TBD Catalog
978-0-9905-6335-8
© 2023 
design fictioncatalog
Description
What is 'the future', when 'the future' arrives as a printed junk mail catalog of yesterday's vision of the future?
TBD Catalog is the first and canonical Design Fiction artifact ever produced. It was the artifact 'found' through a futures workshop in October 2012 with a group of engaged participants from across a wide variety of practices and disciplines to infer the implications of trends at a point in time and make sense of these trends as if they achieved their likely/probable/possible outcome in a likely/probable/possible future, but as artifacts from the future.
TBD Catalog is the first and canonical Design Fiction artifact ever produced. It was the artifact 'found' through a futures workshop in October 2012 with a group of engaged participants from across a wide variety of practices and disciplines to infer the implications of trends at a point in time and make sense of these trends as if they achieved their likely/probable/possible outcome in a likely/probable/possible future, but as artifacts from the future.
Contributors
Julian Bleecker, PhD
_ Editor-in-Chief, Design, Illustrations, Contributor, Concept
Fabien Girardin, PhD
_ Advisor
Emmet Byrne
_ Contributor, Art Direction, Design
Nick Foster
_ Contributor, Art Direction, Design
Lena Tesone
_ Design, Art Direction
Christian Kolding
_ Contributor, Videography
Nicolas Nova, PhD
_ Contributor
Aaron Cope
_ Contributor
Bruce Sterling
_ Contributor, Advisor
Cezanne Charles
_ Contributor, Advisor
Chris Woebken
_ Contributor
James Bridle
_ Contributor
John Marshall
_ Contributor, Advisor
Karl Daubmann
_ Contributor
Marc Greuther
_ Contributor
Marcus Bleecker
_ Contributor, Photography, Videography
Meghan Mulholland
_ Contributor
Moka Pantages
_ Contributor
Raphael Grignani
_ Contributor
Tom Bray
_ Videography
Zack Jacobsen-Weaver
_ Contributor
Publisher
Near Future LaboratorySpecifications
Size 6” x 8-1/2” (upright) Pages 112pp text + Gatefold Cover Text 112pp (4+4)col on 128gsm glossy art Cover Front and back flap each of 3” wide, prints (4+4)col + 1/s glossy film lamination on 230gsm 2/s artboard Ends 150 gsm uncoated, 1 x 1 - HUV Binding Limpbound, section sewn, trim book block foredge, with gatefold cover drawn on and trim top + bottom to flush Packing Kraft wrapped per sensible quantity, bulk pack in export carton of approx. 18kg; palletizedNotes
- Dedicated to Gian-Pablo Villamil who passed too young and was one of the most active contributors and participants in the NFL community.
- Third printing and special 10th anniversary edition of the original TBD Catalog.
- As of this writing, TBD Catalog in its three printings and two editions has sold over 5000 copies
- Independently published. All design, production and manufacturing conducted independently establishing Near Future Laboratory as an independent publisher.
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