The writing of artist Padraig Robinson takes the form of essays published in pamphlets, newspapers, books and films, investigating overlooked aspects of queer history and visual culture. Robinson first encountered the...
A Clinic for the Exhausted: In Search of an Antipodean Vitality - Edmond & Corrigan and an Itinerant Architecture commences from a vision of a landmark Australian architectural icon, RMIT University Building...
This book addresses the London Underground in the context of architectural histories and theories. It aims to indicate that the subterranean transportation system of London, the first of its kind...
A History of Head Trauma is an experiment in short story making and presented as part of RHA FUTURES, Series 3, Episode 2. The beginning section of the book was...
The second edition of A Line Which Forms a Volume is a critical reader of graphic design-led research that has been edited, written, designed and published by participants of the MA Graphic Media...
A Sense of Place is a limited edition, hand-made art book, featuring agencies and designers from around the world, working with the idea of place. Modern technology can make our world feel...
In this classic study, cultural critic bell hooks examines how black women, from the seventeenth century to the present day, were and are oppressed by both white men and black...
ALLKINDS is a curated selection of artworks created during lockdown across a wide range of disciplines including photographers, illustrators, filmmakers, designers, sculptors, writers, artists and poets. *All profits from the...
"The tension implicit in any photograph is the tension between an inert, black-and-white, two-dimensional object, and an event that actually existed in the phenomenal world. A successful photograph mediates, though...
Spine slightly damaged Another Gaze is a feminist film journal, established to highlight the gender inequality of the film industry and amplify the voices of great, often overlooked, filmmakers who identify as...
Architectural Aesthetic Speculations expands our understanding of the role of formal aesthetic criteria in twentieth-century artistic practices and reveals potentially transformative aspects in the art of architectural composition. The book...
The work presented in this book is an invitation to undertake an urgent architectural and political thought experiment: to rethink today’s struggles for justice and equality not only from...
Berlin Quarterly is a European review of long form journalism, literature and the Arts. It’s a new cultural journal with global perspective, combining in-depth reportage, literature and visual culture. In...
Berlin Quarterly is a European review of long form journalism, literature and the Arts. It’s a new cultural journal with global perspective, combining in-depth reportage, literature and visual culture. In...
Better Words is an educational initiative by EVA International developed with support by Creative Ireland’s National Creativity Fund. The project seeks to empower children’s access and understanding of contemporary art...
First published in 1986 and long out of print, Between charts Burgin’s passage from early conceptual art, via appropriationist works and critiques of mass media imagery to a series of photo-texts informed...
“Courageous, outspoken, clear-eyed.”—Publishers Weekly. Originally published in 1978, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman caused a storm of controversy. Michele Wallace blasted the masculine biases of the black politics that...
The body remains a battleground. Politicized, conceptualized and increasingly shared, our often-paradoxical relationship with the human form is nothing new, but finds itself heightened in the digitised, virtualised era of...
This volume gathers together the essays written by Clive Phillpot since 1972 on the definition and development of artists' books. In his words, "Artists' books are understood to be books...
This collection of essays assembles investigations of Brian O’Doherty’s / Patrick Ireland’s seminal work: his visual art practice, art criticism, institutional leadership and critique, media work, and literary writing. The...
Caring Culture: Art, Architecture and the Politics of Public Health examines changing political uses of the concept of care in neoliberal democracies and asks how artists, architects, and designers both contribute...
Cassandra Voices is a Dublin-based magazine with a global perspective. They aim to provoke out of compassion, and kindness animates them. This, the first issue, features pieces on The Death of Irish...
A collective sigh is a sigh over an issue shared between two or more people. This book was conceived as an attempt to turn the stream of unpleasant events of...
Conceptual Art in a Curatorial Perspective: Between Dematerialization and Documentation focuses on the curatorial practice of exhibiting conceptual art. The fact that conceptual works are not object-based, creates challenges in...
Artist residencies provide space, time, and concentration for making art, doing research and for reflection. Residencies are crucial nodes in international circulation and career development, but also invaluable infrastructures for...
Cornucopia, on Dublin’s Wicklow Street, has been serving up delicious vegetarian and vegan fare for more than 33 years. Their mission has always been to make great tasting, home produced,...
