Is it possible to make a photograph of New Jersey regardless of where you are in the world?
is the title of a photo exhibition curated by Laurel Ptak, raising questions on how the internet and globalization has changed our idea of place.
The layout of the catalogue and the website is inspired by the way search engines deals with visual content—images are treated without respect for visual qualities and are instead arranged based on meta data.
www.aphotographofnewjersey.com
The exhibition is being shown at the Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ, April 6–May 25, 2008.
Excerpt is a book series influenced by the current blog culture and its loose attitude to publishing. The series will contain shorter essays, collections of articles, republishing of older texts on art, philosophy and architecture. First out is Deleuze och mångfaldens veck, edited by Helena Mattsson and Sven-Olov Wallenstein.
The creative freedom of publishing online is not only appreciated by writers—the same attitude can also be found among typographers and type designers. The demands on a finished, commercial typeface are however very high and many digital tryouts never leave the screen. To give these unfinished typefaces a (new) life, we have dedicated the covers of the Excerpt series to them. First out is our own Aurora Neu, Garnitur II. Every new cover will feature another unpublished typeface from a different designer.
Excerpt is published by AXL Books.
Site is a quarterly journal for contemporary art, architecture, cinema, and philosophy launched in 2001. Starting with its 20th issue, the editors decided to abandon the former bilingual form and publish the journal in English only. For that reason a redesign was commissioned.
With the characteristics of the former Site in mind, the new format is designed with more white space, an openess towards the use of images and an updated typography.
Based on the journal's name, concept and Swedish origin, the typeface Site Specific—with clear references to the typeface Tratex, used on all Swedish road signs—was created for use in headlines and image captions.
Order online at www.sitemagazine.net.
Exhibition at Sandvikens Konsthall by Konst & Teknik on the foundations of decision making in graphic design.
The exhibition consists of a poster series and a publication with talks between Konst & Teknik and graphic designers Martin Frostner, Henrik Nygren, Jens Schildt and Andreas och Fredrika.
Order a publication (in Swedish) or a poster at shop@konst-teknik.se.
Price: 100 SEK / 11 EUR + shipping.
The german design studio Mendell & Oberer designed in 1984 a famous poster with the statement “Design is art that makes itself useful”. The poster is beautifully set in a geometric stencil typeface, cut up in different vivid colors.
The choice of typography and color is fascinating when thinking of the message of the text. Does a random colored stencil in this context have a useful function or must not this instead be seen as an ornamental choice?
Morse Alphabet is an attempt to re-inject functionality to the stenciled letter-form, based on the construction of Morse code.
Identity for Klubb:Europa, a club tour traveling through Sweden with DJs from six different european countries, initiated by Goethe-Institut Schweden and the German Embassy in Stockholm.
The identity is based on onomatopoeic descriptions for sounds in club environments, collected through an online survey with people from the participating countries.
Contribution to the exhibition T(ourist)-Shirts at gallery So Stockholm.
Posters for the techno club Kornel Y Barbaro at Teatron in Stockholm. Made out of beamed bespoke typography and custom-made projections by Eskils Junker Film. Photography by Daniel Norrby.
Record cover for Pluxus Solid State. Photography by Daniel Norrby.
Get the record at www.pluxemburg.com/shop.
Bonniers Konsthall is a new venue for Swedish and international contemporary art in the centre of Stockholm.
The website is concepualized, designed and client side programmed by Konst & Teknik in collaboration with Martin Ström. It's based on two main ideas:
A collection of packaging products for christmas gifts. Available at various swedish christmas markets and/or by sending an e-mail to shop@konst-teknik.se.
Traditional newspapers come out once or twice a day after having come to a final publishable version. With online news there is never a final version, news is always in flux and can be edited at any time.
With Zeitgeist we wanted to show this changing of news by bringing it back to a traditional newspaper format. Using different design treatments we created a number of articles looking at characteristics of online news.
Zeitgeist was awarded the
Items/Spinhex & Industrieprijs 2006, in Items Magazine and a Silver at the Kolla Award 2007.
Collaboration with Jonathan Puckey.
Books about computer languages rarely seem to be designed to express creativity or to encourage the use of programming as a tool for visual and artistic work.
During a workshop with London based design group Åbäke, we were asked to borrow a book in a library, redesign the cover and put the book back in the library. We chose to design a new cover for a book about the programming language AppleScript, by showing how to make the original cover − using AppleScript.
Publication and poster for the exhibition Dresscode about gender and fashion. The project was a collaboration between Beckmans College of Design and Rosebud and was shown at Bruno Götgatsbacken during the summer of 2005.
While working on the project we were trying to imagine a metrosexual printed matter — some kind of publication with a natural need to be more than just one thing at the same time.
Collaboration with Arvid Tappert and Lydia Putkinen.
Ongoing experiments with the concept of reality in moving pictures.
Colhour is a system for visualizing time, based on the spectrum of the rainbow. Every variable in the clock—second, minute, hour, day, month and year—cycles through the colors of the spectrum, beginning with the color purple.
More on Colhour and applications of the system: www.harald.net/colhour
Colhour is an ongoing project and collaboration with Martin Ström.
Catalogue and poster for the exhibition 4-Play, showing work from the students in the fourth year at the Royal College of Art in Stockholm.
Collaboration with Hanne Lindberg.
Together with a few other plastic tools the pen belongs to a rare but fascinating group of objects—objects we have come to consider natural to steal from one and other.
To enlighten the real story and the actual value behind every pen, Konst & Teknik always encapsulates a signed receipt for every pen we buy. We kindly encourage our friends to do the same.
Pen Pals was part of the Encounters workshop and exhibition at Färgfabriken, Stockholm 2005.
A book with questions and answers found at howthingswork.virginia.edu. By using experimental typography, the aim is to explain or give a hint to the answers of the questions. As an attempt to deal with existing content found on the web, the questions and answers havn't been edited at all.
Viragelic is a simple experiment with random sound and motion. A never-ending live concert playing a generated show unique for each visitor.
Three layers of different colored objects are randomly positioned in a grid. Each color representing one type of sound. Three solid squares moves over the grid randomly, triggering sounds when on top of objects with the same color.
The project was released as screen saver on floppy discs by Promenade Recordings in 2002 and has been featured in various online and offline publications.
Printed programs for two series of lectures for the students at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
The programs were designed as notebooks, providing the attendee with both the information of each lecture as well as a chance for her/him to write down notes during the attended lecture.
Lyrics for a song made out of spam e-mails. Made in a workshop on text in public space with poet Pieter Boskma and graphic designer Roosje Klap. Made into a song by Karl Josephson and Sverrir Gudnason.
Tabloid magazine about window shopping and the collaboration between Beckmans Collage of Design and Gallerian. About cheap and expensive, private and public.
Collaboration with Li Bjurholm and Ulrika Hellberg.
Konst & Teknik is a graphic/design studio based in Stockholm, Sweden, dealing with art, technology and things in between. Konst & Teknik works with ideas applied on printed matter, screen, sound and objects, both commissioned and self-initiated.
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