"Disc style is an international overview of the best grahics of electronic music and the club culture scene. Record covers, CD booklets, labels and flyers are all included to give an insight into current musical and graphic trends. Disc style contains an up-to-the-minute account of the genesis of electronic club music, as well as a preface by Ian Anderson, founder of the Designers Republic, one of the most influential graphics studios of the '90s." -- Jacket.
Formulaic and improvisational compositions from a graphic designer dedicated to visual research Graphic designer Markus Weisbeck (born 1965) presents 18 visual works created between 2011 and 2022. Most of the designs are predicated on the principle of improvisational loops in which interim results are repeatedly tested and varied until a final theme and form emerge from the process.
Der Raum für Visuelle Forschung arbeitet seit 2013 als Labor für experimentelle Forschung an neuen grafischen, abstrakten und visuellen Welten im Kontext der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Er ist Werkstätte und Denkraum zugleich und unterstützt die Notwendigkeit einer entdeckenden Suche nach neuen Ästhetiken. Die neue Publikation Space for Visual Research 2 ist das erweiterte Labortagebuch für diese Schule der Visuellen Forschung. Sie ist das Protokoll visueller Experimente, die Verfahren der Physik, Chemie, Optik und Reproduktionstechnik als Ausgangspunkt der Bildproduktion wählen. Interviews und Fachessays sowie eine handverlesene Literaturliste machen Space for Visual Research 2 zu einem Nachschlagewerk für die Theorie Visueller Forschung heute. Der erste Band von Space for Visual Research erschien 2014 bei Spector Books.
Featured for the first time in the noted Sternberg Black Pocket Book series is a selection of seminal graphic-design projects developed by Markus Weisbeck's German studio Surface over the last ten years. This paradigm-shifting firm has redefined the client-designer relationship, challenging what constitutes a graphic design practice today. Whether Surface collaborates closely with artists, like Liam Gillick or Isa Genzken, to create the posters for the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale or takes the liberty to insert subtle interventions into monthly issues of a magazine, its designs skillfully inform the content at hand. Includes projects as diverse as virtual audio artwork by artist Michaela Melian, numeerous artists' catalogues and key visuals for Manifesta 7. Also featured is a conversation between Christoph Keller and Markus Weisbeck.
William Forsythe is one of the most significant and innovative choreographers working in the area of contemporary dance today. While director of the Ballet Frankfurt and now, with The Forsythe Company, he has transcended the boundaries of the genre, to great international acclaim. Working on the globe's major stages, he has redefined the parameters of the performing arts. * * Presenting new installations and films, the publication provides a multilayered encounter with the human body and physical space, as well as with choreography and its production strategies. The monograph is accompanied by a text by William Forsythe as well as a dialogue between him and the critic and curator Daniel Birnbaum. * * Published with the Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal.