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Karel Martens - Small Prints
Isbn 9789464460377
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 23290
€ 28.00
This artist’s publication contains a sequence of unique letterpress monoprints, made by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens between 2014 and 2022. The prints, which are both highly geometric and brightly coloured, are reproduced in the book at their actual size. Textual elements accent the various abstract shapes and repetitions on almost every page. ‘Small Prints’ is available in two different cover versions, which itself is the result of a printing experiment. By printing the contents of the book in three layers on a single print sheet, which was then cut and folded, variations in the cover emerged.
48 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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MacGuffin 12: The Log
Isbn 24058203
Publisher Macguffin
Idea code 23312
€ 22.35
‘The Log’ takes a walk in the woods to explore the design and politics of timber. From the last Norwegian trunks that floated down the Glomma to the indigenous logs that help map the Amazon, and from Jamaican lacebark trees to online chatbots, meet the logs that function as totems, design tools, oracles, wormholes, comic figures, activist artworks, village idiots, prison cells, logbooks, nightmares, and dreams. With contributions by James Beckett, José Bessa Freire, Khaled Jarrar, Emily King, Eliot Haworth, Rudy Guedj, Ellef Prestsæter, Olga Prader, Formafantasma, Santídio Pereira, SulSolSal, Max Lamb, Kai Lobjakas, Lou-Lou van Staaveren, and many, many more.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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The Neubad Plakat - A Contemporary Design Phenomenon
Isbn 9783948440497
Publisher Slanted Publishers
Idea code 23321
€ 28.00
In the Swiss province, at the foot of picturesque mountains, on a quiet lake, a biotope of avant-garde design has formed. The self-proclaimed “Poster Town” Lucerne has managed to merge the boundaries between art and design, creating a contemporary design phenomenon in the process. We are talking about the posters for the Neubad Cultural Center, which havelong since found their way out of the valley and all over the world. The posters, in minimalist black and white, not only set contemporary design trends, but playfully transcend the boundaries of our perceptual habits. Progressive illustration and experimental typography create subcultural codes on a highly cultural level that remain unpretentious despite their artistic daring. The Neubad Poster is an aesthetic phenomenon and an expression of a social change that has always been expressed in fashion, music, design— in other words, in the zeitgeist. The book as a collection of curated pieces that in itself formulated a new expression of this emerged aesthetic.
600 p, ills bw, 12 x 16 cm, hb, German/English
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Tomihiro Kono | Sayaka Maruyama - Fancy Creatures
Isbn 9780998620565
Publisher Konomad Editions
Idea code 23307
€ 99.40
In folklore and mythology spanning continents, cultures, and eras we find stories of shapeshifting creatures. They reflect humanity’s ancient impulse towards interspecies melding, seen in the earliest pictorial representations of humanoid figures with animal traits. Tomihiro Kono has long been exploring hair as his creative medium, and he is best known for his unconventional artistic wigs. His most recent series, presented in this book, follow these transcendent tendencies – imaginary hybrid beings inspired by various organisms on Earth, from deep sea creatures and furry moss to endangered moths. With photography and illustration design by Sayaka Maruyama.
366 p, ills colour, 15 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Nathalie Du Pasquier - Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing
Isbn 9782902565535
Publisher Fotokino
Idea code 23266
€ 17.20
Nathalie Du Pasquier constructed this book as she constructs her paintings: blocks of colour are assembled, supported, and opposed, forming chromatic architectures to accompany a new series of pencil drawings. As if placed on a table or a shelf, they evoke everyday objects (vases, books, boxes) and urban landscapes. Entirely conceived by Du Pasquier, this publication is part of an evolution of her work that, from her beginnings in the Memphis group to her most recent output, has slowly shifted her practice from design to painting, from object to abstraction. Today, after 40 years of creation, she deliberately plays with all these registers to create a language that belongs to her alone.
24 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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What is post-branding? How to Counter Fundamentalist Marketplace Semiotics
Isbn 9789083270678
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 23350
€ 22.00
Part design experiment, part critical theory, and part how-to manual, ‘What is Post-Branding?’ introduces a creative counter to the neoliberal orthodoxy of branding. Conceived and written by Dr Oliver Vodeb - an extra-disciplinary designer, critical theorist, and educator active in Melbourne - and Jason Grant - a designer and co-founder of Inkahoots Design - the book empowers a better design of public communication for civic and activist groups by replacing corporate branding’s predatory principles with a new set of strategies embedded in a new culture of craft – a new way for relating with the world. The graphic design is by Jason Grant, co-founder of Inkahoots Design, an Australian studio recognized for its creative advocacy and activism.
260 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Laurent Millet - À Peu près Euclide
Isbn 9782902565511
Publisher Fotokino
Idea code 23291
€ 17.20
Laurent Millet offers a graphic and chromatic exploration of the language of Oliver Byrne, author of an 1850 treatise celebrating the marriage of art and science. From making models to creating photographic prints with gum bichromate, which gives them a graphic quality that is difficult to parse, Millet summons the vocabularies of both the 20th-century avant-gardes and the Memphis movement. Observations, architectures, measuring devices, tools, and models are recurrent in his work, contributing to the construction of what the artist calls a “measured reverie”. The book is an unbound portfolio whose pages, slipped into a pocket, adapt to the format of the 21 photographs.
