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Printed Karel Martens 50 was and in work of ways to show

publishes years of work. This started with geometric and kinetic constructions, later developped with the very material paper; more recently he has been making relief prints from found industrial artefacts. This book looks and discuss the work of a designer and artist. 1998

He Matter. for new

In 1998 at the Leipzig
Book Fair, Karel Martens:
Printed Matter was awar-
ded the gold medal, as
the best-designed book ‘in
the whole world’. Over the
years his books have fea-
tured regularly in the an-
nual Best-Designed Dutch
Books competition.

the
New
Right
doing
tions of
Chicago.
noe
walker
Smithsonian
Art
Karel
Art Library and
York; Cooper
Artforum, the New
Design
free work and
now
Center,
He is included in the collec-
Min-
Muse-
Martens is
neapolis; Museum of Modern
institutions such as
Archives,
um; and the Art Institute of
Hewitt,
Design Observer, and others.
various exhibitions. Martens’
holds
work has been published in
Art in America, the Observer,
Yorker,