Janet Zweig

Sheherezade, 1988

http://www.janetzweig.com/

Factor Design

Claude Closky

Sex

Electa, Roma, February 2007, 160 pages. 21x15cm

Whether they contain words or images, Closky's books are another way of envisaging a space: In a book, you start by reading before looking, in a space you look before reading. In the tradition of Ed Ruscha (who considered his photography books as sculptures), Claude Closky imagines set-ups of language or visual elements that he redefines in the particular context of a succession of pages. The familiarity of reading gives a kind of strangeness to these day-to-day elements, here freed from the articulatory criteria of narrative, description, or any other conventional register. SEX is a collection of images of ordinary objects photographed in everyday life. Their mere two-by-two confrontation is enough to give them a gender: male on the left, female on the right. The couples thus formed are figurative via confrontation; they only discover their sex or make us blush or laugh because they meet up on the double-page spread of the book. These ordinary shots give a universal symbolism the outward face of day-to-day objects. Whatever the medium he uses, Claude Closky works on shifting the order of things in order to make us change the way we see. Translations by Gail de Courcy-Ireland [via closky.info]

Julene Harrison

Letra-coisa

Alfabetos encontrados (found alphabets) em uma boa seleção do blog do escritório de design londrino Johnson Banks. Tem até uma comunidade no flickr sobre o assunto.

Dave Wood, clip type

Library Alphabet

Tupigrafia 9

Editada por Claudio Rocha e Tony de Marco, e publicada pela Oficina Tipográfica São Paulo, a revista apresenta a produção tipográfica nacional e suas manifestações no design gráfico, além de abordar temas ligados ao cenário tipográfico.

A revista se consagrou como uma referência de design editorial no Brasil e no exterior. Seus editores têm sido convidados para palestras em eventos nacionais e internacionais de tipografia.
Esta edição aborda temas variados.

De um passeio pela história da escrita, às letras pintadas nos barcos da Amazônia. Do Futurismo ao SynType, o sintetizador de fontes. Olhe de perto as fontes brasileiras e navegue nos tipos portugueses d’além mar.

Ficha Técnica
Capas: Dimitre Lima (ilusão tipográfica), Guto Lacaz (www) e Claudio Rocha (encadernação)
Formato: 16 x 22,5 cm
Periodicidade: anual
Preço: R$ 40,00

http://www.tupigrafia.com.br/
http://www.flickr.com/tupigrafia

Craig Ward

Words are pictures é o nome do site deste inglês, que desenha letras utilizando materiais diversos, incluindo caixas de papelão e cabelo.

Uma das técnicas inusitadas para desenhar letras, em uma ilustração para a revista Maxim.

Greely Myatt

Talking

Saul Steinberg

I Do, I Have, I Am

Joseph Beuys

Blackboards

Capas - Livro de Artista

Ben Vautier. Ben Dieu Art Total Sa Revue

Lebeer-Hossmann Editeurs, Brussels 1975

Eric Watier, Bloc

Jim Dine, This Goofy Life of Constant Mourning, 2004

This Goofy Life of Constant Mourning is the sincere title of a long visual poem by artist Jim Dine. The result of years of photographing poems after he has written them on walls and objects, it presents a symbiotic marriage of three very personal elements: his photographs, his handwriting, and his words. While unique in and of itself, this particular body of work is in keeping with Dine's greater oeuvre, a multi-disciplinary enterprise in which the artist seeks to access his unconscious. Regardless of which media Dine is working in, he maintains a familiar but ever-expanding repertory of images: tools, hearts and a torso of Venus, plus the more recent iconography of crows, skulls, a Pinocchio doll, and an odd-couple ape and cat. As with his paintings, sculptures and graphic work, for which he is better known, Dine seeks to record his physical and emotional presence concretely, not gesturally. The camera is but one of the many tools he has at his disposal for making such pictures. Though he has been making art for over four decades, producing paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints, as well as performance works, stage and book designs, poetry and even music, Dine has only been working with photography since 1996.

