Task Newsletter
...uses design as a perspective, designed objects as evidence of larger systems, and designers as researchers.
...will be published twice a year as a collection of thematic explorations and reports on topics of interest to our readers.
...is hard to describe as anything but "in flux."
...is a labor of love (/hate).
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#1
The Eclectic Slide
Winter 2007
64 Pages / 500 Copies
Premier issue. A hodgepodge of conversations with Eric Olson, Mevis & van Deursen, and Project Projects, stories about designing Al Gore's ecobook and eating lunch in North Beach, meditations on being away from home, an incomplete reader on the question of eclecticism, and an ode to Cat Lovers Against the Bomb. More about issue 1.
What's happenin'
Forms of Inquiry was recently at Casco in Utrecht. Read a response to the exhibition at Design Observer.
Read the Design Observer post about the first issue of Task.
Task's contribution to Forms of Inquiry is featured in Idea Magazine No. 326.
The Task Newsletter Issue 1 has been included in the exhibition Forms of Inquiry: The Architecture of Critical Graphic Design on view through October 31 at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London.
Task is featured in the October issue of Creative Review.
#2
Not what if, what if not?
Early 2009
1000 Copies
Conceived as continuing education for graphic designers, the second issue of Task will present an inquiry into issues in science fiction. We’ll be examining ideas circulating in the genre and their connections to designers and design practice.
The development of issue 2 is underway! If you have an idea for a text or other contribution you'd like to make, let us know.
A note about funding
The first issue of Task was self-funded. Our intention is that this "seed money" will continue to pay for the publication as it grows: the next issue will be produced with whatever we make from the sales of Issue 1 and so on.
In the interest of full disclosure, our current PayPal balance is...
$2,172.17 USD
To help build the fund, we'll be offering classified ads in Issue 2. If you're interested in buying an ad, contact us.