Semiotext(e) 2009
136 pages ISBN 9781584350804
11.5 x 18 cm English text. Softcover
Thirty years of "crisis," mass unemployment, and flagging growth, and they still want us to believe in the economy. . . . We have to see that the economy is itself the crisis. It's not that there's not enough work, it's that there is too much of it.
—from The Coming Insurrection
The Coming Insurrection is an eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves of social contestation in France and Europe. Written by the anonymous Invisible Committee in the vein of Guy Debord—and with comparable elegance—it has been proclaimed a manual for terrorism by the French government (who recently arrested its alleged authors). One of its members more adequately described the group as "the name given to a collective voice bent on denouncing contemporary cynicism and reality." The Coming Insurrection is a strategic prescription for an emergent war-machine to "spread anarchy and live communism."
Written in the wake of the riots that erupted throughout the Paris suburbs in the fall of 2005 and presaging more recent riots and general strikes in France and Greece, The Coming Insurrection articulates a rejection of the official Left and its reformist agenda, aligning itself instead with the younger, wilder forms of resistance that have emerged in Europe around recent struggles against immigration control and the "war on terror."
Hot-wired to the movement of '77 in Italy, its preferred historical reference point, The Coming Insurrection formulates an ethics that takes as its starting point theft, sabotage, the refusal to work, and the elaboration of collective, self-organized forms-of-life. It is a philosophical statement that addresses the growing number of those—in France, in the United States, and elsewhere—who refuse the idea that theory, politics, and life are separate realms.
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Penguin 2008
144 pages ISBN 9780141036618
11 x 18 cm English text. Softcover
Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell’s entertaining and uncompromising essays go on to explore everything from the perils of second-hand bookshops to the dubious profession of being a critic, from freedom of the press to what patriotism really means.
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives – and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
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Black Dog Publishing 2009
144 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781906155681
19 x 25 cm English text. Softcover
With easy-to-follow instructions on the basics of growing flowers, herbs, vegetables and more, Growing Stuff provides an excellent introduction to the world of horticulture. A wide selection of creative ‘recipes’ will help you take growing plants to the next level by making use of them with craft and culinary projects. The book shows you that things can be grown in even the most unexpected places, and with minimum prior knowledge or skill.
Written in an engaging and informal way, the book is an ideal introduction to green-fingered activity, and is sure to convert even wary or novice gardeners to this creative and wide-ranging practice.
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Revolver 2006
136 pages ISBN 9783865883025
12 x 17 cm English text. Softcover
What follows is the result of an anonymous upload to The Skeptic Tank with a request that I, Fredric Rice, review and edit it for content and format so that a web page may be made from it. I've removed a lot of the irresponsible comments and added about a fourth of the text you'll see below. (Note: On 21/Jul/98 I added sections 7 and 8. I'll also add that everything you read here should be considered opinion and idle speculation. The contact information on groups and individuals who can assist you may be out-of-date so plan your disappearance accordingly. On 28/Aug/04 I added section 11 based on discussions I had with a desert hermit. 21/Jul/05 section 13 was added. 19/Jun/08 I went though and cleaned up some spelling errors and removed more irresponsible nonsense. I also added a link to some movied describing one person's stay in the Mojave Desert for 22 months and the building and using of a solar oven, then added Section #16 which covers points that have been offered by readers.) ....
From the website Skeptictank
Last week No. 3 Price: £5.95
Thames & Hudson 2006
208 pages Colour & B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780500513385
19 x 23 cm English text. Hardcover
Readymade is a cult publication that describes itself as
‘a magazine for people who like to make stuff, who see the flicker of invention in everyday objects’.
This quirky, witty ‘how-to’ volume, the magazine’s incarnation in book form, is full of inventive and clever design projects – from water-bottle lounge chairs and ladder shelving to shopping bag rugs and denim dog beds – guaranteed to inspire modern do-it-yourselfers.
RRP £14.95
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Steidl 2009
36 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783865219060
19.5 x 29 cm Softcover
Election Day is a unique collaboration between Juergen Teller, Vivienne Westwood, former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson and Westwood’s husband, Andreas Kronthaler, and brings together images from Westwood’s Spring/Summer 09 advertising campaign.
The photographs show a romp starring Anderson, Westwood, Kronthaler and rock band The Queens of the Stone Age. Teller’s mise en scène escapes precise categorisation, combining images of the protagonists in a golf buggy, Anderson reading Plato’s Republic with her nipple visible through sheer fabric, Westwood and Anderson frolicking in clothes baskets in a laundrette, and the two beaming in front of a television announcing Barack Obama’s imminent victory. The cavorting characters elaborate a bizarre narrative which highlights the hope surrounding Obama’s victory, the quintessential nature of Westwood’s clothes, and Teller’s signature style.
RRP £13.00
Last week No. 5 Price: £11.70
Perigee 2008
208 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780399534607
17.5 x 22.5 cm English text. Softcover
Artists and scientists analyse the world around them in surprisingly similar ways - by observing, collecting, documenting, analysing and comparing. In this captivating guided journal, readers are encouraged to explore their world as both artists and scientists. Smith sets the reader the mission of documenting and observing the world around them as if they've never seen it before - taking notes and collecting things they find on their travels. With a series of interactive prompts and a beautiful hand-illustrated two-colour package, readers will love exploring this gorgeous book.
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Artwords Press 2008
36 pages B&W reproductions ISBN 9781906441043
13.5 x 21 cm English text. Softcover
'Relational Art' and 'relational aesthetics' are commonplace terms in contemporary art discourse. Defined as a 'set of artistic practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space' and as an aesthetic theory consisting in judging art works on the basis of the inter-human relations which they represent, produce or prompt'. In such an aesthetics, art is seemingly required to act as a replacement for the binding of the community through the rituals of religion.
Non-relational Aesthetics proposes that all discourse involves alterity, difference and deferral. Non-relational Aesthetics offers a concept of art as an ethical encounter with the other, and the idea of art as 'hospitality' is anticipated as an alternative to that of 'relational aesthetics.'
