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See All This 34: Lidewij Edelkoort - The Wardrobe as Art Collection
Isbn 24683981
Publisher See All This
Idea code 24334
€ 19.95
The provocative coat featured on the cover conceals a special issue about clothes, how they behave, and how they move us. Guest curator and trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort lends her visionary gaze to the issue’s content. Discover how being overdressed is a social dilemma and how moving from one colour to another is an almost geographical choice, how textiles need to be revitalised and venerated, and how 20th-century art is influencing 21st-century fashion design, with a focus on collage and sculptural shapes. Featured are trends researcher Meryem Laghmari, design consultant Philip Fimmano, interior designer Rozemarijn de Witte, artist Marisol, and more.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Reloved 1: The Magazine of Circular Design
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Publisher Large/Kiosk
Idea code 24238
€ 24.60
Circularity is everywhere, from the luxury industry to the mass market. The first print magazine dedicated to circular design, ‘Reloved’ speaks to a wide audience of consumers and designers, as well as the potential innovators and problem-solvers within each of us. The magazine has an international outlook but also features notable local initiatives. While circularity is more essential than ever, it should never be reduced to an obligation; above all, it is a call to creativity, a challenge, and a source of enjoyment. This issue features Bruno Munari, interviews with Walter Stahel and Yves Béhar, closer examinations of retrofitting, watches, and sneakers, second-hand fashion, and much more.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 28 cm, pb, English
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The Lost Greek Penis Game
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Publisher Fraglich Publishing
Idea code 24251
€ 17.55
Why, oh why, are so many Greek statues, well... penis-less? Before you jump to conclusions, it’s not just a wild ancient Greek party gone wrong! For starters, those early Christians weren’t fans of nudity. They were known for altering ancient art with a hammer and chisel. Then there were those other conservative folks across millennia who engaged in acts of vandalism. Now, add in the wear and tear of earthquakes, rain, and weather. It turns out that Hercules’ abs could endure for centuries, but his ‘little Hercules’ not so much. Speaking of which, have you ever wondered why most Greek statues have smaller private parts? Well, back in the day, a smaller package meant sophistication and self-control. So yes, while you could bench-press a mountain, your ‘centurion’ stayed tiny, at least if you had your own statue. Now, the fun begins! In this card game, you channel your inner detective and reunite these statues with their long-lost (and, let’s be honest, upsized) penises. To keep things spicy, we’ve color-coded these sculptures and their assets. Orders of 10 units will be supplied in a display case.
54 cards, ills colour & bw, 6 x 9 cm, box, English
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Kids Club: See You Again
Isbn 9781910239537
Publisher Hato Press
Idea code 24315
€ 35.20
Sakata San is the owner of a small and cosy bar in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, but also an avid collector of antique tin toys. The bar started life as a toy store, but as his collection grew to house over a thousand pieces, it eventually became a speakeasy and hangout for locals. The place evokes feelings of happiness, connecting people to the simple things that bring them joy. This book documents the toys, stories, and journey of the small bar and its owner, whose hobby has defined over 50 years of his life and livelihood. His criterion is not whether a toy is valuable, but whether it is interesting. This is a book about a collector, a book about curiosity, and a book about love.
72 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Inventario 17: Everything is a Project
Isbn 9791254930328
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 24254
€ 12.65
The brick is one of the first attempts to understand the earth, the most “materic” among the four elements of our planet, enclosing it in a rational, reproducible and stable form, initially ductile and then static. A brick that precisely for this reason is an object of vernacular, mystical, alchemical power, which crystallizing in a compact and Cartesian matrix possesses the warm, anarchic soul of nature transformed into artefact. Crafted by genealogy, industrial in practice, the brick seems to be the perfect interpretation of the “anonymous” design postulated by Bruno Munari, an exemplary object to which the master could have assigned his “Compasso d’Oro for unknown creators.”
160 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Some Magazine #18—Studio Practice
Isbn 9783948440725
Publisher Slanted Publishers
Idea code 24320
€ 12.00
Some Magazine #18—Studio Practice delves into the concept of the artist's studio throughout history. From its origins as a legendary and fabled place in the early Renaissance to its transformation into a dynamic and adaptable space in the digital age, the artist's studio has undergone significant changes over time. This issue examines how artists' practices have shifted alongside with technological advancement and artistic trends. The magazine examines the concept of 'studio practice' and describes how artists organize their creative processes from inspiration to presentation. It invites readers to explore the multifaceted nature of creative work and the diverse approaches creative practitioners pursue in shaping their artistic practice.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Publi Fluor, Letter Business in Brussels
Isbn 9782931110102
Publisher Surfaces Utiles
Idea code 24210
€ 36.55
A self-taught typographic letterer, Chrystel Crickx used to cut out letters by hand and sell them by the piece in her Publi Fluor shop in Schaerbeek, Belgium. Commercialized between 1975 and 2000 for local advertising and signage purposes, these letters have since been digitized and made more widely available to users outside of the Belgian borders and in other contexts. At the margins of standard means of communication, they have contributed to shape (and still do) the urban visual landscape, in Brussels and elsewhere. This non-standard, collective essay attempts both to recount the life of a type model — as well as of its successive authors and their tools — while expanding the field of investigation to examine the cracks between the different stories summoned up by Chrystel Crickx's practice summons up.
