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Jochen Gerner - Dogs
Isbn 9782494983038
Publisher Editions B42
Idea code 23483
€ 30.65
Dogs is a kennel of 200 drawings made by Jochen Gerner between 2021 and 2022, following his study of birds. Each of these dogs was drawn with pigmented Indian ink felt pens on small-format lined and squared school notebooks from China and India. This series of drawings follows the graphic experiment of Jochen Gerner to explore all the potentialities of the grids, lines and colours in the representation of textures and animals. Focusing on dogs, which Jochen Gerner represents in a touching and very funny multiplicity, this collection reveals us that hardly nothing is required on paper for these dogs to breathe, each of them in an outstanding singularity. Braces, squares, lozenges, waves... The colorful patterns cut and cross each other with a disconcerting, always innovative simplicity to make their hair shine and ripple. With this new bestiary holding as much of the illustration as of graphic design, Jochen Gerner invites us to a whimsical look at the world and proves us once again the singularity of his observation.
220 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 21 cm, hb, French/English
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Fashion Fictions
Isbn 9781988860176
Publisher Information Office
Idea code 23529
€ 33.30
'Fashion Fictions' accompanies a major exhibition organized by Stephanie Rebick, which surveys experimental design practices that exist at the intersection of fashion and other modes of cultural production. International in scope, the exhibition explores the increasing influence of research-based, materially driven practices on the global fashion scene, while acknowledging the proliferation of creative practices that challenge the aesthetic, material, and technological conventions of fashion. Rebick, through the title of the exhibition, references artist and technologist, Julian Bleecker’s influential essay “Design Fiction” (2009) in which he argues that the most innovative, transformative work is produced in the spaces between fact and fiction.
184 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Radical Fashion Exercises - A Workbook of Modes and Methods
Isbn 9789493246195
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 23469
€ 25.00
Over one hundred tried, tested, and speculative exercises that expand the way we look at fashion, how we are part of its system, and how we can practice fashion otherwise. 'Radical Fashion Exercises' contains a copious collection of bottom-up activities, prompts, and workshops designed by contributors, who explore fashion in an expanded field. Designers, curators, artists, educators, fashion practitioners, DIY home sewers, and other creatives responded to the book’s open call with contributions that challenge how to practice fashion and reflect on its systems, politics, and economics. The exercises collected in this book embrace interdisciplinarity, experimentation, and aesthetics and widen fashion’s horizons as a medium for expression, embodiment, and sociality.
240 p, ills bw, 22 x 15 cm, pb, English
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Planner 2024 - me & us
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Publisher Julie Joliat
Idea code 23323
€ 30.00
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. Please note that colours are supplied randomly.
192 p, ills bw, 12 x 19 cm, pb, English
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The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2022 - The Producers' Issue
Isbn 9783909928859
Publisher Federal Office Of Culture Bern
Idea code 23463
€ 33.10
A total of 400 books which appeared in 2022 were entered into the annual competition for a chance to be named among the most beautiful Swiss books. All books were judged by a new jury chaired by Sereina Rothenberger. The designers of this catalogue took inspiration from the materials and technical specifications of the winning books and in turn decontextualised them. The pages, endpapers, cover materials, and embossing acknowledge and pay tribute to specific forms of production expertise. And in her accompanying essay, Stella Carlsen provides context and perspective to her calculation of the catalogue’s carbon footprint, rather than a judgement on its production.
98 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 29 cm, hb, German/English/French/Italian
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Eye Ohashi - Sewing Box
Isbn 9784908062544
Publisher Hehe
Idea code 23428
€ 69.95
Eye Ohashi’s 'Sewing Box' was originally inspired by her mother’s sewing box, who is a sewing-lover. After taking photos of her mother’s sewing box, she continued to photograph different people’s sewing boxes. From sturdy sewing boxes that must have been passed down from generation to generation, to casual containers such as confectionery tins, simple plastic toolboxes, rattan baskets, cloth bags, and Ziploc bags — sewing box may be a small, everyday item, but the way the box is chosen, the type of tools used, and the way it is organized and stored all reflect the personality and style of the owner. These sewing boxes that have been used over the years give off a certain charm and remind us of the warmth that comes from human connection, making this photo collection strangely calming.
