Tree by Tree, from Sea to Mountains, an art commission by Méndez for The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk was reviewed by The Los Angeles Times, Arts & Culture. November 3, 2009 article in both, printed and web editions: ‘One Person, One Vote, One Storage Spot’ by critic Christopher Hawthorne. To see full project go to: Tree by Tree, from Sea to Mountains
The Anatomy of Design: Uncovering the Influences and Inspirations in Modern Graphic Design Rockport Publishers, 2007.
Editors: Steven Heller and Mirko Ilic.
Second Natures Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name curated by Christiane Paul (Adjunct Curator of New Media at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York), for the opening of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center, UCLA, School of Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, CA. Pages 12–13, 82–89, 107 continued
Typographic Systems By Kimberly Elam, published by Princeton Architectural Press, April 2007. p. 39.
Influences: A Lexicon of Contemporary Graphic Design Practice By Anja Lutz and Anna Gerber. Published by dgv–Die Gestalten Verlag, 2006. Pp: 26, 27, 54, 100, 116, 135, 158, 181, and 261.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name curated by Christiane Paul (Adjunct Curator of New Media at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York), for the opening of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center, UCLA, School of Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, CA. Pages 12–13, 82–89, 107.
Joshua Berger of Plazm Magazine invited me to contribute to his next issue, where he asked several artists and writers to interpret the theme ‘The End of War.’ Adam and I sadly realized that there is no such thing as the end of war. Plato himself figured that one out 2500 years ago when he wrote: ‘Only the dead have seen the end of war.’
ENE O Magazine, D. F. Mexico. No. 11. August/October 2007. Editors: Iván Wenceslao and Jiménez Sánchez. Conaculta. Pages 26–31.
Here Over There Photographic Series has been published in Polar Inertia, Issue 35, Winter 2010. Polar Inertia, a journal of nomadic and popular culture, is an outlet and a resource for on going research into the networks that define the contemporary city. Here Over There is a photographic series of straight-on portraits of hotel beds that began on the island of Chiloe, Chile, on December 23, 2002 and continues to this date. Working in a documentary style, so neutral in emotional values that is almost anthropological, I photograph the beds I sleep on during my travels with consistent parameters.
