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Graphic 44: Berlin Issue - Studio Rental Guide
Isbn 19757905
Publisher Propaganda
Idea code 19534
€ 2.00
Berlin is considered as one of the most desirable cities for young creatives. But the average wage in Berlin is significantly lower than any other city in Germany, and the city has long suffered from deficit spending. Reasonable living costs and rents actually pushed Berlin to become a powerhouse of creativity, and yet a recent surge in rent prices threatens to fundamentally change the city’s cultural ecology. Fourteen different studios from all over the city, from iconic studios to lesser-known practices, share stories about Berlin from their own perspectives, about what has and has not changed, and about their expectations and worries, preconceptions and realities.
212 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Korean/English
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Modern Typography, An Essay In Critical History
Isbn 9782490077175
Publisher Editions B42
Idea code 19478
€ 25.80
Authored by Robin Kinross, this volume offers a tour through the history of Western typography, from the time when it can be said to have become “modern” to the present moment. It highlights different cultures in different times, tracing the developments and shifts in modern typography while giving attention to ideas, social contexts, and techniques, thereby also bypassing the tired tropes of stylistic analysis. Included are concise accounts of modernist typography in Central Europe between the wars, and in Switzerland in the 1950s and ’60s. Traditional typography in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the Low Countries is also discussed sympathetically.
272 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Best Dutch Book Designs 2018
Isbn 9789059655119
Publisher CPNB
Idea code 19493
€ 13.00
This year a total of 295 entries were assessed for their distinctive qualities by a panel of experts looking for outstanding work in areas such as content, design, picture editing, typography, choice of materials, printing, and binding. The ‘Best Dutch Book Designs 2018’ presents a comprehensive overview of the 33 selections made during this difficult yet rewarding process. The catalogue includes detailed information about each publication, its technical execution, and unique insights into the significant aspects that made each one a cut above the rest. This year’s panel of judges consisted of Michaël Snitker, Mijke Wondergem, Eelco van Welie, Martijn Kicken, and Suzanna Héman.
350 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, hb, Dutch/English
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Malika Favre
Isbn 9781916126107
Publisher Counter-print
Idea code 19528
€ 40.50
Malika Favre is one of the world's most celebrated illustrators, known for her simple work, often utilising a handful of perfectly refined vector shapes to convey her subject matter. Whether working as a commercial illustrator in advertising, editorial, or publishing, or as an artist creating personal pieces, Malika's artwork is imbued with both an iconic sense of style and underlying meaning. Her images often tweak the intellect, sometimes through the minimal forms she creates and the way they flow into one another; while in others she conjures up optical illusions with repeating lines and patterns.
218 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, hb, English
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Process - Visual Journeys In Graphic Design
Isbn 9781916126114
Publisher Counter-print
Idea code 19490
€ 33.20
'Process - Visual Journeys in Graphic Design' is a unique book highlighting the rarely shown sketching and process behind the making of marks and logotypes. It is based on the work by the studio BankerWessel. 12 projects are presented with nearly 1500 individual sketches with attached annotations showing the actual thought process present in the creation. The book includes marks for a range of companies within the realm of art, music and fashion including Hasselblad Foundation and Fotografiska. The book also contains a conversation about process between the four creatives of the studio.
144 p, ills bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English
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A Designer's Material Aesthetics Reflections On Fashion And Technology
Isbn 9789491444593
Publisher Artez Press
Idea code 19499
€ 38.50
The prevailing understanding of technology tends to focus either on its functional or instrumental value or on its expressive qualities as a matter of representation. Pauline van Dongen argues for the need to reframe the role of technology in fashion, examining how wearables – garments that combine electronics and digital materials with textiles – can become integral to fashion’s everyday reality. Her own practice as a fashion designer is informed by the concept of material aesthetics. In this book she explores perspectives as a design researcher engaged in a reflective analysis of processes and outcomes, and discusses work created in the context of her design studio.
