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.
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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