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Working for the weekend
Published in: Print Magazine, New York City
The Barcelona-based designer Martin Lorenz found a way to combine his twin loves - design and travel - when he invented The One Weekend Book Series back in 2003. The objective, to travel to a city and collaborate with a local artist during a 48-hour period, allowed no computers - just unfettered creativity. When he returns home, he publishes the results of his "graphic tourism" in 50 copy-shop-produced, 48-page books. The first five incarnations have been compiled by the publisher Actar and will be on view at Soso, a gallery café in Sapporo, Japan, through the end of january. The show will include work of his collaborations with Tim Faulwetter (Hamburg), Yoshi Sodeoka (New York), Eike Koenig (Frankfurt), Rinah Lang (Berlin), Rowan J. McCuskey (Utrecht), and Elisabeth Schulze (Berlin).
Lorenz denies that the project is just a sneaky way to persuade a local to act as tour guide for a weekend. "The exciting thing is to spend 48 hours working with someone you're not familiar with on something that you don't know what it will be," he says. Besides, he always stays in a hotel.
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