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Three interconnected palimpsest essays recount (1) the backstory of a “meta” font recently updated by Dexter Sinister and used to typeset the Contemporary Condition book series, (2) a broad history of the rationalization of letterforms that considers t …

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

Group Affinity reflects on an experimental summer school that took place in 2011 at Kunstverein München organized in collaboration with Casco. Five independent collective bodies or groups—Andreas Müller & Susanne Pietsch, Chicago Boys, Cinenova, Grand …

Edited by Steinar Sekkingstad, Axel Wieder Texts by Matias Faldbakken, Sianne Ngai This publication accompanies Torbjørn Rødland’s exhibition “Fifth Honeymoon,” produced as a collaboration between Bergen Kunsthall; Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; and He …

AMSTERDAM – The Jul/Aug issue of Frame magazine explores how the notion of the workspace is changing as offices expand their amenities exponentially. Co-working space Tenoha offers a multi-service programme in Milan, NapYork provides New York City prof …

Text by Carsten Tabel, English, 22 × 27,5 cm, 168 pages, 25 color and 92 black & white plates, softcover Kodoji Press, Baden 2018, ISBN 978–3–03747–089–3

spotlighting four of 2018’s most essential new films, the autumn issue of Dazed celebrates the new stars of outsider cinema – the misfits you can’t take your eyes off, whose path is proudly their own. Leave No Trace’s Isaiah Stone is captured by Ben To …

Trefferia – a made up word – mixing the words Treff and Cafeteria together. Appropriated from a cafeteria-like meeting place with filter coffee, beer and cold smoke. For Wilhelm Klotzek an ideal place to invite his own works to. Central to this book is …

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 …

PALAIS magazine is devoting its issue #27 to the exhibition “Another Banana Day for the Dream-Fish”, presented at the Palais de Tokyo from 22 June to 9 September 2018. This exhibition brings together creations by around 30 artists and craftspersons, ba …

As a curious observer of ordinary plants and other greenery, THE PLANT presents a monographic on a specific plant and brings together photographers, illustrators, designers, musicians, writers and visual artists; both established and emerging, from all …

The Museum of Rhythm is a speculative institution that engages rhythm as a tool for interrogating the foundations of modernity and the sensual complex of time in daily experience. When entering a larger cultural infrastructure such as the art museum, i …

Reportagen, das unabhängige Magazin für erzählte Gegenwart. Herausragende Autorinnen und Autoren berichten in spannenden Reportagen aus dieser Welt. Vor Ort recherchiert, persönlich bei den Protagonisten und abseits der ausgetretenen Pfade. Jeden zweit …

How arbitrary are the marks, analog and digital, used to express language, and where do they begin to muck it all up? This first book from Tauba Auerbach, Yes and Not Yes features over 20 new paintings and drawings that spring from those questions. They offer an excellent if roundabout answer: while letters are largely arbitrary, they are rich with abstract beauty and conceptual depth. In razor-sharp execution–which reveals her training as a sign painter–Auerbach's works on panel and paper update the abstract conceptual tradition, while retaining its intellectual rigor. Uppercase Insides and Numeral Insides recall Russian Suprematism, and, upon further contemplation, turn out to be just what their titles call them. Works based on signal flags and the Ugaritic Alphabet–an extinct language from Syria, 1300 B.C.–confirm that puzzlement is part of the desired effect here. Where direct exchange between sign and meaning is impossible, the beauty of the symbol comes to the fore.

Softcover 16 pages, English, 2011 Designed by Brian Roettinger Published by Honor Fraser, Inc

Published by Deadbeat Club Press, 60 pgs, 28 × 21.5 cm, Softcover, 2018,

5 Stunden und 35 Minuten mit der Kamera im Fahrstuhl eines Verlagshauses, 20. November 1969, 10.35 –12.30, 13.30 – 17.10 Uhr On 20 November 1969 Heinrich Riebesehl goes to the premises of the Neue Hannoversche Presse. He intends to take photographs in …

The Italian illustrator Lorenzo Petrantoni melds punk and Victorian styles to create detailed illustrative collages that serve as compelling commentaries on the current state of world affairs. Timestory is the first comprehensive collection of Petraton …

Naturalis Historia is the result of an ambitious multimedia research on the history of nature. Taking an encyclopedic approach, artist Pauline Julier explores several nature stories appealing to the arts and sciences to create this vast narrative. The …

Photography Calling! zeigt mit Werken von 31 Fotografinnen und Fotografen wie etwa Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, John Gossage, Boris Mikhailov, Elisabeth Neudörfl, William Eggleston, Rineke Dijkstra und Martin Parr eine umfassende Übersic …

