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Dictionary Of Color Combinations Volume 2
Isbn 9784861527722
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 20154
€ 15.00
From 1933 to 1934 Sanzo Wada published a collection of colour combinations that was the first of its kind in Japan. Following on that enduring bestseller, 'A Dictionary of Color Combinations' Vol. 2 brings back two more works by Wada published in 1935–1936 and 1938, respectively. The book presents 72 colour patterns themed on the Japanese seasons and another 165 drawn from early to mid-twentieth-century fashion, interior, and graphic design, making it an indispensable reference for designers, fashion and interior specialists, illustrators, photographers, writers, and indeed anyone engaged in creative work.
336 p, ills colour, 10 x 16 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Bruno Munari (Japanese Only)
Isbn 9784763018083
Publisher Kyuryudo
Idea code 20109
€ 36.05
Besides his work as a painter, designer, and prolific writer of picture books, the Italian artist Bruno Munari (1907–1998) devoted himself to children’s art education. Although it is difficult to grasp the scope of his wide-ranging activities, regardless of the genre, Munari’s works are based on a simple idea and are immediately appealing to anyone of any age. The itinerant Japanese exhibition ‘Bruno Munari: The Man Who Made the Useless Machines’ looks back at his career, which began with the Italian Futurists, by examining approximately 300 works. This comprehensive monograph complements and broadens the exhibition’s overview of his visionary life and work.
388 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese
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Aoki Ryo
Isbn 9784903348520
Publisher Adp
Idea code 20110
€ 38.75
Aoki Ryo (1953–2005) devoted much of his life to creating ceramic pieces using a variety of techniques, among them white slip glaze, brush marks, iron glaze, white glaze, and firing without glaze. During his lifetime, he built up a large collection of his own favourite works and had expressed the desire to exhibit them, not for sale but as artworks. This monograph, made possible with the support of Aoki’s wife, Shoko, is a remarkable photographic record of this fine collection of tea bowls, jars, dishes, cups, vessels for sake, and more. The book’s production team visited Aoki’s atelier over a period of three years to document the objects and take detailed photographs for this project.
204 p, ills colour, 22 x 28 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Designing Lightness - Structures For Saving Energy
Isbn 9789462085466
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 20097
€ 39.95
This book is an appeal to start designing minimum weight applications to seriously save energy. It also offers practical advice for doing so. 'Designing Lightness' entertains the reader with its free associations, creating unexpected crosslinks between the world of composite materials and structural solutions. It therefore precedes the conventional approach to sustainability, which focuses on symptoms rather than causes of environmental overload. The book is of interest to all designing disciplines, combining packaging, vehicles, skyscrapers, and nanoscale phenomena. This is the extended and improved sequel to the book ‘Lightness’, which appeared in 1998.
320 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English
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James Langdon - Gravity All Around (Rotated)
Isbn 9783906213309
Publisher Rollo Press
Idea code 20070
€ 15.00
Tillie S. Pine and Joseph Levine first published the children’s book ‘Gravity All Around’, illustrated by Bernice Myers, in 1963. In this new, unauthorised but admiring, edition graphic designer James Langdon gives the original a fresh twist by rotating each page 90 degrees, alternating between clockwise and counter-clockwise. The non-standard layout forces the reader to constantly shift their own orientation, rotating the book back and forth to follow the story and learn about gravity.
46 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, hb, English
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Adrian Samson - Mother
Isbn 9783906213316
Publisher Rollo Press
Idea code 20104
€ 34.00
London-based photographer Adrian Samson has received commissions from a diverse selection of clients over the years, including the Frieze Art Fair, Miu Miu, ‘Wallpaper*’, ‘Numero Berlin’, and ‘The New York Times’. But for this more personal project he gathered a collection of images in a tender tribute to motherhood. Objects like toys, nappies, and clothes are mingled with close-ups of fruits and bodies. The softness of a baby’s skin becomes tangible as it snuggles against its mother. A playground patiently awaits the moment when the child is old enough to clamber around. And an entire series of pictures of the baby’s hands emphasises the process of grasping and learning by touch.
108 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Sissi. Vestimenti
Isbn 9788875708320
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 20059
€ 29.55
Much of Sissi's production over the years has focused on the creation of clothes, some of which are wearable, made from a wide variety of materials, which the artist has always considered and presented as real sculptures, even within large installations or performances, as in her first fundamental work 'Daniela ha perso il treno' (1999). This large body of work covers twenty years of her career and deepens one of the key elements of her poetics. The exhibitionand publication 'Vestimenti' gather a wide selection of the artist's dress-sculptures.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 22 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Postcards by Beat Schlatter
Isbn 9783856169176
Publisher Christoph Merian
Idea code 20135
€ 34.40
The picture postcard evokes a holiday spirit, acts as a souvenir, kindles wanderlust, and can temporarily satisfy the yearning to experience foreign places. Beat Schlatter is one of Switzerland’s best-known cabaret performers and actors, but also a passionate postcard collector. The majority of his extensive collection dates from between the 1960s and 1980s, a time often considered the pinnacle of European tourism. Schlatter selected more than 400 postcards from his collection for this publication, organising them in twelve pictorial chapters (hotels, beach promenades, gardens and fountains, cityscapes by night, Alpine roads, etc.) that will spark curiosity and wonder.
