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Yearbook of Type 7: Plant Edition
Isbn 9783948440770
Publisher Slanted Publishers
Idea code 24797
€ 48.00
Building on the success of its predecessors, the 'Yearbook of Type #7' presents an updated design concept, featuring new finishes and fresh features for an enhanced reading experience.With a thematic focus on plants, this edition offers a unique perspective on typography. Each typeface is showcased across three pages, providing a comprehensive overview of its characteristics and features: A spread with an appealing visual specimen of the typefaceto match the character of the typeface. Additionally, the book includes essays and interviews that offer valuable insights into the world of type design as well as an extensive index of all typefaces.
608 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, hb, English
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The New Era Magazine 5
Isbn 9789189270909
Publisher The New Era Magazine
Idea code 24687
€ 25.00
The New Era Magazine brings together interiors, architecture, design and craft in a elegantly designed bi annual publication. In every issue readers meet some of the most interesting spaces, people and topics of this moment in time. ISSUE 05 pays tribute to the Nordic design heritage, with visits to some of the most iconic homes in the region, including those of masters such as Yrjö Kukkapuro and Bruno Mathsson. We also get to sit down with interior designer Beata Heuman in her eclectic London home, and spend time with the master Jonas Bohlin in his combined home and atelier. Elsewhere in the issue highlights on some of the new artists and galleries paving the way right now.
216 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Fracture: Japanese Graphic Design 1875–1975
Isbn 9789083449845
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 24839
€ 29.55
Fracture: Japanese Graphic Design 1875–1975 is a richly illustrated and accessible survey of the history of Japanese graphic design. Designer, educator, critic, and historian Ian Lynam traces the evolution of graphic design in Japan, from its roots in the graphic arts to the cusp of the digital era. Grounded in a series of insightful essays, Fracture offers readers a deep understanding of the profound cultural shifts Japan has experienced since re-opening to the West, exploring themes such as modernity, imperialism, gender, commercialism, sexuality, and aesthetics.
448 p, ills colour, 19 x 26 cm, hb, English
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Anne-Sofie Back: Go as You Please, 1998–2018
Isbn 9789198870572
Publisher Art & Theory Publishing
Idea code 24773
€ 52.70
Ann-Sofie Back graduated from Central St Martin's in 1998 and is known for her subversive and thought-provoking fashion, often inspired by clichés about femininity, shame, and failed glamour. The book covers Ann-Sofie Back's entire career, including sketches, catwalk images, campaigns, press clippings, and show invitations. It also includes various styling assignments by Ann-Sofie Back for Self Service, Purple, and Dazed, among others. The catalogue also includes texts from interviews and articles.
320 p, ills colour, 24 x 28 cm, pb, English
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The City Is Ours #6: Involuntary Sculptures
Isbn 9789526528632
Publisher Other Editions
Idea code 24792
€ 22.00
Inspired by the ideas of Marcel Duchamp and Akasegawa Genpei, this final issue explores the concept of “involuntary sculptures.” These are objects and structures in our cities, not created by artists, but emerging from everyday interactions and casual arrangements. By recognizing and appreciating these unnoticed objects, we can transform our perception, finding unexpected beauty and meaning in the most familiar urban landscapes. What hidden masterpieces will you discover today?
80 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Scratching the Surface – An Exploration of Graffiti and Street Art
Isbn 9789076936611
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 24786
€ 14.60
In this collection of essays, the various manifestations of graffiti and street art, what they represent, and how they relate to each other are explored. The book examines how a piece can add something to an environment, as well as how we can appreciate it as artistically distinctive. Other questions include how to exhibit such expressions in a museum and what is lost when illegal graffiti is replaced with commissioned murals. After all, these art forms may not necessarily need or want to be institutionalised or understood. Eight authors guide readers through their professional and personal experiences, while their contributions provide a foundation for further dialogue on the topic.
140 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 19 cm, hb, English
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Steve: A Framework for AI and Identity Design
Isbn 9789083404172
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 24832
€ 26.00
In the first book to map out what AI brings to graphic design – and to identity design in particular – author Melani De Luca shares the experiences of designers in the field and pinpoints coherent working methods, practical approaches, and ethical structures. Balancing between playful writing, using the voice of AI persona Steve, and rigorous academic inquiry, she offers a replicable conceptual framework that advances methodology and practice in graphic design, integrating AI and machine learning. The investigation highlights augmentation rather than replacing designers through automation and articulates how design teams can make this work best.
330 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Some Magazine 19: Ready
Isbn 9783948440787
Publisher Slanted Publishers
Idea code 24821
€ 12.00
This issue of 'Some Magazine' deals with the phenomenon and the beauty of finishing things. When is a piece of creative work ready, when have we finally reached the end of the process? Or is there no such thing as »ready« in our world permanent intermediate state? The Some team talks to artists and designers from very different fields and cultures about their methods, their thoughts, sometimes their despair and then also about final results. A magazine full of inspiring examples that takes the reader on a journey to and through very different creative practices in art and design.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Dutch designers Yearbook '24-'25
Isbn 9789462088818
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 24859
€ 29.95
Presented by BNO, the Association of Dutch Designers, the publication traces the significant recent trends and developments in the Dutch design sector. This edition revolves around the theme “(Off) Balance”. How do designers find inspiration and balance in a world increasingly complicated by the major issues of our time? Is it business as usual or are new forms of functionality and meaning being sought amid polarisation, global conflicts, climate change, and technological innovation? The yearbook includes essays and interviews, standout graduation projects from Dutch design academies, award-winning work, and profiles of influential people in the scene.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, hb, English
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Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode
Isbn 9781914236457
Publisher Rough Trade Books
Idea code 24781
€ 17.60
As formally inventive as readers have come to expect from one of the most daring writers around, and as wild and tricky as its subject matter requires, 'Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode' presents us with a series of essays and poems that playfully, artfully propound Jen Calleja's theory of "goblin hood" – a theory that takes in film, literature, art, and the author’s own distinct and wholly original intellectual and physical response to the world. Goblinhood is a perpetually and variously curious, visceral addition to Calleja’s remarkable oeuvre.
