June 2006
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Kafka & Typography
We get the word “koan” from Zen Buddhism, where in Japanese it translates literally as “a matter for public thought,” sort of an open-source philosophy for ancient times. Koans often demonstrated the inability of logical reasoning to produce enlightened thought, and, as a trained lawyer and insurance clerk throughout his life, no one knew the deadening effects of logic...
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Topic at AIGA/NY's "Fresh Dialogues: Making...
AIGA/NY selected Topic Magazine to join Bidoun and Esopus at “Fresh Dialogues 22: Making Magazines.” Topic Editor-in-Chief David Haskell was on hand to field questions from James Truman about the magazine’s past, present, and future. According to AIGA/NY,
This year’s Fresh Dialogue presents three young publishing gurus who are reinventing how magazines are made. They’ve thrown off the...
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Tense Relations
Above: Seeking comfort in an uncomfortable chair, Bruno Munari (ca. 1950). From Air Made Visible (2000).
“It’ll never be known how this has to be told, in the first person or the second, using the third person plural or continually inventing modes that will serve for nothing. If one might say: I will see the moon rose, or: we hurt me at the back of my eyes, and especially: you the blond woman...
