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Futura Proxima - Curated for Gucci
Isbn 9789077745250
Publisher A Magazine
Idea code 21688
€ 39.00
‘Futura Proxima’ is a calendar curated for Gucci. But it is simultaneously a glimpse at tomorrow – a map of maybes and a fractal question mark of intriguing possibilities. In these pages, the extremes of utopias and dystopias dissolve, replaced by twelve polyvalent excursions into the near distant future. Exploring the speculative interactions of our human form parsed with aesthetics and architecture, literature, biology, and philosophy, it presents a non-linear loop of creative constructs for our physical and digital realities alike. With contributions by Emanuele Coccia, Natsuko Uchino, Alice Potts, Katie Paterson, Carlijn Jacobs, Aria Dean, Simon Denny, Jeremy Shaw, and more.
130 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, English
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F.R. David Spring 2022 - Take, Eat
Isbn 9781916249950
Publisher Uh Books / Kw Institute
Idea code 22024
€ 10.40
This 21st issue of ‘F.R. David’ is edited by Will Holder with Andrea di Serego Alighieri. Seemingly more fragmented than usual, it includes contributions, quotes, found materials, and excerpts from Maggie Nelson, Charles Mingus, Octavia Butler, John Keats, Alice Notley, Paul Abbott, Bernadette Mayer, Fred Dewey, John Cage, Marion Keiner, Anne Carson, and others. An afterword by Nicolas Schoffer entitled “Microtime” concludes this wandering, inscrutable journey.
184 p, ills bw, 12 x 19 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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Olivetti Identities. Spaces and Languages 1933-1983
Isbn 9783038630609
Publisher Triest Verlag
Idea code 22021
€ 39.20
Olivetti is known for its world-famous typewriters, which epitomise the Italian company’s industrial legacy and visible identity. This book presents the results of an interdisciplinary research project on that identity, with contributions from 37 authors which analyse the Olivetti phenomenon as a whole, its corporate evolution, and the approaches of designers such as Xanti Schawinsky, Carlo Scarpa, Ettore Sottsass, Hans von Klier, Egidio Bonfante, Walter Ballmer, and others. Divided into four sections, the book includes showroom and exhibition design, the languages that shaped the corporate vocabulary, and two visual essays of published and unpublished documents from the Olivetti archives.
400 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Identita Olivetti. Spazi e Linguaggi
Isbn 9783038630616
Publisher Triest Verlag
Idea code
€ 39.20
Le macchine per scrivere Olivetti, famose in tutto il mondo, rappresentano l’eredità industriale e l’identità visibile di un’azienda che è stata allo stesso tempo innovativa e complessa, materiale e immateriale. 'Identità Olivetti. Spazi e linguaggi 1933-1983' presenta i risultati di questa ricerca per analizzare il fenomeno Olivetti nel suo complesso, prestando particolare attenzione all’evoluzione dell’azienda e alla collaborazione di designer come Xanti Schawinsky, Carlo Scarpa, Hans von Klier, Ettore Sottsass, Egidio Bonfante e Walter Ballmer, tra gli altri.
360 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, Italian
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Shaping Everyday Life! Bauhaus Modernism in de GDR
Isbn 9783944425115
Publisher M Books
Idea code 22027
€ 28.15
To celebrate 2019, the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, the Documentation Centre of Everyday Culture in Eisenhüttenstadt assembled an exhibition on Bauhaus heritage in the GDR (East Germany). Aiming to address continuities while also revealing contradictions and gaps in the development of modern design and everyday culture in the GDR, the exhibition refers to the reformist tradition of a school that was based on interdisciplinary methods and broad social design perspective. Through a wealth of image material, this catalogue presents a five-chapter overview of the exhibition’s thematic range, with objects including furniture, receptacles, technical devices, and commercial art.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 31 cm, pb, German/English
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New Material Award 2009-2018
Isbn 9789083015286
Publisher Het Nieuwe Instituut
Idea code 21753
€ 18.95
Over the past ten years, material development and innovation has evolved by leaps and bounds. From a relatively minor subject within design research, it has become an increasingly fundamental aspect of technological innovation, sustainability, and more. Launched in 2009, the New Material Award aimed to bring more attention to an aspect of design that was increasingly developing, yet remained outside the professional field of vision. From 2014, the public conversation received more attention, and the development of an international material network became the focus. Now, there is a greater appreciation of perspectives on the development and application of sustainable materials.
