As part of Speelplaats, a parallel program of Werkplaats Typografie, participants challenged what was being offered in the school’s curriculum by introducing improvements or suggesting alternatives. Reader, aantekeningen exemplaar brings together these …

the Sickness is a series of four novellas exploring memory, anxiety, perception and the body. In the world of the novellas, a barely-understood pandemic has struck the population, but those directly affected cease to exist at the level of public discou …

The main catalogue of documenta 14 will take the form of a reader, evoking the various meanings associated with the term. The documenta 14 reader will both reflect the reading subject and the subject who reads or recites to an audience―emphasizing the …

WT Papier is the Paper-Repro office of the Werkplaats Typografie family. We offer a form of modified and self-described re-paper that reveals different degrees of its previous life. Using sheets exclusively from WT print runs collected throughout the y …

Initiated by Corina Neuenschwander, Proposal for a (Book)shelf is a project space for participants of the Werkplaats Typografie for presenting work. The Shelves, a small niche, are located inside the meeting room of the school. Similar to many places i …

Socialist Architecture – The Reappearing Act is a cooperation between the architect Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss and the photographer Armin Linke. Since 2009, Jovanovic Weiss and Linke are documenting the current state of selected places of socialistic archi …

2014. 17,6 x 24,2 cm. Gewicht: 972 g. 291 Seiten Register und Bibliografie. Fester Einband. Text: Englisch. Oro Editions. ISBN 9781941806067. art-15259

An Encounter of the Cosmopolitan Avant-Garde. Regina Bittner, Kathrin Rhomberg (Hrsg.). Ausst’publikation. Bauhaus Dessau 2013. Beiträge von: Torsten Blume, Sria Chatterjee. 17,2 x 24,2 cm. Gewicht: 486 g. 212 Seiten mit 132 Abb. Broschur. Text: Englis …

What do people do, if they are out in the street? Reading? Waiting? Can we recognize the inhabitant, the stranger, the traveller by his actions and deeds in an urban setting? This is the premise of Johannes Schwartz’s exploration, which was set in Athe …

Published on the occasion of an exhibition by Shannon Ebner at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, which centres around an eponymous new video work commissioned by the museum. In her work the Los Angeles-based artist critically explores the role …

Batia Suter’s work intuitively situates found images in new contexts to provoke surprising reactions and significative possibilities. This volume follows on from the first ‘Parallel Encyclopedia’, published in 2007. Underlying themes of Suter’s practic …

According to Austrian designer Robert Stadler, “The idea in question is rooted in my fascination with unidentifiable objects.” Published in conjunction with the exhibition at Galerie Poirel in Nancy, the catalogue follows Stadler’s inquiry into those l …

Seit dem 19.Jahrhundert gehören Plakate zum Bild der Städte. Die frühesten davon sind Anschläge reisender Zirkus- und Schaustellertruppen. Pierre Pané-Farré hat Plakate des Leipziger Druckers Oskar Leiner mit historischen Fotos der Stadt zu einem Buch …

Updated reprint in black of a book featuring a collection of Na Kim’s work from 2006 to 2015 published on the occasion of her fourth solo exhibition, SET (named after this publication) at DOOSAN Gallery New York, from October 8 to November 5, 2015. For …

The artist and musician Alexander Tucker returns to comics with World in the Forcefield 1, a tale of existential boredom set in a fantastical universe. The book explores perception and inter-dimensional reality in a tale of two estranged brothers shari …

Katalog mit 90 Abbildungen im vierfarbigen Offsetdruck, gestaltet von André Fuchs mit einem Text von Anna M. Szaflarski (engl./ dt.) und Gedichten von Stefan Wartenberg (dt.) Festeinband, 96 Seiten, 16,3×21,7 cm, Auflage 300 Erschienen 03/2017 ISBN 978 …

Network is 8 x 11 inches, 336 pages, otabound with smythe sewn signatures. The publication features fore-edge printing and includes a half-sheet bookmark. It is printed on 120 gsm Munken Polar Rough, in a first edition of 1100 copies.

Katalog mit 36 Abbildungen im Offset-, Duplex- und Irisdruck, gestaltet von Lisa Pommerenke mit einem Text von Leonie Pfennig (dt./ engl.)

