KJ’s friend and brilliant contributing designer Markuz Wernli Saito will be
giving two great presentations on book design in Tokyo in the week ahead.
Highly recommended. Details below. Please spread the word!
—Stewart Wachs, associate editor, Kyoto Journal
Book Design ? Integration of Image & Word
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PRESENTATION 1: Sunday, 1/22 at Good Day Books from 6:30 pm.
3F Asahi Building,?1-11-2 Ebisu,?Shibuya-ku,?Tokyo 150-0013
Tel: 03-5421-0957
http://www.gooddaybooks.com <http://www.gooddaybooks.com> /
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PRESENTATION?2: Tuesday, 1/24 at The Foreign Correspondence Club from 6:30
Yurakucho Denki North Building 20 F,?Yurakucho 1-7-1, Chiyoda-ku,?Tokyo
100-0006?
Tel: 03-3211-3161
RSVP: Contact and Reservation (non-members are okay!)
Mrs. Kanako Nakayama (Library, The FCCJ)
Email:?library@fccj.or.jp
Admission (including dinner):?Yen 1750
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Title of Event:?Book Design ? Integration of Image & Word
Topic of discussion:
New media and the Web influence how we share and convey knowledge. Even
reading patterns in books are changing which contain more visuals and
eclectic information structures.?Markuz Wernli Saito?will take the audience
through the design process of his just published book and examine how
various parts of contents converge into one coherent publication. The
audience is invited to bring in printed samples, which integrate image and
text to open up the discussion.
Book Details:
http://www.stonebridge.com/SHIGEMORI/shigemori.html
Bio:
Markuz Wernli Saito is a photographer and interdisciplinary artist from
Switzerland working in Kyoto and San Francisco. With a classic background in
graphic design, and fascinated by the dialectics of humans and their
environment, he developed user interfaces for software and new media
companies in California. Currently Markuz focuses on independent artistic
installations and photo assignments for publications worldwide (print and
online), and is a lecturer at Kyoto University of Art and Design.
Website:
http://markuz.com/
Comments:
http://jeansnow.net/2006/01/15/markuz-wernli-saito/#comments Markuz has an
eye dedicated to design. His book is sleek and thought provoking from a
visual standpoint - it makes you think about stones fit together in a
garden. This is a rare quality among designers.?In his next book, he?ll
explore a Japanese ritual in a way that really gives you a complete feeling
for the experience, but to see what that ritual is, you have to attend his
talk. JEFFREY GOLDSMITH, San Francisco
http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2005/04/swiss_designer_.html
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markuz wernli saito
http://www.markuz.com <http://www.markuz.com> /
84-3 kamiminamida-cho, jodo-ji, sakyo-ku
kyoto 606-8405 japan
(phone) +81-(0)75-761-0329
(skypeMe/AIM) mzwernli
