Qompendium Print Publication Volume I
Qompendium Print Publication is a selective journey through the multiverse of intentional and unintentional time capsules
featuring an array of exceptional pictorial essays, unabridged interviews and supplementary brand editorials.
The name of the magazine derives from Latin “compendium” and offers a summary of subjects from the fields of philosophy, art, culture and science.
This magazine is set for the lovers of natural curiosity and rational amusement with a keen eye for photography, delicate graphic design, typography
and in-depth discussions of metaphysical issues. While opening history chapters and science laboratories, rediscovering iconographic masterpieces
and pop culture ephemera, the content is a savory blend of contagious nostalgia and accentuated contemporary material. The reader will find himself
amidst vivid short anecdotes on Apollo and Hermes, Hot-Jupiters, Martians, robot wars, celluloid beauties and beaus like Morgan Fairchild, Brooke
Shields, Dolph Lundgren and Bill Gates, while stumbling upon Coco Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Tim Burton, Orson Welles and Hypatia of Alexandria,
herself.
When it comes to production and printing, the magazine is proudly produced in Germany – a demonstration of premium print culture at its finest in
utilizing various paper qualities, numerous custom colors and finishing techniques.
Qompendium Print Publication Volume 1 features a number of pictorial essays bringing to light six decades of history, composed and compiled from
masterpieces captured by Douglas Kirkland and Deborah Feingold. Other artists range from Lyn Balzer, Tony Perkins to Valérie Belim, Aubrey de Grey,
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Todd DiCiurcio, Laurence Ellis, Emir Eralp, Clinton Friedman, Dominik Gigler, David Lees, Siems Luckwaldt, Paul Pope,
Nick Sagan, Daniel Stier, Ben Watts, Martynka Wawrzyniak, Christian Weber, Doug Wilson, Per Zennström and abundant others – all work designed
and placed in a strikingly unusual and unpredictable editorial design environment.
In this volume, the editorial board commemorates the 40th anniversary of Man’s Moon Landing Apollo 11 Mission by analyzing the rich diversity of
the NASA and Hasselblad iconic archives. One can dip into unabridged interviews of more than 20 pages each, with Nick Sagan, as the dystopia
creator and intellectual heir to Carl Sagan gives genuine answers on science, religion and artificial intelligence. America’s most sexiest and opinionated
astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson urges the Qompendium readers to check their premises and follow him by what he calls “the cosmic perspective”.
While Darren Julien, the exclusive auctioneer gives lessons on collecting Michael Jackson memorabilia. Even the English gerontologist Aubrey de Grey
tackles one of the most significant subjects mankind has tested since the origin of the human race and the discovery of the DNA string. Artists Bjørn
Melhus, Hyungkoo Lee and Troels Carlsen take the reader into their Universes of animations, drawings and taxidermies.
The brand editorial section of the magazine is overindulged with creations by Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan, Jil Sander, Jean Paul Gaultier,
Narciso Rodriguez, Prada, Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Yves Saint Laurent, Kiehl’s, Omega Watches and Lee Jeans, taking a short cut to the Bauhaus
giant László Moholy-Nagy. Once again, the NASA has proved itself a huge source of inspiration for the editorial board and has brought forth 16 of colorful
blue pages, a fusion of 3D-modelling and finest photography for the brand Lee Jeans; an homage to the first manned landing on the Moon which took
place on July 20, 1969 at the “Sea of Tranquility”.
Certainly, Qompendium is a well-curated, timeless, highly collectible book-like read for the disillusioned rational yet aesthetically intrigued fountainhead,
who is at all times in search of fertile thinking ground.
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