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A Magazine 22: Curated By Grace Wales Bonner
Isbn 9789077745243
Publisher A Magazine
Idea code 21577
€ 36.40
British-Jamaican fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner established her eponymous label in London in 2014. In this issue, entitled “Rhapsody in the Street”, she presents a meandering curation of archival portfolios and other historical ephemera, as well as newly commissioned essays, poems, paintings, and portraits. New work includes series shot in Los Angeles, London, Miami, and Paris, with the leitmotif of Black portraiture central to each. With conversations on Jamaican dancehall, the Kamoinge Workshop in Harlem, and unseen Ghanaian film photography, plus work by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, poems by Roger Robinson, and words from Ben Okri.
200 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, English
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See All This 24: Colour Fields, Curated By Claudy Jongstra
Isbn 24683981
Publisher See All This
Idea code 21689
€ 19.95
Colour is making a comeback. For so long we’ve been oblivious to the slow disappearance of colour from the world around us; fields and pastures have become more monochrome, our clothes have been stripped of their brilliance and our gardens have lost their wilderness. Guest curated by artist and activist Claudy Jongstra, the winter issue of See All This is coaxing colour back into our lives. For over twenty years, Jongstra has dedicated her life and her art to the traditional craft of dying wool with natural pigments. These organically tinted materials are the foundation of her monumental textile works. Using wool from her own indigenous herd of Drenthe heath sheep and plants from her own garden, Jongstra creates artworks which attest to the beauty and import of nature’s colour palette.
200 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Words Form Language - On Concrete Poetry, Typography, And The Work Of Eugen Gomringer
Isbn 9783038630692
Publisher Triest Verlag
Idea code 21627
€ 27.65
Bolivian-born Swiss poet, writer and publisher Eugen Gomringer (*1925) is often described as the father of concrete poetry. He was an active figure in Switzerland’s post-war design and art scene and was a voice of poetry at the intersection of literature, art and design. From an early stage, Gomringer wanted to blur the boundaries of poetry and the language of advertising. Throughout his entire career he remained an advocate of interdisciplinarity, collaborating actively with artists and graphic designers such as Max Bill, Karl Gerstner, Anton Stankowski and above all the Zürich-based design studio E + U Hiestand. This publication combines original images and selected works from Gomringer’s long-standing collaborations as art director and copy-writer for various companies.
204 p, ills bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, German/English
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The Auto-Ethnographic Turn in Design
Isbn 9789493246041
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 21593
€ 27.90
Today there is a growing recognition of design’s capacity to makes sense of one’s world while at the same time expressing and conveying this personal insight through rich, layered, and ultimately meaningful processes or objects. Emerging from this is the auto-ethnographic turn in design, which seeks to come to terms with one’s context and self. This vision of design is free of commercial interests, assumed users’ needs, or well-intentioned actions, and reveals a sincerity which is too often missing in the design process. In addition to examples of design objects and practices, this book contains reflections and conversations between theorists, educators, and practitioners in the field.
336 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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A Bestiary of the Anthropocene
Isbn 9789083318844
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 21600
€ 27.70
Equally inspired by medieval bestiaries and observations of our damaged planet, 'A Bestiary of the Anthropocene' is a compilation of hybrid creatures of our time. Designed as a field handbook, it aims at helping us observe, navigate, and orientate in the increasingly artificial fabric of the world. Plastiglomerates, surveillance robot dogs, fordite, artificial grass, antenna trees, Sars-Covid-2, decapitated mountains, drone-fighting eagles, standardised bananas… each of these specimens are symptomatic of the rapidly transforming “post-natural” era we live in. Often without us even noticing them, these creatures exponentially spread and co-exist with us.
256 p, ills bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Design In Conservative Times In Between Making Great Things And Making Things Great Again
Isbn 9789493148178
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 21604
€ 13.85
‘Design in Conservative Times’ tackles conservatism in and around design, challenging both designer and user to actively engage with, and reflect upon their positions within our current, politically charged landscape. The focal point of this reflection at large ranges from hands-on issues within specific practices, to the broader, more fundamental motivations that fuel them.
104 p, ills colour & bw, 12x19 cm, pb, English
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Does A Face Have A Chronology?
