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Aesthetics Imperfections - How AI is Changing The Landscape of Typography
Isbn 9783948440541
Publisher Slanted Publishers
Idea code 23820
€ 45.00
Creativity and innovation are no longer exclusively the province of humans, but the result of collaboration, a game of interpretation in the dialogue between humans and machines. This is the world in which we live today, where artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving and new scenarios are opened. Is AI technology revolutionising the fields of art, design, communication, and marketing, but as regards typography? This research brought Gianpaolo Tucci to discover aesthetic imperfections as a value of uniqueness for each individual representation. This is not a book on typography, but the expression of a point of view, a practical guide, and an investigation on how the integration and ethical use of artificial intelligence will play a fundamental role in modelling this future.
288 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 28 cm, pb, English
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MacGuffin 13: The Letter
Isbn 24058203
Publisher Macguffin
Idea code 23744
€ 23.00
‘The Letter’ does not relate to the alphabet alone but to language, to code, to gestures, to media, and more. The letter is a magical symbol, and at the same time a very ordinary thing. It is embedded in specific culture and dependent on the reproduction technologies available at the time. The context is what makes it interesting: the letter is created, used, discarded, forgotten, and (sometimes) revived. Find out about the history of Scrabble, embracing graffiti, how humans perform letters, the culture of protest letters, the meaning of memes, typography that resists the domination of Western typefaces, the narrow binarity of the French language, the left-handed experience, and more.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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See All This 32: Bijoy Jain
Isbn 24683981
Publisher See All This
Idea code 23791
€ 19.95
Home is where life is held. It is the womb, the room, the world where we make our mark. A space that we have breathed life into and where that same life lingers even after we have left. For this winter issue, See All This explores the definition of home – should such a thing exist – with the help of artists, writers, travellers and architects, who understand the value of a place to call one’s own. Experience belonging in its every facet, guided by the ultimate homemaker, architect and artist Bijoy Jain, founder of Studio Mumbai.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Science of the Secondary 14: T-shirt
Isbn 9789811866852
Publisher Atelier Hoko
Idea code 23819
€ 19.00
"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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Dirty Furniture 6/6: Bed
Isbn 9780993351150
Publisher Dirty Furniture
Idea code 23823
€ 19.60
Conceived as a finite printed series of six, each issue of Dirty Furniture takes a piece of furniture as its theme and uses it as a springboard to explore topics spanning politics, design, history, technology, psychology, manufacturing, art, and the plain weird. In this final issue, 'Bed', the magazine rips off the covers to reveal how the bed, sleep – or the lack of it – shapes our lives. The authors sleep with sleep-monitoring devices, reflect on the beds they were born in and consider the screen’s capacity to alleviate insomnia. They wonder how the duvet became a wardrobe staple, talk to sheep and study the architecture of dreams. The Bed issue has contributions by Oli Stratford, Formafantasma, Charles Holland, Philippa Snow, Pillow Culture, Catharine Rossi, Miguel Arjona, Anne Galloway, and many others.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Chromatic Herbarium
Isbn 9791254930670
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 23831
€ 53.05
Massimo Gardone with Alessandra Muran has produced a volume that is many things: a living and vivid herbarium of nature's colors with elements collected and photographed while still fresh, but also an evocative photo book capable of enhancing with the eye of the graphic artist the colors and "pantone" of petals, leaves, branches and other elements of nature. The texts accompanying this research are an essay by Francesco Messina and reflections by landscape designer Matteo Lacivita who starts from the naturalistic observation of colors to also talk about painting, music and other art forms that color really cannot do without.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 32 cm, hb, Italian/English
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Motor Dance Journal - Issue 2: Duets and Dialogues
Isbn 9772755306003
Publisher Motor Dance Journal
Idea code 23722
€ 19.00
Issue 2 of motor dance journal is entitled ‘Duets and Dialogues’ and considers the creative, personal, and social possibilities of dancing in relation to another. It features writing, conversations and artworks exploring themes including friendship, motherhood, creative partnerships, doubles, dance and place, translation and writing, and the relationship between dance and film. The issue includes contributions from a diverse array of choreographers, writers, artists, curators, and poets including Yvonne Rainer, Joan Jonas, Eiko Otake, Lynne Tillman, Collier Schorr, Holly Blakey, Jimmy Robert, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Paul Maheke, Laurie Anderson, Susan Finlay, Beatrice Gibson, Florence Peake, Eve Stainton and many more.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 25 cm, pb, English
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Dutch Designers Yearbook '23 '24
Isbn 9789462087958
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 23866
€ 29.15
Every year, the BNO publishes the Dd Yearbook. Dd’23-24 both looks back on the past design year and looks forward to the future. The yearbook consists of essays and interviews, striking graduation work from Dutch design schools, award-winning work and portraits of trendsetting design heroes. This year, the focus is on ‘naturing’: on the collaboration of designers with nature or natural processes. This refers to more than just designing with natural materials. The book mainly includes projects that show actual collaborations between designers and nature or natural processes.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, hb, Dutch/English
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Arabic Font Specimen Book 2
Isbn 9789490939311
Publisher Khatt Books
Idea code 23848
€ 145.85
Arabic typography exists in a universe of extremes: considered by some as holy but more often painfully neglected, mysterious and elusive but also an unmistakable cultural icon. It is based on the world’s richest calligraphic traditions. Today, it is less of a technological challenge for type designers using the proper font editor. This publication is in a very simple way extreme in its own right. It is the second and last publication of its kind. It is a must have for everyone working with Arabic type or interested in the typography of extremes. The goal of this publication is to give adequate help in selecting Arabic fonts for use in print and other media. An abundance of information about Arabic type can be found online these days. What is missing is a directory, or visual catalogue for high quality type. This book aims to provide such a directory.
