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Esperanto Culture Magazine 1: Whole Earth Government
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Publisher Esperanto Media
Idea code 20572
€ 17.45
‘Esperanto’ launches in an intricately interconnected world, bringing together leading intellectuals and creators to communicate 21st-century contemporary culture. It gathers various perspectives in a complex, diverse, and yet unified magazine. With art direction by Amsterdam-based design studio Experimental Jetset and editorial advice by Hans Ulrich Obrist, each issue offers reviews, sources, essays, and a special feature. This debut issue explores the concept of “Whole Earth Government”, a way to manage transnational citizenship and democracy in our global world. Musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, Experimental Jetset, and Berlin-based Korean sound artist Christine Sun Kim all contribute.
88 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Esp Cultural Magazine 2: The Glitch In The Art System
Isbn 9784910464015
Publisher Esperanto Media
Idea code 21181
€ 21.15
An amalgamation of many hopes, ESP magazine alludes to our sixth sense, the 1965 Miles Davis album of the same name, and remains a space for Whole Earth Citizens. Designed by Experimental Jet Set, the second issue explores the art world under the global pandemic, through the notion of the “glitch” as a positive concept to liberate, rock, and agitate a rigid aristocratic system in which art has traditionally been market-driven and US-centric. Essays, reviews, and special features by Marina Abramović, Olafur Eliasson, Michael Xufu Huang, Manthia Diawara, and Hans Ulrich Obrist all contribute to essential questions: Who is art for, nowadays? How has the pandemic shaken the old order?
144 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Gerard Unger - Life In Letters
Isbn 9789083052106
Publisher De Buitenkant
Idea code 21190
€ 45.00
Dedicated to graphic designer Gerard Unger (1942–2018), this book presents a case study in the development of modern type design as it unfolds along with the rapid technological shifts that transformed typesetting and publishing over the past 50 years. While most of Unger’s types are variations on the economical Dutch tradition, they are also permeated by his distinctive style, marked by tensive curves and dynamic rhythm. He drew inspiration from abstract art and delighted in the interplay of form and space in letterforms. The book includes a reproduction and translation of Unger’s 1977 exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, where he began to develop a theory of type design.
340 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, hb, English
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Foi 3
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Publisher Galeria Posibila
Idea code 21160
€ 12.25
This third issue of Foi interviews a dearth of talent from the graphic and editorial design world, both in Romania and throughout Europe. Andrei Ogradă talks about the original fonts he creates at his type foundry nestled in the Romanian countryside. Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens is on a relentless discovery of the world through pixels. Beautiful Romanian poster art takes us on a 50-year trip through history and culture. A bonus 50x70cm colour poster insert is by Radu Crețu, who merges music with illustration. The pioneering Romanian/English magazine showcases designers, artists, photographers, printmakers, and researchers with a Central European twist on context and imagery.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Romanian/English
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Faire - Vol 8 (27,28,29,30)
Isbn 9791095991182
Publisher Editions Empire
Idea code 21149
€ 30.55
This issue of the bi-monthly magazine dedicated to graphic design comes in the form of four anthologies, each single subject addressed by a renowned author: ‘Rhizomes of London. Archigram and mental images of the city’, ‘The conference: a format’, ‘Girls, the Troopers of Dance. Aesthetization of Politics and Manipulation of Entertainment’ (on why the NSDAP replicated synchronised dancing in the 1930s), and ‘Types of types: the typographic specimen by Lineto’. Aimed at undergraduate students as well as researchers and professionals, ‘Faire’ documents contemporary and international practices of graphic design, along with the history and grammar of styles.
100 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 29 cm, pb, French/English
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Gotico-Antica, Proto-Roman, Hybrid 15th Century Types Between Gothic And Roman
Isbn 9782378962265
Publisher Ensad / Poem
Idea code 21158
€ 51.60
This is the first comprehensive scientific study of hybrid gothic and roman typefaces created in Germany, Italy, and France in the 15th century. The book brings together researchers from typography, palaeography, and incunabula studies, with a particular focus on type and letterforms. The relatively understudied period – after Gutenberg and before the consolidation of Jenson’s model – extends from the earliest traces of “humanistic” tendencies to “pure” roman type, including many cases of uncertain or experimental design, voluntary hybridisation and proto- or archaic roman. That includes the “Durandus”, a typeface unlike any other before it, used in Mainz for a tome on worship in 1459.
