Forecast (Nozone) [Paperback]

Nicholas Blechman (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 4, 2008 | Series: Nozone (Book 10)

Conspiracy theories, pending Ice Ages, potential revolutions, viral epidemics, and other doomsday prophecies: whereveryou look—from the cover of Time magazine to the weird weather outside your window—the message seems universal: the Earth our children inherit will certainly be nothing like the one we currently inhabit. UN reports and newspaper articles are illustrated with dry charts and graphs predicting technological, economic, and ecological transformations that are already dramatically altering the way we live. Forecast revisualizes these abstractions about everything from our environ-ment to our waistlines, from the stock market to the Middle East through the eyes of cartoonists and graphic designers who have made comics with a conscience: Ward Sutton imagines a nation divided into a red and a blue zone; Paula Scher maps out the Northern Hemisphere of 2100; Elizabeth Amon interviews New Yorker journalist Elizabeth Kolbert on global warming; and Tom Tomorrow looks back on the legacy of Bush-Cheney. Ultimately, Forecast is an optimistic book: using humor, it encourages all of us to take responsibility for predictions of the future and to take action to affect change. Forecast is the latest installment of Nozone. Featured in the Cooper Hewitt's Design Triennial, Nozone is a decade-old political graphic design and comics zine, editedaround a theme.

Editorial Reviews

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...a beautifully illustrated collection of work by artists and architects who build in the landscape using natural materials and low-tech means. -- Public Art Review, July 1, 2008

...a beautifully illustrated collection of work by artists and architects who build in the landscape using natural materials and low-tech means. --Public Art Review: (6/30/08)

Recommended Reading: Some observations spark amusement, others a sense of doom. --Communication Arts: (11/5/08)

"In light of all the political madness (Go Obama!) and nearly disastrous storms, this book seems very appropriate. Its a collaboration of artists ideas of the future. Through charts, graphs, maps, illustrations, interviews and comics, designers predict or comment on others predictions about what the world might become hundreds of years from now. I love Julia Hoffmans Lets Get Carbon-ated questionaire where you receive points based on your answers that ultimately let you know the magnitude of your carbon footprint." --Book By Its Cover: (September 2, 2008)

"In the long tradition of books making predictions for the future, comes Nozone X: Forecast, a collection of mostly doom and gloom scenarios by graphic artists, cartoonists, and illustrators." -- Brent Aldrich --Englewood Review of Books: (September 5, 2008)

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Nozone skewers, gaffes, garrotes and otherwise thwacks conventional thought in ways that will have Johathan Swift spinning in his grave... Like its immediate predecessor, Empire, Forecast is an absorbing, rebellious, rambunctious response in art and thought to the many disasters that man has wrought. (Design Arts Daily, 10/22/08)Nozone skewers, gaffes, garrotes and otherwise thwacks conventional thought in ways that will have Johathan Swift spinning in his grave... Like its immediate predecessor, Empire, Forecast is an absorbing, rebellious, rambunctious response in art and thought to the many disasters that man has wrought.

"Forecast, edited by Nicholas Blechman, is the latest edition of Nozone, a smart graphic design and comics 'zine from Princeton Architectural Press. It is the type of publication one picks up, seduced by the cover design and the feel of the stock, only to find the subject matter a lot more serious than expected. Global warming is the theme of this tenth issue of nozone, a forecast in words and pictures of the environment and socio-political changes we can expect over our lifetime and into the next. It is a mix of graphic novel and wake-up call to the mess our world is in; a great format for reading on the bus to get much more of a jolt than a mere cup of coffee can provide."

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Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press; 1 edition (August 4, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568987935
• ISBN-13: 978-1568987934
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,438,388 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars delicious. hilarious. terrifying., March 22, 2009

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You need to get this amazing collection. Forecast is a diverse but tightly edited selection, composed of various renowned and/or talented comic artists and designers riffing on the theme of "forecast". You can't miss the weather reference, that does manifest in an underlying climate change theme, but that's far from the only concern of this anthology - there's all manner of playing with ideas of future, of unpredictability, of change, from all manner of angles. The diverse pieces are cohesive even as they explore different moods, and simple things like a nice consistent print style add to the impression that this isn't just your everyday serial grab bag - this issue of Nozone has come out because they have succeeded in collecting together all the things they wanted to say, and the questions they wanted to ask, and the ways they wanted to play with the idea of Forecast. Get it, your passport to the United States of China.

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4.0 out of 5 stars love blechman!, December 2, 2009

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i love nozone - this latest issue doesn't fail to impress (though empire is still my favorite)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Our Future is Bleak... and Beautifully Told!, August 24, 2008

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Graphic novel + Adbusters + futurism + infographics + FUD + beautiful graphic design... add some Mad Magazine + Otto Neurath + Robert Crumb = fantastic book.