220 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, hb, German/English
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Martijn In 't Veld - One Ingredient Recipes (3rd edition)
Isbn 9789083016184
Publisher Happy Potato Press
Idea code 20083
€ 15.45
A cookbook with recipes consisting of just one ingredient. Is it even possible? Martijn in ‘t Veld says that he loves cooking. But, just like everyone else, he doesn’t always have the time for it. So he composed this cookbook with his favourite single-ingredient recipes. Most of them are so simple, you don’t even need to eat them. From existential musings and clues for finding peace in life, to creating humorous and uncomfortable (but in a good way) situations, these recipes will amaze and delight. Combining influences from poetry, conceptual art, and children’s books, Martijn has been publishing a wide range of printed matter under the name of the Happy Potato Press since its inception in 2019.
128 p, ills colour, 11 x 15 cm, pb, English
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Erik Kessels: In Almost Every Picture 16: Sexy Sofa
Isbn 9789070478520
Publisher Kesselskramer
Idea code 20140
€ 24.30
Noud and Ruby decided to spruce up their living room in 1965 by refurnishing the fireplace and adding a new sofa, a tufted corner piece in a classy shade of beige velveteen; not a right-angled design, but a soft, sensual curve snaking around the corner of the room. Noud and Ruby’s redecorating set the scene for what would become a sincere and erotic collaboration between the couple that spanned almost ten years and documented both fashion and fantasy. But the pictures were never intended to be revealed outside their living room. This prompts us to question who we are behind closed doors and what sides of our identities we choose to conceal, even if they give us pleasure or satisfaction.
104 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 20 cm, pb, English
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David Shillinglaw - Mattress Mantras
Isbn 9781912722457
Publisher Rough Trade Books
Idea code 20339
€ 10.30
British artist David Shillinglaw transforms the mundane mattress using his textual interventions, so they begin to carry both the meaning of the added words and a heightened sense of their own histories. These everyday objects suddenly become playful, philosophical, or literary, drawing our attention to the tension between the domestic and external environments. Whether discarded on the street or abandoned in a junk pile, the soiled mattresses that serve as Shillinglaw’s canvases – spray painting them with often existential wordplays – are simultaneously functional objects and art objects, representative of both our human interactions and our material refuse.
28 p, ills colour, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Licorice
Isbn 9781912570058
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 20098
€ 14.95
'Licorice' is a novel, a mixed-up tale about a film, a windmill and city folk. The plot involves the making of a film by characters who are trying to gain permission to record the noises inside a reconstructed windmill to use as its soundtrack. When they don't succeed, the eponymous character Licorice makes an Aeolian harp out of bits she finds in a small electricals recycling bin. Licorice is the first title in the forthcoming Interstices series of books guest edited by Brighton based author Bridget Penney, whose previous publications include Honeymoon with Death and Other Stories (Polygon, 1991) and Index (Book Works, 2008).
144 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Building a Culture: Reflections on Three Decades of Design Practice Research at RMIT
Isbn 9780648435587
Publisher Uro Publications
Idea code 20100
€ 28.65
What makes a good school great? Or a good community of practice great? For close to 50 years, architect and educator Leon van Schaik has pursued an answer to these questions. It is a venture that led him from the Architectural Association in London to the townships of apartheid South Africa, and finally to the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), where he initiated a practice-based architecture research programme that is now globally renowned. In 'Building a Culture', Van Schaik traces the origin and development of design practice research at RMIT and his own journey into architecture and its teaching.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Behzad Golpaygany - Biography, Works And Activities
Isbn 9786001523083
Publisher Nazar Publishing
Idea code 20072
€ 22.00
Iranian graphic designer Béhzad Golpayegani (1938–1985) worked in 1970s for various journals and designed numerous book covers for Franklin Publications, a publisher of pocket-sized paperbacks. In those years he created a series entirely focused on typography, a first in the history of Iranian graphic design. His cover designs result from a deep fascination with the structure of letters and composition of words, and he often experimented with positive and negative spaces, playing with different scales and empty spaces. This book is the result of nearly two years of research on Golpayegani, a progressive designer whose work is now recognised as far ahead of its time.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, Persian/English
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Dutch Type (Reprint)
Isbn 9783982003702
Publisher Druk Editions
Idea code 18529
€ 29.50
In ‘Dutch Type’, Jan Middendorp presents a comprehensive overview of type design and lettering in the Netherlands, tracing its origins through type designers and lettering artists from the 15th to the 20th centuries. Partly based on interviews, the book also offers insight into the motives and methods of the first generations of digital type designers, featuring published and unpublished typefaces as well as sketches, studies, and samples of lettering work. While the quest for quality and innovation has remained constant, it makes clear that the advent of desktop type has opened up the discipline to a more spontaneous, inventive, and democratic approach.
320 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Dissolving The Ego Of Fashion
Isbn 9789491444500
Publisher Artez Press
Idea code 18213
€ 12.50
'Dissolving the Ego of Fashion' presents an in-depth introduction to the vision and research themes that the Fashion Professorship of ArtEZ University of the Arts sets out to explore in the coming years. Daniëlle Bruggeman aims to develop critical theories and practices in order to explore, better understand, and rethink the cracks in the fashion system and the role that fashion plays – and could potentially play – in relation to urgent socio-cultural, environmental, and political developments in contemporary society.
76 p, ills bw, 13 x 21 cm, pb, English
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