Michael Corris is an artist, art historian and writer on art. He began working in late-1971 with the Conceptual art group, Art & Language, in New York; his work was published in 1973 in the group's journal, Art-Language. With Mel Ramsden, Ian Burn, Joseph Kosuth, Sarah Charlesworth and others, Corris was a founding editor of The Fox; an artists-run journal that addressed the political and social dimensions of contemporary artistic practice. Corris' most recent publications include Conceptual Art: Theory, Myth and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and Ad Reinhardt (Reaktion Books, London, 2008).
Charlie Gere is Reader in New Media Research and Director of the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University. His main research interest is in the cultural effects and meanings of technology and media, particularly in relation to art and philosophy. He is a contributing editor of the forthcoming White Heat Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960-1980 (MIT Press, 2009).
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Penguin 2009
304 pages ISBN 9780141033914
13 x 19 cm English text. Softcover
Britons are increasingly aware of living in a society plagued by fear and unhappiness. Even when actual levels of crime are reduced, the fear of crime is up. In Ground Control Anna Minton sets out on a journey around Britain to answer the questions, how did this happen and what could we do about it?
From Manchester, which hands out more ASBOS than other city, to Liverpool, 'City of Culture', gated communities to sink estates, this is a frank and excoriating look at the effect that property and planning have on our lives - often in unexpected ways. More new spaces are being created in British towns than at any time since the Second World War. But they're all privately owned and privately controlled, and they are changing not only the very fabric of our cities, but our understanding of public space, of citizenship, of fear and of trust.
Anna Minton reaches out to all those affected by these changes. From home owners to kids on ASBOs, policemen to estate agents, Ground Control explores the psychological effects our shared spaces have upon us, and shows us how alternative models produce cultures of greater happiness.
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Laurence King 2009
192 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781856695862
21.5 x 28 cm English text. Softcover
Textile designers are beginning to realize the creative potential of digital textile design and are fast catching up with graphic designers who have taken to working digitally. New digital textile-printing technology is enabling designers to work with an almost unlimited palette of colours to produce work of staggering detail in relatively short timescales.
Written specifically for textile designers, Digital Textile Design provides the know-how for students and professionals who wish to use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator as design tools. A series of inspirational tutorials, presented in step-by-step format, guide the reader through the process of creating designs that will be suited to both the traditional textile production process, and to the new industry of digital printing onto fabric.
Against the backdrop of the development of digital print, the book discusses how designers can access this new technique, looks at the work of those currently exploring its possibilities, and also features the craft of embellishment that is being used to offset the apparent flatness of print.
RRP £22.50
Last week No. 11 Price: £20.25
176 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781856695756
17 x 25 cm English text. Softcover
It doesn't matter how talented a designer you are, if you are going to run a successful fashion business you also need to know about everything from marketing and PR, to manufacturing your collection and knowing where to find the money to finance it all. Toby Meadows presents a no-nonsense guide to running your own business, whether it is within the clothing, accessories, or footwear sectors. Packed with tips, case studies, and tasks to help you analyse yourself, your market and your product, the book will show you what to expect and how to survive beyond the first eighteen months, the period during which many start-up businesses collapse. Designed for those about to graduate from fashion design and business studies courses, the book will also be of interest to those wishing to work for smaller fashion labels or gain an insight into how labels work.
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Last week No. 7 Price: £16.15
208 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9783037781609
20 x 26.5 cm English text. Softcover
The design studio of J. R. Geigy AG was the launching pad for one of the great periods of Swiss graphic design, in the 1950s and 1960s. The open-minded corporate culture of the chemical company in Basel combined product and company advertising in an exemplary way. The resulting works reveal a modernist formal idiom without being indebted to a specific, formulaic look. There was room in it for visual symbolism as well as the acquisition of nonrepresentational art, with which some of the graphic designers involved were connected. Under the leadership of Max Schmid for many years, the studio employed Roland Aeschlimann, Karl Gerstner, Jörg Hamburger, Steff Geissbuhler, Andreas His, Toshihiro Katayama, and Nelly Rudin, among others. Freelance designers such as Michael Engelmann, Gottfried Honegger, Armin Hofmann, Herbert Leupin, Warja Lavater, Numa Rick, and Niklaus Stoecklin were also used. In the 1960s, the Basel office, most especially George Giusti and Fred Troller, was involved in developing the studios of the subsidiaries in the United States and the United Kingdom, placing more emphasis on advertising. This is the first comprehensive presentation of Geigy design, an important Swiss contribution to the international history of design, in all its determination and independence.
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Last week No. 16 Price: £32.40
T&H 2006
136 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780500286142
15.5 x 21.5 cm English text. Softcover
A beautiful, elegiac collection of sixty polaroid photographs by the late, great Soviet film director, Andrei Tarkovsky
‘Tarkovsky often reflected on the way that time flies and this is precisely what he wanted: to stop it, even with these quick Polaroid shots … These images leave us with a mysterious and poetic sensation, the melancholy of seeing things for the last time. It is as though Andrey wanted a swift way to pass his own enjoyment to others. They are something to be shared, not only a method of making his own wish to stop time come true. And they feel like a fond farewell’ – Tonino Guerra, from the Introduction to Instant Light
Composed of sixty luminous polaroids taken by Andrey Tarkovsky in Russia and Italy between 1979 and 1984, this beautifully produced series of cameos from the director’s life reveals him to be a master of the still as much as of the moving image. The photos in the first section, taken in Russia, have the radiant melancholy of lengthening shadows and trees looming through misty dawns near Tarkovsky’s country dacha, together with portraits of his wife, son and dog, loaded with nostalgia by quotations from his later diaries. Those taken in Italy portray exquisite still lifes and glimmering ruins. The book concludes with photographs from Tarkovsky’s personal collection.
Tarkovsky is here revealed as realizing the utmost potential of a fleeting, disposable medium: his images seem to capture eternity in a moment.
