Future Fantasteek! Issue No.2

ISSUE TWO : FEBRUARY 2007
...Comfort & Security Issue
Softback Zine printed in greyscale on fluorescent pink paper, staple bound.
A5 size containing 16 printed pages. Pearl grey/pink cover with 2 glitter shapes.
Issue two: Brighton 2007, edition size of fifty.

The second outing for the Damp Research Laboratory - once the staff were hastily re-hired.
Marvel at the Negativity Negator; find out why "NO" is better than "yes".
Ever wondered why everything is always out of order? Let the Entropy-Go-Round inform you.
How useful is Vitamin O? And another incite Masked-Cat truism for your delectation..

To view this zine in more detail follow this link:

http://www.dampflat.com/DAMPFLAT/books/zines/future2/index.htm

...Meanwhile, Future Fantasteek!, Issue One, has just joined 3 new collections, 

• The Mansfield Library - Zine Collection, at the University of Montana-Missoula, USA, 
• the Papercut Zine Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 
• The zine collection at the University of Austin, Texas, USA.
  
  

Future Fantasteek! Issue No.1

ISSUE ONE : JULY 2006

...Things You Need Issue

Softback Zine printed in greyscale on flourescent lime paper, staple bound.

A5 size containing 16 printed pages, with a flexible clear-multilens pvc cover.

Issue one: Brighton 2006, edition size of fifty.

This Zine is full of eveything that’s wrong with modern living, modern people and going to work. It’s a mixture of hand-drawn typographic slogans and advice with curious advertisements thrown in for good measure. Buy an Evil-Pet or a machine for generating Stupid Ideas. The Damp Flat Research Facilities have wasted no time in bringing you the most up to date advice along with plausible excuses that can be profered for any event.

Things you need and things you don’t - if you can’t tell ‘em apart... YOU NEED THIS ZINE

Future Fantasteek Issue 1 can be viewed here:

http://www.dampflat.com/DAMPFLAT/books/zines/future1/index.htm

Or you can flick through it on issuu.com

http://issuu.com/futurefantasteek/docs/ff1

Summary of 2005

2005 has been a good year for Damp Flat Books. The 2004 catalogue did really well keeping me very busy this year. The main change is that I’ve completed my new website, showcasing all my current books & multiples. It also houses sketchbook work, artist statements, exhibitions and links to new projects I’m starting.

www.dampflat.com

Menthol Daze is being exhibited as part of Arcadia Id Est - A travelling exhibition organised by the Centre for Fine Print Research, The University of the West of England. The show runs from March 2005 to December 2006 and is travelling around the world from Australia to the UK - it’s in Australia about now.

I also exhibited 3 bookworks in the 2nd Seoul International Bookarts Fair in Korea 3rd-8th June 2005, where Running a Secret Society No.20 won a Medal.

As part of my research for the University of Portsmouth I received funding to create a new artist’s book alongside a student project exchange. The project consisted of a short trip to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in association with the Universiti Teknologi MARA and The Alif Creative Academy where I acted as external examiner, but also worked on a new book called My Favourtie Souvenir. This unusual hardback 3-folding-book written in Malay and English will be exhibited in Canada in Dec 2005 - Jan 2006 and Malaysia during winter 2006.

I have also created two more new books this year:

We’re Sorry - a celebration of broken machinery and clapped-out computers all suripticiously captured on camera phone and bought together in a small double-bound blue book, sealed with hazard tape.

 

Evil Eyes - a strange set of photographic faces seen in everyday objects, such as staplers and vending machines. Horizontally-opening cloth bound hardback book.

During the updating of the website I decide to open my own online museum. 

The Damp Museum can now be visited at www.dampflat.com and the curator contacted,
but I’m not sure what he’s up to ...