Dan Graham Not yet realised: pavilion drawings

Publication design

Published to coincide with an exhibition of Graham’s pavilions at Lisson Gallery, Not yet realised displays the artist’s sketches and plans for as-yet-unfinished works including paper scraps from sketchbooks alongside annotated architectural drawings and more resolved imagery. The design respectfully reproduces these scraps and snippets without attempting to sanitize or finesse their unfinished edges, and the broad borders and generous use of space within the layout echo the way in which Graham’s finished works are exhibited in the gallery.

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Allora & Calzadilla Vieques Videos 2003–2010

Vieques Videos 2003–2010 documents three films by Allora & Calzadilla that address the history of Vieques, an island off Puerto Rico that until recently was used by the United States Navy as a weapons testing range. Filmed over a decade Returning a Sound (2004), Under Discussion (2005) and Half Mast/Full Mast (2010) form part of the civil disobedience campaign that was waged by local residents. Stills from each of the films are balanced by a large visual essay of historic documentation that underpins much of the work. In addition the cover (and a section inside) feature landscape photographs by the artists that were overprinted with a black gloss ink, to highlight the way the island is now being advertised as an unspoiled natural paradise to holiday makers and property developers.

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Haroon Mirza Movement

Publication

Haroon Mirza works with sound, video, sculpture and light, to create installations and assemblages that alter perceptions of the intended function. Utilising material and objects such as used furniture, household electronics, machines, video footage and sometimes even works by other artists – revealing the hidden qualities of these outwardly disparate objects. For his book, we worked closely together to develop a way of communicating this method in print. The typeface used throughout is derived from a machine font used for routing, and the book cover was a collaboration between Mirza and ourselves. The image – a photo of a spinning record – was sliced into with the same routing machine mentioned previously as an intervention. Other features include spinning page numbers that echo the movement of the cover.

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Richard Wentworth From Boule to Braid

Printed Material

Richard Wentworth is both an artist and a chronicler of daily life, collating and assembling an archaeology of the world we live in. From Boule to Braid was an exhibition curated by Wentworth at the Lisson Gallery which created interesting conversations between works – our drawings for the printed materials were something like a page of a strange thesauraus.

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