PEDDERZINE number 5 : Cash Is King : Spring/Summer 2009PEDDERZINE第5期:現金為王
Spring/Summer 2009
As the founder of Singapore-based studio WORK, Theseus Chan shows the graphic designer’s role in mediating transnational cultural production across art, fashion, and design. Chan pushes the conceptual and experiential capacity of the design of printed matter, often by testing the borders between creativity and commerce, the book and the object, and machine made and hand made. This traversing of boundaries is encapsulated in WERK, a quarterly magazine which Chan has published since 2000. WERK experiments with printing techniques and with concepts of displacement and deconstruction in the use of images and typography.
WERK: Exhibition is a poster for an exhibition about WERK and Junya Watanabe’s debut menswear collection—launched under the Japanese label Comme des Garçons for Spring/ Summer 2002. Emblazoned with text that describes the exhibition and the nature of WERK, type on the poster is laid out without spacing and printed in neon and highly contrasting colours. The poster’s d
In Search of Southeast Asia through the M+ Collections. M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong, 22 June–30 September 2018