Isbn 9789090345543
Publisher Team Thursday
Idea code 21626
€ 15.00
Loes van Esch and Simone Trum, better known as the Rotterdam-based graphic design studio Team Thursday, have been collaborating since 2010. They specialise in designing graphic identities in the widest sense of the word, ranging from books to events and exhibitions, which always end up being colourful, typographically driven, and refreshingly fun. During their five-month stay in Seoul’s Changdong district, they fell in love with the local patterns on clothing and in the bricks of houses. These bricks ultimately inspired the vast, ever-expanding typographic family presented in this book. Artist Michiel Huijben contributes a text about the possibilities for reading a city’s surface.
48 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 31 cm, pb, English
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Marti Guixe - Casa Mondo Food
Isbn 9788875709655
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 21584
€ 15.15
'Casa Mondo: Food' by Martí Guixé is a narrative essay that discusses what food is and what it represents in the 21st century, suggesting a theory on the relationship between food-home and the new means of use, especially in light of the pandemic that has transformed our daily lives. Inserting itself in a broader reflection on the theme of the home, 'Casa Mondo: Food' focuses on cooking and food design, themes that have always been of particular interest to the Catalan designer.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Viral - Biennale Internationale De Design Graphique De Chaumont
Isbn 9782957204427
Publisher Le Signe
Idea code 21533
€ 26.90
The catalogue of the third edition of the International Graphic Design Biennial, organised by Le Signe, Centre National du Graphisme, examines the role of virality in today’s society. Through essays and interviews contributed by the invited designers and curators, it illustrates the biennial’s 2021 edition and highlights young creators as well as major artists of the graphic design scene, with the 29th International Poster Competition of Chaumont. In addition, it covers the solo exhibitions by Fanette Mellier, the Iranian studio Kargah, Michel Le Petit Didier, and Michiel Schuurman, plus presentations such as VIRAL, DEMO Festival, Club Collecte, and the student competition show.
384 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, pb, French/English
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Jacopo Miliani - La Discoteca
Isbn 9788897753681
Publisher Viaindustriae
Idea code 21505
€ 25.55
This book draws from the research done for the film ‘La Discoteca’ by Jacopo Miliani. It contains a rare selection of flyers, ephemera, and posters that transport us to the Italian LGBTI+ nightlife scene from the 1970s to the 2000s. The collection of materials and items highlights how nightclubs can become places where exchange, transformation, and relationships, as well as significant social and political actions, can happen. The publication is the outcome of a collaboration between the “Flavia Madaschi” Documentation Centre of the Cassero LGBTI+ Centre in Bologna, the Luca Lucati Archive, and the gay-themed monthly magazine ‘Babilonia’.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 25 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Cross Cultural Chairs
Isbn 9789083350103
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 21599
€ 25.00
The anatomy of our bodies requires sitting; but do we design seats in the same way? Has our meaning of sitting been colonised by Modern design? And how is the diverse, social-cultural act of sitting itself reflected in this functional commodity? In observing and analysing social and cultural differences through chairs from eight cultures in the most populated countries, Sicilian designer Matteo Guarnaccia went on a field research to portray each country, in collaboration with selected local design studios, to situate each cultural context into the form of a chair.
388 p, ills colour & bw, 17x24 cm, pb, English
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Bruno Munari - The Tactile Workshops
Isbn 9788887942996
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 21585
€ 15.15
DO NO TOUCH! How many times do children hear this order? No one would ever says: do not look, do not listen, but touching is different. Evidently a lot of people think you can do without. 'The Tactile Workshops' is one the books from the Workshop series that describes different ways of working, techniques, from educational to explanatory pamphlets and “poetic” play... With basic explanations and plenty of stimuli, suggestions, and maps to get adults and children, teachers and students working together.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Lavazza Design People 1996/2020
Isbn 9788875708917
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 21579
€ 22.75
Lavazza Design People traces the history of Lavazza’s partnerships with many international designers over the years, starting with the Segno Collection in 1996, featuring the iconic espresso cup, up to the present day. Virginio Briatore’s account is aided by photographs, images and drawings that allow us to get to the heart of the designs, whether they are products — to be renovated or invented — or spaces to be imagined. The leitmotif is of course the world of coffee, in which Lavazza represents excellence and a hub of experimentation: the company has therefore created the innovative sector of coffee design, dedicated exclusively to a product like coffee, which is very difcult to transform, in all its many possible forms.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 22 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Gajoen - A Museum Hotel Of Japan Beauty
Isbn 9784568120844
Publisher Bss Bijutsu
Idea code 21429
€ 44.60
In the interbellum period of the early 20th century, Japan enjoyed a fleetingly peaceful and vibrant Belle Époque. A diverse range of arts blossomed in the newly modernised nation, and it was during this time that entrepreneur Rikizo Hosokawa built the original Meguro Gajoen hotel. Sparing no expense, he purchased large numbers of works by Japanese artists, commissioned ceiling, wall, and transom paintings, and employed carpenters, gardeners, sculptors, and lacquer craftsmen to realise his vision. Today, the richly decorated rooms and interior spaces radiate this great creative endeavour. This book offers an eye-opening account of the landmark Tokyo hotel and its surprising heritage.
