“This is the only conversation to be having in fashion right now,” the supermodel and activist Amber Valletta said to More Or Less editor, Jaime Perlman, at her Malibu cover shoot. Her thoughts on sustainability and environmental impact resonated power …

AGAINST FROM WITHIN Chelsea Manning Wolfgang Tillmans Pier Vittorio Aureli Virgil Abloh Johann Harri Shumon Basar Svetlana Marich Elf Lyons Nicole McLaughlin Sophia Alami Jack Self Efe John-Paul Trang Colby Vexler Justin Clemens Jacob Dreyer Yuyang Liu …

Q: What did you do exactly? A: First, in May 2015, and then again in November 2017, we invited a selection of graphic designers to Otl Acher’s “Institut für analoge Studien” in Rotis, near Neukirch im Allgäu. Over two days these designers were intervie …

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The artist and collector Martin Dammann has studied war photography, the impact of images, and how history is written. During his research, he came across many amateur photographs of soldiers in the German army who dressed as women—scenes that directly …

Which social conditions and structures make an urban space visible? And how can this complexity be translated into photography? For his long-term study, Matthias Steinkraus (b. 1981, Freiburg im Breisgau) spent six years, from 2010 to 2016, documenting …

“The term ‘avant-garde’ stands for progress and the way of a pioneer. Driven by the desire to give their lives meaning, and guided by their own integrity, migrants bring new perspectives and points of view to our society.” – Michael Danner With his new …

Contributions by Benjamin H. Bratton, Liam Gillick, Hannes Grassegger, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Angela Nagle, Nina Power, Patricia Reed, Konrad Renner, Slavs & Tatars, Jonas Staal, Hito Steyerl, Wolfgang Tillmans, Stephan Trüby, Christina Varvia (Forensic Ar …

How do you tell the story of a friendship? How do you trace the roots of one of the most significant cross-disciplinary unions in fashion today? Artist Sterling Ruby and fashion designer Raf Simons did just that when they sat on stage with curator Jess …

Die einen, wie die in Finnland geborene Miia Autio und der aus Tübingen stammende Holger Jenss, sind nach Afrika gereist, um die Fremde zu erfahren. Fremde unter Fremden. Die anderen, wie Chris Becher, Julia Steinigeweg und Andreas Hopfgarten, haben vo …

Antenne Publishing presents its second publication in the ESTATE OF series, a publication that offers artists a space to realise projects in a specified format. Loops is Anders Edström’s narrative chronology, from front to back covers. Shot during walk …

From his early short films made in Philadelphia in the 1960s up through more recent feature films like Inland Empire (2006), legendary artist and director David Lynch (born 1946) has used sound to build mood, subvert audience expectations and create ne …

This new publication by avant-garde artist and cultural icon Yoko Ono combines never-before-published texts and invitation pieces written in 2016–2018 with drawings from the “Franklin Summer” series she started in 1994. For Yoko Ono, words, artworks, a …

This luxurious comprehensive catalogue, lavishly illustrated, brings together works from throughout the artist’s career, from early collages and Polaroids, to the images of flowers, nudes, sexuality and portraits that made him one of the most notable p …

This Is Television addresses the increasingly obsolete medium of television by way of the medium of the book—by extension commenting on media’s continuous changes of form and format. Through an interplay of theory and artistic research material, the bo …

This book has been conceived as both a prism and a manual. Following the “traditional” arc of electroacoustic composition (listen—record—compose—deploy—feel), each of the contributions collected together here focuses in on a personal aspect, a fragment …

With contributions by Christine Checinska, Christine Delhaye, Burcu Dogramaci, Sonja Eismann, Elke Gaugele, Gabriele Genge, Birgit Haehnel, Sabrina Henry, Helen Jennings, Alexandra Karentzos, Hana Knížová, Christian Kravagna, Gabriele Mentges, Birgit M …

Facebook, Airbnb and other companies, whose business models are based on the commercialization of social relationships, have transformed words like “community,” “sharing” or “us” into empty concepts that no longer represent solidarity or a progressive …

Der Band wirft einen neuen Blick auf Hannes Meyer – dem zweiten Bauhausdirektor in Dessau, der 1930 politisch aus dem Amt gedrängt wurde. Das Buch dokumentiert anhand von Faksimiles programmatischer Schriften, wie der engagierte Architekt und Sozialist …

Issues 10 to 12 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design, around Robert Brownjohn, Klaus Scherübel, Julia Born, Simon Starling, and Poster of Girl, Revue Emmanuelle.

