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🍂 What we're reading this month 🍂

Some fika-table books for September afternoons ☕

2-3 To Hold Your Heart in Your Teeth, Women's Work: The Visual Language of the Romanian Blouse. By Simona Bortis-Schultz.

4-5 The Tentmakers of Cairo: Egypt's Medieval and Modern Appliqué Crafts. By Seif El Rashidi and Sam Bowker.

6-7 Josef Müller. By Jaromír Procházka.

8-9 Začínat od nuly: Průkopnice moderny Otti Berger, Anni Albers, Lilly Reich a Lucie Rie. Editor: Widar Halén.

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🍂 Co tento měsíc čteme 🍂

Knihy ke kávě, koláči a pohodovým zářijovým odpoledním ☕

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Making the most out of everyday with Simona Bortis-Schultz (@simofig8studio) ☀️

Looking for an illustrator? Contact @simofig8studio for your next project! ✨

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Women's Work

Sharing Artist Series No. 41 by @simofig8studio - a collaboration we released on International Women's Day a few years ago.

Simona's 8.5 x 11" sheet celebrates the strength and resilience of women. It's a digital offset print with clear spot varnish and blind letterpress impression. Signed & numbered edition of 100. A handful of copies remain available, Artist Series link in bio.

Here's an excerpt from the interview we did with Simona about her art for the stamps:

"I was exploring the idea of “women’s work” and celebrating the strength and resilience of women for International Women’s Day on March 8. The constant juggling and striving of women to create space at the workforce table while still retaining the freedom to make their own reproductive choices influenced one of the stamps.

As a working mother, trying to find a place for personal creative output and space within the confines of being a professional and a mom has been an awkward dance at times. Both aspects are important to me, and both have been the privilege of being my choice.

The heavy task of women’s invisible, domestic work outside of professional work weighs heavily on what a woman is able to achieve creatively, professionally and personally based on the support around her. Women are literally holding up the world so to speak, during the recent pandemic, and make up as much as 77% of the frontline health care workers in the US and over 50% of the education workforce, yet many struggle with pay parity and sufficient support for things like maternity leave and childcare.

These are some of the themes that were the initial spark of the creation of the women-focused stamps. Coming across the historic female laundry workers’ union led by a 19-year-old woman, Kate Mullany, in 1864, in Troy, New York, inspired one of the stamps. Violence against women in all forms based on gender like the global prevalence of femicide was another theme woven into the collection."

(full interview at the Artist Series link in bio)

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MacGuffin No. 15. The Stitch

The stitch is a modest gesture with an expansive reach. It connects and repairs, unravels and reveals, speaks where words fall short. From textiles to technology, scars to seams, books to buildings, and leather to language: MacGuffin Magazine No 15 dives headfirst into the wild and wonderful world of stitching.

Marking ten years of MacGuffin, this anniversary edition threads together unexpected stories and surprising perspectives, exploring how stitches shape, bind and define the things we make and the lives we lead. Featuring contributions from voices across disciplines and cultures, including Tanveer Ahmed, Line Arngaard, Kader Attia, Simona Bortis-Schultz, Rachel Dedman, Olivia Douglass, Jessica Hemmings, Chris Kabel, Ilona Keserü, Emily King, Masaki Komoto, Wietske Maas, Maria McLintock, Rosa Menkman, Johannes Reponen, Scheltens & Abbenes, Nina van de Ven, Hanka van der Voet – and many more.

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MacGuffin Magazine Nº 15 – our 10th anniversary edition is out today! Time to visit your local bookstore, and dive in a magazine entirely devoted to a modest gesture with an expansive reach: the stitch. It connects and repairs, unravels and reveals, speaks
where words fall short.

Featuring contributions from voices across disciplines and cultures, including Tanveer Ahmed, Line Arngaard, Kader Attia, Simona Bortis-Schultz, Rachel Dedman, Olivia Douglass, Jessica Hemmings, Chris Kabel, Ilona Keserü, Emily King, Masaki Komoto, Wietske Maas, Maria McLintock, Rosa Menkman, Johannes Reponen, Scheltens & Abbenes, Nina van de Ven, Hanka van der Voet – and many more.

176 p, 210 x 275 mm, English, SRP Europe € 24, ISSN 2405-8203. Link in bio.

Printed by @robstolk.amsterdam, lithography by @mariskabijl

#macguffinmagazine
#thelifeofthings
#thestitch
#magazine

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Happy Women’s Equality Day

Sharing Artist Series No. 41 by @simofig8studio - a collaboration we released on International Women's Day a few years back.

Simona's 8.5 x 11" sheet celebrates the strength and resilience of women. It's a digital offset print with clear spot varnish and blind letterpress impression. Signed & numbered edition of 100. A handful of copies remain available, Artist Series link in bio.