POP was conceived and launched from the offices of The Face magazine in the late-Nineties. From the first issue its voice and style was felt around the world, the bold and brave international fashion message leading the way for a legion of followers. B …

The Hot Seat is made from a series of drawings that focus on the impermanence of the physical things we perceive in our reality. The destruction of these objects is motivated simultaneously by the primitive desire to see things destroyed, the resentmen …

Published by Hassla, 28 pgs, 18 × 13 cm, Softcover, 2017, 978-1-940881-22-5

Gun violence and the war on terror, X-philes and juveniles, climate crisis and housing crisis. Tech workers: organize! Nicholas Dames reads spy novels; Andrea Long Chu watches bad TV; Namara Smith reviews Zadie Smith. 196 pgs, 25.5 × 17.5 cm, Softcover …

Now Less Than Never Folklore And Frats God Is A Mod The Bummer Left Boomer Desert Death Fest Plus Fiction By Jenny Zhang And Trevor Shikaze 192 pgs, 25 × 18 cm, Softcover, 2017,

Volume 12 Uniformity is a reaction to the state of constancy, featuring a chat between Eugenia Kuyda and her Replika, Lost in Translation by Kingston Trinder, Deconstruction by Dominique De Groen, Mother Womb by Mai Ivfjäll and a “Fake Monologue” on th …

Shoplifters is a bi-annual publication featuring the work of contemporary artists, photographers, designers, illustrators etc,. Shoplifters doesn’t have a single identity, it’s size, paper, typography, and tone changes each time it’s published. Designe …

Roberto Burle Marx (1909–1994) remains one of the most important landscape architects in the history of the field. His distinctive and widely acclaimed work has been featured and referenced in numerous sources, yet few of Burle Marx’s own words have been published. This collection of a dozen of Burle Marx’s lectures, most of which have never before been available in English, fills that void. Delivered on international speaking tours, they address topics such as Concepts in Landscape Composition, Gardens and Ecology and The Problem of Garden Lighting. Their publication sheds light on Burle Marx’s distinctive ethic and aesthetic of landscape, as “the real art in living.” The lectures paint a picture of Burle Marx not just as a gardener, artist and botanist, but as a landscape architect whose ambition was to bring radical change to cities and society. The lectures are framed by photographs, by Leonardo Finotti, of a selection of Burle Marx’s realized projects.

The second Issue of THIS IS BADLAND serves up a series of feasts, kicking off on the Balkans’ ritual of consuming food and drinks in copious amounts. We begin to liberate collective ways of eating the world before it eats us through a series of unrestr …

“In 1978 as the school year drew to a close two of my high school students who had tickets to a Rolling Stones Concert approached me and asked if I would like to go with them to the concert. After discussing it with my wife Nancy, who thought it was a good idea and promising photo opportunity, I was enthusiastic to go for the experience. My students were delighted that I’d be joining them. Besides they needed me to drive us to Philadelphia from Long Island, New York. So off we went for whatever adventure might lay ahead. And I carefully packed my three 35mm cameras and plenty of b&w film to record the event. Recently, I was inspired to revisit the contact sheets from that one day and choose images that still spoke to me after so many years. Here are some of those photographs I took on June 17th at JFK Stadium surrounded by 90,000 Rolling Stones fans who were so open to my camera. One footnote… Bill and Chris, my two students, are still in touch and we are good friends to this day. I am forever grateful to them for our trip to that Rolling Stones Concert.”

Ari Marcopoulos ‘Out & About’ should be considered a diary of one photographer’s journey through two decades of New York life. Originally form the Netherlands, Marcopoulos moved to New York at the end of the ‘70s. Out and About covers his photographic …

A Retrospective. Okwui Enwezor, Rein Wolfs (Hrsg.). Ausst’publikation. Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn. Prestel 2015. Beiträge von Elke Bippus, Thomas Ebers, Zdenek Felix et al. Englisch. 352 Seiten, 350 Abb. (davon 350 farbig). 21 x 28,5 cm. 1,8 kg. Leinen. 97 …

sheet zero, Magazin HGB Nr2, Fachklasse Typografie—@hgbleipzig @typografie_klasse #concept & #design by Lars-Ole Bastar; Peter Cornicius; Anne Dietzsch; Elias Erkan — printed at HGB

The summer issue of Even turns to matters of environment, evolution, and conservation, to ask who we are and what we will preserve. 181 pgs, 23 × 16.5 cm, Softcover, 2018, 07447029401682

Edit ist eine Zeitschrift aus Leipzig, die dreimal im Jahr neue deutschsprachige Literatur präsentiert. Seit ihrer Gründung 1993 setzt sie sich für zeitgenössische Schreibweisen, die Vielfalt literarischer Formen und Erstübersetzungen ein. Seit 2014 er …

