http://www.benjaminshaykin.com Benjamin Shaykin / graphic design Sat, 28 May 2011 21:15:01 +0000 http://www.benjaminshaykin.com en http://benjaminshaykin.com/The-Ffizi-of-the-Uffizi http://benjaminshaykin.com/following/benjaminshaykin.com/The-Ffizi-of-the-Uffizi Sat, 28 May 2011 21:15:01 +0000 Benjamin Shaykin / graphic design 1512431 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1512431/ffizi 15 reprint 5_2011-1.jpg" width="338" height="432" width_o="338" height_o="432" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1512431/ffizi 15 reprint 5_2011-1_o.jpg" data-mid="7390769" border="0" align="left"/> THE FFIZI OF THE UFFIZI 2010, 110 pages, 4.75 x 6 in. While much of my work has focused on the relationship between books and hands, they are not the only extremity I've worked with. Inspired by wordplay, I created an alternative catalog to the Uffizi in Florence, imposing a simple book order upon a sprawling collection. It is a collection of details from paintings in reproduction, focusing on the feet. It’s amazing how much you can tell about the work and the museum itself by viewing it through this unconventional lens. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1512431/ffizi 15 reprint 5_2011-5.jpg" width="670" height="427" width_o="677" height_o="432" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1512431/ffizi 15 reprint 5_2011-5_o.jpg" data-mid="7390770" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1512431/ffizi 15 reprint 5_2011-8.jpg" width="670" height="427" width_o="677" height_o="432" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1512431/ffizi 15 reprint 5_2011-8_o.jpg" data-mid="7390771" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1512431/ffizi 15 reprint 5_2011-18.jpg" width="670" height="427" width_o="677" height_o="432" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1512431/ffizi 15 reprint 5_2011-18_o.jpg" data-mid="7390772" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1512431/ffizi 15 reprint 5_2011-19.jpg" width="670" height="427" width_o="677" height_o="432" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1512431/ffizi 15 reprint 5_2011-19_o.jpg" data-mid="7390773" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1512431/ffizi 15 reprint 5_2011-27.jpg" width="670" height="427" width_o="677" height_o="432" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1512431/ffizi 15 reprint 5_2011-27_o.jpg" data-mid="7390774" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1512431/ffizi 15 reprint 5_2011-33.jpg" width="670" height="427" width_o="677" height_o="432" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1512431/ffizi 15 reprint 5_2011-33_o.jpg" data-mid="7390775" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1512431/ffizi 15 reprint 5_2011-34.jpg" width="670" height="427" width_o="677" height_o="432" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1512431/ffizi 15 reprint 5_2011-34_o.jpg" data-mid="7390777" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1512431/ffizi 15 reprint 5_2011-37.jpg" width="670" height="427" width_o="677" height_o="432" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1512431/ffizi 15 reprint 5_2011-37_o.jpg" data-mid="7390778" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1512431/ffizi 15 reprint 5_2011-48.jpg" width="670" height="427" width_o="677" height_o="432" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1512431/ffizi 15 reprint 5_2011-48_o.jpg" data-mid="7390779" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1512431/ffizi 15 reprint 5_2011-54.jpg" width="670" height="427" width_o="677" height_o="432" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1512431/ffizi 15 reprint 5_2011-54_o.jpg" data-mid="7390615" border="0" align="left"/> http://benjaminshaykin.com/Hand-Book http://benjaminshaykin.com/following/benjaminshaykin.com/Hand-Book Tue, 24 May 2011 21:52:21 +0000 Benjamin Shaykin / graphic design 1493476 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1493476/4370051395_06ff881b03_b 600.jpg" width="670" height="591" width_o="680" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1493476/4370051395_06ff881b03_b 600_o.jpg" data-mid="7291663" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1493476/4370053977_11397700c8_b 600.jpg" width="670" height="591" width_o="680" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1493476/4370053977_11397700c8_b 600_o.jpg" data-mid="7291664" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1493476/4370055621_74ea1fd46e_b 600b.jpg" width="670" height="591" width_o="680" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1493476/4370055621_74ea1fd46e_b 600b_o.jpg" data-mid="7291789" border="0" align="left"/> HAND