20 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Nasser Road – Political Posters in Uganda
Isbn 9789492051929
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 23308
€ 25.00
Anything can be produced and sold along Nasser Road in Kampala, from university degrees to fake identity cards. But one of its main products is posters portraying heads of state and dictators as superpowered fighters – highly charged geopolitical depictions of the struggle against Western imperialism, in which international villains are celebrated as anti-heroes. The United States, Russia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, North Korea, China, and various African nations are all players in a glorified military-industrial complex. Collector Kristof Titeca presents a selection of posters, with contextual images by Ugandan photographers and an essay by activist Yusuf Serunkuma.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Graphic Design in the Post-Digital Age (reprint)
Isbn 9789083270692
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 23295
€ 27.00
Graphic Design in the Post-Digital Age examines the challenges and opportunities in the wake of the rapid rise of creative coding within a growing community of designers opting to make their own design tools. This comprehensive overview covers educational approaches in design programs and the historic and economic contexts of programming in graphic design, as well as the implications surrounding the integration of coding with design. The book includes over twenty interviews in which major figures in design reflect upon the ways in which coding has innovated and transformed their design practice and strategies, and the directions it will take in the future.
608 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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No Dandy, No Fun - Gutaussehend in den Untergang (German)
Isbn 9781915609168
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code
€ 18.00
Im Zerfall der alten Ordnung beansprucht der Dandy kein vorbildliches Leben. Er verteidigt keinen Besitz und keine Privilegien. Verteilungskämpfe findet er degoutant. Jede Art von Krieg, auch jener für die Freiheit, scheint dem Dandy eine Angelegenheit der Unterbelichteten, die nicht begreifen, dass der einzige Zweck der Uniform darin liegt, gut auszusehen. Als Asket steht er für weniger von allem und gegen jene Behauptungen des Neuen, die selten mehr als ein Produkt meinen. Der Dandy fragt nicht, wie er leben will, er lebt, wenn auch mit melancholischem Gesicht. Er maßt sich keine Lösungen an, erklärt auch nichts für falsch, da er gar nichts erklärt. Er spielt einfach anders. Der Essay folgt den Spuren dieses Maskenballs zwischen Darstellungen des gelebten Lebens, literarischen Vorzeichnungen und Vorstellungen in der bildenden Kunst hinein in die Gegenwart. Er sichtet Taktiken, um in einer Zeit des Übergangs selbstbestimmter auf die Zukunft zuzugehen.
240 p, ills bw, 12 x 18 cm, pb, German
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Some Magazine #16 Action
Isbn 9783948440503
Publisher Slanted Publishers
Idea code 23285
€ 12.00
What unites us? Since humans first formed communities, they have been thinking about what can be achieved better, faster, and easier together instead of alone. So the idea of collaboration is nothing new, we are herd creatures. In art, design, and culture, the collaborative is also a tried and tested approach. Last but not least, shared suffering is also half suffering. However, it is not only work and profit that are being shared, authorship is also transferred from the individual to the community. The editorial team of Some Magazine #15—Together talked to very different artists and designers about their strategies and attitudes towards sharing. They found surprising new paths and unusual perspectives. But above all, the research for this issue left the editorial team with the deep conviction that the big questions, problems, and crises of our time can certainly only be overcome together—not alone. In this issue: Albrecht / Wilke, Na Kim, Studio Pandan, Josh Kern, Solitype, Maxim Brandt, Zongbo Jiang, and Clara Vastano.
82 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Tainted Love
Isbn 9783956796586
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23274
€ 16.00
Titled after Soft Cell's version of the original 1965 Gloria Jones track, Tainted Love is the first book-length inquiry into the subject of the twisted romantic ballad, giving a sense of both its history and contemporary currency. Sometimes extreme, this twist to the conventional romantic ballad spans across gender and generational boundaries to subvert our understanding of both the genre's function and its behavior. Each chapter of Tainted Love explores a single twisted ballad in depth, examining both its inner workings—lyrics, melody, and vocal approach—and its broader cultural resonance. The analysis developed in the chapters turns on the question: what compels songwriters to compose—and us to listen to—these warped songs?
96 p, ills bw, 12 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Yearbook of Type #6 2022/23 – Movie Edition
Isbn 9783948440411
Publisher Slanted Publishers
Idea code 23265
€ 45.00
The »Yearbook of Type« is a collection of the latest published typefaces that helps you find the one—from a browse through the book, or quick look in the index that neatly sorts typefaces by class, designers, and foundries. Each font and font family is presented on a double page. On the left page, the font is applied; inspired by this year’s theme of film and drama. To the right, the typeface is described in detail; with all its features, as well as information about the designers and foundries. A complementary online microsite features all fonts with direct links to respective foundries and purchasing options.
