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The Best Dutch Book Designs 2021 / De Best Verzorgde Boeken 2021
Isbn 9789083173818
Publisher CPNB
Idea code 22540
€ 13.00
This year marks the 60th occasion of the Best Dutch Book Designs, and the selection to choose from was even larger than usual. More than 320 books were submitted to the jury for consideration, which can be taken as a sign that bookmaking is alive and well. Ultimately, 33 books stood up to the experts’ critical examination and now carry the title of “best”. Besides craftsmanship, the jury looked for balance in this year’s group. From technical tours de force and concepts that make you think, to introverted or extravagant books, from books by world-famous designers to ones created by students, all have earned their place in this volume, which can be browsed from either cover.
300 p, ills bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Purple 38: The 30yrs Issue
Isbn 17668832
Publisher Purple Institute
Idea code 22509
€ 41.60
Purple celebrates its 30th anniversary and for this issue interweaves new editorial content with facsimiles of pages from past issues to show how different moments in time resonate and connect to each other. This issue tells the story of 30 years devoted to artists, designers, photographers, writers, cities and other facets that define the Purple World - such as night, philosophy, diversity, avant-garde, sex and politics. Throughout 30 parts full of photography, fashion, cool kids and nostalgia, the 30YRS issue features Elein Fleiss, Martin Margiela, Takashi Homma, Chloë Sevigny, Maurizio Cattelan, Dash Snow, Juergen Teller, Marlene Dumas and many many more. Accompanied by a special Urs Fischer Purple Book.
544 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 33 cm, hb, English
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The New Era Magazine 4
Isbn 9789189270510
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 22556
€ 25.00
What does an object do to us, to a room, to the conversations we are having? What does it say about the community where it was made? In issue four New Era looks at the things we surround ourselves with and what they mean to us. We visit the architect Petra Gipp on her island abode and spend some time at home with brand director Petrus Palmer, who uses his family home as a testing ground for new products and furniture. We discuss the concept of home with the renowned artist Miriam Bäckström and the architect Eero Koivisto, of architecture and design practice Claesson Koivisto Rune, who shares his favourite objects with us. In his home a bowl is never just a bowl, it is a bowl with a story. Elsewhere in the issue, we visit a home resembling a spaceship, and one built to celebrate wood.
216 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Proud South
Isbn 9789462264441
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 22520
€ 85.00
‘Proud South’ is a mesmerising visual experience that showcases the creative powers of the Global South. Seen through the colourful and expressive lens of today’s fashion, photography, styling, and art, Lidewij Edelkoort and Lili Tedde bring together up-and-coming and established talents from near and far. The collection represents an emancipated international movement and marks the emergence of a southern generation of creatives who promote local craft, embrace regional materials, recognise ancestral practices, and cherish indigenous values. Photographic essays from a variety of contributors illustrate the origins and latest trends of this uniquely southern phenomenon.
424 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 25 cm, hb, English
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Beauty in Boro: Kosaku Nukata Collection
Isbn 9784861528958
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 22502
€ 38.70
Countless pieces of cloth that have been spliced together and passed down from generation to generation. The handiwork of nameless people, born of poverty, overwhelms the viewer. Rags, which were created by the hands of nameless people in rural settlements and fishing villages during hard times, are now so highly regarded in the field of art and textiles that they are known around the world as "BORO". This book contains approximately 400 carefully selected pieces from a collection of more than a thousand collected by Kosaku Nukata over a period of 35 years.
272 p, ills colour, 21 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Henk Wolvers - The Golden White 2009–2022
Isbn 9789077955475
Publisher Henk Wolvers
Idea code 22544
€ 34.00
Henk Wolvers is known for his deep attachment to porcelain. As an artist who produces contemporary ceramics and has worked in Japan, he is drawn to its essence and places emphasis on its simplicity and inherent beauty. Both the material itself and the pieces he makes with it reflect the way he sees the world: subdued, balanced, careful, modest, and with consideration for others. The result must be logical, free, flowing, and uncomplicated. The period from 2009 to 2022 is covered in this illuminating overview of Wolvers and his work, initiated by historian Jan van Oudheusden. The book also offers a glimpse into his home and studio, a repurposed school building from the 1950s. Design: Irene van den Hurk.
