This month, Jan Wilker – co-founder of karlssonwilker – discusses why the agency doesn’t go in for traditional archiving, and how he is rediscovering his love for a vinyl cutting machine
Here in the karlssonwilker studio on 6th Avenue, New York, you will not find a collection of stickers, toys, posters, or other knick-knacks. Neither will you find anything that resembles a properly cared-for archive. The actual products, samples and our dummies slowly disintegrate, and become unusable, unpresentable – they’re absolutely full of blemishes, dust and cracks.
Neither Hjalti, Sandra, Kenny or I use sketchbooks or diaries. Everything around us is very loose and fleeting. As soon as something is out in the world, we are fine with it starting to fade. What we do hunt for, though, are processes and…
