Old News is a newspaper cut relay between artists in Lagos, Nigeria and Sweden - each picking one newspaper cutting on August 1st and then selecting a new artist to continue on August 2nd and so on through the entire month of August 2009. An exchange that creates a continuous dialog reflecting on the state of the News and the world between disparate voices, nations and artists.
e-Types was selected to compile and lay-out the clippings, interpreting the material in which ever way we saw fit. Wanting to stay true to the original curatorial concept, we used the timeframe as the central reference. Old News NO.6 is designed to be pulled apart, creating a calendar-like structure, allowing the reader to follow the exchange between nations and artists day-by-day, as they happened during the month, keeping the evolution of the dialog intact.
Furthermore, we attempted to stay true to the artists’ selection of cuttings. Some pieces are short, others longer — which causes them to spill out on to several spreads. The end result is akin to a fragmented collage, where it is sometimes necessary to rearrange and piece together several pages to follow the full narrative. Finally Old News NO.6 will be featured at exhibitions around the world during the coming year. Designing the paper specifically for that purpose, we allow the exhibitors to display the work in its entirety through the ripped-apart calendar structure and allowing the exhibitors to remove the cover, introductory notes and artist presentations and use them as a catalogue.
e-Types was selected to compile and lay-out the clippings, interpreting the material in which ever way we saw fit. Wanting to stay true to the original curatorial concept, we used the timeframe as the central reference. Old News NO.6 is designed to be pulled apart, creating a calendar-like structure, allowing the reader to follow the exchange between nations and artists day-by-day, as they happened during the month, keeping the evolution of the dialog intact.
Furthermore, we attempted to stay true to the artists’ selection of cuttings. Some pieces are short, others longer — which causes them to spill out on to several spreads. The end result is akin to a fragmented collage, where it is sometimes necessary to rearrange and piece together several pages to follow the full narrative. Finally Old News NO.6 will be featured at exhibitions around the world during the coming year. Designing the paper specifically for that purpose, we allow the exhibitors to display the work in its entirety through the ripped-apart calendar structure and allowing the exhibitors to remove the cover, introductory notes and artist presentations and use them as a catalogue.
