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Booksfromthefuture Summer School 2012

Booksfromthefuture presents a ten-day summer course in London on conceptual book design and print production for students and graduates. Taught by designers and educators Yvan Martinez and Joshua Trees, with guest talks and seminars from artist Jaime Gili and art historian Gabriela Mendoza. There are 20 places available and open to international applicants. The course [...]

Booksfromthefuture presents a ten-day summer course in London on conceptual book design and print production for students and graduates. Taught by designers and educators Yvan Martinez and Joshua Trees, with guest talks and seminars from artist Jaime Gili and art historian Gabriela Mendoza. There are 20 places available and open to international applicants. The course runs from July 9–20.

Jamie Gili is a Venezuelan artist based in london. Participants will each design a book about his work, focusing on his lesser known practice of wall paintings installed in private spaces, whilst exploring the book as a contemporary project space. One book will be selected for publication and all books will be showcased in one of Gili’s future exhibitions.

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Booksfromthefuture is both a publisher and a school. Conceived as a think-and-do tank, Booksfromthefuture unites scholarship and apprenticeship towards the production of books that investigate different tomorrows in publishing in collaboration with external clients. Booksfromthefuture champions conceptual design through practical production. Books that question and experiment with ‘bookness’, whether print, digital or spatial. Booksfromthefuture mentors designers and artists to become independent thinkers and practitioners with the experience and confidence to initiate and sustain their own projects, collaborations and futures.

For more information about Bookfromthefuture and the course, visit their website.

 

Drawing Club: A Collaborative Coloring Book.

A collaborative coloring book: “This book invites you to collaborate with 15 Minnesota artists—a project conceived in the spirit of Drawing Club at Walker Open Field, where artists and the public add to a pool of collectively created artworks. Rip a page out and color it for yourself, hang it up on your wall and [...]

A collaborative coloring book:

“This book invites you to collaborate with 15 Minnesota artists—a project conceived in the spirit of Drawing Club at Walker Open Field, where artists and the public add to a pool of collectively created artworks. Rip a page out and color it for yourself, hang it up on your wall and photograph it, or tear it up and use it to make a new piece—but whatever you do, share it by uploading the results to mnartists.org/coloringbook. There you’ll be able to view, contribute, and comment on the work, participating in the social experience of art-making, collaboration, and play.”

 

Featured Minnesota artists:

Emily Bennett Beck   Saman Bemel-Benrud    Cornelius Coons   Brandon Cramm   Kristina Estell   Hot Sundae   HOT TEA   Karen Kvitek   Max Mose   Terrence Payne   Casey Seijas   Angela Sprunger   Melissa Stang   Peter Steineck   Lex Thompson

Angela Sprunger

Saman Bemel-Benrud

Brandon Cramm

Peter Steineck

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Design:

For the cover we opted to reproduce all the works featured in the book in bright neon inks, all layered on top of each other. The typeface, Maple by Process Type Foundry, is designed by a Minnesotan. The book was printed in Minnesota. Everything about this book is straight Minnesota.



Each of the pages containing the artwork was perforated so the user could easily share or use the art in a way other than just simply coloring it.


Availability:

On sale now at Walker Shop and online at shop.walkerart.org