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Support Independent Type II
Isbn 9783948440824
Publisher Slanted Publishers
Idea code 250212
€ 41.50
The second edition of 'Support Independent Type' celebrates the vibrant culture of independent type design and its influence on design and typography. It features a collection of type specimens that includes digital formats, printed works, and tactile type objects. It shows how independent type foundries are challenging the major type distributors and reflecting wider cultural changes. It introduces new trends and innovative designs and presents itself as a visual art object. This carefully curated collection highlights how independent type design inspires creative innovation.
304 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Cheryl Buckley - Made in Patriarchy
Isbn 9789893585924
Publisher Bikini Books & Clube do Livro do Design
Idea code 250228
€ 16.65
Made in Patriarchy brings together two key texts by design historian Cheryl Buckley. In 1986, Cheryl Buckley argued that design history is shaped by patriarchal biases that trivialize, marginalize, or erase women’s contributions. She advocated for a feminist critique that not only challenges these patriarchal frameworks but also shifts the focus away from individual achievements to recognize women’s roles as designers, consumers, and subjects of representation. Buckley revisited the evolution of the field in 2020, reflecting critically on both its progress and persisting challenges while also addressing gaps in her earlier thinking. As Bibiana Oliveira Serpa notes in her foreword, “questioning one’s own worldview is, in itself, a feminist act.” In her essay, Serpa examines the trajectory of the green pañuelo, a crucial feminist symbol, weaving Buckley’s insights into the broader context of Latin American struggles for justice and equality.
104 p, ills bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Post-Digital Print – The Mutation of Publishing since 1894
Isbn 9789083499376
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 250221
€ 24.00
In this post-digital age, digital technology is no longer a revolutionary phenomenon but a normal part of everyday life. The mutation of music and film into bits and bytes, downloads and streams is now taken for granted. For the world of book and magazine publishing however, this transformation has only just begun. In this book, Alessandro Ludovico re-reads the history of media technology, cultural activism, and the avantgarde arts as a prehistory of cutting through the so-called dichotomy between paper and electronics.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Auto-Correct: Fantasies and Failures of AI, Ethics, and the Driverless Car
Isbn 9789491444814
Publisher Artez Press
Idea code 250251
€ 24.25
The “trolley problem” remains a useful exercise in drawing out the differences between utilitarian and deontological approaches to ethics in analytic philosophy. However, the thought experiment also determined imagining what AI-infused artefacts should be capable of, suggesting that ethical decision-making becomes a data-driven enterprise rather than a human, social, or individualised practice. Maya Indira Ganesh tracks the language, materiality, and culture of epistemic tools that establish safety and automobility as problems to be solved by the driverless car, examining outputs of AI systems versus what constitutes our social and technological presents and futures.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 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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Knitting'n Stitching Archives
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Publisher Elvis Press
Idea code 250131
€ 35.65
A dress made for a child, an embroidery piece completed over several years, lace knitted absentmindedly, a sweater made from whatever yarn was on hand… What can we learn from the things that were made for family, loved ones, and for oneself, and then carefully stored? This book is about handicraft culture, presenting a collection of works by the Minatomachi Handicraft Club in Nagoya, which artist Miyata Asuka has run since 2017. Besides introducing the works of seven crafters in their 60s to 90s, whom Miyata met during her activities, the book includes interviews with the crafters, an essay by artist Nagashima Yurie, and a discussion by researcher Yamazaki Akiko.
320 p, ills colour, 15 x 15 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Self Service 62: Undiluted Ideas
Isbn 1252865X
Publisher Self Service
Idea code 250227
€ 41.15
Self Service 62, under the theme 'Undiluted Ideals', features 500 pages of fashion photography by Mark Borthwick, David Sims, Senda Simond, Beat Streuli, Angela Suarez, and many more.
500 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 31 cm, hb, English
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Keiichi Tanaami Print Collection (1960-2024) SPARK
Isbn 9784911169032
Publisher Afumi
Idea code 250176
€ 94.85
‘SPARK’ is a chronological compilation of so-called “printings” by Tanaami Keiichi (1936–2024), including posters, record jackets, and woodblock prints. The publication spotlights how Tanaami has pursued his artistic creativity while also placing emphasis on using printing technology. Tanaami’s prints, which also make reproductions part of their originality, even go so far as to suggest that he is “contemporary art” itself. The volume is part of a trilogy that includes ‘CRASH’ and ‘BLINK’.
248 p, ills colour, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese
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Keiichi Tanaami Drawing Collection (1960–2024) BLINK
Isbn 9784911169018
Publisher Afumi
Idea code 250177
€ 69.95
‘BLINK’, which features numerous drawings that served as the starting point for artist Keiichi Tanaami (1936–2024), is also a guidepost for exploring the ambiguous nature of contemporary art. Despite always positioning himself at the bleeding edge of his time and having mastered every form of expression, from drawing to print and collage, this publication highlights the reason why Tanaami has continued to produce drawings throughout his career without ever putting his brush down. The volume is part of a trilogy that includes ‘CRASH’ and ‘SPARK’.
