Statement and Counter-Statement is the third reissue of the first monograph on Experimental Jetset, gathering almost two decades of graphic design praxis into what the studio itself describes as a loose personal archive rather than a definitive retrospective.
About This Book
Few graphic design studios have attracted the kind of sustained critical attention that Amsterdam's Experimental Jetset commands, and this monograph goes some way to explaining why. Rather than presenting a polished portfolio survey, the book assembles fragments — photographic documentation of printed matter and site-specific installations, interview excerpts, lecture notes, correspondence — into something closer to an honest account of how the work actually develops. Essays by Mark Owens, Ian Svenonius, and Linda van Deursen bring external critical perspectives to the studio's practice, while a glossary-like anthology of Experimental Jetset's own texts, selected and structured by Jon Sueda, gives the reader direct access to the studio's thinking on graphic design, typography, and cultural production.
Key Features
- 592 pages of photographic documentation, essays, and curated textual fragments spanning nearly two decades of studio practice
- Essays by Mark Owens, Ian Svenonius, and Linda van Deursen; anthology edited by Jon Sueda
- Two photographic chapters covering printed matter and site-specific installations
- Published by Roma Publications, ISBN 9789491843402
What You'll Discover
- How Experimental Jetset position graphic design within broader ideological and cultural frameworks, through their own lectures, interviews, and correspondence
- The relationship between printed matter and spatial practice, with documentation of site-specific pieces and installations alongside conventional graphic work
- External critical readings of the studio's output from writers across design, music, and cultural criticism
- The tension between archive and authorship — how the book's deliberately loose structure reflects the studio's resistance to monolithic self-presentation
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 592
- Dimensions: 10 x 18 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789491843402
- Publisher: Roma Publications
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Graphic designers, typographers, and visual culture researchers with an interest in conceptually driven studio practice and design's relationship to politics, language, and material culture.