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mono.kultur #50 / Mike Mills: The Tender Spot
By Mike Mills
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MIKE MILLS: THE TENDER SPOT
“This is not what I was hoping for, this isn’t the magic I wanted.”
Autumn 2025 / English / 15 x 20 cm / 68 Pages / 3 Booklets Bound into One Volume
Read 3 long-form interviews with US filmmaker and designer Mike Mills
Largely influenced by the US punk and skate culture, Mike Mills became first known as a graphic designer for the independent music scene, creating designs for the likes of the Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Supreme, or Air, and injecting them with a very personal voice.
Via music videos, Mills found his way to writing and directing feature films, such as ‘20th Century Women’ or the recent ‘C'mon C'mon’ with Joaquin Phoenix, widely acclaimed for their tender and personal and all-round heartwarming approach and tonality, capturing our daily dilemmas of human existence with lighthearted melancholy and a big heart.
In tune with Mills' varied career and the personal nature of his work, this issue contains not one but three very intimate conversations, all conducted by close friends and acquaintances of Mike Mills, namely Norwegian film director Joachim Trier, Dutch design studio Experimental Jetset und Canadian singer Feist. Together, they cover the ground from Mills’ early days as a graphic designer to the ups and downs of filmmaking.
Graphically, the conversations are presented in three separate booklets bound into one volume, which is simple and complicated, straightforward and complex all at the same time, and thus very much like Mills’ work, come to think of it.
Interviews by Joachim Trier, Experimental Jetset & Feist
Works by Mike Mills
Design by mono.studio
mono.kultur is an independent interview series based in Berlin. Our concept is as simple as it is elegant: one artist / one conversation / one issue. No more, no less. And so each publication is dedicated exclusively and entirely to one artist, edited with care and in close collaboration with the artist. Each issue is redesigned entirely around the artist and their work.
Product details
Number of Pages:
68
Publication Date:
2024-09-25
Publisher:
mono.kultur
Languages:
Published:
English,
Original:
English
ISBN10:
3949587012
Weight:
150 g
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