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New Titles in Design, Fashion & Popular Culture

17 July 2023

Martens - Calendar 2024 / use as sample for 2025

Isbn 9789464460384
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 23462
€ 0.00

A tear-off calendar for 2024 by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens. For each day of the year, Martens has created a unique arrangement, originally constructed using his signature method of printing letterpress monoprints from found metal forms, and then digitized to comprise 365 compositions in total. Every day is a new day!

736 p, ills colour, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English

A Magazine 25 Curated by Sacai

Isbn 9789077745298
Publisher A Magazine
Idea code 23440
€ 39.00

For its 25th issue, ‘A Magazine’ is curated by Chitose Abe, the founder and creative director of the Japanese cult fashion label Sacai, who brings together her circle of friends, family, and artistic collaborators from all over the world to deliver its sprawling content. Featuring portraits of notable persons wearing sacai creations – Rashida Jones, Julia Nobis, Shioli Kutsuna, Edison Chen, THE D SoraKi, and more – it also includes interviews with architect Sou Fujmoto and conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas. Topping it all off are food stories, a case study of the Nike x sacai collaboration, a Ghetto Gastro spotlight, Hans Ulrich Obrist’s homage to Lawrence Weiner, and much more.

200 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, English

Acid Magazine 5

Isbn
Publisher Acid Magazine
Idea code 23314
€ 30.00

In its new format, ‘Acid’ presents 26 ways to envision surfing and its milieu. Contributions include South African photographer Ricardo Simal’s portrait of the lives of young surfers from the Cape Town suburbs; pendants made by Léa Domingues, who bases her work on the historical, cultural, and material analysis of clothes, textiles, and accessories from the recent past; Gabriella Angotti-Jones shares how her early relationship with surfing culture became inextricably linked to her identity as a Black woman; Superorganic Studio’s poetic ode to the wetsuit, based on deconstructed interviews with surfers; and photography by Miguel Constantino and Tim McKenna, plus much more.

304 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English

Back Office 5: Graphic Design and Digital Practices

Isbn 9782490077915
Publisher Editions B42
Idea code 23405
€ 21.50

'Back Office' is an annual review which encompasses graphic design and digital activities. It explores the creative processes at work in the fields of contemporary media and digital practices. The fifth issue considers the increasing importance of 3-D technologies among graphic design productions. 3-D has never been as accessible as it is today, thanks to the increasing processing capacities, to the wide-spread use of open-source softwares and of “real-time” creation environments. Often limited to a search for photorealistic performance, 3-D is slow to offer a graphic language of its own. What are the effects of this trend on the reader, in cultural, cognitive, and sensitive terms? What is the relation between image and text in a simulated environment, whether figurative or abstract? This issue is an attempt to propose diverse answers, through interviews and articles, illustrated with numerous examples, taken from video games, interfaces, or movies (Terminator, Mario Kart, etc.).

144 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 28 cm, pb, French/English

LSD #03 - a DIY issue

Isbn 9782957204458
Publisher Le Signe Documents
Idea code 23455
€ 12.90

The third issue of Le Signe Design (the Cahiers of the National Graphic Design Center) is about DIY practices and is based on the work of Gilles de Brock, graphic designer who became a ceramic tile manufacturer. Do It Yourself practices are not, as is commonly assumed, limited to home improvement, nor just a way of subverting—hacking—a given social and political organization. They are also a way of looking both forward and backward, at our future and our heritage. They involve our heritage insofar as they allow constituted groups to revive past knowledge and skills threatened with extinction. They look forward in that they make it possible to create tools that do not yet exist but could. This issue is appearing in parallel with the solo exhibition retracing the career of Gilles de Brock, whose production is deeply infused with the DIY spirit. Yet his practice can't be reduced to the things he has actually made. It is part of the kind of knowledge-sharing economy proclaimed in Stewart Brand's counter-culture manifesto The Whole Earth Catalog, able to go even further today thanks to the participatory and interactive Web 2.0.