Last week No. 12 Price: £16.10
Occasional Papers 2009
24 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780956260505
13 x 23 cm English text. Softcover
Ken Briggs, has during his long career, designed for amongst others, Everett's, Sadler's Wells and English National Opera. Published in association with Pump House Gallery and the National Theatre, this publication documents Ken Briggs' prolific and influential output of poster and programme designs for the National Theatre's productions in the 1960s and early 1970s. Extensive interview with Ken Briggs and biography .
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Last week No. 20 Price: £4.05
Princeton Architectural Press 2007
216 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781568987217
24 x 16.5 cm English text. Softcover
Never has the relationship between art and nature been more complicated and more fragile, but also richer and more fascinating. The artists and architects in Natural Architecture have transformed the act of building into an art form capable of sparking new relationships with nature, landscape, and the environment. Though far from basic or primitive, these creations are built from humble elements—branches, twigs, pebbles, straw, stone—found at their site. Fulfilling a wide variety of intentions—sometimes structural, sometimes sculptural, sometimes sacred—the works presented here inspire a sense of awe and reverence for the forces of nature. From a bridge in Tibet connecting an orphanage and a nearby village, to a hut fit for mythical creatures, to a pavilion in Iceland with a roof made of water perpetually frozen in an exuberant shape, each project resonates with a sense of purpose and innate beauty.
Natural Architecture presents sixty-six site-specific installations that use raw materials, manual labor, and natural stimuli to create truly green architecture that is as organic as the materials with which it is created. Projects by Olafur Eliasson, Patrick Dougherty, Nils-Udo, Ex. Studio, Edward Ng, nArchitects, and many others are shown together for the first time. Selected for their commitment to the use of raw materials, manual labor, and natural inspiration, these works are vividly displayed in photographs, drawings, and models. These fantastical creations allow the changing landscape to naturally overtake each structure until it finally decomposes. Each project is accompanied by a series of photographs, drawings, and models. The rugged and surreal beauty of the projects in Natural Architecture question the wisdom of our ever accelerating construction processes and point a way forward, toward a new organic simplicity of structure and form.
Alessandro Rocca is an architect and architecture critic and a professor at the Milan Polytechnic. He has published extensively, including many articles for the magazines "Lotus" and "Navigator," on whose editorial staff he was for many years.
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Book Works 2006
40 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781870699877
12.5 x 17.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Researching invasive non-native species of plant and animal life, this collaborative project documents, through drawing and text, the discovery and history of selected alien species introduced to the British Isles, and the effect on native wildlife. Presented as a cross-pollination of fact and fiction, this wonderfully inventive book takes the form of an illustrated natural history guide, offset by the artists’ interventions. Ten alien invaders are categorised and illustrated, including: the American Bullfrog, Giant Hogweed, Spanish Bluebell and Wels Catfish. In the manner of a scientific guidebook each entry lists, ‘Category of Introduction’, ‘Problems caused by Introduction’, and ‘Efforts of Control or Eradication’, drawing on both scientific fact and often bizarre cultural anecdote.
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Actar 2008
104 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9788496540927
14 x 18 cm English text. Softcover
This is a recipe book of twenty-two tips in creating the best typography and twenty-two things you should never do with lettering. Secrets which many designers will never reveal. In an era of typographic fundamentalism and the cult of forms, this list of dos and don'ts explodes myths and provides a fresh view of typography.
Enric Jardi is Professor of design at prominent institutions including Eina, Elisava, and Universitat Ramon Llull. He is President of the ADG-FAD, based in Catalonia, one of the most important graphic design institutions internationally.
‘If they let you, use left justification; Don't fool too much with the default values; Condense and expand the lettering; Avoid certain ligatures.’ Enric Jardi
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Last week No. 17 Price: £10.40
Princeton Architectural Press 2009
176 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781568987606
18 x 21.5 cm English text. Softcover
Once referred to derisively as "vanity publishing," self-published books are finally taking their place alongside more accepted indie categories such as music, film, and theater. Indie Publishing is a practical guide to creating and distributing printed books regardless of your background, skill set, or ambition. It will help you realize projects of every scale and budget, from the traditional bookmaking techniques used to create zines to the more ambitious industrial production methods required to produce hardcover books in large quantity.
Indie Publishing's special focus on the visual design of books makes it unique among publish-it-yourself manuals. Readers are taken step-by-step through the process of designing a book to give it personal style as well as visual coherence and authority. Design principles such as scale, cropping, pacing, and typography are explored in relation to each example, along with commentary on how to create effective title pages, tables of contents, captions, and more. Indie Publishing aims to inspire readers with examples of print projects similar to those they might undertake on their own. Sample designs include a picture book, artist's portfolio, exhibition catalog, poetry chapbook, novel, and zine. Indie Publishing addresses the important business aspects of independent publishing—from how and why you should get an isbn number to creating promotional materials and using the Internet to market your book. This comprehensive, illustrated guide concludes with a curated portfolio of the most exciting examples of independent publishing from the contemporary scene, reproduced in full color. If you have content to share and you want to give it a fresh and orderly form, this book will kick-start your project and keep you motivated until the ink dries.
RRP £12.99
Last week No. 43 Price: £11.69
The MIT Press 2006
176 pages ISBN 9780262134729
14 x 22 cm English text. Hardcover
Finally, we are learning that simplicity equals sanity. We're rebelling against technology that's too complicated, DVD players with too many menus, and software accompanied by 75-megabyte "read me" manuals. The iPod's clean gadgetry has made simplicity hip. But sometimes we find ourselves caught up in the simplicity paradox: we want something that's simple and easy to use, but also does all the complex things we might ever want it to do. In The Laws of Simplicity, John Maeda offers ten laws for balancing simplicity and complexity in business, technology, and design--guidelines for needing less and actually getting more.
Maeda--a professor in MIT's Media Lab and a world-renowned graphic designer--explores the question of how we can redefine the notion of "improved" so that it doesn't always mean something more, something added on.
