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art direction and design by artless Inc.
interactive design by hitsme!
Visual art work by Nam

YCAM (Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media) :
山口情報芸術センター
http://www.ycam.jp/
http://phantomexhibition.ycam.jp/

Steve Paxston 5/24-8/31
- Phantom Exhibition -
Body as Interimage 4/25-8/31

Exhibition Total Design:
(Sign Design, Logo, Poster, Catalogue, Invitation Card etc...)

art direction and design : shun kawakami (artless)
design assistant : ryo sugi

client : YCAM / 山口情報芸術センター
curator : kazunao abe（YCAM）

WUNDERKAMMER – Jan & Randoald exhibition

17 September – 6 November 2009
espace my.monkey, Nancy, France

15,000won

EDITORIAL
You may be surprised at the black cover. I can say that it is much affected by the illustrator, Walter Warton. We invited and asked him to make drawings including the reinterpretations of every exhibition, while we were working on this issue introducing these 12 design exhibitions. His line drawings which took about a month are not only expressing his personal sensibilities about the exhibition spaces, but also depicting succinctly the facts of them. The color of background is Black that is symbolic of the limitless inane. Ahead of deadline, we printed out these drawings in the size of A2 and held an informal exhibition of them at a small gallery in Amsterdam for this issue . This issue of is a kind of catalogue for the exhibitions held in the magazine as well as a magazine for introducing 12 design exhibitions. And then we made the cover of “the catalogue” in black.
This issue is to have invited and recreated 12 noteworthy exhibitions which were held in various regions on the paper of our magazine. We made a specific list of exhibitions that are more conceptual and have an insight into a definition of design among the exhibitions held for the past three years. And we have come in contact with the curators of the exhibitions that meet our concept. These 12 exhibitions shown on the page were the works of which curators we made the actual contacts with among them. Although some exhibitions we would like to show were dropped in the process of contact, we came to the conclusion that these 12 lists were enough to show the latest flow of design exhibition, even if there’s a slight difference in their viewpoints on exhibition or their cultural backgrounds.
As we intended, these are different from general types of exhibitions showing the showcase of design products or promotional exhibitions focusing on portfolio. These exhibitions present a design methodology that makes it possible for design to convert itself into the various media, such as graphic design, architect, public space, online space, publishing, etc. and in some meanings, these deserve to be valued as those approaching the center of speculative wave of contemporary design. Many designers who have participated in these exhibitions are experimenting self-initiated design through their cooperation with other culture & art areas.
As the title of this issue “Ideas of Design Exhibition” speaks, we are focusing on the context and the formats of design exhibition. As we repeatedly put some questions to the interviewee about the detail of exhibition, the subject results in one point in the end. It is to introspect the meaning of design exhibition as a kind of media researching and redefining design. Although design journalism often deals with the information about design exhibition, it seldom pays attention to the methodology of exhibition. Thus we think the subject of this issue is well-timed.
We express our thanks to the designers and the curators who have readily participated in this project. The meaning of these exhibitions is more than they are stored in the archives of gallery websites. We hope you can enjoy them in many ways. Welcome to this exhibition!

새로운 장소와의 협상과 경험의 발견은 곧 작업으로 이어진다. 어떤 이는 세상에 존재하는 삶과 문화의 영역의 가장자리에 서 있는것 같다고 말한다. 어떤이의 경우에는 전혀 그렇지 않았다. 낯선 장소에서의 삶과 작업을 통하여 스스로를 발견하는 과정, 그것이 이 책을 구성하는 열가지 대화의 화두다.

How does living and working in a foreign place affect us? When one tries to make it home. When home is a place where everything is strange. Ten dialogues with ten artists: German, English, Chinese, Korean, Dutch, Indonesian, Australian and Japanese.
All negotiating new environments and many finding this new experience registering in their work. All of them speak of the relationship between their output and where they choose to practice. Some of them feel on the margins of the new cultures they have entered, as visitors. Others, not at all. I met people who were new arrivals in foreign cities. They were in places where they didn’t know a soul yet they didn’t see themselves as foreign or as tourists.
Artist Comment

Published in 2009.06
18 x 25 cm, 240 Pages
Colour
Print on Demand
Plan & Design Yoonna Choi

ISBN 978-89-960226-9-5

30,000(won)

Peake achieved a RIBA silver award commendation while an architecture student at the University of Edinburgh. His art has recently been exhibited in Antwerp, Los Angeles, New York, Portland and Shanghai and his drawings used in a variety of projects.
The work collected here is photos and drawings from excursions to some of the corners of the world. Further work can be seen at www.secondstreet.co.uk