11/04/2023
Tim Moore
Not my blotting tissues
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High quality books, prints and artworks Formist Editions, Formist Foundry, Formist Studio.
In addition, the organisation also comprises Formist Foundry, a commercial outlet for unique and expressive typefaces; and Formist Studio, a design group that develops bespoke solutions for commissioners and self-initiated projects.
Tim Moore
Not my blotting tissues
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Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro: Ready-made Ruin
A definitive monograph documenting the celebrated artists’ work over the past two decades.
Available now from our online store. Link in bio or click product tag.
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Michaela Gleave: The influence of an idea on the physical properties of the world
A poetic volume presenting the artist’s conceptual focus on space and time
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'The influence of an idea on the physical properties of the world' features texts by Anna Briers, Edward Colless and Naomi Riddle, as well as a conversation between Gleave and curator Annika Kristensen. The book is presented in a silver slipcase that features an aperture, creating an eclipse effect as the book is removed.
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Kris Sowersby: The Art of Letters
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A visual feast of letterforms celebrating one of the world’s leading type designers. This 800 page publication examines Sowersby’s letter drawing practice while considering the characters as independent works of art, exploring their interconnections of function and style. It champions the absurd beauty involved in creating multiple expressions of predetermined alphabets through nuance and theory, allowing us to re-see, or to see for the first time, their individual form and function. Conceived by and Dave Foster (), the publication features over 750 large character illustrations selected from typefaces, as well as a fascinating essay by graphic designer, writer and educator Paul McNeil of .
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Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro: Ready-made Ruin
A definitive monograph documenting the celebrated artists’ work over the past two decades.
Available now from our online store. Link in bio or click product tag.
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We’re gearing up for a big year ahead. All of our lovely books are online and can be shipped world-wide. Come and browse. Link in bio.
Angelica Mesiti: Assembly
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Angelica Mesiti’s three-channel video work ‘Assembly’, commissioned by for the Australian Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale, explores the fragility of democracy.
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Michaela Gleave: The influence of an idea on the physical properties of the world
Available from our online store. Link in bio or click product tag.
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A poetic volume presenting the artist’s conceptual focus on space and time. Presented in a silver slipcase that features an aperture, creating an eclipse effect as the book is removed.
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Michaela Gleave: The influence of an idea on the physical properties of the world
A poetic volume presenting the artist’s conceptual focus on space and time
Available from our online store. Link in bio.
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'The influence of an idea on the physical properties of the world' features texts by Anna Briers, Edward Colless and Naomi Riddle, as well as a conversation between Gleave and curator Annika Kristensen. The book is presented in a silver slipcase that features an aperture, creating an eclipse effect as the book is removed.
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New release:
Michaela Gleave: The influence of an idea on the physical properties of the world
A poetic volume presenting the artist’s conceptual focus on space and time
Available from our online store. Link in bio or click product tag.
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‘The influence of an idea on the physical properties of the world’ investigates contemporary artist ’s diverse practice and preoccupation with concepts of space – be it physical, unearthly or intangible – often referencing natural phenomena and tricks of perception. The debut publication of Gleave’s work, it features texts by Anna Briers, Edward Colless and Naomi Riddle, as well as a conversation between Gleave and curator Annika Kristensen. The book is presented in a silver slipcase that features an aperture, creating an eclipse effect as the book is removed.
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Paperback in slipcase
170 × 240 mm
Editor: Mark Gowing
Texts: Anna Briers, Edward Colless, Naomi Riddle, Annika Kristensen
Design: Mark Gowing
Typeset in Kapitol by
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New release:
Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro: Ready-made Ruin
A definitive monograph documenting the celebrated artists’ work over the past two decades.
Available now from our online store. Link in bio or click product tag.
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Ready-made Ruin is an immersive publication marking twenty years of collaboration by acclaimed Australian artists . Covering two decades of work, the book features a fascinating essay from curator Felicity Fenner, while a visual inventory of the duo’s diverse practice is unveiled across more than 400 pages. Accompanying the artworks is a personal and revealing set of process images, approximately one thousand behind-the-scenes photographs, printed in gold and concealed within the specially folded pages, like treasure buried within the publication.
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Hardcover
215 × 280 mm
448 pages
Editors: Felicity Fenner and Mark Gowing
Texts: Felicity Fenner and Fram Kitagawa
Design: Mark Gowing
Typeset in Fiction by
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New release:
Michaela Gleave: The influence of an idea on the physical properties of the world
A poetic volume presenting the artist’s conceptual focus on space and time
Available from our online store. Link in bio or click product tag.
