es http://nozines.com About independent publications http://nozines.com/contenido/2012.02/white-fungus-interviews-writing-on-art-new-music-history-and-politics.asp Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT White Fungus is an art magazine based in Taichung City, Taiwan. Founded by brothers Ron and Mark Hanson in Wellington, in 2004, as a quasi political manifesto, copies of the first issue were produced on a photocopier, wrapped in Christmas paper and hurled anonymously through the entrances of businesses throughout the city. The name of the publication comes from a can of “white fungus” the Hansons found in their local supermarket in the industrial zone of Taichung City, Taiwan in 2003. Each cover of White Fungus is derived from a scan of the can. Dispersed through the internet and inter-disciplinary art events, White Fungus is as much an experiment in distribution and dissemination as it is in art publishing. The 12th issue of White Fungus is 162 pages of concentrated art. It includes an in-depth interview with Carolee Schneemann, accompanied by artworks spanning her career. It has interviews with the Taipei artist Yao Jui-chung, Beijing noise artist Yan Jun and New York composer Annea Lockwood, discussing her composition ‘In Our Name’, built around excerpts of poetry written by prisoners while incarcerated without trial at Guantanamo Bay. The issue features a history article about nuclear testing in the Pacific leading up to the Rainbow Warrior bombing by the French Government. There are articles on the artists Chen Chieh-jen (Taipei), Simon Denny (Berlin) and Tao Wells (Nelson), and the New York composers Pauline Oliveros and David First, plus a history of Taiwanese electronic music by Jeph Lo. There are paintings by Robin Williams, profiles of the Brooklyn artist-run space Cinders and the independent Taiwan gallery Z, and poems by Jumah al Dossari, Anne Fiero and Colin James. There is a review of Tiqqun’s This is Not a Program and Introduction to Civil War, recently republished by Semiotex(e), new commissioned comics by Tim Bollinger and Barry Linton, plus an article, ‘Anarchy and Art’, by Richard Livermore, which challenges evolutionary models of thinking and orthodox Marxist revolutionary thought. Also it comes with a CD including live recordings of the New Zealand artists Our Love Will Destroy the World (Campbell Kneale) and David Watson with Sean Meehan from an event White Fungus held in 2010 in New York at the gallery P.P.O.W. -- White Fungus Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2012.02/brink-between-art-and-science.asp Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT brink is a new bi-annual magazine founded by four students of the History of Art and Communication Design from Bochum, Essen and Wuppertal (Germany). The magazine between art and science generates a space where cooperation and coexistence are expressed in their difference — art and science encounter each other as differentials and in this encounter open up for the other at once. As a single-topic magazine each issue offers various perspectives through contributions by students, young and renowned artists, junior researchers and established professors from all sciences as well as personalities from the media and culture. That is where the opening of brink takes place: Constantly demonstrating the potential of the differentials. Yet, this opening does not anticipate brink‘s existence. brink is not already there but in a continuing process of becoming by the encounter with its readers. brink is rooted in the silence at the universities, in the lack of opportunities to see and speak for oneself and in the missing or failed dialogues between art and science. It is a project run by students who felt the urge to create a new place for discourses and their visibility and they have opened it up with brink Magazin zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft. brink: the place where art and science encounter each other. Margins, liminal experiences, setting and transgression of boundaries in the encounter with the other. -- brink Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2012.02/junk-jet-an-irregular-fi-paper-publication.asp Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT Junk Jet is a zine-jet, a collaborative format set up to discuss speculative works on topics of architectures, media, aesthetics, and on electronics. It is an irregular lö-fi paper publication (including irrational special gifts) on a non-cömmercial scale edited by Asli Serbest and Mona Mahall (m-a-u-s-e-r) and published by their own igmade.edition. Junk Jet is interested in counter works (and counter counter works) of counter aesthetics, tunnelling practices that show lack of any irony or fiction. It is about wild forms and found objects, about weird theories and (small) narratives, anti-fashions and non-styles, about exploring do-it-yourself works, accidental outcomes, deviant and normal aesthetic forms that result from jammed common practices, misused media, and subverted customary tools. It is about cultivating an anti heart by “introducing noise to signal”. Whereas n°1 experiments with the topic of failure, or better: noise, n°2 is especially into architectural and spatial works. The n°3 flux us! flux you! issue focuses on temporary types, on stable happenings and unstable thoughts: boogie buildings, rolling rocks, flying architectures, provisory pyramids, lifted cellars and dug in landmarks, curtains, mobiles, house boats, bubbles, zeppelins, flying saucers... The n°4 deals with making something out of nothing and contains works that move from mumbo-jumbo to real magic and back. The current issue n°5 -comes with a Poster: "Home Buttons by Architects"- is an archive impossible that ­trans­ports, in print format, net based works, or ­fragments of works showing collections, series, animations, applications, and reflecting anti-heart texts on the net and its new forms of art, design, and architecture. N°5, the net.heart issue, has transferred internet things from their digital space into a paper jet. This transportation procedure relies on documents in a similar way as the museum relies on photograph and video documenting performance arts. And Junk Jet believes that this analogue documentation is in no way inferior to pseudo-preserving techniques of data migration, emulation, or reprogramming. At the end, Junk Jet says: "Transportation is not so much about the artwork as object, but rather about the indication of the subjective decision of the artist." In this sense Junk Jet is a Russian conceptualist. With wireless contributions by Adam Cruces, Agathe Andre, Alessandro Bava, Alexei Shulgin, Angela Genusa, Angelo Plessas, Aureliano Segundo, Asli Serbest, Aristide Antonas, Artie Vierkant, Ball-Nogues, Bärbel Jetter, Bea Fremderman, Beatriz Ramo, Ben Aqua, Ben Vickers, Billy Rennekamp, Bonno van Doorn, Brad Troemel, Bryan Boyer, Carsten Güth, Christian Oldham, Christine Nasz and Stefanie Hunold, Constant Dullaart, Dennis Knopf, Eilis Mcdonald, Fabien Mousse, Gene McHugh, Greg J. Smith, Hanne Mugaas, Jacob Engblom, Jasper Elings, JODI, Jonas Lund, Jordan Tate, Katja Novitskova, Laimonas Zakas, Lenox Twins, m-a-u-s-e-r, Marisa Olson, Michael Schoner, Mike Ruiz, Mimi Zeiger, Mona Mahall, Natalie Bookchin, Nicholas O'Brien, Nicolas Sassoon, NIEI, NLarchitects, Olia Lialina, Palace Palace, Ricardo Scofidio, Parker Ito, Patrick Cruz, Pieterjan Grandry, Raphael Bastide, Sam Hancocks, Sarah Weis, Something Fantastic, Sterling Crispin, Theo Seemann, Will Brand and Wyne Veen. -- Junk Jet Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2012.01/alaska-editions-unpublished-contemporary-photography.asp Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT Alaska Editions collates the best of previously unpublished contemporary photography, both from established and emerging image makers around the world. Each issue changes in format, pushing the two elements of traditional book binding and modern print technology to the highest of levels. Ultimately created to challenge boundaries and urge the exploration of new and unfamiliar territory in contemporary photographic art. Alaska is now published by Sanderson Studios. Issue #3 brought together the work of 6 international artists in an individually numbered edition of 33 copies worldwide. Printed on bible paper and bound using a traditional hand-stitched Japanese technique. The Alaska team remained true to their core values; pushing the two elements of traditional book binding and modern print technology to the highest of levels. Ultimately created to challenge boundaries and urge the exploration of new unfamiliar territory in contemporary photographic art. The selected artists for this issue are: Daido Moriyama (Japan), Dan Holdsworth (UK), Todd Hido (US), Ben Adams (UK), Guido Baselgia (Switzerland) and Thobias Faldt (Sweden). -- Alaska Editions Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2012.01/roma-publications-an-exhibition-on-paper.asp Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT Roma Publications is an independent art publisher, based in Amsterdam, founded in 1998 by artist Mark Manders and graphic designer Roger Willems. It is used as a platform to produce autonomous publications in close collaboration with artists, institutions, writers and designers. Roma publications is conceived similarly to an exhibition that would evolve with time as one publication leads to another, while serving as a platform of exchange between a growing number of artists, designers, writers, poets and institutions. Published in editions that range between 2 and 150 000, every issue has its own rule of distribution based on the specific content of the projects: they can be given away for free, only exhibited in gallery spaces, or sold online or in bookshops. -- Roma Publications Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2012.01/never-odd-or-even-text-space-exhibition.asp Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT Never Odd or Even - an exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde - presents word-sculptures, word-images, wall texts, "write-along" animation films, mindmaps, etc. The art works focus on the written word's ability to activate an inner imaginative world, and engage in an architectural interaction with the museum spaces. The title suggests doubts, but is also a pun – a palindrome, which can be read both backwards and forwards. Puns as well as the audience's ability to complete the content of works are at stake. Never Odd or Even is based on the Mexican artist Mariana Castillo Deball's art project with the same title, and the project is included in the exhibition. Deball’s Never Odd or Even is both a performance and a book consisting of 30 fictional book covers for unwritten books created by various authors and illustrators. The first edition of the book was made in 2005, but for the exhibitions in Berlin and Roskilde a brand new version has been published by BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE. Three Danish authors write their own text for a book cover, and present it on 10.03.2012 as Never Odd or Even performance.  Artists: Rosa Barba (DE/ITA), Erick Beltrán (MEX), Nanna Debois Buhl (DK) & Brendan Fernandes (KE), Mariana Castillo Deball (MEX), Simon Evans (UK), Peter Fischli & David Weiss (CH), János Fodor (HU), Lise Harlev (DK), Ferdinand KRIWET (DE), Ján Mancuška (SK), Tris Vonna-Michell (GB), Ciprian Muresan (RO), Henrik Olesen (DK), Pablo Pijnappel (FR), Adam Pendleton (US), Sebastián Romo (MEX), Dmitry Vilensky (Chto Delat?) (RUS) and Phillip Zach (DE). Curator: Solvej Helweg Ovesen, in collaboration with Grimmuseum, Berlin and Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde. Opening 13.01.2012, 17-19:30 h With a performance by Tris Vonna-Michell, 18:30 h -- Museum of Contemporary Art Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde Grimmuseum Solvej Helweg Ovesen BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2012.01/ruine-mirror-of-new-zeitgeist.asp Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT ruiné magazin is an independent publication of german editors and publishers Neven Allgeier & Benedikt Fischer, combining photography, text, art and overall aesthetics to a powerful ensemble with a statement. Concept of ruiné is to express a new zeitgeist, assuming man being on the way to the inevitable point zero. In the ruiné universe, evidence can be found everywhere from the smallest neglibilities to the grand existential things. It is very important for them to be a platform for different artists, established, aspiring or yet undiscovered, dealing with the vision of ruiné from their very own perspective, thereby steady expanding the ruiné cosmos. The third issue of ruiné examines how architecture and the new digitality reflect and correspond to the self-alienation of man. On 104 full color pages, the ruinéboys Benedikt Fischer and Neven Allgeier along with many other artists show their view on our environment and the digital future of our world. Among the contributors, swiss artist Beni Bischof shows digitally manipulated images of buildings and sculptures, depriving them of their immanent purpose and questioning the worth of human accomplishments. Chicago-based artist Bea Fremderman, curator of the city's kunsthalle new, and canadian award-winner Geoffrey-Pugen also deal with the influence of virutal worlds to our lives and minds. Thomas Mueller, computer prophet of the new millenium, supportingly describes the development towards technological singularity, while different artists attach their views and visions to the ruiné cosmos by contributing artworks to accompany the infamous ruiné messages further exploring the thematic triangle. Cast into a radically reduced form, ruiné 3 itself appears as a cohesive piece of art, providing visionary approach to the world and the life of tomorrow. -- ruiné Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.12/four-corners-book-visual-volumes-of-literature--art.asp Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT Four Corners Books is a publisher based in London, England. Founded in 2004, They are a registered charity, with the aim of producing accessible and affordable art books for a wide audience. They publish wonderfully original interpretations - classic novels and short stories - include illustrated books for adults, The Prisoner of Zenda and Vanity Fair being notable, and some great referential art book editions – like Eduardo Paolozzi and Sister Corita. Also, They occasionally programme exhibitions and share events. Their books include Four Corners Familiars series: presents artists' responses to classic novels and short stories, taking a fresh look at the tradition of the illustrated novel like Their versions of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray stood out for their well-considered illustrations and attention to typographic detail. -- Four Corners Books Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.12/katachi-design-people-and-business.asp Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT Katachi chronicles global design culture, individuals who transform society and the ideas that fuel our collective imagination. Created for discerning readers with a keen eye toward contemporary culture, Katachi offers insight into the ideas that are shaping our world. Katachi’s design and editorial direction is a collection of East and West, modern and classic. Katachi weaves these pieces together, reflecting today’s complex world