Maeda's first law of simplicity is "Reduce." It's not necessarily beneficial to add technology features just because we can. And the features that we do have must be organized (Law 2) in a sensible hierarchy so users aren't distracted by features and functions they don't need. But simplicity is not less just for the sake of less. Skip ahead to Law 9: "Failure: Accept the fact that some things can never be made simple." Maeda's concise guide to simplicity in the digital age shows us how this idea can be a cornerstone of organizations and their products--how it can drive both business and technology. We can learn to simplify without sacrificing comfort and meaning, and we can achieve the balance described in Law 10. This law, which Maeda calls "The One," tells us: "Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful."
Graphic designer, visual artist, and computer scientist John Maeda is the founder of the SIMPLICITY Consortium at the MIT Media Lab, where he is E. Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Media Arts and Sciences. His work has been exhibited in Tokyo, New York, London, and Paris and is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Smithsonian Institution National Design Award in the United States, the Raymond Loewy Foundation Prize in Germany, and the Mainichi Design Prize in Japan. Professor Maeda maintains the simplicity blog at the MIT Media Lab.
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256 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780500286050
22.5 x 34 cm English text. Softcover
Excellent … captures the best of this historical moment … get the beanbag out and enjoy the world of free love and LSD’ – Blueprint
‘Amind-expanding high for your seasonal lows’ – The Sunday Times
‘A remarkable compilation …a smart, funny potted history … it’s also a fine document of the incredible political and cultural upheaval of which peace-and-love was just one facet’ – ArtReview
Taking its inspiration from the Beatniks and The Village Voice the hippie-era youth culture underground press documented everything from politics and art to film and fashion – with a sizeable leavening of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll.
The ideas unleashed in these now vintage publications continue to reverberate through society and influence public discourse and graphic design in the form of today's 'zines' and blogs. Among the figures whose work appears in these pages are Hunter S. Thompson, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ken Kesey, R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman – to name only a few.
Among the publications featured here are The Los Angeles Free Press (persecuted by the Nixon-era FBI for its antiwar views), The East Village Other (the first to adopt a psychedelic layout), Interview (founded by Andy Warhol and the first to feature homoerotic imagery), The Berkeley Barb (famous for one cover showing a young man with a chain around his mind), The San Francisco Oracle (which featured the writing of Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti) and Fifth Estate (which coined the phrase 'all isms are was-isms').
Jean-Francois Bizot came of age in the 1960s. He founded the French underground magazine Actuel in 1970. Barry Miles was a central figure of 'sixties counterculture. He is the author of many books, including The Beat Hotel, Ginsberg: A Biography and The Beatles Diary. He was a contributor to I Want to Take You Higher, the Rock Music Hall of Fame's psychedelic music chronicle.
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Last week No. 39 Price: £17.95
Robert Flynn Johnson and Alexander McCall Smith
Thames & Hudson 2009
208 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780500543726
25.5 x 26 cm English text. Hardcover
The intriguing images assembled here are all mysterious – by turn poignant, humorous, erotic or disturbing. Their subject is the human condition and they explore every aspect of human experience – both public and private.
Over 220 beautifully reproduced photographs showcase the work of photographers whose identities have been lost in time. The images are never less than mesmerising, and include among them previously unseen portraits of stars such as Cary Grant, Richard Burton and Marlene Dietrich.
Complete with an introduction by bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, this follow-up to Robert Flynn Johnson’s widely acclaimed Anonymous will capture the imagination of anyone.
Last week No. 14 Price: £17.95
224 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780141035819
How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever.
Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by Picasso as ‘the new Leonardo’. Munari insisted that design be beautiful, functional and accessible, and this enlightening and highly entertaining book sets out his ideas about visual, graphic and industrial design and the role it plays in the objects we use everyday. Lamps, road signs, typography, posters, children’s books, advertising, cars and chairs – these are just some of the subjects to which he turns his illuminating gaze.
Last week No. 30 Price: £8.99
128 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0714843377
10 x 15 cm English text. Softcover
Phaidon `It`s Not How Good You Are, It`s How Good You Want to Be` is a handbook of how to succeed in the world, a pocket bible for the talented and timid to help make the unthinkable thinkable and the impossible possible. The world`s top advertising guru, Paul Arden, offers up his wisdom on issues as diverse as problem solving, responding to a brief, communicating, playing your cards right, making mistakes and creativity; all endeavours that can be applied to aspects of modern life. This book provides a unique insight into the world of advertising and is a quirky compilation of quotes, facts, pictures, wit and wisdom, packed into easy-to-digest, bite-sized spreads. If you want to succeed in life or business, this is a must.
RRP £4.95
Last week No. 37 Price: £4.45
Martin Usborne 2008
20 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. No ISBN
14 x 20 cm English text. Softcover
'My name is Joseph and I've lived in Hoxton longer than any of these trendies'
Photos of the infamous 81 year old Joseph Markovitch who has lived and worked in Hoxton all his life.
Last week No. 9 Price: £4.50
Lars Muller 2008
151 pages ISBN 9783037781265
12 x 18 cm English text. Softcover
Initially published in 1969, and one of Fuller’s most popular works, “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth” is a brilliant synthesis of his world view. In this very accessible volume, Fuller investigates the great challenges facing humanity, and the principles for avoiding extinction and “exercising our option to make it.” How will humanity survive? How does automation influence individualization? How can we utilize our resources more effectively to realize our potential to end poverty in this generation? He questions the concept of specialization, calls for a design revolution of innovation, and offers advice on how to guide “spaceship earth” toward a sustainable future
Last week No. 24 Price: £14.50
Gestalten 2009
240 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783899552362
24 x 30 cm English text. Hardcover
Play All Day documents a collection of the most vibrant, stimulating and engaging design products and concepts for children. This book sets a new standard of design for children with fascinating examples of innovative and well-designed toys, playgrounds and play environments, room decorations, wall coverings, furniture and kindergarten architecture. In addition to these products, it also presents illustration and photography as well as new and original ideas offering playful solutions that talented designers and creative parents are designing for and with their kids. It is an inspiring reference for design-savvy parents and other professionals.
