Physical Description - This is a modified accordion book. The pages are Arches Text Laid and the cover is handmade cedar bark paper. The images were printed using pronto plates and lithography ink and painted with watercolor.
Physical Description - small 3"x4.5", accordion style travel book that folds out to reveal a map of forest park. Printed on white heavy coated inkjet paper - 35 lb.
Title Description - In 2001 Laurie Palmer sent out an open request for proposals to transform an unused patch of public land set aside by the city of Chicago in 1987 as a future park dedicated to Haitian-French trader Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, the first permanent non-native settler of Chicago who was black. Palmer initiated the project upon learning about the dedication of the space – an abandoned landfill in reality – and the city’s long apathy to actually transforming the plot. Her desire was to contest the public-ness of this "public space". "The project invited, without city sanction or authority, speculative proposals for how a small plot of public land in Chicago might be used. There was no jury, no winner, and no prize. It was an invitation to irony, fantasy, and utopian imaginings but also an attempt to pry open city planning processes for public scrutiny and participation," says Palmer. Through an extensive cataloging of the plot of land, essays covering DuSable and the city as site for art, as well as sixty four artistic and architectural proposals, 3 Acres on the Lake offers a complex investigation of the tenuous existence of truly public space in American cities mesmerized by high-income development. 29 June 2009 (printedmatter.org).
Physical Description - St. Louis Colorscapes combines five documented “colorscapes” in six flipbooks, spiral bound together on two clear plastic coils. The title and background information were Gocco printed onto the grey chipboard cover. Photographs were laser printed at a commercial print shop on HP cover paper and interior labels were plotted on Mylar.
Title Description - Documents vegetation of traffic islands in urban settings. 29 June 2009 (printedmatter.org).
Physical Description - "Typeface: Adobe Caslon Pro (regular and semibold). Paper: Hahanemule [sic] Gutenberg Laid, creamy tan (main); Lama Li, deep sea green (accent); Mexican bark paper, dark brown (accent)"--Colophon.
Title Description - At the invitation of the Public Art Fund, Mark Dion created The Urban Wildlife Observation Unit, a small work station in Madison Square Park, in which he conducted research on his surroundings from July 11 - October 31, 2002. A potent mix of serious investigation and gleeful absurdity, his findings appear fully annotated and illustrated in this guide. The European Starling, the House Sparrow and Pigeon are identified as inhabitants as are the Monarch Butterfly, the Norway Rat and the American Cockroach. Photographs and drawings accompany notes on field work and the site's history, and Gregory Volk contributes a critical essay. A list of the lectures that took place at the Observation Unit is included at the back along with a bibliography for further research should you be inspired to take up your own post in the city. 29 June 2009 (printedmatter.org).
Physical Description - Photos and watercolours and text and floorplans
Title Description - In 1992, Zurich's Platspitz park--once a 19th century source of inspiration for nature lovers including James Joyce--made international headlines as the open-air home to some 3,000 illegal drug users and dealers. It was subsequently closed, cleaned up, and is now fenced and guarded. In this project, four artists proposed plans for converting the park into a model of public space. In German and English. 29 June 2009 (printedmatter.org).