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Slanted #42 - Books
Isbn 9783948440558
Publisher Slanted Publishers
Idea code 23679
€ 22.00
Slanted #42—BOOKS is an issue about books. Every day we wonder if the future of the (printed) book is tied to its sensual quality? How can beautiful books secure their place in the media and society? How are content, medium, and form connected? Is manufacturing and design quality, in addition to its functionality, just to be understood as a marketing argument?In this issue Slanted presents experimental design strategies—books that go unconventional ways—in contrast to classical books. They are looking for accidents, work that is based on mistakes and inaccuracy, cutting edge approaches, as well as new experimental procedures, from processing to AI-generated content. In opposition, it presents timeless book designs, where content dictates form.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Typobiography - Jost Hochuli, The Work of 60 Years
Isbn 9782494983052
Publisher Éditions B42
Idea code 23734
€ 38.70
'Typobiography' is a visual monograph, which develops the questions that have guided Jost Hochuli’s practice over his six-decade career in several thematic sections, in particular his conception of design as an essential factor in the legibility of a text and the transmission of knowledge. Each part is abundantly illustrated with works specifically digitised and displayed in a layout designed by Hochuli himself, to create a reference for the designer’s work. Bringing together several texts by Jost Hochuli himself, contributions by well- known figures (including a preface by John Morgan and an interview with Robin Kinross) and a corpus of previously unpublished archival images, this monograph aims to raise interest in book design, and especially the inspirations and personalities that marked out the designer’s career.
200 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 25 cm, pb, English
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The Crafts of Fashion vol 1: Sources
Isbn 9782494983069
Publisher Éditions B42
Idea code 23747
€ 32.50
'The Crafts of Fashion: Sources' deals with a range of issues relating to crafts in fashion design, and this first volume focuses specifically on the crucial question of sources. While fashion encompasses a vast array of trades and actors, and just as many singular histories, how can we think about this object of study when faced with the diversity of the practices that make it up? Plaiters, tailors, embroiderers and other model-makers, often anonymous, animate the worlds of fashion and their technical cultures. This volume looks at the existing anthropological and historical traditions in this field, but also questions the current methodological innovations that enable us to grasp this dynamic, little-explored field of research. Émilie Hammen brings together voices that help us to better understand what unites these multiple ways of making fashion and passing on their savoir- faire.
232 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 25 cm, hb, English
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Latent Figures
Isbn 9783948440664
Publisher Slanted Publishers
Idea code 23765
€ 34.00
Jannis Maroscheck’s new book 'Latent Figures' explores the concept of creativity and design in the context of machine-generated graphic shapes. It delves into the idea that the words of our language and the visual signs we use have inherent limitations that constrain what we can express. In essence, Jannis Maroscheck’s book delves into the fusion of human and machine creativity, challenging our understanding of design and the boundaries of form and meaning. It encourages readers to contemplate the creative possibilities that emerge when traditional design principles are reframed through the lens of technology and automation.
224 p, ills bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Alberto Vieceli - Pet Sounds
Isbn 9783907384084
Publisher Everyedition
Idea code 23735
€ 40.85
Without any musical ordering principle, the collection of record covers presented in this book have just one thing in common: they are pictures of people and animals. Many show the musicians with their pets, giving the record sleeves a biographical and personal aspect. The special relationship between the protagonists in these photographs is also apparent in their body language, as humans and animals are often shown in an “embrace” or physically close to each other. Nowadays, it is increasingly clear that humans are not autonomous beings, but defined by their relationship to other non-human creatures. Is that perhaps why these pictures touch us so strongly?
320 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, English
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What Design Can’t Do – Essays on Design and Disillusion
Isbn 9789083350134
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 23790
€ 22.00
Design is broken. Young and not-so-young designers are becoming increasingly aware of this. Many feel impotent: they were told they had the tools to make the world a better place, but instead the world takes its toll on them. Beyond a haze of hype and bold claims lies a barren land of self-doubt and impostor syndrome. This book probes the disillusionment that permeates design. It tackles the deskilling effects provoked by digital semi-automation, the instances of ornamental politics fashioned to please the museum-educational complex, the nebulous promises of design schools. While reviving historical expressions of disenchantment, Silvio Lorusso examines present-day memes and social media rants. To depict this disheartening crisis, he crafts a new critical vocabulary for readers to build upon. What this exposé reveals is both worrying and refreshing: rather than producing a meaningful order, design might be just about inhabiting chaos.
