The ‘north’ is subjective. The Modernist is produced out of Manchester and, as such, they consider themselves to be northerners. However, to their Scottish cousins this is nonsense: to them...
When we think of modernism, we immediately think of the shiny and new. However, what was once cherished can soon become unloved, ignored, and neglected. This issue looks at things...
A Line Which Forms a Volume 4 is a critical reader and symposium of graphic design-led research. Bridging the gap between academia and the public sphere of design, it just...
A Line Which Forms a Volume 5 is a critical reader and symposium of graphic design-led research, which is written, edited, designed, and published by participants of the MA Graphic...
Quarterly Disegno is devoted to exploring the many facets of design and its impact on the world today. Issue 36 opens with editor Oli Stratford opining cosmetic scuffs in his new...
To keep up with the demands of creative practitioners of today, the original PALETTE books have been redesigned into the PALETTE mini series, a flip-friendly, compact source of colour-themed inspiration...
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...
PALETTE — Viction:ary’s best-selling colour-themed series — has been one of the most sought-after references for designers around the world. In keeping up with the needs of digital-savvy creative practitioners...
PALETTE — Viction:ary’s best-selling colour-themed series — has been one of the most sought-after references for designers around the world. In keeping up with the needs of digital-savvy creative practitioners...
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...
In our haste to consume the things we love, we often disregard or discard packaging without a second thought. While many would argue that they bear no significance or should...
In our haste to consume the things we love, we often disregard or discard packaging without a second thought. While many would argue that they bear no significance or should...
From Scandinavia is a collection of work from some of the most talented agencies in Scandinavia, such as Snask, Stockholm Design Lab, Bielke & Yang, Bond, Heydays and many more....
A celebration of creativity from Italy, compiled and published by Counter-Print. Featuring 18 creatives & their work including: Parco Studio, CRSL, Matteo Vandelli, Maxim Dosca, BRH+, Cabaret Typographie, La Tigre,...
Materials have the power to affect human experiences and emotions by helping us build intimate connections with inanimate objects through touch and feel. Whether they are used as a point...
Materials have the power to affect human experiences and emotions by helping us build intimate connections with inanimate objects through touch and feel. Whether they are used as a point...
Materials have the power to affect human experiences and emotions by helping us build intimate connections with inanimate objects through touch and feel. Whether they are used as a point...
The second volume of Modern Heraldry contains a vast resourse of trademarks, based on heraldic symbology, from all over the world. Featuring the work of A Practice for Everyday Life,...
Modern Heraldry: Volume 1 is a profusely illustrated guide to more than 350 trademarks, based on heraldic symbology, from all over the world. The book features the work of Anagrama,...
This comprehensive guide to type design is hailed as a 'must-have' for typographers, graphic designers and students and has been fully refreshed and updated with the introduction of more contemporary...
With more than 600 new entries, this revised and expanded logo bible builds on the breakthrough success of the original edition. Arranged across more than 80 categories according to their...
A product can be manufactured in many ways, but most designers know a handful of techniques only. With specially commissioned diagrams, case studies and photographs of the manufacturing process, Making...
This unparalleled and wide-ranging book surveys the history of applied arts and industrial design from the eighteenth century to the present day, exploring the dynamic relationship between design and manufacturing,...
The theme of issue number 2 is Rhythms. The Posthumanist is a bi-annual English and German print magazine featuring art, design, technology and writing. Each issue presents one theme from more-than-human...
The theme of issue number 1 is Sleep / Schlaf. The Posthumanist is a bi-annual English and German print magazine featuring art, design, technology and writing. Each issue presents one...
‘A Table of Books in Ballybeg’ gathers most of the Irish projects produced by Coracle, a small publishing press working from the townland of Grange, west of Clonmel in County...
Painted by Rousseau, Guillaume Apollinaire stands next to Marie Laurencin under some ash trees, with Sweet Williams at their feet Published by Coracle PressEdition of 300Letterpress wrappers inserted in plastic sleeve8...
The best young picadons are usually of the purest white, clean and fresh looking, nicely formed and just firm enough to stand up on their own. Pélardons are like many...
A collaboration surrounding Maud Cotter's altered hotwater bottle sculptures, referring in turn to the dynamic of Boccioni's work of the same title. Published by Coracle PressEdition of 200Hardover36 pages151 x...