Diana Wehmeier, “PLASMA 3”, 22,2 x 28,9 cm, 172 Pages, English, Presentbooks 2017

Sei politisch! Setze ein Zeichen! Dieses Credo scheint ein treibender Motor der gegenwärtigen Kunstproduktion zu sein. Ob auf Messen, Biennalen oder in Museen: Kunst mit politischen und ethischen Botschaften erzielt eine maximale Aufmerksamkeit, sublimiert die Kunstwelt und lässt Künstlerkarrieren befeuern. Hoch im Kurs sind Themen wie Rechtspopulismus, Donald Trump, Demokratie und die Flüchtlingskrise. Gleichzeitig scheint die künstlerische Freiheit durch Shitstorms und eine neue „Political Correctness“ zu schwinden. Welche Folgen und Gefahren entstehen hierdurch? Wie stellt man Qualitätsmerkmale in Bezug auf politische Kunst auf? Gibt es „linke“ Kunstwerke, die sich auch für rechtspopulistische Weltbilder auslegen lassen? In diesem Themenband wird in Essays diesen Fragen nachgegangen, Gespräche mit Aktivisten, einem Regisseur, sowie Künstlern diskutieren die Rolle der Kunst zwischen Aktivismus, Aufklärung und Engagement. Vor der Omnipräsenz der politischen Kunst stellt sich schließlich die Frage: Kann politische Kunst überhaupt (noch) Menschen beeinflussen? Denn: Nicht jedes politische Zeichen ist auch gleich ein gutes Kunstwerk.

Crash, the independent magazine for Fashion and Arts Lovers.

British designer David Hicks (1929–1998) wowed the English decorating world with his bold geometric prints, electrifying color combinations, and quirky mix of antique and contemporary furniture. Thanks to his prodigious talents, his gift for publicity, and his connection to the royal family through his wife, Lady Pamela Mountbatten (cousin of Prince Philip), Hicks attracted an A-list clientele. For decades, Hicks documented every salient moment of his life in scrapbooks, amassing 24 volumes filled with press clippings, invitations, swatches of his signature textiles, sketches of interiors, magazine articles on his projects, and hundreds of photographs, mainly family snapshots but also his own photos of people like Jackie Kennedy, Grace Kelly, and Andy Warhol. Many of the pages, now thumbed and foxed, are laid out in a collage style, and several are embellished with drawings and notes, revealing Hicks’s thoughts and sense of whimsy. Here, his son, Ashley Hicks, has chosen more than 325 of the best pages—providing not just a window into the extraordinary world of David Hicks but also a fascinating time capsule.

MICHAEL SCHMIDT: WAFFENRUHE. Hrsg. von der Stiftung für Fotografie und Medienkunst mit Archiv Michael Schmidt. Beitr. von Janos Frecot, Einar Schleef, Karin Schmidt & Thomas Weski. Neuaufl. Köln 2018. 26,5 x 30 cm. 82 S. mit 39 ganz- bzw. doppelseit. s …

The printed magazine is an art form which is often described as a dying medium; its continued existence has been a subject of media debate in the post-net age, and in art publishing (as in all of its genres) magazines have been forced to evolve. Modern …

Edition Camera Austria 2013 96 Seiten, dt./engl. 255 x 330 mm, Festeinband 37 Farbabbildungen, zahlreiche Schwarzweißabbildungen ISBN 978-3-900508-95-1

CURA. 28 is devoted to different artistic experiences and practices—crossing generations, time, space, and media—revolving around the boundaries, powers, forms and interpretations of the body that exist within the present world. 226 pgs, 27.5 × 21.5 cm …

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Edited by Jennifer Sigler and Leah Whitman-Salkin When Yoshi Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima of the Tokyo-based firm Atelier Bow-Wow arrived at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design as guest professors, in the winter of 2016, they challenged st …

Edited by Jennifer Sigler and Leah Whitman-Salkin In 1987, Peter G. Rowe published his pioneering book Design Thinking. In it, he interrogated conceptual approaches to design in terms of both process and form. Thirty years later, in a lecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Rowe offered a reappraisal of his earlier work, describing ways in which the capacities of the digital age have changed the way we perceive and understand creative problem-solving in architectural design. In this new account of “design thinking” based on that memorable talk, Rowe charges that ideas about the “precision” and “incompleteness” of information have become exaggerated and made more manifest. He dives into the crucial role of schema theory and the heuristics that flow from it, but concedes that the “ineffable characteristics of design problems and of design thinking also appear to have remained.” The Incidents is a book series based on uncommon events at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design from 1936 to tomorrow. Copublished with the Harvard University Graduate School of Design Book series designed by Åbäke