Oooga Booga at The Swiss Institute
Ooga Booga is an independent book/art store in LA’s Chinatown, which has been championing artists and small pulishers since its opening in 2004. For two and a half months they will be taking up residence in The Reading Room at The Swiss Institute in Soho NYC with a selection of 300 + titles from self to professionally published.
Until Feb 13, 2010
Friends With You
Art collective Friends With You unveiled their new flagship boutique to coincide with Art Basel Miami, located at 3930 NE 2nd Avenue Suite 202, Miami. There you’ll find a host of brand new limited edition products, including clothes, toys, prints, and fine art in their whimsical and inimitable style.
Lubalin Now
The pioneering designer Herb Lubalin (1918-1981) is famed for wildly expressive typography and groundbreaking work for the magazines Avant Garde, Eros and Fact.
On view in Cooper Union’s new gallery, this installation includes recent posters, publications, and motion graphics by internationally recognized graphic designers that illuminate Lubalin’s continuing influence in contemporary design.
The exhibition will also mark the debut of newly relocated The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design & Typography, situated in the college’s new state-of-the-art academic building at 41 Cooper Square.
Exhibition dates: November 5- December 8, 2009
41 Cooper Gallery
Emory Douglas: Black Panther
Emory Douglas, minister of culture and activist for the Black Panthers in the 1960s and 1970s, invented a bold graphic style to transmit his party’s militant agenda. Over two decades Douglas created countless artworks, illustrations, and cartoons, of which over 165 are displayed here, and 40 years on they remain just as powerful and arresting as when he first created them.
Until 18th October 2009
New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
Corporate Diversity
Swiss Graphic Design and Advertising by Geigy, 1940–1970
This book is the first comprehensive presentation of Geigy design, whose studio was the launching pad for one of the great periods of Swiss graphic design in the 1950s and 1960s, and demonstrates the importance of the country’s contribution to the international history of design. The studio was lead by Max Schmid and employed Karl Gerstner, Armin Hofmann and Herbert Leupin among others.
19.8 x 26.4 cm, 208 pages, 385 illustrations, hardcover
100+ Nieves Zines at Printed Matter
From April 4th – May 23rd 2009 Printed Matter will be showing an exhibition with the legendary Swiss publisher Nieves. The exhibition will feature a full retrospective of Nieveʼs ʻzine program since 2004 as well as a selection of the books published by the press since its founding in 2001. The publications have taken on a variety of forms, from limited edition, photocopied zines, to more-formally recognized hardcover, perfect-bound and offset books.
Printed Matter, Inc. is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1976 by artists and art workers with the mission to foster the appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of artists’ books and other artists’ publications.
Printed Matter, 195 Tenth Avenue at 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011 Tel. 212 925 0325