Mailing Idea Books
If you are having trouble viewing this message, see it in your browser.
New Titles in Design & Popular Culture 20 February 2020
Natural Enemies Of Books: A Messy History Of Women In Printing And Typography

Isbn 9780995473034
Publisher Occasional Papers
Idea code 20049
€ 15.60

'Natural Enemies of Books' is a response to the groundbreaking 1937 publication 'Bookmaking on the Distaff Side', which brought together contributions by women printers, illustrators, authors, typographers, and typesetters, highlighting the print industry’s inequalities and proposing a takeover of the history of the book. Edited by feminist graphic design collective MMS, the publication includes newly commissioned essays and poems, conversations with former typesetters Inger Humlesjö, Ingegärd Waaranperä, Gail Cartmail, and Megan Downey, and reprints of the original book and other publications.

176 p, ills bw, 11 x 19 cm, pb, English

look inside


MacGuffin 08: The Desk

Isbn 24058203
Publisher Macguffin
Idea code 20002
€ 22.35

Time to get serious in 2020 with MacGuffin Nº 8, an issue devoted to that most studious of objects: the desk. MacGuffin pulls open desk drawers and points up desk plants, surveying a succession of clean desks and messy desks, radical desks and resolute desks, makeshift desks and talk show desks, not to mention the fine art of office pranking and presidential doodling. Featuring Francois Dallegret, Egon Eiermann, Enzo Mari, Saint Jerome, Superstudio, Jan Švankmajer and many, many more.

224 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English

look inside


Sofa Issue 04: It's Playtime!

Isbn
Publisher Edition Messner
Idea code 20050
€ 6.00

At a moment when adulting has never felt more urgent, and also frightening, ‘SOFA’ uncovers life below the surface of social media bravado. This issue wrestles playfully with childlikeness, games, new ideas, political strategies, brattiness, nostalgia, dark fantasies, and paths to joy – suggesting that fun can be an essential soothsayer. Float through fantasy rooms, go on dates with a clown, explore identity and mental health in alternate virtual worlds, read first-hand accounts of butt augmentation surgery, remember American Doll JonBenet Ramsey, and give voice to the thoughts and feelings of loud, restless, thoughtful youth culture in its crisis of consciousness. This fourth issue of the magazine is published with three unique covers.

98 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English

look inside


Purple 33: The Brain Issue

Isbn 17668832
Publisher Purple Institute
Idea code 20058
€ 4.00

Purple Fashion is the avant-garde reference for fashion, style, and contemporary culture with the usual big names. The Brain issue explores how the brain functions, the power of artificial intelligence, the nature of the artistic brain, and the voice of kids with a radical new state of mind. With contributions by, among others, Leah Kelly, Joshua Decter, Mark Alizart, Beau Friedlander, Bruno Verjus, Inge Grognard, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brad Phillips, Paul Mccarthy and Gus van Sant. With Purple News insert by Juergen Teller.

450 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 33 cm, hb, English

look inside


Print Punch

Isbn 9781916412132
Publisher Centrecentre
Idea code 20030
€ 44.25

Data used to be physical. In an era when 1s and 0s seem to hover above our heads, 'Print Punch' returns to the heyday of the punch card – to a time when you could touch (and punch) data. The aesthetics of this early move towards automation represent a unique moment in our history, when we designed for machines instead of human beings. Rigorous constraints, inherent in punch card technology, unwittingly birthed a coherent design language: rhythm in grids, punched absences and presences, and the patterns in them dancing to their own machine logic. Now obsolete, punch cards were the primary method of data storage and processing from the 1890s until the late 1970s.

208 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 31 cm, hb, English

look inside


Yes Yes Yes Revolutionary Press In Italy 1966-1977 From Mondo Beat To Zut

Isbn 9788897753551
Publisher Viaindustriae
Idea code 20052
€ 43.00

Densely filled with reproductions of newspapers, magazines, mimeographs, news-sheets, pamphlets, and other ephemera, this book investigates the Italian scene during the turbulent years between 1966 and 1977. These revolutionary printing activities were linked to the political, ideological, and countercultural struggle of a period of protest and occupation of public spaces as areas of freedom and social creativity for a disillusioned generation. A selection of over 600 publications are catalogued in this book, output from the subversive newsrooms of the radical artistic and libertarian movements, and “ultra-political” groups, autonomists, and other collectives seeking change.

