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Tools 05: To Spin
Isbn 9782957876976
Publisher Tools Magazine
Idea code 250765
€ 26.90
The fifth issue of Tools explores the theme of spinning - both literal and metaphorical. From the Earth's rotation to the cycles of time, spinning is at the core of life, movement, and creation. Craftspeople have long harnessed rotational forces with tools like potter’s wheels, lathes, and spindles. Glassblowers, dancers, skaters, and machines alike use spin to shape, move, and express. This issue celebrates the beauty and power of circular motion - whether in natural rhythms, kinetic art, wind turbines, or the mind’s looping thoughts. Founded by Clémentine Berry, Tools is an annual publication that aims to simultaneously promote and investigate the details of manufacturing techniques and expertise used in art, design, interior architecture, industry and trade. Each issue documents the history, evolution, and continued relevance of a specific technique. This time, it’s all about rotation.
248 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, French/English
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A Magazine 29: Curated by Cecilie Bahnsen
Isbn 9782487343054
Publisher A Magazine
Idea code 250746
€ 40.30
This issue is a celebration of women: their perspectives, relationships, and voices. Cecilie Bahnsen has redefined modern femininity through her Danish label, bringing a sense of poetic sophistication to everyday life. She describes her work as forever/everyday, a concept grounded in timelessness, designed to be worn, cherished, and passed down – a sentiment that extends into her approach to this issue. What emerges is a language of shared experience through moments between parents, children, sisters, lovers, and friends. It features model Freja Beha Erichsen, photographers Takashi Homma and Pia Riverola, curator Katy Hessel, gallerist Jacqueline Sullivan, and many more.
200 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Slanted 46: Cairo
Isbn 9783948440916
Publisher Slanted Publishers
Idea code 250800
€ 22.00
'Slanted 46: Cairo' is a visual journey into Egypt’s vibrant creative scene. The issue highlights the diversity, innovation, and power of Cairo’s design culture and beyond. From graphic design, typography, and visual communication to architecture and product design, it features outstanding projects shaping the region’s cultural present and future. With progressive branding, experimental approaches, and strong visual storytelling, 'Slanted 46' reflects Egypt’s creative energy. Designers, illustrators, and artists from Cairo and beyond share their work and voices. In-depth essays and interviews explore cultural, social, and creative topics, offering a bold, fresh portrait of a design scene in motion.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English
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On the Edges of Graphic Design from A—Z—∞
Isbn 9789083579511
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 250825
€ 27.70
On the Edges of Graphic Design from A—Z—∞ celebrates the past, present, and future of alternative graphic design through the practices and community-building of A—Z Presents, Berlin’s space for experimental design. Framed as an “Index for alternative Graphic Design,” the book documents six years of projects, workshops, and exhibitions at A—Z, with contributions from figures such as Na Kim, Niklaus Troxler, and The Rodina, alongside over 100 cross-referenced entries. A second section invites 36 international designers — including April Greiman, Richard Niessen, and Loraine Furter — to imagine the future of graphic design, exploring topics from AI and digital bodies to interspecies relationships and new scripts. Richly illustrated and designed by A—Z founder Anja Lutz, with texts by Jason Grant and Freek Lomme, the book offers a dynamic meta-level exploration of experimental graphic design today.
548 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 16 cm, pb, English
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The World’s Best Typography, Typography 46
Isbn 9783948440985
Publisher Slanted Publishers
Idea code 250760
€ 69.00
'The World’s Best Typography, Typography 46' brings together the work of the winners of the latest TDC competition for typographic excellence from around the globe in communication design, lettering, and typeface design. For the past seventy years, the Type Directors Club has encouraged the design community to achieve excellence in typography through annual competitions. This volume showcases the award-winning selection while redefining the boundaries of visual communication. Curated by the TDC, it features outstanding projects from 33 countries – a powerful showcase of creativity and global diversity in contemporary typography and a tribute to the power of type.
288 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 29 cm, pb, English
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How to Talk to Carnivores
Isbn 9783903616035
Publisher Fraglich Publishing
Idea code 250700
€ 17.55
'How to Talk to Carnivores' is a deck of smart and witty Q&A cards made for vegans who constantly face the same questions. From “Where do you get your protein?” to “But plants feel pain.” Clever replies and grounded facts, served with a smile and fresh bite.
