GRAPHIC DOES GRAPHIC
EXPLICITNESS – THE EXPLICIT ISSUE

Profile: In this issue we run an in-depth portrait of Swiss creative collective BURO DESTRUCT

Essays:
LUCIENNE ROBERTS (SANS + BAUM) turns against EXPLICITNESS
and
MARC A. VALLI on the concept of GRAPHIC REALISM
Is graphic-design art history's answer to contemporary reality?

Other features:
In ‘Feet on the Ground’ Rem Koolhas’s and Galahad Clarke talk about T UNITED NUDE, their new avant-guarde shoe design adventure
In ‘Real Brands, What is a real brand? How do you make it real?’ Mairi Duthie interviews PAUL SMITH, Diesel, Levis, Bloomberg (among others)
In ‘Pledge Allegiance’ Rosanna Vitiello looks at Patriotism & Flags and their relationship with brands and logos
Marc Valli looks at the sensual art of plectrum design & plectrum-based jewellery (fetish, SM codes, etc)
Reviews of Brazil Inspired (Dgv) & Rick Poynor’s latest book No More Rules (Laurence King)
Sebastian Campos interviews Berlin-based fashion designers BLESS
Sam Baker looks at the latest trends in computer games


Portfolio feature: we look at the work of US moving graphics & animation studio PSYOP, www.psyop.tv


Plus stunning & extremely explicit visual contributions by:
New unpublished work by LAURENT FETIS (graphics, France)
Christiane Weismüller & Jan Grygoriew (graphics, Germany)
Karen Jane’s thong alphabets (graphics/typography, UK)
MATHIAS HUENE’s Lego Kamassutra (graphics, lego, Germany)
Yewkee Chung & Bettina (illustration & photography, Holland & Sweeden)
Miriam Skovholt’s: Dad’s Wall (graphics & photography, Norway)
FLORENCE MANLIK’s sensual forms (illustrations, France)
TAKESHI HAMADA (illustration & graphics, Japan)
Olga Okun’s Meatmarket Girls (illustration, UK)
Soo K. Kim/Liquid Paper (illustration, US)
Newtasty (graphics & illustration, UK)
SEB JARNOT’s (painting & illustration, France)
YUKO SHIMIZU’s explicit alphabet (illustration, US)
MATMO’s photography based project (graphics & photography, Holland)
Shivon Bratchell: the city as a cinema screen (photography, UK)
PETER BESTE (cover) haunting portraits of Norwegian Black Metal fans (photography, US)
Rafaël Rozendaal’s extremely graphic short story (graphics, Holland/Brazil)
DR LAKRA fantastic tattoo masterpieces (art, tattoo art, Mexico)
Viola Simoncioni’s mirror (self) portraits (fashion photography, Italy)

BUILD – MICHAEL PLACE reinterprets online pornography (graphics, UK)


Special feature: Graphic 03 will come with a sheet of censorship stickers (which the sensitive reader can use to cover whatever offends his/her discerning taste)

JANUARY 2004

Published by Bis

Format:
pages: 180
size: 228 x 297 mm
paper: 170 grams art paper + various offset papers
printing: full colour throughout + various extra colours
binding: paperback
frequency: quarterly