Over the past decades, the cultural and political map of Europe and the world has changed rapidly. Developments such as the changing status of the European Union, migration, and th...
Contributors were asked to respond to the idea of the many ways our senses sense the world: how we perform and interact with our sensory experiences. A certain amount of...
A radical Latina perspective on race, liberation, and identity Elizabeth Martínez’s unique Chicana voice has been formed through over thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women’s...
“Dear Brian O’Doherty,Here is my article, short enough and I apologize; I hope you can accept him [sic] and it will be in a sufficient harmony with the issue you...
While ecology has received little systematic attention within art history, its visibility and significance has grown in relation to the threats of climate change and environmental destruction. By engaging artists’...
DESIGN{H}ERS is a celebration of women in design today. With the amount of progress humankind has made in attitudes and achievements to-date, the time cannot be more apt than now...
A manifesto for the Open City: vibrant, disordered, adaptable. In 1970, Richard Sennett published the groundbreaking The Uses of Disorder, arguing that the ideal of a planned and ordered city...
Bookstores are more than just places that sell books. They are focal points of communities, a warm welcome to a city, a place for first-time visitors and longtime residents alike...
Too often a design or architecture degree is seen as a means to an end (a job in an established practice). But imagine for one moment that there are no...
Why did Andy Warhol decide to enter the music business by producing the Velvet Underground, and what did the band expect to gain in return? What made Yoko Ono use...
What is the function of art in the era of digital globalisation? How can one think of art institutions in an age defined by planetary civil war, growing inequality, and...
Estonian Art is a biannual English language magazine dedicated to art, design and architecture that has been published by the Estonian Institute since 1997. It represents through its board the...
Everything you ever wanted to know about Hans Ulrich Obrist but were afraid to ask has been asked by the sixteen practitioners in this book. Spanning the beginning of...
Extra Extra is a multi disciplinary platform exploring eroticism and culture. The magazine celebrates the mundane and sensual city life, featuring commissioned essays, new works, short stories and in-depth...
In Eye on Design #05, the “Distraction” issue, we look at how design influences entertainment, technology, work—and your ability to pay attention to it all. We explore how the influx...
Failed Images: Photography and its Counter-Practices tries to understand photography in its difference from the reality it shows. It sets as a task to analyse the different ways the photograph transforms...
A founding text of transnational feminism. For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history of women’s movements...
‘Feminisms’ (as a plural) is widely used today to draw attention to inequalities and to critique the status quo in limiting women’s roles/ positions/ lives/ potential. Art can offer a...
Femme Type is an all-women publication conceptualised by ex-University of Arts London Chelsea attendant Amber Weaver aiming to celebrate over 40 skilled, international women in the type industry. Femme Type’s...
Creative people are often known to seek inspiration from nature. Besides providing the setting for ideation and imagination, it is a canvas full of complex shapes and lines interwoven with...
from dream to dream: where science meets art is a beautifully designed and illustrated book containing essays and images by contemporary artists. A rare opportunity to gain access to artists’...
Fukt The System - The Systems Issue The latest issue in the publications’ 20-year history looks at the innately human desire to create systems and how artists across the world...
The way we see the world has changed drastically since NASA released the “blue marble” image of the earth taken by Apollo 17 in 1972. No longer a placid slow-moving...
An entertaining and highly original introduction to graphic design, the Graphic Design Play Book uses puzzles and visual challenges to demonstrate how typography, signage, posters and branding work.Through a series...
Spot-on identities for festivals & fairs. Identity design plays an integral part in shaping the entire experience of a festival or fair even though it is often overlooked. As the...
Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly is the first book to catalog the entire career of the Guerrilla Girls from 1985 to present. The Guerrilla girls are a collective...
In view of the current climate crisis and looming ecological catastrophe, environmentalism has become a key driver to rethink the architectural discipline. The publication 'Habitat: Ecology Thinking in Architecture' aims...
Handbook of Tyranny portrays the routine cruelties of the twenty-first century through a series of detailed non-fictional graphic illustrations. None of these cruelties represent extraordinary violence—they reflect day-to-day implementation of...
