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Filed Under

Words by Alex Bec, Friday 15 April 2011

Silk Prints is the opening project by Filed Under, and what it lacks in imaginative titling, it certainly more than makes up for in innovative conceptualising. The founders and editors, Annahita Kamali and Florian Böhm have created an “independent publishing platform dedicated to innovative publication formats and objects”, and the first one just happens to be about printing on silk. I was beguiled by the opening video, so urge you click through, to whet your appetite for what’s to come from the par, which is evidently going to be special.

Work / Publication Studio Claus Due creates exhibition catalogues to fall in love with

Ashamedly, on visiting large exhibitions at the Tate, the Barbican, the Stedelijk or the Whitney, personal excitement grows at the possibility of browsing through the exhibition catalogue at the end. Huge tomes of artwork, where the curation of the show aligns with the design, combined with snippets of the artist’s life from themselves or those close to them. Chances are, if you too have a habit for falling in love with exhibition publications, it’s probably because they are designed by Copenhagen-based Studio Claus Due.

Lucy Bourton — 24 October 2017
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