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‘The influence of an idea on the physical properties of the world’ investigates contemporary artist Michaela Gleave’s diverse practice and preoccupation with concepts of space – be it physical, unearthly or intangible – often referencing natural phenomena and tricks of perception. The debut publication of Gleave’s work, it reveals her deep curiosity in better understanding the structures and frameworks that shape our known universe, and the human experience central to it.
Gleave’s diverse conceptual practice traverses numerous mediums and platforms and often involves working in many disciplines, including performance, digital and online, music, choreography, data visualisation, sculpture, photography and installation. No matter the medium, her projects question the nature of reality and our relationship to time, matter and space, focussing particularly on the changing intersections between art, science and society.
Gleave’s work has been presented extensively in Australia and internationally, with major performance and installation works for the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Dark M**o Festival, Hobart; Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth; Bristol Biennial, UK; TarraWarra Art Museum, Melbourne; Carriageworks, Sydney; and Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne among others.
The influence of an idea on the physical properties of the world features texts by Anna Briers, Edward Colless and Naomi Riddle, as well as a conversation between Gleave and curator Annika Kristensen. The book is presented in a silver slipcase that features an aperture, creating an eclipse effect as the book is removed.
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Paperback in slipcase
170 × 240 mm
Editor: Mark Gowing
Texts: Anna Briers, Edward Colless, Naomi Riddle, Annika Kristensen
Design: Mark Gowing
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New release:
Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro: Ready-made Ruin
A definitive monograph documenting the celebrated artists’ work over the past two decades.
Available now from our online store. Link in bio or click product tag.
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Ready-made Ruin is an immersive publication marking twenty years of collaboration by acclaimed Australian artists Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro. Covering two decades of work, the book features a fascinating essay from curator Felicity Fenner, while a visual inventory of the duo’s diverse practice is unveiled across more than 400 pages.
The many works presented include 2003’s The Cordial Home Project, their first foray in shared artmaking that attracted critical attention, where Healy & Cordeiro reconstructed a suburban weatherboard house scheduled for demolition, neatly stacking its parts into a large-scale installation; Lifespan, created for the 2009 Venice Biennale, made from 175,218 VHS video cassettes; Par Avion (2011), the pair’s first aircraft turned artwork; Where we’ve been, where we’re going, why? (2011), Lego works replicating media images of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster; We Hunt Mammoth (2015), a sculptural installation comprising 121 separate Honda car parts, bound in traditional Japanese packaging of bamboo and jute; and You Are Here (2020), where Australian Air Force surplus aircraft parts where turned into Japanese kites.
Accompanying the artworks is a personal and revealing set of process images, approximately one thousand behind-the-scenes photographs, printed in gold and concealed within the specially folded pages, like treasure buried within the publication.
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Hardcover
215 × 280 mm
448 pages
Editors: Felicity Fenner and Mark Gowing
Texts: Felicity Fenner and Fram Kitagawa
Design: Mark Gowing
Typeset in Fiction by
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Jonathan Jones: works on paper 2010–19
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Open Manifesto: An Anthology –Conversations and essays by influential thinkers, collected from the iconic design journal. Available from our online store. Link in bio or click product tag.
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In 2003, the then Joint Creative Director at Saatchi Design Sydney, Kevin Finn founded the independent design journal Open Manifesto under the modest banner ‘Some thoughts on graphic design’. In the fifteen years that followed, Open Manifesto proved to be a lot more, and threw out the rule book of what a design journal should be. While always delivering a heady mix of knowledge and journalism, Open Manifesto exhibited astonishing breadth, exploring how design intersects across social, cultural, political and economic fields. It sought to understand the way design permeates our lives – past, present and future.
An unsung gem obsessively read by those in the know, Open Manifesto featured essays by and interviews with a host of high profile international thinkers and practitioners. It included designers Michael Bierut, Bob Gill, Milton Glaser, Paula Scher, Ji Lee, George Lois, Jessica Walsh, Wally Olins, Dean Poole, Peter Saville, Ros Moriarty, Vince Frost and Rudy VanderLans. By extending its remit, contributions also came from a diverse range of individuals such as philosopher Edward de Bono, Academy Award winning film director Errol Morris, author Helen Walters, peace activist Rami Elhanan, psychologist Adam Grant, cultural tourism expert Helen Palmer, ex-CIA operative Larry J. Kolb, artist Nicole Foreshew, cyborg Neil Harbisson and real life superhero Master Legend.
