Supergraphic Landscapes: From Public Art to Urban Design [9781961856776]

Overview

Supergraphic Landscapes is a book about the future of public spaces—and how reimagining graphics in the built environment can unlock new modes of civic participation.

What if the city could remember, care, and play back?

Supergraphic Landscapes reimagines how graphics in the built environment can transform public space into places of connection, care, and collective memory.

Joseph Altshuler, an architectural designer, and Nekita Thomas, a graphic designer, introduce three design strategies—Play-scapes, Care-scapes, and Action-scapes—that reshape how we move within, access, and commemorate in the city. Through essays, speculative drawings, and collaborations with guest contributors, they reveal how a painted pattern, a textured path, or a layered graphic can disrupt routines, nurture intimacy, and hold shared histories in place.

This book features:

• Memoirs from the city’s point of view: a basketball court, a pedestrian crosswalk, and a monumental fountain tell their own stories. 

• Speculative drawings that reorganize movement, soften the city’s hard edges, and activate spaces of commemoration. 

• Projects from guest contributors, including Ashley Bigham & Erik Herrmann, Molly Hunker & Greg Corso, Lindsay Harkema, Reza Nik, Daniel Luis Martinez, and Germane Barnes.