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IBM, Paul Rand’s Graphic Standards Manual reprint
ISBN: 979-10-95991-07-6
English + French translation
292 + 44 pages
235 × 320 mm
CMYK + 9 Pantone ©
High resolution scans of the original pages, scale 1/1.
Preface by Steven Heller
Design: Syndicat
Translation English to French : Quentin Schmerber
2018
50€
ISBN: 979-10-95991-07-6
English + French translation
292 + 44 pages
235 × 320 mm
CMYK + 9 Pantone ©
High resolution scans of the original pages, scale 1/1.
Preface by Steven Heller
Design: Syndicat
Translation English to French : Quentin Schmerber
2018
50€
In 1956 the designer Eliot Noyes was employed by the Director of IBM to rethink the company’s design as a whole, from products to communication right up to the architecture of the buildings.
Graphic Designer Paul Rand was invited to define all of the graphic documents used in the company. Thus began one of the most memorable graphic design projects of the 20th century, at the heart of the “IBM Graphic Design Program”.
The series of IBM logotypes created by Paul Rand culminated in 1972 in a drawn version made up of layered strips, making the company’s initials instantly recognisable all over the world. This iconic logo, composed of 8 bars, continues to be used today.
Between the sixties and the eighties a significant group of graphic rules and uses was documented and regularly updated in a folder that was organised into sections. Inside we can find the instructions that allow us to reproduce the logotype, graphic and typographic rules, designs for internal and external documents, signage and architectural applications. This document allows one to work with the company’s graphic signs in coherence and efficient discussion with other trades. Today this folder is an iconic, rare and little documented object and it seems important to us to render it accessible and distributable, to Graphic designers, students and anyone interested in the adventure undertaken by this emblematic company.
Considering the many updates that were made to graphic design standards and norms, the different folders of the IBM norm that we consulted often differed greatly in terms of their content.
The successive documents from the folder and their developments will be published and reproduced so as to offer the widest possible vision of the work accomplished over a period of more than twenty years. This work will be done in collaboration with the archive team from IBM New York, and the Kandinsky Library of the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris.
The project is being undertaken with the approval of the legal successors of Paul Rand and IBM itself.
Un atelier à soi, Jennifer Caubet
This book traces Jennifer Caubet’s work during her residency at the Centre International de Recherche sur le Verre et les Arts plastiques (Cirva), from 2017 to 2019. Immersed in Cirva’s studio as well as in her own, Jennifer Caubet was able to experience the many variations of the glass material through dialogue with the art center’s team of glass technicians. The sculptural projects she has developed at Cirva question various recurring notions in her work as an artist: how sculpture negotiates the relations to spaces and territories using scale measurements and the interaction with the human body; how gesture and movement determine shape; and where the boundaries between sculpture and landscape lie. Designed as a journey through the gestation stages of her work, the notebooks function as a score, offering, in all transparency, a reading of her preparatory drawings, annotations, studio gestures, and up until her finished works.
Texts: Isabelle Reiher, Lise Guéhenneux, Fabien Faure, Jennifer Caubet
Proof
ISBN: 979-10-95991-12-0
English
96 pages
215 × 287 mm
CMY
Hard cover, pre-cuted pages
Concept & design: Syndicat
22 €
2018
ISBN: 979-10-95991-12-0
English
96 pages
215 × 287 mm
CMY
Hard cover, pre-cuted pages
Concept & design: Syndicat
22 €
2018
Proof is a printed visual archive composed of video screenshots from ISIS propaganda films, captured directly from the Internet. It shows how, since 2014, cultural history was physically destroyed by special units ‘Kata’ib Taswiya’. Proof is a documentation of the last moments of those sculptures and monuments, during and just after their collapse and destructions. Technically the book operates like a pictorial cheque book and its pages are pre-cuted, allowing the readers to tear the pages if they want to.