352 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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The New Era Agenda
Isbn 9789189270701
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 23579
€ 22.60
The New Era Agenda is a companion publication to the Scandinavian interiors title The New Era Magazine. Published as an annual special edition paperback, it fuses previously published homes and studio visits with brand new content and ideas. On 320 pages readers get invited to homes and studios of architects, makers, artists and designers shaping our visual and material culture. In the first volume we visit the legendary Paimio Sanatorium, designed by Aino and Alvar Aalto, and the home of designer and maker Fredrik Paulsen. Creative force Ana Kraš invites us to her Paris home, and the interior architect Emanuele Stamuli takes us on a tour of his home and studio in Stockholm. We discuss making with Philippe Malouin and new aesthetics with Formafantasma, and we visit the designer Ilse Crawford. We also take a look at the new undercurrents shaping the Nordic design scene.
320 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 16 cm, pb, English
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Pleasant Place 4: Artichoke (Cynara cardunculus var. Scolymus)
Isbn 9789083284330
Publisher Pleasant Place
Idea code 23758
€ 12.00
'Pleasant Place' is a growing collection of publications about the art of gardening, offering both practical and in-depth information on everyday garden tasks and garden design. The fourth issue is all about the Artichoke (Cynara cardunculus var. Scolymus), a monumental perennial thistle that deserves a place in both gardens and kitchens alike. This issue includes a botanical introduction, an overview of artichokes in art history, six artists interpretation of artichoke finials, a visual essay on cultivating artichokes in Niscemi (IT) and international artichoke recipes. As always, a set of garden miniatures can be found in the centerfold.
44 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Complete Autonomic Tarot
Isbn 9781914236372
Publisher Rough Trade Books
Idea code 23737
€ 36.50
'Complete Autonomic Tarot' is the product of a collaboration between writer David Keenan and artist Sophy Hollington. Autonomic Tarot was originally produced by Rough Trade Books from the pen of writer David Keenan and the linocut blade of artist Sophy Hollington. The first edition contained a 30-card deck and instruction booklet accompanying Keenan’s novella 'To Run Wild In It'. The pair have again combined to create this newly expanded full deck in a larger sized format now featuring all 78 cards and an updated guide reflecting the new additions.
78 cards, ills colour & bw, 8 x 14 cm, box, English
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Cone Wars
Isbn 9789526528601
Publisher Other Editions
Idea code 23749
€ 28.00
Who would have thought that a simple cone-shaped marker could have such a rich and mysterious history? These seemingly ordinary objects, known by various names such as road cones, safety cones, or construction cones, hold secrets waiting to be unravelled. From ancient civilisations to modern-day innovations, with a mix of history, curiosity, and a touch of surrealism, this book takes you on a journey that blurs the lines between reality and imagination. Halfway between an art project and a visual essay, SerraGlia aims to encourage us to remain vigilant to our surroundings: how can we critically observe and evaluate what we encounter every day? The book includes also an original essay by Dr. Everett Konemann, PhD, Professor of Traffic Studies and Human Behavior at Coney Island University.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Graduation 2023 Design Academy Eindhoven
Isbn 9789491400506
Publisher Design Academy Eindhoven
Idea code 23736
€ 45.00
The 2023 graduation catalogue documents both BA and MA students and is supplemented with a “Community Glossary” which helps readers to navigate the more than 200 projects. Each graduate was asked to share three words that describe their project, with the possibility to also use non-English words and expressions. It also works as an infographic, as the reader can see how many graduates chose the same or similar words. The catalogue is designed by the Rotterdam-based collective whywhynot, which specifically highlighted the school’s community by making it more inclusive and by visualising the fluid connections between individual and collective actors within the academy.