through a graphic, colourful and most importantly, interactive approach. Infusing publishing on the iPad with a lifelong appreciation for print, web and broadcast media, Katachi draws from each but emulates none. However, new ways of communicating have emerged by adding technology as the secret ingredient for telling stories. Katachi capitalizes on the innate interactivity of the iPad, creating beautiful, multi-sensory content that engages our readers. -- Katachi Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.12/folio-an-exhibition-space-on-paper.asp Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT folio is a new publication edited and designed by Merve Kaptan and Charlie Coffey. The Magazine seeks to operate as an exhibition space on paper presenting the work of several artists per issue. folio is particularly keen to offer a future platform for three-dimensional, time-based and de-materialised work to be realised on the flat page. Selected either by open submission or invitation, artists respond to the printed format and participate in a collaborative editorial process. In every issue, a new guest editor works to bring influences from other disciplines including music, architecture and writing. folio issue 1 is guest edited by Francesca Banchelli and contributing artists are Edward Salem, Yunji Park, Annabel Banks, Chloë Østmo and Emiliano Zelada. -- folio Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.12/no-order-art-in-post-fordist-society.asp Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT No Order. Art in a Post-Fordist Society is a research, production and publication machine based in Milan, employing different tools to impact, the social, semiotic and economical assemblages within the contemporary cultural industry. It focuses on the relationships between contemporary art systems and capitalism's productions processes. It appears as an annual magazine edited by Marco Scotini. In the first issue of the magazine contributions (essays, articles, interviews and dialogues as well as artists' projects) aim to deconstruct, analyse and intervene within the ambit of the procedures and forms of cognitive capitalism. It will concentrate, in particular, on the phenomena of the 'biennalisation', 'financialisation' and 'spectacularisation' of the political, beginning with the control and distribution of forms of artistic education, production and display on a global scale.   It consists in three sections: Time Zone, Play Time, and Time Machine. The cartographies in Time Zone trace out emerging artistic 'systems', geographies of governmental disparities, and different dynamics of cultural work. What is at stake here is the position that these local systems are adopting in the globalised system of contemporary art. This section focuses on the way the role of cultural industries is affecting various economic scenarios around the world. Time Zone is quite simply a rewriting of the opening section of art magazines – that of news and appointments. In this issue: Russia, the Czech Republic, Romania, Croatia and Turkey. Play Time corresponds instead to the central section of an art magazine, which is generally dedicated to monographic essays on particular artists. Categories like 'author' and 'work' are concepts that belong to a particular historical period—that of the modern age—but they are no longer able to analyse and portray the processes of contemporary production. Deconstructing the hyper-visibility of certain organisations and giving visibility to the invisible networks and processes that permeate the space of art, in a collective chain of Education/Market/Display, thus becomes the only possible form of action in today's state of 'work'. The section Time Machine aims to complete the issue by questioning the position of time at the heart of capitalism, but no longer in its 'modern' form, which based the production process on the contrast between use value and exchange value, and thus, by extension, on the dialectic between reality and representation. On the contrary, time—which is based on potential/actual relationships—is now the basis for the information economy. At a time when appearance has entirely replaced reality, the subject is always a 'power', insofar as it is memory, on the point of manifesting itself. The last section of art magazines is given over to art reviews, and the category it deals with is always the time dimension of 'after'. -- No Order Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.12/slanted-typography-and-design.asp Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT Slanted.de is a weblog that has typography and design as its topic. It informs its readers about international design trends and events day by day in numerous categories and is always in tune with the zeitgeist of design and typography. The typography magazine Slanted,  complementing the weblog, is published quarterly and combines the sectors typography, layout, illustration and photography. It attends to the topics in greater detail and more intensive. Both blog and magazine encourage and call for a debate on these subjects as an experimental field. The new issue (#16 - Bold/Light) deals with the loud and the silent, the eye-catching and the inconspicuous. "BOLD is the opposite of despondent. In typography it is a popular method of accentuation. LIGHT is the opposite of noisy and bigmouthed. For this theme of contrasts we initially had more loud and bold fonts, works and pictures in mind than quiet, restrained ones. We are impressed of a time – striking and epic in its occurrences – which rushes past and carries us off. The soft overtones only get little attention at this rapid speed.  So, how can we pause, set the LIGHT against the BOLD? The fluid, cinematic moment of presentation has an exceptional meaning for us also in this issue. We are bothered about a linear concept of narration. The rhythmic comparison encourages to stay and immerse. Creative decisions and the use of typography for this compilation were stretched far to specific borders, to underline the topic and to work out the character of the two extremes. This precipitates also in the production: By the use of different, metallic Chromolux papers and a two-colored finishing, issue #16 appears with six different covers. Furthermore a haptic surprise awaits the reader in the inner part.  We are glad having the chance to present two photo series, which interpret the terms BOLD and LIGHT on a special, distinctive way: The historical photography of the propably most significant heavyweight champion of all times, Muhammad Ali (UPI/Bettmann/Corbis), as well as a critical photographical counterdraft to the “soft-washed” and alleged airy aesthetics of David Hamilton, created by Mareike Foecking (Düsseldorf).  We feature type essays by Jean François Porchez (Clarmart), Horst Wöhrle (Esslingen), Reinhard Albers (Constanz) and Nanna Funke (Münster), furthermore interviews with Ian Party (Lausanne), Ludwig Übele (Berlin), Eric Gill, Michael Horsham (London), Doug Wilson (Springfield), Raffinerie AG für Gestaltung (Zurich), Jost Hochuli (St. Gall), Thomas Lupo (Weissach) and Mareike Foecking (Düsseldorf), as well as reports by Michael Schmidt (Munich), Ian Lynam (Tokyo) and a musical travel report by Frank Wiedemann (Berlin)." Slanted Team -- Slanted Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.11/occasional-papers-books-about-art-architecture-design-film-and-literature.asp Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT Occasional Papers is a non-profit publisher of affordable books devoted to the histories of architecture, art, design, film and literature, founded in 2008 by Sara De Bondt and Antony Hudek. They have published a total of 7 references for now: The Master Builder, The Form of the Book Book, Art in Ruins, (pause), The Portable John Latham, The Artist as an Instigator, Born in Flames and Street Talk: Amsterdam. -- Ocassional Papers Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.11/hot-gun-journal-of-contemporary-poetry-and-criticism.asp Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT Hot Gun! is an ocassional journal of contemporary poetry and criticism. (Its rubber scream sounds like "We would tell you we are here to purge the earth?") It´s edited by Josh Stanley and designed by Ryan Waller. Their second issue (first came out in 2009) is all about Ed Dorn. Hot Gun! issue#2 makes you feel you are presented with i) a selection of poems by Timothy Thornton, Nour Mobarak, The Rejection Group, Francesca Lisette, John Wilkinson, Alexander Nemser, Jonty Tiplady, Luke Roberts and Justin Katko; and ii) a section of work on and by Edward Dorn, including essays by Reitha Pattison, John Armstrong, Kyle Waugh and Richard Owens; two unpublished poems by Dorn, "The Poem of Dedication" and "Osawatomie", with notes by Justin Katko; and Dorn's introductory note to The Book of Daniel Drew as well as an uncollected poem, "To Tom Pickard & the Newcastle Brown Beer Revolutionaries". And to you, at last, remember the cost of experience. All law is an application of an equal measure to different people who are in fact not alike, are not equal to one another. That is why the "equal right" is a violation of equality and an injustice. It is 5pm and we are not here to build the perfect state, mounted as a system by which one group oppresses another. Which costs the world that is desire. Across his work, Dorn's writing is a struggle to keep the language of desire, not pure but free from the corruptions it will suffer when a community is stupefied by the power of others. The work on Dorn presented in this issue of Hot Gun! focuses on Dorn's anti-capitalism, emphasizing the materialist and political aspects of Dorn's writing, which are linked to a highly concentrated metaphysical discourse. -- Hot Gun! Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.11/unflop-new-unconventional-paper.asp Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT unFLOP is a new biannual magazine, that investigates, critically, contemporary culture. unFLOP is an instrument of opinion with an in-depth examination of culture. It is a unisex and eco magazine; printed completely on recycled paper with vegetable ink. It focuses on talent, in fashion, in the visual arts, in music, but is not interested in anagrafic data, because talent has no age. The editorial team of unFLOP is a network composed of art directors, experts in personal branding, fashion consultants, social media managers, cool hunters, visual designers, photographers, copy writers and art curators. unFLOP is a unique collectors' item and also an online project. A package similar to the floppy disk of old, each issue is designed/created by a chosen artist specifically for unFLOP or a selected brand. The package will also contain a vinyl created exclusively for unFLOP or a selected brand. Two papers have been published so far with contributors such as: Nico Vascellari, Emmanuelle Lequeux, Lorenza Pignatti, Elena Nemkova, Antonia Baehr, Duncan Wooldridge and Delphine Hervieu, among others. -- unFLOP Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.11/ein-magazin-uber-orte-photographs-drawings-and-texts.asp Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT Ein Magazin über Orte (A Magazine about Places) deals with a different location in every issue. The magazine collects works of various authors in the form of photographs, drawings and texts. It is published twice a year in a print run of 4.000 copies. Publishing and design by Elmar Bambach, Julia Marquardt and Birgit Vogel. Ein Magazin über Orte no 9 is about Berlin. At first glance the focus of the magazine is not on the people living there, but rather on the city's urban landscapes and small scenarios. In more than 70 works by artists like Rainer Fetting, Carsten Kaufhold or Amelie von Wulffen, by photographers like Sibylle Bergemann, Axel Hütte, Arwed Messmer or Juergen Teller, and in poems and short texts by authors like Jürgen Becker, Kerstin Hensel, Durs Grünbein or Lutz Seiler, different perspectives on the metropolis Berlin in its constant changes and transitions appear without glorifying it. -- Ein Magazin über Orte Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.11/invalid-format-an-anthology-of-triple-canopy-volume-1-the-book-as-content-management-system.asp Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT The book Invalid Format: An Anthology of Triple Canopy, Volume 1 is an archive of Triple Canopy's widespread publishing activities and a translation into print of projects that originally appeared in other forms. It is designed in collaboration with the New York City based design studio Project Projects. The inaugural volume of Invalid Format includes artist projects and literary work published in the first year of Triple Canopy's existence, documentation of public programs, and a sampling of foundational correspondence. In form and content, the book explores how works produced for the screen might fully inhabit the page. Consider Invalid Format a new design for reading, the book as content-management system. Contributors for Volume 1 include Lene Berg, Keren Cytter, Rivka Galchen, Sheila Heti, Adam Helms, the International Necronautical Society, Craig Kalpakjian, Jon Kessler, Wayne Koestenbaum, Rachel Mason, Amir Mogharabi, Ed Park & Rachel Aviv, Emily Richardson & Iain Sinclair, Michael Robinson, and Diane Williams. Triple Canopy is an online magazine, workspace, and platform for editorial and curatorial activities based in New York, Los Angeles, and Berlin. Working collaboratively with writers, artists, and researchers, Triple Canopy facilitates projects that engage the Internet's specific characteristics as a public forum and as a medium, one with its own evolving practices of reading and viewing, economies of attention, and modes of interaction. In doing so, Triple Canopy is charting an expanded field of publication, drawing on the history of print culture while acting as a hub for the exploration of emerging forms and the public spaces constituted around them. -- Triple Canopy Project Projects  Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.11/tell-mum-everything-is-ok-an-alternative-vision-on-the-photogtaphic-practise.asp Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT TELL MUM EVERYTHING IS OK is a fanzine of random photography based on active participation from all its members, the readers are also the ones that create the magazine. It's a non profit fanzine published by Éditions FP&CF, an associative and independent publishing house based in Paris, France. TELL MUM EVERYTHING IS OK is created from the start like a fanzine, with limited financial means and much gatherings of ends and odds. It wants to put out there an alternative vision on the dominant photographic practice and will be the opportunity to discover new authors and their works on a variety of different themes. The following photographs have participated in the fifth issue: Alec Soth, Ali Boswort, Andrew Laumann, Andrew Phelps, Axel Stevens, Brendan Baker and Daniel Evans, Christian Flatscher, Christian Patterson, Clare Strand, Damien Brailly, Ed Panar, Guillaume Maraud, Irina Yulieva, Jaap Scheeren, Jason Fulford, Jeremy R. Jansen, Jordan Small, Juan Ramon Rincon, Kenny Hurtado, KK + TF - Klara Källström and Thobias Fäldt, Laëtitia Donval, Lara Dhondt, Maciek Požoga, Maxime Milanesi, Peter Halupka, Roger Ballen, Santa Katkute, Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, Thomas Albdorf, Timothy Briner and Torbjørn Rødland. -- TELL MUM EVERYTHING IS OK Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.11/white-zinfandel-magazine-about-food-and-culture.asp Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT White Zinfandel is a biannual magazine devoted to the visual manifestation of food and culture produced within the lives of creative individuals. It has been created by New York-based W/-project space and the design office Leong Leong Architecture. Each issue is based on a historic or cultural significant menu. Artists are asked to produce a piece of unique content based on an assigned item or dish from the menu. The publication is comprised of new work made by participants, and launch dinner that is concepted by a selected chef. This inaugural issue (numbered edition of 500) is an homage to the restaurant 'Food' founded by Gordon Matta-Clark, Caroline Goodden and Tina Girouard in 1971 in Soho, New York. 