Detour Book
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Detour Book
Detour Book A collection of sketches celebrating the gesture of hand drawing and hand writing and the value of notebooking in the creative professions of today. With a contribution by Hans-Ulrich Obrist and an excerpt from Richard Sennet’s “The Craftsman”. Worldwide preview at the 13. International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale, November 5th, 2012. Detour is the name of a travelling project which, since 2006, has gathered and displayed, in various cities around the world, 275 notebooks decorated, hacked, sketched in and filled with notes, clippings and drawings by internationally renowned authors from different professional and cultural backgrounds. Now Detour is also the name of a Book, collecting images from the notebooks in the Detour archive so far. All Detour works have been donated by the authors to the nonprofit Foundation lettera27 , whose mission is to support the right to literacy, education, and the access to knowledge and information. The Detour Travelling Show. Detour is a hands on experience, as the notebook are displayed inside Perspex boxes, keeping them safe, while letting the public have an unusual chance to flip through their pages. The aspect of actually touching the book and interacting with it, let the spectators get closer to the creative process of the author. Detour is also a permanent exhibition, with flick-through-videos that anyone can browse on moleskine.com/detour. Moleskine made a project where the interdisciplinary approach is a must, involving a very diverse group of authors from all sorts of creative professions: visual artists, film directors, musicians, writers, critics, illustrators, graphic novelists, from all over the world. In each city local authors have been involved, making the collection richer and richer. The Detour stops so far: London in 2006, New York in 2007, Paris and Berlin in 2008, Istanbul and Tokyo in 2009, Venice and Shanghai in 2010. Detour is on ongoing project. Next stop: Sao Paulo, in 2013. The Detour Book. This book is a physical archive. Having the whole collection of almost 300 notebooks, make you feel that you are looking into the makings of other books. The Detour Book contains a series of maps, infographics and statistics. The sections divided into 5 big macro areas contains texts written with greater freedom around the subject of notebooking by Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Lorin H. Stein, Maria Sebregondi, Maurizio Ferraris, Raffaella Guidobono, and excerpts from The Craftsman by Richard Sennett and from The Interrogative Mood by Padgett Powell. Han Bing “The book layout – says editor Raffaella Guidobono -, made together with the studio Zetalab, is a canny concept, with simple and effective graphics. We wish we could classify works in a Natural History Museum, in a Borges style. The Book instead is a new way of how to present the notebooks as a parade of objects sometimes with the joy of Paradox. To develop a Moleskine volume as an excursus on the big cultural project Detour, we emphasize the research on the creative process that goes from the drafts symphony of Barenboim’s pupil Karim Said up to the stunning Joep Van Lieshout one”. Through the Detour Book the reader can recognize true talented minds like Tishani Doshi, Javier Marìas, Tom Sachs, Ron Arad, Italo Rota, Toyo Ito and some rising, daring, fresh souls like the Architectural Studios Kuehn Malvezzi, unexpected drawings by Dave Eggers, the gifted designers Ross Lovegrove, the paper doll shape of the Tord Boontje's notebook, as well as some influencers like Spike Jonze, Antonio Marras, Sigur Rós, Yves Béhar, Erina Matsui and Giovanni Sollima, just to name a few. The Detour Book will be first presented in Venice, for the 13. International Architecture Exhibition, on November 5, in a talk with Maria Sebregondi and Raffaella Guidobono, at the Serra dei Giardini, via Giuseppe Garibaldi, 1254. Liselotte Watkins Sebastiano Mauri Colophon Publisher: Moleskine Srl Editor: Raffaella Guidobono Texts: Maurizio Ferraris Raffaella Guidobono Hans-Ulrich Obrist Maria Sebregondi Lorin H. Stein All other texts by Raffaella Guidobono Excerpts: Padgett Powell Richard Sennett Graphic Design Zetalab Milano Publishing Coordinator: Igor Salmi Toyo Ito Paula Scher The edition contains a 352-page book, printed on ivory coloured paper, with more than 250 illustrations. The book is cloth-bound, mounted with black cardboard and white cloth on the spine + elastic band. Please credits photos: Moleskine®- Detour Book For updates and hi-res images: Silvia Trenta - [email protected] T.+39 0200680530 Rodrigo Almeida
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