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Rop van Mierlo - Memory Game
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Publisher Rop van Mierlo
Idea code 24804
€ 36.00
Dutch artist Rop van Mierlo’s charming take on Memory, a game featuring 72 cards, forms 36 pairs to remember and collect to win. Van Mierlo hand-painted individual cards depicting rare, cute, or beloved animals in soft, colourful strokes. Each card showcases an original image painted between 2010 and 2024, and no two cards are exactly the same. Even the matching zebras, cobras, and racoons vary in originality. An enclosed list describes every creature in the box, from an ‘Asterope optima’ butterfly to a kingfisher.
72 cards, ills colour & bw, 20 x 20 cm, box, no text
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Revealing Recording Reflecting: Graphic Women from Southwest Asia and North Africa
Isbn 9789490939335
Publisher Khatt Books
Idea code 24915
€ 60.80
Since the 1950s, the presence of women designers in Southwest Asia and North Africa in discourses on design and visual culture has remained largely under the radar. This book focuses on the work and stories of these women (graphic designers, illustrators, calligraphers, and typographers), assembling the various findings in order to establish a foundation of women role models, while also informing the design and research community at large about the wealth and social significance of their contributions. Through critical writing, testimonials, artworks, and more, it invites further exploration and discussions on the position of graphic women in the visual culture of these regions.
640 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 21 cm, hb, English
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Science of the Secondary 16: Book
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Publisher Atelier Hoko
Idea code 24606
€ 19.60
“These days, there is a lot of confusion and discussion about different reading formats. They often weary us with their variations, cramming functions and features we do not need and doing it clumsily when all we really want, is a simple book that is well-sized and easy to flip. Despite this, many people seamlessly transition from physical books to electronic devices and are seemingly unaffected even though between the two mediums lies differences that are discreet, restrained and subtle that one must know how to perceive. But it seems we have already learned not to question it…". ‘Science of the Secondary: Book’ is the 16th edition in the series of ongoing research conceived and developed by Atelier HOKO.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 25 cm, pb, English
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Radim Pesko – Type and Context
Isbn 9789464460636
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 24890
€ 15.00
Learning from the inscription in the courtyard of the Ducal Palace of Urbino, typeface designer Radim Peško considers different approaches based on the original letterforms from the Renaissance. This leads to experimentation with technologies, using different methods, and constructing new typefaces to not only demonstrate the resulting fonts but also give context to their origins. The publication features texts by Peško alongside contributions by Francesco Delrosso, Stuart Bertolotti Bailey, James Langdon, Daniele Bursich, and Jonathan Pierini. Designed by Peško and Pierini.
40 p, ills bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Briar Levit - On Design, Feminism, and Friendship
Isbn 9789893585900
Publisher Bikini Books & Clube do Livro do Design
Idea code 24785
€ 16.50
Briar Levit’s design journey is as rich and unexpected as a forest hike. From the bustling offices of Bitch magazine to historic trails in Kent and the best Goodwills of Portland, her practice weaves through teaching, writing, editing, archiving, and documentary making. This illustrated interview traces her winding path across a changing feminist landscape, shedding light on how design and activism intertwine, the micropolitics of work, and the value of friendship. It’s an intimate conversation about how unplanned routes often lead to the most meaningful destinations.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Jesus Cisneros – The Tempest
Isbn 9782902565573
Publisher Fotokino
Idea code 24799
€ 32.25
Rather than simply illustrating William Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’, Jesús Cisneros offers us a personal, poetic vision of the text through which we hear the voice of the character Ariel. Using the myriad possibilities drawing offers, his universe is one where visible and invisible, reality and dream, intermingle. In the process, the Spanish artist reinvents the infinite number of ways to read this timeless work. Nourished by popular and non-Western art as well as 20th-century avant-gardes, his drawings have the power of spontaneity and the intensity of imagination. Besides commissions and teaching, his research and personal projects have developed into a nuanced aesthetic and laboratory.
64 p, ills colour, 29 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Design Stories – New Perspectives on a Collection
Isbn 9789189270671
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 24778
€ 37.65
The traditional perspective is that design shapes things to make them more attractive to consumers, easier to manufacture and use, and to generate market value. However, it is also a matter of creation linked to change – a way to protest injustices or offer social commentary. How design is approached affects the possibility of challenging dominant power structures, which have themselves determined the path of design over time. This volume appears with a new permanent exhibition at Gothenburg’s Röhsska Museum. Through essays, conversations, and images, a range of design-critical issues are discussed, reflecting on the roles of both design and the museum in society.