512 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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No Dandy, No Fun - Looking Good as Things Fall Apart
Isbn 9783956795619
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23725
€ 18.00
No sooner had the first Dandy entered the scene at the beginning of the nineteenth century than he was declared dead. This enigmatic yet immediately iconic figure would remake an entrance again and again in the decades that followed. Like an elegant harbinger, a Dandy arrives in times of crisis when societies are undergoing transformation. Like the hands of a clock, their silhouettes become messengers of change. But they are contours of change that carry no message. While everything is already in flames, they debate the shape of their shoes and sip oysters to combat their depression. For a long time, literature was their playing field. Marcel Duchamp transferred their attitude into the realm art. It is there that Dandyism has to this day run rampant--but as if it were an embarrassing illness to which almost no one wants to admit, yet with which many people are tempted to at least flirt. This essay traces out the masked ball of the Dandy and his manner of playing with its rules up to the present day, and produces a unique narrative from it—one that offers a view into the future.
232 p, ills bw, 12 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Couples
Isbn 9789077050569
Publisher Koos Staal
Idea code 23686
€ 25.00
‘Couples’ embraces the magic of graphic design, in particular its usefulness, wealth, and display of creativity on many levels. Specifically, the book focuses on male/female pictograms and how designers create visual solutions in response to everyday situations and choices. The pairs of pictograms collected and compiled by graphic designer Koos Staal perfectly illustrate the notion that there are many different solutions to every problem. In this creative freedom lies not only the strength and power of design but also the fun of it. ‘Couples’ is published to mark the conclusion of Staal’s professional career as an independent graphic designer, which was launched in 1975.
92 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 21 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Tala Silver – Swedish contemporary artistic silver and goldsmithing
Isbn 9789189270732
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 23729
€ 31.20
Tala Silver (Speak Silver), published in conjunction with Nutida Svenskt Silver’s 60th anniversary, gives us a glimpse of the member smiths’ practices, and places contemporary artistic silver and goldsmithing in a wider social, cultural and political context. Nutida Svenskt Silver is a non-profit organisation that promotes the development of artistic silver and goldsmithing in Sweden. The book contains four essays that deal with artistic silver and goldsmithing, as well as jewellery and corpus, from different perspectives – as vehicles for contemporary commentary and exploration, as craft from an art historical point of view, and, of course, as a livelihood. The rest of the book is devoted to a presentation of Nutida’s member smiths – highly competent artists with exceptional craftmanship skills, evaluated and chosen by an experienced panel. On these pages, the smiths introduce themselves and their practices through short presentations, along with new pictures of selected works.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 29 cm, hb, Swedish/English
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Ari Marcopoulos - Butter
Isbn 9789464460506
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 23792
€ 19.00
In October elite snowboarders from all over the world come to Saas Fee, Switzerland, to start their winter season at a high altitude snow park with big jumps and a large halfpipe. While Marcopoulos was there to make a video with American Olympian Lucas Foster, he met and photographed other riders like Japanese Olympic gold medallist Ayumu Hirano, his brother Kaishu, famed for performing the highest air ever in competition, and the Korean Chaeun Lee, who later in the season became world champion halfpipe at age 16. The video and this book are both titled Butter; a word the riders use when a trick is performed smoothly with a lot of personal style.
48 p, ills colour, 16 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Candy, Andy & The Bearandas
Isbn 9781909829213
Publisher Four Corners Books
Idea code 23710
€ 21.80
Living in a picture-perfect English village, two panda bears, Mr and Mrs Bearanda, bring up their plastic children, Candy and Andy. Devised by Gerry Anderson's Century 21 Productions (Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet) for the 1960s comic book market, the images created for the photo-strips are a surreal, unique look at domesticity, the family, and childhood. Their unusual nature meant they never reached the popularity of other Anderson characters, and the photo story comics were abandoned after a year. This book presents the best of the surviving original transparencies from this brilliantly bizarre project: driving their striped Mini, preparing for Bonfire Night, or going for a boat ride, Candy, Andy and the Bearandas live in an unforgettable, dreamlike world.
92 p, ills colour, 23 x 16 cm, pb, English
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Monster
Isbn 9789083347714
Publisher Happy Potato Press
Idea code 23726
€ 22.00
'Monster' is a picture book about a young monster, who grows up on Monster planet. On Monster planet it is considered good manners to play with your food and to be smelly and obnoxious. But this particular monster — who looks surprisingly much like a normal boy — doesn’t fit in at all. The monster feels lonely and sad, until one day, he gets into his space ship and travels to planet Earth, where it turns out the local inhabitants are just as ugly and bad mannered as he is.
28 p, ills colour, 20 x 24 cm, hb, English
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