#markowens

Bricks from the Kiln⁣ Available at www.draw-down.com⁣ ⁣ Originally conceived as a publication produced a signature at a time, as and when money became available, Bricks from the Kiln follows in the tradition of Typographica, Icteric, Dot Dot Dot, Situationist Times, and Theo Crosby’s Uppercase, exploring the the field of visual communication and striking a balance between historical research and current projects, art and graphic design. This inaugural issue brings together an array of chapters lifted from forth-coming books, as well as unrecorded talks, autonomous unpublished works, and investigations begun but forced aside. The Situationists loom large, as does the peripheral and the overlooked; the contents pull together photography, transcripts, essays, and diary jottings, allowing connections to develop organically, each piece a part of a larger structure. With contributions from #RonHunt #NatalieFerris #RalphRumney #JamesLangdon #MarkOwens #JamieSutcliffe #IainSinclair #TravenTCroves #ParallelSchool #CatherineGuiral #MaxHarvey #HePianpian #LiYou #graphicdesign #typography #magazine #bricksfromthekiln https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxw5XVIHC56/?igshid=g9s92zfteql6

♻️ @pouyaahmadi_com ・・・ THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY UIC School of Design Public Seminar Series 2017–18 :: MARK OWENS :: Friday, October 27, 6:00pm UIC School of Design :: This series of seminars aims to investigate the parameters of design as a practice. Rather than showcasing “best practices”—optimal ways for designers to take on predetermined roles—it looks at alternative models for the profession in which designers develop their own agendas and territories. As a field, design has changed dramatically over the past few decades. While Modernist designers worked to rationalize their output in the 1950s and 60s, Postmodernism shattered that seemingly objective (yet authoritative) Modernist world view in the 1980s and 90s. Postmodernism’s lack of agenda, alongside the democratization of production tools and the World Wide Web, allowed for the nostalgic return of Modernism as a so-called “Global Style”/”Zombie Modernism” in the early 2000’s, but without early Modernism’s sense of public mission and service. Now the question is: where do we stand as design practitioners, writers, and educators in the post-digital and post-internet era? How do we redefine the role of the contemporary designer? Through a Glass Darkly questions notions of design practice today by considering alternative agendas for design. It showcases practices that go beyond surface, image, and form and utilize design as a tool capable of generating references and agendas outside predetermined boundaries. It introduces designers that elevate design discourse by repurposing design in the form of writing, producing, and publishing. It brings together designers who reject the status quo and seek to create their own alternative realities; designers who endeavor to remain relevant by redefining their practice and adopting positions outside traditionally defined domains. @uic_cada @marklifeofthemind #lectureseries #uiccada #markowens #schoolofdesign #typography #posterdesign #typographicposter #posterseries #graphicdesign #chicagodesign #plakat #affiche #designeveryday #itsnicethat #eyeondesign #postereveryday

Bricks From The Kiln #3 / Available at www.draw-down.com / Published as text, image, and sound, this third issue of #BricksfromtheKiln includes segments on: a contextual history of the oblique, one of the earliest marks of #punctuation; an interview on interviewing; a revived ceremonial song lacking a #melody; some soft rock for hard times; a visual essay punctuating the recorded voice of #VirginiaWoolf; a tour through the bowels of the Chicago Board Options Exchange; a bell tower score for a city-wide soundwork; a solo interview-cum-performance; an “aftereading”; Inuktitut syllabics as a mixture of semantics, poetry and marketing; and James Baldwin and Claudia Rankine in constructed conversation. Featuring contributions from Bryony Quinn, Nayia Yiakoumaki & Matthew Stuart, Astrid Seme, #MarkOwens, #PaulBailey & Sophie Demay, Till Wittwer, Emma Smith, Bruce McLean, Alexandru Balgiu, David Bennewith, Nontsikelelo Mutiti & Tinashe Mushkavanhu, James Bulley, and Peter Nencini #graphicdesign (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrVB3XAgXQg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=qqqzuivx3mt8

