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RRR: Second Edition

Chipboard, spot colors and perfect binding. Yes, please.

RRR.002 is the second edition of a collaborative zine featuring the talents of an international group of makers including Pinball friends and collaborators. This edition is printed in full-color CMYK as well as one spot color, and features a chipboard cover and perfect binding. Made possible by support from Simple Shoes, RRR.002 was printed on recycled paper by Canada’s Westcan Printing Group.

From the RRR website:

We make waste for a living. So now we’re gonna make waste live. With a very short deadline a number of international artists and photographers were asked to act and respond. Look around your environment, see what you can save, pick it up, turn it over, and look at it in a different way.

RRR describes the work in the second edition as being a bit more personal, offering a more intimate view of the artists included. The group of collaborators has grown exponentially. Can’t wait to get our hands on this one!

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Shapes and Trails by Nigel Peake

Two limited-edition photography chapbooks.

I’m a Nigel Peake geek. His illustration work and self-initiated publishing projects have long caught my eye as being particularly more contemplative than most style-driven design and illustration emerging today. He has a way of corralling a complex concept and illuminating it in a beautiful, accessible way. Two new publications follow suit: Shapes and Trails, both put out by the fabulous Edinburgh-based Analogue Books.

Each is a simple, 28-page black-and-white volume of photography with a hand-printed drawing on the cover. Each is made in a limited edition of 100. Shapes illuminates the patterns and geometries of the built and natural environment in a series of photographs taken while in Europe and the States. Trails documents on paths cut through the environment by humans and machines in a collection of photography from Norway and the Pyrenees. Get one. Get both.

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Comics Mastr

Publications by CF.

The artist CF (Christopher Forgues) is a truly notable character in the comics world today. Hailing from the Providence, RI/Fort Thunder scene of the late 1990′s, he’s produced a number of works including the series Low Tide, as well as small zines like Core of Caligula (featured above) and the captivating graphic novels, Powr Mastrs 1 & 2, put out by PictureBox Inc. Not only are his drawings beautiful, but the unique design in the layout and panels has me flipping through his books every time I see one. I’m sure anyone who has read the first two Powr Mastrs will be thrilled to know that Number 3 is due out this September. Finally, the sci-fi/fantasy/abstract/metaphysical comic shall continue!

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Zine Ride

Summer has arrived in Portland and it’s spectacular weather for bike rides. I took mine out to local shops to see what new publications have hit the shelves recently. This post shares some of what captured my eye and even my imagination…

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LONDOPENHAGENBURG

The newest release from Islands Fold

Title: LONDOPENHAGENBURG
Artists: Maxwell Paternoster, Jon Boam, Micahel Rytz, Sune Ehlers, Anders Arhoj, Miss Lotion, EKTA and Luke Ramsey
Publisher: Islands Fold
Specs: 5.5″ x 8.5″, 20 xerox pages, card stock cover

During the spring of 2010, Luke Ramsey went on a tour of Europe and collaborated with 7 artists in London, Copenhagen and Gothenburg. The drawings are impressive in that the line-work looks like it’s vectorized but it’s not(?) Is it? I don’t know but if I were an art director I’d be putting some of these to work as editorial spot illustrations.

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