TBD Catalog
978-0-9905-6335-8
© 2023Julian Bleecker _ Editor-in-Chief, Design, Illustrations, Contributor, Concept
Fabien Girardin _ Advisor
Along with 19 additional contributors belowdesign 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
JulianBleecker, PhD
_ Editor-in-Chief, Design, Illustrations, Contributor, Concept
FabienGirardin, PhD
_ Advisor
EmmetByrne
_ Contributor, Art Direction, Design
NickFoster
_ Contributor, Art Direction, Design
LenaTesone
_ Design, Art Direction
ChristianKolding
_ Contributor, Videography
NicolasNova, PhD
_ Contributor
AaronCope
_ Contributor
BruceSterling
_ Contributor, Advisor
CezanneCharles
_ Contributor, Advisor
ChrisWoebken
_ Contributor
JamesBridle
_ Contributor
JohnMarshall
_ Contributor, Advisor
KarlDaubmann
_ Contributor
MarcGreuther
_ Contributor
MarcusBleecker
_ Contributor, Photography, Videography
MeghanMulholland
_ Contributor
MokaPantages
_ Contributor
RaphaelGrignani
_ Contributor
TomBray
_ Videography
ZackJacobsen-Weaver
_ Contributor
Publisher
Near Future LaboratorySpecifications
Size 6” x 8-1/2” (upright)Pages 112pp text + Gatefold CoverText 112pp (4+4)col on 128gsm glossy artCover Front and back flap each of 3” wide, prints (4+4)col + 1/s glossy film lamination on 230gsm 2/s artboardEnds 150 gsm uncoated, 1 x 1 - HUVBinding Limpbound, section sewn, trim book block foredge, with gatefold cover drawn on and trim top + bottom to flushPacking 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.