The retrospective look at the history of design does not let Projector break away from the Bauhaus of the 1920—1930s, as this decade has loads of information. The issue again starts with a story about one of the masters of this school — this time he historical perspective features Marcel Breuer.
Next, the expert and the driving force of an «artist’s book» Mikhail Karasik speaks about one of the great masters of the genre — Gunnar Kaldewei, whose design books have already been included into the world-famous museum collections for several dozens of years.
This issue’s author’s project of Olga and Alexander Florensky «Russian Design» presents most ingenious time-keeping devices. It is precisely entitled «Local Time».
This issue’s «Object» involves a lot of furniture. It opens with the article Furniture Morphology by our special correspondent in Paris Yevgenya Dyakonenko. This publication describes the projects of two designers, Robert Stadler and Pablo Reynosa. They operate with quotations from the common furniture context — the Chesterfield sofa or a traditional park bench in their projects revive and begin to live their own lives, or die and decompose — that depends on your point of view.
Here’s also the first article of the series Projector established in cooperation with the world-famous Vitra factory. In each issue of the magazine we’ll talk about one of the legendary pieces of furniture of the XX and XXI centuries. The first one is the chair Pretzel, designed by George Nelson in 1952.
The main publication of the «Environment» is dedicated to the construction, which is perfectly defined as «environmental design». The architects Mathias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton told the magazine in an exclusive interview about their building of Environmental Protection Agency in Dessau (Germany). Not only does it have the most advanced technologies of the environment protection, but also the project itself seems to be dissolved in its environment. If we talk only about the external appearance of the building, its facades reflect the world around — the blue side overlooks the river, the green one faces the park and the yellowish-red is turned towards the red-brick building of the old station.
The section «Photography» continues the series of publications about the brightest and most interesting photographers of St.Petersburg. Today we’re featuring the duo of Alexey Tikhonov and his «Holga». «Holga» is a completely plastic (including the lens), but a medium format camera, invented in China (what’s funny, we didn’t manage to find the inscription «made in China» on it). It costs same as the five films it takes pictures on, and every camera is a little bit but different from all the others.
After the previous issue’s publication about the master of the Soviet design school Svetlana Mirzoyan, Projector in the name of our authority Sergey Helmyanov continues the story of design in the Soviet Union. Sergey has interviewed Dmitry Azrikan — the designer and the author of numerous implemented projects. Dmitry told Projector about his way in the profession, the difficulties and joys faced by a designer in the 1960—1980s.
Projector is proud to present the Mikhail Karasik’s column dedicated to notable events in the book design of the first third of the XX century. Read more in next issues of the magazine: Wearing glasses and a hat — On the typology of the Soviet visual images in the graphics of the second half of the 1920s; Tyre as a frame for the portrait of a contemporary — a storyline of the photomontages in the 1920—1030s; Printing of the Socialist Industry — the propaganda masterpiece by El Lissitzky; Wheels and pumps — a man at the wheel in books and magazines of the 1930s; Portraits of fuzz, feather and typeset — the portraits of the leaders in the printing industry; Contemporary portrait in a gas mask — a gas mask was considered as a face of a hero of the war and labor in a book of the 1930s.
The traditional review of own bookshelves is presented by the magazine partner — Information and bookselling company IndexMarket, and Projector this time recommends the magic book New masters of poster design. The question of how «New» they are is quite controversial, but the fact that they are «Masters» is no doubt!