RRP £40.00
Last week No. 21 Price: £36.00
Hatje Cantz 2009
128 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783775723695
23 x 29.5 cm English/German text. Hardcover
James Turrell (*1943 inLos Angeles) is undoubtedly the most influential contemporary light artist. His entire oeuvre is dedicated to the exploration of the many facets of natural and artificial light. In his work, light and space become experiential processes, reflecting the basic conditions of aesthetic perception.
At the center of this book is a group of works, Sky Spaces, which have become an art form in their own right, developed by Turrell over the course of his career. Academic, philosophical, and art-historical essays explain the development and significance of these perceptual spaces, whose concept is closely bound to the creation of the Roden Crater Project in the Arizona desert, where the artist began erecting an observatory in 1974. Examples of his work are used to explain the meaning of these light spaces to contemporary art. Also included is the latest installation, Skyspace/Camera Obscura Space, which Turrell conceived for the Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst in Unna.
RRP £32.50
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Southbank Publishing 2008
256 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781904915287
16 x 18.5 cm English text. Softcover
The second book in the Cool Hunting series recognising that the hottest design right now are those that promote a cleaner, greener and more beautiful planet. Green Hunting is a fascinating collection of quirky, bold and unique products guaranteed to get the reader thinking, talking and maybe even acting greener. Just remember, green is the new black and Green Hunting is filled to the brim with the coolest environmentally-friendly design products.
Re-entry Price: £11.69
Ammo Books 2008
20 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781934429228
15 x 15 cm English text. Hardcover
Charley Harper 123’s, is a board book companion to the skinny version of the ABC’s. In this book, counting from 1 to 10, is demonstrated through a colorful and playful range of creatures. From 1 Ladybug Lounging, to 2 Birds Nesting, to 3 Chimpanzees Playing, all of the animals featured are active, delightful, and easy to count.
Minimal, bold and graphic in its design and layout, the 123’s is a very sweet tribute to the late, great Charley Harper and his inspiring world of animals and nature. This little book is sure to become a treasure for a future generation of Harper fans.
Last week No. 35 Price: £5.95
20 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781934429211
The Charley Harper ABC’s skinny version, is a kids board book in a condensed format featuring many additional illustrations, and a similar graphic layout. Perfect for reading to babies and pre-schoolers, as well as for budding young readers, that will enjoy learning the alphabet through these colorful images of the animal kingdom. It includes a brief story about Charley Harper and how he began drawing as a young boy on the farm where he grew up. Colorful images like R is for Rabbit, S is for Squirrel and T is for turtle, make identifying letters and animals memorable and fun.
Last week No. 23 Price: £5.95
224 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780500287828
23.5 x 30.5 cm English text. Softcover
A facsimile edition of one of the seminal texts of 20th-century modernism.
Wyndham Lewis’s arts movement Vorticism was baptized on 20 June 1914 in the first issue of BLAST: A Review of the Great English Vortex, the revolutionary magazine.
BLAST is now considered one of the 20th century’s most glowing examples of modernist expression and typography, both historically indispensable and a milestone in modern thought.
To the audience of its time, the first issue of BLAST came as a brutal shock, a quality that has been preserved in this first facsimile edition, which documents in its in original format the raw energy, violent humour, graphic inventiveness and intellectual hard edge of the most compelling and vital magazine project of the modernist movement.
Last week No. 22 Price: £15.25
240 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781856695589
22.5 x 25 cm English text. Hardcover
Urban land is an increasingly precious commodity, particularly in the centre of major cities. Every spare corner of land is in demand, however small, inaccessible or awkwardly shaped. For architects the challenge is to optimize these sites while simultaneously negotiating the web of planning regulations, to create homes suited to today’s lifestyles. Infill profiles 39 innovative and imaginative urban dwellings around the world that fill in gaps left by demolition, or that have been squeezed into plots previously considered unsuitable for development. Each case study is illustrated with photographs, drawings and specially drawn site plans, all accompanied by authoritative commentary. The authors focus particularly on the challenges that each architect faced and how they were overcome.
RRP £27.50
Last week No. 33 Price: £24.75
Zero Books 2009
160 pages B&W repoductions. ISBN 9781846941764
14 x 21.5 cm English text. Softcover
This book is a defence of Modernism against its defenders. In readings of modern design, film and especially architecture, it attempts to reclaim a revolutionary modernism against its absorption into the heritage industry and the aesthetics of the luxury flat.
Militant Modernism argues for a Modernism of everyday life, immersed in questions of socialism, sexual politics and technology. It features new readings of some familiar names - Bertolt Brecht, Le Corbusier, Vladimir Mayakovsky - and much more on the lesser known, quotidian modernists of the 20th century. The chapters range from a study of industrial and brutalist aesthetics in Britain, Russian Constructivism in architecture, the Sexpol of Wilhelm Reich in film and design, and the alienation effects of Brecht and Hanns Eisler on record and on screen.
Against the world of 'there is no alternative', this book tries to excavate Modernism’s other futures.
Last week No. 36 Price: £9.99
192 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780500288184
25 x 25 cm English text. Softcover
Typography remains the bedrock of graphic design and, while the art of lettering is evolving, contemporary designers still look to the past for inspiration.
New Vintage Type is a critical survey of how modern artwork uses old type to evoke another time and place.
Organized by period, the book features hundreds of lively examples that prove that our type heritage has a place in the colourful graphic world of today: Victorian, Woodtype, Art Deco, Modern Movement, Eccentric Movement.
Each section features a brief essay, introducing historical features of the typefaces and considering what attributes make them relevant for a range of contemporary situations.