64 p, ills colour, 21 x 26 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Moving Pictures Painted
Isbn 9781916412187
Publisher Centrecentre
Idea code 23492
€ 42.40
'Moving Pictures Painted' celebrates a tradition of hand created Egyptian cinema posters madeusing the stone litho technique. The book will document 200 posters made between 1938 and1996. These posters are beautiful, highly accomplished, and full of unexpected style, but alsorepresent a national industry often overlooked by the west, Egyptian cinema should berecognised for its ground breaking and influential history. This never before seen collection willbe immaculately reproduced and bound into a premium production.
240 p, ills colour, 24 x 34 cm, pb, English
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Postcards from Montreal
Isbn 9789083347707
Publisher Happy Potato Press
Idea code 23465
€ 15.00
Based in Berlin, Happy Potato Press is the publishing platform of visual artist and writer Martijn in ‘t Veld. Since 2019, the imprint has been producing books, prints, and printed matter encompassing a whimsical mix of illustration, poetry, conceptual art, and children’s books. ‘Postcards from Montreal’ is a collection of poems that Martijn wrote while he was staying in Montreal for several weeks in the autumn of 2021. He sent them to family and friends to give them small glimpses of everyday life he was experiencing there. The poems were later edited and compiled for this little book.
40 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 16 cm, pb, English
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The Infinite World of Japanese Dolls: From Religious Icons to Works of Art
Isbn 9784861529146
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 23524
€ 24.85
In Japan, sculptures in the shape of humans have been made since ancient times and have existed in people's lives in various forms up to the present day. A diverse range of dolls is presented here, from cursed dolls, dolls for dolls, living dolls, mannequins to contemporary art. The exhibition introduces 100 dolls and captures aspects of Japanese 'dolls' that have lightly leapt across the boundaries of various fields.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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The Sodeisha Group: An Era Born Out of Avant-garde Ceramics
Isbn 9784861529221
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 23522
€ 30.65
The ceramic arts group known as Sodeisha (Crawling Through Mud Association) played a central role in Japan in the period following World War II. Formed in 1948 by five ceramic artists involved in the Kyoto scene – Yagi Kazuo, Kanoh Tetsuo, Yamada Hikaru, Matsui Yoshisuke, and Suzuki Osamu – at a time when the values of Japanese society had been shaken because of the country’s defeat, Sodeisha became a driving force over the next five decades, even as its membership endured successive changes. This publication examines the group’s history and activities in the period up to 1973 in detail, offering an opportunity to re-evaluate its purpose and meaning.
424 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Hato Zines 40 Distant Egghug by Peter McDonald
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Publisher Hato Press
Idea code 23466
€ 10.95
Distant Egghug is a zine by artist Peter McDonald. In this playful sequential story one of the artist’s figures, with its archetypal head halo, embraces a large amorphous object. Beginning as a tiny dot on the landscape and approaching with every turn of the page, their world is a vibrant, parallel universe onto which the viewer can project their own reality. Peter McDonald is a Japan-born artist living and working between London and Tokyo. His bold, colourful paintings examine human behaviour through scenes from modern life – from cafés and art galleries to basketball courts and carpet shops, reimagined in surreal, abstract landscapes. Humorous and always unexpected, he works with a playful approach to perspective and form.
16 p, ills colour, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Melazzini Flipbooks Special Offer Package 50 copies
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Publisher La Marca
Idea code 23542
€ 5.00
Special offer last copies - please note that the different flipbooks are supplied randomly.
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reprinted: A Collection of Canned Food Labels Made in Japan
Isbn 9784861523465
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 13020
€ 13.80
Presented in full colour within the pages of this book is an extraordinary collection of 600 labels found on food cans (fruits, vegetables, seafood, meats, snacks, etc.) from the Meiji and Showa periods. The abundant variety of fine designs and colour schemes of numerous canned food labels intended for domestic consumption and export can be enjoyed as both historical archive and inspirational design source.
350 p, ills colour, 11 x 15 cm, pb, Japanese
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