Imagine walking the streets during a bazaar, street fair, or some other festive gathering where celebration mixes with people’s everyday activities: strolling, shopping, errands. Perhaps you’re in or near an urban park during a festival or parade.
Music animates the air: blaring from boom boxes, spilling out of open doorways, buzzing from loudly tuned iPods, spouting [...]
The World on Yr Cornershop
Authenticity is a Groove
Years ago, I worked at a national historic site on Boston’s Freedom Trail. A frequent question of visitors was “How much of the building is original?” I knew what they meant by the question but sometimes I felt waggish (or was a smarmy asshole, depending upon your point of view) and would answer that it [...]
Volume update
The manuscript of Volume has been delivered to the publisher, Princeton Architectural Press, and is in the process of editing. The projected publication date is August 2010. Some of the writings mentioned previously have been retitled and a revised track listing is given below, with word counts. However, some previously published works have been substantially [...]
Volume: the book is in the works
I am now at work on a collection of essays titled Volume: writings on graphic design, music, art, and culture to be published by Princeton Architectural Press (if all goes well) likely sometime in 2010. This book will gather remixed and remastered articles (primarily from Emigre magazine) plus a large selection of new and unpublished [...]