BOOK 2010, 5.5 x 8 in., 16 pages, letterpress & transfer marker A book that records the marks of the hands of its readers. http://benjaminshaykin.com/Book-after-Gertrude-Stein http://benjaminshaykin.com/following/benjaminshaykin.com/Book-after-Gertrude-Stein Mon, 23 May 2011 19:17:52 +0000 Benjamin Shaykin / graphic design 1486485 BOOK (after Gertrude Stein) 2010, b/w video, 1 min. Video vignette, based on an excerpt from Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons. Archival footage from the Prelinger Archive. The music is "Italian Walk" by John Lurie. http://benjaminshaykin.com/Buster-Keaton http://benjaminshaykin.com/following/benjaminshaykin.com/Buster-Keaton Sun, 22 May 2011 17:25:59 +0000 Benjamin Shaykin / graphic design 1481535 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1481535/keaton cameraman_shaykin 700.jpg" width="525" height="700" width_o="525" height_o="700" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1481535/keaton cameraman_shaykin 700_o.jpg" data-mid="7229373" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1481535/keaton sherlock_shaykin 700.jpg" width="525" height="700" width_o="525" height_o="700" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1481535/keaton sherlock_shaykin 700_o.jpg" data-mid="7229375" border="0" align="left"/> BUSTER KEATON POSTER SERIES 2010, 30 x 40 in. http://benjaminshaykin.com/The-book-in-translation http://benjaminshaykin.com/following/benjaminshaykin.com/The-book-in-translation Sat, 21 May 2011 21:52:33 +0000 Benjamin Shaykin / graphic design 1479325 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1479325/book_7 edit.png" width="170" height="160" width_o="170" height_o="160" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1479325/book_7 edit_o.png" data-mid="7217165" border="0" align="left"/> THE BOOK IN TRANSLATION —Thesis abstract— A book is a physical thing. It has a shape, it has heft. The form of the codex—a collection of pages bound on one edge between covers—is a deep structure, an iconic form imbued with its own meaning. Proportioned for the human hand, it is symmetrical across its spine like the human body. A book is a symbol, a frame. It is a space—a sequence of spaces—both finite and limitless. Its borders are clearly delineated, and yet it expands infinitely outward: temporally, through the turning of its pages; imaginatively, through the immersive act of reading; and relationally, through the connections made between texts and readers across time. We are living in a period of major transition, a massive shift from the printed page to the digital screen. Our relationship to books, both as objects and as texts, is changing. The benefits of new technologies are hard to deny—digital books are searchable, sortable, and interactive; they are shiny and they are weightless. But there is much that we overlook by only looking forward. A book on screen is not a book. It is a translation of a book. A book is not simply a mute container for its contents. It tells the story of its creation through its physical presence. It accrues history through its use. Its place on our shelves and in our lives will not be easily replaced by backlit screens and simulated page turns. My thesis, The Book in Translation, is an attempt to document and comment upon the condition of the book at this time of transition. It is a series of experiments using books as both subject matter and form. I take notions of translation and transformation and turn them back on themselves, restoring the ephemeral into physical form, making abstract notions tactile. I play in the liminal spaces, the moments when the page turns. http://benjaminshaykin.com/Thesis-Show http://benjaminshaykin.com/following/benjaminshaykin.com/Thesis-Show Sat, 21 May 2011 21:14:28 +0000 Benjamin Shaykin / graphic design 1479189 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1479189/LCM_01.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1479189/LCM_01_o.jpg" data-mid="7216274" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1479189/LCM_02.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1479189/LCM_02_o.jpg" data-mid="7216275" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1479189/LCM_03.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1479189/LCM_03_o.jpg" data-mid="7216276" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1479189/LCM_04.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1479189/LCM_04_o.jpg" data-mid="7216277" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1479189/LCM_05.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1479189/LCM_05_o.jpg" data-mid="7216278" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1479189/LCM_06.