These writings and more have been gathered together in a new publication to celebrate the journal’s legacy. Open Manifesto: An Anthology is lovingly curated and crafted, featuring more than 40 essays and interviews, alongside new texts by Kevin Finn, and with a foreword by design commentator Debbie Millman outlining the journal’s fascinating history and undeniable influence.
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Kris Sowersby: The Art of Letters
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Gemma Smith: Found Ground
A luscious survey of celebrated practice. Available from our online store. Link in bio or click product tag.
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Mark Gowing: Inside the Oblong
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Mark Gowing: Inside the Oblong collects twenty years of posters by the esteemed designer and is a portrait of his uncompromising process for commercial clients and his own personal practice. Over 288 pages the book explores the rhythms, proportion and dynamics of the oblong space that is the poster. The work is divided into five broad categories: Commercial, Exhibition, Film, Music and Practice. The posters display an approach to type, image and pattern that is immediately recognisable as Gowing’s and no-one else’s.
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Sandie Don & Mark Gowing: We were only inches away
A limited edition artists’ book that examines our relationship to the camera and each other
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Jonathan Jones: works on paper 2010–19
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Taloi Havini: Reclamation
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Sam Doctor: Temporal Terrains
A research-driven photobook exploring lost and traumatised places. Available from our online store. Link in bio or click product tag.
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This little beauty is selling fast. Open Manifesto: An Anthology – available from our online store. Link in bio or click product tag.
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Sam Doctor: Temporal Terrains
A research-driven photobook exploring lost and traumatised places. Available from our online store. Link in bio or click product tag.
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‘Traumascapes’ is a term used by Australian cultural historian Maria Tumarkin to identify a landscape, real or figurative, that is defined by the traumatic events that have occurred in that place. Tumarkin’s book, Traumascapes (2005), is a story about the fate and power of places across the world marked by pain, violence and loss. In the world we inhabit, such places are common—they are the sites of terror attacks, natural and industrial catastrophes, genocide, exile, ecological degradation and communal loss.
—doctorartist
NEW RELEASE
Formist Edition 40
Open Manifesto: An Anthology
A collection by Kevin Finn
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Conversations and essays by influential thinkers, collected from the iconic design journal. Available from our online store. Link in bio or click product tag. Books ship in early June.
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In 2003, the then Joint Creative Director at Saatchi Design Sydney, Kevin Finn founded the independent design journal Open Manifesto under the modest banner ‘Some thoughts on graphic design’. In the fifteen years that followed, Open Manifesto proved to be a lot more, and threw out the rule book of what a design journal should be. While always delivering a heady mix of knowledge and journalism, Open Manifesto exhibited astonishing breadth, exploring how design intersects across social, cultural, political and economic fields. It sought to understand the way design permeates our lives – past, present and future.
An unsung gem obsessively read by those in the know, Open Manifesto featured essays by and interviews with a host of high profile international thinkers and practitioners. It included designers Michael Bierut, Bob Gill, Milton Glaser, Paula Scher, Ji Lee, George Lois, Jessica Walsh, Wally Olins, Dean Poole, Peter Saville, Ros Moriarty, Vince Frost and Rudy VanderLans. By extending its remit, contributions also came from a diverse range of individuals such as philosopher Edward de Bono, Academy Award winning film director Errol Morris, author Helen Walters, peace activist Rami Elhanan, psychologist Adam Grant, cultural tourism expert Helen Palmer, ex-CIA operative Larry J. Kolb, artist Nicole Foreshew, cyborg Neil Harbisson and real life superhero Master Legend.
These writings and more have been gathered together in a new publication to celebrate the journal’s legacy. Open Manifesto: An Anthology is lovingly curated and crafted, featuring more than 40 essays and interviews, alongside new texts by Kevin Finn, and with a foreword by design commentator Debbie Millman outlining the journal’s fascinating history and undeniable influence.
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Hardcover
170 × 240 mm
352 pages
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Sam Doctor: Temporal Terrains
A research-driven photobook exploring lost and traumatised places. Available from our online store. Link in bio or click product tag.
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Sam Doctor’s (.doctorartist) photographic practice ruminates on humanity’s fragile relationship with the environment by researching specific instances of catastrophe, desecrated landscapes, and the effects of technology and industry. The publication Temporal Terrains explores lost and traumatised places and builds upon Doctor’s expansive practice that considers the traces and permutations of environmental decline, playing out on contested sites from Fukushima in Japan, the Hang D**g Quarry in Thailand to an Australian abandoned uranium mine.