488 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Objects Of Fascination
Isbn 9782960253054
Publisher Accattone
Idea code 22032
€ 23.65
‘Objects of Fascination’ explores digital technology and craftsmanship through found forms. It is a sort of collection of personal worldviews by an emerging generation of architects and an attempt to give physical form to the multiplicity of our collective cultural background. During the pandemic, 45 individuals were invited to take part in an exercise. Each participant selected the image of an object of personal fascination, from which a shape was extracted, redrawn, scaled, and then cut out of an aluminium sheet to become a low table. This book presents each table through the original image that generated it, plus the selected contour, photographs of the prototype, and a text by its maker.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Moga: Designs from Platonsha and Club Cosmetics
Isbn 9784861528460
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 21631
€ 21.20
In interwar 20th-century Japan, “moga” (short for “modern girls”) became the catchword to describe fashionable city women who embraced Westernised modes and manners. With page after page of depictions of moga from Platonsha – the legendary publishing house that brought together such design and illustration luminaries as Ayao Yamana and Rokuro Yama in the 1920s – this book pays tribute to the new breed of women who emerged as Japan absorbed and shaped a new culture in response to the influence of the West. Prints, drawings, stamps, advertisements, posters, playing cards, and more reflect this captivating pictorial blend of traditional motifs and modern figures.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 18 cm, pb, Japanese with English summary
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Christie van der Haak - Celebrating Patterns
Isbn 9789492852526
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 22017
€ 30.00
Dutch designer and visual artist Christie van der Haak is happiest when she is drawing and can lose herself in the thousands of options for making a pattern. “If I ever get Alzheimer’s,” she once said, “I would only need a table, a pencil, and a sheet of paper.” Van der Haak started her career as a painter and later began designing fabrics that can function as autonomous artworks, but can also be used as upholstery, wall coverings, tablecloths, facade accents, and more. ‘Celebrating Patterns’ gathers a overview of her recent installations, commissions, and exhibitions in a dazzling and extraordinary collection of numerous full-page patterns, plus street views and interior photographs.
286 p, ills colour, 25 x 31 cm, pb, English
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The Spirituality of Kintsugi
Isbn 9784473044853
Publisher Tankosha
Idea code 22014
€ 33.15
As a philosophy, the Japanese art of kintsugi treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise. Skilled craftsmanship is required in this technique, which uses lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered metals such as gold, silver, or platinum to repair areas of breakage in pottery or ceramics. Hiroki Kiyokawa is one such master, having apprenticed himself to a maki-e artist at a young age (a similar technique used in lacquer decoration). These traditional techniques have been practiced since the Edo period in Japan. With 45 years of experience as a restorer, Kiyokawa offers a fascinating look at this delicate and beautiful art.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 24 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Microscopic Images - Loh Xiang Yun
Isbn 9789811810688
Publisher Temporary Press
Idea code 21697
€ 28.95
Loh Xiang Yun’s background as a scientific botanical illustrator for the Singapore Botanic Gardens already gives clues as to what can be found within ‘Microscopic Images’. Her book explores the incidental qualities involved in creating pen-and-ink illustrations of plant specimens and their minutiae for scientific publications, and in particular the photographic “by-products” of this process. Through a selection of these images, she attempts to translate the processes and experiences of the artist who, when working with them, recalls otherwise unnoticed qualities and possibilities obscured by their original, instrumental purpose. Includes an interview with Xiang Yun.
120 p, ills bw, 20 x 29 cm, pb, English
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A Cookbook Of Invisible Writing
Isbn 9789491677953
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 22020
€ 20.00
A Cookbook of Invisible Writing provides a wide variety of invisible ink recipes and other communication techniques that may be used to subvert surveillance, bypass censorship and make visible the struggles of minorities and other marginalised cultures. Additionally, it aims to inspire communities to develop their own new poetic and playful forms of communication as a way of nurturing social bonds.
224 p, ills ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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