American author Ben Lerner and German film-maker and writer Alexander Kluge come from two different generations but share a single passion: an interest in the long-term effects of things. A line from Lerner’s poem “The sky stops painting and turns to c …

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“At a moment of tremendous technological and cultural change, David Reinfurt makes the case that graphic design is not merely a craft, but a fundamental way to understand and engage with the world. Discursive, expansive, and inspiring, this book redefi …

Tacit Knowledge provides an insight into the complex artistic and educational practices that characterized the first decade of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). There is a special focus on the conceptual and feminist strategies developed …

An East German mordernism existed in parallel to West German modernism in the fields of architecture and design. Walter Scheiffele shows the interplay between the two by looking at furniture making, for which the Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau had been …

Radical Cut-Up: Nothing Is Original investigates the cut-up as a contemporary mode of creativity and important global model of cultural production. The term cut-up serves as an open container for a long list of terms and actions that describe the combi …

This versatile collection presents the ideal library for anyone who wants to know how type works and, more importantly, how to use it. A compilation of 100 must-reads on typography and typeface design caters to professional graphic designers, students …

Arabische Schrift und Kalligrafie gehören unmittelbar zusammen. Frühere Kalligrafen kreierten die schönsten arabischen Schriften. Mit dem sichschnell ändernden Zeitgeist haben sich die Anforderungen an die arabische Schrift allerdings geändert beziehun …

Over the past ten years, Bodil Furu has emerged as one of the most significant Norwegian video artists. She has developed an unmistakable visual language, embedded in documentary realism, and unites abiding humanistic questions with current concerns re …

Alison Hui is a travel sketcher, doodler and writer. After publishing two books with her sketches and illustration, she try to explore the alternative art form to present her travel sketches with the riso printing. Short description of the architecture …

klasse Typografie Leipzig, hgb Leipzig (prof. Ludovic balland), 2019

In Bure, a small French commune in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region, French and German opponents of nuclear power have been campaigning for decades against the construction of a permanent disposal site for highly radioactive nuclear waste. …

Kuri findet seine Ausgangsmaterialien an ganz unterschiedlichen Orten und kombiniert sie in einer Weise, die die Tradition der Assemblage mit der surrealistischen Montage verbindet. Neben der Vielgestaltigkeit von Kuris formalem Ausdruck zeigt sich auc …

Katalog, 316 Seiten, ca. 500 Fotos, 28 x 24 cm, 2017 Mit zahlreichen Textbeiträgen von ehemaligen Punks und der Fotografin

The Heart Director’s Cut is a collaboration project and a wild collage containing works and texts by → Bruno Nagel staged for display by Yannick Nuss.

This issue is devoted to the Italian designer, artist, and inventor Bruno Munari, whose visual experiments were so iconic as to become a self-evident part of visual culture. At its core is the first English translation of ‘Obvious Code’ (1971), a colle …

‘Psychedelic Death Pop’ is a sprawling, large-format collection of recent visual work by Keiichi Tanaami. As one of the leading pop artists of post-war Japan, he has remained active as multi-genre artist since the 1960s, with works spanning graphic des …

The Apparatus shows a photographer taking photographs. We do not see what she is recording but we follow all the individual steps in the process: how she looks at her subject, how the camera behaves in relation to the body, how the body—the locomotor a …

The first wooden letters were craft-produced in the 18th century. Their use spread with the expansion of commercial advertising in the 1820s; production was mechanised and new types with increased visibility were created. In addition to dated products, …

Nach 10 Jahren digital, jetzt erstmalig (und vielleicht einmalig) als Print. Wir reißen 10 Jahre Clubkultur in Leipzig an, ehren die 90er, haben unter anderem mit Vincent Neumann, Solaris, Doppeldenk, frohfroh-Gründer Jens Wollweber und den Macher*inne …

Typeface Hack: Schriftgestaltung Hochschule Augsburg Maurice Göldner (Hrsg.), Studierende der HSA Projektdokumentation Juli 2019, Lab M 3.11b 2019

In 2001, Ray and David Potes began producing a black-and-white zine called Hamburger Eyes. Quickly gathering traction in the photo community, the photocopied booklets rapidly evolved into a monthly magazine. Quietly based in San Francisco’s Mission Dis …

Preparation for 1017-ALYX-9SM is a seasonal series that explores narratives around the various ‘acts of preparing’ leading up the Alyx show in Paris, this edition focuses on Haruka Hirata and the process of Ikebana for the Paris presentation. Photograp …

The notion of daily practice represents the guiding theme of this book. Featuring hundred eleven individual artworks gathered around eight themes, it introduces the artistic practice of French-born artist Johanna Tagada. The publication present the ver …

»Paradise Garage–Berlin City Campers« 32 pages, 27 photos, full color, A4 Edition of 66 Published by JB. Institute Release on Friends with Books: Art Book Fair Berlin 2018.