52 , ills colour & bw, 6 x 9 cm, box, English
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Acid Magazine 7: Waves of Consequences
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Publisher Acid Magazine
Idea code 250687
€ 30.00
From castles made of sand to LSD, from French realist painter Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) to nude beaches, from flint to quantum physics, and from rising seas to the oceanic feeling, this seventh issue of ‘Acid Magazine’ follows the perfect wave as the outlines blur, the noise grows louder, and it finally fractures. The magazine engages with surfing as a field of reflection, or an excuse for digression, exploring oceanic cultures, their complexity and tensions, and their often blurred connections to the activity and philosophy of surfing. With contributions by Lea Colombo, Wes Waddell, Surf Ghana Collective, Thomas Mailaender, Myriam Santos, Paul Grund, and others.
304 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, French/English
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Typologie – The Camping Tent
Isbn 9782490958092
Publisher Typologie
Idea code 250779
€ 26.90
The fifth issue of Typologie, a collection of design books about ordinary objects, is dedicated to the camping tent. A common motif in both rural and urban landscapes, the tent is a ubiquitous typology whose apparent simplicity is deceptive. Halfway between the architecture we manipulate and the furniture we live in, the tent covers a wide range of uses and brings together heterogeneous realities. Reminiscent of primitive huts, descended from military encampments, shelter for leisure or refuge, precarious yet resistant, protective yet porous, tents are used in both delineated and extreme environments. Simply assembled from ultra-high-performance materials, they are designed in the West and produced in Southeast Asia. The book includes an introduction text by journalist Sina Sohrab and a crossed interview between three professionals: Olivier Sirost, historian and sociologist specialized in Camping, Anna Ferrino, director of the Italian company Ferrino, the oldest manufacturer of tent in Europe and Raphael Têtedoie, a designer of outdoor gears and expert in tents.
136 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, pb, English
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Vietnamese Objects. The Material Culture of Resilience in the Face of (de)colonization
Isbn 9783038630906
Publisher Triest Verlag
Idea code 250741
€ 29.15
Cà phê (coffee), cà phê phin (coffee filter), atisô (artichoke), xi nê ma (cinema), căng tin (canteen), xi-măng (cement), ghế tô nê (Thonet chair): In the Vietnamese language, many words and names of everyday objects clearly show their French origins. Through cultural anthropology, epistemology of Vietnamese design, and the sociology of objects, the research project 'Objets Vietnamiens' analyses the production of objects in Vietnam in the light of French colonization and decolonization. By means of reports, interviews, and research in various archival collections, the book reveals the mechanisms through which objects, foods, materials, and expertise became integrated into Vietnam to the point that they now display authentically Vietnamese characteristics. Through the prism of design and applied arts, Quang Vinh Nguyen and Émelie Laystary take a decolonial and critical look at the creativity and adaptability of a country that has managed to appropriate the techniques of a dominant power. The resulting research work also becomes an archive of the present and provides insight into everyday life in Vietnam then and now.
248 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, French/English
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Global Issues
Isbn 9789070478605
Publisher Kesselskramer
Idea code 250815
€ 24.30
It all starts with overproduction. The factory’s machines churn tirelessly, day and night, pumping out globes in numbers that far exceed any reasonable demand. Workers feed endless raw materials into the assembly lines – more plastic, more paint, more faux-terrestrial wonders, all destined to collect dust in warehouses or clutter the shelves of bargain shops. In the frenzy of mass production, the beauty of the globe’s intricate detailing and representation of the world’s fragile ecosystems is lost in the rush for quantity over quality. Erik Kessels takes a hard look at globes, once symbols of geographic wonder, now soulless, empty vessels, spinning in the void of industrial excess.
60 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Hato zines 52: Glas by Jochen Holz
Isbn 9781910239582
Publisher Hato Press
Idea code 250798
€ 15.05
Glas documents Holz's fluid approach to texture and form, seen through the medium of Riso. Textured glassware is dragged across the glass scan bed of the Riso printer, creating an interaction between the smooth transparent and the rough translucent, that allows a glimpse into the phantasmal nature of Holz's work. When paired with photographs of the pieces, we are presented with a dialogical exploration of form and matter, blurring the lines between the solid, three-dimensional objects, and fluid flat screens.
