Print Magazine issue 65, 1 February 2011

Special issue on collaboration, guest edited and designed by Project Projects.
Project Projects is a NYC Design studio working with mostly cultural clients and doing a lot of publishing as well.

On page 34, Michael Rock of 2×4 says there are essentially three types of collaboration: “Prosthetic: Partnering to fill a lack (as in a writer and art director team up in an agency); Systematic: partnering to tackle extremely complex problems (as in architecture and film); and  Distributive: partnering, often asynchronously, to take advantage of global distribution (as in outsourcing).”

Fluxus, the 60’s art movement, focused on inter-disciplinary efforts. Cofounded by Dick Higgins and Alison Knowles. Fluxus artists sought to disrupt the traditional role of the artist as isolated creator with collaborations between writers, composers, artists and designers.