LE PETIT VOYEUR is an independent publisher from Copenhagen, dedicated to showcase and promote an eclectic mix of talented and creative visual artists worldwide. The main focus is on the featured artists works and their craftsmanship across genres, tec …

OPEN DAG / OPEN DAY A book documenting the indoor walls of the Werkplaats Typografie. All photos are taken on November 13 & 15, 2012. Concept, Design & Photography Bardhi Haliti

This book offers a glimpse into all of the rooms and reception areas in the Modez Hotel of fashion and design in Arnhem. By means of words and pictures it explores the ideas behind the creation of each room as well as the design process and the designi …

In the 1950s, Frei Otto’s tent structures left their mark on the horticultural shows of the new Bonn Republic; together with Behnisch & Partner he created the roof landscape for the Munich Olympic Games in 1972. The innovative potential in his work is …

In the 1950s, Frei Otto’s tent structures left their mark on the horticultural shows of the new Bonn Republic; together with Behnisch & Partner he created the roof landscape for the Munich Olympic Games in 1972. The innovative potential in his work is …

The archive of the Photo Service of the President of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia contains nearly 300,000 photographs documenting Josip Broz Tito’s public and private activities from 1948 until his death in 1980. It is housed today in t …

leipzig, 2017 At the end of the 1950s Karl-Heinz Adler began to reinvent himself as an artist: he arranged fanned layerings of the same geometric elements, constructivist collages of interpenetrating rectangles, and laminations of transparent film, lat …

The first Public Possession publication (a collage in book form) is available now. The mixture of text and graphic material is the result of their research on the topic of sleep. “N.B. the publication is at once an invitation to wake and to sleep.” Inc …

A catalog of selected works from 2014 to 2016 by Ellen Akimoto, born 1988 in Westlake Village, California. Ellen Akimoto completed her studies as a Meisterschülerin in the class of Annette Schröter at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig in 2016, and previously earned her BFA at California State University Chico.

Erscheint anlässlich der Einzelausstellung “Lokaler Superhaufen” in der Galerie b2, Leipzig vom 21.10. bis 19.11.2016. Das Künstlerbuch Ferne Laute von Benjamin Dittrich besteht aus 65 schwarz-weißen Linolschnitten der Serie “KEN67”. “KEN67” basiert auf dem Lexikon “Kleine Enzyklopädie Natur”. Die darin enthaltenen Diagramme wurden in Einzelteile zerlegt und jeglicher Text wurde entfernt. Per Zufallsprinzip wurden jeweils fünf Elemente ausgewählt, zu einem neuen Diagrammkonstrukt zusammengefügt und dann als Linolschnitt umgesetzt.

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Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s Studio Work collects formal portraits, snapshots, still-lifes and documentation of the studio space, created during his residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem from 2010–2011. The artist writes: “I am exploring how the studio environment, as the site of creation, editing, and accumulation affects and frames portraiture, and the performance of portraiture.”

In 1949, the competition »Die besten Plakate des Jahres« (The Best Posters of the Year) took place for the first time in the newly founded Federal Republic of Germany. Designers could enter poster designs from the past year, a jury of experts awarded prizes for the best works. From 1966 onwards, there was such an annual competition in the GDR too. Many of the commended works from that time are today amongst the canon of German and international design history. The book tells the eventful history of the com­peti­tions and their changing shape over the decades. The picture section shows over 250 posters from 1949 to 2000 from a total of almost 4,000 award-winning works. An all-German poster history, which visualizes lasting changes as well as transient design trends and shows many of the best German posters, including works by Helmut Brade, cyan, Michael Engelmann, Frieder Grindler, Erhard Grüttner, Rudolf Grüttner, Hans Hillmann, Günther Kieser, Uwe Loesch, Holger Matthies, Pierre Mendell, Rolf Felix Müller, Volker Pfüller, Ott+Stein, Gunter Rambow and many others.

Any Part, Any Form is a follow-up to London-based graphic designer Radim Peško’s Informal Meetings (2010), a collection of photographs made during travels and wanderings to different places. This volume brings back found compositions and situations where seemingly unremarkable encounters between space, architecture and water suggest their own stories.

Quinn Latimer is a poet, critic, and editor based in Basel and Athens. She is currently Editor-in-Chief of Publications for documenta 14.

Jonas Mekas has worked together with Andy Warhol, George Maciunas, John Lennon, and many others. In New York he was an influential figure in the New American Cinema, although he came to film-making relatively late. In 1944 Mekas and his younger brother Adolfas had to flee from the Nazis for copying leaflets. They were interned for eight months in a labour camp in Elmshorn. The Soviet occupation prevented him from returning to his native Lithuania after the war and, classed as a “displaced person”, he lived in DP camps in Wiesbaden and Kassel. Towards the end of 1949 he and his brother emigrated to New York. In his autobiography I Had Nowhere to Go he describes his survival in the camps and his arrival in New York. Mekas tells a universal story, that of an émigré who can never go back, whose loneliness in his new world is emblematic of human existence.