20 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Atelier van Lieshout - Bad Ideas for Good Living
Isbn 9789083286051
Publisher Maas Lawrence
Idea code 250773
€ 57.40
This is a conceptual journey through Joep van Lieshout’s radical thought experiments. The art and design produced by the artist’s studio go beyond aesthetic objects, becoming functional tools for an alternative way of life. The book is like an architectural blueprint for an imaginary house. Readers can wander from one room to another, where each space has specific, logical, aesthetical, surprising, and also sometimes unsettling elements. In this way the works are a test – an invitation to look past the initial shock the viewer might experience. This imaginary house does not tell us how to live, but teaches that we must consciously think about the way we organise our lives.
408 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 32 cm, hb, English
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At Home in the 17th Century
Isbn 9789462089501
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 250790
€ 34.00
What belongings did people have at home in the 17th century? At Home in the 17th Century opens the door to everyday domestic life and brings the reader closer to the people of the time. From everyday objects such as combs and brooms used for personal care and household chores, to wedding rings and christening gifts that marked important life events. Instead of familiar idealized genre paintings, this book focuses on real life. Several Rijksmuseum curators delved into the world behind the paintings: the residents and the objects that surrounded them. What people left behind – furniture and utensils and even cesspool finds – gives a picture of how they furnished and used their homes. The result is an intimate look behind the front door of the 17th century – into a world that is sometimes surprisingly recognizable, but often radically different as well.
392 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 19 cm, pb, English
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The Sound of Fashion Thinking
Isbn 9781915609700
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 250732
€ 19.95
This book introduces Fashion Thinking as a critical method for exploring cultural, political, economic, and social issues through the processes of fashion-making. Like fabric that can be cut, unpicked, and remade, Fashion Thinking embraces fluidity and adapts its voice - poetic, analytical, autobiographical, or technical - to each context. Framed as a guide to an imaginary exhibition without objects, The Sound of Fashion Thinking unfolds through sound, with each “room” offering reflections on fashion’s production, reception, dissemination, and evolution.
168 p, no ills, 13 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Tju|ho - Thoughtful Ways of Making and Walking
Isbn 9789493329423
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 250775
€ 29.15
This book is about thoughtful design, exploring how place and community shape sustainable ways of making and walking. It centres on the recreation of the traditional hunting sandal of the San peoples of southern Africa. Aimed at fostering exchange at the intersection between design and anthropology, the book can be seen as a condensation of life in and around Nhoma, Namibia. Drawing upon her own ancestral knowledge and study of shoemaking, Catherine Willems leads a unique project combining oral literature, physical anthropology, and design into a reflective and beautiful work that is also a celebration of San culture, environmental knowledge, and ingenuity.
252 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English/Ju|'hoan
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Void - Reflections 2015-2025
Isbn 9783948440909
Publisher Slanted Publishers
Idea code 250761
€ 38.00
'Void—Reflections' marks the 10-year anniversary of Oslo-based VOID Studio, known for its experimental work at the intersection of art, design, technology, and informatics. This carefully curated book presents a selection of the studio’s most compelling projects, enriched by visual and textual narratives. Rather than offering a singular voice, VOID invited external contributors to reflect on and interpret their work, creating a layered, multi-voiced dialogue. With poetry, essays, and visual storytelling, the book captures the studio’s ephemeral, luminous aesthetic. 'Void—Reflections' is not just about the studio—it becomes part of it, embodying its evolving creative vision in book form.
264 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Generalized Visual Resistance – Photobooks and Liberation Movements
Isbn 9789895350629
Publisher Atlas Projectos
Idea code 250812
€ 38.70
Generalized Visual Resistance: Photobooks and Liberation Movements, edited by Catarina Boieiro and Raquel Schefer, revisits photobooks produced between the 1960s and 1980s in the context of anti-colonial liberation struggles and the early years of independence in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and Cape Verde. Originating from a research project begun in 2018, the publication gathers an unprecedented visual archive of militant print culture - photobooks, posters, magazines, and artworks - revealing how images became tools of emancipation and political transformation. This trilingual volume (Portuguese, French, English) includes essays by the editors, Drew Thompson, and Lúcia Ramos Monteiro; a reprint of FRELIMO’s 1971 speech The Growth of a New Culture; and new interviews with Augusta Conchiglia and Moira Forjaz. Designed by Furtado Schefer, the book extends the dialogue between anti-colonial aesthetics and contemporary visual culture.
