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Slanted #43 - Ukraine
Isbn 9783948440718
Publisher Slanted Publishers
Idea code 24195
€ 22.00
This Slanted issue is not about war. Instead, it delves into the lives of remarkable individuals within the creative industry in and hailing from Ukraine, as they endeavor to maintain a semblance of normalcy amidst their diligent efforts. During the NEED conference in Warsaw in early September 2023, the Ukrainian delegation motivated the Slanted team to initiate a magazine dedicated to the Ukrainian design sphere, advocating that “better now than never!” . The sheer volume of nearly 1,500 submissions was overwhelming, and the selection process inherently subjective. Despite meticulous deliberations, every decision, formulation, and work runs the risk of being perceived as flawed, insufficient, or misunderstood. The compilation features 20 interviews with designers and creatives both within and beyond Ukraine, offering diverse insights, responses, and perspectives.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Slanted Special Issue Georgia /Armenia
Isbn 9783948440688
Publisher Slanted Publishers
Idea code 24164
€ 16.00
In August 2023, Slanted Publishers embarked on a journey from Tbilisi, Georgia, to Yerevan, Armenia. The aim was to explore the impact of the war in Ukraine on the local culture and design scene. Through numerous conversations and interviews, profound insights were gained into the lives and work of the people, highlighting the diverse nature of their respective perceptions. However, the postresearch and discussions were overshadowed by Azerbaijan’s renewed offensive on Armenia in September 2023. Following the offensive, a mass exodus of the Armenian population from NagornoKarabakh to Armenia began. The introductions to this issue were authored by Wojciech Górecki and Krzysztof Strachota, both esteemed experts in the region working for The Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) and leading the Department for Turkey, Caucasus, and Central Asia. In this edition, readers will also find photo essays contributed by students from the University of Applied Sciences Dortmund, who have been fostering deep connections with Georgia for several years.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English
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The Birth of a Style - The Influence of the Basel Educational Model on Swiss Graphic Design
Isbn 9783038630777
Publisher Triest Verlag
Idea code 24161
€ 49.50
Author Dorothea Hofmann reveals a highly differentiated picture of the Swiss direction in graphic design in this history of the “Schweizer Grafik” from a new perspective. Characterised by its undogmatic viewpoints, the courage to experiment, and a clear relationship to the modern, the Basel Educational Model is an important forerunner to the international reach of Swiss graphic design in the 20th century. More than 400 illustrations portray the precision, objectivity, and reduction of the innovative work that visually inspired an entire epoch. The book features work by Hermann Eidenbenz, Armin Hofmann, Nelly Rudin, Wolfgang Weingart, April Greiman, and more.
474 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 25 cm, pb, English
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Superstorm - Design and Politics in the Age of Information
Isbn 9789083362175
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 24141
€ 19.00
The Superstorm is a conceptual and narrative metaphor to illustrate the evolution of the relationship between political communication and new media technologies, which culminated in the tempestuous Western political visual culture of today. Within this vortex, complex and unexpected events occur, where politics is mixed with entertainment and communication is hyper-mediated through algorithms, memes and alternative realities. As politicians refine marketing techniques applied to the electorate and online users become political trendsetters, designers face an impasse. But not all is lost in the Superstorm. Surprisingly, it might precisely be this uncertain future that holds the key for designers to question and reformulate their role and purpose within the political sphere. In her first book Superstorm: Design and Politics in the Age of Information, Noemi Biasetton traces the development of the Superstorm from the 1960s to the present and proposes new coordinates that designers may consider on in order to, eventually, face its relentless evolution.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Ian Lynam | War with Myself - Essays on Design, Culture & Violence
Isbn 9789083404110
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 24127
€ 20.00
'WAR WITH MYSELF' is a wide-ranging collection of essays spanning design, authenticity, Empire, decolonization, and history. Hot on the heels of his books The Impossibility of Silence: Writing for Designers, Artists & Photographers and The Failed Painter (or Unchained by Material Anxiety), designer, writer and teacher Ian Lynam’s latest body of work is an urgent and impassioned examination of the contemporary condition.