New edition, 2015 Text in English only Paperback 196 pages, 150 color and 22 b/w illustrations 20 x 26 cm ISBN 978-3-85881-764-8

Popper Publishing issue “Systems” is dedicated to contemporary and post-internet art with abstract forms, color, geometry, mathematically generated images, visualizations generated by biological processes and outer space. International artists: 108, 1010, Arnaud Loumeau, Bianca Brunner, Daniél Niederkofler, David Mendez Alonso, Dunja Jankovic, Ekta, Emmanuelle Pidoux, Erin O’Keefe, Fanny Pápay, Frances Malthouse, Gfeller + Hellsgård, Heretic, Ian Stevenson, Goekhan Erdogan, Kottie Paloma, Laimonas Zakas (Glitchr), Letha Wilson, Mark Whalen, Moneyless, Mujuice, Shoboshobo, Tellas, The Pit, Tracy Widdess, Heretic, Ian Stevenson. Latvian artists: Andrejs Lavrinovičs, Armands Zelčs, Arturs Koršs, Atis Jākobsons, Darja Meļņikova, Eltons Kūns, Ēriks Apaļais, Ēriks Naivo, Evita Vasiļjeva, Gustavs Klucis (LNMM), Gints Gabrāns, Henrijs Preiss, Ieva Kraule, Jānis Dzirnieks, Jānis Krauklis, Kaspars Groševs, Katrīna Čemme, Katrīna Neiburga, Klāvs Loris, Krišs Salmanis, Kristaps Zelmenis, Zane Zelmene, Kristīne Alksne, Lazy Bra, Līva Rutmane, Maija Kurševa, Mārtiņš Ratniks, Ojārs Pētersons, Oskars Veilands, Pēteris Noviks, Reinis Lismanis, Sarmīte Māliņa, Viktor Timofeev, Voldemārs Johansons, Vija Celmins (LNMM), Elīna Sproģe (text).

International contributors: Popay, Monica Canilao, Nano 4814, Tomokazu Matsuyama, Mina Hamada, Motohiro Hayakawa, Zosen, Smithe, Leon Ka (Kafre), Matthew Palladino, Tetsunori Tawaraya, Daniel Muñoz SAN, SCUBA, Waone (Interesni Kazki), Martha Cooper, Hell 'O Monsters, Lennard Schuurmans, Ako Castuera, Ana Serrano, Lola Rose Thompson, Miju Lee. Latvian contributors: Andrejs Lavrinovičs, Maija Kurševa, Miķelis Fišers, Kristīne Kursiša, Kristians Brekte, Mārtiņš Ratniks, Tron Karton, Ēriks Caune, Gints Gabrāns, Liene Mackus, Līga Spunde & Jānis Klaučs, Jānis Dzirnieks, Krišs Salmanis, Inga Meldere, Irīna Spičaka, Ernests Kļaviņš, Agata Melnikova & Daria Melnikova, Kristaps Zelmenis & Krišijānis Mežulis, Zane Zelmene, Indriķis Ģelzis, Reinis Semēvics, Ojārs Pētersons, Aigars Opincāns & Ton Koene, Šelda Puķīte (text), Normunds Kozlovs (text).

Muita Animação showcases a selection of Portuguese party posters that are very prominent in the local landscape because of their bold design as well as their unique production method: Printed on plastic and mounted on streetposts and trees, they mostly survive the date they announce and therefore can even be seen on Google Streetview. Zurich Artist Noël Fischer started to collect these posters a few years back and has now — together with design studio Hammer — published them in this whimsical A3-sized book. This collection might as well be Jan Tschichold’s worst nightmare.

Everyone knows a different Munari”, reads the back cover of 'Codice ovvio', the collection published by Einaudi in 1971. And nothing could be more true: the diversity and originality of Bruno Munari’s artistic experimentation gave rise to a plethora of creative activities, ranging from drawings to designs, collages, paintings, sculptures, readable and not-so-readable books, new image reproduction techniques, industrial design, editorial graphics, architecture and new pedagogical ideas. 'Bruno Munari Total Artist' is the printed edition that accompanies the exhibition on show at Museo Ettore Fico in Turin from 16 February to 11 June 2017.

‘If you’re stuck for an idea, have a big decision to handle or need a new perspective on a problem, here are some approaches for thinking, communicating and creativity. An upbeat guide that anyone can use to help with the big and small challenges we face every day.’ Anthony Burrill A life-affirming guide to new thinking, creative problem-solving and getting things done from graphic artist Anthony Burrill. Full of inspiration and ideas, his best-loved prints as well as new work, this book will get you thinking bigger and better and recharge your creativity.

A lavishly produced celebration of the output, aesthetic, and legacy of one of the most influential record labels in contemporary music.