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1479189/LCM_06_o.jpg" data-mid="7216279" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1479189/LCM_07.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1479189/LCM_07_o.jpg" data-mid="7216280" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1479189/LCM_08.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1479189/LCM_08_o.jpg" data-mid="7216281" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1479189/LCM_09.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1479189/LCM_09_o.jpg" data-mid="7216282" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1479189/LCM_10.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1479189/LCM_10_o.jpg" data-mid="7216283" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1479189/LCM_11.jpg" width="640" height="880" width_o="640" height_o="880" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1479189/LCM_11_o.jpg" data-mid="7216284" border="0" align="left"/> THIS IS THE 2011 RISD GRAPHIC DESIGN MFA THESIS SHOW. 2011, four folded broadsheets, 11.375 x 16.5 in. The 2011 RISD Graphic Design MFA Thesis Show is a group exhibition of selected thesis work from the RISD Graphic Design MFA Class of 2011. The show is published in a catalogue which will be displayed and distributed at the annual RISD Graduate Exhibition. The show is the catalogue, which is also the show. This is theurloftheshow.com. Really. In collaboration with Salem Al-Qassimi, Jane Androski, Marc Choi, Hope Chu, Eliza Fitzhugh, Jessica Greenfield, Lynn Kiang, Seung Chan Lim, Sara Raffo, Mat Stevens, Erika Tarte, Dimitry Tetin, Olivia Verdugo, and Emily Sara Wilson. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1479189/LCM_00.jpg" width="640" height="452" width_o="640" height_o="452" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1479189/LCM_00_o.jpg" data-mid="7216273" border="0" align="left"/> This is the press check. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1479189/press-check-003.gif" width="360" height="288" width_o="360" height_o="288" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1479189/press-check-003_o.gif" data-mid="7216560" border="0" align="left"/> http://benjaminshaykin.com/Z-A http://benjaminshaykin.com/following/benjaminshaykin.com/Z-A Fri, 20 May 2011 04:24:49 +0000 Benjamin Shaykin / graphic design 1472598 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472598/z-a cover.jpg" width="436" height="650" width_o="436" height_o="650" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472598/z-a cover_o.jpg" data-mid="7185370" border="0" align="left"/> Z–A 2011, paperback, 6 x 9 in., 334 pages Earlier this year, HarperCollins announced new limits on e-book lending for libraries: digital books would only be allowed to circulate 26 times before they expired and would have to be replaced. In response, I created a physical book which dissolves through successive readings. I began with the text of Borges’ The Library of Babel, repeating the story 26 times. With each repetition, one letter of the alphabet is removed, until finally all that is left are punctuation marks and numerals. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472598/z-a babel 14 12.jpg" width="432" height="648" width_o="432" height_o="648" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472598/z-a babel 14 12_o.jpg" data-mid="7185374" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472598/z-a babel 14 36.jpg" width="432" height="648" width_o="432" height_o="648" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472598/z-a babel 14 36_o.jpg" data-mid="7185378" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472598/z-a babel 14 60.jpg" width="432" height="648" width_o="432" height_o="648" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472598/z-a babel 14 60_o.jpg" data-mid="7185383" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472598/z-a babel 14 108.jpg" width="432" height="648" width_o="432" height_o="648" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472598/z-a babel 14 108_o.jpg" data-mid="7185392" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472598/z-a babel 14 144.jpg" width="432" height="648" width_o="432" height_o="648" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472598/z-a babel 14 144_o.jpg" data-mid="7185403" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472598/z-a babel 14 156.jpg" width="432" height="648" width_o="432" height_o="648" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472598/z-a babel 14 156_o.jpg" data-mid="7185405" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472598/z-a babel 14 