This Is Not The End …
… this is just the beginning of something new, a great magazine project by designer Stefan Trifan about Art, Culture and Fashion. At a time when large media groups are dissolving and cohorts of prophets are trumpeting the arrival of a fully digital world, to talk about and to propose a new publication in an utterly [...]
The Next Generation Of Big Buildings
Evolo Skyscrapers (ISBN: 978-0-9816658-4-9, $120, 1.200-page publication, 300+ innovative skyscrapers) which was sold out in only two months after its initial release and praised by the Wall Street Journal, will be available as reprint for a limited time! Evolo will take orders for the second printing until May 31, 2012. Books ordered will be delivered in [...]
Avalanche – Combining Louis XIV Style With Modern Minimalism Design
French Say What Studio have launched a new project on well designed and handprinted cotton tote bags ($14), as well as silk printed notebooks ($6.50). The project itself is entitled Avalanche Print. Avalanches are a sudden, drastic flow of snow down a slope which are classified by their morphological characteristics. They’re rated by either their [...]
Rewilding By Cass Bird
Over the past ten years, Cass Bird has established herself as one of the foremost portraitists of contemporary America. Her photographs of young women and men casually draw attention to the fluid expression of gender roles and androgyny in today’s youth culture, and to what she has described as “the convergence of alternative lifestyles with [...]
Henrik Vibskov – How To Fashion Art
“If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.” – Albert Einstein I just rediscovered the wonderful works of art of Henrik Vibskov (Gestalten, ISBN 978-3-89955-435-9, $60). To describe Henrik Vibskov as merely a fashion designer would be a vast understatement. As an artist, passionate musician, innovative stage designer, and [...]
Useful Knowledge: Reading Letters – Designing for Legibility
Do you have the same troubles like me sometimes, not knowing whether you’re right or wrong with your typeface? Reading Letters (BIS Publishers, ISBN 978-90-6369-271-1 , $49.90) by Sofie Beier is a massive illustrated overview of knowledge from scientists and designers on legibility. This book will help graphic designers determine the optimal typeface for a [...]
Instant Newton – A collection Of Helmut Newton’s Test Polaroids
Legendary photographer Helmut Newton saved his test polaroids, allowing a privileged and rare chance to see the tests from a selection of his greatest shoots over a period of decades, including many from the TASCHEN titles SUMO, A Gun for Hire, and Work. What was once a crucial tool for photographers to test their shots before [...]
Premium Facebook Cards
There are so many great things about you – so why keep it all online? Take your Facebook Timeline offline, and hand it out to new friends, contacts and potential clients. Facebook Cards are simple to make, excellent quality and help show off your personality in the real world. Facebook Cards are printed in full [...]
Type Matters!
What does all the confusing terminology about ink traps, letter spacing and visual centring mean, and what are the rules for good typography? Type Matters! (Merrell Publishers, ISBN: 978-1-8589-4567-5, $29.95) by graphic designer and a senior lecturer (Staffordshire University) is a must-have for every serious typographer and anyone who wants to dig deeper into the [...]
“Blow Up” Your Mind
Blow Up ($120) showcasing the first collaborative publication by Pool – an Australian photo collective. A showcase of the dissimilar perspectives and common ideals of an artistic collective, the first issue of Blow Up has been created in collaboration with Maud. The design concept is based upon incorporating the idea of a collective of artists [...]
Surf Riot By Nick Waplington
“We’ve got a riot and we’re making arrests,” Huntington Beach Lt. Jack Reinholtz said shortly after the melee began. He said it was the worst disturbance to occur in Huntington Beach since a 1969 Easter weekend riot. He said in the Los Angeles Times in 1986 that his “group of about 10 officers was surrounded [...]
China – The Winners And Losers
En route in China (Hatje Cantz, ISBN 978-3-7757-3336-6, €39.80), where the social differences are as vast as the country itself. China is one of the fasted growing economies worldwide, but the effect of this growth aren’t felt the same way throughout the country. Swiss photographers Monika Fischer (*1971) and Mathias Braschler (*1969) decided to take [...]