194 p, ills colour, 21 x 21 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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I Got Something to Say — Poster Inventory, 2013–2021
Isbn 9781733474412
Publisher Draw Down Books
Idea code 22165
€ 36.70
An inventory of posters produced by Draw Down Books for art book fairs, workshops, and lectures between 2013 and 2021. Documenting Draw Down's activities throughout the period, the publication also graphically maps the contours of the artist book publishing world during the second decade of the 21st century. A series of reflections and essays by prominent graphic designers provides context and insights, providing readers with new ways of considering their own poster-making and event documentation.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Onigiri koro koro
Isbn 9791254930120
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 22507
€ 25.25
After collaborating on ‘Yocci’s Menu’, Aya Yamamoto and Yoshiko Noda return once again to create this playfully illustrated cookbook. The ‘onigiri’ is introduced, a Japanese comfort food made of rice and seaweed. Sharing many recipes, tips, trivia, and a fairy tale, Yamamoto’s detailed explanations are complemented by Noda’s light-hearted illustrations. Both authors were born in Japan, but have lived in Italy for many years. There Yamamoto established Gastronomia Yamamoto, an eatery where one can enjoy the dishes and customs typical in Japanese culture.
136 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Showa Modern: Ad Designs, 1920s–30s
Isbn 9784861528743
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 22537
€ 20.25
A new urban lifestyle blossomed in Japan in the 1920s and ’30s as cafés, bars, and boutiques selling Western-inspired fare and fashions crowded city streets and people embraced different modes of living. Tokyo was being rebuilt after the great earthquake of 1923, while further south Osaka entered a period of unprecedented prosperity. Amid these turbulent times, advertisers scrambled to find new promotional strategies to attract consumers, inspiring the rise of commercial art to communicate and evoke new information and images. Even today, the ads in this book are as vibrant and filled with wonder as they were in those years, a testament to the efforts of their designers.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 18 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Showa Modern: Signs and Store Designs, 1920s–30s
Isbn 9784861528750
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 22536
€ 20.25
The signs, street and window displays, and other designs gathered in the pages are from a time of enormous change in Japanese cities that is known as the age of Showa Modern. Western modes and fashions entered Japan’s thriving cultural spheres at a dizzying pace. As advertisements, signs are destined to eventually be taken down or replaced, but even so they are an integral part of the urban scenery. Although the designs featured here are a century old, many seem new even now – proof that they have lost nothing of their striking presence. They reflect the pursuit of the Japanese design industry to create a peerless, colourful world of inspiring visualisations.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 18 cm, pb, Japanese/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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Durable Discussions
Isbn 9789493148888
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 22411
€ 19.50
This volume comprises seventeen essays written by designers and artists from the Disarming Design Department of Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam. Engaged in social, material, and political struggles, the individuals retell their personal histories, writing across objects, events, places, and habits. By performing research through writing, they sense and transform the poetics and politics of the everyday. Spanning language, typography, aesthetics, weaving, cooking, landscape, speculation, and pedagogies, the essays offer perspectives in thinking about art and design as emancipatory politics and as a practice of hope – making what is deemed impossible, possible.
432 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Redstone Diary 2023: In Search of Beauty
Isbn 9780995518193
Publisher Redstone Press
Idea code 22232
€ 16.50
Philosophers through the ages have often sought answers to the eternal questions of beauty and its perception, including how to define it. What exactly is our experience of beauty? Perhaps it only exists in particular things, but it could just as well be found in universal characteristics and certain shapes and forms. What about physical versus spiritual beauty? Some believe these things overlap, or are even one and the same. There are no simple answers to any of these questions, but this year’s ‘Redstone Diary’ aims to help along the way. Filled with examples of beauty, it also offers the beautiful promise of another year.
ills colour & bw, pb,
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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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Claude Closky - Invisible Books
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Publisher Edition Taube
Idea code 22227
€ 8.15
Imagine postcards with photographs of bookshelves. A postcard edition by Claude Closky, this publication depicts books in five states of inexistence: invisible books, ethereal books, undetectable books, vanished books, and unseeable books. Closky’s primarily immaterial work is altogether subtle, minimal, and playful. He uses language as a model to articulate images, text, numbers, and sounds collected in our environment or created in his studio
10 p, ills colour, 11 x 15 cm, postcard, English
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