Container

language in novel forms Container is a project dedicated to publishing language in novel forms. Rarely, our objects look like traditional books. It depends.

Often projects take the shape of things that are not normally classified as "book-like."

04/03/2024

It wouldn't hurt to look, would it?

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01/04/2024

Get a DEEPER LOOK at our LOOK BOOKS series, shipping March 2024 (JOSHUA ROTHES' reel ships as the fifth installment in November).

Writer, designer, and chef of Sublunary Editions Joshua Rothes' TOMB OF THE ECSTATIC POET lives "between feuilleton and footnote" in a series of compressed, abstracted histories.

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01/03/2024

One more LOOK BOOK contributor to tell you about tomorrow.

IYKYK

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language in novel forms

01/01/2024

Get a DEEPER LOOK at our LOOK BOOKS series, shipping March 2024 (RÉMI FORTE's reel ships as the fourth installment in September).

Typographer, designer, and poet Rémi Forte presents patterns typeset from emotive content that readers discover by looking beyond the visual forms that first present themselves.

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12/29/2023

New year, new look.

Subscribe today with code NEWLOOK to get 10% off the price of a subscription.

The discount is only good until the end of January 2024!

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12/28/2023

Get a DEEPER LOOK at our LOOK BOOKS series, shipping March 2024 (GEOF HUTH's reel ships as the third installation in July).

Visual poet GEOF HUTH's "Illuminated Words" introduces the story of "a knight who has killed his own king and, haunted by his life, traverses the Earth while trying and failing to forgive himself."

These works, coming from the union of the asemic and illuminated manuscript traditions explores narrative at a slant through glyphs, color, and space.

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12/23/2023

Get a DEEPER LOOK at our LOOK BOOKS series, shipping March 2024 (Njaimeh Njie's reel ships as the second installation in May).

Pittsburgh artist Njaimeh Njie's collage work engages with Black lives, narratives, and landscapes. In A SERIES OF NOTES TO SELF (AM TO PM), Njie creates a sequence that reflects on community, time, and the forces that shape daily experience through empowerment, embodiment, and perspective.

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12/14/2023

Get a DEEPER LOOK at our LOOK BOOKS series, shipping March 2024.

In this edition, we look at Eric Pankey's OCCULT NOIR, a work that he writes,

"riffs upon, and ... troubles various film noir conventions."

This work -- a double reel -- is composed of movies, television, public service films, film strips, and print advertising in a collage format giving us a narrative that demonstrates that there's certainly something troubling beneath the surface of the story we're presented.

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12/13/2023

We're excited to be at Mission Creek Festival's book fair this year! Come chat with us in Iowa City in April!

Mission Creek Bucketlist: Come get to know your local Lit community! (We ARE the City of Literature for a reason… Duh 👀)

12/03/2023

Posting about our upcoming and newer projects has been great! But. we don't want to forget where we came from; TEM and SAW PALMETTOS are some of our first objects, and we only have ONE OF EACH LEFT!

Check out some of our more "deep cut" photos from the various shoots we've done.

Could you provide the final home for these projects? For more about these objects and everything else we're up to head to our site: https://acontainer.co

11/27/2023

The LOOK BOOK is back in a new edition with new friends we'll tell you more about over the coming weeks.

■ Njaimeh Njie
■ Rémi Forte
■ Geof Huth
■ Eric Pankey
■ Joshua Rothes

Subscribe from now until February 2024 to receive a new reel every two months starting in March 2024.

Prices are inclusive of shipping and, if you have a compatible ViewMaster device or one of our previous viewers, we're including the Reels Only subscription!

Learn more, have a look at some previews, and subscribe: https://acontainer.co/projects/look-book-2024/

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Container is not a box. Container is not a bag. It is both of these things. As texts continue on a trajectory toward being themselves and the things they represent, publishing models must change accordingly. But, Container is not a publishing model; however if your project is a model airplane or a model of an atom, send it our way. Established to create books which aren’t, in the quotidian sense, books at all, Container creates objects which masquerade as parking meters, wallpaper, or crop seed sleeves. Working with text to determine alternate approaches to the traditional book form, we aim to free artists from being “boxed in” by forms, roles, abilities, or identities.