Task #2 Not what if, what if not?
The Mundane Science Fiction issue: Tone it down/pull it back. The future never gets old. Metahaven discusses online utopian impulses. Rob Giampietro and David Reinfurt have a slightly phased conversation. Kate McKinney Maddalena provides the etymology of the word "mundane." Task interviews the NASA Earth Observatory. Randy Nakamura tries to hold back his emotions. Catalogtree predicts the future. Daniel Eatock, LUST, Peter Bilak, Sean Donahue, Mr. Keedy, Zak Kyes, and Wayne Daly describe things that never happened. Paul Elliman climbs the Tower of Song. Jimmy Carter addresses alien races. Apollo 8 gets unscripted. Buckminster Fuller coins a term. Christian Bale meets Ettore Sottsass. Google organizes the world. All this in the span of a day, the palm of your hand. NZ$28
Task #1 The Eclectic Slide
A hodgepodge of conversations with Eric Olson, Mevis & van Deursen, and Project Projects, stories about designing Al Gore's ecobook and eating lunch in North Beach, meditations on being away from home, an incomplete reader on the question of eclecticism, and an ode to Cat Lovers Against the Bomb.
Task Newsletter is a publication by Emmet Byrne, Alex DeArmond, and Jon Sueda. Issue 1 was included in the exhibition Forms of Inquiry: The Architecture of Critical Graphic Design on view through October 31 at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. Task's contribution to Forms of Inquiry is featured in Idea Magazine No. 326.