176 p, ills colour, 30 x 23 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Keiichi Tanaami Collages Collection (1960–2024) CRASH
Isbn 9784911169025
Publisher Afumi
Idea code 250178
€ 70.00
Memory determines Japanese artist Keiichi Tanaami’s (1936–2024) profound creativity and originality. ‘CRASH’ focuses on the collage works that have emerged from the recording and editing of these memories, but is at the same time a grimoire for understanding Tanaami’s magical artistry, which fuses different phenomena that often seem impossibly incompatible. His wild imagination, which makes memories and images visible in the most startling ways, manifesting through elusive overlays and jarring juxtapositions, only begins to hint at how we might survive in this contemporary and chaotic age. The volume is part of a trilogy that includes ‘SPARK’ and ‘BLINK’.
196 p, ills colour, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Keiichi Tanaami – Quo Psyche
Isbn 9784911169001
Publisher Afumi
Idea code 250175
€ 323.65
‘Quo Psyche’ is a large-format, 250-page book consisting of numerous paintings and works by Keiichi Tanaami (1936–2024). It pushes beyond the conventional framework of a book to provide an overview of Tanaami’s unique career as an artist who continually pursued his own unique expression without being bound by form or convention. The book challenges the limits of the media format to present not only Tanaami’s works but also his boundless creativity. As an added bonus, it includes “The Goldfish’s Napping”, a newly written short story born out of a collaboration between Tanaami and author Mariko Asabuki. ‘Quo Psyche’ is available in a limited edition of 1,200 copies.
250 p, ills colour, 30 x 42 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Natasha Krymskaya - Joints of Eastern Europe
Isbn 9791280784193
Publisher Tonini Editore
Idea code 250181
€ 30.10
Joints of Eastern Europe represent a long-standing tradition of resourceful craftsmanship, deeply rooted in a region historically associated with manual labour. These joints symbolise the hands that have shaped much of Europe, embodying contextual resilience and an instinctive problem-solving approach that reflects the identity and empiricism of both the joints themselves and the workers who create them. Visually distinct, the joints serve as powerful markers of Eastern European culture, representing inventive solutions born from everyday necessity. This unique form of craftsmanship is characterised by spontaneous, often temporary solutions that, over time, evolve into enduring fixtures. With their rough elegance and structural creativity, these fixtures inspire architects and engineers alike, balancing beauty and functionality.
152 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Universo Satellite - 25 anni di / years of Salone Satellite
Isbn 9791254931424
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 250193
€ 72.55
"We’ve always called it “Satellite” but over time it’s become a real “Universe.” Packed with projects and visions, meetings and passions and always brought alive by the dreams and hopes of its young protagonists, who have become the new leading players in the design world over 25 years. Universo Satellite traces the adventure that is SaloneSatellite, the space desired by the Salone del Mobile.Milano, and curated by Marva Griffin Wilshire, to promote the work of the designers of the future during the Design Week of Milan. A chronological history that runs from 1998 to the present day, piecing together a comprehensive story that is crucial for understanding contemporary design, through 1200 images and a large number of hitherto unseen documents." - Beppe Finessi
752 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 25 cm, hb, Italian/English
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Anna Whitwham – Soft Tissue Damage
Isbn 9781914236488
Publisher Rough Trade Books
Idea code 250232
€ 19.45
'Soft Tissue Damage' tells the story of author Anna Whitwham’s lifelong interest in boxing — from her first training sessions through bruising sparring sessions to building up to a full-blooded fight. Whitwham charts the transformative impact the sport had on her during a profoundly difficult period dealing with the grief of losing her mother to cancer. Tender, insightful, honest, and full of startling and original thought, this book fully examines what the human body is both capable and incapable of. It examines what the human body truly means in its capacity for sexuality and violence, love and death, strength and vulnerability.
214 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Vintage Jazz Poster Scrap
Isbn 9784991160523
Publisher Grand Gallery
Idea code 250235
€ 45.20
The third instalment of Yasushi Ide’s Scrap series shines the spotlight on jazz. The publication focuses on original vintage posters, from flyers to booklets, calendars, and magazines covering past performances of jazz musicians and music in Japan. Ide began this process by searching for materials for his autobiographical book, ‘Rolling on the Road’, and the majority of the items in the collection were gathered by him over a period of about eighteen months. The volume offers a meticulously curated, kaleidoscopic view of the visual language of jazz through his eyes, serving as a useful reference for fans of the artists, labels, music, and design while also being purely entertaining.
