Abake-maya-2 — HaZaVuZu

Kitsune-maison — Kitsune Maison

Abake-maya-1 — The Edgware Road Project

Work / Publication

Åbäke

Words by Maya Davies, Thursday 30 June 2011

We’re really excited about Åbäke’s workshop at Field Trip, which they’re running in collaboration with Erika Wall (who took those great photographs of James Blake). The intention is to help students find new ways to approach their work, centred around observation, process and documentation.

Åbäke have been described as “content” junkies, and as always are working on a plethora of projects, including Sexymachinery #15, part of their new “live magazine” venture, taking place on the 11th July at the Architectural Association. They’re also been working on a few publishing projects, including HaZaVuZu, and The Serpentine Edgware Road Project, as well as ensuring Kitsune maintains its cutting-edge reputation.

Work / Publication Paul Sahre chats to us about his new book Two Dimensional Man: A Graphic Memoir

As a designer who once built and destroyed a life-size monster truck hearse; contributed to the New York Times; and having taught at the School for Visual Arts for the past 13 years, Paul Sahre is regarded as one of the most influential graphic designers of his generation. Two Dimensional Man: A Graphic Memoir is his unique take on a traditional design monograph – “part memoir, part art book, part mediation on creativity.”

Ruby Boddington — 18 October 2017
Work / Publication Elise By Olsen on stepping down as the world’s youngest editor-in-chief

Elise By Olsen started blogging aged eight, and by the time she was 12 she’d founded a blog network with a fistful of similarly entreprenial friends called Archetype, whose vision was to tie together young bloggers across art, music, photography and fashion under one vertical.

Bryony Stone — 18 October 2017
Work / Publication Pentagram designs Francesca Gavin’s Watch This Space, dissecting the screens impact on society

“We wake up and check our screens for messages. If we travel to work on public transport, more than half of us are on our phones. We stare at screens for work and communication throughout the day. Travel home, and watch a screen again for entertainment or swipe it to hook up. Sometimes with a second screen on our lap. Then we go to sleep with our screens next to our beds,” reads the back cover of Watch This Space, a limited edition collaboration between author Francesca Gavin and Pentagram partners Luke Powell and Jody Hudson-Powell.

Ruby Boddington — 18 October 2017
Work / Publication Books From The Future's experimentally collaborative and investigative publishing

Books From The Future is a London-based publisher working at the intersection of research, education and publishing founded by educators Yvan Martinez and Joshua Trees. The pair started Books From The Future as a way to explore the models used to structure contemporary art and design education that are “no longer relevant yet have become so institutionalised and internalised that alternatives can seem wildly idealistic and unrealistic by comparison.”

Ruby Boddington — 17 October 2017
Work / Publication Fantastic Man’s unexpected cover story on the surfers and fisherman of Peniche, Portugal

Each season as a new issue of Fantastic Man is released, conversation ensues around who it has chosen for its cover. What the publication has always done — whether it be featuring Bryan Ferry, Christopher Waltz or Jeremy Deller — is choose someone you wouldn’t quite expect but equally someone you adore, or will do once you’ve finished reading. However, the most recent cover features five men we would be surprised if you recognise: five male surfers from Peniche, Portugal.

Lucy Bourton — 17 October 2017
Work / Publication Carnovsky illustrates the human body under X-ray using RGB illustration technique

Illustration for educational books has become ever more inventive in recent years, diversifying a medium that has vast creative potential, and Wide Eyed Edition’s recent release Illumanatomy is symbolic of this shift. The large format book is filled cover to cover with full bleed, intricate, three-colour illustrations by Milan-based duo Carnovsky depicting the human body in three layers. Using a set of lenses that come with the book, you can see the skeleton (through the red lens), the muscles (through the green lens) and the organs (through blue) and learn facts about the details of each image. It uses a technique made famous by Carnovsky in 2010 for its RGB wallpaper that revealed different images under different lights.

Jenny Brewer — 16 October 2017