/fôrTHˈkomiNG/: Adjective—[1] Planned for or about to happen in the near future. [2] (of something required) ready or made available when wanted or needed. Additionally • (of a person) willing to divulge information. [3] Grounded in processes of making.
To repeat is to behave in a certain manner, but in relation to something unique or singular which has no equal or equivalent. And perhaps this repetition at the level of external conduct echoes, for its own part, a more secret vibration which animates it, a more profound, internal repetition within the singular.” [1]
Forthcoming is a creative studio specializing in design and creative direction, focusing on collaborations with architects, artists, writers, publishers, and cultural institutions—producing projects ranging from printed matter, such as books and ephemera, to identities, digital design, and more with an interest in the intersection of art, culture, fashion and commerce.
Across varying projects and media, a priority is placed on the investigation of content over style through a deeply involved dialog between production, process, and materiality.
Before starting Forthcoming Studio, David Wise worked as a freelance graphic designer on major projects across commerce, art, and architecture, as well as in-house for Urban Outfitter’s Global Design team and most recently as the Head of Design at the Aspen Art Museum.
Currently—Forthcoming Studio focuses on collaborations within the arts and culture sector. We have worked with artists Cheryl Donegan, Nate Lowman, Gabriel Rico, Rashid Johnson and Seth Price, architects and designers Archival Studies, as well as the institutions CCS Bard and Columbus Printed Arts Center, among others.
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︎David Wise and John Clayton Lee are IMMANENCE Studio
Across varying projects and media, a priority is placed on the investigation of content over style through a deeply involved dialog between production, process, and materiality.
Before starting Forthcoming Studio, David Wise worked as a freelance graphic designer on major projects across commerce, art, and architecture, as well as in-house for Urban Outfitter’s Global Design team and most recently as the Head of Design at the Aspen Art Museum.
Currently—Forthcoming Studio focuses on collaborations within the arts and culture sector. We have worked with artists Cheryl Donegan, Nate Lowman, Gabriel Rico, Rashid Johnson and Seth Price, architects and designers Archival Studies, as well as the institutions CCS Bard and Columbus Printed Arts Center, among others.
︎Contact[at]Forthcoming.studio
︎David Wise and John Clayton Lee are IMMANENCE Studio
THEORY OF THE DÉRIVE
GUY DEBORD
LES LÈVRES NUES #9 (NOVEMBER 1956) REPRINTED IN INTERNATIONALE SITUATIONNISTE #2 (DECEMBER 1958) TRANSLATED BY KEN KNABB
GUY DEBORD
LES LÈVRES NUES #9 (NOVEMBER 1956) REPRINTED IN INTERNATIONALE SITUATIONNISTE #2 (DECEMBER 1958) TRANSLATED BY KEN KNABB
One can dérive alone, but all indications are that the most fruitful numerical arrangement consists of several small groups of two or three people who have reached the same level of awareness, since cross-checking these different groups’ impressions makes it possible to arrive at more objective conclusions. It is preferable for the composition of these groups to change from one dérive to another. With more than four or five participants, the specifically dérive character rapidly diminishes, and in any case it is impossible for there to be more than ten or twelve people without the dérive fragmenting into several simultaneous dérives. The practice of such subdivision is in fact of great interest, but the difficulties it entails have so far prevented it from being organized on a sufficient scale...
- Deleuze, Gilles. Difference and Repetition. Translated by Paul Patton, Columbia University Press, 1994.
- Excerpts from the ongoing project, Turn. Through a rigorous and almost obsessive level of documentation, a sense of space, place, and the material gestures that form them are categorized and deployed...
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