Connect 8 pages plus colophon Full colour and black & white images English
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Edition:
500Dimensions: 343 x 245 x 10mm
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NZD$20 |
‘A reconstruction of a printed sheet of Ken Garland and Robert
Chapman’s game Connect, designed by Ken Garland and Associates for the James
Galt Toy Company in 1969. Including an interview with Ken Garland conducted
in 2006.’
This publication combines a reconstruction of a printed sheet of
the popular board game Connect with an interview conducted at Ken Garland's
home studio in September 2006. During the interview Garland referred to an
interesting detail regarding the design of the game:
“Now, I want to tell you something that a lot of people don’t
know. The clue to this game is the template from which all these tiles are
cut. When the game came out a lot of companies started to make copies, there
was an Italian company, somebody in the United States, Japan – they never
seemed to get it quite right. [...] If they’d sat down long enough with the
original and assembled it – worked out how it would have been layed up to be
printed and cut – it wouldn't have needed too much ingenuity to figure this
out.”
The response to this detail inspired the reconstruction of a
printed sheet of Connect – and the beginnings of this publication – as an
action that would illustrate an important part of the designing process; one
that is linked to a knowing use and attitude towards materials available to
the designer.
The interview touches on social and philosophical aspects that
Connect (and games in general) might promote and is intended to work in
conversation with the reconstruction. Supporting images, scanned from
original pieces of the game, are included to clarify certain key points made
in the interview.
This publication hopes to build on a continued interest in a
notion of ‘designing as writing’, that is defined as using form and technical
processes (connected to the designing and printing processes) as implicit to
the understanding of the publication; form and production join content as
equal voices within the presentation of the outcome.
Conception, editing, layout and typesetting by David Bennewith / Colophon Text by Ken Garland and David Bennewith |
Connect
is distributed in the Southern Hemisphere by Clouds and will be available
from selected bookshops and www.clouds.co.nz, for $20 (includes GST). For further information visit: http://clouds.co.nz/distribution/connect/ http://colophon.info/Connect.html |
For
retail/trade distribution enquiries please contact: Clouds publishing PO Box 68-187 Newton, Auckland 1145 Aotearoa New Zealand +64 9 309 2604 |
Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
CONNECT
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