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A Magazine 26 Curated by Peter Do
Isbn 9782487343009
Publisher A Magazine
Idea code 23888
€ 39.00
At the helm of this issue is Peter Do, the young Vietnamese American designer who established his own line in 2018 and was named creative director of Helmut Lang in 2023. Here, he explores the theme of home and the memories one holds of different places, people, objects. It is the shy creative’s most intimate project to date. Contributors include poet and writer Ocean Vuong, Pulitzer Prizer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen, and other minds from the Vietnamese diaspora: a photo reportage of wet markets in Saigon by filmmaker Tran Anh Hung, work by artist duo Hart+Leshkina, a collaboration between Do and Aperture Prize winner Van-Nhi Nguyen, and much more.
198 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 29 cm, pb, English
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Studio Cookbook vol 3
Isbn 9781910239513
Publisher Hato Press
Idea code 23768
€ 39.95
For the third edition of the Studio Cookbook series, collaborators, friends, and creators were invited to share a dish they enjoy as part of their working day. The featured recipes are influenced by taste, team, and resources, and often entail minimal cooking equipment, make-do utensils, and dwindling energy. From sweet treats and speedy reheats to communal stews cooked over open fires, these are dishes whipped up while on deadline, for recovery from a long day, or to share with friends. Spread across four chapters – Snacks, Mains, Sweets, and Drinks – the 37 recipes found in ‘Studio Cookbook’ range from the down-to-earth and delightfully convenient to the outlandish and eclectic.
104 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 22 cm, hb, English
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Dexter Sinister - yksihW kcalB
Isbn 9781915609069
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 24036
€ 25.00
yksihW kcalB recounts the 15-year history of the production of a "German scotch" Black Whisky, made by Dexter Sinister together with Stahlemühle, a distillery set up by former publisher, Christoph Keller. The story is told in reverse, starting with the delivery of 342 bottles to Berlin in 2022, and ending with an interview with Christoph for the journal Dot Dot Dot in 2007, during which the idea began to germinate. A summary of the project is accompanied by photographs taken at the time, interspersed with five previously published texts (an essay, three conversations, and a statement of intent) written along the way.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 17 cm, hb, English
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Kitty Crowther - Face the Day
Isbn 9782902565542
Publisher Fotokino
Idea code 23817
€ 25.80
A renowned author and illustrator, Kitty Crowther often expresses herself through books that have become classics on children’s bookshelves. Her work has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Astrid Lindgren Prize in 2010. But for some years now, she has been giving her work more freedom, developing it outside books, through exhibitions and collaborations. In 2021, during the second confinement period, she embarked on a series that was not originally intended for publication. No doubt in response to the need to faces and question the human form, she drew dozens of heads which, two years later, made up a body of almost 150 drawings. The book Face the Day contains around a hundred of these drawings, along with a selection of monotypes created during a residency at the RLD studios in 2022.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 25 cm, pb, English
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ABC - History and Form of the Latin Script
Isbn 9783038630838
Publisher Triest Verlag
Idea code 24018
€ 28.10
ABC – History and Form of the Latin Script provides an overview of the development of the Latin script. It covers the origin of Latin characters and how they were changed and altered over the centuries and cumulates in a presentation of contemporary digital scripts and fonts. Based on Hans Eduard Meier’s (1923–2015) standard work The Development of Script and Type (first published in 1959), the editors have completely revised the book, supplementing and expanding it with state-of-the-art scientific findings. In his original work, Meier described the development of the Latin script, from Phoenician inscriptions and Greek lapidarian writing to the most important printed texts of the early 20th century. The authors supplemented Meier’s original work with a genealogy of all the fonts presented, including their font genres, as well as important 20th and early 21st century milestones that were previously absent.
92 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 30 cm, pb, German/French/English
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Lous Martens – Animal Books for Jaap, Zeno, Anna, Julian & Luca (new edition)
Isbn 9789464460551
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 24008
€ 35.00
Lous Martens has five grandchildren – Jaap, Zeno, Anna, Julian, and Luca – and has begun making an animal scrapbook for each newcomer to the family. Although it is seventeen years since the first, Jaap, was born, none of the five books are finished yet. Consisting of loosely pasted pictures of animals that were clipped from newspapers and magazines about art, literature, and science, plus stamps and photographs from advertising brochures, the books are enjoyable for their small, ever-evolving changes as new material is added. Interestingly, the books were never intended to be published, but are now grouped into one big volume, an embodiment of familial love and dedication.
