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Karel Martens, Uranus
Isbn 9789464460025
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 22206
€ 125.00
This book is an exhibition. The pages can be arranged in sequence on a wall, creating a site-specific installation of 340 individual images over 21 square meters. Distributed in a limited edition of 750 copies, Martens invites participation in the transformation of the book as an object and the movement of the exhibition through time and space. You can use this book as your own statement. Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Karel Martens: Re-Production at IS A GALLERY in Shanghai, curated by Zhongkai Li. Design: Karel & Aagje Martens.
688 p, ills colour & bw, 30 x 21 cm, pb, English/Chinese
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The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2021 - The Editor's issue
Isbn 9783909928804
Publisher Bundesamt Fur Kultur Bern
Idea code 22392
€ 29.30
There is no shortage of explanations as to what exactly makes a beautiful book. Over the years, the criteria have also changed with the times. And although parameters change, it is still all about finding the right form for the content. For the 2021 edition of ‘The Most Beautiful Swiss Books’, the jury was handed more than 400 volumes to consider. In the end, only 23 of these would be selected to receive the accolade. Designed by Aude Lehmann, this publication recounts the deliberations, logistics, expected and unforeseen obstacles, and finally the award-winning titles themselves. Six interviews with various professionals involved in the books’ production are also included.
352 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 29 cm, pb, Italian/French/German/English
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Pierre Charpin - Avec le Dessin (French & English)
Isbn 9782490077755
Publisher Editions B42
Idea code 22462
€ 30.10
A selection of nearly 120 works from different series produced between 2005 and 2022 are brought together in this first book devoted to the drawings of designer Pierre Charpin. He views drawing as a practice in its own right, an expression of the singular relationship that the designer has with form. It is an immediate, intuitive, and natural way of bringing forth a form that does not yet exist. The works presented in this book are distinguished by the variety of techniques – coloured pencils, graphite, pen, chalk, coloured ink, and more – but also by the permanence of certain motifs such as lines and loops, ribbons and arabesques, made in series and often representing elementary forms.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 30 cm, pb, French/English
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Bauhaus X IKEA: Legacies of Modernism
Isbn 9781922601209
Publisher Uro Publications
Idea code 22448
€ 33.00
The Bauhaus and IKEA are two of the most prominent 20th-century design icons. This book examines the far-reaching influence of the short-lived but pioneering art school, a crucible for much of what came to be known as modernist design, and the massive furniture company, launched just ten years after the Bauhaus closed. The mass manufacturing techniques the Bauhaus imagined would transform daily life for the better became the theoretical and functional foundation for IKEA. Through a selection of essays and images, ‘Bauhaus X IKEA’ traces the profound but not always benign influence of these global design icons across history, politics, pedagogy, art, and society.
136 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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The City Is Ours #2: Graffiti Removals
Isbn 9789526878461
Publisher Other Editions
Idea code 22404
€ 22.00
The second edition in a series of six “bookzines” that invite you to explore your surroundings with a more curious gaze. Each is dedicated to a single theme relating to a street-level detail, proving that anything can be more interesting and meaningful than what it seems to be. Graffiti is considered to be any kind of unauthorised expression written on walls. Such unsanctioned throw-ups, tags, slogans, and random scribbling will likely be covered over eventually. And because it is not always possible to match the wall’s original colour, these covered-up paintings become another kind of wall painting. Dive into an analysis of colour, typology, tolerance, collaboration, and much more.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Garment 19: Future through Headwear
Isbn 9789081747769
Publisher AMFI
Idea code 22383
€ 16.10
The magazine of the Amsterdam Fashion Institute invites readers to take a trip through the galaxy of headwear. Headwear can be religious, empowering, functional, protective, and stunningly beautiful. Culture and headwear are undeniably intertwined, and whether it is a hat, headscarf, or even your hair, these highly expressive garments crown a person’s carefully created look. Headwear also provides the perfect lens to look into future developments in fashion. From shaping textures using software to quantum physics as an unexpected base for fashion creation and looking at the historical roots of hair artistry, the world of headwear design is mind-blowingly innovative.
98 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 35 cm, pb, English
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A Gift - from artists, poets and photographers (under 13)
Isbn 9780995518131
Publisher Redstone Press
Idea code 22466
€ 14.85
'A Gift' reminds us of all the things that we have missed, mislaid, and forgotten. Bringing together words, images, and photographs by children from around the world, from the ages of three to thirteen, the book is an invitation to wonder, creativity, and play. We encounter flying dinosaurs, a conference of animals, portraits of the Queen, as well as street photography, moments of intimacy and quiet joy.