190 p, no ills, 13 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Designerly ways of knowing: a working inventory of things a designer should know
Isbn 9789083449883
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 24837
€ 11.55
Design thinking has created divisions in the discipline: either designers are too theory driven or simply practitioners. Those feeling lost can easily turn to a language meant to inspire creative production in easy to pitch ways. Led by Antonio Gramsci’s advice that knowing thyself requires compiling an inventory, design critic, educator, and researcher Danah Abdulla pays tribute to the late architect, activist, and critic Michael Sorkin, whose original list 'Two Hundred and Fifty Things an Architect Should Know' inspired this updated version targeted at designers. The iterative list is not meant to be a definitive how to guide, but to spark conversations, to prompt critical thinking and to help designers reconfigure their discipline.
64 p, no ills, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Revue Faire – To look at things #47 & 48 – Mechanical Translations
Isbn 9791095991441
Publisher Editions Empire
Idea code 24761
€ 15.05
This double issue examines the origins of the automation and mechanisation of translation and writing. Issue 47, “Machines, Accents, and Affects,” begins with a machine built by Dr René Marage in the late 19th century. Along with the history of graphic inscription of the voice, a history of our attraction and repulsion to technical objects is revealed. Issue 48, “Electric Letters,” looks at digital computing’s impact on writing by delving into its origins: the treatment of binary code. This transformation emerges in telegraphs and the advent of electricity in the 19th century. Our writings, initially addressed and interpreted by humans, are completed by a code that the machine can manipulate.
68 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 29 cm, pb, French/English
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Revue Faire 46: – To look at things – A calculated approach: Norm's unreasonable reasonableness
Isbn 9791095991434
Publisher Editions Empire
Idea code 24760
€ 15.05
The 46th issue of the critical graphic design journal is devoted to the Zurich-based graphic design studio Norm. Founded in 1999 by Dimitri Bruni and Manuel Krebs, the office was later joined by Ludovic Varone in 2005. The studio has only ever known computerised graphic design; it is their native language. Norm can be described as reasonable graphic designers who have created for themselves a reasonable foundation for decision-making. The computerised graphic design protocols they have established are also reasonable, and with them they are able to handle the vicissitudes of content.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 29 cm, pb, French/English
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Voynich Manuscript. The complete Edition. All plates.
Isbn 9783968494098
Publisher Favoriten Presse
Idea code 24853
€ 38.80
The Voynich manuscript, named after Polish bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich, who acquired it from Italian Jesuits in 1912, is a handwritten medieval document whose subject matter remains a mystery. It contains floral and anatomical as well as cosmological, biological, and pharmaceutical sections with stunning illustrations. Its geographic origin is vague, and the script is even more of an enigma. Since the manuscript’s popularisation in the 20th century, no one has succeeded in deciphering the text. This book reproduces the entire surviving manuscript, page by page, offering readers a chance to rediscover it in detail with the help of numerous illustrations and close-ups.
288 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 31 cm, hb, German/English
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Walter Trier - Nazi-German in 22 lessons
Isbn 9783968490533
Publisher Favoriten Presse
Idea code 24855
€ 14.30
Czech-German illustrator Walter Trier (1890–1951) created this satirical pamphlet in 1942, commissioned by the British Ministry of Information as a targeted strike on National Socialism. This book makes it available again, with historical analysis offered by German writer and curator Max Czollek and Trier biographer Antje M. Warthorst. Trier’s unique style, which he himself once described as “grotesque”, is marked by an ironic manipulation of reality posited from the perspective of sober humanity. His humour is a place where the present day becomes visible in all its absurdity. This series showcases not only Trier’s artistic mastery but also his tragedy, apprehension, and rage.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 17 cm, hb, German/English
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Jakob Hinrichs – Modern Cyclists, Manifestations of an Intimate Relationship
Isbn 9783968490922
Publisher Favoriten Presse
Idea code 250068
€ 18.40
In the past, cities like Amsterdam and Copenhagen set the standard for cycling culture. Today, however, the love of bicycles is impossible to miss in other European metropolises. Cyclists navigate these urban landscapes in colorful, diverse, and creative ways, with their choice of bike often reflecting who they are—or aspire to be. Berlin-based illustrator Jakob Hinrichs, a proud rider of an old Dutch bike, has observed this phenomenon closely. With his distinctive style, he has created a typology of cyclists that delights the eye, appealing to more than just two-wheel enthusiasts. From the trash cyclist to the speed queen and the beige brigade from the countryside, Modern Cyclists showcases the characters rolling through the city.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 21 cm, pb, German/English
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Walter Trier - V for Victory
Isbn 9783968490946
Publisher Favoriten Presse
Idea code 24856
€ 14.30
After fleeing Nazi Germany in 1936, Walter Trier (1890–1951) created numerous caricatures while in exile in London, helping the British Ministry of Information produce anti-Nazi leaflets and propaganda. By 1941, the likely date of origin for Trier’s “V for Victory” leaflet, propaganda had become an essential weapon in World War II, its practitioners seeking to fine-tune messages that would impact the enemy’s psyche or boost morale on the home front. The most influential examples of Trier’s visual battle against fascism are collected in this volume, accompanied by essays by journalist Philip Ottermann and author and Trier biographer Antje M. Warthorst.
84 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 17 cm, hb, German/English
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