Ametria—For the exhibition Ametria curator Roberto Cuoghi collected art pieces and artifacts from the Benaki Museum in Athens, and paired them together with pieces from the contemporary collection of Dakis Joannau of the DESTE Foundation, to create a radical exercise in the de-canonization of the curatorial method. The maze-like structure of the show enabled endless navigation paths, resulting in different experiences for each visitor. The installation was composed out of rigidly arranged rectangular black boxes, lit from their bottoms, and the objects were presented on or inside them, without titles or captions, creating an even more challenging and solitary experience. The catalogue follows the documentation of the exhibition and replicates the displays 1:1 two-dimensional on its black pages. The book block is covered completely in deep black, except a hint of light from the bottom page edges. Each copy was carefully hand sprayed in an auto body shop.
René Redzepi: A Work in Progress — A documentation of a year at the acclaimed Copenhagen-based restaurant, Noma. The materials for this book were a personal journal recounting the day-to-day life of chef René Redzepi and Noma, accompanied by hundreds of photos gathered from the restaurant's staff smartphones during the same period, and a collection of recipes that were developed that year. The design concept, following the narrative of 'collecting', suggested splitting the publication into three different printed matter: the journal — a soft bound notebook, containing only Redzepi's text, and flat-photographed plants, printed like 'pressed' flowers between the journal's pages; the recipes book — a classic, linen-covered hardback containing ingredient shots and food shots taken by photographer Ditte Isager; the snapshots book — a small format, roughly the size of a smartphone, containing 188 photos, laid out in a way that forces the viewer to rotate the little book from vertical to horizontal format, reflecting the browse through a smartphone photo library.
Paul Chan: Selected Writings — A reader, co published by Badland Unlimited and the Schaulager Museum in Basel, on the occasion of the exhibition Paul Chan Selected Works at Schaulager. The book collects the critical essays and texts of the New York-based artist, as appeared, among others, in Artforum, October, and Frieze. The reader is set with attentive typography in black only, with a single reference to Chan's
New York City AIDS Memorial Identity: The New York City AIDS Memorial was built to recognize and preserve the ongoing history of the AIDS crisis. It is the first significant memorial to be built in New York since the outbreak of AIDS thirty years ago. Set in the emotionally-charged location of the former Saint Vincent's hospital campus in the center of the West Village, the memorial is more of a park then an architectural monument. Featuring an 18-foot-high canopy structure designed by Studio ai architects, the park includes a center piece text installation by Jenny Holzer — Selections from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”, engraved in circular granite ripple-effect sculpture with a thin layer of running water. The logo was designed to be site-specific for the memorial and not necessarily correlate with the global AIDS icon and its familiar color scheme, thus the narrative stems from the center piece and the leafy surroundings. The elements revolve in a tense composition, creating a maze-like restlessness, evoking both emotional strain and an ongoing strive to solve and complete. Fundraising items were designed to help the memorial, including a limited edition art print, sold at the memorial's opening event at Barney's New York and via Artspace.
Where Chefs Eat New Edition — The second volume of the successful restaurant guide Where Chefs Eat including new chefs, new restaurants, new maps and new fonts.
Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible — A monograph on the influential product designer Dieter Rams. The fascinating life story of Dieter Rams is laid out in a classic reading book format, with a margin references to corresponding images. Alongside the historic sketches, prototypes, and product shots of Rams's work, are three sets of photographic portfolios taken at Rams's house in Kronberg, and at the Braun Archive. The cover is printed in a special silk screen technique with raised transparent ink that gives a tactile feel to the design detail. The font Lettera-Txt was designed for this book, and is now available at Lineto.