890 p, ills bw, 30 x 22 cm, hb, English/Arabic
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Some Magazine #17–Look
Isbn 9783948440671
Publisher Slanted Publishers
Idea code 23814
€ 12.00
For over one hundred years, we humans of the post-postmodern times have turned ourselves into outstanding visual athletes. We made visuality our superpower. Now we are about to change the rules of the game right in the middle of it. Will all this result in some new weird kind of blindness? This issue of Some Magazine is dedicated to the skill, the craft and the pure joy of looking. With contributions by Blatant Space, Catelijne van Middelkoop, David Horvitz, Eleonora Marton, Melody “LeMoon” Bossan and Rob Lowe.
80 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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A Quilted Alphabet by Bailey Raha
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Publisher Common Threads Press
Idea code 23816
€ 8.70
From rooting around in quilt history books, Connecticut-based quilter Bailey Raha created thisbeautiful hand-drawn zine. It presents an alphabetical collection of quilt blocks, some common,some less so. The first edition of the zine was printed by Bailey Raha in 2019, reprinted in 2023by Common Threads Press.
32 p, ills colour & bw, 10 x 15 cm, pb, English
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Håndvaerk 09 - Interiors
Isbn 9788794388023
Publisher Håndvaerk
Idea code 23811
€ 36.55
The theme of Håndværk Bookazine No. 9 is interiors. It invites us inside the studios and workshops where the things in our homes take shape. We meet glassblower Alexander Kirkeby, ceramic artist Heidi Lillevang, who experiments with stucco; and stucco worker Peter Funder. In addition to rooms, furniture, curtains and rugs, stucco, ceramics and glass, this issue maintains a focus on how we become who we are and how we engage with and speak about ourselves, each other and our practices. We are invited on a trip to Öland, we are introduced to Professor Andreas Nobel, a cabinetmaker and designer, we meet ceramicist Louise Gaarmann, golds applied artist Sarah Hurtigkarl and architect Erik Brandt Dam, among others.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Nagy Shaker: An Experimental Graphic Artist of the Egyptian Avant-Garde
Isbn 9789490939281
Publisher Khatt Books
Idea code 23845
€ 41.35
Nagy Shaker (1932–2018) was an Egyptian design pioneer born in the suburbs of Cairo. He is one of the most influential figures in the history of modern Egyptian design. He is also considered the godfather of modern Egyptian puppetry since he introduced the art of puppetry to Egypt, and his name will forever be connected to this art form. He designed and directed several seminal performances for the Egyptian Puppet Theater Company. Its most famed is El-Leila el-Kebira (The Grand Night, 1960). He enriched Egyptian theater and film with outstanding sets and costume designs. He also worked in editorial design in Cairo in Dar El-Hilal and many others, until he set up his own multidisciplinary design studio in 1980 and carried out various graphic design projects for UNICEF and for cinema and publishing houses. His graphic design solutions instigated a shift in cinema poster design and introduced a modernist approach to editorial design. Through his teaching and mentorship, he influenced a younger generation of Egyptian designers who are practicing today. This has contributed to the development of graphic and three- dimensional design in Egypt and, indirectly, the Arab region.In addition to being a comprehensive presentation of Nagy Shaker’s various design projects, this books presents an intimate insight into his personality, process and life story, retold in his won words through interviews interspersed through the book.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English/Arabic
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Mouneer Al-Shaarani - Against the Grain: Exploring the Scope of the Arabic Letter
Isbn 9789490939298
Publisher Khatt Books
Idea code 23846
€ 42.00
Mouneer Al-Shaarani is a prolific and highly acclaimed Syrian calligrapher and designer. He was born on September 6, 1952, in Salamiya, Syria. He began his calligraphic apprenticeship at a young age, with Syrian master calligrapher Muhammad Badawi Al-Dirani (1894–1967). After 1967, and in parallel with his studies, he practiced calligraphy as sign-painter and created lettering for billboard advertising and other design commissions. He was part of the first graduating class from the Graphic Design program at the Faculty of Fine Arts (Kulliyat al-Funūn) in Damascus University, studying under eminent design pioneer Abdelkader Arnaout (1936–1992), graduating in 1977. This book intends to shed light on Al-Shaarani’s prolific graphic design practice and his unique visual language, tracing the tumultuous life of Al-Shaarani: his serial migrations and their effect on his work. This book strives to present to the reader a clear vision of Mouneer Al-Shaarani’s willingness to go against the grain in exploring the scope of the Arabic letter and its potential for continuing renewal, evolution, and cultural progress.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English/Arabic
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Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui: The First Lebanese Woman Graphic Designer to Brand her Nation
Isbn 9789490939304
Publisher Khatt Books
Idea code 23847
€ 41.35
Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui is a Lebanese artist, born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1945. In the early 1960s, she moved with her family to Lebanon and joined the American University of Beirut for two years, then transferred to the University of Arizona, Tucson where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design. Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui is the first academically trained female graphic designer to set up a practice in the Arab region. The discussion of her visual production demonstrates how a woman’s self is revealed in the context of the cultural challenges of the time she lived in, and how being a woman in this particular culture shaped her and the Lebanese in different ways. Her graphic design production at the National Council of Tourism shaped the Lebanese visual identity and continued to influence her personal artistic production during the years after her career as a graphic designer at the ministry.
