Title & Author:

Uncorporate identity / ed. by Metahaven & Marina Vishmidt ; contributions by Boris Groys [and others].

Publication:

Baden : Lars Müller ; Maastricht : Jan van Eyck Academie, ©2010.

Description:

608 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Intro riff / Marina Vishmidt and Metahaven -- 1. Principality of Sealand : Projects: Sealand model: utopia ; Search heraldry ; Jewel box ; Information Monument ; Data as currency ; Shadow emblem ; Shadow nation ; Sealand model: Pringles ; Info grey -- Dialogues: The rise and fall of the data haven / interview with Sean Hastings -- Projects: Sealand model: Cryptonomicon -- Emily's message -- Diagrams: Sealand diagram -- Horizons: The network ruin: Letters to Prince Michael of Sealand -- Projects: Sealand model: empire -- Surveys: Empire and design / Dieter Lesage -- Projects: Mainport to imagination: OTAN ; Eurozone -- Archive: Original message: correspondence -- Echo poster: State of emergency: territorial identity in the post-political age -- Projects: Mainport to imagination: Asylum ; Eurozone -- Strategic studies: The Transdnestrain Moldovan Republic: an unrecognized state in the geopolitical world order / Vladimir Kolossov -- Notes: Financial institutions -- Projects: Greycards ; Mainport to imagination: Exception -- Horizons: The mirror of the network: part 1 of 2 / Marina Vishmidt -- Projects: Surplus: we want the job -- 2. The iconic : Surveys: Renaissance: Starchitecture revisited in North-Korea -- Projects: Forbidden icon, a proposal for the Ryugyong Hotel -- Diagrams: Ryugyong Hotel, Orascom Telecom -- Projects: PostCom grids ; Toxic politics -- Surveys: Symbol squatting: a manifesto for access -- Projects: Heliview ; Mapping absence -- Archive: Haunted by ambiguity: a conversation with Mariana Celac -- Notes: Romania and the EU -- Projects: Scenarios for a dialogue -- Dialogues: The museum of conflict: discussion -- Horizons: Foreverism / Mihnea Mircan -- Echo poster: Regimes of representation: art and politics beyond the house of people -- Zine: Agonistic politics and public space / Chantal Mouffe -- Strategic studies: Form / Pier Vittorio Aureli [and others] -- Projects: Chess -- 3. Horizons: Looking for Jake: reports of certain events in London / China Miéville -- Notes: Aftermath: Visual legacies of 9/11 -- Projects: Some gentlemen ; No connection fee ; Neocon Black Metal ; Encryption ; Terra Inc. ; Wall -- Diagrams: 'Game' -- Zine: Pitch Black Metal: logos, passwords and games -- Projects: CAPTCHAS & Black Metal logos -- Dialogues: A conversation with Michael Taussig -- Projects: Towers & symbols -- Dialogues: Draft box -- The story of O -- Projects: Building 7 -- 3.5. Notes: Welcome to Europe: place brands and borders -- Surveys: The scandal: notes on the autonomy of the image / Florian Schneider -- Notes: A question of scale -- Projects: Affiche Frontière ; Monopolis: a Europe game ; Void -- Dialogues: Identity and excess: a conversation with Bruno Besana.
4. Notes: Quaero -- Projects: Quaero logos ; Search models -- Echo poster: Forum on Quaero -- Projects: Search models ; The global Googlekea -- Notes: Meeting Mr. Jeannenery -- Projects: Quaero: nouvelle vague ; Stratified identities -- Strategic studies: Brand states: soft power, networks and design -- Projects: Nye's Pavilion ; Suffixes -- Diagrams: The domain name suffix -- Notes: Life in the social capital Stadtstaat Stuttgart, Utrecht -- Notes: Friends -- Projects: News architecture ; Stadtstaat model ; Euroslums -- Notes: Identities in social capitalism -- Projects: Trust ; Information architecture -- Notes: Solid and flexible -- Projects: Döner Kebab ; Stadtstaat Exhibition ; Sozialstaat ; Extreme democracy ; Pizza dystopia ; Pizza Staat ; Notebook -- Horizons: Come to things / Keller Easterling -- Projects: Logo Parc -- Notes: Ride the hyperbole -- Strategic studies: From public relations to social standards: a conversation with David Grewal -- Projects: Future Echo -- Horizons: The mirror of the network, part 2 of 2 / Marina Vishmidt -- Projects: Featuring -- Dialogues: Design and the shapes of democracy: a conversation with Regula Stämpfli -- Projects: Blackmail -- Horizons: Europe Sans: history, politics and protocol in the EU image.

Summary:

This book takes an imaginative approach to visual identity.
The appearance of organization--corporations, states, and networks--is a game of legitimacy, and an art of stealth. Partially science-fiction story, equally strategic study, essay, comic, and sketchbook, Uncorporate Identity is a concept album of design and architecture. Design studio Metahaven explores branding and identity as geopolitical phenomena--together with architects, geographers, and thinkers including Boris Groys, China Mieville, Keller Easterling, David Grewal, Marina Vishmidt, and others. --Book Jacket.

ISBN:

9783037781692
3037781696

Subject:

Industrial design Europe.
Corporate image Europe.
Design Europe.
Entreprises Image Europe.
Corporate image
Industrial design
Varumärken.
Europe
Metahaven <studio di design>

Added entries:

Vishmidt, Marina, 1976-
Grojs, Boris, 1947-
Metahaven (Design studio)
Jan van Eyck Akademie.

Metahaven

Holdings:

Location: Library main 277598
Call No.: BIB 212457
Status: Available