I wrote an article for PG#28
Out now and available here.
Flip-Flops, Remediations, and State Changes
in Seven Contemporary Bookworks
Seven projects that involve re-publication, re-printing, or re-issuing, exploring the specifities and the symbolic or actual values intrinsic to the book as medium and the techniques of reproduction (digital, paper, offset printing, Xeroxing, printing on demand, etc.) that the individual who publishes â not necessarily a publisher â has at their disposal.
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Progetto Grafico #28, Publishing
edited by Maria Rosaria Digregorio, Silvio Lorusso, Silvia Sfligiotti, Stefano Vittori
By devoting an issue to âPublishing,â which has always been a central theme for people dealing with communication design, Progetto grafico has decided to start by redefining and expanding upon the term, going beyond its primarily editorial connotations to explore its significance as âmaking public; disclosing; popularizing.â
The current scene includes a hybrid between print and digital publishing, aided by the emergence and spread of many types of tools that facilitate the publishing process, making it more accessible and sometimes even automatic and involuntary: in this light, any online activity can be considered a form of publication.
If anyone can act as publisher, it becomes essential to take into account two other crucial aspects of the process: on the one hand, the distribution and use by an audience; and, on the other, the continually evolving tools that make it all possible.
The people involved in the process (authors, editors, designers/producers, readers) no longer have clearly defined roles: in theory, anyone can be a publisher, and can find readers anywhere. But in practice, one has to wonder how much such public information is actually accessible, and reconsider publishing practices within the broader picture of such informationâs accessibility.
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