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Ways of Hearing⁣ By Damon Krukowski⁣ Available at www.draw-down.com⁣ ⁣ Our voices carry farther than ever before, thanks to digital media. But how are they being heard? In this book, Damon Krukowski (Galaxie 500) examines how the switch from analog to digital audio is changing our perceptions of time, space, love, money, and power. In Ways of Hearing—modeled on Ways of Seeing, John Berger's influential 1972 book on visual culture—Krukowski offers readers a set of tools for critical listening in the digital age. Just as Ways of Seeing began as a BBC television series, Ways of Hearing is based on a six-part podcast produced for the groundbreaking public radio podcast network Radiotopia. Inventive uses of text and design help bring the message beyond the range of earbuds.⁣ Designed by #JamesGoggin / Published by #MITPress⁣ ⁣ #DamonKrukowski #WaysofHearing https://www.instagram.com/p/BzQIuXeHuC7/?igshid=c3ubrjhvr1sp

Ulm Design: The Morality of Objects by Herbert Lindinger / Design by Herbert Lindinger / Published by @mitpress / Available @pagespread * * * * * #ulm #ulmschoolofdesign #mit #mitpress #objects #productdesign #architecture #design #graphicdesign #designer #graphicdesigner #book #books #booksondesign #designbook #publication #publishing #graphicbooks #type #typeface #typography #grid #layout #designstudent #designstudio https://www.instagram.com/p/BqGUyIwhXrl/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=g1dr6xu21xvx

OPEN TODAY 12-7 PM. NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: "WORK" EDITED BY FRIEDERIKE SIGLER (2017) Warhol’s Factory of the 1960s, Minimalism’s assembly-line aesthetics, conceptual and feminist concern with workers’ conditions in the 1970s—these are among the antecedents of a renewed focus on the work of art: labor as artistic activity, as artistic method and as object of artistic engagement. In 2002, the “Work Ethic” exhibition curated by Helen Molesworth at the Baltimore Museum of Art took its cue from recent art to spotlight this earlier era of artistic practice in which activity became as valid as, and often dispensed with, object-production. Revealed through this prism was “dematerialized” art’s close and critical relation to the emergent information age’s criteria of management, production and skill. By 2015, the Venice Biennale reflected artists’ wider concern with global economic and social crises, centered on exploitative and precarious worlds of employment. Yet while art increasingly engages with human travail, work’s significance in itself is seldom addressed by critics. This anthology explicitly investigates work in relation to contemporary art, surveying artistic strategies that grapple with the complexities of being an art worker in the new economy, a postproducer, a collaborator, a fabricator, a striker, an ethical campaigner, or would-be transformer of labor from oppression to liberation. Artists surveyed include Pawel Althamer, Francis Alÿs, Marwa Arsanios, Chto Delat, Alice Creischer, Ana de la Cueva, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Jeremy Deller, Maria Eichhorn, Harun Farocki, Claire Fontaine, Andrea Fraser, Liam Gillick, Melanie Gilligan, Gulf Labour Coalition, Tehching Hsieh, Lamia Joreige, Lee Lozano, Goshka Macuga, Teresa Margolles, Adrian Melis, Annette Messager, Gustav Metzger, Jean-Luc Moulène, Ahmet Ögüt, Philip Rizk, Martha Rosler, Tino Sehgal, Santiago Sierra, Tamas St. Auby, Mladen Stilinovic, W.A.G.E., Artur Zmijewski Available in the bookshop today and via our new website. #worldfoodbooks #work #whitechapel #documentsofcontemporaryart #mitpress (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)

Muriel Cooper / Available at www.draw-down.com / The career of the pioneering designer #MurielCooper whose work spanned media from printed book to software interface. By #DavidReinfurt and #RobertWiesenberger / Muriel Cooper (1925–1994) was the pioneering #designer who created the iconic #MITPress colophon (or logo)—seven bars that represent the lowercase letters “mitp” as abstracted books on a shelf. She designed a modernist monument, the encyclopedic volume The Bauhaus (1969), and the graphically dazzling and controversial first edition of Learning from Las Vegas (1972). She used an offset press as an artistic tool, worked with a large-format Polaroid camera, and had an early vision of e-books. Cooper was the first #designdirector of the MIT Press, the co-founder of the Visible Language Workshop at MIT, and the first woman to be granted tenure at MIT's Media Lab, where she developed software interfaces and taught a new generation of designers. She began her four-decade career at MIT by designing vibrantly printed flyers for the Office of Publications; her final projects were digital. Designed by #YasuyoIguchi / Hardcover in slipcase #graphicdesign #typography https://www.instagram.com/p/BuJTXf3nWWf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=t1nnyyzay8h6

Muriel Cooper / Available at www.draw-down.com / The career of the pioneering designer #MurielCooper whose work spanned media from printed book to software interface. By #DavidReinfurt and #RobertWiesenberger / Muriel Cooper (1925–1994) was the pioneering #designer who created the iconic #MITPress colophon (or logo)—seven bars that represent the lowercase letters “mitp” as abstracted books on a shelf. She designed a modernist monument, the encyclopedic volume The Bauhaus (1969), and the graphically dazzling and controversial first edition of Learning from Las Vegas (1972). She used an offset press as an artistic tool, worked with a large-format Polaroid camera, and had an early vision of e-books. Cooper was the first #designdirector of the MIT Press, the co-founder of the Visible Language Workshop at MIT, and the first woman to be granted tenure at MIT's Media Lab, where she developed software interfaces and taught a new generation of designers. She began her four-decade career at MIT by designing vibrantly printed flyers for the Office of Publications; her final projects were digital. Designed by #YasuyoIguchi / Hardcover in slipcase #graphicdesign #typography (at MIT Press) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpcJ8j7BZA1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=10yj9ykn3k4e4

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