Karel Martens: printed matter/drukwerk, 2nd Edition (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Karel Martens: printed matter/drukwerk, 2nd Edition Tuesday, November 10 2009.

• Karel Marten's work occupies a unique place in the present European art and design landscape. While working in the tradition of Dutch modernism, he maintains distance from the main developments of his time: from both the practices of routinized Modernism and the facile reactions against it. His work is personal and experimental, while at the same time publicly answerable. This book presents Martens graphic design oeuvre in reproductions of startling fidelity, and described in informal captions. Printed on uncoated paper and Chinese-bound, the book itself has a compelling tactile quality. For this long-awaited second edition, twenty-four pages have been added to cover Marten's most recent work.

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Karel Martens: printed matter/drukwerk, 2nd Edition Friday, July 17 2009.

• The place of the designer is a shifting, problematic one.