288 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 31 cm, pb, Portuguese/French/English
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Framework 103
Isbn 9781733474443
Publisher Draw Down Books
Idea code 250078
€ 26.35
Using framework as a grounding metaphor, this annual catalog from the Communication Design community at Parsons—the third in the Frameworks series—documents how designers translate, create, and articulate ideas. It features work from various programmes graduates alongside contemporary practitioners, exploring book design, branding, digital products, motion graphics, typeface design, and spatial graphics. It includes student projects, guest lectures, and a typographic showcase, offering insight into evolving design disciplines. Framework 103 captures Parsons' unique program while reflecting on contemporary communication design practice and pedagogy in the 21st century.
292 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Otani Workshop - Monsters In My Head
Isbn 9781988860237
Publisher Information Office
Idea code 250376
€ 25.00
This artist’s book by Otani Workshop traces an intimate, autobiographical journey through fantastical childhood memories. Structured like a children’s book, it explores Otani’s path as an artist, where playful and uncanny monsters reflect early fears, curiosities, and creative impulses. Featuring eleven original paintings and a handwritten text, the book is a tactile object that invites introspection. Created in conjunction with his first solo exhibition in North America, the book echoes the show’s emotional and material textures, including hand-built ceramics and new paintings. Together, they map a space where memory shifts and making becomes a way of understanding the self.
36 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 27 cm, hb, English/Japanese
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NIPPON 1
Isbn 9784336077172
Publisher Kokushokankokai
Idea code 250545
€ 387.25
‘Nippon’ was a pre-war Japanese propaganda magazine that featured the talents of numerous designers, writers, and photographers. The culmination of a desire to create a magazine in Japan that could rival the best the West had to offer, ‘Nippon’ launched the careers of many legendary talents who would go on to shape the visual world of post-war Japan. Published in English, French, German, and Spanish, it featured bold layouts with full-page spreads, avant-garde photography, and top-quality writing. The magazine marked a breakthrough in the evolution of Japanese graphic design, photography, and art direction. This first of three volumes contains issues 1 through 14.
500 p, ills colour & bw, 26 x 38 cm, pb in a box, French/German/Spanish/English
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Our Kyoto – Where Locals Go
Isbn 9784868310044
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 250587
€ 32.25
Eager to escape the crowds and well-worn tourist sites? This insider’s view of Kyoto offers a delightful alternative to the standard guidebooks. ‘Our Kyoto’ introduces 180 spots recommended by 26 residents from all walks of life, in collaboration with the editorial team from an official Kyoto City website. Featured spots range from cafés, bars, Japanese-style pubs, and Italian and Chinese restaurants to shops specialising in tofu, wine, chopsticks, dry goods, and more. Also covered are seasonal festivals and events like the Gion Festival, the Daimonji bonfires, and antique markets. Chapters are organised by city ward, making it easy to explore several nearby locations together.
274 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 20 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Food & Drink Singapore – Let's makan!
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Publisher Asian Food Design
Idea code 250595
€ 31.35
Japanese graphic designer and illustrator Takako Masuki expresses and shares her profound love for Asian cuisine through illustrations. Her drawings are eye-catching and often brightly hued, and her inspiration comes from the vibrant food stalls, tables, tableware, and dishware she encounters throughout her travels. Masuki frequently uses Risograph printing, blending just two or three colours in her illustrations. Singapore is the focus of this edition of the Food & Drink series, for which Masuki teamed up with Singaporean writer and fellow foodie Wee Ling Soh.
38 p, ills colour, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Food & Drink Hong Kong
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Publisher Asian Food Design
Idea code 250596
€ 31.35
Japanese graphic designer and illustrator Takako Masuki expresses and shares her profound love for Asian cuisine through illustrations. Her drawings are eye-catching and often brightly hued, and her inspiration comes from the vibrant food stalls, tables, tableware, and dishware she encounters throughout her travels. Masuki frequently uses Risograph printing, blending just two or three colours in her illustrations. Hong Kong is highlighted in this edition of the Food & Drink series, for which Masuki teamed up with Singaporean writer and fellow foodie Wee Ling Soh.