416 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Richard McGuire Popeye and Olive
Isbn 9782902565566
Publisher Fotokino
Idea code 23844
€ 17.20
Richard McGuire is an artist with a thousand facets. Leader of a New York post-punk band in the early 1980s, Liquid Liquid, at the same time he covered lower Manhattan with stencilled posters.He then embarked on a career as an illustrator, notably working for The New Yorker, before signing a number of children’s books that were to leave their mark on the children’s publishing scene in the 1990s. Popeye and Olive was born out of an exercise in meditation through painting that Richard McGuire undertook a few years ago. By tirelessly repeating shapes on paper, with no intention other than the gesture itself, the silhouette of Popeye emerged one day. From there, McGuire decided to use E. C. Segar’s character ad infinitum, while bringing him back to his essence (muscle, a pipe and a cap), and then to do the same with Olive Oyl.
40 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Tender Digitality
Isbn 9783948440695
Publisher Slanted Publishers
Idea code 24023
€ 26.00
Tender Digitality introduces an aesthetically oriented concept that intricately intertwines binary systems in a complex manner, setting them in motion. The concept responds to the human desire for sensuality, interpersonal connection, intuition, and well-being in digital environments. It explores ways to (re)transmit these experiences into the analog world of a book, developing its own distinct vocabularies. Readers are guided through the various perspectives of this kaleidoscope, encouraging them to delve into different play-forms of "tender digitality" and develop their own approach. Assuming the role of researchers, they discover phenomena of extraordinary beauty or bizarreness within the spectrum spanning analogue and digital, social, and technological domains.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Inge Grognard - Makeup 1989–2005
Isbn 9781838282110
Publisher Zegris
Idea code 23864
€ 29.05
‘Inge Grognard, Makeup 1989—2005’ features the formative work of one of the fashion world’s most revered makeup artists. From the first days of Maison Martin Margiela through to contemporary Balenciaga, Inge Grognard has spent her career as an integral part of fashion’s avant garde. Grognard’s aesthetic approach revolutionised makeup in the nineties and this book documents her work at that time, featuring imagery from campaigns, runways and editorials for brands such as Raf Simons, Dries Van Noten, Maison Martin Margiela and A.F. Vandevorst.
104 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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To Hold Your Heart in Your Teeth: The Visual Language of the Romanian Blouse
Isbn 9789083350165
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 24032
€ 24.00
“To Hold Your Heart in Your Teeth” is a Romanian proverb which means to brave forward despite fear. Made by generations of women, the folk garment of the Romanian blouse secured its language through times of fierce changes. This book is a cultural-historical biography of the blouse, from Neolithic beginnings in northeastern Romania and western Ukraine, through the period of folk revival, the communist era, and the post-communist immigration out of the region. Weaving personal narrative with this historical research, Simona Bortis-Schultz, author and designer of this book, is a New York based child of this immigration. Moving bravely forward despite fear “To Take Your Heart in Your Teeth” is an homage as it stands in solidarity with the generations of women in resilience, writing out the design qualities of this feminine fortitude, and the charm of the garment they made to survive.
214 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Free the Map - From Atlas to Hermes: a New Cartography of Borders and Migration
Isbn 9789462088122
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 24035
€ 34.95
A map is a visual story of the world. It feeds our imagination and shapes our view of the world. A standard atlas, however, predominantly tells only one story, that of the nation-state. It depicts a world in which people are uniformly packed into national containers, enclosed by borders, and in which migration is is often represented as threatening arrows of invasion. 'Free the Map' goes beyond this narrow, state-centric cartography. The book argues for a new cartographic story: a Hermes – the grandson of Atlas and the god of mobility and human connections. To this end, it discusses several visually compelling, alternative cartographic representations of borders and migration.
150 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Bruno Munari - El artista / The artist
Isbn 9791254930755
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 24054
€ 48.00
For some time now, the multi-faceted figure of Bruno Munari has been known and appreciated beyond the confines of the countries he chose —Italy, Japan, Switzerland, the United States— on account of his personal and intellectual attitude of “traversing” different linguistic territories. As a designer, artist, pedagogue, graphic designer, Munari is renowned for having helped to foster the permeability of the frontiers between artistic languages which during Modernism were regarded as academically separate. Now, after years of exhaustive research into his personality and his highly versatile work, the challenge could be to go against the tide and dive even deeper, considering each and every one of the disciplines to which Munari turned his hand. This entire volume —published on the occasion of the exhibition held by the MACA Museum of Manantiales (Uruguay) under the curatorship of Marco Meneguzzo, one of the foremost experts on Munari— is dedicated to his activity as an artist. Not only are his achievements in the fields of futurism, concrete art, kinetic art and conceptual art —spanning more than sixty years—, covered, they are also compared to the historic context in which they unfolded and to his highly personal idea of “project”.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 26 cm, hb, English/Spanish
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The City of Lights
Isbn 9791254930816
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code
€ 56.85
The City of Lights is a volume documenting the new format of the Salone del Mobile.Milano created for the first time for the event Euroluce 2023: a plural, multidisciplinary and polycentric palimpsest, structured on a program of exhibitions and events dedicated to "light." The volume has a rich iconographic content that recounts the creative path and design through sketches, photos, floor plans and maps of the pavilions and of the exhibition spaces: a valuable document on the program of activities cultural The City of Lights, a choral project involving artists and curators diverse in stylistic figure, generation and origin, orchestrated by Beppe Finessi.
