About Redaction

At its most basic Redaction is a design publication. It was result of several conversations over lunch with colleagues and peers complaining about the lack of venues for "experimental/non-commercial" graphic design. Those designers who sat at the table reminisced about "hey days" of graphic design and the cultural journals/magazines that served as a means of disseminating work that traditional trade magazines do not.

Redaction seeks to create two kinds of space. First, a space for people to disseminate work and ideas. Second, a space for the participants of the publication to openly discuss their contributions to the publication, a virtual critique room. Issue one is the result of an open call for proposals. From the initial selection there was a theme binding the work together, threads which tightly wove through the work. However it is the nature of proposals to change, the theme dissolves, changes, and new patterns emerge. The strongest remaining thread that exists is that all the work here raises some sort of question. Above all it is this kind of work Redaction hopes to exhibit. The work submitted is unedited, left as the designer intended it to be.

Issue Two is currently under development, it will be a DVD featuring motion and digital video work as well as video articles/documentaries/mocumentaries. It too doesn't have a theme. It is the nature of this publication to not be pinned to any format, and quite possibly not to be pinned to any exact date as to when it the next issue will be produced (but hopefully it will be out in Fall 2006).

Redaction Issue One is full of errors (or at least the Introduction is), but that is its very nature, messy. After all it is an infant. I hope you enjoy Redaction , and help it grow.

For more information contactinfo@redactionzine.com.

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     Redaction
     P.O. Box 7342
     Ann Arbor, MI 48107
(Acknowledging one of several mistakes in the publication, the P.O. Box number was left off in the colophon. The box wasn't purchased prior to printing. Redaction apologizes for this.)