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OK Failure

OK Blog published the second issue of their OK Periodicals magazine back in March, titled OK Failure.

The failure theme is brought to life on the front cover, where each individual copy has been screen printed with a field of graduated colour. Thus every issue is slightly diferent, or flawed. My copy, above, features a graduation of flourescent red and pink – others include blue and yellow inks.

Here, above, is my copy with the pages open, showing the back and front covers and the spine. The theme of the issue runs across the spine, like it did on the debut issue. The issue celebrates failure, the editor/designers Joost van der Steen and William van Gleesen explaining, ‘the imperfect human world is so much more interesting than any perfectly rendered digital one’.

This content includes contributions from all around the world and from many different disclipines. There’s a timeline of failed prophesies, above.

A piece about a training course on how to deal with failure.

Plus a whole series of screen-printing test prints from a Dutch print studio, above and below.

There’s plenty more to discover: photo spreads of failures including misspelt tatoos and early video machines; an examination of how the brain gets confused by Op-Art; a delightful set of images of the random pathways created as people naturally define shortcuts across spaces urban planners have sought to control. All presented in a neat, well-designed small-format package. Lovely stuff.