This is C_NDY, the world’s first cross-dressing style magazine. Playful, inspiring, and available in a very limited edition, this Spring Summer 2018 release also passes a thoughtful note on the importance of positivity to one’s own wellbeing and that of his or her entourage. Featuring stunning images of bodies and garments, the big flashy pages of C_NDY depart from the glossy standard books of fashion and style and swoop into the bosoms of the truly avid fashion-maniakos. With every other page, begins a little story of cloth, body and identity, and lightsome words on love, friendship, community, beauty, pleasure and more. Buy

Most of the time when we think about colour, it’s the red, the blue, the green, the yellow, the orange and the purple that we talk about. Black and white aside, these are the colours that go through the rainbows. Yet, nature is quite rich with all sorts of colour varieties giving us more options than we tend to take. Some of these varieties are nicely assembled in this new Atlas of Rare and Familiar Colour, where ten basic colours are put in their historical context to serve as the starting point for more variations of colour pigments. Each of these are presented in tiny recipients with their name on, and a short description and their origin inscribed next to them. Buy

Radical Matter is an essential introduction for professionals and students to the latest cutting-edge design ideas which are on their way to shape not just the future of design, but the entire ‘design-make-consume’ chain. Unlike similar publications which would either focus on the materials themselves, their properties and potential use, or on the entrepreneurial initiatives to exploit them, this book is devoted to both aspects. It calls attention to ten ‘big ideas’ coping with materials including extreme waste material like shit and dust, through fully illustrated case studies and testimonies from global industry experts. Enticing and provocative at times, Radical Matter looks beyond the culture of material consumerism onto a future where design and ecology are integrated. Buy

The Design Academy Eindhoven produced three new volumes of the Strategic Creativity Series which looks into how design and creativity could contribute to solving social and economic challenges such as population aging and the disruption of traditional industrial models. It does so by merging the existing knowledge of the academy with design theories and the students’ research projects. Throughout the three volumes the notion of thinking-through-making is accentuated, whereas each volumes focuses on a specific question: 1. Immersive Narratives introduces a range of design perspectives on the role of Virtual Reality in transforming journalism. 2. Let’s Talk Water, investigates how to be ready in the advent of heavy rains, droughts and floods caused by climate change, and 3. Radical ecologies, proposes ways to cope in a society of increased risk. Buy

Against the backdrop of Scandinavia’s dark seasons, Sindroms shines a bright, yellow light in search for poetically narrated stories, anecdotal notes and striking images. Compared to the previous issue which paid tribute to the colour red and the love, the passion, the violence, the risk and the fury we tend to associate with it, this second issue filters the prism of reality to focus on everything yellow, and therefore the happy, the optimistic, the friendly, or, the things that signal jealousy and states of anxiety. Buy

The beauty and high-quality production of the seventh issue of Rakesprogress is a hint that this magazine is suited for the shelves of a zealous collector. Obviously it’s about plants and gardening, but also about other topics like photography, fashion and pottery. These are presented by paying equal attention to style and quality content. The pages have an earthy-urban feel to them adding to the expression of the photographs, flat-spread on the pages perfectly befitting their sturdy uncoated quality. Buy

A Dance Mag, or the ways to go about living in the way of dancing. This newly created title coming from the Lebanese capital Beirut talks about experiences of transcendent consciousness reached with the movement of the body. A topic inspired by the Sufi whirling dervishes who use their bodies as vessels to surpass the limits of their physicality. Dance is the way the Sufi Master Ibn Al-Arabi thought about the Barzakh: being a space beyond limits, a space of imagination where you feel united with a universal source of creative energy from which all living things emerge. The first issue of Dance Mag brings us stories about the Horon dance in the Mountains of Turkey, the Master Musicians of the Joujouka in Morocco, as well as some Berlin-club-reflections on Ketamine, Techno and Derrida. Buy

In 2011 the BBB Vocational School in Baden initiated an art department dedicated for students who are training to become polymechanics, computer scientists, electronics technicians, chefs or hairdressers. The purpose is to allow them to experiment with new aesthetic opportunities through engaging with artists and the arts´scene. Serving as a visual intervention to demonstrate the importance of arts no matter what our professional priorities are, stimulating sensitivity to the various ways art infiltrates our lives, from advertisements, to extravagant performances, technology design, fashion and video games, this little, resiliently build book is also the documentation of the first phase of the BBB art department project. Buy

This month Berlin hosts one of the most anticipated events of the year: The Biennale for Contemporary Art. Spread across five venues, this year’s thematic focus is encapsulated in one printed catalogue. Some of the raised questions touch upon how do we understand the relationships between the past and the present, particularly when it comes to thinking about valuable items and collectables which found their way to Europe via colonial routes. Included is “Dear History, we don’t need more heroes”, an essay by the Biennale’s curator Gabi Ngcobo pointing at power abuse. And “I’m not who you think I’m not,” a manifesto challenging socially constructed forms of being and knowledge. In addition to nicely presented notes about the participating artists and their contributions. Buy

Men of style harbours a scrupulously assembled catalogue of outstanding men with outstanding style. Those whose eccentric and/or elegant attire convinced and inspired others to follow suit. Consider these: Gianni Agnelli, Fred Astaire, Chet Baker, Truman Capote, Winston Churchill, Miles Davis, Serge Gainsbourg, David Hockney, Jack Kerouac, Keith Richards, Andy Warhol, Oscar Wilde or Mark Twain. They all come from different walks of life, but they definitely shared an acute regard to form, colour, texture and composition. They had a penchant for playfulness with detail and derived pleasure from the liberty of radically shifting their clothing habits. More about why and how they did it is nicely displayed in Josh Sims’s exquisite Men of Style. Buy

The biannual Space magazine which explores interior and cultural spaces, mixes articles and interviews with candid photography and displays of the occasionally extravagant concerns of living. Taking inspiration from the B-sides of records which sometimes include bonus tracks complementing an artist’s hit single, this seventh issue draws connections between the B-side and the quality of great artists for reinventing the known. It features a row of interviews with creatives including artist Dan Graham, glass designer Nina Nørgaard, model Iselin Steiro and architect Christoffer Harlang. Buy

Holiday’s Issue 381 is out. This legendary title has already had big shots like Truman Capote, Graham Green and Jack Kerouac supplying its pages with prime content. The current issue explores Jerusalem, the city, the symbol and the fantasy. Featuring an interview with French Historian Vincent Lemire in which he answers the question “what is Jerusalem?”. Holiday also shares perspectives on the city’s holy botanicals, speaks about the first Israeli institution devoted to figurative painting: the Jerusalem Studio School, walks into what is arguably the most beautiful place to stay in, and shows how Palestinians and Israelis were brought together around simple backgammon tables. Buy