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‘Texts’

An interview with Graphic magazine, Korea, about Min’s solo exhibition ‘Kinross, Modern typography (1992, 2004, 2009)’, at Gallery Factory, Seoul, 13 March – 5 April 2009.
Talking about exhibitions
Seoul is Cold
Unbalanced and Incomplete Guide to Dutch Design
An interview by Michael Fitzpatrick for Creative Review, July 2008.
Interview for Creative Review
Text written for the exhibition ‘Forms of Inquiry’, first held at Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, 8–30 October 2007, where some Specter publications were included in ‘Reading Room’ section.
A Short Account of an Amateur Press
“Whilst every effort has been made to establish the accuracy of the contents of this publication, anyone involved in this project cannot be hold responsible for accidental omissions or errors, which may be quite a few after all. Like any products of human endeavor, an archive is prone to err – and this one should not be an exception.”
Introduction to A Revised Inventory
Written description of our contribution to ‘No Paper: Experimental Poster Exhibition of 12 Designers’, The 4th Ningbo International Poster Biennial, China, 25–28 November 2006.
History Lesson: The Poster is Dead, Long Live the Poster, text
Presentation text about the cultural identity of the City of Leuven, Belgium, delivered on 16 December 2003, at the Cultureel Centrum Leuven, as part of the Jan van Eyck research project Micropolis.
Now_Every Second, Here_Leuven
This essay attempts to map out diverse ways in which the diagram may be used – not only to communicate pure facts, but also to perform rhetorical, political, narrative, imaginative and formal functions.
The Pragmatics of the Diagram
An introductory text, written by Min, to the photo-back Base.
Welcome to the Base
In the history of modern graphic design, the eye has been one of the most heavily featured motifs in posters, logos, book covers and other designed artifacts. […] The eye was, also, what the revolutionary French police of the nineteenth century chose for its emblem. It is well known that French words avoir [to have] and savoir [to know] have the same root of voir [to see]. To see is to know, and to know is to have – perception is knowledge and knowledge is power.
Shadowplay: Visibility, Survellance and Graphic Design