376 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Street Report 5: Carpet Hangers (Zagreb)
Isbn 9789819412440
Publisher Temporary Press
Idea code 24888
€ 19.10
The fifth Street Report observes the klofer štange (carpet hangers) in the neighbourhoods of Zagreb, Croatia. These utilitarian furniture, commonly built in post-war socialist housing estates, function as a public hanging amenity to dust privately-owned carpets. Even though its relevance in public life may have waned with modern vacuum cleaners and other cleaning products, it still stands in between the housing blocks. Some have found new public functions, some find themselves in awkward situations as life rearranges itself, and some look almost as if they are minimalist sculptures. Why has it not been removed?
128 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 28 cm, pb, English
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The beech at the end of a star by Christian + Jade
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Publisher Temporary Press
Idea code 24889
€ 21.85
The word beech and the word book share an etymological root in old Germanic, as the beech bark was likely used as early writing material, linking the tree historically to symbols of knowledge, learning and wisdom. In this beech book, a single beech tree is documented across a year, where the changes of the seasons are captured in its leaves, branches, flowers and seeds. This book was made for The Age of Wood, an exhibition curated and conceptualised by Christian+Jade with Karimoku Research and held in Tokyo, Japan. Short text by Christian Hammer Juhl. Risograph printed in black, green, and yellow, on recycled stock. The thread-sewn binding is deliberately unfinished (loose threads without glue) and the paper chosen yellows fast with exposure to light — the pages of this book changes its state and falls off over time.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Liset van der Scheer - Fascination | Textile
Isbn 9789462265318
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 24739
€ 40.00
In 'Fascination | Textile', textile designer Liset van der Scheer shares her extensive knowledge and passion for textile techniques. Over her 45-year career, she developed a wide range of new industrial methods and applications. She achieved this by deconstructing existing techniques and then adapting them to suit her own needs. She created designs, yarns, structures, colour series, and products for clients such as Van Besouw, Casalis, Danskina, and De Ploeg, as well as textiles for her own label, TeTTeX. In 2005, she won a Dutch Design Award for her collection of knitted bathroom textiles.
356 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 17 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Alessandro Sanna - A Home, My Home
Isbn 9791254931141
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 24714
€ 18.30
Two walls and a roof as a shelter. A home warms the hearts of the ones that live in it and shelters when it rains; it’s the place where one happily returns and where one feels “at home”.Alessandro Sanna’s book re-creates the same atmosphere of warmth and serenity of being at home. Its shape, essential but immediate, appears in each page as starting point of a series of variations suggested by the image and imagination. The constant black image of home is “fulfilled” by the red illustrations, that create many possible illustrations: "home" turns into a "coffee-maker", or maybe some "trees" or eventually a "kite"... Written and drawn in the aftermath of the earthquake in Abruzzo, A home, my home - now available again fifteen years after the first edition - is a poem dedicated to all the children of the world who have lost their homes.
40 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 22 cm, pb, Italian/English/French/Spanish/Japanese
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Pongchak Art 1001
Isbn 9784903883816
Publisher Tokyo Kirara
Idea code 24912
€ 36.70
The world’s first Pongchak cassette art book reveals the shared history of music and art in Korea. Produced in astonishing quantities from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, and almost completely unrelated to mass media, the package art featured in this anthology is drawn from a collection that was launched 40 years ago, thanks to the Phantom Masterpiece Liberation League. Its three members – special manga artist Kei Nemoto, music critic Manabu Yuasa, and freelance writer Hideo Funabashi – have made efforts to unearth forgotten masterpieces, not necessarily obscure albums. Few things can compare to diverse range of expressions you will encounter here.
304 p, ills colour, 13 x 18 cm, pb, no text
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Ruin's Cat - AI-Generated Ruins Photobook
Isbn 9784903883793
Publisher Tokyo Kirara
Idea code 24817
€ 23.15
The “ruins” genre of photography emerged in public consciousness during the 1990s. Since then, urban exploration (popularly called “urbex”) and exhibitions of ruins have expanded the range of expression, which today includes aerial photography using drones and constructing dioramas. Now, AI-generated images and artworks are pushing the genre’s limits even further. The jaw-dropping scenes collected in this volume could only have been created using AI tools. Meanwhile, the concept of ruins is itself changing from an unwanted, decaying property or site to an urban resource and even tourist attraction. This offers a new way to experience abandoned places, safely and legally.
