If anyone is in New York City on July 24, come to the launch of PRAXIS issue 5, "Architecture After Capitalism". In regards to issues of sustainability, when designing the cover of PRAXIS 5, Architecture after Capitalism, I appropriated the by-products of capitalism - waste - from the printing industry. A typical mid-sided printing press runs thousands of test sheets to calibrate color, finish and registration every day. Frequently a single piece of test paper is printed several times with different imprints before being discarded. In April 2003, the same month the PRAXIS was printed, our printer, Garrity Printing, produced a wide range of jobs including: advertising for Harrah's Casino, brochures for Tulane Engineering School, and handboooks for the US Congress. We asked the printer for a palate of their waste for the cover of PRAXIS. Of the 5,548 usable sheets of paper, 4000 have become Praxis covers. The remaining 1,548 will become waste in our own process. The paper that has become our cover had been used for over 17 different jobs, and overprinted to create several different combinations. I have documented the 14 most common progeny of this process above. Collect all 4000! VISIT:

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