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Subjective Atlas of Amsterdam
Isbn 9789464448016
Publisher Subjective Editions
Idea code 23109
€ 24.50
Who is Amsterdam, really? This 'Subjective Atlas of Amsterdam' presents the Dutch capital as experienced by the residents themselves. Many who call Amsterdam home – especially those most often pushed to the margins – translate their experiences into maps, drawings, photos, and graphics. You’ll see streets you’ve not yet walked down, far beyond the historical centre, through the eyes of people you may not have met, but who could be your neighbours. These pages illustrate unsung neighbourhoods, subjective mundanities, vital criticism, and declarations of love, creating a nuanced collection that captures something difficult to quantify or make tangible: how cultures shape a city. Initiated by the Architecture Centre of Amsterdam (Arcam), this book, and the plural realities within it, reflect on how to make the city a better place, for everyone.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Cooking With Scorsese (and Others): The Collection
Isbn 9781910239490
Publisher Hato Press
Idea code 22646
€ 34.00
Cookbooks come in all shapes and sizes, but none have embraced a movie theme quite like this series. Across three volumes, ‘Cooking with Scorsese and Others’ offers an homage to food in film by showing memorable scenes in sequences of screenshots. This new edition collects all three previous volumes in over 500 pages of film & food pleasure. From films where food is the central theme, such as ‘Julie & Julia’ (2009), ‘Tortilla Soup’, ‘Babette’s Feast’ (1987), and ‘Tampopo’ (1985), to ones in which it plays a supporting role, like ‘The Scent of Green Papaya’ (1993), ‘Eat Drink Man Woman’ (1994), and ‘Goodfellas’ (1990), dozens of classic, cult, and perhaps underappreciated or forgotten films can be experienced again in this gastronomic celebration of cinema.
274 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Purple 39: The New York Issue
Isbn 17668832
Publisher Purple Institute
Idea code 23092
€ 41.60
Today, a new generation of artists, musicians, designers, gallerists, and writers are taking New York by storm, determined to make it, even though it is the most expensive city in the world. They find spaces further and further from Manhattan, from Brooklyn to upstate, and sometimes even elsewhere, while still thinking and breathing New York. Above all, New York is a state of mind. It remains the most creative, intellectual, fearless, and transgressive city in the United States – for better or worse. In an issue as expansive as the city itself, discover denizens like Tali Lennox, Natasha Lyonne, Bob Colacello, John Currin, Ebecho Muslimova, Roger Jazilek, Amy Fine Collins, and many more.
432 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 33 cm, hb, English
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Archivio 08: 1964
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Publisher Archivio Magazine
Idea code 23044
€ 15.05
Guido Crepax and Sabrina Ragucci, Folco Quilici, Dacia Maraini and Pino Tovaglia walk us through this issue of Archivio on our journey backwards through the Twentieth Century, to focus on the 1960s, between hope for a new world and lightheartedness promises. Archivio 08 starts with the Autostrada del Sole, a motorway inaugurated in 1964 which runs from Milan to Naples. Valerio Millefoglie, the magazine's editorial director, has travelled that same road encountering evidence of the daily life of an Italy that was changing. Archivio magazine is an innovative semestrial publishing project which focuses exclusively on the archive's culture and reality.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Damián Ortega - Masks
Isbn 9798986093024
Publisher Zolo Press
Idea code 23114
€ 53.75
Amidst quarantines and lockdowns, Damián Ortega hosted a paranormal masquerade. Invited were a Philanthropic Ogre, a Sweet Rodent, a Freak Brother, Fertility Ghost, Giacometti Dumpling, Acupuncturista, a Tango Singer, and Self Employed Pig, others too: a strange gang fashioned of bottle caps, tangles of string, tortillas, gourd shells, cactus leaves, and coins—whatever Ortega could find around the house. Masks welcomes you to join the ball, gathering one-hundred such disguises alongside essays by Luigi Amara.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, pb, English/Spanish
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Social Sauna - Bathing & Wellbeing
Isbn 9781399910903
Publisher Therme Group/ Jane Withers Studio
Idea code 23105
€ 25.55
Edited by Jane Withers Studio, Social Sauna – Bathing and Wellbeing presents a new perspective on global sauna culture, ritual and design. By defining the sauna’s essence and exploring how this practice is evolving for the 21st century, the authors reveal how sauna is a deeply social practice that can offer renewed benefits for health, wellbeing, and community. Social Sauna explores sauna culture from ancient global traditions of steam bathing through to modern experimental sauna practices. The publication reveals the important role that design plays in creating spaces that contribute to wellbeing. With examples such as the Bathing Culture sauna in Gothenburg by architects raumlabor, the Agora sauna created for the nomadic SALT festival and Steam of Life by JKMM Architects for Burning Man Festival. Creatives such as Bauhaus Sauna Society observe sauna traditions and stage sauna lectures and workshops, developing their own rituals with a deep respect for the vernacular spirit.
