Now that stocks of Karel Martens: printed matter are exhausted, we have published a short book that shows some of the uncommissioned printed work of Martens, with an essay on ’The world as a printing surface’ by Elliman. This is very much an object-book, in which the work is not so much reproduced as bodied forth. Contents Introduction by Carel Kuitenbrouwer [work by KM] ‘The world as a printing surface’ by Paul Elliman Synopsis Throughout his career as a designer, Karel Martens has made artistic (uncommissioned) work. In his early days he used sheets of paper, cut to make reliefs.…