Born in 1940 in Amsterdam, Anton Beeke learned graphic design without any formal training. He was renowned for his provocative poster designs, which explored themes of love, sex, and violence, for numerous clients, including theatre groups such as Tone …

The ‘Serving Library Annual’ comprises several “bulletins” organised around a theme for an international audience of designers, researchers, writers, and artists. This year’s collection explores how translation is fast becoming a significant site for t …

Theory of Type Design’ by internationally renowned type designer Gerard Unger is the first comprehensive theory of typeface design. This volume consists of 24 concise chapters, each clearly describing a different aspect of type design, from the influen …

Why do design? What is design for? These are forward-looking questions for a creative discipline that seems more slippery to define than ever. In a world of dwindling natural resources, exhausted social and political systems, and an overload of informa …

The sea has inspired artists, writers, and thinkers for centuries; but what has changed in our view of the sea since the canonical seafaring novels and paintings of the 19th century? In the June issue of Texte zur Kunst, dedicated to the mysteries and …

032c magazine is an English-language, bi-annual contemporary culture magazine that covers art, fashion, and politics. It was founded in 2001 by Joerg Koch and is published in Berlin.[1] It hosts exhibitions and events at its Workshop in the former brut …

Housing Cairo: The Informal Response is a publication that aims to illuminate the architecture of informality and its mechanism, focused on the neighborhood of Ard-el-Liwa. It challenges the usual negative perception attached to informal areas. Instead …

“This publication was planned before it was decided to coincide it with the exhibition Fair Game Leipzig at the Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig. It is composed of drawings that I made in 2013. The cover instead was designed in 2019 in relation to th …

Ex Nihilo is a project by artist Daniel Shea and OK-RM, commissioned by 1017-ALYX-9SM. It is a work of fiction, exposing the mysteries of how matter and being appear to emerge from nothing. At times, these artefacts have been formed by a geological aeo …

MacGuffin Nº 7 is dedicated to an object that is not just a garment, but a mirror of power & desire: The Trousers. MacGuffin puts the pants on one leg at a time with survival gear, working uniforms, tent slacks, yoga leggings, hammer pants, men’s skirt …

Four essays mapping alternative visions of the future, from the frontiers of psychedelic therapy to ethical hacking Future Of… Portfolio A floating food sanctuary, a digitised housing scheme, and protection for sex workers: these are the visionaries fu …

Reportagen send the best authors around the globe. For stories that stay. In this issue: – Katharina searches for her self between punk and prefabricated buildings. Dark-skinned, East German, worker’s child—a woman who is always different. By Christoph Dorner. – Christian collects out of fear of loss. He photographs toilets, hoards door wedges and notes his sleeping times. By Dmitrij Kapitelman. – Steven was a neo-Nazi, now he is a social worker. The story of a radical transformation. By Dmitrij Gawrisch. – Salvatore does not know where he belongs. Germany or Italy: Since his childhood he has been wondering where his home is. By Urs Mannhart. – Yoshiko’s father has disappeared. She is still a child when he leaves his family. By Sabine Riedel. – Beat is said to be a murderer. Is the Swiss innocent in prison in Italy? By Erwin Koch.

In 2019, the queer community celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in NYC – the beginning of the modern LGBTQ liberation movement. In the early hours of June 28 in 1969, the patrons of the Stonewall Inn were victim to a routine exercis …

KALEIDOSCOPE‘s new issue #34 (spring/summer 2019), launching in Venice during the opening days of the Biennale and shortly after in Paris, for the first edition of KALEIDOSCOPE Manifesto at Lafayette Anticipations. This issue, which marks the tenth ann …

During Mac DeMarco’s European Tour in the fall 2017 Stefan Marx joined the band for a few stops to draw on stage during Mac DeMarco’s live performance. Hiding in the back of the band, he got time to capture a unique view on the five musicians, the whol …

Acompanying the exhibition ‘Two Rivers’ at NRW-Forum Düsseldorf (March 29 – July 07), this catalogue presents Joachim Brohm’s photo series ‘Ruhr ‘(1980 to 1983) alongside ‘Sleeping by the Mississippi’ (2000 to 2004) by Alec Soth.