198 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 19 cm, pb, French/English

Slanted #40—Experimental Type 2.0 (extended bw reprint)

Isbn 9783948440565
Publisher Slanted Publishers
Idea code 23372
€ 21.00

Experiments are crucial for gaining experience and knowledge, and this issue of ‘Slanted’ exemplifies this by providing a glimpse into spaces that were explored by pushing conventions, limitations, and thoughts to new heights. It includes: ‘Tactile Realism’ where material properties are infused into typefaces; ‘Anti-Reader-Friendly’ typography; the disassembly and assembly of type in ‘Deliberate Imperfection & Serendipity’; ‘Coincidence & Intention’ where accidents are incorporated into the design process; the ‘Ever-Changing room’ that displays kinetic typography experiments; how writing becomes material in physical space in ‘Off the Screen’; and much more. This is a special edition reprint in black&white of issue 40.

320 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English

Norfolk Trans Joy Community Quilt Zine

Isbn
Publisher Common Threads Press
Idea code 23419
€ 7.00

Created in collaboration with the team behind the quilt, this zine features essays, interviews, and photographs from Daniel Fountain, Rowan Frewin, Alice Bigsby-Bye and Beau Brannick that document the inspiration, processes and stories that went into the Norfolk Trans Joy Community Quilt. The Norfolk Trans Joy Community Quilt consists of individual squares crafted by trans, nonbinary, gender non-conforming people, and trusted allies, expressing personal forms of joy relating to the trans experience. Initiated, organised and crafted by Norwich-based artists and activists Beau Brannick and Alice Bigsby-Bye, this community quilt responds to the onslaught of biased media, dangerous politics, and the rise in hate crimes against transgender people close to home and further afield.

28 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English

The Rainbow Book

Isbn 9788880562283
Publisher Nero
Idea code 23456
€ 30.00

'The Rainbow Book' is a collection of essays and illustrations devoted to the rainbow and color spectra, analyzing the significance of color (both physical and metaphysical) from antiquity to modern times. It covers the cultural and artistic manifestations of the rainbow: in myth, magic and paintings, as well as in prints and poems. The book includes poems by Virgil, Dante, Blake, Keats, Wordsworth, and others; paintings by Giotto, Bosch, Van der Weyden, Dürer, Rubens, Blake, Turner, Constable, and Church; and the sacred art of Tibet. The reprint of a cult book of post-1968 psychedelic culture, first published in 1975 in Berkeley, California, on the occasion of The Rainbow Show exhibition held at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

228 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 32 cm, pb, English

Street Report 3: Ding Ding (trams in Hong Kong)

Isbn 9789811868498
Publisher Temporary Press
Idea code 23409
€ 19.10

This investigation by Cathy Hang in the 'Street Report' publication series looks at the tram system of Hong Kong Island where the author grew up, which is commonly referred to as “Ding Ding”. The author observes how the tram system interacts with the architecture, the people and even with the seasons. This work attempts to share the unspoken etiquette (on the trams and on the roads) and the seemingly normal activities that happen every day around the Ding Ding.

144 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 18 cm, pb, English

Street Report 4: Seatings

Isbn 9789811868504
Publisher Temporary Press
Idea code 23410
€ 19.10

This investigation by Gideon-Jamie in the 'Street Report' publication series looks at the seatings we observe on the streets of Singapore, some of them reinforce the notion of a seat while others challenge or expand it.

144 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 18 cm, pb, English

Forming Cityscapes #9: Signage

Isbn 9789811844263
Publisher Temporary Press
Idea code 23412
€ 7.10

Photographic documentation of various signages in the streets of Singapore. Part of an ongoing project (Forming Cityscapes) by gideon-jamie.

60 p, ills bw, 13 x 19 cm, pb, English

Garment 20: Uniforms of Amsterdam

Isbn 9789090373799
Publisher AMFI
Idea code 23439
€ 18.50

The Amsterdam Fashion Institute turns the spotlight on its home city, where both those who call themselves Amsterdammers and newer migrants alike take pride in the city. It is an urban paradise known for its laid-back lifestyle, bike-filled streets, business districts, bustling art scenes, and ever-growing population. Amsterdam has a long history of connection, acceptance, and creative energy. This issue offers an introspective look at the stories that fashion can tell through the garments people choose to express themselves. How does living in this city influence what its inhabitants wear? Page after page celebrates a diverse and inclusive community bridging past and present.

