Natural phenomenons are a well used tool to illustrate and explain financial circumstances. The economy could face tsunamis and earthquakes, it could end up in deep valleys and reach high peaks, and it could be standing in front of the fiscal cliff. The fiscal cliff illustrates an abrupt and uncontrolled economic collapse, and the imagery of state leaders falling down cliffs is one of satire drawings’ best known archetypes. The metaphor is strengthened by the cliff’s many cultural appearances, and it has become a cultural icon itself due to films as Thelma & Louise, Looney Tunes and the Youtube fossil Tha Cliff from 2006. In the publication Fiscal Cliff, the topographic metaphor is used as a starting point for a visual game with symbols and characters that somehow has to deal with the fiscal fall. There might be multiple reasons why the fiscal cliff occurs, but once it’s here it will affect us all. Erlend Peder Kvam (1994) is an artist and illustrator based in Oslo. As an illustrator he has been working with clients as Bloomberg Businessweek, Medium Editorial, BENEE and Pom Poko. He was formerly associated with the performative design collective Narves1biblioteket, and in 2020 he co-founded the zine label Foot Books.

Vehiculo. What was supposed to be a triptych on artistic views on mobility now gets a fourth chapter due to the overall positive responses we’ve received. This issue once again is filled with the output of forward-thinking individuals that much more pr …

Private Views: A High-Rise Panorama of Manhattan is a book by Andi Schmied, showcasing the views of twenty-five of Manhattan’s most luxurious private residential skyscrapers, which she documented while posing as an apartment-hunting Hungarian billionai …

Diese September-Ausgabe von Texte zur Kunst versteht Neid als Betriebssystem einer Kunstwelt, die in hohem Maße auf Vernetzung, Wettbewerb und Abhängigkeiten basiert. Neid entsteht dadurch, dass Menschen sich aneinander orientieren und miteinander verg …

Author Vítezslav Nezval (1900 – 1958) is considered one of the most important figures in the Czech avantgarde. Barbara Bausch and Eva Dymáková have now produced the first complete German version of Akrobat, the cycle of poems Nezval published in 1927. …

As a literary theorist, Sergei Tretyakov is one of the leading lights in the left-wing art avant-garde. Few people know that he was also one of the most active literary cartographers of the early Soviet Union and its Asian and European neighbours. On t …

Not only was Moisei Ginzburg (1892 – 1946) one of the most important architects of the Soviet avant-garde but his theoretical work was also the pioneering force in constructivism. Rhythm in Architecture (1923) provides an insight into Ginzburg’s early …

The performance of computer-generated music breaks with the codes that have been established for concerts: the audience can no longer watch as music is created, and the causal relationship between action and sound has been cut. The laptop performance h …

The performance of computer-generated music breaks with the codes that have been established for concerts: the audience can no longer watch as music is created, and the causal relationship between action and sound has been cut. The laptop performance h …

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Seit 20 Jahren prämiert der Verein 100 Beste Plakate e. V. die wegweisendsten Plakatentwürfe aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Zu seinem Jubiläum sind der Verein und seine Mitglieder sowie Grafiker:innen weltweit mit existenziellen Fragen ko …

Helmut Jahn, amerikanischer Stararchitekt deutscher Herkunft (geb. 1940), setzt seit den 70er Jahren in den Metropolen der Welt spektakuläre Zeichen: Von Chicago bis Singapur und Shanghai, von Frankfurt, München, Berlin und Brüssel bis Las Vegas und To …

The book celebrates some of the best work from the magazine’s archive, accompanied by new essays by Sarah Mower, Vince Aletti and Robin Muir written especially for this lavishly produced 568 page edition. Acne Paper was a biannual magazine that had a b …

Alexey Brodovitch’s Ballet published in 1945 is one of the most legendary of photobook masterpieces. While already established as a leading influential art director and graphic designer, Brodovitch turned his photographic talents towards rehearsals and …

Alfred H. Barr Jr., Gründer des Museum of Modern Art in New York, und Philip Johnson, angesehener Architekt, brachten Anfang der 1930er-Jahre die Prinzipien des Bauhauses nach Amerika – noch bevor Exilanten aus dem nationalsozialistischen Deutschland d …

Dieser Erfolg verdankt sich in erster Linie einer erstaunlichen Kontinuität der politischen Einsicht der Wiener Kommune, dass Wohnen eine gesellschaftliche Aufgabe ist und nicht allein dem Markt überlassen werden darf. Im Laufe eines bewegten Jahrhunde …