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Content Object (c/o) is a bi-coastal+ design studio founded by Kimberly Varella.

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Sunday October 18! Join us in a special book warming celebration by The Huntington.

Could a book about books in a library be cool? (YES!)

You’re invited to a bookwarming for Worlds Unfolding: Science on the Page, a new publication by The Huntington in association with Princeton University Press.

It’s a book that’s technically five books about science and art and libraries and this wild spinning rock we’re all riding together through space and time. It was a complex puzzle to create, and this evening will celebrate the many hands and minds that brought Worlds Unfolding to life.

The program features a panel discussion with the book’s creative team who shaped its format and design, art photography, and color printing. The conversation will highlight how this densely illustrated boxed set was designed to be a tactile and luminous adventure, and how unconventional object photography played a central role in translating the library experience onto the page.

After the discussion, the PRS library will open for guests to see PRS’s own collection items that rhyme and resonate with Worlds Unfolding.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase in the PRS bookshop.

Join us! RSVP at prs.org/events ✨

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We’re thrilled to share that “Robert Frank: Mary’s Book” is one of this year’s winners in the @aigadesign 50 Books 50 Covers competition!

The competition celebrates the timeless, magnetic power of design to engage readers and encourage them to turn the page. We’re thrilled to be among such incredible company with this win.

#mfaboston #artbook #bookstagram

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'Imagining an Archipelago: Art from Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Their Diasporas'

From Ana Mendieta to Stephanie Syjuco, a chain of contemporary artists mounts a cross-cultural, multigenerational resistance to Western colonialism. Published to accompany the exhibition on view now at @colbymuseum

Published by DelMonico Books
@colbymuseum
@artbook

Edited with introduction by Jessamine Batario. Foreword by Jacqueline Terrassa. Text by Lian Ladia, Alexandra T. Méndez García, Adriana Zavala, Phoebe Zipper, et al. Conversation with Fran Nededog Lujan, Marina Tyquiengco. Timeline by Jan Maghinay Padios.

Designed by Kimberly Varella/Content Object

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Three Tang publications are winners in AIGA’s 50 Books | 50 Covers of 2025!

📕 ‘Paula Wilson: Toward the Sky’s Back Door’
Design by Morcos Key (Jon Key & Ana Valeria Castillos)⁠

📗 ‘Forms of Awakening’
Design by Content Object (Kimberly Varella & Gabrielle Pulgar)

📘 ‘3-D Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art’
Design by Heavy Meta (Barbara Glauber)

AIGA’s annual competition celebrates outstanding books and covers worldwide. A big thank you to everyone who brought these publications to life! Three books stand upright on the top of an outdoor staircase, with silver railings, trees, and a blue sky behind them. From left to right, the covers read “PAULA WILSON,” “Forms of Awakening” (in both English and Tibetan script), and “3-D DOINGS.”

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The Fellow Communards and Communal Fellows Box was put together by Llano Del Rio in 2019, and sold as an addition of 40. It contains 13 print objects, each are unique documents of interpretations of mostly Southern Californian landspaces, made by friends of the collective. The box’s silk screen and spray paint design highlights the spectacular work of Kimberly Varella. collective member.

slide 3: street posted xerox poster noting transformation in Echo Park due to rising rent, LATU et all (contributed by Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal and Jed Parriott)

slide 4: photo by Lisa Anne Auerbach from small store series.

slide 5: route guide and spoke card from Root Down (2009) bike ride, Kelly Martin and Joe Linton.

BOX CONTENTS
-Lisa Anne Auerbach: Thelmas Los Angeles, CA (from the Small Business Series) @auerbachtoberfest
-Kaucyila Brooke: The Boy Mechanic/Los Angeles @kaucyila_brooke
-City of West Hollywood’s Arts Division: There’s Something Happening Here… On the Sunset Strip 1966
-Sandra de la Loza: Pocho Research Society The October Surprise Project and Where the River Joins @hija_de_la
-Llano Del Rio Collective: Rebel City Los Angeles
-Elana Mann: The People’s Microphony Songbook @elanamannstudio
-The Community of Bourj Al Shamali: Bourj Al Shamali Refuge Camp; A guide to our community
-Kelly Marie Martin with Joe Linton: The Root Down Ride Around @kelly_marie_martin @joelinton63
-Hillary Mushkin: DVIDS: Defense Visual Information Distribution @incendiarytrcs
-Lize Mogel: Public Green @walking_the_watershed
-Jed Parriott and Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal with the LA Tenants Union and Democratic Socialists of America: Echo Park Rising Rent @tracyrosenthal_ @jedparriott
-Erin Schneider: Sec. 1008 @erinafschneider
-Rosten Woo with Little Tokyo Service Center: First Street North @rostenwoo

