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Full Color. Visual essay of Karel Martens’ studio, published on the occassion of the exhibition KM at ginza graphic gallery (Tokyo, Japan). With texts by David Senior and Karel Martens.
Available via Roma Publications (ROMA 199)
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OASE
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Hell yes, OASE site updates! Now showing more of the impressive typographic work of Karel Martens. (via Manystuff)
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In the last few years, ‘radical’ has meant radical in form, or in fact radical in image. Architects and designers have borrowed the false prop of poststructuralist theory, in which the airy abstractions of language become everything—and material reality is displaced and denied. (Jean Baudrillard on the Gulf War was the clearest instance of this.) Text is unsettled and deconstructed, to become just image. And when this stuff is reproduced in magazines and annuals, its fate as mere image is sealed forever. The critical and subversive possibilities of this wild and ‘radical’ work are then zero.
[Robin Kinross Unjustified Texts persepectives on typography, Karel Martens, pg. 90]
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