'Food' was completely managed and staffed by artists that turned into an event space being a meeting point, a performance stage and a restaurant at the same time. With: A.B.A.K.E., Abigail Lorick, Amy Yao, Andrei Koschmeider, Andrew Onderjack, Annie Choi, Ava Kaufman, Beth Lieberman, Chiara Mondavi, Christina Galvez, Commonspace, Daniel Gordon, Keegan McHargue, Ken Miller, Leong Leong Architecture, Lizzie Hodges, MacGregor Harp, Marc McQuade, Marcelo Gomes, Mari Eastman, Matt Le-Khac, Pete Deevakul, Peter Sutherland, Scott Ponik, Seth Zucker, Siki Im, SO-IL, Sun An, Theophilus London and William Pym. -- White Zinfandel Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.11/correspondencia-magazine-literature-and-arts.asp Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT Correspondencia is a bi-annual literary and arts magazine published in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The concept is the double meaning of the word "correspondence": (1) Communication by exchanging letters, with someone. A printed message. (2) To have a close similarity, connection, or empathy with someone. Correspondencia is divided in 6 sections of 24 pages each: (1) Visual dossier from one person, (2) Original texts, (3) Images from various sources, (4) Texts that someone read, liked and transcribed, (5) Letters and (6) Visual dossier from one person. It's content is 80 pages of images and 80 pages of texts in spanish and english. The size is 14cm x 19,5cm. The new issue 2 presents the following works: (Visual fragments) Henrik Grönvold, Susanna Howe, Gert Jonkers, Jeremy Liebman, Vava Ribeiro, Ana Armendariz, Ana Martinez Ramos, Alejandro Ros. (Texts) Asli Cavosuglu, Erik Heywood, Carmen Iriondo, David Leda, Henry Roy, Amalia Sato, Mercedes Villalba, Philip Watts. (Excerpts) Roland Barthes, Peter Benchley, Albert Camus, Grillo Demo, Jean Genet, Matt Haynes, Katherine Mansfield, John Ruskin, Agnes Varda, Clare Wadd, Virgina Woolf. (Letters) Clyde Barrow, Charles Baudelaire, Rupert Brooke, Jean Cocteau, Bart de Baets, Henry Miller, Bonnie Parker, Mariquita Sanchez de Thompson, Francois Truffaut, Jacques Vaché. -- Correspondencia Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.11/verities-no-1-an-issue-of-power.asp Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT Verities is a biannual publication of thought, observation and reflection, giving equal focus to visual arts and literature. It's based in London and Lausanne. Verities explores new ways of seeing the most ordinary and over looked situations, revealing the arresting and the irrational in the everyday. The ability to disorientate and estrange through the subjects illumination sits at the heart of Verities. A new publication which is not afraid to have an opinion and is interested in capturing attitudes and personalities of the everyday exploring often large themes in a personal un-sensationalist manner.  Artists and authors explore a new theme in each issue. The first one explores POWER and is printed in a limited edition of 2000 copies. Next issue will explore the theme of MUSES. -- Verities Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.10/gagarin-the-artists-in-their-own-words.asp Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT Gagarin is an artist’s magazine entirely dedicated to the publication of especially written and unpublished texts by artists who are now working, anywhere in the world. Each issue contains a number of artists’ writings, if possible from an equal number of countries. The texts are published in their original language and alphabetical writing, with unabridged translations in English added. Advertising and visual material are deliberately kept out. They work in collaboration with the Research Centre for Artists’ Publications / Archive for small Press & Communication (ASPC) at the Neues Museum Weserburg in Bremen (Germany). Gagarin features a supplementary Index of Artists’ Writings published world wide. It is indexed in Art Biography Modern ABM by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Oxford, UK. Gagarin is aimed at those who do not tend to wait until everything is accepted and synthesised and those who are prepared to leave the road to search for stimulating art and ideas while they are still fresh and  does not restrict itself to a particular period or import and runs trough the codes that are applied in the world of art. Its orientation is artistic, documentary and historical. Gagarin also aspires to provide an accurate source of information about the collaborating artists, using their own words. Tha last issue (23) contains contributions by: - Marc Nagtzaam – Title-Track / Second Version / Installation Views / A Hint of Articulation - Fabienne Audéoud – Everything should be said before one actually starts talking... - Christine Meisner – Ausuferung / 1 - Vaast Colson – Desperately trying to be a writer / Pursuing the Tanger tradition - Mekhitar Garabedian – I Remember Nora Karaguezian, May 2011 - Raymond Pettibon – No Title (Liking more the) - Javier Téllez – ARTAUD REMIX - Abraham Cruzvillegas - Autoconstruccion + Index of Artists' Writings (part 23) -- Gagarin Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.10/put-egg-on-it-an-irreverent-digest-sized-art-and-literary-magazine.asp Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT Put A Egg On It is an irreverent digest-sized art and literary magazine printed on green paper out of New York City. It’s about food, cooking and the communal joys of eating with friends and family. The magazine is biannual and features personal essays, photo essays of dinner parties, special art projects, illustrations, as well as practical cooking tips and recipes. They have already published four issues. The last one, Issue #4, collects a fabulous assortment of picnic recipes and essays by James Keough, Hillary Chute, Sara Jaffe and Michael Stewart. Jessica Craig-Martin photographs the bizarre eating habits of The Explorers Club while Sarah Keough documents a West Philly July 4th block party. This issue also features a colorful assortment of drawings done in cafes, tasty local products and useful cooking tips. -- Put A Egg On It Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.10/triangulo-books-100-gdz.asp Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT Triangulo Books is an editorial Barcelona-based project that consists in the relationship between author, subject and editor and it is also composed of the close dialogue between the all the parts involved during the development of any publication. It is a studio editorial that works peer to peer with the author to reach a made to measure product. Taking care of the minimum detail in the entire process of an editorial idea, from concept to distribution, reaching an integral cooperation in each project. It is an editorial model that intends to work in small scale to produce in a larger scale. Their first reference is the book Isabella Blow by Stefan Brüggemann: "Isabella Blow’s friendship had a big impact on Stefan, as did her unexpected death. A few years of great intensity. Long evenings filled with conversations where they would exhaustively cover the most disparate themes. The images in this book are a selection of snapshots taken by Stefan Brüggemann one evening in 2007, an homage to his cherished friend. The images were taken in her Eaton Square house in London, chatting and drinking wine, while she shows off examples from her mythical collection acquired at the Alexander McQueen graduation show, combined with Philip Treacy hats. Just a normal night in." Triangulo Books -- Triangulo Books Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.09/the-manual-the-discipline-of-web-design.asp Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT The Manual is a beautifully crafted journal, published three times a year by Fiction, that takes a fresh look, in print, at the maturing of the discipline and profession of web design. It is created by Andy McMillan, Carolyn Wood, and Jez Burrows. The Manual recognize, along with you, that web design is a distinct discipline, its roots firmly in graphic design yet now adding its own principles, tools, and visual language. You won’t find markup and code, tutorials, and galleries inside these pages. Rather, it archives the insights of some of the best thinkers and writers in our field as they explore and define this serious discipline and more effectively tell the story of our work. Every issue features six brilliant authors who each present a substantial article in addition to a personal essay. A talented illustrator is assigned to each article to create a stunning work to reflect the meaning of the author’s message. -- The Manual Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.09/ediciones-hungria-handmade-books-from-mexico-city.asp Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT Ediciones Hungria is a multidisciplinary study based in Mexico City. Their aim responds to a need to develop and disseminate local and international art and culture in a rigorous curatorial work focused on generating ideas and finding transcendental images. They also print books produced by themselves that contain whimsical notes and funny cartoons. Here are some of their books references: Before I Sleep is a book by Maru Calva. It feautures a elephant on the cover. It´s a notebook containing Maru's effort to put to ink the last images and thoughts that come to her head before going into deep sleep. It's very personal and beautiful book. It's printed in a limited edition of 150. Blue Note is a book by Manuel Moreno. It's a compilation of phrases Manuel overhead in the street and other places. In it stories are told with simple images and modern -mexican- spanish is found out on each of its pages. It's printed in a limited edition of 500. A Day Off is a book by Santiago da Silva. It is a short story, told in text and illustrations, about a man's day off. It's simple and short , but also very compelling. Santiago manages to create a serene and exquisite atmosphere with a few elements. It's printed in a limited edition of 500. -- Ediciones Hungria Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.09/port-magazine--SQLWDselectSQLWDed-students-works-from-bauhaus-university-weimar.asp Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT PORT Magazine is released annually by students from Bauhaus University Weimar. It exhibits selected students’ works from varios fields, such as architecture, product design, visual communication, media arts, fine arts, media science, a.s.o. This year’s issue focuses on the paths of development and the problems occuring on those paths and how the students solved or circumvent them. That’s why the subtitle is »UmWege«, which translates as detours. Detours complicate the progress – they cost time, often money and effort. One accepts detours when experimenting, leaving beaten tracks and discover new ways. That experimental approach is what PORT Magazine wants to present. The selected works are, apart from their quality, persuasive, because they dared to raise new questions and take new paths both conceptually and technically. The realisation of the magazine, which appears more to be a catalogue, reflects the detour in a explorative way. A japanese binding is used to separate the process from the result. The reader flips through the pages seeing only pictures from the procedures. To explore the results, profound texts and interviews the pages need to be torn open at the perforation in the fold. Furthermore all presented projects should be considered as equal. That’s why their are 25 different orders and 25 different covers. -- PORT Magazine Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.07/the-plant-journal--curious-observer-of-ordinary-plants-and-other-greenery.asp Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT Carol Montpart and Isabel Merino are two designers from Barcelona. They have been working along with journalist Cristina Merino and have published the first issue of The Plant Journal, a new bi-annual magazine that offers to plant lovers a new look on greenery by featuring the works of creative people who also love plants. The magazine presents a monographic on a specific plant and brings together photographers, illustrators, designers, musicians, writers and visual artists, both established and emerging, from all over the world, to share with The Plant Journal their perceptions and experiences around plants. Contributors of this first issue are Luis Cerveró, Antonio Luque, Ignacio Moralejo, Stephen Eichhorn, Scheltens & Abbenes and many more. -- The Plant Journal Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.07/1-2--project-of-artistic-exchange-94-egr.asp Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT 1/2 is a biannual original self-published hand-made zine where drawings and photographs are mix and print on very different paper sizes. A project of artistic exchange between four french graphic designers/illustrators (Laure Boer, Anne-Pauline Mabire, Lucie Pindat and Chloé Thomas), who live in four european capitals: Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam and Vienna. 