384 p, ills colour, 17 x 23 cm, pb, Dutch/French/English
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Why doesn’t anyone ever tell me anything?
Isbn 9789083269245
Publisher De Buitenkant
Idea code
€ 10.00
More and more designers are studying type design. There are also more courses to specialise in type design compared to 30 years ago, especially outside Europe. However, the time available during studies is never enough to cover all relevant topics, and we can never all meet, which is why the type designers at Underware wrote a letter to their future colleagues, hoping to have enough interesting conversation material at their next meeting. Or at least to prevent students from wondering why no one ever tells them anything.
24 p, ills bw, 12 x 19 cm, pb, English
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A Visible Distance - Craft, Creativity, and the Business of Design
Isbn 9789083404141
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 24270
€ 22.00
Providing tactical strategies and creative support to tackle the complexities of balancing intuition and taste, technical and personal capability, strategic business decisions in design work and the demands of modern brand building, this book speaks to students, educators, and seasoned professionals. Part personal memoir and part professional manual by Matt Owens, A Visible Distance, Craft, Creativity, and the Business of Design is a reality check to challenges when building a practice in graphic design or branding. These lessons and learnings span the recent decades: from his roots in DIY, punk, and skateboarding in the later 80s, to the advent of the commercialization of the internet in the late 1990s, building and growing a creative agency, to the present disruption of artificial intelligence, automation, and distributed hybrid teams.
236 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Louise Fili - A Typographer's Mother Goose
Isbn 9791254931004
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code
€ 20.85
A Typographer’s Mother Goose is a sophisticated volume in which traditional nursery rhymes dialogue and intertwine with elegant typefaces that have emerged from the brilliant pencil of Louise Fili. A game of cross-references and reiterations in which the author, an international benchmark in graphic and type design, elegantly combines rhymes and lettering, resulting in new compositions that are sure to fascinate adults and children alike. From page to page we see the letters come alive, changing colour, shape and size; we follow them as they move, fall, run, bend and slide away, like characters full of life.
48 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 15 cm, hb, Italian/English
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Paul Gangloff - Freinet Techniques
Isbn 9783906213446
Publisher Rollo Press
Idea code 24269
€ 29.55
'Freinet Techniques' is a project by graphic designer Paul Gangloff. It aims to publish a selection of texts written, typeset and printed by children on the presses of the Freinet schools between the 1920’s and 1980’s. Reproduced from the archives of the association les Amis de Freinet, the children’s texts are accompanied by three essays by graphic designer César Rogers, artist and researcher Marie Preston and Gangloff. The essays make a link between the ideological framework of the Freinet techniques and contemporary practices of graphic design, literacy and co-creation.
296 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 21 cm, hb, English/Dutch/French
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Signs Fiction - Seeking a New Language
Isbn 9789526528625
Publisher Other Editions
Idea code 24253
€ 25.00
Over the years, construction workers seem to have developed a mysterious script made with adhesive tape that is readable by only a few. What do these signs mean? Is this some sort of secret language? Or is there no meaning at all? Are things always as they seem? Visual artist and architect SerraGlia, fascinated by cities and by semiotics, decided to create an artistic and slightly ironic visual statement about these found signs. He is not seeking to reveal their absolute truth. Instead, he wants to question our perception of our surroundings.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, hb, English
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I AM GONZO. My dirty italian zines fuck serious scientific books
new, revised edition
Isbn 9788897753186
Publisher Viaindustriae
Idea code 24225
€ 25.55
This revised edition of 'Gonzo' includes three new erotic stories and supplementary matter tobring it up to date as a new issue of the series. A porn addict amateur who collects dirty Italian comics inan “animalistic” way, Gonzo applies a conservative technique whereby he hides these questionablyviewable images within scientific libraries. This book addresses a widespread form of collecting thatavoids the subject of the “arty” comic strip and instead dives headlong into obscene material and theviewer’s experience of it. This mega-collection of pornographic Italian comics faithfully presents the genrefrom its sensual, sexual-phobic beginnings (1960-1970) to its porno-violent shift, between the years 1985and 2000. Voyeuristic and chock-full of thematic variants, from transgenderism and homoeroticism to fairytale, zombie, and cyber porn.
272 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 19 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Yangon Fashion 1979 | Fashion = Resistance
Isbn 9783950407938
Publisher Fraglich Publishing
Idea code 24205
€ 44.40
This book by Lukas Birk offers a unique insight into the photographs that brought a spark of free expression to the fashionable youth of Yangon in the late 1970s, despite military rule. Photo studios around Yangon University and downtown attracted an enormous number of young clients posing in stylish outfits, some of which were even custom-tailored for the occasion. The resulting images are something like an old-school Facebook: an exchange of physical imagery, as the photographs were usually shared with friends. The images in the book show that fashion always comes through. No matter the barriers, people want to look beautiful and present themselves as such.
