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Karel Martens: Still Moving
Isbn 9791195787456
Publisher Platform-l Cont. Art Center
Idea code 19227
€ 48.00
This catalogue accompanies an exhibition of both new and old work by Karel Martens at Platform-L Contemporary Art Centre in Seoul, curated by Sang Un Jeon. In both format and content it offers a succinct overview of the world of the renowned Dutch graphic designer, who has produced an extensive array of works over the six decades of his career. The various influences he has absorbed during this period, combined with his socially conscious approach, have made him an idiosyncratic designer who brings together rational schemes and literary sensibility in a remarkable way. The publication was designed by Sulki & Min, former students of Martens from Yale University.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Korean/English
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Eva Dijkstra - Perfect Faces
Isbn 9780648106111
Publisher Twodot Publishing
Idea code 19255
€ 29.15
Eva Dijkstra’s bold and colourful work straddles the junction between painting, sculpture, art, and design. Following in the tradition of minimalist paintings, shaped canvases, and hard-edge design, her creations are minimal or even non-objective, and invite closer investigation. In ‘Perfect Faces’, Dijkstra applies her exceptional design savvy to a masquerade of 31 compositions within the proportions of the human face. With impactful geometric forms and solid colours, each face is at once an imaginative composition and open to interpretation – a portrait collection populated by knights, harlequins, apes, thieves, and so much more.
64 p, ills colour, 20 x 26 cm, hb, English
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Hokusai Sparrow Dance 360 Book - Yusuke Oono
Isbn 9784861527234
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 19271
€ 27.65
'Sparrow Dance' is one of traditional footman dances performed by dancers literally imitating sparrows' movements. It is considered to have originated from an improvised dance performed by stonemasons from Sakai in the Senshu region at a banquet celebrating the relocation of Sendai Castle. Hokusai Katsushika featured this 'Sparrow Dance' in the third volume of 'Hokusai Manga', one of his etehon (art manual) series. Hokusai's lively brush strokes vividly capture dance movements of people wearing footman's kimonos and hats, looking as if they are going to start moving at any moment.
40 , ills colour, 12 x 12 cm, box, Japanese
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Science of the Secondary 10: Toilet Paper
Isbn 9789811403804
Publisher Atelier Hoko
Idea code 19312
€ 18.70
‘Science of the Secondary’ is a creative project by Singapore-based Alvin Ho and Clara Koh, who together go by HOKO. The series is a way for them to investigate the everyday and rediscover our curiosity about things and practices so familiar that we often overlook them. The tenth issue looks at toilet paper, the life of which is fundamentally short-lived. Even though its absence is a major cause of panic for toilet users, the toilet roll remains a lowly object, and occasionally even cause for embarrassment. Considering how excreting faeces is a daily affair for most, such sentiments towards a roll of tissue destined to keep one’s hygiene in order seems rather immature.
60 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 25 cm, pb, English
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MacGuffin 07: The Trousers
Isbn 24058203
Publisher Macguffin
Idea code 19155
€ 23.00
Dress up this spring with MacGuffin 07, dedicated to an object that is so much more than a garment: it’s a mirror of desires and passions far beyond reason. In ‘The Trousers’, MacGuffin empties the wardrobe and slips into survival gear, baggies with attitude, working uniforms, drainpipes, cargo shorts, laced-fly jeans, sexless saggy sack cloths, tent slacks, yoga leggings, and bad-boy trousers. The burning question of course is: are pants really all about ass? Featuring Umberto Eco, Paul Gorman, Emily King, Gert Jonkers, Karlheinz Weinberger, Emma McClendon, and many many more.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Rirkrit Tiravanija & Antto Melasniemi - The Bastard Cookbook
Isbn 9789527222102
Publisher Garret Publications
Idea code 19266
€ 32.25
Rirkrit Tiravanija and Antto Melasniemi have a shared appreciation for breaking the rules, so this book is less of a “coffee table cookbook” and more like its twisted sister. It comprises a collection of texts, exhortations, culinary scenarios, and ingredients and preparations, and is intended to liberate the modern gourmand from essentialism. The authors offer what one could refer to as an “adulterated” fare to its purist counterpart, with over 50 preposterous recipes. Through a collaborative exploration into the realms of food and cosmopolitanism, the cookbook proposes that the key to appreciating the idiosyncrasies of an unfamiliar culture is perhaps through a hybridised form.
