Title & Author:

The FACIT model : globalism, localism & identity / concept, editing & graphic design, Our Polite Society ; texts, Mark Owens, Isabel Mager, Gabriel A. Maher, Paul Gangloff.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Leipzig : Spector Books, 2019.
©2019

Description:

xxiv, 216 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Cover title.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition Stichting fanfare, Amsterdam, Netherlands (06.04 - 22.04.2019) / FACIT Museum, Åtvidaberg, Sweden (01.07. - 29.09.2019).
The FACIT model / Mark Owens -- Stero-typed by design / Isabel Mager & Gabriel A. Maher -- On the production of words / Paul Gangloff -- A note about the type / Our Polite Society -- Rotation offset & football : a conversation with Stefan Hermansson -- Typesetting & exploded views : a conversation with Lars-Arne and Eira Paulsson -- Photography & typography : a conversation with Margaret and Hans Malmqvist.

Summary:

"In Sweden, the FACIT brand is as well-known as IBM or Olivetti. Based in Åtvidaberg, the company produced mechanical calculators, typewriters, and office furniture in the period between 1922 and 1998. By the 1970s the company had grown from a local family business into one of the world's leading manufacturers. The company-sponsored football team ÅFF was playing in the first division. A few years later the FACIT organisation had disappeared--worn down by global capitalism. 'The FACIT Model' looks at this peculiar outgrowth of corporate modernism through the printed matter produced in FACIT's inhouse print shops. Type specimens, manuals, advertising leaflets, and product catalogues bear witness to a culture in which many of the codes and forms familiar to us from today's world of work were defined or invented. 'The FACIT Model' documents the visual research carried out by Our Polite Society in the archives of FACIT AB. 'The FACIT Model', fanfare, Amsterdam, from 6 to 22 April 2019 and at the FACIT Museum, Åtvidaberg, from 1 July to 29 September."--Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9783959052863 (paperback)
3959052863 (paperback)

Subject:

Facit AB History Pictorial works.
Typewriters Exhibitions.
Calculators Exhibitions.
Office furniture Sweden Exhibitions.
Graphic arts Sweden History 20th century.
Machines à écrire Expositions.
Calculatrices Expositions.
Bureaux Meubles Suède Expositions.
Arts graphiques Suède Histoire 20e siècle.
Calculators
Graphic arts
Office furniture
Typewriters
Sweden

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
History
Illustrated works
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Owens, Mark, 1971- author.
Mager, Isabel, 1992- author.
Maher, Gabriel .A., author.
Gangloff, Paul, author.
Our Polite Society (Design practice), book designer, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main
Copy: 1
Status: On Order