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The World Is On Fire But We’re Still Buying Shoes
Isbn 9781736667613
Publisher Alec Leach
Idea code 23590
€ 15.30
We know fashion is bad for the planet, so why are we still shopping? As a former fashion editor for streetwear publication Highsnobiety and the founder of sustainable fashion platform @future__dust, Alec Leach feels like he is in a good place to figure that out. He wrote this book to explain why we love to shop so much, how fashion keeps us hungry for more, and the tricks it plays to cover up its true impact on the planet. It's a journey touching on consumerism, sneaker hype, greenwashing, Karl Marx, mindfulness and everything in between. The result is a manifesto for a slower, more intentional approach to fashion, one that redefines what shopping is - and what it isn't.
144 p, no ills, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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The Best Dutch Book Designs 2022 / De Best Verzorgde Boeken 2022
Isbn 9789083173832
Publisher CPNB
Idea code 23617
€ 35.00
The catalogue The Best Dutch Book Designs 2022 was designed by Akiko Wakabayashi, who has given form to the jury report on the 33 Best Dutch Book Designs of 2022. Alongside an introduction discussing developments and trends from the past year, the catalogue contains an ode to the book written by artist Natasja Kensmil. The catalogue is completed by a detailed technical specification of each book. Each year, the selection is exhibited in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and a number of other venues in and outside of the Netherlands.
284 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 24 cm, pb, English/Dutch
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Kustaa Saksi: Cosmos
Isbn 9789527222164
Publisher Garret Publications
Idea code 23624
€ 40.75
Kustaa Saksi has created a unique visual style. Saksi traces recurring patterns of the world by observing natural phenomena, human sensory experiences, and the art and artifacts our culture has produced. With his art he has fabricated his own cosmos, one that is ever growing and expanding. The word cosmos, meaning the universe, is derived from the Greek kosméo, which is linked to expressing an order and arrangement of a particular world with decoration and ornamentation. The very idea of cosmos is at the heart of a designer’s or an artist’s work that aims to create and inhabit a world of its own. 'Cosmos' looks back at an important chapter in Saksi's career – his textile art, made between 2012–2023. In his tapestries, he takes us on a journey through transitional, eerie spaces that emerge between the imagined and the real, sleep and wakefulness, madness and sanity.
192 p, ills colour, 20 x 25 cm, hb, English
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Purple 40: The Revolutions Issue
Isbn 17668832
Publisher Purple Institute
Idea code 23569
€ 41.60
Purple Magazine's Revolution Issue is filled with stories infused with the love for change and alternative solutions and yet full of heartache as regression and inequalities rise. While Alain Badiou delves on the possibility of the impossible, Evgeny Morozov uncovers the dangers of AI, Byung-Chul Han reflects on its possibilities and limitations, Bayo Akomolafe talks climate collapse and Daniel Pinchbeck interviews Douglas Rushkoff on the impact of The Digital. With further contributions by Cindy Sherman, Carsten Höller, Merlin Sheldrake, Bernardo Kastrup, Isa Genzken, Harmony Korine and many others.
494 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 33 cm, hb, English
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Science of the Secondary 14: T-shirt
Isbn 9789811866852
Publisher Atelier Hoko
Idea code 23819
€ 18.70
"What happens when a plain T-shirt is worn? What kind of hyper-awareness is produced in the wearer? How are the sensory organs roused and poised to ensure that no foreign substances of any form shall stain the pristine white fabric of the plain T-shirt? While some will find this super-sensitivity brought on by a humble piece of clothing refreshing, others consider it unnecessary paranoia and would rather not wear plain, light-coloured T-shirts at all. Those who do have probably come to terms with the fact that with great plain-ness, comes great responsibility..."
60 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 25 cm, pb, English
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Commons in Design
Isbn 9789493246300
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 23550
€ 29.50
The scarcity of resources, climate change, and the digitalization of everyday life are fuelling the economy of swapping, sharing, and lending—all of which are in some way linked to a culture of commoning. In this context, we understand commons as community-based processes that use, collectively manage, and organize generally accessible resources—referring to both goods and knowledge. Commons in Design explores the meaning and impact of commons—especially knowledge-based peer commons—and acts of commoning in design. It discusses networked, participatory, and open procedures based on the commons and commoning, testing models that negotiate the use of commons within design processes. In doing so, it critically engages with questions regarding designers’ positionings, everyday practices, self-understandings, ways of working, and approaches to education.