1/2 is a kind of perpetual trip across cities and also minds. It tries to catch every day beauty, anywhere and anyway. -- 1/2 zine Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.07/astronaut-magazine--platfform-for-daydreamers.asp Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT Astronaut is a magazine developed for the iPad. In clearly structured articles and videos, it presents personalities who ambitiously forge ahead on new paths. The magazine-app, featuring 80 minutes of video content, includes reports, interviews, documentaries and music videos. For fans of the traditional print format, Astronaut is presented in a classic editorial design with expressive photography and clear typography which can be expanded on several interactive levels on the iPad. Users will find text to read, photos to admire and arrange, and videos to watch. There are also some photo series that are not obvious at first glance and astute users are rewarded with pleasant little surprises upon their discovery. This combination of text and video creates an inspiring work that takes users on a voyage to the stars. Astronaut offers a place for independent filmmakers to present their documentaries and other projects that were achieved in their spare time often with minimal technical support or outside help. Up and coming music acts and photographers are profiled, artists and fashion designers are shown in their studios and people who are creating new disciplines are introduced. The user has a front row seat for all of this and gets to know these protagonists on an almost personal level. The use of film gives the viewer a deeper level of insight. Astronaut lives from amazing stories about people who break rules and create new realms far removed from the commercial world. -- Astronaut magazine-app Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.06/zines-in-espacio-think-langreo-asturias.asp Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT De Zines exhibition (curated and designed by Roberto Vidal and Óscar Martín) reopened in Espacio Think in Langreo (Asturias) last 10th of june. This time only showed a selection of 200 publications. De Zines was first showed in La Casa Encendida of Madrid during summer 2010 and in the beginning of 2011 in Zaragoza and Aranjuez, being a take on contemporary editorial design where over 400 hundred publications are at readers hand-reach. Visitors will find zines ranging from really cool DIY fanzines to sophisticated experimental publications and almost everything in between on subjects like design, fashion, drawing, photography, philosophy, queerzines and lots more. De Zines is on until the 29th of july in Espacio Think in Langreo (Asturias). -- Espacio Think Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.06/i-ve-zine-the-darkness--radicalizing-positions-on-art.asp Sun, 05 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT Last Friday 3rd of june the exhibition “I’ve Zine the Darkness” was opened in dieschönestadt gallery Halle. This exhibition explores artzines and their aesthetic and political dimension, when looked at as motivation for self-publishing and their production process as do-it-yourself or low-budget products. Artzines go beyond the established business or perception of art. They radicalize positions on art in many ways by creating hopes and expressing critique and are themselves intersections of actual artistic practice. “Artzines fight an indefatigable battle against the aesthetic gleichschaltung, they created an epic scene around the arts and struggle for the attention of the awoken. Aesthetic and culturally traditional work-processes are being (re-)thought by self-publishers and Zinsters or critically embraced or commented by the more established. They provide evidence of the world’s scrap and the seemingly infinite availability and waste of pictures, they speak of the democratization of knowledge, of revolution and the empowerment of the individuals and their wonderful insolence to take what is theirs. They sparkle and shine aurally, they are the light above the abyss we have to face from time to time.”  Franziska & Moritz -- Artzines Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.05/the-milano-thing--documenting-projects-from-the-milan-design-week-2011.asp Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT The Milano Thing is an independent publication featuring the most insipirational projects from the Milan Design Week 2011. It’s a 48 pages magazine translated both in italian and english. The Milano Thing is an edition of 1000, all numbered and packed by hand.  It deals with the best design schools and the new trends, reflects on the revival of craftsmanship and the process of making, tells you Milanese stories, and much more. Interviews and fresh insights, covering both high-end furniture and independent productions, all mixed up with a contribution by Studio Formafantasma and a goodbye drawing by illustrator Olimpia Zagnoli. -- The Milano Thing Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.05/nobrow-crafted-and-tactile-illustrated-books.asp Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT Nobrow (TM) was set up in the winter of 2008 to provide an independent publishing platform for illustration and the graphic arts that would showcase some of the best talent out there today, whether fresh out of college or from the ranks of well seasoned veterans. Their aim is to place a renewed focus on quality in print, using wherever possible the best materials we can get our hands on and always trying to play with format, color, size and design to ensure that our publications are well conceived and individual. They work closely with locally based printers wherever possible so that we can be involved in the creative process from start to finish and we always try to achieve finished products that are not only filled with great work, but that themselves are art objects, to be coveted, collected and cherished. Nobrow Small Press vs. Nobrow Press Nobrow Press is all about publishing beautifully tactile illustrated books. Their main publishing imprint, Nobrow Press endeavors to push the boundaries of the offset printing process to ensure that colour, format and paper quality combine to produce publications that are not just books, but collectible art objects. Many of their publications are individually numbered and run in editions of between 3000 and 5000 copies, their unique system of printing full spot colour publications gives their books the luxuriant quality of artists’ books albeit at very affordable prices. Nobrow Small Press is all about screenprinting. They have a fully equipped screenprint studio on their premises and work with many different artists, illustrators and designers to create beautifully crafted books and prints. They editions are extremely limited, they never do more than 100 of anything. Everything they produce is signed and numbered by the artist and embossed with the Nobrow Small Press seal. -- Nobrow Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.05/loose-leaf-hybrid-format-of-publication-and-print-series.asp Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT Loose Leaf is a new publication featuring commissioned and previously unpublished art works, conceived and curated by Tom Crabtree of San Francisco design studio Manual. It's a hybrid format of publication and limited edition print series. It exists in the form of a collection of unbound and large-format printed art works. Published twice a year, Loose Leaf intends to present images in a physical, livable form, a distinct departure from the online consumption of visual material that pervades our lives. Each edition comes packaged ready to be installed, not stored. Leaves are hole-punched for placement on a wall with small pushpins. Its unbound format allows the viewer to edit, select, and reshuffle images on an ongoing basis. For this first edition, Jeff Canham handpainted a sign that pays tribute to the legendary song ‘I Left My Heart in San Francisco’. Dwight Eschliman deconstructed a silk gown by fashion designer Louisa Parris. Mark Giglio created a shrine to the (lack of) sun in San Francisco’s notoriously chilly summers. Michelle McCarron ventured into the depths of the Stanford Linear Particle Accelerator. Andrew Zuckerman presented us with an alternate view of San Francisco’s famous architecture. Loose Leaf samples from a specific context, but introduces the new and unexpected. Every edition shifts and centers around a loose idea rather than a definitive theme. Loose Leaf is a collaborative effort. Each edition features newly commissioned works by artists, designers, photographers, illustrators, and writers that have caught the attention of the studio. -- Loose Leaf Editions Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.04/no-zines@dfest-workshops-and-talks-about-self-publishing.asp Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT On April 16 No.Zines has organized for Dfest Festival 2011 a zines factory non-stop and talks about self-publishing. A total of 8 groups were working from 11 am to 8 pm with anyone who wanted to come to Matadero Madrid and experiment with paper, cut and paste and xerography, enjoying Do It Yourself experience. You can take a look at the images below. Working Groups & Talks: Autoplacer Sindicalistas Barriobajero Brumaria Ediciones Puré El Instante Decisivo ¡JA! Negocios raros No.Zines (Eva Solano & Luján Marcos)  Script UHF Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.04/poster-tribune-devotion-to-posters.asp Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT Poster Tribune is a bi-anual newspaper devoted to posters. It contains 12 pages of illustrated articles and 3 posters -65 cm x 96 cm-. Posters are equally artistic creations, communication tools and witnesses to social, commercial and artistic trends from specific periods. Poster Tribune examines such posters and breathes new life into these short-lived street exhibitions. Through these articles, Poster Tribune promotes the international and Swiss Contemporary Graphic Scene, and reports on the poster´s history and latest news. For this first issue -Détournement and Subversion-, Poster Tribune looks into posters that, not content with promoting their specific event, bring a new poetic or offbeat dimension through the skilled use of détournement. The public can relate to these posters because they counter conventional images that we are used to. The détourned poster is based on an analogy or a metaphor of the poster’s focus. The graphic designer chooses to distort an image to give it a totally new function than that which was originally intended. By détourning an image, the focus takes on a new dimension. In a way, it then forms part of the designer’s approach and is no longer merely from the illustrator’s perspective. The subversive poster has neither the same aims nor the same challenges. It focuses on upsetting existing values and deliberately imposing an image that goes against what is expected; without there being the slightest analogy or metaphor. The subversive poster tries to be free and demands pure creativity. It has a Dada style -although it is not often a conscious legacy-, which does away with convention, often playing with extravagance, derision and humour. In some respects, the détourned or subversive poster is a means of giving the item it is promoting a different perspective. It characterises our generation by revisiting and reinterpreting references from other times, styles and contexts. But first and foremost, it is also a way for today’s graphic designer to be an author, poet or designer in an infinite world of abundant images. -- Poster Tribune Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.04/contramotor-mexican-magazine-about-the-art-world.asp Sun, 10 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT No.Zines likes to support all stuff around self-publishing, do it yourself and freeware license culture. The projects of Mexican Graphic Designer Daniel Castrejón are a good example of this philosophy. Below Daniel Castrejón talks about his latest project CONTRAMOTOR -a printed magazine about photography, literature, art...- and other projects while printed version of CONTRAMOTOR magazine was generating. "CONTRAMOTOR began in the year 2004 covering a variety of contents regarding from visual arts through literature. From its beginning up tomid-2005, it published fifteen online editorials. But it all came to an end when developing an exact periodic publication became boring, such as the thorough labour of finding interesting contents without falling into collective tendencies/associations. Nowadays, CONTRAMOTOR shows itself with a new meaning, a newer version reinventing itself from when it used to be an online publication, when it used to be thought to respond to obvious reasons such as a widespread market through mass media channels, e g., the Internet. In the time being, we don’t give a fuck about the approach any artistic expression might have since it’s available to anyone throughout the world wide web just one click away. That’s the main reason why CONTRAMOTOR has a stubborn and contradictory spirit that decides to give a step back from becoming a print document, with reduced circulating volume, unpredictable periodicity, through obsolete distribution. CONTRAMOTOR’s comeback doesn’t have a meaningful reason or a real justification. It’s just the perennial enthusiasm towards print publications and its media, our loyal appreciation to the Do It Yourself culture, hence our search for impossibility rather than realism or possibilities that might exist. During CONTRAMOTOR's unproductive period, we found an alternate way to enjoy ourselves by keeping ourselves active, so we created the Umor Rex records, trademark that originated two new distinctive labels: Scribble Kite and Dog Ear Records both of them of freeware nature. So we emphatically invite all of you visitors to take a free tour through our label websites while we endure and build our newest version of CONTRAMOTOR. If you are involved in the art world, if you are a photographer, painter, illustrator, writer, etc., and don’t intend to become famous overnight, if you don’t consider yourself a misunderstood talent, if you aren’t tormented by absurdly unknowable questions and you aren’t a trend setter, then we invite you to collaborate with us by sending us your proposals and comments to info@contramotor.com" -- CONTRAMOTOR Umor Rex records Daniel Castrejón Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.04/behind-the-zines-self-publishing-culture.asp Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT A new book of Gestalten Publishing about Self-Publishing Culture is out now. The Zines are self-sufficient, everlasting objects, printed pages that can be turned with your fingers, vehicles for expressing alternatives to mass culture... and perhaps even interactive media, for you can go back to them as often as you like and they are open to different levels of interpretation, creating a personal bond with the reader, offering visual, tactile and olfactory sensations. In many cases, their periodicity is erratic and extended, and some only come out once a year. The Zines operate independently of market demands. They offer a space for freedom and explore the full graphic and artistic potential of the physical format. Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared. —Voltaire Social networks are dominating today‘s headlines, but they are not the only platforms that are radically changing the way we communicate. Creatives such as designers, photographers, artists, researchers, and poets are disseminating information about themselves and their favorite subjects not via predefined media such as Twitter or blogs, but through printed or other self-published projects—so-called zines. Those who publish zines are mostly interested in sole authorship, namely that all components including text, images, layout, typography, production, and distribution are firmly in the hands of one person or a small group. At their best, the results convey a compelling and consistent atmosphere and push against the established creative grain in just the right way. They provoke with surprising and non-linear food for thought. In short, zines are advancing the evolution of today‘s media. With a cutting-edge selection of international examples, Behind the Zines introduces the broad range of zines that exists today. These include zines that function as a new kind of project-oriented portfolio to showcase a self-profile or document an exhibit. While some act as (pseudo) scientific treatises to call the reader‘s attention to a specific topic, others serve as playrooms for creatives to run riot and express themselves and communicate with each other in a space that is free from editorial restrictions. The book examines the key factors that distinguish various zines. It introduces projects in which the printing process significantly influences aesthetics or in which limited distribution to a small, clearly defined target audience becomes part of the overall concept. Behind the Zines not only documents outstanding work, but also shows how the self-image of those who make zines impacts the scene as a whole. Through interviews with people involved in zine production and distribution, the book sheds light on various strategies for this evolving media form. -- Gestalten Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.03/zines-in-aranjuez-opening-night-with-sindicalistas-autoplacer.asp Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT De Zines exhibition (curated and designed by Roberto Vidal and Óscar Martín) reopened in Sala de Exposiciones de Caja Madrid in Aranjuez (Madrid) last 22nd of march. This time incorporates a number of new publications that weren´t showed before: Generalist, Spèciale'Z, El Estado Mental, El Pez Globo, La Isla, UHF, Nada News by Pepe Medina, Yorokobu, Bang!... and guys for Sindicalistas/Autoplacer (Manu Bang! + Roberto Salas + Adolfo Párraga + Jose Díaz) played demos and made a collective zine on the opening night. De Zines was first showed in La Casa Encendida of Madrid during summer 2010 and in the beginning of 2011 in Zaragoza being a take on contemporary editorial design where over 400 hundred publications are at readers hand-reach. Visitors will find zines ranging from really cool DIY fanzines to sophisticated experimental publications and almost everything in between on subjects like design, fashion, drawing, photography, philosophy, queerzines and lots more. De Zines is on until the 22nd of may in Sala de Exposiciones de Caja Madrid in Aranjuez (Madrid). -- Obra Social Caja Madrid Autoplacer Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.03/woodland-recordings-music--handmade-editions.asp Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT From time to time comes into your hands a delicious project as Woodland Recordings. A music label with records 100SQPRC handmade, taking care to the detail, making each of their records in an object, retrieving the thrill of buying a record before the mp3 era. Founded in Brighton in the south of England but now based in Berlin, they release music and arrange concerts for musicians in Europe. They have been recording and releasing music since 2007 and have organised over 300 concerts in England, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium and Spain. Woodland Recordings release music that they love in very limited, handmade editions -often less than a hundred. These take time and a lot of effort from them and the artists they work with. -- Woodland Recordings Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.03/buffalo-zine-news-talents--timeless-icons.asp Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT Buffalo Zine is a biannual publication based in Madrid about aesthetics, art, music and writing, focusing on featuring new talents and timeless icons from a very personal perspective and with a hint of poetry. It comes in a limited edition of 3,000 numbered copies. In its first issue you can find features of Patti Smith, Bruce Weber, Girls, Marianne Faithful, Morrissey, Roy Anderson, Randal Kleiser, Eugene Hütz, Patrick O’Dell and others... Also Buffalo Zine has online version faster and more raw. Featuring fashion stories, drawing collections, interviews and exclusive music videos direct to the web. -- Buffalo Magazine Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.03/gratuitous-type-celebrating-the-letter-in-all-its-forms.asp Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT Gratuitous Type is a pamphlet of typographic smut. Celebrating the letter in all its forms, GT focuses its dirty mind on typography, art, language and publishing. Issue 1 was released in winter 2011 and includes features of Alexis Anne Mackenzie (San Francisco), Buchstabenmuseum (Berlin), Chicago…Times…Trixie (Vienna), Christian Hansen (Seattle), David Smith Atelier (Dublin), Evelin Kasikov (London), Triboro (Brooklyn) and also find a special insert featuring some amazing 60s and 70s-era Cuban book covers. -- Gratuitous Type Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.03/clip-stamp-fold-architectural-magazines-in-the-1960s-1970s.asp Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT An explosion of little architectural magazines in the 1960s and 1970s instigated a radical transformation in architectural culture, as the magazines acted as a site of innovation and debate. Clip/Stamp/Fold takes stock of seventy little magazines from this period. The book brings together a remarkable range of documents and original research which the project has produced during its continuous travels over the last four years starting with the exhibition at the Storefront in November 2006. The book features transcripts from the “Small Talks” events in which editors and designers were invited to discuss their magazines; a stocktaking of over 100 significant issues that tracks the changing density and progression of the little magazine phenomenon; transcripts of more than forty interviews with magazine editors and designers from all over the world; a selection of magazine facsimiles; and a fold out poster that offers a mosaic image of more than 1,200 covers examined during the research. -- Clip/Stamp/Fold Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.02/archi-zines-architectural-magazines--zines.asp Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT ARCHI ZINES is a showcase of new fanzines, journals and magazines from around the world that provide an alternative discourse to the established architectural press. Launched by Elias Redstone, with art direction by Folch Studio, the project celebrates and promotes publishing as an arena for architectural commentary, criticism and research, and as a creative platform for new photography, illustration and design. Alternative and independent publishing has had a dynamic and important relationship with architecture over the years, with prolific moments in the 1960s and 1970s. A recent resurgence has seen new titles emerging in many countries, from Argentina, Belgium and Chile to the UK and USA. ARCHI ZINES brings together this international collection of publications for the first time as an important resource for architects, designers, critics, photographers and anyone interested in discussing the buildings and spaces we inhabit. ARCHI ZINES is an expanding archive of the best publications from 2000s to the latest releases, and is growing as new titles and issues are acquired. The publications themselves vary in style (from photocopied zines to professionally printed and bound magazines) and content (from architectural research to personal narratives about buildings and cities). The commonality is a shared interest in documenting and discussing the spaces we occupy in ways that more mainstream or professional publications do not. As well as adding to architectural discourse, they are lovingly made objects to hold and to keep. The first stage of the project is to create an online survey of new architectural publishing. From this collection, publications will be selected to participate in exhibitions and events. A facebook page provides a forum for publications to network and share information. -- ARCHI ZINES Elias Redstone Folch Studio Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.02/the-velvet-cell.asp Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT Eanna Freeney is the Editor-in-Chief of the independent publishing house The Velvet Cell formed in 2010. Based in London, its focus is on urban photography and themes of alienation and dislocations. Their interest is to make quality photography both affordable and accessible. "I am passionate about urban photography that challenges contemporary and commercial photography aesthetics and I fully believe The Velvet Cell is evidence of this theory." Eanna Freeney The Velvet Cell Books has released its debut publication, a 16 full-colour page booklet, of photographs by Austrian photographer Thomas Albdorf. Albdorf's photos capture a desolate image of Vienna and its surroundings, highlighting the often overlooked beauty of the urban environment. The Velvet Cell also has an e-zine and is preparing for its eight issue right now. -- The Velvet Cell   Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.02/drawing-room-confessions-word-and-exchanges.asp Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT Drawing Room Confessions is a new printed journal named after a parlour game played by Marcel Proust, the Surrealists and others. It is made of words and exchanges, with no images. Six different sections (The Egoist, The Blind Man, Two to Tango, Ekphrasis, Time Line and La Madeleine) comprise the Rules of the Game, which are the same in each issue. What changes are the players: artist and interviewers who come from a wide range of fields. Each issue focuses on one artist only. The editors, Vincent Honoré and Manuela Ribadeneira, have added footnotes to clarify, complete, or redirect the conversations. The journal is designed by Åbäke and published in conjunction with Mousse Publishing. The first players are Charles Avery and Jason Dodge. What is The Egoist? The Egoist is a conversation with an individual selected by the player. The Egoists in Issues 1 and 2 are the British philosopher Robin Mackay and the American poet Michael Dickman. What is The Blind Man? The Blind Man is an exchange with an interviewer whose identity is concealed from the artist. We can now safely reveal that the Borges scholar Evelyn Fishburn and the viola player Juan Lucas Aisemberg were the Blind Men in Issues #1 and #2. What is Two to Tango? Certain activities cannot be achieved on one’s own. Two to Tango is a warts-and-all conversation with someone selected by the editors, which explores the core processes of creation. The economist and geographer Angus Cameron partnered with Charles, the artist Michael Dean with Jason. What is Ekphrasis? Ekphasis is a Greek scholastic exercise, ‘a verbal representation of a visual representation’. Here it is the artist’s direct intervention into the journal: an image with no image. And the Timeline? It is not a CV. Instead, the player selects the defining moments – personal, historical, and cultural – that have marked how he or she thinks and lives. What is La Madeleine? Each issue ends with the player answering a fixed questionnaire based on the original game of Drawing Room Confessions. -- DRAWING ROOM CONFESSIONS   Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.02/zines-opening-in-zaragoza.asp Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT De Zines exhibition (curated and designed by Roberto Vidal and Óscar Martín) reopened in Sala de Exposiciones de Caja Madrid in Zaragoza last 25th of January. This time incorporates a number of new publications that weren´t showed on the first round: Belleza Infinita Editions, Síndrome de Diógenes, Escrito a Lápiz, Condiciones y efectos personales by Elena Alonso, La Obra, De gionistas, Javier Lozano Fanzine, Tiger Magazine, Pulgar Magazine, Radar Magazine, Film und Foto, Crani Editions, Girlzine, Barriobajero, Argh!, Kovra Fanzine, Patterns of Creative Aggression, Adaptative Actions, Orsai, Fiesta Editions, Lados Magazine, Confesiones de Margot, Identity Sign... and Toña Medina and Alberto de La Hoz performed on the opening night the musical-action Opera folk del espacio exterior. De Zines was first showed in La Casa Encendida (Madrid) during summer 2010 in Madrid being a take on contemporary editorial design where over 400 hundred publications are at readers hand-reach. Zines ranging from really cool DIY fanzines to sophisticated experimental publications and almost everything in between on subjects like design, fashion, drawing, photography, philosophy, queerzines and lots more are what basically can be seen at this exhibition space before it goes to Aranjuez (Madrid). Óscar M. http://nozines.com/contenido/2011.02/musac-cneai---brumaria.asp Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT In line with its ongoing commitment to provide greater visibility to creative publishing and related projects, MUSAC's Showcases are to feature a selection of works held in the collection of cneai = Centre National de l’Edition et de l’Art Imprimé (French National Centre for Prints and Printed Art), under the title Un editor independiente y libre se posiciona del lado de los artistas (An Independent and Free Publisher Sides with the Artists). From its inception, this institution has focused on the production and promotion of artist's books and other publications. Starting 29 January 2011, MUSAC’s Gallery 1 will feature Un modo de organización alrededor del vacío. Brumaria Works#3 Expanded Violences. This exhibition is a continuation of the work in progress during recent years by Brumaria, a platform/publication, research and analysis space and artistic endeavour. This multi-format project focuses on the relationship amongst art, war waged on multiple fronts, and terrorism. Brumaria Works#3, a site-specific project for MUSAC, opens this field of analysis to new registers and seeks to give body to these same concerns regarding our contemporary life—besieged and in a state of war. -- MUSAC cneai Brumaria Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/ladosmag-s-15-just-now.asp Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT ladosmag is celebrating its 3º stay year (No.0 ~ nov.2oo7, 16 issues yet!) in the complex scene of the periodical paper publishings spanish circle's. Cleverly, this celebration entails a new Art Direction, in Ritxi Ostáriz care, distinguished creative and designer. ladosmag is a free publishing. Following this magazine, we find the exceptional work of José Ungidos, Executive Director, Amparo Fuentes and Javier Mielgo. The street work, in direct contact with the subjects of current interest (especially in Amparo and Javier care), forms and makes sense to ladosmag each issue.We can find ladosmag in Asturias, Castilla-León, Madrid, La Rioja (Central Spain) and Barcelona, Zaragoza and Baleares Islands (Northeast Spain), regardless of the subjects exposed in each issue: "quality and importance news, no matter their location or origin" are the only points of reference as the ladosmag team work emphasize us when been asking about the magazine´s presence and distribution.ladosmag essential aim is "the dissemination of all kinds cultural events (music, fashion, art, design), understanding each of these disciplines as a representation of the different ways of expression, and the intrinsic ability of multiple personalities. We intend to serve as a channel amplifier for maximum information diffusion in different niches, using ladosmag as a transverse tool connects and communicates these different areas -traditionally tight structure. ladosmag needs to break these archaic barriers to reach a larger readership, which sensitivity and respect by virtue of creation is, in itself, an outstanding reference." ladosmag content published by way of interviews, almost always related, as stated above, with the environment of independent music, art, design, fashion or photography. From established artists to emerging markets, this platform greatly cares broadcast form and substance of what is presented. Info about local exhibition spaces, exposure and establishment in different cities and locations is very updated -it´s worth noting go places that review.Ritxi Ostariz, whose contributions and graphics remarks are incorporated into ladosmag at No. 14 (made the covers of this