Young Guns

Adam Michaels is the cofounder of Project Projects, a design studio in New York producing commissioned work and independent curatorial, editorial, and publishing projects. Combining a conceptual focus, a critical approach to visual form, and an expansive sense of the possibilities of contemporary design practice, Project Projects works across a wide range of media and scales from printed ephemera, books, and websites, to exhibitions, institutional identity programs, and public signage systems. The studio was honored in 2009 and 2011 as a Finalist in the Cooper-Hewitt’s National Design Awards.

Michaels edits and designs the Inventory Books paperback series (published by Princeton Architectural Press). Seeking to advance the role of design as an integrated force in book editing and production, the series flouts perceived boundaries between form and content, using unconventional narrative modes, syntheses of texts and images, and context-specific typography—
all as a means of revitalizing the space of the book to present critical content in an accessible, engaging format. The third and most recent title in the series is The Electric Information Age Book: McLuhan/Agel/Fiore and the Experimental Paperback, by Jeffrey T. Schnapp and Adam Michaels.
Michaels and Schnapp are currently developing the material from this book for an audio LP and a series of live performances in Fall 2012.