DIARIES, NOTEBOOKS + SKETCHBOOKS

In issue 10 Graphic gets really nosy and naughty and personal, and asks (sort of) to be allowed to peep into a number of diaries and notebooks and drawers.

Graphic 10 explores how a creative minds think and feel – on a daily, weekly, monthly, annual or even on a completely sporadic basis. What triggers one’s imagination? What makes it snap? What’s in one’s in-trays? What’s in one’s top drawers? What’s in one’s bottom drawers? What’s in the back of one’s plan chests? Manic hoarding, passionate collecting, planning, sketching, noting, debating, commenting, listening, quoting, reading, writing, scribbling, crossing out, cutting, pasting, slashing… chronicle of work, life, delirium, and the process of creation.

Contents:
Richard Brereton interviewingJonathan Couette on his film Tarnation.
Mairi Duthie talking to illustrator Sara Fanelli about her book My Diary.
Marc Valli asking Lee Williams about how he turned his sketchbooks into the atmospheric animation feature Tarot.
Stephen Bury: I Am For The Art of Fat Truck Tyres, The Artist Notebook As Relay.
Stefan Sagmeister: My Year Without Clients.
Plus a surprising look into the diaries and sketchbooks of artists such as: Renato Alarcão, Reed Anderson, Hannah Barton, Base-V, Jon Burgerman, Daniel Davidson, Daisy De Villeneuve, Henrik Delahag, Faile, David Foldvari, Massimo Franco, Johnny Hardstaff, I Want, Seb Jarnot, Tom Judd, Hiro Kurata, Florence Manlik, Hanna Melin, Kate Moross, Luis Mendo, Martha Rich, Barnaby Richards, Reynaldo Vasquez, Ryan Wallace, Saga Widen, Matt Wiley

RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 2006
Format: paperback, 220 X 280 mm, 214 pages

GRAPHIC is a wide-ranging and in-depth survey of contemporary visual culture. Every issue examines a particular theme. For example, we looked at ornamental styles in issue 8 (Ornate!) and the idea of narrative in issue 9 (The Story: New Narrative Styles).

A brief word about the word graphic. It is used here mainly as an adjective, as in vivid, direct, bold, basic, explicit. And not as in ‘graphic design’. We are, of course, committed to featuring the work of graphic designers, but also that of illustrators, photographers, fashion-designers, designers, architects, artists, street artists, con artists… – basically, we remain open to all forms of artistic endeavour.

Graphic is put together in London by Marc Valli (Magma) and Richard Brereton. It is designed by Matt Willey and Zoe Bather of Studio 8 and published twice a year by Bis Publishers in the Netherlands. It is available in over 30 countries worldwide.