In the period around 1980, the world of art photography began to change. Museums started taking an interest in the medium, photo galleries were founded, photography made its first major appearance at the 1977 documenta, and magazines were launched. A t …

Viele fragten uns: Warum zum Teufel seid ihr nach Ruanda gegangen und wie seid ihr überhaupt auf die Idee gekommen? Um diese Fragen zu beantworten, ist ein kleiner Rückblick in die Vergangenheit notwendig. Bereits 2012 war Lars Harmsen in der Jury des …

A hybrid art book, magazine, and journal released each year, the print version of DOCUMNT focuses on concrete poetry, conceptual writing, and text-based forms of art. DOCUMNT2 approaches the theme of archives in an attempt to deal with the changes in m …

“People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles.” —Bret Easton Ellis Los Angeles could be described as Surrealism in full sunlight. The physical debris of Los Angeles—sooty palm fronds littered along crooked sidewalks, a maze of intertwined free …

The anthology ‘Wild Living Marine Resources Belong to Society as a Whole’ contains a wide range of expressions: poems, essays, photos, articles, manifests and artworks, all of which relate to our management of natural resources or discuss our fundament …

From street fashion to high culture the work of Virgil Abloh, a celebrated young multihyphenate artist, is showcased in this lavishly illustrated book. Virgil Abloh’s story is both quintessentially and subversively American. Born to Ghanaian parents in …

Heinrich Dietz, Clément Minighetti (Hrsg.). Ausst’publikation. Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover. Verlag für moderne Kunst 2014. Beiträge von Helmut Draxler, Veit Görner, Enrico Lunghi et al. Englisch, Deutsch. 96 Seiten, 54 Abb. (davon 54 farbig). 21 x 3 …

The “Swing” can be either a book, a game, or an entertaining strip to hang up. The concertina-fold pages are full of black and brown stylised animals that chase one another, overlap, leap with their “heavy bodies” onto the ends of the simplest of swing …

Es gibt nicht den Jazz, es gibt viele verschiedene Arten von Jazz. Er ist vielfältig und lebendig – wie die Werke von Niklaus Troxler, der seit über 40 Jahren Plakate für das von ihm gegründete Jazz-Festival und seine jährliche Konzertreihe in Willisau …

Für die Ausstellung BAU [ SPIEL ] HAUS hat das Neue Museum Nürnberg, gefördert durch den Fond Bauhaus heute der Bundeskulturstiftung, zum 100. Jubiläum der Gestaltungsschule eine ambitionierte, dreiteilige Publikation herausgegeben: einen Katalog, eine …

In 1999, pioneering fashion editor and stylist Babeth Djian founded Numéro, the now famous Paris magazine with an unmistakable aesthetic that boldly combines fashion, contemporary art, music and design. Guido Mocafico has photographed provocative still …

Dutch artist and contemporary jeweller Manon van Kouswijk’s working methodology is based on exploring and translating archetypal jewellery forms and motifs through a range of materials and processes. An integral aspect of her practice is the framing an …

„Weltall Erde Mensch #23“ ist eine Auseinandersetzung mit Blumen, Büchern, ostdeutscher Alltagskultur, dem Medium der Enzyklopädie, Geschichtsschreibung, Hoffnung und Enttäuschung. Hintergrund der Publikation stellt das Buch „Weltall Erde Mensch“ dar, …

17 x 24 cm, 312 p, 140 b-w, 26 colour ills, thread-sewn paperback, English, German ISBN 978-3-948200-01-5 Edition of 400 June 2019 Design: Rana Karan Whilst working in a museum bookshop, artist and poet Kyrill Constantinides Tank draws on postcard-size …

(English edition). Ausst’publikation. Fondation Beyeler, Basel. Hatje Cantz 2016. Beiträge von Theodora Vischer, Sam Keller et al. Englisch. 272 Seiten, 301 Abb. 24,6 x 30,5 cm. 1,7 kg. Leinen. 9783775741279. art-19063

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‘Sleeping districts’ of Moscow, Plattenbauten of East Berlin, modernist estates of Warsaw, Kyiv`s Brezhnevki: although these are home to the vast majority of city dwellers, post-war suburbs of central and eastern Europe have been invisible for decades. …

French graphic designer Olivier Lebrun follows on his previous publications documenting the books that appear in the popular cartoon television series with this anthology of more than 330 images and titles. All have been captured with a black-and-white …

Das künstlerisches Forschungsprojekt und Buch YOUTH setzt sich fotografisch und sprachlich mit den Strukturen des l.ndlichen Zusammenlebens auseinander, ausgehend von der hessischen Gemeinde Willingshausen. Im Fokus steht dabei die „Dorfjugend“, die ih …

“The practice of Aika Furukawa, who works in Japan and Germany, is based on a methodology developed in Europe. She represents the mountains and valleys of textiles as shadows cast by their folds. At the same time, she is conscious of the humidity that …

Ursula Schulz-Dornburg’s The Land in Between presents the complex bond between landscape and human civilization, exploring the construction of power though the built environment and its inevitable impermanence. By looking back at areas of past historic …

FK TYPE: FACES doku­mentiert Arbeiten der Fachklasse für Type-Design der HGB Leipzig im Entstehen.

Speaking of: Youth isn’t simply this once in a lifetime event, it neither just appears from out of nowhere nor does it vanish on a specific day. It feels more like an ebb and flow kinda thing without its affiliated orderliness. The marketing machines m …