MacGuffin Magazine No. 15: The Stitch takes a single, modest gesture — the stitch — and traces its reach across textiles and technology, scars and seams, buildings and books, marking ten years of MacGuffin with its most expansive investigation yet.
About This Book
MacGuffin has built its reputation by taking an ordinary thing and pulling on its threads until the world comes with it. In this anniversary edition, the stitch becomes the subject — a gesture that connects and repairs, unravels and reveals, and speaks where words fall short. The magazine moves across disciplines and cultures without losing its thread: from the language of textiles to the logic of construction, from the body's scarring to the binding of a book. With contributions from artists, designers, writers, and scholars across a wide range of fields, Issue 15 demonstrates why the interdisciplinary design magazine remains one of the most distinctive publishing projects in contemporary design culture.
Key Features
- 176 pages of cross-disciplinary essays, visual work, and editorial features
- Contributions from 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 more
- Published by MacGuffin
What You'll Discover
- How the stitch operates as a conceptual structure across textiles, technology, architecture, and language simultaneously
- The stitch as a form of repair — physical, cultural, and bodily — explored through voices from across disciplines and geographies
- Unexpected connections between the seams of garments, the scars on skin, and the joints in buildings
- Ten years of MacGuffin's method: finding the extraordinary within a single, overlooked material gesture
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 176
- Dimensions: 210 x 280 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 24058203
- Publisher: MacGuffin
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Designers, architects, textile researchers, and anyone drawn to interdisciplinary thinking about the objects and gestures that structure material culture.