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The Serving Library Annual 2022/23 (Meander)
Isbn 9789464460193
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 22338
€ 30.00
From the 1960s, Croatian artist Julije Knifer (1924–2004) painted stark, snaking, geometric lines that he called meanders. The monotony and absurdity of this practice, and journaling about his non-progress every day, was for Knifer “a very specific form of freedom”. Each painting was not a whole, but part of a larger stream. This edition of ‘The Serving Library Annual’ explores this theme, where the meander offers both the promise of continuity and the mixed blessing of recurrence. Its freely wandering contents include contributions by Julije Knifer, Anuja Dhir and Ab Rogers, Anthony Huberman, Yuji Agematsu, Tauba Auerbach, Emilie M. Reed, Lauren Elkin, and others.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Science of the Secondary 12: Bin
Isbn 9789811821264
Publisher Atelier Hoko
Idea code 22195
€ 18.70
To remove their rubbish, human beings have long since relied on the bin: they fill it up with all sorts of garbage and when it is more or less full and the stench becomes unbearable, one unfortunate individual will have the dreaded task of emptying it. It is curious, however, that in parts of the world untouched by man, bins are neither seen nor heard of and before our minds start conjuring scenes of animals burning their own garbage every night, a better explanation would be that the concept of rubbish simply do not exist in nature and therefore...no bin!
60 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 25 cm, pb, English
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Science of the Secondary 13: Rubbish
Isbn 9789811821271
Publisher Atelier Hoko
Idea code 22196
€ 18.70
It is true that the pleasures of consumption have always been accompanied by the burdens of rubbish. This can be considered a modern problem facing human beings today. Rubbish is integral and almost inseparable from the basic functions of our everyday. From the moment we reach out for a piece of tissue to the yearly ritual of unwrapping gifts, we produce rubbish so effortlessly (and sometimes unknowingly) Yet, neither its near infinite variety of forms nor its ambiguous definition reflect the near-universal approaches we have all adapted towards the handling of rubbish…
48 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 25 cm, pb, English
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Street Report 1: Public Bins
Isbn 9789811841361
Publisher Temporary Press
Idea code 22394
€ 18.55
This first title by Atelier HOKO (Alvin Ho and Clara Koh) in the Street Report publication series looks at one of the most ubiquitous yet unobserved objects in the streets of Singapore. Atelier HOKO’s encounters with public bins reveal how unexpected or “improper” use or interactions, no matter how minor, are rich areas for study and observation, sometimes humorously so. This well describes the role of a street reporter, to make sense of phenomena on the streets and find delight and meaning in doing so.
138 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Street Report 2: Hooks and Holes
Isbn 9789811841378
Publisher Temporary Press
Idea code 22395
€ 18.55
This investigation by Faiz Bin Zohri in the Street Report publication series looks at the Sungei Road Thieves Market in Singapore, a place where an informal and fluid network of market vendors come together to sell an array of second-hand items. This work attempts to capture the vibrant spirit of the market by focusing on a very specific area of interest—the “system” of hooks and holes found on the road surfaces where the market sits, one that both enables and governs the setup, organisation, and functioning of market stalls, which in turn affects the behaviours and interactions between vendors and customers.
138 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 17 cm, pb, English
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From the Pot to the Earth at Rochester Square
Isbn 9783956796241
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 22399
€ 24.00
“Rochester Square is an oasis between the trundling traffic of Camden Road and busy York Way that welcomes people of all ages, at all hours and in all weathers, to be together to grow and make things. The three animating words – clay, food and garden – summon the organism that Francesca Anfossi and Eric Wragge have fostered. The square has become a nest of creativity that extends an invitation to dwell, make and be happy. In this book, you will find excellently unusual ways of preparing food, examples of many of the wondrous things made and the thoughts and passionate solidarity of neighbours and friends.” — Antony Gormley
136 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Striking! Advertising Matches from Singapore
Isbn 9789811843983
Publisher Temporary Press
Idea code 22396
€ 40.25
With their rectangular and pocket-friendly form, matchboxes printed with advertisements once offered an affordable and portable means of marketing. Known as “advertising matches”, these petite boxes containing matches, including matchbooks that flipped open from the top, served a functional need in a time when lighters had yet to become commonplace. This collection of over 350 covers from Singapore – each reproduced in actual size – captures the city’s colourful modernisation in the period from the 1970s to 1990s. Discover stylish buildings, modern forms, trendy logos, sexy figures, exotic cultures, flamboyant fonts, and more. A “lit” collection of vintage advertising.