496 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, hb, French/English
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Rashomon At The 70th Anniversary
Isbn 9784336070609
Publisher Kokushokankokai
Idea code 21059
€ 23.25
Directed by the remarkable Akira Kurosawa (1910–1998), ‘Rashomon’ was the first Japanese film to receive significant international attention. It was released in 1950 and won several awards, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1951, while its visionary artistic ambitions became a symbol of Japan’s post-war reconstruction. Now, on the occasion of its 70th anniversary, this volume presents an in-depth look at what the film’s notable production staff accomplished. Filled with original storyboards, screenwriting fragments, production photographs, scripts, posters, and other ephemera, it is a fascinating tribute to one of the greatest, most impactful films ever made.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 28 cm, pb, Japanese/English captions
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A Magazine Curated By Maison Margiela 2004 Limited Edition Reprint
Isbn 9789077745236
Publisher A Magazine
Idea code 21042
€ 39.00
‘A Magazine’ presents a limited edition, identical reprint of its 2004 issue curated by fashion house Maison Martin Margiela, a project which can be traced back to the magazine’s Belgian origins. This was the first issue to bear the “Curated By” title, and is a testament to this core concept thanks to Martin Margiela’s insightful mix of collaborators and projects. Together these reveal many key names working behind the scenes as part of his anonymous fashion collective. The pages contain written recounts via fax and photocopy, as well as photographic and artistic projects by staff, trainees, assistants, models, artists, photographers, musicians, filmmakers, and set designers. Comes with a numbered photograph.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Purple 35: The Island Issue
Isbn 17668832
Publisher Purple Institute
Idea code 21119
€ 42.00
Purple Fashion is the avant-garde reference for fashion, style, and contemporary culture with the usual big names. This extroverted issue is dedicated to islands, literal and metaphorical, and features 18 different covers, selected at random when ordered. Olivier Zahm created it in Ibiza during the pandemic, instead of in his usual decadent surroundings in Paris. Model Lili Sumner escapes New York for a nude photo shoot on an arid island in the New Zealand archipelago. Essayist Brad Philips muses about islands of security, love, and the Bee Gees. Miriam Cahn’s island is a bunker in a Swiss valley, where the feminist artist creates works that attack toxicity.
450 p, ills colour, 24 x 33 cm, hb, English
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Yuri Hasegawa - Have You Seen Them
Isbn 9784904479384
Publisher Utrecht
Idea code 20526
€ 32.55
‘Have You Seen Them’ is the second book by Yuri Hasegawa and presents her recent needlework – figures and things that exist somewhere in our memories. From cartoon characters, superheroes, musicians, and athletes, to artworks, fashion items, and brand logos, Hasegawa’s sometimes clumsy yet always charming handsewn objects tickle our nostalgia and bring smiles to our faces. These light-hearted and gentle plush encounters with film, comics, television, video games, sports, and more span several decades, meaning the heartfelt homages to pop culture icons can be enjoyed with friends and family members from all generations. The book comes with a special postcard.
160 p, ills colour, 12 x 18 cm, pb, no text
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Andree Putman In San Sebastian - The Story Of A Singular Project
Isbn 9788412072099
Publisher This Side Up
Idea code 21198
€ 38.70
This publication is the story of one of the last home design projects of Andrée Putman (1925–2013), an apartment in the Basque city of San Sebastián. Plans, original designs, and pictures reveal how the midcentury house remains both contemporary and atemporal today. Abandoning her initial plan of a musical career, from the 1950s onwards, Putman worked as a journalist and designer for the magazines ‘Elle’ and ‘l'Oeil. From the 1980s onwards, the Parisian developed numerous projects in interior design, rehabilitation, as well as the conversion of spaces into cultural sites. Her ECART study office resurrected works by forgotten creative talents from the 1930s.