136 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English

Textiles as Products of the Hands Making Them

Isbn
Publisher Tsuchiya Textile Studio
Idea code 23433
€ 33.00

Any area of technology has some sort of measure used to judge whether the producer is skilled or clumsy, and the product is of good or poor quality. With spinning yarn and weaving, skills that used to be done exclusively by hand, becoming more skilled offered advantages, such as better quality textiles able to withstand practical use as clothing or towels. The invention of spinning machinery and power looms in the 18th century and their subsequent introduction into Japan brought an end to this tradition. Interest in Japanese handiwork is reawakened in this small book through detailed descriptions of the process of making cotton towels by hand, from cultivation to final product.

72 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, Japanese/English

Adelaide Cioni - On Patterns

Isbn 9788867495764
Publisher Mousse Publishing
Idea code 23434
€ 26.90

What are patterns? How do they become rooted in our imagery? What do they tell us about ourselves and our relationship with nature, space, and infinity? These just a few of the questions that Adelaide Cioni’s ‘On Patterns’ explores. The artist investigates these themes through hand-painted fabrics and canvases, performances, spatial installations, and collaborations with dancers and musicians. Her soft and delicate shapes act as proto-signs of a universal language. Produced on the occasion of Cioni’s first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom at Mimosa House, London, the book follows five main threads in her work: nature, language, craft, abstraction, and movement.

144 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English

Future Book(s) - Sharing Ideas on Books and (Art) Publishing

Isbn 9789493246270
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 23367
€ 28.20

What is the future of the book? And, specifically, what is the future of books on art, design and architecture, and cultural-critical publications? We asked a large number of international interested individuals to respond to this question. Journalists, artists, architects, curators, translators, designers, philosophers, sociologists, teachers, book scholars, publishers, printing houses, distributors, booksellers, historians and art-historians, critics, policymakers, editors, students, and many others have enthusiastically shared their views with us, looking ahead five, twenty or seventy-two years (to the year 2100). At times utopian, wildly fantasizing, at other times with realistic scenarios, in both text and images, exciting for anyone who loves books and/or is involved in books and cultural content. Each section of this publication will be designed by various young designers, to celebrate its scope and diversity.

496 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Dutch/English

NOMA t.d. – Between Line and Pattern

Isbn 9784908062483
Publisher Hehe
Idea code 23356
€ 32.65

The apparel brand NOMA t.d. was launched in 2005 by Masako Noguchi and Takuma Sasaki. Their contemporary collection incorporates original hand-drawn textiles and traditional techniques such as printing, dyeing and embroidery encountered in and out of Japan, implementing new perspectives in them. This publication visually unfolds the trajectory of the brand: With its focus on archiving and editing, the book presents the duo’s unique philosophy of making things with vibrant, randomly-combined visuals, views of their studio and production sites, and glimpses of their creative hints.

128 p, ills colour, 16 x 21 cm, pb, Japanese/English

This is Not a Food Magazine

Isbn 9789811178153
Publisher Temporary Press
Idea code 23411
€ 15.30

A collection of essays and articles about culture and identity in Singapore through the lens of food. This compilation contains contents ranging from Zi Char menus, Home Economics curriculums, unassuming kitchen/cooking tools critical for making signature dishes, to contemplations on specific local food or recipes. There is also interesting relationships between its contents and design with many insights that might remain unnoticed if not for the author’s versatile and broad range of interests and inquiry.

100 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English

Tibetan Typeforms (pb reprint)

Isbn 9789083269221
Publisher De Buitenkant
Idea code 23443
€ 74.45

‘Tibetan Typeforms’ presents in-depth research regarding the origin, development, and typographical function of letter types in Tibetan writing, from their beginnings in 1738 to the present. Besides introducing the characteristics of Tibetan script and the chronological evolution of letter design and typographic techniques, it also offers a comparative visual and analytical investigation of the manufacture of multilingual typesets and their deployment. Multiple solutions for these typographical complexities are identified, including the placement of diacritical marks, the vertical composition of syllable ligatures, and the many glyphs to be designed. This is a new revised paperback edition of the eponymous title published in 2020.

384 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English

Alexandra Midal - The Murder Factory, Life and Work of H. H. Holmes, First American Serial Killer

Isbn 9783956795435
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23389
€ 15.00

In 1896, at the age of 35, Henry Howard Holmes, whose real name was Herman Webster Mudgett, became the first serial killer in the United States to confess to dozens of crimes. To quietly carry out his activities, he built a building in Chicago so vast that his neighbours called it the “Château”. Lethal, practical, and comfortable, the building was equipped with the latest innovations. It was just but a stone’s throw from one of the most sophisticated slaughterhouses in the world. A rational, cosy masterpiece of crime dressed in slippers, Holmes’s project, a designer of the extreme, fits perfectly into the functionalist project of the modern world.

