and the way the Germans digest their past. Since it is almost entirely made up of cast concrete, this building was one of the few left standing after the heavy bombardments of the second World War. The author proposes to renovate the warehouse into an attic for Germany that would contain a selection of artworks dealing with their history.

A fetish made of crystals and electricity, animated by our wishes and fears — a perfect embodiment of its own conditions of existence.

By Pan & Jenny

In this series of eleven black and white photographs Bruno Munari tries to assume a comfortable position to read his newspaper in a reclining chair. From the early 30s to the 90s, the Italian artist and designer influenced the study of painting, industrial and graphic design, film, poetry and the pedagogical methods behind them. He described himself as an “inventor artist writer designer architect illustrator player-with-children”. The list is not exhaustive.

Bruno Munari is one of the most influential designers of the 20th century. Not because he has imposed a particular style or look, but because he has encouraged people to go beyond formal conventions and stereotypes by showing them how to widen their perceptual awareness.

—KATE VINGLETON, International Herald Tribune

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The Open Source Digest publishes freely available, out of copyright material from the public domain. Compiled into an easily replicated, adaptable, low budget format, it focusses not only on the immediate formal concerns, but also on an appropriate overall treatment of the content. It serves as an example of one of many ways of processing a digital resource into an accessible physical artifact.

The Open Source Digest aims to highlight publishing values, question current production models and explore copyright issues, by employing print publishing as a tool for active critical inquiry.

This Project aims to complete 100, 1 minute posters every day for 100 days. Each poster will use a word or short phrase collected from 100 different people. Each poster design will incorporate the influenced text as the foundation for that poster. Anyone and everyone is invited to contribute an influential word or phrase. If you’re interested in contributing please contact:
zachary.klauck@yale.edu