144 p, ills colour, 13 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Empty Chair
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Publisher Lensvelt
Idea code 22442
€ 25.00
‘Empty Chair’ is a book that deals with the subject of absence. Looking at an empty chair makes us wonder who could sit or who might have just been sitting there. Not knowing or being able to see this makes us more curious and adds tension and mystery to a photograph. What purpose will the empty chair serve next? Who will be its new companion? Will we ever know? By delving through archives of private family albums and online resources, Erik Kessels and Karel De Mulder have compiled an entire book of photographs that feature an empty chair with at least one person in the frame: holiday snapshots, garden picnics, relaxing at the beach, or just having a drink.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Inventario 16: Everything is a Project
Isbn 9788875709983
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 22311
€ 12.65
The matches on the cover can be thought of as inflammatory bodies, sparks and matter that flare, smoulder, and devour themselves. They are objects with a common destiny: to shine for a moment, only to hastily vanish. It follows that objects and artworks inspired by matches are the first things featured in this edition, segueing into a brief survey of Noma Bar’s clever, deceptively simple illustrations. Continuing, explore the destabilising properties of the colour pink, learn about Mel Bochner’s conceptual artwork ‘Theory of Painting’, wade into the enigmatic photography of Todd Hido, check out different architectural elevations (literally), and wonder at Massimo Gardone’s chromatic herbaria.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Raddar 4: Faux / Fake
Isbn 9791095513155
Publisher T&P Publishing
Idea code 22417
€ 35.50
Underpinning this edition of ‘Raddar’ is a contemplation of design and the consequences of the will and power of creation. Design has long played with the notions or variations of fake – questions of falsification, touching on issues of manipulation and broader social concerns. All the articles are written by designers or researchers for whom the concept of fake had to be re-invoked. This is because the increasingly ambiguous link between our societies with deceptive techniques, reconstructions, post-truths, alternative facts, fact-checking, etc., necessarily repositions their practices in new relationships with the tools, projects, or observations of the realms where they act and operate.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 25 cm, pb, French/English
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Diasporic Threads - Black Women, Fibre & Textiles
Isbn 9781399919449
Publisher Common Threads Press
Idea code 22391
€ 13.10
'Diasporic Threads: Black Women, Fibre & Textiles' highlights Black women's contributions to art and history through fibre-related mediums. The author, Dr. Sharbreon Plummer (Baton Rouge, LA) is an artist, strategist and storyteller that centres the stories and creativity of Black women. Sharbreon's upbringing in southern Louisiana informs her interest into how culture and ancestral memory act as influencers of contemporary art-making. This new publication surveys the history of Black women and textiles in North America, and spotlights five artists through a series of interviews, paying careful attention to the intersections of race, art, and cultural memory.
52 p, ills colour, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Soft propaganda, special relationships and a new democracy. Adprint and Isotype 1942-1948
Isbn 9789076452005
Publisher De Buitenkant
Idea code 22424
€ 40.00
Originally from Vienna, Otto Neurath (1882–1945) can be seen as the godfather of today’s infographics. An innovator in museum practice, he also invented the Isotype method of pictorial statistics in close collaboration with Marie Reidemeister, with whom he fled the rise of Nazism, eventually landing in England. Through fellow émigré Wolfgang Foges and his book packaging firm Adprint, they were commissioned to design Isotype charts for printed matter supported by the UK Ministry of Information during the war. This book illustrates around 150 Isotypes from these publications and provides in-depth information about their production and remarkable quality during wartime.
208 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Stefano Calligaro - Poetricks
Isbn 9783945900574
Publisher Edition Taube
Idea code 22421
€ 15.30
Stefano Calligaro presents a selection of his ongoing work of literal “poetical-tricks” consisting of modified words and common terms, silly but clever verbal glitches that challenge established social and cultural codes through visual simplicity and a precise but deliberate (mis)use of language. The series originated with the aim of becoming a “visual ecology of signs and meanings”, in contrast to the hyper-spectacle often seen in art and culture in general today. “Poetricks” are simultaneously artworks, minimal poems, and tools the artist uses to question and redefine the essence, meaning, and boundaries of art, language, and poetry.
208 p, ills bw, 9 x 13 cm, pb, English
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Fieldguides for a Preternaturalist 1
Isbn 9783947858354
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 22378
€ 11.00
‘Fieldguides for a Preternaturalist’ is a series of small chapbooks designed to bring collaborators, audiences, and readers together as part of the project ‘Nothing of Importance Occurred: Recuperating a Herball for a 17th-Century Enslaved Angolan Midwife at the Cape’, initiated by South African artist Wendy Morris. Through speculative investigations of plants-as-archive and storytelling-as-method, the project focuses on retrieving a library of botanical-medicinal knowledge that perhaps informed Morris’s enslaved ancestor. The ‘Fieldguides’ invite collaborators to shed light on this from multiple angles. The first edition features South African storyteller and author Nadia Kamies.
48 p, ills bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Fieldguides for a Preternaturalist 2
Isbn 9783947858408
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 22379
€ 11.00
‘Fieldguides for a Preternaturalist’ is a series of small chapbooks designed to bring collaborators, audiences, and readers together as part of the project ‘Nothing of Importance Occurred: Recuperating a Herball for a 17th-Century Enslaved Angolan Midwife at the Cape’, initiated by South African artist Wendy Morris. Through speculative investigations of plants-as-archive and storytelling-as-method, the project focuses on retrieving a library of botanical-medicinal knowledge that perhaps informed Morris’s enslaved ancestor. The ‘Fieldguides’ invite collaborators to shed light on this from multiple angles. The second edition has Rachel O’Donnell, an expert on Latin American practices.
