Design Myles Quin, Fraeme Éditions, 2019;
258pp, four-colour, softcover, two cover styles, embossed/debossed front/back cover, edition of 250 + 250
Provisionally titled, Art books are shit (it's a long story) the slightly less provocatively named (but no less provocative) 1956 Il a fait beau situates itself as an 'anti-catalogue'. For the bargain price of 8€ it boasts 258 pages filled with voices and stories, colour and pain, ideas and questions and joys - plus three fascinating texts by Joëlle Zask, Johny Pitts and Kate Douglas.
Somewhere
between love letter and manifesto, it takes
thirteen years' of gethan&myles' collective work and cuts, reframes and explodes it
to create a completely new artwork (both visual and textual). It's not an art book to beautify
your coffee table or to catalogue our wares but, as it says on the cover,
a "book for reading". Just how we like them! Highlighting the collaborative nature of all our work, the endpapers of the book feature the names of the hundreds of people who co-created the source works with us, while the front cover is embossed and the back debossed so the books slot onto each other Lego-like. Available in all good
(and some bad?) bookshops. For a glimpse inside - and an uplifting text on the two type masters at the heart of the book, Roger Excoffon and John Baskerville, see here.
