Comb-bound artist-book/exhibition catalog published in 1995 by the Walter/McBean Gallery at the San Francisco Art Institute. 4to (10.75” x 7.75”), color printed wrappers with past-down sticker, 30 pages, b/w illustrations within. Designed throughout by Boon. Produced in conjunction with the 114th Annual Exhibition, featuring work by Mona Hatoum, Monte Cazazza, MANUAL (Suzanne Bloom & Ed Hill), Catherine Schear-Newman, Victor Mario Zaballa, Edward Esquivel Tywoniak, and numerous others. CONTACT employs a rigorously integrated visual system built around barcode imagery, layered typography, shifting orientations, and experimental page architecture. Artist names and texts become intertwined; images collide with oversized letterforms; the comb binding itself functions as an active design element. The result is a publication that functions simultaneously as artist book, exhibition document, and mid-1990s graphic-design experiment. A vivid artifact of Bay Area contemporary art culture and a compelling example of California post-Emigre design practice. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities.
Comb-bound artist-book/exhibition catalog published in 1995 by the Walter/McBean Gallery at the San Francisco Art Institute. 4to (10.75” x 7.75”), color printed wrappers with past-down sticker, 30 pages, b/w illustrations within. Designed throughout by Boon. Produced in conjunction with the 114th Annual Exhibition, featuring work by Mona Hatoum, Monte Cazazza, MANUAL (Suzanne Bloom & Ed Hill), Catherine Schear-Newman, Victor Mario Zaballa, Edward Esquivel Tywoniak, and numerous others. CONTACT employs a rigorously integrated visual system built around barcode imagery, layered typography, shifting orientations, and experimental page architecture. Artist names and texts become intertwined; images collide with oversized letterforms; the comb binding itself functions as an active design element. The result is a publication that functions simultaneously as artist book, exhibition document, and mid-1990s graphic-design experiment. A vivid artifact of Bay Area contemporary art culture and a compelling example of California post-Emigre design practice. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities.
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