These collections each represent a kind of support group for unwanted paper material. Unused letterhead — paper that never met its full potential — might be considered a melancholic “pre-document”. The Center for Abandoned Letterhead, organized by Maia Asshaq and Danielle Aubert (I.T.U. Detroit), is made up of paper from Detroit area businesses and organizations that have moved, changed their identities, or closed.

The one hundred books in the Library of the Dispossessed are heavily used copies of a novel by Ursula K. Leguin published originally in 1974. As a set they reveal some of the shifts that have taken place in printing, publishing, and reading of mass market paperbacks over the last 40 years.

This event is a part of the OFF Program – open space devoted to workshops, interventions, and other presentations and activities related to graphic design. The authors are solely responsible for the nature of this event. The program is subject to change.