238 p, ills bw, 10 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Absolute Zeitgeist - Issue A, Action
Isbn 9789083213262
Publisher House Publishing
Idea code 24155
€ 12.00
‘Absolute Zeitgeist’ is an open source curatorial magazine capturing the themes and elements that shape our present. Simultaneously, it entails an editorial experiment attempting to visualise a collective sense of time. A different curator will be invited to oversee each edition, and this inaugural issue launches with the collaboration of Amsterdam-based futurist and scholar Tessa Cramer. Her approach to her work currently focuses in large part on accepting, even embracing, notions of uncertainty, which she applies to the issue’s theme: “A is for Action”. She reflects on what action is, on action as movement, and how it impacts the world we live in. Is it action or inaction?
44 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 29 cm, pb, English
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Stitching Freedom - Embroidery and Incarceration
Isbn 9781916323476
Publisher Common Threads Press
Idea code 24038
€ 14.50
For centuries, people have stitched in good times and in bad, finding strength in the needlemoving in and out of fabric. 'Stitching Freedom' explores the embroidery made in prisons andmental health hospitals - those who have embroidered to distract, to reflect, or to calm. FromMary, Queen of Scots to Lorina Bulwer, embroidery historian and curator Isabella Rosner unpicks twelve embroidered histories to discover what can be created when freedom is out of reach.
68 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Pocket Decision Book
Isbn 9788090636507
Publisher Happy Paper Press
Idea code 24178
€ 14.30
Introducing ‘Pocket Decision Book’, a tiny but unique tool which aims to make your decision-making process simple yet effective. With just a flip of its pages, you can find answers to your pressing questions by having the options of “YES” or “NO” clearly stated. Is it a tool, a statement, or a joke? Or perhaps the most powerful book ever? You decide, but use it wisely!
208 p, ills colour, 5 x 7 cm, pb, English
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Tropical Reading - Photobook and Self-Publishing
Isbn 9789083361635
Publisher Limestone Books
Idea code 24171
€ 28.00
Tropical Reading: Photobook and Self-Publishing illustrates the photography practitioners and artist collectives from each city in Southeast Asia, examining why they chose to get into self-publishing. It explores how independent art bookstores came to be the social parlours of the self-publishing crowd. Furthermore, observes how the outsider artists, archives and arts initiatives of Southeast Asia came to shape the face of photography and self-publishing in their respective cities. The index is a compilation of our project field research, condensing the profiles of all the interviewees – from people to bookstores to organisations – to make a kind of alternative Yellow Pages for the Southeast Asian art scene. Colour covers supplied randomly.
344 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Visual Cultures as World Forming
Isbn 9783956795374
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 24194
€ 12.00
How does the world form itself? How does it create itself as a world? And how do we understand the role of the visual in this regard? Most responses to these questions within cultural theory and visual culture refer to the rise of globalization, thus highlighting the acceleration of exchanges, the proliferation of information and communication devices, and the multiplication of globally circulated goods and images that characterize the world we live in. Visual Cultures as World-Forming takes a different approach by focusing on the taking place of the world, a creative act that knows no economic return. This approach is predominantly, but not exclusively, inspired by the work of Jean-Luc Nancy. Through a reading of his work, Adnan Madani and Jean-Paul Martinon attempt to expose how the world—and the world of visual culture in particular—creates itself and the ways in which each one of us is embodying this creation without economy.
104 p, ills bw, 15 x 20 cm, pb, English
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First Colourings
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Publisher KesselsKramer
Idea code 24056
€ 25.00
Departing from his usual collections of found photographs, Erik Kessels uses this opportunity to try his hand at colouring in illustrations about safety in the public realm. Whether crossing a busy street, rounding a blind corner, looking out for children at play, or simply making sure to pay attention to the ground in front of you, these classic pictures are easily recognisable, despite being messily coloured.
48 p, ills colour, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Diagrams of Power – Visualizing, Mapping, and Performing Resistance
Isbn 9789083350196
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 24128
€ 27.00
We draw diagrams to help us think, communicate, and put forth what we think is important or what we want to be true. While some diagrams are seen as statements of fact, they can also further agendas by discounting other realities beneath a cloak of perceived objectivity. Diagrams of power work against representations that claim omniscience by speaking from a position, and making visible what and who gets represented and who does the representing. 'Diagrams of Power' brings together the work of designers, artists, cartographers, geographers, researchers, and activists who create diagrams to tell inconvenient stories that upset and resist the status quo.
312 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Pastel Tuning
Isbn 9782902565559
Publisher Fotokino
Idea code 24150
€ 12.90
‘Pastel Tuning’ is published on the occasion of an installation carried out as part of a micro-residency at Studio Fotokino in Marseille in 2023. Made from recycled offset plate cardboard, the installation structure unfolds around the central glass roof of the exhibition space. The boundaries between painting and printed image are blurred as the abstract images are bathed in a light tinted by viscerally vivid pastel colours.