288 p, ills colour, 16 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Nuclear War in the UK
Isbn 9781909829169
Publisher Four Corners Books
Idea code 19489
€ 14.75
For almost five decades, the United Kingdom made plans for a nuclear attack that never came. To help their citizens, civil servants, and armed forces prepare, those in power designed and published a variety of booklets, posters, and how-to guides. Most infamous among these was the Protect and Survive campaign, but just as fascinating are lesser-known materials prepared for the United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation and the Royal Observer Corps, many of which are reproduced here for the first time. From terrifying images issued by central government, to local councils' sometimes amateurish survival guides, 'Nuclear War in the UK' is a look at the way Britain's authorities reacted to the Soviet nuclear threat.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, hb, English
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Satyendra Pakhale - Culture Of Creation
Isbn 9789462085145
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 19562
€ 53.50
Satyendra Pakhalé stands at the crossroads of the diverse currents shaping contemporary design. His design work is an act of unity going beyond any binary such as high and low tech, industrial production and traditional crafts, functionality and poetic significance, blurring boundaries of time and place. 'Culture of Creation', the first comprehensive monograph devoted to his work, explores the way that the designer navigates these currents on multiple levels.
448 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Do It Yourselves - A New Mentality In Dutch Design
Isbn 9789462085206
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 19515
€ 41.75
In recent years, Dutch Design has sharply diverged from its previous course. A generation of designers trained in and shaped by the crisis years chose new values and starting points. The focus is now on inquisitive and collaborative makers who strive for social relevance and, if possible, impact. This ‘post-crisis generation’ is committed and optimistic, but also pragmatic and in possession of an eye for beauty. Craftsmanship and local production are examined as realistic alternatives to deadlocked systems of production and distribution. In addition to art and design, science, technology, social studies and politics are also seen as design arenas. In short, the latest generation of designers is looking to substantiate the content of the profession and make positive contributions to social issues.
288 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 29 cm, hb, English
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Posters From Paddington Printshop
Isbn 9781909829152
Publisher Four Corners Books
Idea code 19492
€ 22.15
In the mid-1970s, in a disused taxi-meter factory, a group of artists and designers opened Paddington Printshop. Specialising in making posters for local campaigns, it quickly became a model of community activism, crystallising a wide range of causes into brilliant and memorable images. Anyone could come in to request a poster (although 'nothing sexist, racist or commercial please!'). Focusing on housing rights, neighbourhood initiatives as well as gigs and festivals, this local community resource used vibrant images to make the voices of underrepresented groups heard in local, national and international campaigns. 100 posters (1974-1988) in this book form a remarkable collection: powerful and passionate, with messages that still resonate today.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 32 cm, pb, English
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To Evelyn - Posters From The Stars
Isbn 9781916412125
Publisher Centrecentre
Idea code 19427
€ 26.55
'To Evelyn' is a collection of local entertainers’ posters from a working men’s club in a small Yorkshire pit village. Originally collected in the 1990s by local personality Evelyn Short and now assembled by her grandson David, the posters are a celebration of a bygone era. Pre-internet and social media, this was one of the few ways to create another you, presenting an identity far removed from the day to day. The book explores national identity and sense of self, reminding us that with the right imagination we can transform into anyone or anything. The posters, many signed "To Evelyn" celebrate those identities, the weekend superstars, in all their glory.
192 p, ills colour, 17 x 25 cm, pb, English
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54 True Facts
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Publisher Julie Joliat
Idea code 19554
€ 19.75
This book reveals awe-inspiring facts that will help you keep your life in perspective. Fascinating, disturbing, alarming, or slightly provocative, these true facts will make you dream, think, or spark animated conversations. In addition, the intent behind this book is to raise awareness about climate change, and to hopefully change some of our habits that are detrimental to our planet.
120 p, no ills, 12 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Ann Noel - You
Isbn 9783952489413
Publisher Everyedition
Idea code 19548
€ 21.00
Ann Noël, whose multidisciplinary background integrates painting, graphic design, printmaking, photography, and performance, has lived and worked in Berlin since 1980. ‘You’ was first published in 1982, soon after her move to the city, when she became an active participant in the Fluxus movement. This new, revised edition comprises more than 400 drawings by the artist from the late 1970s and early ’80s – all handmade variations of the letter “i”.