544 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/English

look inside


Touching Beauty

Isbn 9788875708313
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 20061
€ 44.20

Can we perceive, distinguish, and appreciate beauty through touch? What happens if the gaze is no longer there, or was never there? Is the enjoyment of beauty lost forever or can we find it in other ways?The book 'Touching Beauty. Montessori, Munari' explores these questions through the thinking, ideas and original works of Maria Montessori and Bruno Munari, some of the most illustrious figures in modern Italian culture. Both of them, although moving in very different fields, posed these same questions, which now become the object of a detailed analysis and reflection on the aesthetic value of tactility.

224 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, pb, Italian/English

look inside


When Fact is Fiction: Documentary Art in the Post-Truth Era

Isbn 9789492095718
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 20028
€ 22.50

Politics and media are constantly dealing with the shifting definitions of facts, truth, reality, and fiction. Yet this is something the field of documentary art has been addressing for much longer. The contributions in this volume are from and about artists who explore the boundaries between fact and fiction by playing with the notion of the “documentary”. The book draws from a wide range of documentary art practices, such as working with archival materials or scrutinising one’s own subjective stance as an artist. It observes how artists deploy the fine line between fact and fiction as a means to imagine versions of the future, and how it can still have an impact in the world of today.

224 p, ills bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English


Entangled Realities

Isbn 9783856169060
Publisher Christoph Merian
Idea code 19675
€ 30.10

Artificial intelligence is a highly topical subject today. We are involved in constant dialogue with machines, which means that it is imperative that we understand the conditions of this coexistence. A particular focus in this book is on the reality-forming effects of AI and its use as an artistic tool for creating new and unanticipated pictorial worlds and artefacts. Through the interaction with intelligent algorithmic systems and the empowerment that we as humans are already signing over to machines in various processes and realms of life, new intertwined realities are emerging. Through artwork and texts, this book looks not only at how such systems see the world but also can create worlds.

224 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, German/English

look inside


Design Dedication: Adaptive Mentalities in Design Education

Isbn 9789492095732
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 20071
€ 19.90

This book makes a plea for adaptive mentalities within design pedagogy through a non-normative approach to design practices. It investigates an attitude in and towards design education that is socially engaged, politically aware, generous in approach, lyrical in tone, experimental in form, and collaborative in practice. Additionally, it explores the kinds of work being developed and how an institute can be responsible in supporting an securing these modes of practice. The book is geared towards design students and educators worldwide, and includes a selection of works developed in the context of the Design Department of the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam.

240 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English

look inside


Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms

Isbn 9789492095725
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 20065
€ 26.75

The first volume in the new ‘Plural’ series, this publication seeks to critically dissect the term “activism”, which today seems to have become a catchword for any woman’s empowerment through the arts, and reveal the diversity of practices and realities that it comprises. Presenting a range of critical insights, perspectives, and practices from artists, activists, and academics, it reflects on the role of feminist interventions in the field of contemporary art, the public sphere, and politics. In the process, it touches upon broader questions of cultural difference, history, class, economic standing, ecological issues, and sexual orientation, as well as the ways in which these intersect.

320 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English

look inside


Airport Love Theme

Isbn 9781912570003
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 20051
€ 17.50

'Airport Love Theme' is a graphic novel set on two airplanes and in detention at Los Angeles airport, recalling the absurd exchanges that once took place between US border security officers, an artist held and interrogated under suspicion while travelling to an art fair, and fellow passenger-detainees. Farah’s debut book explores the promise of mobility offered by the international art world, and how that promise can fail outrageously. Suspense and disorientation play out in subtle ways, encouraging self-questioning on the part of readers given joint responsibility for making sense of troubling events.

128 p, ills bw, 15 x 20 cm, pb, English

look inside


Lauren Tortil - Une Genealogie Des Grandes Oreilles

Isbn 9791096155095
Publisher Tombolo Presses
Idea code 19688
€ 32.25

This book presents the iconographic research conducted by artist Lauren Tortil over the past three years on “Big Ears”: the military surveillance devices that call upon mediated listening. This genealogy reaches beyond the principle of lineage. In 460 images, Lauren Tortil articulates her thoughts through material from various registers: paintings, film extracts, technical drawings, photographic archives, etc. The reading is accompanied by a booklet with three texts and pictures annotated by the artist. Exhausting, recontextualizing and shifting its subject beyond the initial military territory, this book reminds us that listening practices are deeply intra-connected to politics, science, medicine and art.