48 p, ills bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Fieldguides for a Preternaturalist 3
Isbn 9783947858415
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 22473
€ 11.00
‘Fieldguides for a Preternaturalist’ is a series of small chapbooks designed to bring collaborators, audiences, and readers together as part of the project ‘Nothing of Importance Occurred: Recuperating a Herball for a 17th-Century Enslaved Angolan Midwife at the Cape’, initiated by South African artist Wendy Morris. Through speculative investigations of plants-as-archive and storytelling-as-method, the project focuses on retrieving a library of botanical-medicinal knowledge that perhaps informed Morris’s enslaved ancestor. The ‘Fieldguides’ invite collaborators to shed light on this from multiple angles. Joshua Cohen and Johanna Lot are the guest contributors of the third edition.
44 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, German/English
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You can go anywhere - Josef & Anni Albers Foundation at 50
Isbn 9782958329808
Publisher Josef and Anni Albers Foundation
Idea code 22427
€ 73.10
This 50th anniversary box set contains an extensive series of essays written by staff and collaborators who have contributed to the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation’s work. Josef Albers (1888–1976) was a German-born artist and educator who taught at both the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College. The collection reveals the broad scope of how the foundation has carried on the couple’s legacy over the years. Also featured are the non-profit’s many donations to international museums, including rarely shown artworks. With contributions by architects Manuel Herz and Toshiko Mori, designers Paul Smith and Christopher Farr, and many more, plus archival material and art.
450 p, ills colour & bw, 26 x 25 cm, pb, English
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Tokuko Shimizu - Textile Posters
Isbn 9784904894545
Publisher Flick Studio
Idea code 22337
€ 40.70
Having developed a visual language that is quite her own, Tokuko Shimizu’s body of work reflects an ongoing interest in art, history, and culture, as well as a conscious commitment to exploring diverse techniques. She works in oil, Japanese painting, illustration, weaving, traditional Japanese dye, and fabric patchwork collage. Tokuko’s creative path evolved in close proximity to everyday life while raising two children in Tokyo, serving as an escape from her expected role within the family and societal pressures. ‘Textile Posters’ presents her textile collage work, expressive objects with bright colour fields and sequins which freely mix personal experiences and imagery.
72 p, ills colour, 19 x 26 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Playgrounding, the Playground as a Symbolic Form of Society and Design Culture
Isbn 9791254930014
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 22312
€ 53.00
Talking about playgrounds means telling stories about the definition of urban space, creativity, contestation, and reflections on the culture of childhood. After all, the playground is a symbolic form linked with the anthropological heart of our social relations. Researched by curator and design historian Domitilla Dardi, this book opens with a visual history of playgrounds, an overview of projects by artists, designers, and architects who have taken on the challenge of creating playgrounds over time. Creators were also asked to imagine new playgrounds for the book, leading to nine proposals from Paul Cox, Konstantin Grcic, Studio Ossidiana, Olimpia Zagnoli, and others.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 25 cm, hb, Italian/English
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Andrea Anastasio. Binary Codex
Isbn 9788875709952
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 22406
€ 31.60
A philosophical-orientalist, self-taught designer, and artist, Andrea Anastasio has spent his life culturally and physically between Italy and India. From the two countries he has taken production methods and assimilated cultural references over time, often integrating their matrices and linguistic codes. His work - reviewed in this book for the exhibition "Binary Codex", curated by Domitilla Dardi and held at the Italian Embassy in New Delhi - offers a dual narrative, where the dialogue takes place on multiple levels: between design and art, between mass-produced and handcrafted products, between industry and art installation, between Italy and India.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, Italian/English
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The design of Tactics. Critical Practices Transforming Public Spaces.
Isbn 9788412494204
Publisher Dpr-barcelona
Idea code 22457
€ 18.40
This publication explores the significance of encounters between people and culture in public spaces, points of encounter where they may take place, and counterpoints which may be contained, silenced, or expressed within them. It presents the process and initial outcomes of a three-year investigation into the design of tactical interventions, actions, strategies, and other experiences for revitalising and enhancing the quality of marginal and neglected public spaces in today’s European cities. Public spaces are where many of the contests and negotiations over culture and integration are taking place, whether through participatory activities, activism, or the appropriation in and of these spaces.
194 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, 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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Planner 2023 - Serenity
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Publisher Julie Joliat
Idea code 22467
€ 29.10
This weekly planner is more than just a schedule book to keep appointments, it is a cross between a calendar, a diary, and a guide that encourage you to slow down and consume more responsibly. Each week discloses a miscellanea of ideas, information, and exercises depicted in a playful way to inspire you to live in a more serene and sustainable way. It includes a monthly planner, a project planner, a lot of useful information about holidays, world maps, conversion tables, celestial and environmental events, an observation chart, and 32 blank pages for your personal notes. Printed in a sustainable way in Germany.
192 p, ills bw, 12 x 19 cm, pb, English
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