Interlude: The reader’s traces

Interlude: The reader’s tracesBooks in libraries are public items; many different people have read the same copy. Each reader leaves its own traces and marks: a piece of paper used to separate the pages in the book, a note, a train ticket; they become unresolved texts, hints to be disclosed. The discovery of these traces works as an opening up, occupying an intermediate space or an iterative time. These interruptions suspend the continuous accumulation of knowledge, interrupt its

Taking up skin as a site of history and intimacy with the self and across generations

Illustrated with visual material from the guest book of Schiffer’s salon

Menna Barreto and Buggilla seek means of writing onto landscapes in ways that support biodiversity and more regenerative forms of agriculture

aid era but were never made public

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This has turned his entire oeuvre into a visual encyclopaedia

Ni maps out her imagery with back-and-forth articulation of drawing

Matthias Pees

and analysis

Editor: Stephen Faoro

Graphic Design: History in the Writing (1983–2011) comprises the most influential texts about graphic design history published in English

Publisher: Syndicat