176 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 31 cm, pb, French/English

look inside


Olivier Heiligers: Sequences

Isbn 9789462263628
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 20026
€ 24.35

Amsterdam-based editorial illustrator and visual artist Olivier Heiligers came up with the idea for ‘Sequences’ while wandering around the city and observing the different means of transport people use to get around. Thus the pages of this small book tell visual stories by placing nine drawings of objects in a certain order. As Heiligers explains, “Just by showing the objects, I could tell all sorts of stories. From observations of everyday life to socially critical stories and parodies of popular culture. In the end it’s up to the reader to combine the objects and finish the story in their own way.” Each group of drawings is accompanied by a word or short phrase to cue the narrative.

128 p, ills bw, 12 x 16 cm, pb, English

look inside


In The Street Participatory Actions In Public Spaces

Isbn 9788875708269
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 20062
€ 18.95

Participatory actions in public spaces are ways of strengthening social ties and promoting a renewed sense of belonging to a place. A book at the intersection of pedagogy and architecture, to take back the street through small gestures that can trigger new points of view on reality.

96 p, ills bw, 16 x 20 cm, pb, Italian/English

look inside


Raoul Dufy

Isbn 9784861527555
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 20009
€ 20.95

With their vivid palette and light, dynamic brushwork, the paintings of French fauvist Raoul Dufy (1877–1953) continue to enchant audiences today. Dufy was also a textile designer, an aspect of his oeuvre which this catalogue presents in great detail. With works from collections throughout Japan, it shows elegant, modern paintings for textile patterns and silk fabrics used by early 20th-century haute couture designers like Paul Poiret. The artist worked in many themes – the sea, music, flowers, insects, and pure geometric forms – but was also known for his masterful commercial work, making designs for the textile manufacturer Bianchini-Férier from 1912 to 1928.

224 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese/English

look inside


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

look inside


Olivier Heiligers: Sequences

Isbn 9789462263628
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 20026
€ 24.35

Amsterdam-based editorial illustrator and visual artist Olivier Heiligers came up with the idea for ‘Sequences’ while wandering around the city and observing the different means of transport people use to get around. Thus the pages of this small book tell visual stories by placing nine drawings of objects in a certain order. As Heiligers explains, “Just by showing the objects, I could tell all sorts of stories. From observations of everyday life to socially critical stories and parodies of popular culture. In the end it’s up to the reader to combine the objects and finish the story in their own way.” Each group of drawings is accompanied by a word or short phrase to cue the narrative.

128 p, ills bw, 12 x 16 cm, pb, English

look inside


Samurai - Peacekeeping Contributors In Edo Period

Isbn 9784861527517
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 20010
€ 23.10

When describing Japanese culture, one of the most common terms that is used, both in Japan and abroad, is “samurai”. Yet the image created by this word varies widely. The samurai were known by a variety of names, but today these words are not necessarily used with a proper understanding of their historical backgrounds. This book accompanies an exhibition that examines the samurai who lived during the Edo period, the time when the modern image of the samurai was formed, in an attempt to discover their true nature. It looks at their lives and work through paintings, writings, and photographs, and presents items that have been passed down through samurai families.

240 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese/English

look inside


Dena Yago - Fade The Lure

Isbn 9782955948637
Publisher After 8 Books
Idea code 19637
€ 16.15

‘Fade the Lure’ is a small collection of poems and photographs created between 2014 and 2017, during Dena Yago’s experience working and living alongside emotional support dogs in Los Angeles. The book explores the possibility for the poem to account for relationships that materialise and live beyond words, while existing in confined structures. The images are cropped to focus on the dogs, diminishing the human-centred narrative in favour of an empathetic view of the animals themselves. In the artist’s words, “poetry is sometimes “a form of communication created out of the desire to avoid, and an inability to engage in other forms of direct communication”.

52 p, ills bw, 11 x 22 cm, pb, English

look inside


IDEA BOOKS
Nieuwe Hemweg 6R
1013 BG Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel +31 20 6226154
Fax +31 20 6209299
www.ideabooks.nl
  • Prices are in Euro and subject to change without notice.
  • For more titles in Graphic Design & Typography and other areas please visit www.ideabooks.nl.
  • This message was sent to because you are currently registered for our title information mailing.
  • unsubscribe: If this email has arrived at the wrong address or you do not wish to receive any information updates please click here.