504 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Hato Zines 37: Breakfast Food for Dinner by Haydée Touitou
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Publisher Hato Press
Idea code 23239
€ 10.95
Breakfast Food for Dinner is a collection of poems about food and feelings by Paris-based writer and translator Haydée Touitou. Her poetry catches the satisfying moments that usually pass in an instant, slowing them down and savouring them. Haydée Touitou is an author and translator who began experimenting with poetry in 2019, and work has since appeared in multiple publications. Defining her writing as dumb poetry, Haydée views literature as amusingly incoherent. Please note this item comes in 2 colourways, and you will receive a random colour.
16 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Bezoar Delinqxenz
Isbn 9783956796531
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23240
€ 16.00
Taking off along the grotesque evolutionary curve of the internet, this novel by Mochu brings together Japanese Otaku subcultures, Hindu mythology, darknet highways, ultraviolent cyberpunk forums, and renegade university departments to forge a transnational narrative that trips through the incompatible fantasies of rationality and civilization, with wormholes through ancient tales, recent cinema, plain-wrong art histories, and pirated philosophical reflections. Reactionary behavior on the internet, having spawned numerous retroactive origin stories for itself, takes on a tentacular presence across diverse political spectrums, time periods, and cultural contexts, giving the impression of a vast and tangled entity with distributed intelligence. Fatally fused by a common hatred for the legacies of the Enlightenment, popular manifestations go by terms like “alt-right” and “neo-reaction,” powered by nerdy forums and blog posts across the web. Stationing conspiracy theory itself as the central form of thinking, acting, and concept-making in the twenty-first century, Bezoar Delinqxenz is a mixtape simulation of these entanglements at the borderlands of fiction, insanity, and political emancipation.
104 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Chika Higashi / Coci la elle – Umbrella Elements
Isbn 9784908062452
Publisher Hehe
Idea code 23229
€ 102.30
Parasol artist Chika Higashi started the one and only umbrella shop “Coci la elle” in 2010. The shop came to an end in August 2022. All parasols were like art pieces — each of them was unique, drawn directly on the parasol with white fabric without any underdrawing, and each handle and button were finished one by one. Gradually, Higashi began to draw, experiment with different printing techniques and produce fabrics for umbrellas and umbrella parasols that can be mass-produced. This book contains approximately 130 paintings selected from more than 200 drawings Higashi made over the past 12 years — not only for umbrellas but also for book illustrations, posters, packages, fabrics and accessories. Her joy of drawing is freely captured on each page.
178 p, ills colour, 21 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese
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Hato Zines 33: Some Nights Are Quieter Than Others by Raysa Fontana
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Publisher Hato Press
Idea code 23235
€ 10.95
'Some Nights are Quieter Than Others' is a dreamy peek into the restless nighttime brain of Brazilian artist Raysa Fontana, whose works are infused with a love of colours, exploring the human heart with stories that fluctuate between humour and tenderness.
16 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Giancarlo Iliprandi. The graphic designer's eye for photography
Isbn 9788875709648
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 23190
€ 63.15
Giancarlo Iliprandi (1925-2016), one of the leading figures in graphic design in Italy, did more than just work with photographers and photography: his gaze was naturally photographic. This volume shows us the universe of this experimenter and designer through his eyes as a graphic designer, art director and photographer. The ties between graphic design and photography have been an essential issue in the communication project since its foundational period. Giancarlo Iliprandi. The graphic designer’s eye for photography - a volume promoted by the Archivio del Moderno of the Università della Svizzera italiana with the collaboration of the Politecnico di Milano and the Giancarlo Iliprandi Association - brings together a series of testimonies by the great designer that help to grasp his design approach aimed at graphics for visual communication, always in dialogue with photography, publishing and advertising. The volume is enriched by an extensive iconographic documentation taken from Iliprandi's professional archive, from which emerge the still relevant signs of his page design, where each project is an encounter, incessant experimentation and an unrepeatable vision.
304 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 25 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Posters Can Help
Isbn 9783948440435
Publisher Slanted Publishers
Idea code 23183
€ 30.00
Global dramas can lead us to question our own credibility and the significance of our own lives and/or actions. Recent events in Ukraine have led the Slanted team to ask “What is our work really for?” Can we accelerate the transition to a sustainable, fair, and just society through the power of design? With a global call, Slanted invited the design community to contribute with a piece of work and a donation. More than 400 people from all over the world participated in this project, with almost 700 posters submitted.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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The Redstone Diary 2024: The Family Diary
Isbn 9781739597603
Publisher Redstone Press
Idea code 23217
€ 16.50
The Redstone Diary for 2024 delves into the topic of family. Family is an evergreen subject for artists, writers, singers, therapists, and psychoanalysts, and perhaps the most enigmatic part of our everyday lives. The bonds of family cannot be escaped, and they are explored in a collection of texts selected by Julian Barnes, from writers such as Willa Cather, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Philip Roth. Also included are disturbing imagery of fatherhood from Paula Rego, Frida Kahlo’s reimagining of her genealogy, as well as John Lennon’s heartfelt lyrics to his absent mother.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 26 cm, pb, English
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