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Where We've Been, Where We're Going, Why? by Dan Boardman & Aspen Mays

Conveyor Editions, in collaboration with Houseboat Press, is pleased to present "Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going, Why?" by Dan Boardman and Aspen Mays. The publication is a collection of personal and public photographic archives—family snapshots, candid photographs of the Challenger crew, glass plate negatives of Halley’s Comet, and screenshots of video from the Teacher in Space project Lost Lessons, to name a few. 

There will be a book launch and signing at the LA Art Book Fair this Saturday, at 3pm!

Conveyor Magazine No. 6 - Alchemy  Published by Conveyor Editions — Purchase Here

Responding to the theme of alchemy, I commissioned Dinamoto develop a typeface that would undergo an alchemical-inspired transformation. The result is Conveyor Favorit, which evolves in four stages—referencing the four stages of the magnum opus, an alchemical process for producing the philosopher’s stone (a substance believed by alchemists to turn base metals into gold and thought to be the essence of perfection). Further inspired by alchemical codes and symbology, we also created a series of symbols, each representing a different article in the issue. In contrast to the contemporary typography, the rest of the issue’s design remains understated, allowing photography to come to the fore while creating a sense of balance and centeredness in a nod to the alchemical fascination with perfection. — Design Notes via Elana Schlenker.

Designed by Elana Schlenker Conveyor Favorit typeface designed by Dinamo, Johannes Breyer & Fabian Harb

Dans la Lune Fanette Mellier

Visible Spectrum  Published by Conveyor Editions — Purchase Here

Rainbow foil stamped slipcase for Visible Spectrum, a series of nine artist books featuring the work of Penelope Umbrico, Hannah Whitaker, Brea Souders, Andrey Bogush, Robert Canali, Inka & Niclas, Dillon DeWaters, and Nicholas Gottlund. I also designed 9 Collisions, an accompanying essay by Mark Alice Durant included in the box set. — Design Notes via Elana Schlenker.

The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite James Nasmyth and James Carpenter Published in 1874 by by John Murray Publishers, London

I am Dora by Claire Huss 

Installation & Publication by Gratuitous Type

Half Wild by Peter Happel Christian  Published by Conveyor Editions — Purchase Here

Peter Happel Christian’s debut monograph borrows its title from a passage in Our National Parks, written in 1909 by John Muir, who contemplated the public’s “growing interest in the care and preservation of forests and wild places in general, and in the half wild parks and gardens of towns.” Drawing influence from Happel Christian’s pictures of nature quietly persevering in the face of man’s attempts to manage and manicure it, images in the book run wild, bleeding over type, margins, and around pages. The book’s form and typography nod to vintage wilderness survival manuals, while synthetic materials reference the tools, tarps, and artificial representations of nature that appear throughout the work. — Design Notes via Elana Schlenker.

Christian Patterson  Red Headed Peckerwood

Strange Paradise by Charlie Rubin Published by Conveyor Editions — Purchase Here

Cover and insert design of Strange Paradise by Charlie Rubin, a book of photographs that explore the convergence of the actual and the artificial. The book’s offbeat type treatment was foil stamped on a soft cloth cover duplexed to a patterned navy paper and offset with a clashing teal taped spine. The insert materials reference the mundane found objects that appear in Rubin’s photographs. — Design Notes via Elana Schlenker.

Design of Can you spare an umbrella? by Ross Mantle, a rumination on our preoccupation with roadtrips and the American West Coast. Throughout the work, the viewer is repeatedly confronted with glimmers of light and symbols of an idealized California, yet the book’s motion is circular, never reaching any final destination. The book’s diecut cover provides an introduction to this idea, offering a glimpse of blue sky, which is then revealed to be nothing more than a reflection in a discarded mirror. The yellow coil bound spine repeats circular patterns in the book’s images and narrative, while offering a playful nod to California’s carefree promise of sunshine. 

I am Dora, Part 1  by Claire Huss

Sigmund Freud’s Dora: A Case of Mistaken Identity (dir. Anthony McCall, Claire Pajaczkowska, Andrew Tyndall, Jane Weinstock, 1979, 40 min)