Issue 1 was curated and arranged to simulate the profound impact of the environmental crisis on our inner and outer worlds. Through HOAX contributors, the pages climb across the different ways...
Published to accompany a highly anticipated traveling exhibition, Home Truths examines contemporary interpretations of one of the most enduring subjects in the history of picture-making: the image of the mother. Focusing on...
A curatorial situation is always one of hospitality. It implies invitations to artists, artworks, curators, audiences, and institutions; people and objects are received, welcomed, and temporarily brought together. It offers...
Graphic designers constantly complain that there is no career manual to guide them through the profession. Adrian Shaughnessy draws on a wealth of experience to provide just such a handbook....
Switzerland is well-known as one of the safest countries on earth and as a prime example of efficiency and efficacy. One of the central reasons that such a country exists...
As a continuation of its mission to amplify and unify the global design community, IdN is publishing a series of special editions (entitled IdN Extra) that explore in-depth a particular...
IdN magazine is an international publication for creative people on a mission to amplify and unify the design community in Asia-Pacific and other parts of the world. It is devoted...
Originating as an ancient tribal practice serving as rites of passage, symbols of religious devotion or marks of bravery, tattoo art has slowly grown into an essential fashion item, a...
IRISH PAGES is a biannual journal, edited in Belfast and publishing, in equal measure, writing from Ireland and overseas. Its policy is to publish poetry, short fiction, essays, creative non-fiction,...
IRISH PAGES is a biannual journal, edited in Belfast and publishing, in equal measure, writing from Ireland and overseas. Its policy is to publish poetry, short fiction, essays, creative non-fiction,...
Irish Pages is a biannual journal, edited in Belfast and publishing writing from Ireland and overseas. Its policy is to publish poetry, short fiction, essays, creative non-fiction, memoir, essay reviews, nature-writing,...
This comprehensive book acts as a catalogue raisonné of the work of Irish artist Janet Mullarney and showcases the diverse, innovative, personal and original nature of her work over the...
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–79) was one of the most important and innovative photographers of the 19th century. Criticised in her lifetime for her unconventional techniques, she is now celebrated...
Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of ‘the Fariyaq,’ alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the intellectual and literary history of...
Published by Valiz/Antennae Series 320 pages 21 x 13.5 cm Softcover ISBN: 9789078088516 Shipping world-wide. Please note: Local pick-up of orders is available from The Library Project at 4 Temple Bar,...
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...
With each issue based around a single object, MacGuffin magazine is a platform for fans of inspiring, personal, unexpected, highly familiar or utterly disregarded things. Widely recognized as a fabulously...
A celebration of a bygone era of magic publishing, this book takes a peek behind the curtain into the community of magic and magicians. Featuring hundreds of pieces, it is...
The history of the avant-garde (in art, architecture, literature) can’t be separated from the history of its engagement with mass media. It is not just that the avant-garde used media...
Sally Stein reconsiders Dorothea Lange’s iconic portrait of maternity and modern emblem of family values in light of Lange’s long-overlooked ‘Padonna’ pictures and proposes that ‘Migrant Mother’ should in fact...
There is much to discuss regarding what kinds of changes and shifts the coronavirus pandemic might bring to cities. Some of these could be spatial, subtle changes triggered by social...
Printed first by Richard Danne and Bruce Blackburn in 1974, the ring binder originally titled the NASA Graphics Standards Manual was an extensive document that included instructions on designing every...
Today, photos affect our identity, our communication and play, and pictures with photographic elements even often replace the written word on the Internet, in text messages and on social apps....
Only those who love colour are admitted to its beauty and immanent presence. It affords utility to all, but unveils its deeper mysteries only to its devotees.Johannes Itten ''On Colour...''...
In On Photographs, curator and writer David Campany presents an exploration of photography in 120 photographs. Proceeding not by chronology or genre or photographer, Campany's eclectic selection unfolds according to its...
One of the greatest challenges for art and culture, sounded by intellectuals and also by funding bodies, is to represent diversity. But what precisely does this term mean and why...
In the light-filled Centre Gallery of Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh, County Cork, behind layers of liner paper and white emulsion, lay, until recently, a very well-kept secret. One, Here,...
Light has fascinated human beings since the dawn of mankind. To that end, iridescence is a compelling means to ideate and create, due to its ability to interact with light...