Steven Heller and Gail Anderson’s insightful and entertaining texts and inspirational graphic frames make this the ultimate visual inspiration for students, practitioners and typophiles
RRP £17.95
Last week No. 18 Price: £16.15
Four Corners Books 2009
80 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780954502584
17 x 24 cm English text
From 1967, up until his death, Eduardo Paolozzi was involved with the innovative British literary magazine Ambit, using its pages as a space for some of his most experimental and innovative creations, pushing at the boundary between text and image. Collages, visual essays and fragments from novels, drawing on pop culture images from newspapers, magazines and advertisements. Reprinted in their entirety for the first time, Paolozzi's works for Ambit tackle the war in Vietnam, the acceleration of Japanese technology, and the utopias of mass advertising. The Jet Age Compendium reproduces the Paolozzi pages from Ambit along with magazine covers, poems and advertisements that originally appeared alongside the artist s work. The book is housed in a day-glo pink sleeve that also contains an essay written by David Brittain which puts Paolozzi's work for the magazine into context
Last week No. 28 Price: £12.95
Fuel 2008
400 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780955006197
12.5 x 20.5 cm English text. Hardcover
This is the final volume of drawings and photographs from Danzig Baldaev and Sergei Vasiliev, which completes the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia trilogy.
Danzig Baldaev documented over three thousand tattoos during a lifetime working as a prison guard. His recording of this esoteric world was reported to the KGB who unexpectedly supported him, realising the importance of being able to establish facts about convicts by reading the images on their bodies. The motifs depicted represent the uncensored lives of the criminal classes, ranging from violence and pornography to politics and alcohol. The illustrated criminals of Russia tell the tale of their closed society.
With an introduction by historian Alexander Sidorov, exploring the origin of Russian criminal tattoos and their meaning today.
Last week No. 25 Price: £15.25
Rizzoli 2009
208 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780847832033
17.5 x 18 cm English text. Hardcover
In the spirit of treading a bit lighter on the planet, a new trend in sustainable living architecture is what is called "microgreen living"—literally the creation of tiny homes where people challenge themselves to live "greener" lives. This idea, which sprang from eco-awareness and the reduction of carbon footprints, has led people to consider low-impact living as a "greener" alternative to ordinary housing. Far beyond solar panels and the use of sustainable materials, homeowners have embraced the concept and have implemented many creative and stylish solutions for day-to-day living, such as a room that doubles as a shower with one swift movement of plexi-glass from a well-concealed pocket door. A tiny house is an experiment of space but also a challenge to simplify ways of life. Tiny Houses brings together an international collection of over thirty prefab homes and living concepts under 1,000 square feet—some are practical and others are cheeky, ranging from treehouses and compact dwellings to floating houses. The book presents conceptual building plans, detailed illustrations, and vivid photographs of the homes, architects, and proud enthusiasts who live in them. How much space is unused and "wasted" in your own home? This book will inspire the reader to think about architecture and interior design in a new and enlightened way.
Re-entry Price: £13.45
Faber 2009
208 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780571241026
Since the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bike as his principal means of transportation in New York City. Two decades ago, he discovered folding bikes, and starting taking them on tour. Byrne’s choice was made out of convenience rather than political motivation, but the more cities he saw from his bicycle, the more he became hooked on this mode of transport and the sense of liberation it provided. Convinced that urban biking opens one’s eyes to the inner workings and rhythms of a city’s geography and population, Byrne began keeping a journal of his observations and insights.
An account of what he sees and who he meets as he pedals through metropolises from Berlin to Buenos Aires, Istanbul to San Francisco, Manila to New York, Bicycle Diaries also records Byrne’s thoughts on world music, urban planning, fashion, architecture, cultural dislocation, and much more, all with a highly personal mixture of humour, curiosity, and humility. Part-travelogue, part-journal, part-photo album, Bicycle Diaries is an eye-opening celebration of seeing the world at bike level.
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Price: £14.99
The MIT Press 2007
128 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780262062664
18 x 12.5 cm English text. Hardcover
This is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the studio and in their backpacks. It is also a book they may want to keep out of view of their professors, for it expresses in clear and simple language things that tend to be murky and abstruse in the classroom. These 101 concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation—from the basics of "How to Draw a Line" to the complexities of color theory—provide a much-needed primer in architectural literacy, making concrete what too often is left nebulous or open-ended in the architecture curriculum. Each lesson utilizes a two-page format, with a brief explanation and an illustration that can range from diagrammatic to whimsical. The lesson on "How to Draw a Line" is illustrated by examples of good and bad lines; a lesson on the dangers of awkward floor level changes shows the television actor Dick Van Dyke in the midst of a pratfall; a discussion of the proportional differences between traditional and modern buildings features a drawing of a building split neatly in half between the two. Written by an architect and instructor who remembers well the fog of his own student days, 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School provides valuable guideposts for navigating the design studio and other classes in the architecture curriculum. Architecture graduates—from young designers to experienced practitioners—will turn to the book as well, for inspiration and a guide back to basics when solving a complex design problem.
Last week No. 42 Price: £8.95
Book Works 2007
80 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9781870699914
16.5 x 23 cm English text. Softcover
Stanley Green, ‘The ‘Protein Man’ is embroiled in an argument. He trawls the city streets campaigning for the suppression of desire through diet. His self-published pamphlet, ‘Eight Passion Proteins with Care’ outline the connections between nutrition, sedentary life and human sexuality. A second constellation recounts the history of a non-conformist group founded on action-analysis and bohemian schedules. Elsewhere, socialist-utopian Charles Fourier forms the basis of a discussion about the occupation of Sealand, His passional series and visionary designs of the Phalanx rouse the search for an islet of resistance.
3 Communiqués is a documentary fiction charting a journey through the marginal histories of communalism, self-presentation and collective agency. It forges a subjunctive archaeology that renegotiates utopian propositions as a way of both making art and as a tool for progressive thinking.
RRP £12.00
Re-entry Price: £10.80
Century 2005
192 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781844137879
15 x 21 cm English text. Softcover
Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Bansky is unmistakable, except maybe when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's Metropolitan Museum. Bansky is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cites throughout the world. Witty and subversive, his stencils show monkeys with weapons of mass destruction, policeman with smiley faces, rats with drills and umbrellas. If you look hard enough you'll find your own. His statements, incitements, ironies and epigrams are by turns intelligent and cheeky comments on everything from the monarchy and capitalism to the war in Iraq and farm animals. His identity remains unknown, but his work is prolific. And now for the first time, he's putting together the best of his work - old and new in a fully illustrated colour volume.