La Résidence By J.H. Engström Awarded World’s Best Book Award
J.H. Engström‘s La Résidence has been awarded World’s Best Book Award. Engström was up against 540 nominated books for the prize, which has been organised by Stiftung Buchkunst (German Foundation for Book Art) since 1963. La Résidence is comprised of 29 snapshot-like triptych gatefolds interspersed with Engström’s typically restrained pictorials on borderless double-page spreads and [...]
Instamatics By Antonio Lopez
Instamatics (Twin Palms Publishers, ISBN: 978-1-931885-94-2 , $79) collects some of the best photographs from renowned fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez. The compendium includes the most creative and innovative of those images, spanning the 1970’s. Lopez began shooting with a Kodak Instamatic, the simplest and cheapest model he could find, cataloguing his life and his finds of [...]
Current State: Snowboarding
Current State: Snowboarding (ISBN – 978-3-00-036349-8, €89,00) is a book that compiles some of the most prominent individuals and images of snowboarding’s past three decades. Made up of two interconnected fullsize books, it features interviews with 23 of the culture’s most influential and original characters, assembled in an attempt to create an overall – if [...]
Poemotion – Interactive Book-Object
Poemotion (Lars Müller Publishers, ISBN 978-3-03778-277-, $40) by 1970 born designer Takahiro Kurashima is an interactive book-object. The abstract graphical patterns in this small volume are set in motion as soon as you move the attached special foil across them: moiré effects allow complex forms to develop, set circles in motion and make graphical patterns [...]
A Journey In Tibet
After the riots of 14-16 March, 2008, the photographer Laurent Zylberman and the journalist Eric Meyer were among the first westerners authorized to enter in Tibet, a forbidden region, under traumatized military guard and armed to the teeth. “We had the desire to place ourselves in the interstices of the economic, social and religious Tibetan [...]
Instaprint – The Location Based Photo Booth For Instagram
Instaprint ($400 via pre-order) was invented in the spring of 2011 by our small company called BREAKFAST. Why? Because Instagram has brought the nostalgia of old Polaroid prints back to modern day, but deep down we all still miss the uniqueness of those square little photos you’d hold comfortably in your hand. Each Instaprint box is [...]
Shadowplay by Sara Farid Amin
Shadowplay (The Velvet Cell, ISBN 978-1-908889-03-4, $11) by Iranian photographer and graphic designer Sara Farid Amin is a series of photographs, focusing on the buildings and cityscapes in her hometown – Tehran – on weekend mornings when it was quieter and devoid of so many people. What is particularly interesting about Amin’s photographs is her [...]
Fred Herzog – A Pictorial History Of A Time And Place That No Longer Exist
Fred Herzog–born in 1930 in Germany and moved to Vancouver in 1953–is considered a pioneer of color photography. Herzog’s bold use of colour in the 1950s and 60s set him apart at a time when the only art photography taken seriously was in black and white. His early use of color make him a forerunner [...]
Metalheads – The Global Brotherhood
Over the last three years, Jörg Brüggemann, member of the respected agency Ostkreuz, travelled to Argentina, Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, Egypt, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the United States to photograph these fans known as metalheads. In some of the resulting portraits, it looks as if Brüggemann not only travelled to different countries but back in time [...]
Relics Of The Cold War
Relics Of The Cold War (Hatje Cantz, ISBN 978-3-7757-2534-7, €35) by Martin Roemers is an older work. Roemers wrote back in summer 1983, “I’m on holiday with a friend in Germany. We’re walking through a wood in an easterly direction. It must be there. Through the trees we see something grayish. We can’t go any [...]
Look At This People
Street photography is becoming a bit more popular now in China. Look At This People (Akaaka, ISBN : 978-4-903545-76-9), is a series of photos taken by photographer Eric Colour in China’s Yunnan province. ERIC says that he was drawn to the uniquely carefree way that people live there, and there’s a real energy to these [...]
Sequentially Yours by Elliott Erwitt
In this unique book entitled Sequentially Yours (Taschen, ISBN 978-3-8327-9578-8, $85), photographic legend and gifted storyteller Elliott Erwitt presents a series of vignettes—juxtapositions of two or more images made within short intervals—he gives you a sense of what happens next, the end point being sometimes comic, sometimes poignant, and often with a wink. “The characters [...]