Isotype (= international system of typographic picture education) wurde ab den 1920er-Jahren vom Wiener Soziologen und Philosophen Otto Neurath als Methode zur Visualisierung von Daten und Zusammenhängen entwickelt. Das aufklärerische Ziel war es, komplexe Sachverhalte mittels gegenständlicher Bilder und Symbole in eine intelligente und komprimierte Form zu transformieren, die sowohl klar verständlich und interessant als auch genau war. Dieser mit vielen anschaulichen Beispielen versehene Band widmet sich den Prinzipien von Isotype, der Tätigkeit des „Transformierens“ – so der zeitgenössische Terminus – und Marie Neurath, der wichtigsten Mitarbeiterin und Wegbegleiterin Otto Neuraths. Im Mittelpunkt steht ein bislang in deutscher Sprache noch nie veröffentlichter Essay aus dem Jahr 1986, den Marie Neurath kurz vor ihrem Tod verfasst hat. Der Leser erhält authentische Einblicke in die Entstehungs- und Gestaltungsprozesse von Isotype-Schaubildern und die Arbeitsweisen von Otto Neurath und seinem Team sowie die Fortführung der Arbeit nach dessen Tod. In weiteren Beiträgen schreibt der britische Typograf und Verleger Robin Kinross über Marie Neurath, sowohl als Person als auch bedeutende Protagonistin der Designgeschichte, und reflektiert über Vermächtnis und Zukunft von Isotype in der visuellen Kommunikation.

Nowadays music produces social relationships that no longer require any proprietorship. But it still cannot operate independently of the system without itself being part of a powerful logic of commercialism. This inextricable conflict is the bassline for a mix that is presented by Andrzej Steinbach and Achim Szepanski in Ultrablack of Music: Feindliche Übernahme (Hostile Takeover). Steinbach montages three different texts: a TV talk show as chamber play, a roll call of all the Red Army Faction members in the form of a score, and the computer code of a chopped-up McKinsey advertisement. In 1971 WDR broadcast “Open Ended: Pop and Co — The Other Music between Protest and Commerce!” during which Nikel Pallat, a member of the band Ton Steine Scherben, produced an axe from under his jacket and repeatedly smashed it down on the table with all his might. The table didn’t break but the gesture was unambiguous.

Contributions by Carl Andre, Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Barbara Bloemink, Jan Boelen, Louise Bourgeois, Sheldon Cheney and Martha Candler Cheney, Alex Coles, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, Hal Foster, Sigmund Freud, Dan Graham, Isabelle Graw, Sebastian Hackenschmidt and Dietmar Rübel, Graham Harman, G. W. F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Dave Hickey, Matthew Higgs, Donald Judd, Immanuel Kant, Frederick J. Kiesler, Sven Lütticken, Alessandro Mendini, W. J. T. Mitchell, Jasper Morrison, Bruno Munari, Robert Nickas, Alice Rawsthorn, Jeff Rian, Richard Rinehart, Anthony Vidler This collection of more than thirty texts, which were originally published between 1790 and the present day, explores man’s rich relationship with material things. Devised largely in response to the gradual breakdown of the divide between art and design that began over a century ago, this book sheds light on the ways that the concept of the thing as idea has been considered over time. Writers from different fields explore how things interact with materials, structures, and production processes while defining and registering the intangible qualities of the material world. Each author considers the different relationships between the context of a thing and its thingness, describing the ways in which things and ideas intersect.

Edgar Leciejewski spent six months as an artist-in-residence with Fogo Island Arts in 2014. Tones brings together new work stemming from the Leipzig-based artist’s time on the island, including large-scale collages, photographs of natural elements, and precarious sculptures composed of objects found on the shore. Taken together the works are a collection and an archive of time shown in modern images, raising questions on how we contemplate ideas of nature. This publication features essays by Bill Arning and Zoë Gray, as well as a conversation between the artist and Nicolaus Schafhausen.

London, 2017

Max Dax, seit 2006 Chefredakteur des Musikmagazins Spex, gab jahrelang die Interviewzeitschrift Alert heraus. Dabei entstanden gesprochene (Selbst-)Porträts von (Techno-)Musikern, Künstlern, Regisseuren und Schriftstellern und ganz nebenbei eine Zwischenbilanz der Gegenwartskultur. Zu Wort kommen in dieser Auswahl: Aphex Twin, Blixa Bargeld, David Bowie, Vashti Bunyan, Diedrich Diederichsen, DJ Hell, Kim Gordon, Juliette Gréco, Charlie Haden, Herbie Hancock, Lee Hazelwood, Jenny Holzer, Dennis Hopper, Jörg Immendorf, Lemmy Kilmister, Martin Kippenberger, Alexander Kluge, Claude Lanzmann, Arto Lindsay, Marcel Marceau, Johnny Marr, Thomas Ruff, Helge Schneider, Mark E. Smith, Bernhard Sumner, Mayo Thompson, Caetano Veloso, Roger Waters und Townes van Zandt.