Last week No. 47 Price: £11.69
JRP|Ringier 2009
200 pages ISBN 9783905829556
This publication is dedicated to pioneering curators and presents a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Anne D'Harnoncourt, Werner Hoffman, Jean Leering, Franz Meyer, Seth Siegelaub, Walter Zanini, Johannes Cladders, Lucy Lippard, Walter Hopps, Pontus Hulten, and Harald Szeeman.
The contributions map the development of the curatorial field, from early independent curating in the 1960s and 1970s, and the experimental institutional programs developed in Europe and in the USA at this time, through Documenta and the development of biennales.
RRP £11.00
Re-entry Price: £9.90
272 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781856695893
25 x 16.5 cm English text. Softcover
One of the most ubiquitous pieces of printed matter, the business card presents a unique design conundrum. Constrained by budgetary and size restrictions, how do you present a person's or a business's identity and contact details, all in a very small space...and still have some fun? In an age dominated by digital media, the first two books in this series revealed the unique potential of the business card as an opportunity for creative greetings, firmly stamped with the user's personality. Business Cards 3 features over 200 innovative interpretations of the humble business card from around the world. Collected from designers and clients across the creative industries, highlighting materials, formats and production methods that push the boundaries of this genre, the result is a book full of inspiring surprises.
Last week No. 34 Price: £17.95
256 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780500342503
21.5 x 24 cm English text. Hardcover
Zaha Hadid is one of the most important and influential architects in the world. Educated in mathematics in Baghdad and architecture at London’s Architectural Association, Hadid is the first female recipient of the prestigious Pritzker Prize.
This is a complete monograph of Zaha Hadid’s early, unbuilt and built works, from her student years to the latest projects under development, and includes her furniture, stage and exhibition designs. The projects – constructed, in planning or under construction – are located around the globe.
An introduction by Aaron Betsky, 2008 Director of the Venice Architecture Biennale, examines the architect’s career, both in the context of architectural history and as a manifestation of the current and future state of architecture.
• The works are organized in chronological order over Hadid’s 30-year career, revealing her earliest inspirations and powerful resonances between projects.
• Prepared in collaboration with Hadid’s office
• A dazzling array of imagery, from large-scale paintings to sculpture-like models, from multi-perspective drawings to dynamic computer renderings, together with more conventional forms of architectural documentation, such as photographs, plans and drawings.
RRP £24.95
Last week No. 50 Price: £22.45
336 pages ISBN 9780141022093
13 x 20 cm English text. Softcover
Why do people work hard, and take pride in what they do? This book, a philosophically-minded enquiry into practical activity of many different kinds past and present, is about what happens when people try to do a good job. It asks us to think about the true meaning of skill in the 'skills society' and argues that pure competition is a poor way to achieve quality work. Sennett suggests, instead, that there is a craftsman in every human being, which can sometimes be enormously motivating and inspiring - and can also in other circumstances make individuals obsessive and frustrated. The Craftsman shows how history has drawn fault-lines between craftsman and artist, maker and user, technique and expression, practice and theory, and that individuals' pride in their work, as well as modern society in general, suffers from these historical divisions. But the past lives of crafts and craftsmen show us ways of working (using tools, acquiring skills, thinking about materials) which provide rewarding alternative ways for people to utilise their talents. We need to recognise this if motivations are to be understood and lives made as fulfilling as possible.
RRP £9.99
Last week No. 29 Price: £9.49
Yale University Press 2008
320 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780300126211
23 x 30.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Elvis’s Graceland, a freezer stuffed with food, a Gulf gasoline sign standing in a deserted rural landscape—these are only a few of the iconic images captured by the “democratic camera” of photographer William Eggleston. Not only has he drawn upon images so telling of American culture, he has produced them with an intensity and balance of color that have helped elevate the entire field of color photography to a fine art, especially since his 1976 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
Drawing together Eggleston’s famous and lesser-known works, this lavishly illustrated catalogue is the first to examine both his photography and videos. Of particular relevance are his black-and-white images from the late 1950s and 1960s, which helped shape his color photography, as well as the relationship between his provocative video recordings of 1970s Memphis nightlife and his later work. Included are reproductions of newly restored prints, executed specifically for the exhibition.
Filled with new and challenging contributions to scholarship and accompanying the first major U.S. survey of his work, this catalogue will prove the standard reference for Eggleston’s photographs for years to come.
Last week No. 15 Price: £35.00
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DAP 2008
288 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781933045788
Expanding Architecture presents a new generation of creative design carried out in the service of the greater public and the greater good. Questioning how design can improve daily lives, editors Bryan Bell and Katie Wakeford map an emerging geography of architectural activism or public-interest architecture that might function akin to public interest law or medicine by expanding architectures all-too-often elite client base. With 30 essays by practising architects and designers, urban and community planners, historians, landscape architects, environmental designers and members of other fields, this volume is full of work from around the world that illustrates the ways in which design can address issues of social justice, allow individuals and communities to plan and improve their own lives and serve a much larger percentage of the population than it has in the past. This new inclusionary practice must define new services and new processes, and these are illuminated in the generously illustrated texts as well. Examining evolving notions of socially conscious practice, this book serves as an essential guide for designers who are willing to take on the social, economic and environmental challenges we face today.
Last week No. 32 Price: £16.15
Actar 2009
350 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9788496954687
17 x 24 cm English text. Hardcover
Ferran Adrià has revolutionized the world of gastronomy and his restaurant, elBulli, is recognized as the world's best restaurant. So original and poetically sensible is Adrià’s approach to cooking that he is considered to be the greatest ¨artist of the kitchen.¨ Food for Thought explores the essence of elBulli’s creativity with hundreds of color photographs of Adrià’s creations, including, for the first time ever, every single dish ever created by elBulli. Inspired by Adrià's controversial participation in Documenta 12, this seductive volume features lively dialogue between the most potent critics and creators of the art and gastronomic worlds: Heston Blumenthal, Bill Buford, Jerry Saltz, Massmiliano Gioni, Anya Gallaccio, Peter Kubelka, Antoni Miralda, Carsten Holler, Bice Curiger...Visit http://foodforthought.actar.com
RRP £29.95
Last week No. 41 Price: £28.45
320 pages B&W reprtoductions. ISBN 9783899552416
18.5 x 23 cm English text.Hardcover
Grid Index is the first comprehensive visual lexicon of patterns and grid systems. Based upon years of research, artist and musician Carsten Nicolai has discovered and unlocked the visual code for visual systems into a systematic equation of grids and patterns. The accompanying CD contains all of the grids and patterns featured in the publication from the simplest grids made up entirely of squares to the most complex irregular ones with infinitely unpredictable patterns of growth, as editable vector graphic data files. Use it to map out the underlying grids of any image or form and to create recurring geometrical grids in graphic design - an essential reference for designers, visual artists, architects, researchers and mathematicians.
