After many months of work, it is our pleasure to welcome you at last to Do projects, a collaborative effort of Nurri Kim and Adam Greenfield and a growing network of our friends and colleagues.
We have an ambition to design and make meaningful things — primarily books, but eventually other things as well — and we’ve chosen this as our way of learning-by-doing. You can find out a little bit more about who we are and what it is we’re trying to do here.
Our very first project, Do 0901, is Nurri’s book Tokyo Blues, now available for sale or free download. The 64 images of the 2002-2003 Tokyo Blues series constitute a visual record of (some of) the ways this single material is used to protect, to camouflage, to hide, to signal and to make place in the everyday life of Japan; they’re gathered here in a 72-page, section-sewn paperback. Please see here for more about the project itself, here for more details about the making of the book, or here to order a copy.
We also have another project in the works: Do 0801, which is Adam’s second book, The City Is Here For You To Use. You can find a little background on the book and its inception here, and that may also shed a little light on some of our motivations.
One thing it feels important for us to mention: whenever we launch a book, we’ll release a full, freely downloadable, Creative Commons-licensed digital version of the work simultaneously with its publication in physical form. You buy the book if you want the object, but the ideas in it are (and will remain) free.
So welcome to this experiment, commitment and adventure we’re calling Do! We sincerely hope you enjoy the things you find here. Please feel free to drop us a line at any time, whether your intention is to let us know what you think, to share tips, ideas, and inspirations, or just to make contact.
