Verb reload!
Following the publication of Verb Crisis, Actar is reconceptualizing the format(s) and structure(s) of the Verb boogazine series. Verb and Stereograph, its new sibling focusing on graphic design and communication, aspire to a broader professional and social impact. If you have any thoughts on the achievements and shortcomings of Verb and/or on the direction that it should take from now on, please post a comment!
January 26th, 2009 at 0:27
That’s what Volume magazine and C-Lab with Jeffrey Inaba are doing for couple of years, no?
January 27th, 2009 at 12:42
The association between the Archis Foundation, Columbia’s C-Lab and AMO has been very successful at establishing Volume as a platform for discussion on the cultural and political implications of architecture. There’s a lot to learn from there. But another question is how effective the magazine / boogazine printed format is in itself. When we started Verb in 2001 we believed that the boogazine hybrid was the correct answer to the flexibility and impact that we were seeking. The Verb Monographs followed as a way to expand on certain projects or topics that we believed were especially influential in shaping architectural practice. We unsuccessfully tried to launch then a Verb Minigraph series - faster, smaller, cheaper, probably short-lasting. Besides Verb’s need to maintain a sufficiently large network to feed and disseminate its contents, the question for us today is how this family of publications needs to evolve in order to accommodate new communication tools (for instance opening up its contents to the input of readers) and to more successfully reach and influence the architectural community.
March 8th, 2009 at 21:40
Thanks for explanation! Looking forward very much …
April 7th, 2009 at 11:54
Verb was from the bedining an exciting format challenging the boundries of book-magazine. It wasnt very periodical-regular which deducted its magazine-ness.
I would suggest adding a opentype-blogness accessibility that challenges the predictability of architecture disemination that has been exacerbated by blogs.