🗳 Women's Equality Day is celebrated in the United States on August 26 to commemorate the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. However millions of women — those who weren't white — were effectively left out when it came to gaining the right to vote in 1920, despite Black women's involvement in the suffragette movement. It wasn't until the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which outright barred racial discrimination at the polls that many people of color fully gained the legal right to vote. 🗳 See today's post @feminist for the ways women's voting rights are under attack today.

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At the LA art book fair!
One more day to go!

@printedmatter_artbookfairs #setmarginspublications

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It was a pleasure partnering with Williams Writing Center on their annual Dunbar Magazine, which highlights award-winning writing about student life.

This year it was especially fun because I was able to commission an illustration for the cover and some inside pages from Simona Bortis-Schultz of Figure 8 Illustration + Design Studio. Simona has a warm and wonderful illustration style which was perfect for this magazine. Look how beautiful it is printed!

Video description: A video that shows Karen holding a printed version of the Williams Writing Center Dunbar Magazine that she designed. The video is filmed outside with natural light.

#PrintMagazineDesign #DesignPortfolio #ElidaCreative #Figure8Illustration #WilliamsWritingCenter #GraphicDesigner

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In her column at It’s Nice That Elizabeth Goodspeed addresses irony as dominant tone in the graphic design field (perhaps this accounts to design at large), where designers are tired of a decade or more of false hope, and not becoming successful and ‘one of the great’ (designers). Where self-branding has become an expression of failure to earn a living and do good. She claims it would be good to care again, perhaps even share you do a self-branding course as designer, where that seemed like a failure.

I agree care matters, and care is the way out, but it won’t be by concerning oneself with self-branding or commerce, to my view. It might not be fair to the standards of the west, which are pressing norms of a false system. Therefore the situation urging irony is false: it is cynical all around us. But care can thrive where it is practiced in craft and radical engagement beyond oneself. In creating alternatives in spite of conservative nationalism and the influence it has on the merit even in woke circles, as a conservative backslash of the failure of social democracy. Just focus on work and offer, push the bubble as alternative no matter what. Indeed with care. That is also why titles like ‘Design Against Design’ by Kevin Yuen Kit Lo or my own ‘Care where no-one does’ move beyond by just making and doing no matter what.

It is great how the Set Margins’ publications by Silvio Lorusso and Afonso Matos urge this topic, and we have to keep on doing good stuff, for there is care, joy, engagement and progress in the work!

This might just be the first time I personally speak out here, which I don’t like as the work should speak, but I want to underline this for I feel a tremendous amount of care and joy in all workers I am surrounded by: they all have great motives, build by care in a world that easily makes us cynical. But that very world, of family and neighbors, is close. So we can engage if we stop staring at our needs and wine within the community and build by working our ass off and expand by stop wining and try and push wherever possible. Damn well we can, because care is our strength and our offer and we know how to lay it out. We will never be defeated.

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Great to see sooo much engagement with the works of Set Margins’ authors!

thanks Andy Zhang and Christin Kim for representing at Multiple Formats book fair Boston, thanks Brockett Horne for supporting!

#artbookfair #selfpublished #selfpublishedauthor #indepentendpublishing #criticalpractice #artbook #setmarginspublications @andyisandi @cheekiminji @brocketthorne @multipleformats

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Women's Work

Sharing Artist Series No. 41 by @simofig8studio - a collaboration we released on International Women's Day a few years ago.

Simona's 8.5 x 11" sheet celebrates the strength and resilience of women. It's a digital offset print with clear spot varnish and blind letterpress impression. Signed & numbered edition of 100. A handful of copies remain available, Artist Series link in bio.

Here's an excerpt from the interview we did with Simona about her art for the stamps:

"I was exploring the idea of “women’s work” and celebrating the strength and resilience of women for International Women’s Day on March 8. The constant juggling and striving of women to create space at the workforce table while still retaining the freedom to make their own reproductive choices influenced one of the stamps.

As a working mother, trying to find a place for personal creative output and space within the confines of being a professional and a mom has been an awkward dance at times. Both aspects are important to me, and both have been the privilege of being my choice.

The heavy task of women’s invisible, domestic work outside of professional work weighs heavily on what a woman is able to achieve creatively, professionally and personally based on the support around her. Women are literally holding up the world so to speak, during the recent pandemic, and make up as much as 77% of the frontline health care workers in the US and over 50% of the education workforce, yet many struggle with pay parity and sufficient support for things like maternity leave and childcare.

These are some of the themes that were the initial spark of the creation of the women-focused stamps. Coming across the historic female laundry workers’ union led by a 19-year-old woman, Kate Mullany, in 1864, in Troy, New York, inspired one of the stamps. Violence against women in all forms based on gender like the global prevalence of femicide was another theme woven into the collection."

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