MacGuffin #12

MacGuffin 12 the Log Condition: New Language: English 224 Pages  21.3cm x 27.5cm (8.39" x 10.83") Published in Amsterdam, Netherlands  Spring/Summer 2023 Frequency: Biannual MacGuffin #12 The Log takes a walk in the woods to explore the design and politics of timber. From the last Norwegian trunks that floated down the Glomma to the indigenous logs that help map the Amazon, and from Jamaican lacebark trees to online chatbots: meet the logs that function as totems, design tools, oracles, wormholes, comic figures, activist artworks, village idiots, prison cells, logbooks, nightmares and dreams. Featuring: James Beckett, Khaled Jarrar, Emily King, Eliot Haworth, Rudy Guedj, Ellef Prestaeter, Olga Prader, Formafantasma, Santídio Pereira, SulSolSal, Max Lamb, Kai Lobjakas, Angélica Klassen, and Lou-Lou van Staaveren. With each issue based around a single object, MacGuffin magazine is a platform for fans of inspiring, personal, unexpected, highly familiar or utterly disregarded things.