issue), passes on to bring the Art Direction. At No. 15 begins with "a complete redesign of it, which will continue over the next numbers to get the desired line. I made the change that determines the fonts, grids, colors... The unity form of this publication. We hope, for the No. 17, to perform also a change in format and type of paper used so far. "The Ritxi Ostáriz's editorial work (simply navigate your website -in front of his digital work, both in web and multimedia animation, above all always exceptional projects), is motivated by a determination of style "simple, elegant, sober, solid." Ritxi has a special devotion to what he calls "eternal projects: those will remain over the years ... It may take 30 years (or 2 or 50) and the digital world is so different from current web sites that cannot be viewed on any computer ... The videos, for example, will be obsolete formats, it´ll be very difficult to play. However magazines, books and, ultimately, the paper will like some aged at most, but perfectly usable. " It seems that History proves it: a few weeks ago I visited the National Library funds, here we witness the life of the paper."Although I came to the editorial environment is so recent", Ritxi tells us, "and considering my professional start in this sector has been almost exclusively in the graphic design and editorial from the world of music, I think they are doing interesting things in national publications. That there is a media as No.Zines is proof that people are very concerned that this not go unnoticed. There are now real gems such as Metal, Apartamento, Tiger, New Papers... What is clear surely is that our daily editorial design is far ahead of what is being done in Europe: France, Germany, Belgium or Nederland."Ritxi Patricia Bosland http://nozines.com/contenido/the-last-newspaper-deconstructing-the-power-and-possibilities-of-the-press.asp Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT At the turn of the twentieth century, in the dawn of the machine age, newspapers were everywhere and wire services were feeding their hunger for the latest information. In their rush to embrace the future, the Cubists discovered a rich artistic medium: the newspaper. The Surrealists followed suit, and by World War I newspapers had become an accepted material integrated with painting, collage, and graphic design. Throughout the 1950s, artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns incorporated newspapers into their work not only for the iconic texture of the printed page, but also as a neural charge from the real world. By the 1960s—when this exhibition’s chronology begins—the use of the newspaper in fine art was no longer a novelty; it had become a standard source for both images and language. “The Last Newspaper” is co-curated by Richard Flood and Benjamin Godsill The artists in this exhibition continue the exploration of the newspaper, but their focus lies in the ideological rather than the purely physical properties of the daily press. They use the newspaper as a platform to address issues of hierarchy, attribution, contextualization, and editorial bias. By disassembling and recontextualizing elements of the newspaper, such as the construction of graphics and text, the artists on view take charge of and remake the flow of information that defines our perception of the world. At its simplest, the artistic impulse that largely informs this exhibition is one of reaction and appropriation; the newspaper provides a stimulus and is itself incorporated into the final artwork. In today’s culture, newspapers have to move as quickly as possible to compete with the increasing barrage of information on the internet. In print, it takes twenty-four hours to issue a correction. Online, credibility is rolled out in nanoseconds. People make and share the news in citizen-powered, peer-to-peer structures that can create and destroy consensus in hours. If artists were some of the first to begin to question the structure of the news, we have now reached an epoch where the public as a whole is empowered to police (and become) the press. It is in this context that a selection of collectives and agencies has partnered in this exhibition. If the artwork assembled in the galleries is dedicated to deconstructing the power and possibilities of the press, then the invited participants are engaged in finding new (and perhaps more holistic) ways of describing the world. Four partners are in residence on the museum’s third floor inhabiting a set of flexible offices designed by Blu Dot. Latitudes, the Barcelona-based curatorial office, and a diverse team lead by Joseph Grima and Kazys Varnelis/Netlab, are on site producing weekly newspapers. The Center for Urban Pedagogy and StoryCorps are both prototyping new models for sharing and shaping discourse. Beyond these four residencies, the exhibition is animated by the Philadelphia-based Slought Foundation with kiosks, a reading room, and a discussion area spread throughout the exhibition and dedicated to a reexamination of Emmanuel Kant’s essay “Perpetual Peace.” All the partners seek to wade through tides of information in order to find new ways of making the contemporary world more legible. Their activities are an example of citizen journalism, as well as forums for the examination and structuring of something aspiring to be truth. -- New Museum Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/turning-pages-about-print-media.asp Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT New publishing trend operates independently of market demands. It offers a space for freedom, promoting a closer bond between creator and reader and exploring the full graphic and artistic potential of the physical format with lovingly arranged layouts and carefully written articles, each one strives to achieve a perfect balance between content and form. Independent publications may be the future of the printed media. In fact, they achieve a remarkable agility in the dissemination of today’s culture thanks to the flexible, democratic way in which they create and share images, ideas and information. Pages characterised by an impeccable editorial design, stages where their creators are free to express their obsessions and passions and fulfil their desire to communicate, to be heard. Turning Pages, new book of Gestalten Publishing, is about it. TURNING PAGES The media industry is in upheaval. New magazines, daily newspapers, and books are being developed, classics are being redesigned, and the interplay between the printed and digital realms is being tested. Against this background, Turning Pages is a perceptive survey of the state-of-the-art magazines, books, and newspapers that are redefining print media today as well as an inspirational forecast of future developments. The book introduces relevant solutions for a print landscape that has been and continues to be changed indelibly by economic challenges and our shifting media preferences. It examines the creative approaches and working methods of designers who are at the forefront of evolving print media in our digital age. Renowned editorial designers not only present their magazine, book, and newspaper projects in striking images, but also comment on the stages of their publication's conceptualization, design, and production. Thus, the book gives readers a step-by-step overview of the editorial process as well as valuable perspectives on how different designers are meeting the challenges of creating outstanding print products for today and the years to come. Turning Pages begins with an introduction by respected magazine expert Andrew Losowsky, who has also contributed texts that explore the essentials of the editorial process. It features interviews and statements from leading and upcoming editorial design talent including Carine Collin, Francesco Franchi, Javier Errea, Kircherburkhardt, Ludovic Balland, Mike Meiré and Omar Sosa. The book examines how magazines such as Apartamento, Domus, Graphic, IL, Monocle and Volt are pushing the envelope of what is state-of-the-art in today's print products; how books have become the hotbed for new editorial concepts and design; and how the New York Times, Piepaper, Stuttgarter Zeitung, The Incidental and others are reinventing news on paper for our digital age. Its unique mix of visual examples, insightful descriptions, and reports based on personal experiences make Turning Pages a compelling reference for anyone currently working as a designer or in the media industry. -- Die Gestalten Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/pulgar-magazine-musac-s-showcase-project.asp Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT Pulgar is a free magazine published independently in Caracas (Venezuela) and supported by the Prince Claus Fund (Holland). The magazine, edited since 1999 by artist and curator Luís Romero (Venezuela, 1967) defines itself as an 'occasional publication'. This term is a key factor in understanding the magazine's founding concept: a tool for alternative creative dissemination based on the excellence of its published materials. Not complying to a specific periodicity or a luxury status, its clearly defined visual identity responds only to the curatorial rigour demanded of each new issue. With a track record of over 20 issues designed and produced by curators and artists from around the world, Pulgar currently attracts a faithful readership in Latin America, Asia and Europe. The magazine is circulated from hand to hand or on the web. It has also featured at a number of international art events, including special editions for the 12th edition of Documenta Kassel (Germany), the Utópolis exhibition at the Caracas National Art Gallery, the Santa Lucía Evening at Maracaibo (Venezuela) or the Medellín Encounters 2007, MDE07 (Colombia). On the presentation of the Showcase Project and the special issue co-published by MUSAC The site-specific project designed for MUSAC's Showcases is structured around a display reviewing the magazine's evolution from its establishment in the late 20th Century to the present. In parallel, MUSAC will co-publish, along with the Serralves Foundation (Porto) a special issue of the magazine focusing on art publications in Latin America. The show covers Pulgar's history through a representative selection of material that has appeared on its pages. It highlights some of the regular features that have defined Pulgar's approach, such as exchanges between artists, networked productions or the highly rigorous curatorial gazes sustained throughout the magazine's successive issues. The project's opening will include the presentation of a special issue of Pulgar co-published by MUSAC and Serralves. With a print run of 4,000 copies, this new publication shall focus on publishing practice(s) as one of the axes guiding contemporary visual creation in Latin America today. From the vantage point that Pulgar provides, an essay will delve into the growing vitality and interest of the processes and ideas, as well as the sustained creativity that underpin the sphere of publishing in Latin America through a wealth of contributions. This special issue will feature contents provided by a range of contributors and editorial projects including Ácido Surtido (Argentina), Revista Recibo (Brazil), Revista Asterisco (Colombia), Revista Lengua (Dominican Republic) des-bordes (Mexico), or populardelujo (Colombia), amongst others, as well as leading cultural agents connected to the publishing world like Andrew Losowsky, director of Colophon (USA) or David Palacios, who heads projects such as Arte-Porcentual (Venezuela). -- Pulgar MUSAC Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/mould-map-comics-and-narrative-art.asp Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT Mould Map is a series of publications containing new comics and narrative art. It´s edited by Hugh Frost -Landfill Editions- and Leon Sadler -Famicon Express. Published by Landfill Editions. They don’t have a preferred taste for a particular visual style, the artists in each edition will be chosen with the aim of creating a cohesive overall tone. So the feeling the reader might get from the publication is more likely to change from issue to issue than from page to page. The links made through artist selection will act as our suggestion of just one way to navigate areas of the historical and contemporary comics / art landscape. The format is A3 portrait, printed in 2 spot colours -inc. one fluorescent- on a nice 140gsm paper over 16 pages. Mould Map issue 1 is featuring a diverse lineup of artists from the UK, USA, Italy and France. With all new art by Jonathan Chandler, Massimiliano Bomba, Daniel Brereton, Matthew Thurber, C.F., Brenna Murphy, Colin Henderson, Matthew Lock, Jason Traeger, Drew Beckmeyer, Stephane Prigent, Kitty Clark, Lando, Aidan Koch & Leon Sadler. -- Mould Map Landfill Editions Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/patterns-of-creative-aggression-creatives-works-and-methods-of-production.asp Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT Patterns of Creative Aggression presents creative works and the people behind them. It looks at methods of production for works either currently in progress or completed. It's a behind-the-scenes look into how the final works are formulated and constructed, peoples' work patterns, their methods of practice, the techniques utilised and explored, and what happens in between. In this issue 3, Kirsten Law speaks with Jason Crombie, editor of Wooooo magazine, about his interview style and publishing projects; Tim Hillier presents two projects undertaken by brothers Andy and Mavie Murphy; British artist Graham Hudson explains the construction process behind his sculptures; Paris/New York-based photographer Justin Guilbert shares his experiences on undertaking a project in Japan; Melbourne-based artists Jen Berean and Pat Foster discuss their work with Kain Picken and Fiona Lau, the collaborative duo behind ffiXXed; and New York-based photographer Moises Saman talks about being on assignment in Haiti, Iraq, Afghanistan and El Salvador. This magazine is a response to what people do and how they do it. It aims to present a view of the individuals beyond the works they create. Despite the difficulties surrounding the nature of exposing what is not necessarily intended to be seen, by focusing on individual's stories we can perhaps gain a clearer context to the many situations and influences that lie inherent in the development of such varied creative works. -- Patterns of Creative Aggression   Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/ubu-books-by-stephanie-man-patterns-and-ecological-paper.asp Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT Stephaníe de Man is an independent graphic designer based in Rotterdam - The Netherlands. She has a special love for research and book design, typography, books and nature. She talks to No.Zines about the design process of her project for Ubu Books. "The design for an extensive collection of avant-garde poetry, literature, images and music from the 'Ethnopoetics’ category at UbuWeb. Each poem, text, image and sound work is published separately, in a way that enhances the individual character of the work. These publications collectively form the Ubu Books collection. Each publication’s design conveys the work’s ‘roots’ using a system of abstract meshing patterns on the back cover. The many publications have no specific numbering order. One book, the mother catalogue, has a blank back cover. This contains the legend with which all the meshing patterns, and thus the ‘roots’ of the works, can be deciphered. All Ubu Books publications are hand-bound, printed in black on ecologically friendly white paper". -- Stephaníe de Man Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/fukt-magazine-for-contemporary-drawing.asp Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT FUKT is an international magazine based in Berlin, inviting the most interesting artists and writers to present their views on contemporary drawing. It was founded 1999 in Trondheim (Norway) by Nina Hemmingsson and Bjørn Hegardt, and focuses on drawing as an independent research and artistic practice. FUKT intends to uncover the potential forces of a medium such as drawing and its possibility to reach innumerable conceptual and expressive directions. Since 2004 the visual artist Bjørn Hegardt is the sole editor of the magazine, and graphic design is made by Ariane Spanier.  