84 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 28 cm, hb, Spanish/English
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Aesthetics Of Sustainability - Material Experiments In Product Design Conducted At Ecal
Isbn 9783038630623
Publisher Triest Verlag
Idea code 21124
€ 39.20
This volume summarises the results of 'The Aesthetics of Sustainability', a research project led by ECAL/Ecole cantonale d`art de Lausanne. It brought together master students of product design, established materials specialists, manufacturers, and researchers with the aim of exploring and defining the aesthetic potential of a new generation of sustainable materials. The result is a series of fourteen case studies involving the development of materials made from textile waste, recycled paper, rubber granulate, or vegetable fibres. The resulting new materials can be shaped, pressed, woven, or welded. A selection of these materials will be presented through experiments and prototypes of products.
272 , ills colour & bw, 19 x 26 cm, , English
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Play & Design From Cameroon | 12 Prototypes Inspired By Theme Of Playing
Isbn 9788875708870
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 21127
€ 25.25
During the ‘CAMon! Project’ workshop led by Italian architects Michele Brunello, Marco Brega, and Andrea Angeli’s, students at the Libre Académie des Beaux-arts Douala in Cameroon learned how simple games can also be a formidable design tool. Through Stefano Graziani’s colour photographs, this book features the 12 games resulting from the students' designs. The texts address the theme of playing from different perspectives, highlighting the relationship between design, education and cooperation. Each game — puppets, puzzles, masks, and mazes — has a strong empathic value, based on imagination and a broader exploration of reality.
160 p, ills colour, 19 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/French/English
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Snowcrash 1997-2003 - The Untold Story Of Snowcrash
Isbn 9789189270107
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 21178
€ 49.50
This book tells the untold story of Snowcrash (1997-2003), an international design company founded by Finns and operated by Swedes. Equipped with an optimistic view of the future, they succeeded in designing a collection that connected art with technology, and the real with the virtual world. The story takes the reader from a Finland in deep recession in 1993, to Sweden in 2003 recovering from an IT-boom hangover. DIY spirit, bold visions, and progressive design management is played out and told by the international group of creatives involved – painting a picture of a design event that offers an alternative view on “Scandinavian Design”.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Terrestrial Tales 100+ Takes on Earth
Isbn 9783944074306
Publisher Ruby Press
Idea code 21151
€ 16.15
A collection of representations of the globe over the last 2,000 years, the book ‘Terrestrial Tales’ serves to not only open up a discourse on how we see the world but also show how our world is constructed as a compendium of divergent or competing narratives that shape and confirm our view of it – and with that, our own self-image. Each of the illustrations is supplemented with a short description. Taken together, they juxtapose the everyday with the exotic, and the scientific with the artistic, resulting in a highly diverse historical cross-section of human imagination, insight, and progress. An essay by authors Marc Angélil and Cary Siress complements and contextualises the collection.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Ending The Anthropocene - Essays On Activism In The Age Of Collapse
Isbn 9789462086111
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 21172
€ 29.95
In this book, activist philosopher and philosophical activist Lieven de Cauter investigates the idea that if we want to avoid collapse, we have to end the Anthropocene – the geological era of the gigantic, devastating impact of our species on planet Earth. It might even be, he argues, that the collapse of our current, growth-maximizing system is the only hope for the biosphere. This collection of writings closes with texts on the corona crisis. Biopolitics, the care for the life of the population by the state, has gained a new topicality in this age of pandemics.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Musings Of A Curious Aesthete
Isbn 9780981484679
Publisher Imperfect Publishing
Idea code 21192
€ 29.45
This is a book about aesthetics that is both a memoir and design critique. Among questions it addresses are: What inspires an aesthetic adventure? What is the best way to respond to ugliness? Is beauty always "good"? What is the crux of an artist's job? Why is "making nothing" beautiful? And what is a "beautiful human being"? The illustrator is Marco Koren, a young Californian artist with a passion for drawing.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Ur... A Practical Guide To Unconscious Reasoning By Marcus Coates
Isbn 9781906012618
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 21186
€ 15.50
Using a series of exercises and increasingly in depth ‘trips’, the book sets out clear and concise steps to enable individuals and groups to access their imagination and unconscious reason, to work on behalf of others. Using a series of exercises such as ‘Becoming a Bat’, ‘Crawling’, ‘Draw a Sound’ and ‘Impersonating a Human’, Marcus Coates has developed his own practical techniques to solve problems that we might otherwise remain dumbfounded by. Illustrated throughout with Coates’ own drawings, the text is both beguiling and funny – though intentionally serious.
