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The Art of Participation
Volume Inc., San Francisco, California, 2008
Description
The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now exhibition presents an overview of participation-based art since the 1950s, reflecting on how artists create situations in which the public takes a collaborative role in the art-making process. The exhibit catalogue’s design demands similar participation by providing a space on the cover for a second, later book that will record how visitor contributions change the exhibition’s form and content during its run at SFMOMA. This theme is investigated further through the “incomplete” nature of the headline typography and the empty spaces of the body text, which are meant to be “filled in” (whether literally or mentally) by the reader.
Juror Notes
The book is fluid because of the thoughtful use of a grid system. The chapter openings are fantastic
Credits
- Design firm
- Volume Inc.
- Creative directors
- Adam Brodsley, Eric Heiman
- Art directors
- Adam Brodsley, Eric Heiman
- Designers
- Adam Brodsley, Iran Narges
- Authors
- Rudolf Frieling, et al.
- Editor
- Karen A. Levine
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Trim size
- 8 x 10.25
- Pages
- 212
- Quantity printed
- 5,000
- Typefaces
- Chaparral, Custom, FF Bauå
- Printer
- Cantz
- Binder
- Cantz