152 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 30 cm, pb, English & Burmese Introduction
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Illustrators Annual 2024
Isbn 9791254930984
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 24255
€ 54.30
A key showcase for discovering trends and artists in illustration, the Bologna Children's Book Fair’s Illustrators Exhibition has accompanied the evolution of children's books for more than 50 years, becoming one of the world's most important events in the panorama of children's illustration. The Illustrators Annual 2024 brings together the illustrations of 78 artists from 31 countries, selected for the 58th Illustrators Exhibition from over 3500 participants.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Bruno Munari
Isbn 9791254931011
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 24256
€ 56.85
While it is true that everyone knows a different Munari, Aldo Tanchis's essay sets out to outline the poetics underlying the entire activity of Bruno Munari, a unique and multifaceted character, bringing together the three classic distinctions of "Munari-artist," "Munari-designer" and "Munari-pedagogist." Tanchis, a researcher, writer and screenwriter, starts from the artist as a child, from his life in the Venetian countryside, an enormous reservoir of natural suggestions that would always animate all his production, and recounts his artistic production as an activity at the service of life and closely connected to it.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Very Charming Animals: Humans
Isbn 9782940695270
Publisher Label Rapace
Idea code 24267
€ 37.00
Following on his publication ‘Very Charming Animals: Cats’, Augustin Rebetez returns with ‘Humans’, an unsettling and weirdly provocative portrayal of the flawed human subject. Delving into the depths of the internet, the Swiss artist cherry-picks various images, casually retouching and combining them using Photoshop. The result is a nightmarish menagerie of all kinds of human faces and poor dental hygiene mixed with animal attributes such as sharp teeth, textured skin, swathes of hair, and more. In his vibrant exploration of a total art which defies categorisation, Rebetez collaborates with artists, punks, models, musicians, and friends in producing his surprising body of work.
68 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 34 cm, pb, English
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Textile Textures – Multithreaded Narratives
Isbn 9788867493258
Publisher Mousse Publishing
Idea code 24279
€ 32.25
Textile Textures: Multithreaded Narratives is a collective volume edited by Marta Kowalewska, an outcome of the international project "Interweaving Structures: Fabric as Material, Method and Message" organized jointly by the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź, the Bergen Faculty of Fine Arts, Music and Design, and the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. The book explores the medium of textile, regarded from the perspectives of art, history, anthropology, technology, politics, post-colonialism, museology, curatorship, and fashion, as well as from personal points of view taking shape amidst questions on identity, tradition, craft, collaboration and kinships with architecture, design, and industry. Individual themes are examined in relation to the issue of textile being a tangible medium of memory and a unique language which, by virtue of its nature, interweaves a variety of different themes.
264 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Bob Marley by Dennis Morris - Portraits of The King
Isbn 9784908749445
Publisher Tang Deng Co.
Idea code 24313
€ 58.50
Bob Marley (1945-1981), reggae god. A genuine superstar whose name is known by all, andwhose importance will be increasingly recognised in 2024 when his first biopic is due to bereleased worldwide. Young photographer Dennis Morris, whose talent was recognized and then welcomed as part of his family by Bob Marley, followed THE WAILERS closely from their first UK tour ("Catch a Fire Tour" 1973) and took many masterful photographs. The portraits of Bob Marley by Dennis Morris are the result of their friendship, and you're sure to have seen at least one or two of them somewhere before.
84 p, ills colour, 26 x 34 cm, hb, English
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Redstone Diary 2025: Moments of Happiness
Isbn 9781739597610
Publisher Redstone Press
Idea code 24199
€ 16.50
Life, the philosophers say, should be spent in pursuit of happiness. We are bombarded with advice on what fulfilment looks like: on how to be, what not to do, improvement plans, mantras of wellbeing, being kind to oneself, and others. But such contentment, as Émilie du Châtelet points out, remains elusive. Nor is it a rational goal, however alluring. We can, at best, only see glimmers of such pleasures and recall them in retrospect. But if we can place these moments together, day by day, across weeks and months, we can achieve something like a good life.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 25 cm, pb, English
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O.OO: No Magic In Riso (reprint)
Isbn 9789869758802
Publisher O.OO Risograph & Design
Idea code 19361
€ 44.00
It took 850 days, 74 tubes of soy ink, 15 colors, 660 masters, 690,000 sheets of paper, 3 fans, 2 riso printers, and 4 people to complete a book – a 360 page book that only talks about 1 thing. The thing that is always the most fascinating is “Process”. The processes and experiences that did not have the chance to appear in the pages of this book can only be quantified, converted, and recorded into words. The process creates micro-imperfections in printing, similar to spontaneity, or even comparable to how improvisation in jazz can lead to an unexpected but pleasant result. The result of two years of research by O.OO, a graphic design studio based in Taipei, the main focus of this publication is colour separation and experimentation with images. The studio does not claim the colour separation methods described here to be absolute or the “right” way, but offer resources in hopes that they can provide helpful advice in practice while on the path to professionalism in this field.
360 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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