Casual Relationships explores the mechanisms at work in the construction of visual culture. By carefully curating and simulating photographs from contemporary vernacular sources, Max Creasy identifies the way these images are endorsed within social gro …

We would like to cast a spell on you that will only work if you read this whole issue from cover to cover. Along the way, you will battle monsters, fall in and out of love, perform rituals, believe or disbelieve the evangelists of new religions, and en …

Die Protocol ist eine interdisziplinäre und unabhängige Plattform für aktuelle Diskurse rund um das Thema Architektur: Architektur im Kontext

Forged by fire and fluid—and the slow, heavy press of the earth’s surface—crystals are nature at its most miraculous, science as it veers into the mystical. The debut book in our New New Age Series, Crystals provides an elegant page-by-page overview of …

Parallel Cities examines the history of the multilevel city with a focus on elevated pedestrian systems as a recurrent concept in urban planning and design. The book chronicles the evolution and migration of this concept from 19th-century French social …

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“Congo Stars” will nicht die historische Entwicklung nachzeichnen oder die Definition dessen liefern, was populäre Malerei im Kongo ist. Vielmehr geht es hier um die Dimension des Fiktionalen in Bezug zur Geschichtsschreibung. Prozesse der Staatsbildun …

This book is an overview of the exhibition program of Bart van der Heide from 2010 – 2015, which he realised as the director of Kunstverein München. Each exhibition is presented by a corresponding booklet, containing all texts and images. These accompa …

In the third issue of 'Dirty Furniture
' on the theme of the toilet, we wonder why poo-bum jokes are funny, lament the loss of the public loo, and stand for girls who stand. Sanitation in India is investigated, toilet paper unrolled, nappies reconsidered, and we interview a farmer and a toilet attendant. With Alex Schweder on pissing, Natalie D Kane on nappies, Alice Twemlow on graphic design, plus shitting monarchs, Superflex, and the poo emoji. 152 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English

literaturmagazin, Leipzig 2016

literaturmagazin, Leipzig 2016

literaturmagazin, Leipzig 2016

literaturmagazin, Leipzig 2016

Many designs that appear in today’s society will circulate and encounter audiences of many different cultures and languages. The Politics of Design enhances your visual literacy for communication beyond borders and cultures. “It’s the kind of literatur …

Stellvertretend für eine ganze Generation hat Collien Schorr 2007 die Geschichte des 19-jährigen Drag-Car Rennfahrers Charlie “Astoria Chas” Snyder und seiner ’67 “Ko-Motion” Corvette als Grundlage für ihre Installation There I Was genutzt. Bereits als …

In einem Zeitraum von drei Jahren reisten Taiyo Onorato und Nico Krebs mehrere Monate durch die Vereinigten Staaten und arbeiteten «on the road» an der Bildserie The Great Unreal. Die fotografische Arbeit setzt sich mit Realität und der Erfindung von R …

11 is a collection of mostly unpublished photos from different series of the last 6 years, first time to be shown printed and as a body of work. The title of the book is an ode to Jasmines birthday, the 11.11. Since always this number followed Jasmine …

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Denise Scott Brown hat die Entwicklung der Architektur seit den 1960er-Jahren in vielfältiger Weise mitgeprägt. Ihr rebellisches Leben führt sie durch drei Kontinente – von der Kindheit in Südafrika in den 1930er-Jahren über die Ausbildung in England i …

72 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 33 cm, pb, English

Seit Menschengedenken versuchen wir uns mittels verschiedener Techniken und Medien zu erinnern; denn Erinnerung ist nicht nur Voraussetzung für die Identität jedes Einzelnen, sondern auch für gesellschaftlichen Fortschritt. In form 281 haben wir uns ei …

… This book is for color Blue as personal perspectives and phycological approaches. I’ve been making the book over 3 months traveling around a couple of countries including Korea, Japan and United States. Basically it deals with what I’ve seen throug …

Über ein halbes Jahr hat Julia Debus Indien durchquert, dabei entstanden fotografische Aufnahmen aus dem Transit: Ländliche Gebiete, außerhalb der Aufmerksamkeit stehende Zwischenflächen, Subsistenzlandwirtschaft und viel Raum, dessen Nutzung sich auf den ersten Blick nicht genau erschließt. Gegenden, die selten Anfangs – oder Endpunkt einer Reise bilden, sondern meist durchquert werden. Graslandschaften, Felsformationen, Gestrüpp, Bäume, Flussläufe. Ein verbindendes Motiv sind Pfade – die in unterschiedlicher Form auftauchen.Die Aufnahmen fügen sich in einem Leporello aneinander und wiederholen so formell, den Duktus der Fotografin.

The objective of this publication is to trace and describe the artistic and institutional decisions that have influenced the work of Camera Austria, which has been made visible through numerous exhibitions and symposiums on photography and, since 1980, …

OFF THE RAILS is joining forces with Ryde Network, the world’s largest fashion and lifestyle Instagram network, to create ground breaking content, and SHAKE UP the industry. Loosely based around Youth Culture, Grunge & Contemporary Fashion, Nostalgia, …

Sachsen ist nicht bekannt für avantgardistische Modernität – doch es lohnt sich, genauer hinzuschauen und zahlreiche Bauhaus-Spuren zu entdecken. Da wären zum die Anwendungen von Bauhaus-Künsten in der seriellen Produktion in Leipzig, Weißwasser oder H …

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