FUKT is in constant transformation with all issues in different size and layout and its highly subjective and carefully selected choice of drawings includes visual, figurative, narrative, surreal, poetic and hilarious qualities. Published once a year by Revolver Publishing. The Issue 8/9 was created during Hegardt’s residency at Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw during spring 2010. The largest so far double issue of the magazine comprises works of as many as 32 artists. The section FUKT IN FOCUS presents the work of artists invited by Björn Hegardt. In the part INVITED TO INVITE the selection was made by thirteen curators invited by the editor. Each selection from the latter part is accompanied with an essay or interview. In June and July 2010 Fukt was launched together with two curated drawing exhibitions at CCA in Warsaw and Nomas Foundation in Rome. Launches and presentations will follow at the Art Book Fair “Unter dem Motto” in Berlin (Sept. 3-6), UKS Galleri, Oslo (Sept. 2) Útúrdúr in Reykjavik (Sept. 11) Oqbo Berlin (Oct. 1) and NY Art Book Fair at PS1 in New York (Nov. 4-7). Featuring contributions on an invitation basis from curators to artists including Pawel Olszczynski, Maciej Sienczyk, Johan Tirén, Aleksandra Waliszewska, Kathleen Henderson, Max Maddox and Grzegorz Droz. Other contributors include Sofie Berntsen, Thomas Broomé, Pola Dwurnik, Harold Fisk, Pia Fuchs (German ID of Patricia Reed), Jochen Gerner, Bjørn Hegardt, Torgeir Husevaag,  Alevtina Kakhidze, Laurent Le Deunff, Maess, Maja Nilsen, Eric Nyquist, Jeff Olsson, Leah Raintree, Matthias Reinhold, Julia Steiner, Mayura Torii, Steingrim Veum -- Fukt Magazine Bjørn Hegardt Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/je-suis-une-bande-jeunes-diffusion-of-contemporary-photography.asp Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT Je Suis une Bande de Jeunes (JSBJ) was founded by Jérémie Egry, Aurélien Arbet, Marco Barrera and Nicolas Poillot. They spread around Paris, Lyon and New York producing zines and photographic publication. They also curate a portfolio based website on wich you can discover a large number of young and talented photographers. In their newest book - limited to 1000 copies, Bruit de Fond (Background Noise) they aim to distance themselves from the basic relationship existing between music and photography, avoiding pictures of gigs, bands or instruments, present pictures that come out of the direct collaboration between noise and photography, taken instinctively and randomly. Pictures of places, moments or people where the notion of noise is perceptible instantly.  Also they present works from people that deal with this theme in a conscious and conceptual way.   This book deals with the notions of high and low definition of an image and encourages people to think about contemporary estheticism through different techniques: film or digital cameras, pictures that were found, screenshots or video samples... Noise in photography can also be revealed by using certain devices to distort digital files or negatives. The image produced then shows new properties - grain as an emotional variation. These variations modify space and carry an immaterial energy named wave and revealed by photography. In that sense, Bruit de fond (Background noise) becomes a collection of more or less stronger disturbances. Bruit de fond questions our senses and our perception. This book questions the notion of photography by proposing to educate one to listening to pictures and looking at noise. Photography byAsako Narahashi - Lydia Anne Mc Carthy - Jacob Wolf Miller - Thobias Fäldt - Jon Feinstein - Jeff Otto O’Brien - Seth Fluker - Jeremy Liebman - Oto Gillen - Daniel Everett - Yann Gross - Honet and Wulfran Patte - Jesper Ulvelius - Shane Lavalette - Chad Muthard - Peter Sutherland - Jennilee Marigomen - Daniel Augschoell - Jo-ey Tang - Pedro Ramos -  Charles Negre - Sarah Pickering - Whitney Hubbs - Ola Rindal - Bill Sullivan - Pierre Le Hors - Kalle Sanner - Coley Brown - Nicholas Gottlund - Ozant Kamaci - Mårten Lange - Gordon Nicholas - Stéphanie Gygax - Raia Al Souliman - Aimee Brodeur - Grant Willing - Ann Woo - Erin Jane Nelson - Leon Batchelor - Miranda Lehman - Jeff Luker - Jessica Hans - Alexander Binder - Sean Stewart - Audrey Corregan - Jimmy Limit -- Je suis une bande de jeunes Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/save-as--publications-artist-s-books--more.asp Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT Save As... Publications is a publisher based in Barcelona. It was founded in 2008 by Irene Minovas and ferranElOtro. It aims at producing, diffusing and promoting artistic projects in diverse formats (books, CD-R, DVD, vinyl, etc.), with experimental intention, both in content and format. They propose alternatives to the rigidity of the exhibition space a kind of editorial-curatorial-projects. Momu & No Es Miedo de muchos. Los mundos posibles This CD recounts the car trip of some entities we can neither see nor hear (spectres, spirits, alien waves, etc.) In it, we are able to hear one of their conversations. They make use of our cars to travel and it's during the night trips when they get more intimate (they talk about their torments, their lives and their deaths). Through their voices we can enter their other world and learn about some experiences that are not shown at our real level. Martín Vitaliti Líneas Cinéticas This publication is a study of one of the temporal resources regularly used in comic to represent movement: kinetic lines. This edition puts together a selection of drawings in which kinetic lines from superhero comic books have been isolated using the digital erasure of the other elements on the rest of the page. By isolating these elements from the rest of the information, they end up turning into independent objects. These abstractions are no more the context that gave sense to the main action, but the stars of a new story. Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/libro--reflection-about-artist-s-book.asp Sun, 03 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT Luján Marcos and Roberto Vidal , curators of the exhibition {libro}, invited 27 artists whose work has been exhibit in Mad is Mad Gallery during the last 5 years, to explore the possibilities of the book as an artistic medium. They used, the concept of book, like a traditional vehicle of literary and theoretical texts as a basis for artistic experimentation, in order to explore the boundaries physical and conceptual of it. In this case, the artist works as a painter, cartoonist, writer, printer, bookbinder, publisher, etc. Conceived and authored their own books. They worked on the idea of artist book as a nexus that integrates all the arts, either as support or as a conceptual basis. Artists: Aitor Saraiba, Alberto Acinas, Ana Montiel, Bubi Canal, Ceci Molano, Cless, Cristina Busto, Delphine Delas, Eva Solano, Frank Plant, Héctor de la Puente, Javier Lozano , Jonathan Notario, Julio Dolbeth, Julio Falagán, Krapoola, Lidia Toga, Lorena Álvarez, Luis Úrculo, Luján Marcos, Monoperro&Anak, PeSeta_Laura Martínez, Óscar Martín, potipoti, Seann Brackin, Theo Firmo, Vritis. {libro} 30th of september untill 23rd of october Mad is Mad Gallery Pelayo, 48 Madrid - Spain -- Mad is Mad Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/it-s-nice-that-from-screen-to-the-shelves.asp Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT It’s Nice That is a great example of a website taking very strong content from screen to the shelves. The best editorial of the online blog is printed every April and October. The bi-annually printed publication is released bi-annually as an archive for the most interesting editorial from the last six months, in a format that gives the work the respect it deserves. It also creates a platform to share more in-depth, exclusive material including interviews and features focussing on, and created by practitioners from all over the world. Each publication is entirely advertising free. The lineup for issue 4 is incredibly exciting and we have interviews with Nick Knight, Neville Brody, Miranda July, Trokia, RBG6, Noma Bar and Bompas & Parr, features by Sara De Bondt, Adam Buxton, Adrian Shaughnessy, Jez Burrows, Mike Lemanski, Peter Nencini and Micah Lidberg as well as tons of work from the likes of Michael Landy, Rui Teneiro, Peter Grundy and more. -- It´s Nice That Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/little-joe-magazine-about-queers-and-cinema.asp Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT Little Joe is a new zine out of London, "about queers and cinema, mostly". Created by cinephile and movie poster designer Sam Sabih, Little Joe is a new biannual publication looking at film from a different perspective. It is a direct move away from the traditional method of reviewing all current and future releases towards a more selective and eclectic focus on films that inspire alternative discourse. “The first issue—printed on a risograph and handsomely lo-fi—contains, amongst other pleasures, Tom Kalin looking back on the New Queer Cinema, an essay on visionary porn auteur Fred Halsted by William E. Jones, Fritz Haeg discussing adapted E.M. Forster, an extended meditation on bucolic softcore curiosity Song of the Loon, and an appreciation of Raquel Welsh’s thoroughly bewildering Raquel!, which plays like Kenneth Anger orchestrating an epic TV variety hour. The magazine is a kind of heir to both Film Culture and After Dark, and its implicit project is a vital one: mapping the subterranean canon of gay and lesbian cinema, past and present, drawing together its many and varied histories, frequently from the margins of taste and style.” —Light Industry -- Little Joe Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/aa-publications-urban-interventionsSQLWD--SQLWDmore.asp Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT Adaptive Actions (AA) has been actively creating/generating an online reservoir of urban interventions. In the form of an open invitation, AA operates as a think tank, generating various platforms to induce change in the urban environment. AA Publications Each Adaptive Actions' project is extended and revisited by the making of a publication. Submitted adaptive actions, comments and texts are reunited in one communal art book. New ideas for future actions germ from this process. They have published two books for the time being: Madrid and UK. The Adaptive Action's publication is an interdisciplinary book which explores issues related to architecture and art but also anthropology and sociology. The book's expected readership are people interested in new art, urban architecture and spatial practices, tactics and reflections; persons interested in post-production, urban appropriation, self-management, and creative and singular actions in public spaces. Behind Adaptive Actions is Jean-François Prost, artist-architect. His interest in new urban research territories — neglected, undetermined spaces, and those over-controlled, with no apparent specificity — has brought him to question the city, architecture and urban material in a non-disciplinary way. Prost's work promotes social engagement, defends the presence of ‘art’ everywhere, at any time. -- Adaptive Actions Jean-François Prost Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/ppp-app-iphone-ipad.asp Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT Online digital editions of many of the fanzines that most interest us there are many ones or blog way or nominal own site. But their editions as digital mobile application (release apps) are still expected. We find apps of the classic and more conventional magazines on design, architecture and music (also on art, fashion, trends, travel & tourism, gastronomy & food, interior design, decorating, literature, even gardening): this kind of publishing whose sponsors and firms had already been developed to design and program their own apps. Fanzines, comiczines, graphzines have been having an increasing presence on the web –adding the webzines, without precedent or original editions on paper. Photozines may be the most commonly serve as digital editions. Preston is my Paris, a distinctive photozine that Adam Murray and Robert Parkirson launched in July 2oo9, has an app for iPhone/iPad. Its paper edition (you can see here an example for those who don´t know__http://vimeo.com/8852449) publishes the photos and images from different authors around the city and society of Preston. Its web edition__ http://prestonismyparis.blogspot.com, provides information on events, photos, images and contents not included in its paper original edition -addition to the wellknown facility of instant communication and interaction with the remote user. The app for the i~™[] Preston is my Paris [PPP app] adds to previous editions the exact location of the photos, images and contents on the map of Preston, via Google Maps -of course. On these technological advantages for display and diffusions of ~zines i was having a close discussion few days ago with a devoted friend of the paper (and of the "authenticity", as he says.) Do not consider myself a fanatic of technology, not even a half follower of the progress of the same ... Turn a deaf ear to the facilities that digital editions offer us, it seems to me, at least, very little ecological, very little sustainable and all the green and environmental words and attributes I can add to the case of using paper editions (thousands, massive) of publications that we all have at hand. Despite the trite were the theme of sustainable development, we know it… And however much we trust recycling. Rather I am a fanatic of the paper. Fanaticism which needs further (1) time for contemplation and (2) decision (what I´ll take from what I´m seeing, what one is more interesting, I don´t understand a single ideogram Korean but what a nice layout…), and often (3) money… These three conditions for getting paper editions are not always found in the same time and same place. To have digital editions of the vast world of ~zines makes life easier for me, and then I can browse and I can look and look and look. The following __ A network app for fanatics of the ~zines! -- Preston is my Paris Patricia Bosland http://nozines.com/contenido/sse-zine-special-solo-exhibition.asp Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT SSE Project is an independent publishing house and online gallery based in Korea, focus is on publishing Artists' Books and Zines of emerging artists from Korea. SSE is the acronym for "special solo exhibition". It means a tongue in Korean dialect. In other words, SSE signifies an artist shows his/her works by oneself. They are a representative online gallery and independent publisher in Korea. In their own words: "Since we've started sse-p.com in July 2008, SSE Project selects an artist, holds his/her online exhibition and publishes. SSE Zine which has the same composition with the exhibit every month. From 2011 we´ll have a plan to broaden the range including overseas artists not limited to Korea.  