112 p, ills colour, 24 x 30 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Flashback: Parties For The People By The People
Isbn 9781914236136
Publisher Rough Trade Books
Idea code 21597
€ 24.85
'Flashback- Parties For The People By The People' tells the story of the infamous Blackburn Acid House 'parties', the vital part this moment of counter-cultural history has played in the social, economic and cultural lives of the area itself, and more broadly, of the country as a whole. Taking in the post-industrial landscape of the area, the impact of years of regressive politics, both local and national, the confluence of football hooligans, casuals, gang violence, and eventually, the dispersal of all that into the culture of the parties and the emergent ecstasy boom, this is a complicated rendering of both time and place, told through multiple, diverse voices.
86 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Vietnam War 3
Isbn 9784846532475
Publisher World Photo Press
Idea code 21506
€ 25.80
The third in a series of catalogues that contain fascinating memorabilia from the Vietnam War, this volume once again combines comic-style panels with page after page of photographs and objects from the American military quagmire in South-East Asia that lasted almost two decades. A large part of the publication features fighter jets, bombers, helicopters, and other aircraft. Other themes range from jungle fatigues and an array of patches from both United States and South Vietnamese units, to essential equipment like rifles, canteens, and headgear. In addition, a special section on amateur and outsider art reproduces paintings and drawings of military action in the jungle.
288 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese
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The Impossibility Of Silence: Writing For Designers, Artists & Photographers
Isbn 9789493148390
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 21598
€ 19.00
Drawing upon decades of experience as a writer, designer, artist, and teacher, Ian Lynam offers up page after page of wry inspiration and concrete approaches to writing about creative fields. ‘The Impossibility of Silence’ is a small tome for anyone who has flung themselves into the unforgiving fields of art and design and is interested in somehow tackling writing about their vocation and culture. Deftly juggling diverse topics such as history, theory, philosophy, humanities, and (especially) pop culture, Lynam’s humorous style and on-point intuition will surely boost your confidence in putting pen to paper.
212 p, ills bw, 10 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Criticall! (Un)professional Everyday Design Criticism
Isbn 9789493148499
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 21603
€ 13.85
From Google reviews to YouTube tutorials, and from online service desks to real-life ‘may I speak to the manager’ requests–we are all critics of our designed environments. It seems therefore strange, if not outrageous, that design criticism is a practice considered to be a haute-for-few instead of a low-for-all. Design belongs to all of us and, therefore, its criticism as well. How can we activate more people to become actively aware of and critical towards their designed environments?
104 p, no ills, 12x24 cm, pb, English
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Alessandro Sanna - You Bring The Furniture Homage To Dino Gavina
Isbn 9788875702694
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 21676
€ 12.65
How does a piece of furniture become a work of art? By drawing it in among the sinuous and eccentric characters invited to tea at the home of Dino Gavina, one of the forerunners of 20th century design. Alessandro Sanna’s pen and ink drawings are the perfect opportunity to imagine and paint your own decor and, with the help of Dino Gavina, to turn your own furniture into “Ultramobili”! Ultramobili are works of art in the shape of furniture, designed by artists such as Man Ray, Sebastian Matta, and Meret Oppenheim.
24 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Castiglioni In 2 Sec. Flipbook Parentesi
Isbn 9788875709600
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 21677
€ 16.40
This flip-book is dedicated to Parentesi, a lamp designed by Achille Castiglioni from a drawing by Pio Manzù in 1968, later made in 1971 by Flos: a lamp that slides on a metal wire and, thanks to the clutch system, stops in your desired position. You can use a rubber joint to rotate the light where you want, but to do this the weight at the base must float a few millimetres off the ground. That's the secret!
136 p, ills colour, 15 x 11 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Daftardastak Notebook
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Publisher Nazar Publishing
Idea code 21611
€ 11.00
Award-winning Iranian photographer and writer Peyman Hooshmandzadeh presents a notebook for your daily musings and scribbles, in which the mostly blank pages are embellished with a leaf motif.
180 p, ills bw, 13 x 19 cm, pb, no text
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