RRP £35.00
Re-entry Price: £31.50
Book Works 2008
160 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9781906012076
7.5 x 11 cm Emglish text. Softcover
Susan Hiller’s most recent artist’s book pays homage to two images of aspiration, fantasy and sublimation. Yves Klein’s 'Leap Into The Void', and Marcel Duchamp’s 'Portrait of Dr. R. Dumouchel'. Both embrace the phastasmagorical legacy of modernist art; in the former, the shaman's defiance of gravity, in the latter, the clairvoyant's perception of human auras.
In her miniature book, Hiller has assembled images sourced from the internet, all paying indirect homage to these two artists' gestures. She presents a sequence of levitations, back-to-back with a series of images of auras, so constructing an occult legacy thriving in popular culture, in which the artist’s gesture is reincarnated in the democratic medium of the internet.
Last week No. 31 Price: £10.80
DGV 2008
280 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783899552089
Not long ago, porcelain, glass and ceramics were almost exclusively used to make ostentatious objects best suited for display in grandmother’s cabinet. But now these classic materials are experiencing a renaissance. Today, they are increasingly being utilised in playful ways by a new wave of designers and artists, who are inspired by Modernism’s clear forms as well as an ironic depiction of figures, kitsch and the Romantic. Armed with these influences and an expanded repertoire of forms made possible by technological developments such as rapid prototyping, these designers and artists are manifesting their creative visions in unconventional objects made of these fragile materials.
Fragiles is an eclectic collection of such contemporary work. This book presents industrial applications made from porcelain, glass and ceramics such as the exclusive, futuristic tableware now in use in avant-garde restaurants around the world. It also features artistic glass objects by Arne Quinze and Jerszy Seymour as well as striking porcelain products by Jurgen Bey, Marcel Wanders and Jaime Hayon. In addition to these projects by renowned creatives, Fragiles also contains an exciting selection of recent cutting-edge work by emerging talents.
The examples shown in Fragiles range from the experimental to evocative retro-inspired reinterpretations. The spectrum and quality of these innovative projects shows a current generation of designers and artists just how relevant and challenging working with these traditional materials can be.
RRP £33.00
New entry Price: £29.70
Steidl 2007
216 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783865216083
30 x 30 cm English text. Hardcover
At the start of the 20th century, long before the triumphal march of the illustrated press, photography in the form of postcards was all the rage. This volume presents the extraordinary inventiveness in postcard production that unites elements of popular culture with photographic images. At the center of attention is the intense interaction between the so-called "fantasy" postcards and the avant-garde art of the 1920s and 1930s, the Dadaists and Surrealists. Paul Eluard, André Breton and Salvador Dalí were enthusiastic collectors of fantasy postcards and Hannah Höch, Herbert Bayer, Man Ray and many others used them as material for their work.
Price: £27.00
Actes Sud
424 pages 4 free DVDs Colour and B&W reproductions ISBN 9782742768936
21 x 30 cm English text. Hardcover
In this remarkable artist's book, French conceptual artist/provocateur Sophie Calle presents 107 outside interpretations of a "break-up" email she received from her lover the day he ended their affair. Featuring multiple paper changes, very special bound-in booklets and even Braille endpapers, it is a deeply poignant investigation of love and loss, published to coincide with the 2007 Venice Biennale--where Calle served as the French representative. All of the interpreters of Calle's break-up letter were women, and each was asked to analyse the document according to her profession-so that a writer comments on its style, a justice issues judgment, a lawyer defends Calle's ex-lover, a psychoanalyst studies his psychology, a mediator tries to find a path towards reconciliation, a proof-reader provides a literal edit of the text, etc. In addition, Calle asked a variety of performers, including Nathalie Dessay, Laurie Anderson and Carla Bruni, among others, to act the letter out. She filmed the singers and actresses and photographed the other contributors, so that each printed interpretation stands alongside at least one riveting image of its author. The result is a fascinating study and a deeply moving experience--as well as an artwork in its own right. Already a collector's item, this is a universal document of fixation and sorrow.
Exhibition Schedule: French Pavilion La Biennale di Venezia: 52 Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte 10 June - 21 November 2007
RRP £45.00
Re-entry Price: £40.50
DGV 2005
304 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 3899550722
24 x 28 cm English text. Hardcover
My house, my pool, my wife, my car, my horse, my Learjet, my toys, my trees, my garden, my cockroach. Now it's really all yours.
Neubau Welt is an extensive encyclopedia of well over a thousand editable vector illustrations of everyday objects and obsessions large and small. They were created by designer Stefan Gandl and his Neubau team. Gandl's previous book DSOS1 was also published by dgv and has since become a collectors’ item. All of the objects shown in the book can also be found as editable and highly detailed Macromedia Freehand and Adobe Illlustrator files on an included CD. For the price of the book, readers also buy the exclusive rights to exclusive graphics and three Neubau typefaces (NB55RLS, NBBlatt, NBUrban).
Reminiscent of a digital Letraset, Neubau Welt contains everything any designer could possibly need but couldn't find on Google. Unlike ClipArt, the smorgasbord of objects can be enlarged indefinitely. This also makes them extremely useful for architects and other creatives, who can integrate them into their presentations and visual models.
New entry Price: £28.00
