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WERK No.16: Joe Magee Special

‘WERK No.16: Joe Magee Special’ (2009) Harley A, editorial director with contributing text and interviews, translated into Japanese. WERK established in 2000 by Theseus Chan of WORK Singapore, is a portfolio of limited edition publications with global circulation to locations such Collette in Paris and Comme de Garçons, Tokyo. Each edition is experimental in concept and development, and individually hand finished. The publication utilises innovative research methodology adopted by the author as a practitioner observing and understanding another practitioner, to synthesise distinctive individual creative practice and processes. The methodology supported by structured interviews established a significant creative partnership between the author, the designer and the artist filmmaker, informing the concept and design of the publication that presented previously unseen material to an international audience. The author worked systematically with Chan in Singapore and Magee in London, defining the design development and editing of the publication to achieve its innovative and unique assembly, produced by an inter-disciplinary and artisanal design team. This created a new form of expression for Magee as a highly successful illustrator and emergent artist filmmaker. The resulting publication with commercial, personal and commissioned images has integrated text and interviews with 376 full-colour-pages using die-cut foldouts pasted throughout, and a spine hand-finished with newspapers from the UK and SE Asia. ‘WERK No.16: Joe Magee Special’ was the first retrospective of award winning Magee's work over a 10-year period and won two prestigious industry awards at D&AD (British Design and Art Direction) 2009 for Outstanding Achievement in categories of ‘Design’ and ‘Image’. The publication was exhibited in the Rocket Gallery, Tokyo 28 November – 23 December 2008 showing the combined creative and production process, and was subsequently selected for exhibition at the Ginza Gallery, Tokyo in ‘The Extremities of the Printed Matter’, 3 – 25 December, 2012, ISBN ISBN978-4-88752-370-8.