16 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, pb, French
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Parviz Tanavoli – Mafrashes, Tribal and Rural Weaves from Iran (3)
Isbn 9786001522673
Publisher Nazar Publishing
Idea code 24114
€ 49.50
Artist and art historian Parviz Tanavoli presents the third volume in a series exploring traditional weaving in Iran. Following his books on salt bags and ‘khorjins’ (saddlebags), this volume is dedicated to ‘mafrashes’ (woven containers) and their role in daily life. Although these woven objects could be considered utilitarian household items, unlike containers used in urban settings, each is a unique and personal piece of art. Moreover, the ingenious adaptation and practicality of chests and cupboards in soft materials is as old as the seasonal migrations of these tribes of the Iranian Plateau. The book explores geographical differences, terminology, and history of weaving in Iran.
152 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, hb, Persian/English
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Hato Zines 45 A Good Day by Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck
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Publisher Hato Press
Idea code 24170
€ 11.50
For Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck, a dedicated and jubilant gardener, the earth and all that grows in it has always been worthy of close attention. In A Good Day, the artist combines drawings of beloved gardening tools with paintings of hands at work in the soil, and the plants and flowers that this act brings forth. Through her celebration of the origin of things, she invites us all to participate in a radical nurturing of the ecosystems we find ourselves growing in, horticultural and otherwise. Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck explores community, compassion and the environment we live in, inspired by her own daily life and close observation of nature. She is the founder of Poetic Pastel, a collaborative cultural project and publishing house, and the co-founder of Journal du Thé, a publication series about contemporary tea culture.
16 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Tehran Notebook - pocket edition
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Publisher Nazar Publishing
Idea code 24115
€ 8.80
Notebook with drawings from everyday scenes in Tehran.
240 p, ills bw, 12 x 16 cm, pb, Persian/English
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Isfahan Notebook - pocket edition
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Publisher Nazar Publishing
Idea code 24111
€ 8.80
Inspired by the lovely and magical city of Isfahan, illustrator Aylar Shahbazi and graphic designer Farideh Shahbazi collaborated to produce a notebook for all kinds of daily musings or creative asides. With pages for friends’ addresses and phone numbers, music notation, sketching and drawing, or simply journaling or making lists, it offers a place where you can find respite in a hectic life, a book of pages waiting to be filled that you can carry with you wherever you go. Details and motifs from Isfahan are scattered throughout the book: small snippets of daily life, characteristic people, and memorable sights.
200 p, ills bw, 12 x 16 cm, pb, Persian/English
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Tabriz Notebook - pocket edition
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Publisher Nazar Publishing
Idea code 24110
€ 8.80
Illustrated by Aylar Shahbazi and with graphic design by Mahboubeh Mehrabani, ‘Tabriz’ is an all-purpose notebook inspired by what has been called the city of lovers, a millennia-old trade hub nestled in the Quru River valley in Iran’s historic Azerbaijan region.
200 p, ills bw, 12 x 16 cm, pb, Persian/English
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The Grace Sonata - Notebook (blue cover)
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Publisher Nazar Publishing
Idea code 24112
€ 16.50
Tania Pakzad has tended to simplicity in her Sonata series, displaying a minimalist regard for the beauty of flowers. In order to achieve a new image of this phenomenon, she goes beyond commonplace compositions, instead emphasising a one-dimensional format and avoiding any great detail. And although grey is the dominant colour in her paintings, its different shades have not dimmed the freshness and distinction of the flowers themselves. Pakzad’s works are interspersed with blank and lined pages in this notebook.
200 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 17 cm, hb, Persian/English
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The Grace Sonata - Notebook (brown cover)
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Publisher Nazar Publishing
Idea code 24113
€ 19.80
Tania Pakzad has tended to simplicity in her Sonata series, displaying a minimalist regard for the beauty of flowers. In order to achieve a new image of this phenomenon, she goes beyond commonplace compositions, instead emphasising a one-dimensional format and avoiding any great detail. And although grey is the dominant colour in her paintings, its different shades have not dimmed the freshness and distinction of the flowers themselves. Pakzad’s works are interspersed with blank and lined pages in this notebook.
200 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 17 cm, hb, Persian/English
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