The Library Project's Christmas Gift Guide for 2024

Stuck for gift ideas? Check out our personal suggestions for all the creatives in your life, and if these don't strike a cord, contact us directly for advice. Always happy to help!

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IRISH TITLES
An annual favourite, Winter Papers, Ireland's annual anthology for the arts, is always on our list!
     Dubliner Colm Pierce's intimate and sensitive work Sheriff Street Dublin 1 spotlights Sheriff Street and its surrounding areas at a time of change.
     For the stocking fillers and Secret Santas, check out our ongoing series TLP Editions. Priced at only €6 the ongoing collection represents a diversity of emerging and some established names and new projects in the form of accessible and inexpensive publications.

     The latest issue of Tolka wears our favourite cover yet! Dublin-based biannual literary journal of stories and writing that falls in between and does not fall into fixed categories.
Browse all Irish Titles here →

DESIGN
Did you already buy them the whole PALETTE series and now you're stuck? Don't worry, we have the full range of new PALETTE Sketchbooks to complete their obsession in red, black, and white!
     Don't be that person each year looking for the last copy of the Brutalist Calendar. Get it while stocks last!
     Interweaving elements that span across graphics, motion, and more, the brand new Dynamic Branding showcases the best examples of graphic systems that skilfully shape shift across mediums.

     Better Things: Materials for Sustainable Product Design comprises six chapters devoted to material categories – plastics, textiles, metals, ceramics and glass, wood and paper – and a seventh chapter covering emerging sustainable technologies.
Browse all Design titles here →

OF WORK AND PLAY
Fashion lovers of all ages will find endless joy in curating their own sartorial masterpieces with Fashion Play. The book is divided into three sections, allowing you to mix and match fashion outfits in a delightfully playful manner.
     The inspiring Children's Picturebooks features interviews with leading illustrators and publishers from across the world, carrying invaluable insight into a highly productive, dynamic sector of the publishing world.

     Always popular and always in demand - inspire the creatives in your life to take control with the latest and revised edition of Don't Get a Job ... Make a Job: Inventive career models for next-gen creatives
     Show someone you're truly mutts about them with the most charming GOOD DOGS, presenting a kaleidoscope of artworks and styles, created with love and imagination by artists from every corner of the globe.
Browse all Creative titles here →

WEAR IT
We've expanded our popular OVER Merchandise line just in time for Christmas! OVER Jumpers are back and if that's too hot, grab an OVER T-Shirt instead.
     We have re-stocked on our tote bags for The Library Project and OVER Journal. Just in time for all your shopping demands.
     Remember these heavy hitters? They're back! Now with an extra Stay Critical design in Black and Blue. Get them while limited stocks last and don't miss out like the last time.
Browse all PhotoIreland merch here →

CRITICAL TEXTS
Examining radical histories of crafts we have the full selection of Common Threads Press titles, covering practices from radical histories of quilting, protests and textiles, to embroidery as resistance in Palestine, and all in between.
     Combining articles and conversations on curatorial practices concerning photo-based images, Why Exhibit? Vol. 2, On Curating Photography focuses on practical perspectives intertwining photography and curation
     Talking about Photobooks gives an insight in the history of the photobook medium, its relationship to architecture and artificial intelligence, and the many roles the photobook can play in art and society, in the centre and the periphery.
     Readers can discover groundbreaking female photographers The Women Who Changed Photography and how to incorporate their styles and techniques into their own photography.

     Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood delves into the joys and heartaches, mess, myths and mishaps of motherhood through over 150 artworks, from ancient goddess artefacts to contemporary interpretations of pregnancy in the present.
     Africa in Fashion: Luxury, Craft and Textile Heritage explores the kaleidoscope of craft cultures that have shaped African fashion for centuries and captures the intriguing stories of contemporary and avant-garde African brands

For more ideas, see the latest publications added to Ireland's Art Bookshop here.