Victionary's original PALETTE colour-themed series has been one of the most sought-after references for designers around the world. Each edition has formed the basis of a classic collection that continues to...
Victionary's original PALETTE colour-themed series has been one of the most sought-after references for designers around the world. Each edition has formed the basis of a classic collection that continues to...
Victionary's original PALETTE colour-themed series has been one of the most sought-after references for designers around the world. Each edition has formed the basis of a classic collection that continues to...
Paper Visual Art (PVA) began as an online journal of art criticism, established in 2009 by Niamh Dunphy. Now based between Dublin and Berlin. PVA began as a response to what was...
The new issue of PVA Journal focuses on music and contemporary art. Each contributors was asked to select a track to accompany their texts, creating a collective playlist to accompany the...
Performances in All Directions is a collection of field notes, images, poetry, and text from Julie Morrissy, and designed by Emma Conway. Arising from a public lecture and performance in...
Performing Matter: Interior Surface and Feminist Actions inquires about the material constitution of interiors as sites of political protest and ethical exchange. By forwarding feminist agency and a concern for the...
Photography For Whom? is a new periodical focused on socially-engaged photography. Published biannually, the journal seeks to shine light on significant yet overlooked work of the past and to generate...
'Visual artist’ is a term with untold interpretations, nuances, variations and meanings. But how, as an artist (or designer, photographer, or other ‘independent creator’), do you become who you are...
As a complex urban system, the city constantly seeks balance. The rise of new ways to co-create or experience cities is breaking down traditional urban planning dichotomies. Interactive maps, mixed...
The last decade has witnessed a proliferation of artists and artist collectives interrogating the global politics and ethics of food production, distribution, and consumption. As an important document of new...
This book surveys contemporary instances of critical micro- publishing. The publishing taken up by such ventures is entirely controlled by the designer along with a small group of collaborators. Design,...
This publication is written within the field of fotografisk gestaltning (photography)and is a study of the potential for queer community to emerge through photographicacts. It consists of two artworks that...
A field manual to the technologies that are changing our lives. Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent...
The past and future of black American history. In our information–overloaded twenty-first century, it seems impossible to fully discern or explain how we know about the past. But two things...
Rethinking Density: Art, Culture, and Urban Practices considers new perspectives and discussions related to the category of density, which for a long time has been part of urban-planning discourses and...
In the wake of failed states, growing economic and political inequality, and the ongoing US- and NATO-led wars for resources, security, and economic dominance worldwide, contemporary artists are revisiting former...
This issue examines one of the most ubiquitous, widely recognised and popular fruits on the planet. Large-scale farming has made this tropical fruit accessible almost year-round in most countries, while...
"Ever since the egg has been perverted as a rich and readily available source of food for human beings, we have not thought much of it beyond its role in...
Founded in 1974, See Red Women’s Workshop grew out of a shared desire to combat sexist images of women and to create positive and challenging alternatives. Women from different backgrounds...
Taking selfies is not the exclusive preserve of millennials. In Selfies, Weil gives a playful twist to the concept of self-representation: taking her cue from self-portraits by women artists, ranging...
An examination of how mainstream feminism has been mobilised in support of racist measures. Feminist Christine Delphy co-founded the journal Nouvelles questions féministes with Simone de Beauvoir in the 1970s and became...
'Sonntag' is a nomadic project founded by artists Adrian Schiesser and April Gertler in 2012 and takes place in different private Berlin apartments. Instead of relying solely on the exhibition...
Zero-G published Teeny Words, which follows on from the Noughtie Words book published in 2004 – a random collection of word (and images) that Zero-G hoped would be a time capsule...
Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribulations of life in...
The Print Handbook is a friendly guide for all those tricky bits in design. It's packed full of examples, handy tools, charts and information. It helps you produce perfect print projects. Unlike all...
Jill Johnston—cultural critic, auto/biographer, and lesbian icon—was renowned as a writer on dance, especially on the developments around Judson Dance and the 1960s downtown New York City scene, and later...
The Future of Difference Beyond the Toxic Entanglement of Racism, Sexism and Feminism In recent years, opponents of “political correctness” have surged to prominence from both left and right, shaping...