#radicalcartography #spacialjusticpractice #losangeleshistory

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A Guide To LA’s Moral Crisis (Llano guide 7 2021) was a Covid era project and collaboration with the Los Angeles Poverty Department funded by the Mike Kelley Foundation. Together we conceptualize the framework for a play and an exhibit that would explore the moral valances of care in the city of Los Angeles. LAPD premiered their “The New Compassionate Downtown“ along with this Llano guide outside at MOCA Geffen in 2021. Originally conceptualize as an exhibit at the Skid Row Museum, the guide is filled with infographics, essays, and drawings visualizing love and repulsion, tenderness and disregard.

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Utopias Of So.Cal (Llano Del Rio guide 4, 2014) was spearheaded largely by collective member Erin Schneider- “Utopias of So.Cal. contains reflections on the persistence of these colonies in our own utopian consciousness- with several reflections written by contemporary artists, filmmakers, and writers; Sandra De La Loza, David Frantz, Janet Sarbanes, Mady Schutzman, Jodie Wille and the Women’s Center For Creative Work (WCCW). This guide, like all Llano Del Rio guides, is free and available to residents of LA county through the mail (send llanodelrio@gmail.com your postal address) or around town.”

Image 2: Erin Schneider caught the eye of New York Times fashion editor at the 2015 Printed Matter Art Book Fair in a Rose Mackay dress.

Image 3: Advert card, designed by Erin for event at Santa Monica Museum - utopia films by Maddie Schutzman and Jodi Wille (and co).

Image 4: Picture of a Santa Monica, biome reimagining, workshop (with participants Fritz Haeg and the late Oliver Hess)

Image 5: Advert card, designed by Erin for event at Santa Monica Museum - conversation included collective members Janet Sarbanes and Tom Mckenzie.

Image 6:Advert card, designed by Erin for event at Santa Monica Museum - Fantasy in Chrystals microtonal concert by John and Erin Schneider.

Image 7: Backside of the guide. Guide designed by Kimberly Varella.

#radicalcartography #artbooks #socialpractice #californiahistory

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We are proud to present the publication for our exhibition “Imagining an Archipelago: Art from Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Their Diasporas,” on view at the Colby Museum through June 6, 2027.

The interpretive framework of an archipelago—an expanse of water containing a chain of islands—emphasizes 40 artists’ different yet related strategies toward the critique, defiance and navigation of conditions brought on by continental empires.

Essays, poetry, artworks and artist discussions in English, Spanish, Filipino and CHamoru provide a platform for solidarity, healing and celebration at the intersections of cultural and political self-determination, indigeneity, migration, climate crisis and resilience.

The publication is edited by Linde Family Foundation Curator of Academic Engagement Jessamine Batario and features writing from Lian Ladia, Alexandra T. Méndez García, Adriana Zavala, and Linde Family Foundation Educator for College Audience Phoebe Zipper.

🔗 Visit the link in our bio to learn more about the publication and place your preorder!

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In 2008, along with Marc Herbst, I had the pleasure of publishing Lize Mogel and Lex Bhagat's groundbreaking Atlas Of Radical Cartography. Designed by Kimberly Varella, the book was a blockbuster for the Journal Of Aesthetics and Protest, going through several reprints and translations, spawning several knock off books too. Since then Lize's been involved with so many things experimental cartography related, but this weekend her exhibition Wallkill Future's and project Liquid Futures opens at the Unison Art Center in New Paltz. Check it out if you're aware.
#radicalcartography #artbooks

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BRUCE GOFF. MATERIAL WORLDS // Alison Fisher, Craig Lee // Yale, Art Institute of Chicago

What happens when architecture breaks all the rules? In the book Bruce Goff. Material Worlds, discover a radical vision of modernism that is anything but minimal.

From houses filled with spirals, domes, and unexpected materials to paintings, objects, and music - Bruce Goff’s work moves freely across disciplines, showing how creativity thrives without boundaries.

Expect not restraint, but a world of color, texture, and experimentation - drawing on influences from science fiction, Japanese art, and even everyday materials like cellophane and feathers.

📖 Available now via @naibooksellers (link in bio), the bookstore @nieuweinstituut

#BruceGoff #Architecture #Design #Modernism ArtBooks

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