Back in Stock! Lydia Okamura: Situations / Available at www.draw-down.com / Designed by Mark Owens with Sarah Cleeremans. For almost 50 years, Brazilian-born New York–based artist Lydia Okumura (b. 1948), like her contemporaries Dorothea Rockburne and Robert Irwin, has explored the realm of geometric abstraction by challenging our perception of space in her sculptures, installations and works on paper. In the 1970s, as a young artist in her native São Paulo, she was introduced to Conceptual art, Minimalism, Land Art and Arte Povera through the Japanese art magazine Bijutsu Techou. These movements, along with Brazilian Concretism and Neoconcretism, influenced Okumura’s dynamic work in which she uses simple materials such as string, glass and paint to balance line, plane and shadow. This handsome exhibition catalog, produced to accompany the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States at the University of Buffalo Art Gallery and to encourage a critical reassessment of Okumura’s oeuvre within art history, is a rich document of her minimal practice and independent vision. #graphicdesign #typography #LydiaOkamura #MarkOwens

Statement And Counter-Statement by Experimental Jetset / Available at www.draw-down.com / The first publication on the work of Dutch power trio Experimental Jetset features almost two decades of graphic design praxis. Rather than a monolithic monograph, this book presents a loose, personal archive, with essays by Linda van Deursen, Mark Owens, and Ian Svenonius, plus two photographic chapters with a selection of work by the studio, covering both printed matter and the documentation of site-specific pieces and installations. A glossary-like anthology of texts (fragments of interviews, lectures, correspondence, etc.) previously written by Experimental Jetset—selected, edited, and structured by Jon Sueda—concludes the volume. Experimental Jetset is a small, independent, Amsterdam-based graphic design studio, founded in 1997 by (and still consisting of) Marieke Stolk, Erwin Brinkers and Danny van den Dungen. Designed by Experimental Jetset #graphicdesign #typography #ExperimentalJetset #LindavanDeursen #MarkOwens #IanSvenonius #JonSueda #Amsterdam

Statement And Counter-Statement by Experimental Jetset / Available at www.draw-down.com / The first publication on the work of Dutch power trio Experimental Jetset features almost two decades of graphic design praxis. Rather than a monolithic monograph, this book presents a loose, personal archive, with essays by Linda van Deursen, Mark Owens, and Ian Svenonius, plus two photographic chapters with a selection of work by the studio, covering both printed matter and the documentation of site-specific pieces and installations. A glossary-like anthology of texts (fragments of interviews, lectures, correspondence, etc.) previously written by Experimental Jetset—selected, edited, and structured by Jon Sueda—concludes the volume. Experimental Jetset is a small, independent, Amsterdam-based graphic design studio, founded in 1997 by (and still consisting of) Marieke Stolk, Erwin Brinkers and Danny van den Dungen. Designed by Experimental Jetset #graphicdesign #typography #ExperimentalJetset #LindavanDeursen #MarkOwens #IanSvenonius #JonSueda #Amsterdam

Back in Stock! Shannon Ebner - A Public Character / Available at www.draw-down.com / Designed by #JuliaBorn. Artist book and catalog published on the occasion of Shannon Ebner's first major American solo exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. The Los Angeles-based artist's work across mediums—emerging from and referencing photography through a collaborative practice that includes sculpture, poetry, performance, and video—critically explores the role of images in the world. Includes collaborations with graphic designers #DavidReinfurt and #MarkOwens - as well as multiple essays which trace Ebner's historical interpretations and her efforts to reflect upon our experience of language today, particularly at the intersection of landscape and architecture. Ebner's works demonstrate an artist's efforts to build a catalog of typographical imagery and reflect on the unstable nature of such an archive. #graphicdesign #typography #ShannonEbner

Statement And Counter-Statement by Experimental Jetset / Available at www.draw-down.com / The first publication on the work of Dutch power trio Experimental Jetset features almost two decades of graphic design praxis. Rather than a monolithic monograph, this book presents a loose, personal archive, with essays by Linda van Deursen, Mark Owens, and Ian Svenonius, plus two photographic chapters with a selection of work by the studio, covering both printed matter and the documentation of site-specific pieces and installations. A glossary-like anthology of texts (fragments of interviews, lectures, correspondence, etc.) previously written by Experimental Jetset—selected, edited, and structured by Jon Sueda—concludes the volume. Experimental Jetset is a small, independent, Amsterdam-based graphic design studio, founded in 1997 by (and still consisting of) Marieke Stolk, Erwin Brinkers and Danny van den Dungen. Designed by Experimental Jetset #graphicdesign #typography #ExperimentalJetset #LindavanDeursen #MarkOwens #IanSvenonius #JonSueda #Amsterdam