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Slanted Experimental Type 3.0
Isbn 9783948440817
Publisher Slanted Publishers
Idea code 250027
€ 21.75
Following the success of previous issues, 'Slanted Experimental Type' has evolved into an ongoing series exploring ground-breaking approaches in typography and graphic design. The third issue, produced in collaboration with Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, explores the boundaries of creative experimentation and looks at design strategies that incorporate accidents, inaccuracies, and unconventional methods, showcasing typefaces that have emerged from unique concepts or systems. From AI-generated typefaces to variable fonts, 'Slanted Experimental Type 3.0' challenges norms and redefines the design process. An invitation to venture into uncharted territory, change perspectives, and challenge the boundaries we draw – both in design and beyond.
296 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Molecular Typography Laboratory
Isbn 9783948440794
Publisher Slanted Publishers
Idea code 24699
€ 42.00
Molecular Typography Laboratory by Kobi Franco is a speculative research project that delves into experimental typography, exploring the intersection of function versus aesthetics and content versus form. This profound study operates on the premise that Latin and Hebrew letters possess a molecular structure, examining how this assumption can be applied to alphabets and languages. It is an interdisciplinary endeavor that bridges the gap between design, science, and language. The research involves a series of over 150 tests, each designed as a structured “game” where Franco defines the rules, sets the stage, and selects the participants. The book features four illuminating essays that provide historical, cultural, and academic insights into typographic research.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, Hebrew/English
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I Thought It Was Love, But It Was Just A Barbecue
Isbn 9789526528649
Publisher Other Editions
Idea code 250081
€ 25.00
This book explores the unexpected beauty of everyday objects temporarily covered in the urban landscape. From bikes to cars, barbecues to patio furniture, and even plants, these covered objects are often along our paths, yet we’re never quite sure what’s hidden underneath. Blending humor with insight, the book dives into the mystery of the unseen, drawing parallels between the objects we pass by daily and the complexities of human perception. It invites readers to question how much of what we “see” is shaped by our experiences, imagination, and the stories we tell ourselves. With reflections on perception, life, and everything in between, it celebrates ambiguity and the rich possibilities that come from embracing the unknown. After all, isn’t it the hidden and uncertain that keep us curious and engaged with the world around us?
88 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Revue Faire 49: Lawrence Weiner
Isbn 9791095991458
Publisher Editions Empire
Idea code 250047
€ 10.75
The 49th issue of the critical graphic design journal is about Lawrence Weiner and his relationship with typography, titled “We Are Ships at Sea, Not Ducks On a Pond” and written by Joris Kritis. Its glossy, full-colour pages honour Weiner's use of graphic design, which has always in turn fascinated graphic designers. What makes Weiner's work seductive is his resolutely non-apologetic method of displaying words without need for any explanation. A comparative analysis is made of different voices about Weiner's use of graphics and typography. Next to a speculative history of Weiner's formal language, two interviews with graphic designer Linda Van Deursen and artist Nora Turato discuss Weiner's enduring legacy.
62 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, French/English
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Through witnessing. Threading the critiquing, making, teaching of design
Isbn 9789083350127
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 250021
€ 25.00
This book names and wrestles with design and institutional design education’s pseudo-neutral relationship with colonial capitalist world orders and what it means to teach and design today. It slowly weaves together ideas on designing as a mechanism of maintenance and teaching against bureaucratic inertia. How does design give form to social fictions? How does design and the professionalization of design schooling maintain the priorities of nations and capital? Engaging in pedagogical expressions of rage, generosity, forgiveness, slowness, and chaos; contributions of lecture, essay and interview reflect on the weight of being, the possibilities and sometimes impossibilities towards un-doing and un-maintaining the enduring legacies of colonial powers.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Design History Reader - an emerging vision for a new narrative
Isbn 9789493382084
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 250058
€ 24.00
'Design History Reader' contains a pluralistic approach to teaching and narrating graphic design history by presenting one that actually reflects the diversity in the profession and in the classroom. This book also grapples with the paradox that while historians intentionally craft historical discourse based on collective knowledge, it often remains bound to a singular perspective. Those perspectives multiplied when Boston University History of Graphic Design students embraced a plural design history pedagogy. Students challenged the Western design history canon through written research that targets under-known designers and design movements who they believe deserve representation. The project includes a comprehensive collection of essays that were curated across a range of perspectives and conceptual ecosystems.
324 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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The Sori Yanagi Appreciation Society
Isbn 9783906213538
Publisher Rollo Press
Idea code 250035
€ 29.00
Announcing the inauguration of the Sori Yanagi Appreciation Society, this is also the first publication outside of Japan on one of the 20th century’s most important industrial designers. Sori Yanagi (1915–2011) is especially known for his ability to merge modernist simplicity and practicality with elements of traditional Japanese crafts in products that are both uncomplicated and beautiful. Founded by Michael Marriott and Duncan Riches, the society aims to bring knowledge about his legacy to a wider audience. The book features more than 100 contributions from designers, curators, artists, and critics, including anecdotal and academic texts, drawings, photographs, and more.