352 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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The City Is Ours #4: Torn Posters
Isbn 9789526878492
Publisher Other Editions
Idea code 23563
€ 20.00
Ever notice how those eye-catching ads, posters, and flyers plastered all over our cities gradually transform as they’re torn down? What’s left is often an abstract image, inviting us to find our own meaning. In the late 1940s, artists like Mimmo Rotella, Raymond Hains, and Jacques Villeglé recognized the potential in these fragments, revealing the beauty of ripped posters through their works. But can we truly appreciate these unintentional expressions in our everyday streetscape? Can we uncover their hidden stories and artistic potentials? With contributions by Barton Lewis, El Tono, Guido Bollino, James Dyer, Nick Deakin, Poster Boy, Klara Lidén, Mimmo Rotella and many more.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Fortytwomagazine #6 Beliefs
Isbn 9783948440510
Publisher Slanted Publishers
Idea code 23556
€ 18.00
fortytwomagazine is a gateway to a world of wonder and knowledge, providing 10 perspectives on relevant topics of our time through insights from leading scientists worldwide. The mission is to ignite curiosity, stimulate conversations, and promote a deeper understanding of the world we live in. In this issue, the magazine gathers ten intriguing perspectives on the topic of beliefs, from the micro to the macro perspective. Whether exploring the impact of language on our beliefs, the role of beliefs in global politics, or the function of beliefs in everyday interactions, no stone is left unturned. The issue features interviews with renowned experts from a variety of disciplines such as inter religious studies, neuroscience, economics, social psychology, and more. Gathering bits and pieces to better understand the world around you.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, 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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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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Formulating Fake Futures: The Tomorrow Through the Filters of a Computational Network
Isbn 9789491444999
Publisher Artez Press
Idea code 23509
€ 14.95
Launching the series 'ArtEZ Press Essay Issues', this first instalment features feminist Nishant Shah, who argues that the idea of a future in crisis and future as fake pervades almost all our global and immediate dialogues. Whether it is climate change deniers, flat Earth advocates, anti-vaxxers, incels, men’s rights advocates, neo-Nazi supporters, or fascist states eroding democracy, these two aspects link them all together. However, if fake is not an absolute category and not an inquiry into the ontology of things, then perhaps we need to ask new kinds of questions, shifting our focus from whether things are fake or not to the ways in which we make space for various types of fake dogma.
48 , ills colour, 15 x 22 cm, map, English
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Design by Accident - For a New History of Design (reprint)
Isbn 9783956791437
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23553
€ 22.00
In 'Design by Accident', Alexandra Midal declares the autonomy of design—in and on its own terms. This meticulously researched work proposes not only a counterhistory but a new historiography of design, shedding light on overlooked historical landmarks and figures while reevaluating the legacies of design’s established luminaries from the nineteenth century to the present. Midal rejects both linear narratives of progress and the long-held perception of design as a footnote to the histories of fine art and architecture. By weaving together critical analysis of the canon of design history and theory, with special attention to the writings of designers themselves, she draws out the nuances and radical potentials of the discipline—from William Morris’s ambivalence toward industry, to Catharine Beecher’s proto-feminist household appliances, to the Bauhaus’s Expressionist origins and the influence of Herbert Marcuse on Joe Colombo.
408 p, no ills, 11 x 20 cm, pb, English
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HistoricALL! A collective rewriting of design history
Isbn 9789493148956
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 23580
€ 8.00
'HistoricAll!' presents collective and individual works by 27 participants made during a series of workshops by curators, design practitioners, and researchers who facilitated alternative ways of speaking and thinking about design history. Claiming that design history should be open to ALL implies a more inclusive, less institutional structure in the modalities in which design history is discussed and eventually made public. It suggests the need to include a plurality of voices in the discourse.
36 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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