These photographs, most of which have not been exhibited before, accumulate into an immersive but damning narrative: they capture the incidental quality of the ongoing trauma of colonialism and the manipulation of the natural world. The sites harbour multiple temporalities: once privileged places of capitalist extractivism and power generation, many are now abandoned and abject, official embarrassments to be hidden; once thriving communities with rich traditions, some are now trivialised locales mined for the tourist dollar. The large format publication offers a visual essay of the artist’s investigation, as well as an enlightening essay by Associate Professor Dr Jacqueline Miller.
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Sydney folk! This time next week we’ll be at the Permanent Art Book Fair, which is free to attend, running alongside the Semi Permanent Sydney design festival, at Carriageworks in Eveleigh.
From Wednesday May 25 to Friday May 27, at the Formist Editions stand we will be presenting all our publications, including the launch of Open Manifesto: An Anthology, and original prints and artworks. We’ll be celebrating that print is not dead with 30 of Australia’s most dynamic and innovative publishers, artists and designers. Come down and say hello!
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Permanent Art Book Fair
May 25–27, 2022
Carriageworks, Eveleigh
Wednesday 9am-6pm
Thursday & Friday 9am-9pm
For more information, check
Sam Doctor: Temporal Terrains. Available from our online store. Link in bio or click product tag.
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A research-driven photobook exploring lost and traumatised places.
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Paperback
96 pages
235 x 305mm
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Formist Editions is thrilled to be taking part in Semi Permanent Sydney later this month, to launch our new publication Open Manifesto: An Anthology. To celebrate the legacy of the iconic Open Manifesto design journal, its creator Kevin Finn has lovingly curated more than 40 essays and interviews that appeared over the journal’s 15 year lifespan. Finn and Formist Editions founder Mark Gowing will be speaking at Semi Permanent on Friday May 27, on stage at 11.30am.
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An unsung gem obsessively read by those in the know, Open Manifesto featured essays by and interviews with a host of high profile thinkers and practitioners, including designers Michael Bierut, Paula Scher, Peter Saville, Bob Gill, Milton Glaser, Jessica Walsh, Ros Moriarty, Vince Frost, Ji Lee and Rudy VanderLans, and a diverse range of individuals such as Edward de Bono, Nicole Foreshew, Errol Morris, Adam Grant, Helen Walters and Rami Elhanan. These writings and more have been gathered together in a new publication Open Manifesto: An Anthology, with new texts by Finn and a foreword by design commentator Debbie Millman.
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At midday, following the talk, the publication will be launched at our stall at the Permanent Art Book Fair, with a book signing by Kevin Finn. It is open to the public and free to attend. We hope you can join us.
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For more information, check
NEW RELEASE
PRE-ORDER NOW
Formist Edition 40
Open Manifesto: An Anthology
A Collection by Kevin Finn
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Conversations and essays by influential thinkers, collected from the iconic design journal.
Pre-order from our online store. Link in bio or click product tag. Books ship in early June.
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In 2003, the then Joint Creative Director at Saatchi Design Sydney, Kevin Finn founded the independent design journal Open Manifesto under the modest banner ‘Some thoughts on graphic design’. In the fifteen years that followed, Open Manifesto proved to be a lot more, and threw out the rule book of what a design journal should be. While always delivering a heady mix of knowledge and journalism, Open Manifesto exhibited astonishing breadth, exploring how design intersects across social, cultural, political and economic fields. It sought to understand the way design permeates our lives – past, present and future.
An unsung gem obsessively read by those in the know, Open Manifesto featured essays by and interviews with a host of high profile international thinkers and practitioners. It included designers Michael Bierut, Bob Gill, Milton Glaser, Paula Scher, Ji Lee, George Lois, Jessica Walsh, Wally Olins, Dean Poole, Peter Saville, Ros Moriarty, Vince Frost and Rudy VanderLans. By extending its remit, contributions also came from a diverse range of individuals such as philosopher Edward de Bono, Academy Award winning film director Errol Morris, author Helen Walters, peace activist Rami Elhanan, psychologist Adam Grant, cultural tourism expert Helen Palmer, ex-CIA operative Larry J. Kolb, artist Nicole Foreshew, cyborg Neil Harbisson and real life superhero Master Legend.
These writings and more have been gathered together in a new publication to celebrate the journal’s legacy. Open Manifesto: An Anthology is lovingly curated and crafted, featuring more than 40 essays and interviews, alongside new texts by Kevin Finn, and with a foreword by design commentator Debbie Millman outlining the journal’s fascinating history and undeniable influence.