200 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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From Latin America
Isbn 9780993581298
Publisher Counter-print
Idea code 19319
€ 12.85
From Latin America is a collection of work from some of the most talented designers, agencies and illustrators in this region - such as Anagrama, IS Creative, Estudio YeYe, Empatia, Firmalt, Martin Azambuja, Futura, Giovani Flores, Sociedad Anonima, Asis, Parametro, BR/Bauen, Savvy, Studio Rejane Dal Bello, La Tortilleria, ps.2 and The Branding People.
168 p, ills colour, 17 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Architectural Logos
Isbn 9780993581281
Publisher Counter-print
Idea code 19228
€ 10.15
'Architectural Logos' contains a wonderful selection of logos, trademarks, and symbols from around the world formed of architectural elements such as houses, buildings, windows, stairs, and doors. The book is a collection of work from some of the most talented designers around the world including Anagrama, Bond Creative Agency, Civilization, Fuzzco, Garbett, Grand Deluxe, Stefan Kanchev, Lundgren+Lindqvist, Richard Robinson Design, and many more.
108 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 15 cm, pb, English
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Data Visualization Handbook
Isbn 9789526074498
Publisher Aalto University
Idea code 19244
€ 50.00
The popular Finnish information design book by Juuso Koponen and Jonathan Hildén, ‘Tieto näkyväksi’, is now available in an English version, titled the ‘Data Visualization Handbook’. Full of research on data visualisation and international examples of functional and inspiring information design, the publication is intended for anyone interested in deepening their understanding of how data is visualised and how to make such forms of visualisation more interesting for the relevant audiences.
352 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 25 cm, pb, English
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Forbidden To Forbid. Counterculture In Italy 1968-1977
Isbn 9788875707385
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 19198
€ 35.05
Fifty years after 1968, a crucial year in Italian history that still today evokes a decade of political struggles and profound social transformations, the book 'Forbidden to Forbid, Counterculture in Italy 1968-1977', edited by Melania Gazzotti, traces that overwhelming period through one of its most exciting phenomena: counterculture. The book contains a rich selection of independent publications, mostly belonging to the Enzo Longo Collection and the Centro Studi Movimenti of Parma, which photograph crucial years of struggles and revolutions that marked profound social changes: books, manuals, fanzines, magazines, posters...
144 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Ficciones Typografika: 1642
Isbn 9780648465003
Publisher Formist
Idea code 19253
€ 72.45
Over a five-year period, a modest poster board hung in a Minneapolis neighbourhood; it became a barometer for experimental typographic practice within the global design community. This dense volume documents the entire project, which was curated by Erik Brandt, and features works ranging from well-known designers to talented students. Conceptually approached like the ‘Ficciones Typografika’ project, the book is an expressive and visceral experience, rather than an encyclopaedic documentation. It reproduces every installation of work along with an overprint of the original posters. With a text by Ben DuVall and a conversation between Brandt and Paul Schmelzer.
624 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Wobbly Sounds, A Collection Of British Flexi Discs
Isbn 9781909829145
Publisher Four Corners Books
Idea code 19229
€ 14.75
Cheap, disposable, often with poor audio quality but with great visuals, flexi discs were vinyl's poorer cousin in the pre-digital age. Given away with magazines or sent out by advertisers, they were a splashy way of getting your message heard. Pressed onto laminated card or thin, wobbly plastic, these discs extolled the virtues of washing powders, beers, and banks.This book brings together over 150 of the most remarkable British flexi discs from the 1950s to the early 1990s, chronicling the varied and sometimes bizarre uses of these flimsy records, and the result is a fascinating archive of post-war design and advertising ingenuity. Wobbly Sounds is part of the Four Corners Irregulars, a series about modern British visual culture.
160 p, ills colour, 16 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Hybrid Heads
Isbn 9789462085121
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 19231
€ 39.95
Headdresses and head coverings are among the most powerful vehicles of cultural identity, referring variously to nationality, subculture, gender, ethnicity, religion, and profession. Yet cultural identity is also continuously evolving. ‘Hybrid Heads’ is a project by Daniela Dossi and the open collective studio Manoeuvre, a multidisciplinary, artist-run space in Ghent. Her long-term residency resulted in an open design method, a textile research project based on a visual and textual archive of head coverings from around the world, and a preliminary collection of hybrid headdresses. The project is an exhibition, an interactive installation, a web platform, and a design-educational programme.
