MacGuffin #14

MacGuffin #14 - The Wall

With each issue based around a single object, MacGuffin magazine is a platform for fans of inspiring, personal, unexpected, highly familiar or utterly disregarded things. Widely recognized as a fabulously designed and immaculately researched design & crafts biannual, it is an indispensable resource for all those who want backstage information about the life of things.

‘The Life of Things’ 

From the Apartheid wall in Palestine to the digital paywall, from memorial murals in Jamaica to the increasingly tall glass facades of modern office blocks, walls testify to the tumult of history and humanity’s ceaseless urge to communicate and to sow division. They force us to reflect on the paradoxes of openness and isolation, of enclosure and exclusion. In a world drowning in borders, barriers and barbed-wire fences, MacGuffin Magazine Nº 14 The Wall pauses for thought and asks: What exactly do we want to express or protect? And why? 
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Contributors include: Seb Emina, Simone Atangano Bekono, Basje Boer, Warren Brodey, Anna Bulgarelli, Gabriel Carr, Lara Chapman, Rasha Dakkak, Nienke Denekamp, Eliot Haworth, Tom Howells, Emily King, Kim Knoppers, Anniina Koivu, Rem Koolhaas, Mathijs Labadie, Larissa Laban, Pit Lempens, Gabriel Lester, Stepan Lipatov, Ibrahim Mahama, Tracian Meikle, Zhedy Lena Nuentsa, Karin Nygård, Ellef Prestaeter, Hugo Rocci, Shahram Saadat, Scheltens & Abbenes, Jack Self, Mariam Shamma, Liv Siddall, Doortje Smithuijsen, István Virag, Madelon Vriesendorp, Madeleine Weavers, Henk Wildschut, Maddy Woon, Mariëtte Wijne, Donnette Ingrid Zacca, Kim Zwarts and many more."

210 x 275mm, 226 pages
Amsterdam, Netherlands (English language)
Biannual
Editors: Kirsten Algera & Ernst van der Hoeven
Design: Sandra Kassenaar