36 p, ills colour, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Asian Food Travel
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Publisher Asian Food Design
Idea code 250597
€ 29.25
Tokyo-based graphic designer and illustrator Takako Masuki expresses and shares her profound love for Asian cuisine through drawings. She frequently combines these with Risograph printing, blending just two or three colours on the page. Her brightly hued zines and small booklets draw inspiration from the vibrant food stalls, tables, tableware, and dishware that Masuki encounters throughout her explorations. ‘Asian Food Travel’ hops from city to city – including Hong Kong, Danang, Hanoi, Bangkok, Shanghai, and more – where plenty of mouthwatering local dishes await.
72 p, ills colour, 10 x 21 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Asian Lunchbox
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Publisher Asian Food Design
Idea code 250598
€ 31.35
Takako Masuki is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator based in Tokyo. She started collecting photos of Asian food she found on Instagram, getting permission from the owners of the images to draw them. After making illustrations of the delicious dishes, she feels as if she has eaten them, too. ‘Asian Lunchbox’ is a bundle of five small zines filled with Masuki’s drawings of popular dishes from Singapore, Thailand, Shanghai, Hong Kong, India, Nepal, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Get inspired and bring your appetite. Chopsticks included.
70 p, ills bw, 12 x 17 cm, pb in a box, Japanese/English
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World Map
Isbn 9782380362343
Publisher Reliefs Editions
Idea code 250625
€ 18.40
This educational plate in two world maps and a planisphere is taken from the Universal Atlas of Geography constructed from original sources and the most recent documents, maps, travels, memoirs, geodetic works, etc. New edition in accordance with the peace treaties of 1919-1921. It includes a world map combining hypsometry (land elevation) and bathymetry (ocean depth), a meteorological world map (rain and wind) and a planisphere combining geobotany and current science. Produced just after the First World War, it shows a physical geography that now seems entirely known, marked out and as if eternal…
1 , ills colour, 17 x 33 cm, poster, French/English
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Magellan's Circumnavigation (1700)
Isbn 9791096554249
Publisher Reliefs Editions
Idea code 250626
€ 18.40
The choice of a polar projection for this map highlights the length and scope of Magellan's expedition around the Earth: of the five ships carrying 237 men and circumnavigating South America to reach the Pacific Ocean, only the Victoria returned safely on September 6, 1522, with 18 men on board and 533 quintals of cloves. This first circumnavigation of the globe took 1080 days.
1 , ills colour, 18 x 30 cm, map, French/English
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Carta Marina (1539)
Isbn 9782380362381
Publisher Reliefs Editions
Idea code 250629
€ 18.40
A masterpiece of 16th-century Venetian cartography, the Carta Marina is one of the first accurate representations of the Baltic Sea and its surrounding lands, from the Scandinavian Peninsula to Iceland. Above all, it illustrates a territory as much as an imaginary world, and proven geography rubs shoulders with fantastical creatures, legendary lands, and epic scenes.
1 , ills colour, 17 x 23 cm, map, French/English
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Exocapitalism – Economies with absolutely no limits
Isbn 9789925815678
Publisher Becoming Press
Idea code 250643
€ 17.20
In this provocative theoretical work, Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo argue that capital has outgrown human control - it governs itself. Drawing on Elena Esposito and Suhail Malik, they propose that inefficiency and latency generate value in today’s digital capitalism, reversing Marxian logic. With a vivid, often surreal voice, the book explores a system where critique struggles to keep up, and capital mutates through forms described as Fold, Drag, and Lift. A sharp, unsettling intervention into the philosophy of finance and scale.
224 p, ills colour, 13 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Paris Notebook
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Publisher Nazar Publishing
Idea code 250752
€ 22.00
Illustrated by Faranak Salehi, ‘Paris’ is an all-purpose notebook inspired by the capital and largest city in France, also popularly known as the City of Light. Salehi, a fashion designer and illustrator, is based in Paris. Through her drawings, she offers a whimsical and personal perspective on the city and its magical fascination.
300 p, ills colour, 14 x 21 cm, pb, Persian/English
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