320 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Sarah Tripp - Guitar!
Isbn 9781906012830
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 21187
€ 15.20
‘Guitar!’ describes the contours and conditions of writing – interrupted, in flashes, or in restless moments through the night. A narrator listens; as a child learns to speak, there is a re-acquaintance with the strangeness of putting a feeling into words. There is a yearning for meeting and an idea of love or companionship as a sense of being met. The first-person, informally-written missives are punctuated by a series of black and white images of buskers, photographed by Francis McKee in Glasgow. Sarah Tripp is an artist, writer and lecturer based in Glasgow, and her book is supported by Creative Scotland and The Glasgow School of Art.
160 p, ills bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Michele Bernstein - The Night (Second Edition)
Isbn 9781906012526
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 21188
€ 14.95
The second novel of Michèle Bernstein follows on 'All the King's Horses', is also written for cash, and again cannibalising the plot of 'Les Liaisons dangereuses', featuring the same characters as her debut. The story remains the same, but the book is different, this time parodying the style of the nouveau roman, with its elongated sentences and non-linear sense of time and place. As its protagonists drift through the streets of Paris, and the ennui of a summer holiday on the Côte d'Azur, 'The Night' is littered with détournements and clues that give insight into the lives and spirit of both the author and her husband Guy Debord.
168 p, ills bw, 14 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Queer Formalism: The Return - William J. Simmons
Isbn 9783982389400
Publisher Floating Opera Press
Idea code 21202
€ 16.15
'Queer Formalism: The Return' expands upon William J. Simmons's original, influential essay “Notes on Queer Formalism” from 2013, offering novel ways of thinking about queer-feminist art outside of the critical-complicit and abstract-representational binaries that continue to haunt contemporary queer art. It therefore proposes a new kind of queer art writing, one that skirts the limits imposed by normative histories of art and film. Artists addressed in 'Queer Formalism: The Return' include, among others: Sally Mann, David Lynch, Lars von Trier, Math Bass, Lorna Simpson, Laurie Simmons, Alex Prager, Lana Del Rey, Jessica Lange, and Louise Lawler.
88 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 17 cm, pb, English
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The Illustrated Survival Guide | Editors And Publisher
Isbn 9788875708849
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 21152
€ 15.15
Anecdotes and snapshots from publishers reveal the variety of skills involved in the production of a book and the complexity of the relationships among the various professionals working in the field. With essays by Ivan Canu and Giacomo Benelli, the guide is filled with real-life accounts from editors and publishers of the rules, regulations, passions, and frustrations of those who work with books. Aimed at those who dream of working in the publishing market, this also appeals to readers who want to see what goes on behind the scenes. Even professionals in the sector might enjoy the hint of irony in seeing themselves in their colleagues' words.
72 p, ills colour, 13 x 18 cm, pb, Italian/English
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The Illustrated Survival Guide | Translators
Isbn 9788875708856
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 21153
€ 15.15
An exploration of the professions in the book industry, this edition focuses on the art and craft of translation. From the invaluable accounts of dozens of translators, the book offers a diverse range of suggestions to those who dream of taking up this career: from the approach to the text to ongoing training and aspects of work management, including contracts, translation rights and relations with clients. This is a handy roadmap to navigating the importance and the role of professionals bridging cultures within the complex ecosystem of publishing. With texts by Ivan Canu, Giacomo Benelli (Mimaster Illustrazione), the translations are by Laura Cangemi and Roberta Scarabelli.
72 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 18 cm, pb, Italian/English
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