272 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, hb, Italian/English
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Lytle Shaw - The Mollino Set
Isbn 9783906213484
Publisher Rollo Press & Cabinet Books
Idea code 24011
€ 18.00
New York-based professor Lytle Shaw journeys to Italy in this adventurous exploration of the life and work of architect, designer, and photographer Carlo Mollino (1905–1973). In 1933 the young Mollino received a commission from Mussolini’s regime for his first building: an administrative centre in Piedmont. Later works include furniture and interior design, a book on photography, and an asymmetrical car that raced at Le Mans in 1955. The book centres around Shaw’s realisation that this prolific talent’s conflicted legacy offers a unique window on the role that post-war Italian politics and culture played in the country’s reimagining of itself as a victim, rather than a proponent, of fascism.
256 p, ills bw, 13 x 20 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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Na Kim - Un Sedicesimo 73
Isbn 9771972284002
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code
€ 6.30
Na Kim is an artist based in Berlin and Seoul. Kim explores the intricate interplay between given structures and serendipitous discoveries. She meticulously collects objects and occurrences from daily life, subsequently rearranging them within fictional frameworks. Alongside her work as an artist and designer, Kim runs the project space LOOM in Berlin. Since 2015, she has initiated a number of projects expanding and responding to her monograph “SET”, including exhibitions in Seoul, New York, and across Europe. Kim’s works have been shown widely in international exhibitions including Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Gwangju Design Biennale, Kukje Gallery, MMCA, V&A, MoMA, Milan Triennale Museum, Die Neue Sammlung and etc. In addition, Kim has been a curator for Fikra Graphic Design Biennial, Chaumont Graphic Design Festival, Seoul International Typography Biennale and International Biennale of Graphic Design Brno.
16 p, 17 x 24 cm, pb,
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Paul Boudens - Invitations
Isbn 9781838282103
Publisher Zegris
Idea code 23863
€ 29.05
The first publication from Zegris Books brings together the fashion show invitations graphic designer Paul Boudens has created for Haider Ackermann, Dries Van Noten and Yohji Yamamoto, among others, across three decades. Featuring previously unpublished works and detailed material information this book highlights the singular graphic design practice of Paul Boudens and the timeless, yet iconoclastic, fashion show invitations which he has created since the early nineties. With an introduction by Kaat Debo, Director at MoMu — Fashion Museum Antwerp.
124 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Longing for Lo-fi – Glimpsing back through technology
Isbn 9789493148970
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 23886
€ 18.00
In the here and today there are many attempts to recreate spaces of comfort. The lo-fi community should be considered one of them. Through the numerous nostalgic references and relaxing beats of lo-fi, we retrieve a glimpse of what was once our home—be it real or imaginary. Not to state that we all take a trip down memory lane while listening to lo-fi, not at all actually. When we look at the live chat that accompanies these streams, we are often confronted with people talking about their workload. Those discussing an upcoming deadline are often met with encouraging and supportive comments that they can do it, they can go that extra mile. One might say that Longing for Lo-fi equals longing for the homely. This book-length essay looks at internet culture through the lens of psychoanalysis, semiotics and critical theory, in an attempt to lay the feeling of comfort bare.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Eurasia - An Atlas
Isbn 9789492852762
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 23887
€ 34.00
The concept of 'Eurasia' evokes myriad different ideas across geological, ideological, cultural, and artistic paradigms. Housing three quarters of the world’s population (as well as three quarters of the world’s energy resources), the Eurasian supercontinent is also home to a great plurality of cultures. It is a space where historical, contemporary and futuristic visions coexist, interact, and mutate. The publication 'EURASIA –An Atlas' is a reader surveying the cultural and conceptual landscape of the Eurasia. Structured around approximately twenty keywords, it compiles texts from a variety of authors, historical documentation, and texts on the artistic practices of visual artists.
400 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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