126 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 23 cm, pb, English
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The City Is Ours #3: Superficial Damages
Isbn 9789526878478
Publisher Other Editions
Idea code 23098
€ 22.00
The walls of the buildings, sidewalks, and streets in the city are in contact with a wide variety of users, uses, and activities: people walking, parents running with strollers, bikes suddenly braking, skateboarders practicing their tricks, scooters and cars being driven at full speed, and much more. All of these activities inevitably leave behind traces on the material surfaces, such as scratches, marks, and cracks. These traces of wear are often seen as something negative. But if we look at them with a more open mind, what can scratches and other superficial forms of damage found in the city tell us?
96 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Costumes – Enquête sur le vêtement, l'habit, la parure dans le fonds de livres anciens de l'isdaT
Isbn 9782356990617
Publisher Institute of Design Toulouse
Idea code 23113
€ 26.90
For this publication, the second release in the "Formes" series, dedicated to images taken from the decorative arts collections of the Institut supérieur des arts et du design de Toulouse (isdaT), Valérie Vernet and Anne Jourdain have focused their choice on the representation of clothing, ornaments and apparel from "all times and all countries", drawn and engraved in black or in colour. A source of formal inspiration and reflection on the Western historical conception of "ancient peoples", the graphic designers of Stéréo Buro and the photographer Jules Séverac have given life to this new iconographic suite.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 22 cm, pb, French
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A Cantos Compendium - Paulo de Cantos (1892-1979)
A Designer of Pedagogical Theories
Isbn 9789893332566
Publisher Barbara Says...
Idea code 23052
€ 25.55
“A Cantos Compendium” and cantosverso.org are the two sides of the process of rediscovering Paulo de Cantos (1892-1979), a publisher, bibliophile, educator, and amateur typographer who wrote, designed, and published around 40 titles between 1920 and 1960 and occupies a particular place in the process of artistic modernisation in Portugal. The book contains 4 essays that expand on the life and work of Cantos in the context of Portuguese and European design and pedagogy, followed by visual essays of his work from the speculative perspective of shuffling the pack and recombining his oeuvre in a composite Cantos-style exercise.
136 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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A Magazine 21: Curated By Lucie And Luke Meier (reprint)
Isbn 9789077745229
Publisher A Magazine
Idea code 20163
€ 52.00
The co-creative directors of the German fashion house Jil Sander were tasked with curating this issue. Lucie and Luke Meier approached their assignment as a call for reflection and an open dialogue on the dualities of a theme that is present in all of their work: human nature/mother nature. In this juxtaposition of the natural world with the constructs of built architecture and our cultural phenomena from recent history, a basis is formed for the exploration of scales, geographies, and an abundance of personal contributions from the Meiers. Photography, painting and illustration, interviews, music, poetry, and more all culminate in a carefully considered whirlwind of impressions.
242 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Håndvaerk 08 - Fashion Denmark
Isbn 9788794388016
Publisher Håndvaerk
Idea code 23142
€ 34.95
Håndværk bookazine no. 8 takes us on a fashion-themed tour of Denmark. It starts out in Randers, with a visit to the Rhanders glove factory. Further we meet Søren Nikolaj Skyt – who runs the knitwear company S. N. S. Herning, founded by his grandfather in 1919 – as well as the next generation of designers at Design School Kolding. This issue also includes weaver and textile designer Stine Skytte, designer Jan Machenhauer and cap-maker Wilgart, and shoe manufacturer Eva Bartels, among others. Shoes are also the topic of conversation with Alain Leber. The tour ends in southern Sweden with Karl Berglund, who went from a career in fashion to life as a saffron farmer.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Philippe Weisbecker Upside Down
Isbn 9782902565504
Publisher Fotokino
Idea code 23087
€ 10.75
‘Upside Down’ is the English version of ‘Élémentaire’, a miniature children’s book by artist and illustrator Philippe Weisbecker, which can be read in two ways: right side up and upside down. Simple monochrome graphic shapes meant to represent everyday objects become something totally different upon flipping the book around.
