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Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object, published in 1973 by Praeger Publishers Inc. From the PAPress Design Dept bookshelf.

Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object, published in 1973 by Praeger Publishers Inc. From the PAPress Design Dept bookshelf.

Cover of ‘Subnature’, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009. Aerial rendering, nMBA, by R&Sie(n) Architects, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2005. In this project, R&Sie(n) designs a building as a formal analog to the weed’s biological desire to invade and spread. Preserving dust as historical artifact, The Ethics of Dust, by Jorge Otero-Pailos, Balzano, Italy, 2008. People enveloped in gaseous cloud, Vatnsmyri Urban Plan, by Sean Lally/Weathers, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2007.

Subnature (2009), is the first book to explore a history and theory of nature within and through architecture’s complex and troubled relation with the industrial city. It offers a theory of pollution within architecture outside scientific or solely environmentalist concerns.

Subnature author David Gissen delves into the complex interchange between our built environment and the natural world in ‘CITY OF DUST: ARCHITECTURE AND SUBNATURE IN LOS ANGELES’ in the Summer issue of Artforum.

Design: A Creative Approach, published by International Textbook Company, 1955. From the PAPress Design Dept bookshelf.

Design: A Creative Approach, published by International Textbook Company, 1955. From the PAPress Design Dept bookshelf.

A new addition to the PAPress Design Dept bookshelf: Full Color by Karel Martens, published by Roma Publications.

Love this one - Ruscha’s homage to J.G. Ballard - The Music From The Balconies…, 1984. Oil on canvas, 99 x 81 in. Quote is from the amazing novel High-Rise, published in 1975.

Love this one - Ruscha’s homage to J.G. Ballard - The Music From The Balconies…, 1984. Oil on canvas, 99 x 81 in. Quote is from the amazing novel High-Rise, published in 1975.

Lettering for Architects and Designers, published in 1962 by Reinhold Publishing Corporation, New York. From the PAPress Design Dept bookshelf.

Lettering for Architects and Designers, published in 1962 by Reinhold Publishing Corporation, New York. From the PAPress Design Dept bookshelf.

FLUXUS / Henie Onstad Art Centre, Ken Friedman Fluxus Collection, 2010. From the PAPress Design Dept bookshelf.

FLUXUS / Henie Onstad Art Centre, Ken Friedman Fluxus Collection, 2010. From the PAPress Design Dept bookshelf.

Modern British Bookbindings, from the PAPress Design Dept bookshelf.

Modern British Bookbindings, from the PAPress Design Dept bookshelf.

The book has always been a format in flux. From The Designer Says.

The book has always been a format in flux. From The Designer Says.

The Designer Says can help you deal with clients.

The Designer Says can help you deal with clients.

Flight patterns of Starlings by photographer Richard Barnes, from Animal Logic, published in 2009 by PAPress.

‘New Visual Artist’ | Elana Schlenker

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Big congrats to our own Elana Schlenker for being included in PRINT magazine’s 2013 New Visual Artists issue (April). For the last eleven years, PRINT has featured an annual issue called the New Visual Artists Review, which introduces and profiles 20 of the most promising rising talents in graphic design, advertising, illustration, digital media, photography, and animation—all under the age of 30. Some of Elana’s recent work at PAPress includes: Vintage Typography Notecards and Brooklyn Makers.

From Vintage Type and Graphics, co-authored by Louise Fili. Fili’s monograph, Elegantissima, is available now.

Have you ever heard of Centralia Pennsylvania? Assuming you haven’t, Its a modern day ghost town located 70 miles southwest of Scranton. Abandoned in the 1980’s due to an underground mine fire that started in 1962, it has been burning ever since. “This was a world where no human could live, hotter than the planet Mercury, its atmosphere as poisonous as Saturn’s. At the heart of the fire, temperatures easily exceeded 1,000 degrees [Fahrenheit]. Lethal clouds of carbon monoxide and other gases swirled through the rock chambers.” —David DeKok, Unseen Danger: A Tragedy of People, Government, and the Centralia Mine Fire (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986) This poster is from a long-ago AIGA/NY event that featured Peter Buchanan-Smith, Jason Fulford, and Leanne Shapton, Paul Sahre moderated. PAPress published the book (Fresh Dialogue Four) in 2004. Features some great early work and interviews from these three artists.

Have you ever heard of Centralia Pennsylvania? Assuming you haven’t, Its a modern day ghost town located 70 miles southwest of Scranton. Abandoned in the 1980’s due to an underground mine fire that started in 1962, it has been burning ever since.

“This was a world where no human could live, hotter than the planet Mercury, its atmosphere as poisonous as Saturn’s. At the heart of the fire, temperatures easily exceeded 1,000 degrees [Fahrenheit]. Lethal clouds of carbon monoxide and other gases swirled through the rock chambers.” —David DeKok, Unseen Danger: A Tragedy of People, Government, and the Centralia Mine Fire (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986)

This poster is from a long-ago AIGA/NY event that featured Peter Buchanan-Smith, Jason Fulford, and Leanne Shapton, Paul Sahre moderated. PAPress published the book (Fresh Dialogue Four) in 2004. Features some great early work and interviews from these three artists.

The Designer Says, the next book in our “Words of Wisdom” series, coming this spring from Princeton Architectural Press.

Also see The Architect Says, posts here and here.