432 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Frederic Teschner
Isbn 9782917855997
Publisher Editions B42
Idea code 19289
€ 34.40
This monograph is dedicated to the French graphic designer Frédéric Teschner. Whether dealing with the visual arts, music, or theatre, Teschner’s approach has relied on graphic communication as a vehicle for the values of public service. He always strives to create a visual context for a dialogue between ordinary people and public cultural activities, and essentially sees the role of the graphic designer as interlocuter between design and its audience. A number of contributors offer detailed insight into various aspects of Teschner’s oeuvre in this comprehensive overview and tribute, which also includes a large portfolio of his work and a detailed chronological biography.
232 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 29 cm, pb, French/English
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Wirkkala
Isbn 9788875707842
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 19278
€ 30.90
Edited by curator Marco Romanelli, this catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Tapio Wirkkala’ at the Murano Museum of Glass. Wirkkala, for whom glass was a fundamental material, is often regarded as one of the greatest designers of the 20th century. The book traces the artistic evolution of this Finnish innovator during his Venetian period, where he expanded his freedom of colour and learned techniques such as incalmo. Over the years, Wirkkala has demonstrated the elegance of his formal research and also his debt to his native land, expressed in his choice of material and forms which maintained a strong identity, and values to which he always remained faithful.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 23 cm, pb, Italian/English
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African Print - A Textile Story, Made In Kyoto
Isbn 9784861527296
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 19302
€ 27.10
Did you know that the colourful, vivid African textiles we are familiar with were once made in Kyoto? It is a little-known fact that, in their heyday, Japanese-made multi-coloured textiles in an “African print” style were a highly sought after commodity loved by local people. Especially during the 1960s and ’70s, these unique cloths with a variety of patterns were produced in Japan and exported to various African regions, where they were transformed into typical garments, from festive outfits to everyday wear. It was a booming cross-cultural industry, which this book presents in stunning detail and colours, with numerous examples of swatches, archive photographs, and a textile history.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, Japanese
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The Print Of Beauty
Isbn 9789526083940
Publisher Aalto University
Idea code 19247
€ 50.00
Pasi Räbinä has worked for over 30 years in Finland as a costume designer for the stage. A stage costume is designed intentionally, focusing and framing the identity of a person, but it must also corroborate the performance content. Stage costumes may deceive spectators, and painted, printed, and dyed costumes enable us to examine their illusion as a mood from a certain era, style, or costume. This volume presents modern, up-to-date working methods and techniques in creating unique fabrics. Its objective is to add and share knowledge of the possibilities offered by printing and dyeing fabrics, and to develop these techniques to meet current needs within the performative arts.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 29 cm, hb, Finnish/English
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Yocci's Menu - A Notebook Of Japanese Recipes
Isbn 9788875707873
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 19279
€ 27.80
Culinary entrepreneur Aya Yamamoto and illustrator Yoshiko Noda combined their powers to create this playfully illustrated menu where you can discover the gastronomic culture of Japan. Brace yourself for a delicious journey through customs and traditions which may be rather different from your own, paired with an invitation to get into the kitchen and experiment. Born in Tokyo, Aya grew up in Milan and has learned to love and appreciate the cuisine of both cultures. After attending university in London, she returned to Milan to establish Gastronomia Yamamoto, an eatery where you can enjoy the same dishes that are served during lunch or dinner in a Japanese family home.
ills colour, 16 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Bruno Munari - Il Disegno, Il Design
Isbn 9788875701604
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 19281
€ 48.40
This volume presents all of the materials donated by the famed Italian artist and designer Bruno Munari to the Archive of Communication (CSAC) at the University of Parma. Thirty years after the first exhibition of this material was held, the entire benefaction is now published with new classifications and studies, accompanied by two historical essays testifying to the enduring ties between Munari and the CSAC. In particular this large publication showcases the incredible variety of the graphic designs he donated, paying homage to his free experimentation and the way his works use signs and symbols to touch on unusual, often profoundly innovative forms of communication.
248 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Italian/English
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The Stroke - Theory Of Writing
Isbn 9789490913908
Publisher De Buitenkant
Idea code 19340
€ 25.75
The stroke is the most concise and powerful statement of Gerrit Noordzij’s theory of writing. First published in Dutch in 1985, the book puts forward a genuine theory of all writing, done with any kind of generating tool. Noordzij starts with fundamentals – the space within and between letters – and proceeds in stages towards a full account of how the strokes of writing can be formed, and an analysis of the qualities of letters. Along the way, there are reflections on history and culture, and remarks on method. Noordzij’s theory serves to repair the split that grew, with the invention of printing, between written and typographic letters. He shows us the underlying ‘written’ quality of all letters, with whatever technology they have been formed.
88 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 21 cm, pb, English
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