174 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English/Arabic
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Puppets and the Avantgarde
Isbn 9791254930762
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 23830
€ 56.85
When a puppet breaks the "fourth wall"- that is, the capacity for emotional involvement of a successful performance - it wins the trust of the audience, giving the show the power to blur the division between stage and world, between art and life. Understanding this were those artists, leading figures in the world of Art and Figure Theater, who looked to "creative play" as a source of aesthetic inspiration to seek new modes of visual expression. This volume and the accompanying exhibition Puppets and the Avantgarde. Picasso - Depero - Klee - Sarzi, curated by James M. Bradburne - from November 2023 at the Fondazione Palazzo Magnani in Reggio Emilia - open up a space for the imagination by tracing the cultural and social role of puppets in the European avant garde at the beginning of the 20th century. An itinerary that places alongside the great names of Pablo Picasso, Fortunato Depero and Paul Klee, that of Otello Sarzi, a poetic figure who marked the artistic and educational history of Reggio Emilia. In order to understand their appeal, puppets are examined in the broadest sense: puppets operated from above – common in the palaces of princes and the drawing rooms of the bourgeoisie; and puppets manipulated from below – inhabitants of the popular world of fairs and the public square.
320 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 25 cm, hb, Italian/English
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Rattle, an inventory of forms
Isbn 9782919459124
Publisher Editions Piqpoq
Idea code 23786
€ 31.20
The rattle is often the first toy a child is given, because it stimulates their five senses and helps in their development. Its role as a toy that promotes early learning is essential, but it also acts as a “transitional” object, reassuring the baby when separated from their mother. Inspired by new theories of child development, 20th-century designers such as Kay Bojesen, Patrick Rylands, and Antonio Vitali made revolutionary changes to this familiar object. Drawing on a unique collection, this book presents a rigorous selection of dozens of imaginative creations from this period, with materials ranging from different kinds of natural wood to the smooth, brightly coloured surfaces of plastic.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 24 cm, pb, French/English
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Vietnam War 8
Isbn 9784846533014
Publisher World Photo Press
Idea code 23738
€ 25.85
The eighth volume of the ‘Vietnam War’ series presents even more stories, memorabilia, and images from the time of the Vietnam War. In this edition, learn about Special Forces in Southeast Asia before diving into an extensive overview of the official uniforms and insignia of both the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces and the United States Armed Forces. In addition, numerous other unit patches and badges, rank emblems, and combat medals are sought out and documented. Special features in this instalment include profiles of the official bands (music ensembles) of the Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force, plus a look at the inner workings of the US Army Institute of Heraldry.
280 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese
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Iranian Packaging - 60 Years of Packaging Design in Iran
Isbn 9786001523687
Publisher Nazar Publishing
Idea code 23700
€ 104.50
Compiled by Ali Alizadeh, this anthology of commercial graphic design in Iran spans six decades and countless products, from tea, canned goods, and matches to cleaning agents, shoeboxes, chewing gum, vinyl records, and more. Through a wealth of reproductions, as well as archival photographs and portraits of individuals, businesses, and producers, the volume presents an in-depth overview of the Iran’s rich graphic design culture and its transformations through the 20th century.
560 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 23 cm, hb, Persian/English
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The Pasta Workshops
Isbn 9791254930526
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 23829
€ 27.80
The Pasta Workshops is the brainchild of Christian Holstad and Sissi Daniela Oliveri. Starting from the similarity between modeling clay and kneading fresh pasta, they initiated a workshop at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna (where Sissi teaches the Performing Techniques for the Visual Arts course) with the intention of giving students an experience that would encourage them to explore new approaches and modes of expression that do not conform to traditional techniques. Thus, instead of clay and ceramics, pasta, a raw sculptural material with which to develop new edible art forms, was used. The workshop, extended over three academic years (2020-2022), was also part of the riparAzioni - Re-elaborate to art project, designed by the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna for the PON METRO program, coordinated by the City of Bologna and funded by the European Union.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 25 cm, pb, Italian/English
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