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...
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...
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...
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...
In stock late January 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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
'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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
'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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...''...
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...
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...
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,...
“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...
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....
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