A leading philosopher presents a radical manifesto for the future of art and film In The Future of the Image, Jacques Rancière develops a fascinating new concept of the image in...
The Human Snapshot draws upon a conference of the same name organised by the LUMA Foundation and Centre for Curatorial Studies at Bard College that took place in Arles, France, in...
THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF SILENCE is a book for artists, designers and photographers interested in approaching writing about their vocation and culture. Drawing upon decades of experience as a writer, designer,...
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...
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...
To achieve truly climate-friendly architecture means not just switching to sources of renewable power, but building with materials that produce zero carbon emissions, use no fossil fuels, and create no...
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...
First published in 1973, The New Woman’s Survival Catalog is a seminal survey of Second Wave feminist efforts, which, as the editors noted in their introduction, represented an “active attempt to reshape...
Words, Books, and the Spaces They Inhabit is the first of Mari Shaw’s series The Noble Art of Collecting. With examples of unexpected collectors and serendipitous outcomes, Shaw investigates the obscure...
In January 2020, Alec Soth received a letter from Chris Fausto Cabrera, an inmate of the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Rush City, in which he asked the photographer to engage...
As a form of power, subjection is paradoxical. To be dominated by a power external to oneself is a familiar and agonising form power takes. To find, however, that what...
Can we count on the sausage to provide a solution, in order to reduce the consumption of meat? And can the use of new ingredients increase the diversity of our...
Inspired by letterpress printing and childlike observations, The Typefaces are simply faces in type. Initially self-published by illustrator and author Scott Lambert in 2015, the book has gone on to...
Published by Laurence King Softcover 128 pages 220 x 160 mm ISBN: 9781780678498 Shipping world-wide. Please note: Local pick-up of orders is available from The Library Project at 4 Temple Bar Street,...
In Anna Charlotte’s new book “The Word of Colours”, she shares her love for creative power, nature’s inherent wisdom and her great passion for living an holistic life through colour,...
A pocket colour manifesto for a new futuristic feminism. Injustice should not simply be accepted as “the way things are.” This is the starting point for The Xenofeminist Manifesto, a...
The question of life has always been one of modernity’s main preoccupations, but it was the advent of the camera—with its ability to record moving creatures—that initiated a new...
This introductory survey of twentieth- century architecture is divided into three main sections. The first part, “Confronting Modernity,” surveys four discrete domains of professional design activity in the period 1900...
Originally set up after a request from Winston Churchill, the Ministry of Defence’s UFO Desk ran for over 60 years, collating mysterious sightings and records of strange objects in the...
Despite technological advances in new materials, design processes, artificial intelligence, 3D-printing, miniaturized electronics and design software, changes in the fashion industry and everyday apparel have not been as significant as...
As words and stories are increasingly disseminated through digital means, the significance of the book as object—whether pristine collectible or battered relic—is growing as well. Unpacking My Library: Writers and...
One of the fundamental events of modernity was the conquest of the world as picture, a process in which movies were essential. Cinema was the single medium capable of capturing...
Assemblies, gathering places, and agora-like situations have become popular sites for contemporary art. At the heart of these arenas is the search for new ways to counter the crisis-ridden...
Memory has become a major preoccupation in the humanities in recent decades, be it individual and collective memory, cultural and national memory, or traumatic memory and the ethics of its...
The contemporary art world has become more inhospitable to “serious” intellectual activity in recent years. Critical discourse has been increasingly instrumentalized in the service of neoliberal art markets and institutions,...
A collection of stories, memories and recipes by famous designers from the creative design industry. Includes unique, one-off illustrations, designs and photographs by our contributors. A feast to read, giving a personal insight into the...
Vol 5 of Winter Papers, Ireland’s annual anthology for the arts, is published by Curlew Editions. It offers fiction, non-fiction, poetry, photography, visual arts, along with craft interviews and in-conversation...
A slipcased set of all three books in the Photofile Women Photographers series. Women have been pioneering photographers since the earliest days of the art form. This expertly curated set...
With a preface by Reni Eddo-Lodge and an introduction by Sara Ahmed Audre Lorde (1934-92) described herself as ‘Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet’. Born in New York, she had her...
