Another Sneak Peek of a Forthcoming Title

Fall is starting to look very busy for The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota.  

Today, I’d like to introduce another of our forthcoming titles: Wild Drawing: Street Art in Perspective edited by Kostis Kourelis. This volume will be the first book length treatment of the artwork of WD and include a wide range of contributors speaking to his style and technique as well as the social commentary explicit in his murals and efforts to conserve and preserve them.

The book has been prepared in a loose collaboration with the artist, WD, himself, who our editor got to know WD over the last decade or so. Many of WD’s most famous works, such as the one on the cover, are in Athens and the focus on street art (as well as the book’s 8 x 8 size) gets me back to the Punk Archaeology roots of the press. 

The other connection is that this is one of the first books where I have “off shored” production. That said, I didn’t send it far offshore: the book designer and production manager is none other than Mr. Punk Archaeology himself, Andrew Reinhard, whose experience as an editor and publisher, helping me get The Digital Press started, and as a prolific scholar in his own right has given my a role model as publisher. 

Andrew is responsible for the cover and the page layout (and both of these are in draft, but I like to imagine a fairly advanced draft at this stage).

You’ll notice that the text is set sans serif! This will be a pretty rare example of it in The Digital Press catalogue, but it feels absolutely appropriate for this book.

The book is edited by Kostis Kourelis, who is a longtime collaborator and friend. He and I have been kicking book ideas around for almost two decades and the idea for this book predates the COVID pandemic. It’s it very exciting to see it coming in for a landing.

This book will drop this fall!