11/02/2026
Nothing About
Javier Fernández Contreras , Youri Kravtchenko , Julie Enckell Julliard (eds.)
Often dissident, sometimes adherent, Nothing About is, in essence, indefinable because it is adaptive and fluid. Speculative or hands-on, this discipline – if we can call it that – displays all the ambivalences of our contemporary lifestyles: superficial and profound, profane and divine, present everywhere and nowhere, and often regarded as futile, even though it could nonetheless destroy the most beautiful of insides. This book brings together a variety of intellectual tools and insights – polysemic and ambiguous, bespoke and improvised, ornamental and criminal, spanning media, technology, the arts and other, often undefined fields – that analyze the impact of the discipline on contemporary design. In the end, what makes Nothing About charming is that this inside – insofar as it is still defined as such – has only the humble ambition of accompanying beings, both animate and inanimate, within their environment, like a friend who is never far away.
Introduction by Javier Fernández Contreras .fdezco . Text contributions by Daniel Zamarbide , Line Fontana & David Fagart , Valentin Dubois & Bertrand Van Dorp ,Camille Bagnoud & Ahmed Belkhodja .atelier Javier F. Contreras .fdezco & Roberto Zancan Paule Perron , Philippe Rahm Youri Kravtchenko , Leonid Slonimskiy Simon Husslein Vera Sacchetti , Jan Dominik Geipel , Valentina De Luigi, Jean-Pierre Greff
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Graphic designer by Pierre Martin Vielcazat