400 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 8 cm, pb, English
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Theriaca: Yarn, Rope, Spaghetti
Isbn 9784908769184
Publisher Torch Press
Idea code 22267
€ 31.40
Theriaca is the independent label managed by artist and fashion designer Asuka Hamada. Based in Germany and Japan, she is currently engaged in a creative project that focuses on the endless creative potential of knitwork. This art book compiles her works and process as part of this endeavour. Discover colourful objects made of yarn, derived from the artist’s fluid inspiration, and unique pieces knitted from non-traditional materials like shoelaces, straws, or paper. The volume provides a comprehensive look at Hamada’s own thought process, spanning from ideation, experimentation, and implementation to actual designs, all while pushing the boundaries of what knitting is capable of.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 22 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Post-craft - EP vol. 3
Isbn 9783956793950
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 22360
€ 22.00
The notion of the handmade has shifted from the margins to center stage. Craft’s value is increasingly recognized across creative, economic, social, cultural, and political contexts. Because of its widespread appropriation, and the dissolution of disciplinary boundaries, the meaning of handicrafts is changing. While craft’s claims of authenticity and anti-consumerism are in question, its role is poised for optimization within the contemporary climate. Amid new economies of making, craft is moving from “modern craft” to “post-craft.” Through essays, conversations, and projects by designers, artists, and scholars, the third volume in the EP series examines not only the practice of post-craft but also its mediation and interpretation. Design Experimental Jetset.
172 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Faire - #38 – Special Issue – A debate: Jan van Toorn, Wim Crouwel
Isbn 9791095991298
Publisher Editions Empire
Idea code 22323
€ 15.05
We are told that the hall of the Fodor Museum in Amsterdam, where the scene takes place on this evening of November 9th 1972, was "smoky, noisy and crowded", and that the gathered audience made its presence felt through "frequent shouting". The center of this fevered arena hosted the encounter between two graphic designers, two graphistes, two typographers, Wim Crouwel and Jan Van Toorn, in a country where their voices carry weight, where their thinking is important. A meeting, a conversation, or rather a confrontation, a controversy; it has also been described as a debate, one that characterizes the representations of our discipline in the 1980s and that continues to echo today.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 29 cm, pb, French/English
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Vietnam War 5
Isbn 9784846532666
Publisher World Photo Press
Idea code 22356
€ 25.80
Now in its fifth volume, the series on the memorabilia and images of the Vietnam War adds to the already extensive documentation of the American military quagmire in South-East Asia that lasted almost two decades. The book features uniforms, fatigues, miscellaneous accoutrements, and essential gear, plus extensive overviews of combat insignia, both then and now. Special topics include the Long Biên Bridge in Hanoi, Viet Cong mines and booby traps, cameras used by journalists and war photographers, US Air Force bombing tactics, US Navy operations in the Mekong Delta, and several pages on the women who served, including as members of the American Red Cross.
286 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese
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Hato Zines 18: LPPL and Åbäke Come back, don't come back
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Publisher Hato Press
Idea code 22278
€ 10.95
Zine no.18 in the Hato Press Zine series is a collaboration between artist LPPL and Åbäke, a graphic design collective based in East London. "The story started when mommy was saying that we should put some mice traps up and she wanted to kill them because she only likes my teddy mouse. So we started making some immediately but I had always wanted a pet… We made some traps not to kill them, but to catch them but most of them didn’t work. A pest became a pet but no for long as Mushroom, as we called the only mouse we kept, disappeared. Somehow we were sad but also happy. We didn’t see any mice since."
16 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Singapore Gothic (set of 4 riso booklets)
Isbn 9789811844539
Publisher Temporary Press
Idea code 22397
€ 22.50
This series celebrates the pre-digital typographic textures and flavours gracing the signages of Singapore’s streets. Hand-made with love by generations of artisans, patiently gathered and presented by Mark De Winne & Vikas Kailankaje as part of the Singapore Gothic project (@singaporegothic) — a repository of vernacular shopfront signage across Singapore.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 9 x 14 cm, pb, English
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Stories of Paper
Isbn 9786148035470
Publisher Kaph Books
Idea code 22325
€ 48.40
‘Stories of Paper’, the catalogue for an exhibition at Louvre Abu Dhabi, traces the history of paper as a thousand-year-old material that has been used from antiquity to the present day. From manufacturing to circulation as well as technical progress, it provides an original perspective on the history of graphic arts, highlighting the diverse aspects of this familiar medium. By exploring the different plant species from which it originates and the numerous elements which come from its production, the diverse selection of artworks presented here invites readers to discover the multiple uses of paper as a medium for creativity, ideas, and exchange over the centuries and throughout cultures.