20 p, ills colour & bw, 9 x 11 cm, pb, English
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Floppy Disk Fever - The Curious Alternatives of a Felxible Medium
Isbn 9789493148864
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 23083
€ 18.00
The book reflects on notions of obsolescence, media preservation and nostalgia, and challenges these by showing the endurance and versatility of this familiar piece of technology. From floppy filmmakers to floppy painters and beyond; what drives people to continue working with the medium that is typically deemed obsolete? What challenges and affordances does it provide? And what does the future hold in store for the familiar black square? By looking at the current presence of past technology we can assess our present-day situation and speculate on the future developments of our media minded landscape. After all, the technology of the past is also part of our future! Includes a preface by Lori Emerson (Media Archeology Lab) and interviews with Jason Scott (archive.org), Tom Persky (floppydisk.com), Florian Cramer, Jason Curtis (Museum of Obsolete Media), Adam Frankiewicz (Pionierska Records), Foone Turing, Clint Basinger (Lazy Game Reviews), Nick Gentry, Joerg Droege and AJ Heller (Scene World) and Bart van den Akker (HelmondComputerMuseum).
144 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Bollywood Superstars– A Short Story of Indian Cinema
Isbn 9786148035524
Publisher Kaph Books
Idea code 23070
€ 43.00
Today, India is the world's leading film producer, with more than 1,500 films a year in around twenty languages exported throughout Asia, the Middle East and Africa. The international success of Bollywood must not conceal the diversity of Indian cinematography. The term "Bollywood" was created in 1970 from the contraction of Bombay and Hollywood, and refers to the predominant production of musicals in Hindi, but Indian cinema is vast and multicultural. Every region has its own production in its regional language: Kollywood in Kodambakkam, for Tamil cinema a mix of comedy, action and emotion—, or Bengali cinema which is more intellectual and social, as reflected in Satyajit Ray's culturally significant oeuvre the opposite of commercial productions. The book was published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Louvre Abu Dhabi and Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris, in 2023.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Faire (42, 43, 44, 45) vol 12
Isbn 9791095991427
Publisher Editions Empire
Idea code 23067
€ 37.65
‘Faire’ is distributed in the form of anthologies of three or four issues. This volume kicks off with a non-comprehensive overview by Victoire Le Bars and Benjamin Thorel of 20 issues of ‘F.R.DAVID’, the unclassifiable journal that emerged in 2007. Thierry Chancogne then offers an analysis of typographic writing, seeking to answer how writing, with its personal dynamics, functions in conjunction with the industrial and normative generalisation of typography. Furthermore, James Langdon looks at the conundrum of the visual communication of neuroscience, while Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey analyses the inherent redundancy of graphic design templates in four case studies.
148 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 29 cm, pb, French/English
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The Impossibility of Silence
Isbn 9789083270685
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 23061
€ 20.00
The Impossibility of Silence is a book for artists, designers and photographers interested in approaching writing about their vocation and culture. Drawing upon decades of experience as a writer, designer, artist and teacher, Ian Lynam offers up a plethora of inspirational and concrete approaches to writing about creative fields.
212 p, ills colour & bw, 10 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Nautical Memories
Isbn 9788864761220
Publisher Massimiliano Piretti Editore
Idea code 23133
€ 23.65
‘Nautical Memories’ encapsulates a nostalgic voyage through maritime fun and adventure. Presenting a diverse and fascinating collection of old photographs of yachtsmen (and a few women), sailors, sailboats, and speedboats, as well as regatta charts and numerous diagrams of seagoing vessels, nautical accessories and knots, and even advertisements, the book provides almost limitless sources of inspiration based on this age-old theme.
280 p, ills bw, 21 x 29 cm, pb, English
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Constellations (typographic booklet)
Isbn 9782490077816
Publisher Editions B42
Idea code
€ 7.55
The collection Carnets a Jouer is a series of graphic games designed by Sophie Cure and Aurélien Farina. They address themes specific to graphic design in addition to the previous Graphic Exploration Notebook published in 2022. From the single exercise, we move on to series, to variation. These notebooks allow one to explore, try, test, fail, fail again to start again better.In this starry notebook, a series of thirty-eight typographic constellations to be drawn with a ruler, freehand, in straight or curved lines. No text, summary in French only.
40 p, no ills, 15 x 21 cm, pb, French
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Maillages (typographic booklet)
Isbn 9782490077823
Publisher Editions B42
Idea code
€ 7.55
The collection Carnets a Jouer is a series of graphic games designed by Sophie Cure and Aurélien Farina. These notebooks allow one to explore, try, test, fail, fail again to start again better. What thread to draw between these stitches? Find paths and bring out unexpected shapes, let yourself be carried away by the movement of the waves, navigate between verticals and horizontals, follow the diagonal, fork on a circle. Fishing nets, fences, weavings, maps of lost cities, windows opening onto worlds to be invented: this notebook offers a series of thirty-one grids to color or highlight; composition supports for drawing letters, pictograms or other patterns of all stripes. No text, summary in French only.
40 p, ills colour, 15 x 21 cm, pb, French
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