96 p, no ills, 13 x 18 cm, pb, English

Trick Glasses - Devious Drinking Devices

Isbn 9789462087736
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 23370
€ 49.95

Delve into the world of Renaissance trick glasses with glass expert, Kitty Laméris and glass artist, Marc Barreda. Drawing from their extensive research on the subject, the authors explore the history, designs, and use of trick glasses that captivated Europe from the end of the 16th century. These cleverly crafted glasses were created for various drinking games, promoting a sense of togetherness, providing amusement, and encouraging inebriation. The glasses served as symbols of the creators' skills and the owners' wealth and status. Their ingenious designs made them technical masterpieces, showcasing the height of glassblowing capabilities of the time.

328 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 30 cm, hb, English

Vietnam War 7

Isbn 9784846532901
Publisher World Photo Press
Idea code 23358
€ 27.15

Delving into the stories, interviews, memorabilia, illustrations, and images about the Vietnam War, this seventh volume includes the essays such as ‘War Baby: Lulling a war baby in the battlefield, Saigon 1968’, ‘Tiger Stripe in Nam’, ‘Battle Proof’, the evolution of the military bag in ‘The Change of a Military Bag’, and more. Expect manga illustrations detailing weapons, accessories, ammunition carriers, canteens, rations, combat uniforms, rucksacks, and footwear. Also included are powerful illustrations from the artists who were dispatched to Vietnam with the soldiers, drawing what they observed as a part of the US Army’s ‘Vietnam Combat Artists Program'.

286 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese

E IL TOPO. History of an artists’ magazine with an unusual editorial strategy.

Isbn 9791281232020
Publisher a+mbookstore Edizioni
Idea code 23396
€ 81.70

The publishing project E IL TOPO reconstructs the evolution and achievements of the artists’ magazine of the same title, produced from 1992 to 1996, and then from 2012 to the present. It is composed of a boxed set containing two volumes, as well as eight artists’ posters. The first volume is the anastatic reprint of all 33 issues of the magazine, in the original size. The second volume reconstructs the conceptual matrix that has given rise to this unique example of independent and collaborative publishing, with essays by Anna Cuomo, Françoise Lonardoni, and Giorgio Verzotti. The magazine E IL TOPO was founded by Gabriele Di Matteo and Franco Silvestro together with Armando della Vittoria, Piero Gatto and vedova Mazzei, in Naples in 1992, but its editorial team has always been international, transgenerational and anti-hierarchical. Over the years, the group has been composed of about 20 individuals, in a fluid configuration that has brought together different artists and authors, in many cases for work on specific projects and exchanges: Stefano Arienti, Massimo Bartolini, Vanessa Beecroft, Maurizio Cattelan, Mark Dion, Jimmie Durham, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, John Lurie, Eva Marisaldi, Miltos Manetas, Amedeo Martegani, Cesare Viel, Luca Vitone, among others. The unusual editorial strategy resides, for the most part, in the intrinsic power of discontinuity of meaning, but also of play, irony and détournement. E IL TOPO is still an international “movement” today, transmitting a libertarian attitude whose modus operandi tolerates no preset roles, but is always open to multidisciplinary and multi-authorial contributions.

928 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, Italian/English

Erik Kessels - Ashtray Hooray

Isbn 9789070478551
Publisher Kesselskramer
Idea code 23385
€ 35.00

At times smoking inside was very normal, cafés, companies, and other commercial parties catered to the enormous need to put out cigarettes in their own specific style. By producing DIY ashtrays, as a gift for perhaps employees, clients or just for decorative purposes. In their pride, however, they seemed to have overlooked one specific characteristic: their beloved company, bar or organisation’s portrait is at the bottom of the ashtray and is perpetually harassed by burning cigarette buds – a strange type of tribute. ASHTRAY HOORAY shows and celebrates a large overview of these vernacular photography-based ashtrays.

48 p, ills colour, 23 x 33 cm, pb, English


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