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Hardcover
170×240mm
352 pages
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We’re thrilled to be taking part in the inaugural Permanent Art Book Fair, held parallel to the design festival Semi Permanent Sydney at Carriageworks from May 25 to 27. The Art Book Fair is free to attend, being open to the public for the three days of the festival. Formist Editions will have all our publications available alongside artworks and prints.
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We will also be launching our new book Open Manifesto: An Anthology. To celebrate the legacy of the iconic Open Manifesto design journal, its creator Kevin Finn has lovingly curated more than 40 essays and interviews that appeared over the journal’s 15 year lifespan. An unsung gem obsessively read by those in the know, Open Manifesto featured essays by and interviews with a host of high profile thinkers and practitioners, including designers Michael Bierut, Paula Scher, Peter Saville, Bob Gill, Milton Glaser, Jessica Walsh, Ros Moriarty, Vince Frost, Ji Lee and Rudy VanderLans, and a diverse range of individuals such as Edward de Bono, Nicole Foreshaw, Errol Morris, Adam Grant, Helen Walters and Rami Elhanan. These writings and more have been gathered together in a new publication Open Manifesto: An Anthology, with new texts by Finn and a foreword by design commentator Debbie Millman.
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Kevin Finn and Formist Editions founder Mark Gowing will be speaking at Semi Permanent on Friday May 27, and following the talk the publication will be launched at midday at our stall at the Permanent Art Book Fair, with Finn signing copies and kissing babies. For our Sydney friends, we’d love you to join us.
Permanent Art Book Fair
May 25–27, 2022
Carriageworks, Eveleigh
Wednesday 9am-6pm
Thursday & Friday 9am-9pm
NEW RELEASE
Sam Doctor: Temporal Terrains
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A research-driven photobook exploring lost and traumatised places. Available from our online store. Link in bio or click product tag.
—doctorartist
NEW RELEASE
Formist Edition 37
Sam Doctor: Temporal Terrains
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A research-driven photobook exploring lost and traumatised places.
Available from our online store. Link in bio or click product tag.
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Sam Doctor’s .doctorartist photographic practice ruminates on humanity’s fragile relationship with the environment by researching specific instances of catastrophe, desecrated landscapes, and the effects of technology and industry. The publication Temporal Terrains explores lost and traumatised places and builds upon Doctor’s expansive practice that considers the traces and permutations of environmental decline, playing out on contested sites from Fukushima in Japan, the Hang D**g Quarry in Thailand to an Australian abandoned uranium mine.
These photographs, most of which have not been exhibited before, accumulate into an immersive but damning narrative: they capture the incidental quality of the ongoing trauma of colonialism and the manipulation of the natural world. The sites harbour multiple temporalities: once privileged places of capitalist extractivism and power generation, many are now abandoned and abject, official embarrassments to be hidden; once thriving communities with rich traditions, some are now trivialised locales mined for the tourist dollar. The large format publication offers a visual essay of the artist’s investigation, as well as an enlightening essay by Associate Professor Dr Jacqueline Miller.
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Paperback
96 pages
235 x 305mm
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The internet can't do this book justice. You have to hold it in your hands to truly experience its beauty. https://formist.co/products/stephen-ormandy-only-dancing
Outside Material documents the design work of Mark Gowing Studio for Preservation Music. Available now from www.formist.co.
3+2: Durbach Block Jaggers two volume set we recently designed for Uro Publications is now available at www.uropublications.com.
Outside Material: The cover art of Preservation Music. Available now. Evocative design that explores our relationship with music. www.formist.co #outsidematerial #preservationmusic #markgowing #formisteditions #formist
Exciting times – Formist is growing! We are a graphic design studio, an art and design publisher, and a soon to be launched type foundry. More soon.
To celebrate the release of Year of the Monkey, we will be broadcasting our talk between Paul Garbett and Flyn Tracy on Facebook Live. Check in to our page on Tuesday, May 15 at 7pm AEST (Sydney time).
To celebrate the release of Paul Garbett's Year of the Monkey, Formist and Australian Design Radio are hosting an intimate but lively discussion with special guest Paul Garbett (Garbett Design). Join us for a chat and a drink. $10 tickets from www.formist.co Presented by Formist and Australian Design Radio Hosted by Flyn Tracy Tuesday, May 16 Surry Hills Library 6:30pm
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