256 p, ills bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Radical Media Archive Vol. 1/7
Isbn 9782959599903
Publisher Permanent Files
Idea code 250057
€ 40.85
'Radical Media Archive vol.1' is the first in a series of seven books, studying the visual languages of counterculture, revolutionary, personal and mass-emancipation movements in the 1960s and the 1970s. It does not constitute a manifesto but a document of a period where graphic designers (from the complete unknown to superstars like Milton Glaser) would put their talent in the service of the causes they believed in — some righteous, successful, some excessive, flawed or doomed from the beginning. These provocative images are put in dialogue with record covers, underground comix and even advertising of the era to show that regardless of ideology, this period of time in graphic design was incredibly rich and inspiring.
304 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Coastalvision: Heavily-saturated Tropicaliá by Ardneks
Isbn 9781735452128
Publisher Jordan, jordan Édition
Idea code 250017
€ 55.00
‘Coastalvision: Heavily-saturated Tropicaliá’ follows the artistic journey of the outsider artist Kendra Ahimsa (aka Ardneks) from 2011 to 2023. Presented through a series of interviews between Ardneks and radio announcers from around the globe, the story blends reality, fantasy, and candid nostalgia – just like the colourful and mind-boggling artworks Ardneks envisions. Interesting to note is how he engages with various religious deities and symbols, with cross-cultural references inspired by Islam (including Sufism), Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity. Ardneks has also attracted the attention of internationally acclaimed bands, leading to original artwork for local concert posters.
360 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 25 cm, pb, English
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Feminism, Pedagogy and the Studio: Reflections Across Four Decades
Isbn 9781915609663
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 250002
€ 12.00
This book combines two lectures by feminist art historian Griselda Pollock, delivered in 1985 and 2022. In 1985, Pollock critiqued the gender politics of twentieth-century art education, highlighting its reinforcement of masculinist ideologies and the exclusion of women artists despite their significant contributions. She advocated for "feminist interventions in art's histories" to challenge the male-dominated art narrative and formalist art theory. In 2022, Pollock revisited the impact of the theoretical revolution of 1968 and examined the major geopolitical and ideological shifts post-1989, 2001, and especially 2007. She identifies the a troubling cultural tendency post-2010 (with thanks to Derrida) she names "insta-grammatology," critiquing social media's role in simplifying nuanced thinking and enforcing political surveillance of ideas.
120 p, no ills, 11 x 16 cm, pb, English
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Gender and Postsecularity in Knowledge Production and Visual Culture
Isbn 9781915609434
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 250013
€ 20.95
During the last three decades, religious practices have gained increased visibility on a global scale, while the concept of secularity—and its relationship to religion—has become an object of intense interdisciplinary debates internationally. While the secular and the religious previously had marginalized positions within the academic field of gender studies, we can now observe a growing interest in religion and spirituality within this area of study, as well as gender-based activism. This publication features essays by scholars in gender and religious studies that collectively reflect upon and develop interdisciplinary and transregional ideas about the intricate dynamics of secularity, religiosity, and gender. The texts explore the entanglements and borders of religions and secularities in everyday life, as well as in art, culture, and knowledge production. Situated in an understanding of religion as both a category of thought and a marker of identity, this book considers new approaches to exploring the dynamic relationships between religiosity, secularity, and gender.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Imagine
Isbn 9783856168889
Publisher Christoph Merian
Idea code 250064
€ 40.85
This richly illustrated review of the various developments at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW embraces contributions from the institutes and their cultural partners outlining the status of research in art, design and the media and covering the 2018 symposium Imagination Friction Transformation. A significant part of this publication focuses on creative processes, ranging from idea to concept to implementation and to artwork, as generators of social and aesthetic results. How are the resources knowledge, nutrition, energy sources and time constituted in a society? How do they shape communal life? Which strategies are applied? What is the social value of art?
360 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, German/English
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Hato Zines nr 48 Reflection by Rio Kobayashi
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Publisher Hato Press
Idea code 24695
€ 11.45
A psychedelic journey through the artist’s mind, Kobayashi’s zine reflects on childhood memories of feeding chickens, catching bugs, and recounting tales of confiscated Game Boys. Viewers are invited to wander past chairs, tables, and pavilions, considering the creative journey and the memories which inform it.
16 p, ills colour, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Where in the Woset (colouring book)
Isbn
Publisher Hato Press
Idea code 250076
€ 15.60
The 13.5 Woset residents and their personalities exist to rebuild creative confidence in both kids and adults. Colouring book illustrated by Jay Cover on behalf of Woset Inc. Woset's mission is to inspire and nurture the endless imaginations of children between the ages of 0-1000 through Creative Tools and storytelling.
32 p, ills bw, 20 x 28 cm, pb, English
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