'Gertrude Stein’s sentences Descriptions of Literature were written by hand. Her line length was not made by any particular decision. The length of her lines was determined by the width...
An inventory of many of the metal forms found and drawn by Erica Van Horn as a potential index of their acquisition and use and a hardware catalogue for further...
Christian Morgenstern, Rathna Ramanathan, Sirish Rao First published in 1905, German poet Christian Morgenstern’s piece is a darkly comic linguistic caprice. Illustrated with punctuation marks, the text is a romp,...
TIME by Spencer Longo is a collection of printed work depicting government raids, religious visions, environmental catastrophe, and extremist fundamentalism tangled together in a narrative web of salvation, annihilation, and...
Cassandra Press was founded in 2016 by artist Kandis Williams as an independent publishing project. At its core, Cassandra Press examines tools of perception and racism, and their dominant role...
When encountering objects that labeled as “waiting for recycling" or “abandoned" on the street,one may think: Is it possible that these out-of-date existences are not “abandoned"? Perhaps the object moves from the private...
In the book project A Narrow Scene of Hypothetical Circumstances we access a visual universe revolving around dismembered pieces of familiar objects. Sketches, pictures and materials are united into a...
The Fold comprises ten years of practice reshaped according to the principles of book production methods: folding, cutting, and binding. Operating like a making-of, the publication displays its structural mechanisms,...
DXI is an international publication dedicated to creativity, visual culture and contemporary creation. It is a transversal publication dedicated to industrial design, graphic design, interior design, photography, illustration, art, architecture,...
DXI is an international publication dedicated to creativity, visual culture and contemporary creation. It is a transversal publication dedicated to industrial design, graphic design, interior design, photography, illustration, art, architecture,...
DXI is an international publication dedicated to creativity, visual culture and contemporary creation. It is a transversal publication dedicated to industrial design, graphic design, interior design, photography, illustration, art, architecture,...
What is the future of the book? And, specifically, what is the future of books on art, design and architecture, and cultural-critical publications? We asked a large number of international...
“It is true that the pleasures of consumption have always been accompanied by the burdens of rubbish. This can be considered a modern problem facing human beings today. Rubbish is...
“To remove their rubbish, human beings have long since relied on the bin: they fill it up with all sorts of garbage and when it is more or less full...
“In spite of the plate’s supposed ubiquity, very little is known and discussed of this practical tableware beyond fine craftsmanship or pretty decorations. While the use of plates has long...
“Among the many clothing types in our wardrobe, none leads a more unappreciated existence than the sock. Wavering between undergarment and outerwear, the staggering amount of pressure and force applied...
“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...
“When do we actually notice a pipe? When it is clogged, leaking, contaminated and about to burst? When it is standing alone, without a nearby wall or pillar to blend...
PullSwingStep backOpenStep forwardPullSwingClose ‘Science of the Secondary: Door’ is the fifth edition in the series of ongoing research conceived and developed by Atelier HOKO. Published by Atelier HOKOSoftcover60 pages175 x...
“In general, there are two different kinds of clocks. The first tells time in the form of a common factor that most of us can relate to, a concept of...
“…but what does it mean to drink? Do we drink with our skin when the hands are hugging the cup? Are we drinking with our body posture while sipping earl...
The first anthology of its kind, Graphic Design: History in the Writing (1983–2011) comprises the most influential texts about graphic design history published in English. Edited by a graphic design...
In this minimalist black and white zine, graphic designer Scarlett Xin Meng isolates specific physical spaces into a series of abstracted graphic works. Meng's publication is a study of perspective,...
From sheets of papyrus to the mass press-printed volumes as we know them today, books as we know them have come a long way. Although digital technology has impacted how...
Gitai (Gitai means biological mimicry in Japanese) is an art book collection with the theme of "object’s mimicry" by a Japan based designer, Tomoyuki Koseko. By applying the concept of...
Gitai (Gitai means biological mimicry in Japanese) is an art book collection with the theme of "object’s mimicry" by a Japan based designer, Tomoyuki Koseko. By applying the concept of...
A concept art book of a solo exhibition held at the international photography festival KG+ in Kyoto in April 2023. For most people, celestial bodies are nearly impossible to observe...