This coming October, the contemporary art book, DODOS vol. 2 which contains works of artists throughout the world and PIPIS vol. 1 limited to women artists will be issued. Furthermore, the third offline special exhibition entitled "Troublemaker 2010: The End of the World" and the concept book withsame title are being prepared". If you're an artist and would like to exhibit through SSE Project, please contact them at sse_p@naver.com. -- SSE Zine Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/ruby-mag-contemporary-art.asp Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT Ruby Mag is an online magazine of contemporary art created in 2005 by Irana Douer. The main motivation was to share those artists who inspired it with other people and at the same time promoting the work of artists from around the world. Each month a new edition comes with an average of eight new artists works that include all categories of art. Today the magazine has over 46 online editions but only from the first till the twelfth were printed in an edition of 500 copies each. In August 2010, he took a new publication called "Ruby Mag Selection # 1" wich is printed. It includes six artists who have previously participated in some online edition: Hernán Paganini, Megan Comp, Katharina Trudzinski, Luciana Rondolini, Nick van Woert and Christian Hagemann. Limited to 500 copies, 15x21cms, 6 artists, 32 pages, full color. Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/klatSQLWD--SQLWDcontemporary-art-designSQLWD--SQLWDarchitecture.asp Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT KLAT is a magazine, from Milano, made up solely of interwiews: long ones, in-depth and the best. A date every three months with key players from the worlds of contemporary art, architecture and design. KLAT #03 presents exclusive interviews to Maarten Baas, Giulio Iacchetti, Florian Idenburg, John Maeda, Markus Miessen, Walter Niedermayr, Richard Sympson, and Oliviero Toscani. "KLAT #03 – explains Paolo Priolo, publisher and editor in chief – is a summer issue, and summer is time for adventures and challenges. There is the world football cup, for sure, but summer was also the time of the legendary robbery that thirty four years ago, between 16 and 19 July 1976, Albert Spaggiari and his gang committed in the Société Générale in Nice: about a one hundred million francs theft without shedding a drop of blood. A great and anomalous challenge, that above all proved to be an extraordinary reconnaissance and transformation of space: a sewer system seen as a promise of happiness, where dreams and money flowed by. So KLAT #03 is an issue that courts challenges and ideas that swim against the tide, transfigured objects and places, and plans that have turned out unexpectedly well. And so we have the carbonized furniture of Maarten Baas, Markus Miessen’s antidemocratic appeal, the stinging thoughts of Oliviero Toscani, Giulio Iacchetti’s dissenting design. And then the anti-hierarchical images of Richard Sympson, the solid imagination of Florian Idenburg, the refrigerated reality of Walter Niedermayr and the disarming simplicity of John Maeda: “Understanding is crucial today”. In issue #03 there is a new section called Blue Chips, like stocks and casino tokens of the highest value. In our case, Blue Chips refers to images with a high aesthetic value, such as those of Corey Arnold, Geert Goiris, Dan Holdsworth, Peter Bialobrzeski, and Armin Linke. Two images per artist.” At its third issue, KLAT presents itself in digital format, to read and page through on iPad, Pc, and Mac. -- Klat Magazine Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/barriobajero-shapes-geometries-and-found-images.asp Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT Recently, from Madrid, Silvia Bianchi and Ricardo Juárez just released a print version of their project Barriobajero. The result is a refreshing 16-page self-published fanzine (A6) in black toner print on marble and gradient papers plus a pop up poster in A4 size. Each copy printed on paper of different colors is a perfect refreshing blend to relieve the heat of summer with flat shapes, geometries, delirious found images and a delicious kitsch taste. In their own words: “Barriobajero is an unpredictable collection of images in which every object has its place. In this visual game where the theme is the absurd and the kitsch, the goal is to invent a different story every time. On the first trip outside the network, Barriobajero has been materialized in a small fanzine on marble and gradient papers, found summery images and freshness. You can get it writing an email to hello [at] rjvv [dot] com or from their page online via paypal”. -- Barriobajero Óscar M. http://nozines.com/contenido/self-publishing-workshop-zines-exhibition.asp Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT These are some of the projects of the workshop Self-Publishing held within the exhibition "De Zines" at La Casa Encendida, Madrid. Coordinated and taught by Roberto Vidal, along with: Ana Echegoyen, Eva Solano, Luis Venegas, Óscar Martín and Suguru Mikami. [Richard Cámara] [David López] The self-publishing is a medium for free expression of their creators. Spaces on paper, for reflection, review and dissemination of contemporary culture in a search for the perfect integration between content and form. The workshop consisted of different phases through self-released a publication: contents, design, printing and distribution. The ultimate objective was the realization of a physical model that supports content with a definition of  graphic and font family. A conclusion that balances form and content of each publication project in the workshop. [Marian Garrido] [Ana Colmenero] Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/chinese-wax-job.asp Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT Chinese Wax Job is a black and white paper zine produced by John Esguerra: “I am a Husband, Dad, Curator, Artist, Designer and Surfer living in Haleiwa, Hawaii”. Printed on ivory colored paper. Laser – Toner. 48 pages. The third edition of John Esguerra’s killer b & w zine is out now. 003 Chinese Wax Job Brian King | Hawaii USA Leif Low-beer | New York USA Jessica Findley | New York USA Ty Williams | Maine USA Jeff Canham | San Francisco USA Margaret Durow | Wisconsin USA Dominick Volini | New York USA Ed Fladung | Bucerias Mexico Johnny Knapp | New York USA Alessandro Zuek Simonetti | New York USA Amanda Mocci | Montreal Canada Rudy Jacques | Paris France Jean-Philippe Bretin | Bagnolet  France Colin Michael Simmons | New York USA Daniel Bass | Isle of Thanet UK Greg Gossel | Minneapolis USA Sean Zo | Hawaii USA Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/avalanche-1970-1976-facsimile-edition.asp Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT Avalanche magazine was founded by Willoughby Sharp and Liza Béar shortly after they met in 1968. At the time, Sharp was a New York-based art historian and independent curator and Béar an underground magazine editor who had recently moved to New York from London. They published the first issue in 1970 and collaborated on 13 issues from 1970 to 1976. Avalanche focused on art from the perspective of artists rather than critics, and investigated new forms of art that were developing in the U.S. and Europe with a radical new media format—probing interviews and a visionary design that made extensive use of photography and dynamic layouts. For many artists, publication in Avalanche preceded a one-person gallery or museum show. Aside from an eight to twelve-page news section, the editorial content included only  interviews by Sharp and/or Béar, artists` texts and documents of art and art making, also functioning as an exhibition space in print.  Fresh, incisive and unpretentious, the Avalanche interviews—now landmarks—illuminate the creative process and give clear voice to the specific issues that permeated the era. Among the featured artists were Vito Acconci, Joseph Beuys, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, Jan Dibbets, Philip Glass, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Yvonne Rainer, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner and Jackie Winsor. The reprint of Avalanche by Primary Information makes the magazine available worldwide as a complete set for the first time in three decades. Originally published in magazine format for the first eight issues, Avalanche switched to newspaper format for the final five issues. This facsimile edition is a boxed set that houses the individual magazine issues and the newspapers bound in a single book form. Primary Information is a non-profit organization devoted to printing artists books, artist writings, out of print publications and editions. Primary Information was founded by James Hoff and Miriam Katzeff, who met while working at Printed Matter, a non-profit artist bookstore in New York. United by their mutual interest in artist publications, they formed Primary Information to foster intergenerational dialogue as well as to aid in the creation of new publications and editions. -- Primary Information Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/hybrid-novels-new-way-of-reading-narrative-fiction.asp Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT "Hybrid novels can be seen as image-text hybrids where written text and a number of graphic devices work together in order to hold the readers’ interest, enhancing the book´s interactivity and giving the printed page a multidimensional visual surface. This kind of books require the readers’ actions, they demand to be handled and experienced." That was Alberto Hernández explaining his aim when developing his research on Hybrid Novels. Initiated as his mayor project at London College of Communication, the result is an astonishing new edition of R. L. Stevenson´s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. An exploration of the boundaries of editorial design applied to the same purpose thats been behind all great literary achievement´s from modernism onward: building narrative devices that will pull readers away from the comfortable lazy stance that gets hold of us when things get predictable, forcing us instead to engage with the story, actively participate in the construction of meaning. In this edition of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, all the storys constituents have been dissected by Alberto in search of those vertebral elements that, when expressed graphically within the book, could generate this extended reading experience. His final proposal consists on a slipcase holding 7 booklets that echo the story´s internal structure, main themes and narrative technique as well as the historical and cultural context in which it was written. Take Dr Jekyll´s split identity, for instance. It is expressed even in the slipcase, with its striped pattern interior evoking (à la Saul Bass´ title credits in Psycho) the doctor´s fractured psyche. The booklets all replicate this duality -as well as a number of secondary themes- in their savvy use of graphic design resources such us paper colour, texture and size variation (images signatures are bigger than text signatures and they are both contained within one another such as Jekyll and Hyde are), layout ad hoc changes, page segmentation and type choice. Two typefaces have been used in the book New Caledonia and Grotesque, and both hold a sense of Victorian flavour. Unfortunately book copies are not available, but the complete report can be read online via Issuu. Maria Serrano http://nozines.com/contenido/zines-opening-exhibition.asp Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT De Zines exhibition (curated and designed by Roberto Vidal and Oscar Martín) together with oscuro y salvaje and everything is out there had an opening last night in La Casa Encendida (Madrid). De Zines is a group show on contemporary editorial design where over 400 hundred publications are at readers hand-reach. Visitors will find zines ranging from really cool DIY fanzines to sophisticated experimental publications and almost everything in between on subjects like design, fashion, drawing, photography, philosophy, queerzines and lots more. If you wonder what to do in a hot summer day in Madrid you can always stop by and spend a few hours flicking through or reading in a great and well air-conditioned exhibition. De zines is on until the 29th of august at La Casa Encendida (Madrid). Pictures by Mercedes Marín Óscar M. http://nozines.com/contenido/instant-snap-shot-photography-publication.asp Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT Instant is an independent photography publication based on snap shot photography. The title, instant is come from an old Latin word instans. It means ‘in + stare’, ‘being at hand’. Instant is made by three people who are all taking pictures as a journal in their daily lives. Its first issue is published in March 2010. The first issue is named <Journal to Journey>. All pictures are printed on paper that have films own ratio. Instant is published irregular. And they all hope to communicate by pictures than words. The first issue, is a journal of  three peoples trips: north Indian, Paris and Busan. Firstly, Immimyung´s  “Fragments of the summer” shows calm and tension together by enlarged pictures from one of a vacation spot in north India. And Woosung Sohn presents daily life scenes in Paris. Especially Flaneur jeans a stroller in French. He was trying to be flaneur when he was staying, walking there. So his Flaneur series literally shows flaneur and it´s taken by flaneur. Finally, Bbossing´s (aka Boeun Hwang) “One summer day, we are…” is composed by light and bright pictures of her friends which were taken in Ga-Duk-Do, Busan. -- Instant Roberto V. http://nozines.com/contenido/graphic-magazine.asp Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT Graphic is a quarterly magazine published in Seoul, Korea. Graphic, which was first published in January 2006, focuses its attention on the other trends of graphic design which is different from the mainstream of it and on the phenomena thereof. It has a characteristic of in-depth approach for one theme with the editorial policy of one issue-one theme. Graphic is an independent magazine which does not depend upon sponsors or any governmental organizations for financial help but rather aims at more creative and independent journalism by emancipating its own editorship from them. Graphic has been written and edited in Korean language from the first issue to 8th but from 9th issue, it is being issued in both Korean and English. By Kim Kwangchul, Publisher & Editor Graphic Magazine. «Graphic pictures its future as independent journalism, differing from small-scale self-initiated, or self-satisfied publication. Besides being independent from its stakeholder, our main interest is to be independent and away from the things known as "convention", even from the ones of independent publishers such as their tendencies or trenes».  -- Graphic Magazine Roberto V.