La Perruque is a 1 × 90 cm-long magazine publishing nonstandard type specimens printed in the unused margins of offset printing paper sheets.
http://la-perruque.org
“A ‘homer’ [«perruque» in french] is an artifact that a worker produces using company tools and materials outside normal production plans but at the workplace and during workhours. Despite legal, artistic and ethnographic evidence of their existence, silence surrounds [perruques]. […] this silence is not linked just to the marginal and illegal quality of these artifacts. [Perruques] shed light on a high degree of ‘complicity’ between employees regardless of their position in the hierarchy.”
(Michel Anteby, “Factory ‘homers’: Understanding a highly elusive, marginal, and illegal practice“)
http://la-perruque.org/about.html
„Printed, laser die-cut orange acrylic stencil containing annotations made by the artist, to page 11 of John Berger’s Ways of Seeing. The annotations select, highlight, as well as censor the still in-print publication. Mirroring the mass production of the available book, the work considers the possible multiplication of a personal perspective through the function of the stencil.“
„Single pages from IKEA furniture-assembly instructions were mixed together and renumbered. The result is an instructions manual of about 700 pages.“
https://ggor.de/en/project/baebel/
And other of his projects:
https://ggor.de/en/project/
„The aim of the “Critical Atlas of Internet” is to use spatial analysis as a key to understanding social, political and economic issues on Internet.“
http://www.internet-atlas.net
„If completed, it would contain every possible combination of 1,312,000 characters, including lower case letters, space, comma, and period. Thus, it would contain every book that ever has been written, and every book that ever could be – including every play, every song, every scientific paper, every legal decision, every constitution, every piece of scripture, and so on. At present it contains all possible pages of 3200 characters, about 104677 books.“
https://libraryofbabel.info
Also, the principle applied to image data:
https://babelia.libraryofbabel.info
„The adversaria of Google Books: captured mark of the hand and digitization as rephotography.“
http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com
Visualization of real-time satellite movement patterns on paper maps.
http://quadrature.co/
Nice blog about medieval book culture and reading practices. Especially interesting for example a post about bookmarking techniques.
http://medievalbooks.nl
Course at the Harvard Graduate School of Design on designing interventions for the library.
https://metalabharvard.github.io/projects/ltk/
„Commonplace Books“ – organised notebooks – as technology of „Personal Knowledge Management“ since 15th century. How can diverse fragments of knowledge be recorded and organised in a way to reliably recover them and at the same time stimulate creative recombinations?
„This book contains the first Google image result for every word in the dictionary.“
http://www.creativeapplications.net/
http://felixheyes.com/
„All the words from Michel Foucault’s The Order of Things: An Archaelogy of the Human Sciences in alphabetical order.“
World map with washed out geography.
http://www.kuorinki.com/
Book and website with essays about future forms of reading. Free to read online.
http://www.ireadwhereiam.com/
A collection of 250 situations / scenarios / pattern of problems in architecture and urban planning. Images, texts and diagrams explain each situation and propose solutions. Structured in three parts from macro to micro (towns, buildings, construction). Meant as an instruction of modular solutions with the effort to enable more lively, integrated and beautiful architecture.
http://www.patternlanguage.com
Project about the library of the Rietveld University, working with some own orders.
http://www.marianneviero.com/
A visual system to encode narrative parameters of novels as cover designs.
http://www.andregottschalk.com/
Collection of heterogenous, subjective Stories about errors. Uses a dysfunctional order leading to repetition/redundancy.
http://helenesommer.net/index.php?/projects/i-was-there-/