A book, supposedly by the presumed pseudonymous “Satoshi Nakamoto”, of private musings, poetry, drawings and collage/imageries that expose the interiority of one committed to absence. Published by FUFU PRESSEdition of 15Softcover 66 pages203 × 266...
*aaaaaaaaaaaargh is about the shape of words and how words are shapes and sounds and containers of the struggle in the world. Published by FUFU PRESSUpdated Edition of 15Softcover 108 pages207 × 273...
In this issue, The Modernist are looking at all things grand, large, colossal and epic; literally, metaphorically and otherwise. John Grindrod celebrates the much maligned Millennium Dome. While its initial ambition...
For Pompei, Pompeii Swiss artist Bianca Pedrina carefully inspects the relationship between form and function in a newly implemented accessibility project in Pompeii. The project consists of iron elements embedded...
Fabian Fink’s way of working moves fluently between sculpture, applied arts and furniture design. His catalog Eva is a nonchalant sequence of his art works combined with personal moments. Thus...
Hold That Thought is a walk through the work of visual artist Johannes Langkamp. This book is a reflection of an archive with (digital) works of art, experiments, (kinetic) models...
It’s no mistake that Lenard Smith’s new book borrows its title from Susan Sontag’s 1977 essay of the same name. Melancholy Objects – the Los Angeles-based artist’s first publication for Perimeter Editions –...
Pages presents the best magazines in the world, and the bookshops in 30 cities where you can find them. It will steer you to creative communities, up-and-coming neighbourhoods, authentic cafes...
Forte, this lively and friendly typeface that everyone knows, has been used, misused, and overused for over six decades now, ever since it was published by The Monotype Corporation in 1962....
These are some fun and playful handmade notebooks presented by The Paradise Association! A Dublin based creative duo. These notebooks are unique, and one of a kind. Each was individually...
These are some fun and playful handmade notebooks presented by The Paradise Association! A Dublin based creative duo. These notebooks are unique, and one of a kind. Each was individually...
18 postcards from an ongoing series of colour palettes made from the photography of visual artist Paula Barrett. These colour palettes harmonise with and evoke the particular qualities of light...
The Failed Painter is a personal book about material anxiety in Graphic design’s creative work. It speaks of fascination for singular and multiple production processes, perfectibility, and imperfectability in times...
The world today faces overwhelming ecological and social problems and the concern for material existence on earth is more pressing than ever. Making Matters spells out various roles that visual...
Driving the Human is a catalyst for experimentation, shaping sustainable and collective futures that combine science, technology, and the arts in a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach. This publication documents all...
A zine containing step by step instructions for making cameras, from simple pinhole cameras through to complex digital cameras built from scanners.
Self PublishedSoftcover16 pages210 x 290 mm
Photographs by Erica Van Horn of Ulrich Ruckreim's barn housing his sculptures in Clonegal on the border between Co. Carlow and Co. Wexford in Ireland. Reprinted issued as part of...
Listing and description of most of the Coracle concertinas over the years. The concertina-form is always with us quietly, openly presenting its facets to the world. Packed away in a...
A text book of wrappers and label over prints about the current timetable for the Bus Eireann No.7 bus running from Cork to Dublin and vice versa. Published by Coracle PressEdition of...
This book opens out from the middle with accordion folds to the left and right – one for each hand. The ten pages have ten fingerprints and the names for...
Living Locally No.12 With age, Tom Browne has given up his building jobs. Now he works on small houses in his shed. He uses real building materials whenever possible, as...
18In the work of Erica Van Horn, books collect and transform remnants, remembrances, remainders and reminders. From fragments that might otherwise be forgotten, she makes new inventories and series in...
Reduced due to water damage on cover An essay on the specificity of its subject. In order that Les Nymphéas might be accommodated in the Musée de l’Orangerie in 1927,...
A text describing a scene for an imaginary film set on the Aran Islands
Published by Coracle PressEdition of 300Letterpress wrappers inserted in plastic sleeve8 pages145 x 90 mmISBN 0906630126
Quarterly Disegno is devoted to exploring the many facets of design and its impact on the world today. Issue 37 includes bio-based design from Natsai Audrey Chieza; Lars Beller Fjetland...
1999 marked the end of a decade of great social, economic, and cultural change in Ireland. Significant social milestones included church scandals, divorce and abortion referenda, the decriminalisation of homosexuality...