376 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb,
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Curatorial Design – A Place Between
Isbn 9791280579614
Publisher Lenz Press
Idea code 250240
€ 37.65
The future of architecture lies in a curatorial approach, as argued by Wilfried Kuehn and Dubravka Sekulić in Curatorial Design: A Place Between. The book features insights from over 30 experts in architecture, art, and curatorial practice. Architectural design and curating resist specialization, fostering diverse knowledge. This challenges the increasing division of labor and promotes relational thinking. Together, they create a new practice that shapes rather than mediates. The book, aimed at architects, designers, and curators, includes three photo series by Armin Linke, covering topics like public architecture, reconstruction, and shared spaces.
440 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 29 cm, pb, English
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The Man Who
Isbn 9789083375632
Publisher Building Fictions
Idea code 250253
€ 16.65
Titles beginning with ‘The Man Who’ have become a prevalent trope in storytelling over the past century and a half. Compiling 243 titles from 1869 to 2023 across literature, theater, and film, this collection lays bare the unchecked ambition, curious pursuits, and dubious power of the man at the center of it all. Always active and in control, he is the architect of his own destiny. Even the titles indicating his failure still carry the same expectation: to be knowledgeable, powerful, exceptional. This collection exposes society’s obsession with masculinity in all its contradictory, unattainable glory, and the isolation of The Man Who is granted the stage all to himself. Six different typographical covers, supplied randomly.
256 p, no ills, 10 x 16 cm, hb, English
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Nigel Peake - In the Wild Postcard Set
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Publisher Nigel Peake
Idea code 250045
€ 11.30
A set of postcards based on the book ‘In the Wilds’ (2011) by artist Nigel Peake, a collection of his hand-drawn observations of rural life. From the trees, fields, lakes, and rolling hills that define the country landscape, to the farmhouses, tractors, fences, and telegraph poles that build on it, Peake’s detailed pencil and ink drawings and beautifully muted watercolours capture the slow-moving rhythm of his surroundings. In a time when everyone seems to be seeking relief from the fast pace of everyday life, these postcards offer an escape to a countryside as timeless as it is idyllic.
8 postcards, ills colour, 11 x 15 cm, English
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Nigel Peake - In the City Postcard Set
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Publisher Nigel Peake
Idea code 250046
€ 17.35
A set of postcards based on Nigel Peake’s book ‘In the City’ (2014), a collection of illustrations showcasing his keen eye for detail and ability to capture the urban landscape in an imaginative way. The drawings highlight the visual details of city life, documenting the sights, sounds, surfaces, and textures experienced by the artist in the various cities he visited, including New York, Shanghai, London, Istanbul, and others. Blending geometric patterns and intricate organic forms, these postcards offer a meditation and distinctive visual journey through the world of metropolises around the world.
14 cards, ills colour, 11 x 15 cm, postcard, English
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Open Books, Vol. A-E (2015 ed)
Isbn 9781910239124
Publisher Hato Press
Idea code
€ 45.35
Open Books is a project launched by Charlotte Cheetham and Sophie Demay in 2011, exploring the relationship between printed materials and exhibition formats. It unfolds through exhibitions, events, and a publication designed to examine this dynamic interaction. The project began with exhibitions at the Royal College of Art, London, and Cneai (National Art Center for Publishing and Image), Paris. Early volumes, printed as exhibition support media, evolved into catalogues documenting the events. In 2015, additional volumes expanded the research. Volume A-E serves as a hybrid: part catalogue, part archive. Through captions, images, invitations, and metaphorical bookmarks, it bridges book and exhibition, inviting readers to engage with this evolving dialogue.
342 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Play with Fire: Experiments in Arabic Type Design
Isbn 9789490939274
Publisher Khatt Books and Eyen Design
Idea code
€ 60.80
"Play with Fire" captures three stages of fire - warmth, sparks, and light - through a dynamic exploration of Arabic typography and design. The book opens with conversations featuring three of the lab’s experts and two guest contributors, discussing the Arabic letter, its diverse practices, origins, and contemporary relevance. Topics also include experimentalism, learning and unlearning in design education, local versus global design standards, and design research. Additionally, the 13 participants share their hopes, dreams, and ambitions. The next section documents the lab’s workshop process, where inspiration ignites through visits, tours, and archival research. Through individual and group brainstorming, participants push beyond letter creation to develop functional writing systems, resulting in 13 new Arabic typefaces - experimental, sentimental, or entirely unconventional. The book concludes with a showcase of the exhibition held at Eyen’s space in Amman. This larger-than-life display features typographic installations and specimens of the 13 typefaces, inspired by sources ranging from urban landscapes, folktales, and traditional forms to speculative design, optical illusions, physics, and more.
174 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 26 cm, pb, Arabic/English
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