Shrinking City
After a fairly long absence on paternity leave, last weekend I went back to Porto. This is Portugal’s second city and metropolitan area, although no longer it’s second larger municipality in terms of population – a position now taken by suburb cities like Gaia and Amadora. They call it invincible or invicta. This is a city where I lived for considerable parts of my life, and a city to which I usual

Beyond Again
As we were getting news of Beyond 01’s award in the American Design Awards – a 2nd prize in book design inbetween 1415 global entries – Florian Mewes, the series graphic designer, was finishing this stunning cover for Beyond 02…

Meanwhile…
…in the architecture world, the strangeness of fiction was again invading the previously grave and monotonous domain of building publication. Now for Architecture and Urbanism, via ArchDaily. While I was musing

On grand narratives
As against the gullibility with which one can flip through magazines, XL novels are a little bit more demanding on our contemporary rhythm. Even if sparing all the 5 minute units spent watching crappy music videos in the midst of TV zapping, who finds time today to read a very large book from cover to cover? While I have for my motto Jorge Luis Borges asking why should we write 700 page books when we can sum up the essential ideas in seven pages – thus finding myself editing something like t

Other little magazines
I think it is more than time to clear my desk of a pile of magazines that has been waiting for some kind of mention, some kind of memory, before entering an archive where they will lay buried under a growing layer of micro-dust for many years, before they will eventually be again discovered by some visual archeologist from the future… With distribution systems being what they are, one absurd goal of my traveling is to dig for new publications to incorporate into my