292 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Designerly ways of knowing
Isbn 9789493148802
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 22317
€ 12.50
Design thinking has created divisions in the discipline: either designers are too theory driven or simply practitioners. Those feeling lost can easily turn to a language meant to inspire creative production in easy to pitch ways, where rhetoric uses design to keep power at bay, to celebrate hegemonic beliefs which are used to indoctrinate designers in bad education, incapable of imagining different futures. If you take away the post-its, the A3 papers and the markers, can designers think?
64 p, ills bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Nicolas Le Bault - The Lost Dimension #1
Isbn 9782490410187
Publisher White Rabbit Prod
Idea code
€ 8.00
In the first volume of The Lost Dimension, the brand new series by Nicolas Le Bault, teenagers struggle with extreme phenomena and discover sexuality in a sometimes violent way. A graphic novel of intimate and fantastic horror, chronicle of a world that is about to fall apart.
28 p, ills colour, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Everyday Play - A Campaign Against Boredom
Isbn 9780995518186
Publisher Redstone Press
Idea code 22204
€ 15.05
Are you stuck in the rut of everyday life? Bored by the routine of daily existence? Have you lost your sense of fun in the mundane? ‘Everyday Play’ will help you rediscover the wonder in the weekly grind, the extraordinary in the ordinary. Throughout history, philosophers, artists, and writers have found liberation in taking play seriously. The book shows you how to use creativity, games, and the imagination to transform your life. For instance, you can learn how to be someone else for a day, play word games to find new ways of saying what you mean, or explore how to draw a poem or paint a book and totally reorient your library in the process.
176 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Art Jewellery - A Personal Perspective
Isbn 9789189270336
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 22333
€ 41.95
Art jewellery has departed from its tradition of being decorative ornaments and it has moved beyond solely working as social markers into a new art form not restricted to specific techniques, materials, subjects or aesthetics. Artists working with jewellery as a medium should be considered equal to fine artists. In this book, noted art jewellery specialist Inger Wästberg shines light upon art jewellery as an independent art form through a number of pieces from her own collection. She shows jewellery that reflects the times we are living in; that challenges our perception of what is considered beautiful; and that deals with topics like gender equality, overconsumption, sustainability and the transience of life.
27 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 25 cm, hb, English
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Hybrid Venice - Designing a Self-Portrait
Isbn 9788822908148
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 22303
€ 34.40
The catalogue for the third edition of the Venice Design Biennial covers design, exhibition practices, self-representation, and the city of Venice itself in an age when the physical and digital are experiencing new fusions imbued with disorientation and the perception of nascent conditions. The curatorial theme explores what design represents for individuals and, at the same time, how we represent ourselves through it. Another focus is the impact of the global health crisis, in which technology has tried to overcome the prolonged closure of exhibitions and museums through the emergence of online solutions that aim to replace the direct experience of cultural projects.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 28 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Czar Kristoff - New Refuge
Isbn 9789811830969
Publisher Temporary Press
Idea code 22398
€ 24.50
'New Refuge' was first released as a single edition publication as a work included in Czar Kristoff’s solo exhibition with the same title where the artist archived testing papers he gathered from a local school and office supply store. These papers contained scribbles, names of people, a few gibberish here and there. They held traces of identity—imprints of people’s existences left hastily. The artist examined these imprints by continuously enlarging them, magnifying and focusing on the minute details for a more intimate view of the traces of self that were left behind. This examination resulted to New Refuge being a simulation of a new correspondence between two people—between the viewer and the one who has left the markings.
200 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Formes et couleurs – Les arts décoratifs dans le fonds de livres anciens de l'isdaT
Isbn 9782356990570
Publisher Institute of Design Toulouse
Idea code 22327
€ 26.90
‘Formes et couleurs’ is a compendium of pictures from decorative arts books belonging to the oldest collections of the Institut supérieur des arts et du design de Toulouse. Featuring decorative patterns and motifs with unusual and striking shapes, forms, and colours, it criss-crosses a wide range of styles, cultures, and art historical moments, leaping from pure geometry to abstraction, from natural history drawings to Art Nouveau, and from Islamic to Japanese art. A thematic index includes categories such as textile, ornament, vegetation, and animals. This volume launches the “Formes” series, which explores this exceptional public heritage from a 21st-century perspective.
176 p, ills colour, 16 x 22 cm, pb, French
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