98 p, ills colour, 18 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Lalie Thébault Maviel - Notre pain quotidien
Isbn 9791096155583
Publisher Tombolo Presses
Idea code 24828
€ 32.25
Notre pain quotidien is a collection of images presented in the form of 156 iconographic spreads. Sourced from various media and mediums such as social networks, cookbooks, educational manuals, and audiovisual archives, these images have been printed to the same scale, cut out, and manually arranged on the confined space of A4 sheets. Transitioning from crumbs to wholeness, these spreads group together different aspects of the culture and iconography of bread without hierarchization, but thematically. As the pages unfold, a collective memory emerges around this staple food which acts as a catalyst for community—covering its production to its most varied uses.
178 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb,
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Confections by Okashimaru
Isbn 9784907562526
Publisher Torch Press
Idea code 24908
€ 40.75
Published to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Okashimaru, Sayoko Sugiyama’s Kyoto-based confectionery studio, ‘Confections by Okashimaru’ features 30 of her own creations. Sugiyama treats her ‘wagashi’ – traditional Japanese confectionery – not as mere food, but as experiences imbued with beauty, discovery, memory, and philosophy. Photographer Takeru Koroda captures the visual subtleties of the confections: textures, colours, delicate proportions, and intricate shapes. The book features a selection of essays that further explore the nature and history of Japanese confectionery, as well as a brief illustrated guide to techniques and tips (the latter in Japanese only).
174 p, ills colour, 19 x 26 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Ilaria Del Canton: Small Dictionary For Polyglot Animals
Isbn 9788875703981
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 24910
€ 12.10
What noise does a cow make? and a donkey? and a chicken? Well, it all depends where you are in the world! Even animals have a powerful love for language and have developed their own way of communicating according to the country they are in. 'The Small Dictionary for Polyglot Animals' looks at animal noises from a multilingual point of view, making it indispensable for globe-trotting language lovers all around the world!
24 p, ills colour, 22 x 22 cm, pb, Italian/English/German/French/Japanese
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Fukushima O-Furoshiki
Isbn 9784600014155
Publisher Project Fukushima
Idea code 24914
€ 112.10
The O-Furoshiki Project, in which pieces of cloth of different sizes, colours, patterns, and materials are collected and sewn to make large patchwork ‘furoshiki’ – traditional Japanese wrapping cloths used to bundle and transport goods – symbolises the civic participation art festival. People can participate in various ways, such as supplying fabric, stitching the pieces together, and spreading out the cloths. The project started with an outdoor festival held in Fukushima in 2011, shortly after the Great East Japan Earthquake, and has since spread elsewhere in Japan. The cloths have become a visual icon of how people with different ideas and in different positions can coexist.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 31 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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agnès b. stories
Isbn 9784861529665
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 24565
€ 23.80
Active since 1973, French fashion designer Agnès B. has always held a special affinity for Japan. Marking her self-named brand’s 40th anniversary, this book contains re-edited content published on the website “my agnès b. story”. It features 40 stories from actors, musicians, and creatives whose mindsets resonate with the brand, as well as from staff members who love it. Names include comedian and writer Naoki Matayoshi, photographer Rinko Kawauchi, actress and singer Hikari Mitsushima, actor Ryo Matsuura, artist and model Meirin, and designer Teruhiro Yanagihara. The book explores the brand’s history to date, with photos and personal messages from its cast.
200 p, ills colour, 19 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Many Hands Make a Quilt: Short Histories of Radical Quilting (Second Edition)
Isbn 9781068625022
Publisher Common Threads Press
Idea code 24846
€ 14.80
A vital and tender record of the quilts that have shaped history — and the hands that stitched them. Throughout history, marginalised communities have turned to the collective intimacies of quilting in moments of need. From the works of Faith Ringgold to social initiatives such as the Navajo Quilting Project, Many Hands Make a Quilt sews together stories of resistance, craft and community in intricate detail, preserving and honouring Black, Indigenous and working-class artistic traditions in naming quilters as artists and activists in their own right.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Munari's Machines (reprint)
Isbn 9788887942828
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 24906
€ 27.20
In this book, Bruno Munari describes, with great seriousness and abundance of detail, machines... useful or useless, certainly unusual: machines for predicting the dawn, a lizard motor for tired turtles, a machine for taming alarm clocks, a tail shaker for lazy dogs... Munari's Machines is a poetic and ironic book that stands out for its inventiveness and creativity. Here Munari shows his ability to fuse art, design and didactics, presenting a series of imaginary machines inspired by the famous American cartoonist Rube Goldberg. Each machine, although the product of pure fantasy, is designed with a sense of realism and functionality, and reflects Munari's profound understanding of the world of design.
28 p, ills colour, 21 x 29 cm, hb, English
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