http://www.sortby.org/ sort by proposes a selection of autonomous and self-initiated material by designers. en-us Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:00:00 EST Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:00:00 EST http://www.sortby.org/rss.xml francesca@sortby.org francesca@sortby.org http://sortby.org/project.php?id=51 Hans-Rudolf Lutz

1980…added September 2008
208 x 294 mm, 2 volums, 312 pages each


For every workday of the year, one page of a daily newspaper in Zurich has been reproduced. That makes up the first volume. A 10 x 15 mm section has been cut out of each of these pages and enlarged to fill the book format of 208 x 294 mm. The clipping have not been selected at random. The outcome is volume two and also a history of the year 1979: a story in signs and pictures.

]]> Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:00:00 EST http://sortby.org/project.php?id=51 http://sortby.org/project.php?id=49 Hans-Rudolf Lutz

1979…added September 2008
841 x 1189 mm (A0), Ed.10


Homage and reminder to Muhamed Ali.

]]> Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:00:00 EST http://sortby.org/project.php?id=49 http://sortby.org/project.php?id=48 Zak Kyes

2007…added August 2008
http://formsofinquiry.com


Forms of Inquiry: The Architecture of Critical Graphic Design presents a compelling selection of graphic designers whose work explores the mutual exchange and shared lineage between graphic design and architecture. This work is united by a shared impulse to re-frame the circumstances surrounding contemporary graphic practice, using intuitive modes of investigation to probe the boundaries of the discipline. For this exhibition nineteen international graphic designers have provided three contributions: a representative example of past work, and an “inquiry” into architectural subjects serving as the foundation for a series of newly commissioned prints. This new work aims to re-examine the increasingly overlapping practices of graphic design and architecture and in so doing hopes to compile a selective genealogy of the architectural canon as seen through the field of contemporary graphic design.

]]> Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:00:00 EST http://sortby.org/project.php?id=48 http://sortby.org/project.php?id=46 Corita Kent a.k.a. Sister Mary Corita

1968…added September 2008
431.8 x 571.5 mm, Ed. unknown (most editions were 100 before 1970, after that they were mostly at 200, sometimes as high as 500)
http://www.corita.org


The signal codes were the original method of communication between ships. Flags would be run up a ship's mast to send visual messages – each flag stood for a particular letter. Corita created her Signal Code Alphabet series by adding whimsical graphics to the designs that signify each letter. A is for astrology B is for be-ins C is for clowns etc ... D is for digging it E is for everyone F is for frog prince G is for game I is for eye J is for jesus K is for knight L is for ladybug M is for magic N is for caution O is for god P is for Palm Q is for cutie pie R is for rabbit S is for saint T is for two U is for us V is for vibrations W is for white stone X marks the spot Y is for why not Z is for zorba

]]> Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:00:00 EST http://sortby.org/project.php?id=46 http://sortby.org/project.php?id=44 Radim Peško

2003…added June 2008
1000 x 700 mm, Ed. 20


Desinformative notice board of (co)incidental arrangements.

]]> Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:00:00 EST http://sortby.org/project.php?id=44 http://sortby.org/project.php?id=43 Guillaume Mojon

2007…added June 2008
150 x 200 mm, 256 pages, Ed. 10


This typeface was made in 2005 based on a digital form. All letters are constructed by the same modul. 140 signs make “Kleber”.

]]> Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:00:00 EST http://sortby.org/project.php?id=43 http://sortby.org/project.php?id=39 Karl Nawrot and Na Kim

2008…added July 2008
http://www.chezneon.fr/index.php


An exhibition of work by current and past Werkplaats Typografie participants on view at Neon Diffuseur d’Art Contemporain in Lyon, France, from March 8 through April 12, 2008. Curated by Na Kim & Karl Nawrot. The Werkplaats Typografie (WT) is a two-year masters program centered on practical assignments and self-initiated projects. It also serves as a meeting place for graphic designers with regard to research and dialogue.

]]> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:00:00 EST http://sortby.org/project.php?id=39 http://sortby.org/project.php?id=35 Francesca Grassi

2006…added June 2008
115 x 170 mm, 34 pages, Ed. 400 Spanish / 300 English
http://musac.es/index_en.php?ref=18700


“Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote” is another of the tales included in Jorge Luis Borges’ book Fictions. The story begins with a critic’s protest against the omission in a catalogue of the French writer named Pierre Menard, whose major achievement was writing, in the nineteenth century, the ninth and thirty-eighth chapters and a fragment of the twenty-second chapter of the first part of Quixote. The chapters are the same, every word and every comma, as those written originally by Miguel de Cervantes. Nevertheless, the narrator realizes that they are not copies. Menard's text came into existence in 1939 and was first published in 2006 by Pierre Huyghe in memory of the first time he had this idea in 1996. Illustrations by Karl Nawrot

]]> Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:00:00 EST http://sortby.org/project.php?id=35 http://sortby.org/project.php?id=33 Radim Peško

2003…added May 2008
circa 500 x 500 mm
http://radimpesko.com


A continuation of Sol LeWitt’s 1974 project entitled “122 Variations of Incomplete Open Cubes”, which consisted of 122 views of unfinished cubes constructed from wooden planks. The new definitions are dependent on the viewer’s imagination and ability to recognize letters in seemingly abstract composition.

]]> Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:00:00 EST http://sortby.org/project.php?id=33 http://sortby.org/project.php?id=31 Dimitri Bruni (NORM) and Manuel Krebs (NORM)

2005…added June 2008
136 x 196 mm, 136 pages, Ed. 350
http://www.norm.to


The format and number of pages as well as the layout of images are identical with the original “Bruce Lee – The King of Kung Fu”, with the exception of a different type of paper stock and a new cover design. “We would like to point out that the main title Bruce Lee on the back cover suggests that the book be read from left to right, whereas the original would have been read from right to left. We are not too bothered by the fact that, as a result, our book begins with Bruce Lee’s death.”

]]> Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:00:00 EST http://sortby.org/project.php?id=31