408 p, ills bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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To Focus On Reading Rather Than Looking - Elena Etter
Isbn 9781527246874
Publisher Everyedition
Idea code 19546
€ 18.30
Graphic designer Elena Etter invites us to think about writing in different ways, as well as outside of the scope of literary practice. This book is a collection of rewritings accomplished through listening and attentiveness, and acts as both an experiment in writing and a record of some sort. Gathered over the years, initially with no explicit purpose, the collection amounts to more than the sum of its parts. It could perhaps be called “uncreative writing”, a term conceived by Kenneth Goldsmith, where the emphasis is on doing something over. The book thus serves as an introspective exercise for the designer – one which argues that we do not passively receive information, but actively generate it.
340 p, no ills, 13 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Ear Mind Eye Pad
Isbn 9783906213279
Publisher Rollo Press
Idea code 19505
€ 22.00
This publication belongs to a set of materials produced in reference to the transformative developments occurring in the realm of writing and speaking today, as triggered by digital communication. These shifts are part of a cultural process, shaped by structural multilingualism, which is impacting many parts of the world. Edited by Hinrich Sachs and Fredrik Ehlin, it is a compilation of text messages by student contributors from various arts universities, who have diverse backgrounds in speaking German, Spanish, Basque, Swedish, Swiss-German, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. Each cryptic, emoticon-laden text message is accompanied by its “translation”.
100 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Indiennes - Material for a Thousand Stories
Isbn 9783856168933
Publisher Christoph Merian
Idea code 19448
€ 34.40
Indiennes are printed or painted cotton textiles that made their way from India to Europe in the 16th century. French and Swiss manufacturers were soon imitating these fabrics, and in the 17th and 18th centuries they became hugely popular throughout Europe, with a lasting impact on society and fashion. The role of the many Swiss who helped to shape this highly profitable industry is described here in detail for the first time. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Landesmuseum Zürich, the volume also investigates the interwoven history of India and Switzerland through the centuries, right up to Walter Bosshard’s photographs of Ghandi’s struggle for independence.
140 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Sebastian Utzni: M-Maybe
Isbn 9783945900444
Publisher Edition Taube
Idea code 19497
€ 9.20
No super hero was able to prevent the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. Sebastian Utzni collected comics that were published between 1973 and 2001 and that show shockingly similarity to the images of the 9/11 attacks.
36 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 26 cm, pb, English
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Diary Of A Bootlegger
Isbn 9781912722389
Publisher Rough Trade Books
Idea code 19511
€ 9.60
‘Diary of a Bootlegger’ is a work of digital cut-outs. The emails, tweets, and text messages here replace the pre-Internet paper scrapbooks of clippings, thoughts, exchanges, in-jokes, and appropriations. The form is suggestive of the Sports Banger aesthetic, a clued-in hybrid of political commentary, sportswear chic, and proud class consciousness. Through this curated sequence of customer service emails, twitter “content”, family chats, and warehouse humour, the story of Jonny Banger’s seemingly improbable rise is told, from a DIY outfit bootlegging well-known sports brands to becoming one of the most talked about fashion phenomenons of the last decade.
34 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Vieceli & Cremers - Division Of Pleasures
Isbn 9783952489420
Publisher Everyedition
Idea code 19549
€ 20.45
Joy Division fans, pop culture fanatics, and wannabe hipsters, take note. Forty years after the release of ‘Unknown Pleasures’, the band’s debut studio album, design studio Vieceli & Cremers presents ‘Division of Pleasures’. The album’s cover artwork was designed by artist Peter Saville, using a data plot of signals from a radio pulsar. Taking this image as its theme – one which has since triggered countless interpretations and reprocessings as a globally recognised pop cultural trope – the book features 136 pages of recreations, installations, modifications, transformations, pre-digital memes, repetitions and differences, and differences in repetition. With an essay by Jörg Scheller.
136 p, ills bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Two Zero To Zero 2020 Diary
Isbn
Publisher Julie Joliat
Idea code 19553
€ 16.15
During the current era of global warming, you may be wondering what you can do about it and whether your efforts will make any difference at all. Without being moralistic or taking up a strong position, this organizer discloses facts to raise awareness, provides answers, and offers information that will make you think. Meant to be read regularly – but in small doses that will remind and uplift throughout the year – each week reveals tips on how you can easily change some of your habits. Through a miscellanea of charts, games, comics, exercises, and quotes, this planner will subtly guide you toward a more sustainable way of living. So, downgrade to upgrade in 2020, a year when everydays for future should be everyone’s motto.
152 p, ills bw, 12 x 19 cm, pb, English
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