Points of Departure.
Points of Departure #1
Published through o-s-x-x
September 2012
The first issue of Points of Departure, themed Effects of Remoteness / How to Travel, takes as its subject the condition of working from New Zealand—at a distance from the centres where art and design are discussed, circulated, and validated—together with the importance distribution assumes when distance is the given condition of the work. Edited, designed, and published through my imprint o-s-x-x, the journal is loosely concerned with graphic design.
The issue gathers interviews with The National Grid, David Bennewith, Clouds, Kelvin Soh, Bruce Connew, and Catherine Griffiths; contributions from Ella Sutherland, Sebastian Warne, Dawn Marble, Index, and myself; and three reproduced texts concerning the late Julian Dashper, whose work turned on these same questions of distribution and travel.
It was printed by hand on a Risograph MZ1070a and taken to the New York Art Book Fair in 2012, and subsequently stocked by a scattering of small bookshops internationally. A second issue, each keyed to a distinct theme, remains an intention.
