From Neil Donnelly:

A collection of texts about architecture in the Arab world, The Arab City refutes stereotypes and complicates facile interpretations of Middle-Eastern architecture. The design is confident and blunt while remaining refined and academic, using tropes of both classical typesetting and crude sans-serif typography. The cover references Arab architecture and ornamentation while suggesting reinterpretation and reconsideration of tradition. Published by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City. With Sean Yendrys.

Bureau Borsche + Demna Gvasalia (+ “norm core aesthetic and mundane brand-abstractions”) = minimalismus

The team behind the communication of Coahuila's Federal Representative, Javier Guerrero, approached our office with the idea of developing his first Legislative Report in a different way. At the beginning we set out to establish the typefaces and the graphic style we were going to implement. We decided to use Arial and Times New Roman as a way of generating trust and accesibility. The illustrations we made are inspired by constructivism and are used with the purpose of generating transparency, a value we were aiming to reach. The phosphorescent green shows a fresh, updated and energized personality, capable of being relatable to the audience. The office took charge in designing a booklet, a folded poster with infographics, billboards, badges for the event, digital content, invitations, stencils and hand-painted signs for use in the streets.

Curator Laurel Ptak invited 14 internet artists, blogs and surf clubs to each come and do a 4-hour residency inside the space of the gallery. The event attempted to explore how the distribution, production, analysis, and consumption of culture rapidly are evolving in an online context.

Inspired by the ambiguous nature of the exhibition, and its aim to explore the blurred border between the physical and the digital, Konst & Teknik designed the webpage and the catalogue as one and the same thing, using (current) CSS technology only. The website was designed to fit the format of the newsprint catalogue and the catalogue was simply created by generating a printer file straight from the web browser.

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