1,000,0000 years of broken graphics … load more, know less. A post-internet object, and a journey through graphic refuse amassed and extruded over several stylized chapters, this book collects the 2-D graphic work of designer and artist Mark Price. The book brings together a multitude of hijacked glyphs, damaged vectors, stolen sentiments, and product mockups reimagined and recontextualized at the moment of content’s obsolescence. The resulting volume of deeply compromised images occupies a liminal space in the world of intelligibility.Through the transformation of once-was content into high contrast and stylized detritus, Content Desert is an envoy from yesterday to tomorrow, delivering its anti-message through deconstructed forms, abandoned logos, and nonfunctional iconography, operating as though it were reliant on a befuddled and obtuse navigation application. “Content Desert is seemingly without precedent or clear genre. It’s an artwork, graphic anti-novel, brand identity, art book and conceptual object. It’s also a work of dadaist poetry. It cannot be scrolled easily though you should not give up trying.”— Lee Tusman, artist and curator Designed by Mark Price Published by Twenty XX, 2017 Softcover, 460 pages, black and white, 5 × 8 inches