162.jpg" width="432" height="648" width_o="432" height_o="648" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472598/z-a babel 14 162_o.jpg" data-mid="7185406" border="0" align="left"/> http://benjaminshaykin.com/Is-the-book-dead http://benjaminshaykin.com/following/benjaminshaykin.com/Is-the-book-dead Fri, 20 May 2011 03:42:56 +0000 Benjamin Shaykin / graphic design 1472470 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472470/isthebookdead3.png" width="200" height="134" width_o="200" height_o="134" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472470/isthebookdead3_o.png" data-mid="7314335" border="0" align="left"/> IS THE BOOK DEAD? 2011, website isthebookdead.com http://benjaminshaykin.com/The-Book-6-Nov-2010 http://benjaminshaykin.com/following/benjaminshaykin.com/The-Book-6-Nov-2010 Fri, 20 May 2011 03:30:29 +0000 Benjamin Shaykin / graphic design 1472418 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472418/IMG_4309 silo 786.jpg" width="544" height="786" width_o="544" height_o="786" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472418/IMG_4309 silo 786_o.jpg" data-mid="7184429" border="0" align="left"/> THE BOOK The latest accepted revision by Wikipedia, accepted on 6 November 2010 2010, 5.5 x 8.5 in., paperback, 1,374 pages (in two volumes) What is a book? And who better to ask than Wikipedia? A two-volume set, spanning almost 1400 pages, created using Wikipedia's own print-on-demand service. Includes everything from the Amazon Kindle to the Library of Alexandria, from the Public Domain to the World’s Largest Book. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472418/IMG_4321 silo edit 800.jpg" width="670" height="469" width_o="1142" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472418/IMG_4321 silo edit 800_o.jpg" data-mid="7184430" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472418/IMG_4328 silo 786.jpg" width="670" height="519" width_o="1014" height_o="786" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472418/IMG_4328 silo 786_o.jpg" data-mid="7184432" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472418/IMG_4333 silo 786.jpg" width="670" height="504" width_o="1044" height_o="786" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472418/IMG_4333 silo 786_o.jpg" data-mid="7184490" border="0" align="left"/> http://benjaminshaykin.com/Google-Hands http://benjaminshaykin.com/following/benjaminshaykin.com/Google-Hands Fri, 20 May 2011 02:59:21 +0000 Benjamin Shaykin / graphic design 1472335 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472335/google hand book 06 786.jpg" width="670" height="509" width_o="1033" height_o="786" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472335/google hand book 06 786_o.jpg" data-mid="7183828" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472335/google hand book 03 786.jpg" width="670" height="509" width_o="1033" height_o="786" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472335/google hand book 03 786_o.jpg" data-mid="7183827" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472335/google hand book 07 786.jpg" width="670" height="509" width_o="1033" height_o="786" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472335/google hand book 07 786_o.jpg" data-mid="7183829" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472335/google hand book 08 786.jpg" width="670" height="509" width_o="1033" height_o="786" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472335/google hand book 08 786_o.jpg" data-mid="7183830" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472335/google hand book 11 786.jpg" width="670" height="509" width_o="1033" height_o="786" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472335/google hand book 11 786_o.jpg" data-mid="7183831" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472335/google hand book 17 786.jpg" width="670" height="509" width_o="1033" height_o="786" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31160/1472335/google hand book 17 786_o.jpg" data-mid="7183832" border="0" align="left"/> GOOGLE HANDS 2009, paperback, 6 x 9 in., 140 pages A collection of problem pages found in Google Books. Each page is reproduced at its original size, revealing multiple disruptions and errors introduced during Google's scanning process: the scanner's hand, holding down and obscuring the page; type and illustrations which have degraded and blurred to the point of illegibility; pages scanned while in the process of being turned; fold-out maps and charts that were scanned while closed. The spreads are arranged according to the pagination of the original source, (so pages 10-11 from one book may be followed by 12-13 from another). See also Special Collection.