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SHIPPING WORLDWIDE⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Maximum Peace: Texts from the Anti-Archive⁣ Available at www.draw-down.com⁣⁣ ⁣ A publication of texts produced on Ben DuVall's personal website between January 1 and December 31, 2017. The site at that time functioned as an “anti-archive”—all content was deleted every day and new content was uploaded according to a list of rules. Previous content was available by specific email request only. ⁣ ⁣ During the project, DuVall acted as an anti-archival "custodian," uploading, maintaining, dusting, deleting, fielding requests and organizing the output generated by and for the site. ⁣ ⁣ Some of the texts are long term projects that reached specific points of conclusion while others were developed more quickly—in days, hours, or sometimes minutes.⁣ ⁣ Gathered in this volume in the order in which they appeared on the site (but not necessarily the order in which they were written), these texts include free-writes, responses to films, pseudo-poetry, typographic drawings, art historical studies, false-flag operations, dead-end projects, rejected proposals, and self-analysis of the project. ⁣ ⁣ The title of the publication, Maximum Peace, was a guiding mantra for the project, appearing in several texts. For DuVall, the phrase is an acceptance of non-permanence and devotion to an extended task—something akin to a monk's Hours or On Kawara's Date Paintings. ⁣ ⁣ #BenDuVall #MaximumPeace #Texts #AntiArchive #GraphicDesign https://www.instagram.com/p/B-wq9OkHiNp/?igshid=22fkfl10w9ff

Ficciones Typografika: 1642⁣ Available at www.draw-down.com⁣ ⁣ Curated by graphic designer and educator Erik Brandt, Ficciones Typografika was a project dedicated to typographic exploration in a private space. Over a five-year period, a modest poster board hung in a Minneapolis neighbourhood—it became a barometer for experimental typographic practice within the global design community. This dense volume documents the entire project, which featured diverse and playful work, from well-known and established designers to talented students. Conceptually approached like the Ficciones Typografika project itself, the book is an expressive and visceral experience, rather than an encyclopaedic documentation. It reproduces every installation of work along with an overprint of the original posters. With a text by Ben DuVall and a conversation between Brandt and Paul Schmelzer. Edited by Mark Gowing. Designed by Mark Gowing and Alexander Tanazefti⁣ ⁣ #ErikBrandt #FiccionesTypografika #posterdesign #BenDuVall⁣ ⁣ ⁣ https://www.instagram.com/p/B0nwj3ynD8y/?igshid=s39v6o3wjm5j

New Modernism(s)⁣ Available at www.draw-down.com⁣ ⁣ In 1972, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour released a book called Learning From Las Vegas, a manifesto of sorts calling for the glorification or ornamentation and vernacular form in architecture. Perhaps more importantly, this book signaled a cultural change, a change in the architectural space in which the term “postmodernism” was coined. Fast forward to today. Now we are living primarily in the digital space, a space which instead of being defined by architecture, is defined by graphic design, the language of the interface. The content of the web is communicated through graphic design, therefore, trends within graphic design are the new barometer for epochal change. If architecture was the indicator of the break down of modernism, then graphic design is the “architecture” of the current period, the fire alarm of postmodernism. New Modernism(s) is an attempt to trace these changes as they occur in graphic design by comparing the usage of surface and sign systems in current graphic design to their usage in the past century. It is not a comprehensive theory of these changes, but rather a contribution to a dialogue which is already in progress within our discipline. Published by Ben DuVall⁣ ⁣ #NewModernisms #BenDuVall #postmodernism #graphicdesign⁣ (at Las Vegas, Nevada) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw1uaT-HKgl/?igshid=xa7x4tkwslua

Buffalo / Ben Duvall⁣ Available at www.draw-down.com ⁣ ⁣ American designer Ben Duvall utilizes the formulaic visual language of computer coding as a poetic trope in Buffalo. Planned to print on massive, rectangular pages, his text trickles across the page in sharp diagonals, isolated arrays or backward marching lines—each formatting choice enriches the effort to decode and comprehend the selected phrases. Duvall’s stylistic sensibility creates a caricature of both shape-poetry and spatial coding. Buffalo references both conventions, but ultimately insists on its uniqueness as a text-object, bound in flat, brown cardstock, with the title and author's’ name printed in simple black stencils. ⁣ ⁣ In his web and print-based practices, Ben Duvall distorts contemporary placement of word and image, making each less legible by championing the convergence of the two as one fluctuating method of communication.⁣ ⁣ #BenDuvall #computercoding #design #visuallanguage (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B16u_rHHteK/?igshid=nv5trk3b75b

Buffalo by Ben Duvall / Available at www.draw-down.com / American designer #BenDuvall utilizes the formulaic #visual language of computer coding as a poetic trope in Buffalo. Planned to print on massive, rectangular pages, his text trickles across the page in sharp diagonals, isolated arrays or backward marching lines—each formatting choice enriches the effort to decode and comprehend the selected phrases. Duvall’s stylistic sensibility creates a caricature of both #shape-poetry and #spatial coding. Buffalo references both conventions, but ultimately insists on its uniqueness as a text-object, bound in flat, brown cardstock, with the title and author's’ name printed in simple black stencils. In his web and print-based practices, Ben Duvall distorts contemporary placement of #word and #image, making each less legible by championing the convergence of the two as one fluctuating method of communication. Printed in a limited anti-archival edition of 75 copies, #Risograph #graphicdesign

A User's Guide to The Future of Tourism / Available at www.draw-down.com / The world is becoming hyper-thin. Architecture, landscape, place and dimensionality have collapsed, creating a depthless composite of themselves. Experience moves along a surface, through a drop-down menu, bouncing between a scripted site map, dashing to and from servers and terminals. #benduvall #graphicdesign #typography #zine #culture #travel #pixels #userreview #travel #design #future #userguide