{"product_id":"plates-2-body-issue","title":"PLATES #2: Body Issue","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe physicality of a human body denotes our essential relationship to forms and being. Yet, if placed in different contexts, the notion of body could collapse into a synonym to a surface, a machine, a system, or an automated assemblage in capitalism, media technology, politics, and the Internet. A body could lack transparency, concreteness and authenticity while still claiming its very identity and functionality. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn its second iteration–the Body Issue, \u003cem\u003ePLATES\u003c\/em\u003e presents collective voices which address issues around a corporal body, a virtual entity, body politic, identity, body mechanics, bodilessness, expressive\/performative body, body as tools, or any body issue in relation to their practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this issue, publisher RELATED DEPARTMENT collaborated with London-based multidisciplinary artist and visual designer Can Yang on creative direction and design. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePLATES \u003c\/em\u003eis an editorial and curatorial response to contemporary design practice and criticism. Each issue dives into a specific topic that is pertinent to the design reality we live in, presented and archived in a series of image and textual plates in an organic, iterative and evolving format.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncludes 18 individual plates—writings, diagrams, photographs, posters, and typographic specimens—by contributors Bryson Lee, Can Can Press, Clement Valla, Common Imprint, Laura Coombs + Mindy Seu, Luna Maurer, Studio Moniker, Radical Characters + Body \u0026amp; Forma, Source Type + Mara Frazier, Stephanie Specht, Tiger Dingsun\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCreative direction and design: Related Department and Can Yang\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Page Bureau, 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRubber band binding (removable), [64 pages] + 1 poster, b\u0026amp;w and multi-color, 8.4 × 11.25 inches (individual pieces with varying dimensions)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Curated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67832986271898,"sku":"uev1792050387301","price":24.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0751\/6051\/8810\/files\/plates-2-body-issue_1.jpg?v=1792050395","url":"https:\/\/eyeletcutwear.shop\/products\/plates-2-body-issue","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}