Flaubert, un Coeur Simple
Sherrie Levine
Gent, Belgium: Imschoot, Uitgevers. 1990

Appropriation artist Sherrie Levine applies her touch to this edition of Gustave Flaubert's Un Coeur Simple. After choosing a typeface and layout for the original text and cover, Levine affixes her own name smartly as the creator of this book. By affirming the fluid authorship of an creation, Levine approaches the implications of a statement by Flaubert, which reads "In the ideal I have of Art, I think that one must not show one's own...Man is nothing, the work of art everything."

Sol Lewitt, Geometric Figures & Color
H. N. Abrams; First Edition edition (1979)


Sol Lewitt, Cock Fight Dance
Rizzoli (1980)



Simon Cutts. Piano Stool Footnotes, 1982

A book of concrete poetry. 15.4×13cm, 224pp. Edition 1,000, fifty of which are signed and numbered. Published by The Jargon Society, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

David Shrigley, Err

Lawrence Weiner. Something to put something on
44 pages, Little Steidl, 2007

Neither storybook nor autobiography, Something to Put Something On is rather a "questioning book" for children, at once moving and intriguing in its candor. Something to Put Something On poses direct questions about art-making to and for young readers. Generously endowed with its maker's legendary wit, it is also, appropriately, the first title in the Little Steidl program.

Peter Wuthrich, Lesend

Tacita Dean

The Green Ray, 2004

Paperback, 6 x 3.75 in./152 pages
Publisher: Walther Konig, Koln

The green ray is an optical phenomenon that occurs during the last moment of the sun's setting. Rarely seen from land, and then only when the horizon over the sea is 100% clear, it appears here, on a few pages of a flip-book which documents an entire sunset in Madagascar. The stills are taken from Tacita Dean's 2001 video Green Ray on Madagascar.

Donato Sansone

animation and concept by Donato Sansone http://www.myspace.com/milkyeyes
sound design by Enrico Ascoli http://www.enricoascoli.com/

[Veja também o trabalho de uma estudante de Singapura, chamado parkour]

Guto Lacaz

periscópio

  The book is on the table

 

 

 A terceira margem do rio
(trabalho exposto na mostra "A imagem do som de Caetano Veloso, organizada por Felipe Taborda)

homenagem a Alex Vallauri

rádios pescando

  Cheque-Mate
(este tipo de trocadilho é um rébus, ou escrita com coisas)

Ziraldo

Flicts

Editado pela primeira vez em 1969, conta a história de uma cor procurando o seu lugar no mundo. O livro foi traduzido para diversos idiomas.

"Não tinha a força do Vermelho
não tinha a imensidão do Amarelo
nem a paz que tem o Azul
Era apenas o fragil e feio e aflito Flicts"

Parte da Série Mundo Colorido, da Editora Melhoramentos.

Links [Ziraldo; A cor em busca de um lugar; Flicts: livro de artista ]

Bernard Maisner

Caligrafia Árabe – A Arte Escrita

A exposição “Caligrafia Árabe – A Arte Escrita” fica aberta para visitação de 18 de março a 25 de Maio, de terça a sexta, das 7h às 21h30, e aos sábados e domingos, das 9h às 18h30. A entrada é Catraca Livre. A mostra apresenta a caligrafia árabe sob vários formatos e representações, como a pintura.

Caligrafia Árabe - A Arte Escrita
Quando:
de 18/03 a 25/05
Terças, Quartas, Quintas e Sextas das 07:00 às 21:30
Sábados e Domingos das 09:00 às 18:30
Quanto: Catraca Livre
Onde: Sesc Vila Mariana
Endereço: R. Pelotas, 141 - Vila Mariana - Sul.
Telefone: (11) 5080-3000 (11) 5080-3000
Obs: Classificação: livre

[via Catraca Livre]

Joan Lyons

Bride Book: Red to Green, 1975
approx. 52 pgs, 8x 91/2"offset, edition of 20

This book explores the possibilities of the offset press. Two plates, printed in red and green, with ink turned off, caused the bride to fade away and re-emerge.

Link http://www.joanlyons.com/bride.html

Juli Gudehus

Genesis

O primeiro livro da Bíblia, escrito em forma de pictogramas