Fame in Progress calls the catalogue of an exhibition Work in Progress in Progress in Work, maping the design material, process, bits of matter, positive influence of errors and some magic moments around last 15 years of progress of the czech based graphic design studio Monsters.
Work in Progress in Progress in Work
The book is an extension of the exhibition Work in Progress in Progress in Work presented in Gallery 2 of the House of Arts Ústí nad Labem. It presents raw material from the visual archive of the Monsters Studio, its realised projects and their parallel versions. It captures the process of thinking about concepts and searching for visual languages of the authors.
The fascination with structure, typographic signs and visual matter drives an endless cycle of creating and capturing images, searching for meaning, but also celebrating and incorporating chance and error into the process. Individual projects are challenges and opportunities for discovery, creating your own tools or adapting existing and forgotten technologies.
What remains hidden between the lines from the perspective of a pragmatic profession is waiting for its chance. Visual records are an imprint of the past, but also a harbinger of possible futures. The old bubbles to the surface and becomes new, and vice versa.
New becomes old becomes new…
Everything not saved will be lost…
Monsters
The catologue itself consist of 120 pages of free flow Monsters visual vocabulary and texts and photographs of the exhibition curator Kristýna Císařová. Her text describes freely the passion and even struggles of an almost obsessive inner need to be creative. Kristýna's text is based on her own creative experience of a photographer artist, but in the same time the text touches the reason why the idea to publish book apeared. In her words: It doesn't matter whether the work fits the spirit of the time or gains recognition - what matters is the process, the transformation it brings.
The design of entire catalogue is work of Monsters studio – Michaela Labudová and Pavel Frič.
Editor: Kristýna Císařová
Texts: Kristýna Císařová, Monsters, bots
Photography: Kristýna Císařová, Kateřina Javůrková,
Filip Trubač, Monsters
Concept & Graphic design:
Monsters – Michaela Labudová & Pavel Frič
Exhibition visuals: Adéla Bierbaumer
3D graphics: Michal Max Mráz
Typefaces: Plain, Monsters depot and Farbe Grotesk
First edition
Copies 100
Pages 120
Printed by INDIGOPRINT s.r.o.
ISBN 978-80-7561-505-3
Publisher: Faculty of Art and Design at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Usti nad Labem 2025
The book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Monsters: Work in Progress in Progress in Work in Gallery 2, House of Arts Ústí nad Labem 19/3—10/5/2025
@Monsters.cz
- authors, texts & graphic designers
- Monsters – Michaela Labudová and Pavel Frič
- editor, texts & photography
- Kristýna Císařová
- photography
- Kateřina Javůrková
- photography
- Filip Trubač
- exhibition visuals
- Adéla Bierbaumer
- 3D graphics
- Michal Max Mráz
- printer
- INDIGOPRINT
- publisher
- Faculty of Art and Design at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University
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