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25 Nov The illustration idea book
Find more of the idea book series here. This book serves as an introduction to the key elements of good illustration.[expand title="more"] It presents 50 of the most inspiring approaches used by masters of the field from across the world. Themes covered include creating characters, symbol and metaphor, illustrated lettering, inventing worlds and caricature. The result is an instantly accessible, inspiring and easy to understand guide to illustration using professional techniques.[/expand]
12 Okt the typography idea book
Find more of the idea book series here. This book serves as an introduction to the key elements of good illustration. The Illustration Idea Book presents 50 of the most inspiring approaches used by masters of the field from across the world. [expand title="more"] Themes covered include creating characters, symbol and metaphor, illustrated lettering, inventing worlds and caricature. The result is an instantly accessible, inspiring and easy to understand guide to illustration using professional techniques.[/expand]
04 Okt the graphic design idea book
Find more of the idea book series here. This book serves as an introduction to the key elements of good design. Broken into sections covering the fundamental elements of design, key works by acclaimed designers serve to illustrate technical points and encourage readers to try out new ideas. [expand title="more"]Themes covered include narrative, colour, illusion, ornament, simplicity, and wit and humour. The result is an instantly accessible and easy to understand guide to graphic design using professional techniques.[/expand]
20 Dez I have no idea what i’m doing out of bed – Thomas Lélu
In October 2022, after a period dedicated to collage and image manipulation, Thomas Lélu decided to return to his origins, and began a series of sentences that he simply wrote down in a notebook with a ballpoint pen. From then on, he began a daily exercise of writing a minimum of 5 sentences in sketchbooks. A total of over 500 sentences to date. Sometimes funny or witty, often caustic and provocative, they invite the reader to reflect on our times and its excesses.
27 Okt The Best Dutch Book Designs 2022
Every year, The Best Dutch Book Designs celebrates the best products of the graphic industry in the Netherlands: 33 books made with heart and soul. The catalogue The Best Dutch Book Designs 2022 was designed by Akiko Wakabayashi: “I wanted to do something with the interaction between the book and the human body. I asked photographer/artist Marie Déhé to make the photographs because of her style: it shows warmth and softness. I tried to emphasize the idea of the interaction between book and human body with the structure of the book. It is divided by chapters that relate to our interaction with a book, like ‘meet the book’, ‘open the book’ and ‘talk about the book’.”
02 Aug Rare Gift of the Tropics – General Idea
Founded in 1969, the art group General Idea is best known for its conceptual and media-based art and its activist initiatives related to the AIDS crisis. But do you also know their drawings? The wonderful booklet we are holding in our hands is entitled A Rare Gift of the Tropics. The drawings in it were all done by Jorge Zontal during the group’s brainstorming meetings, however, given General Idea’s mandate for co-authorship (and as the “GI” signature affixed by Zontal shortly before his death also proves), as well as the circumstances under which they were created, they are considered a collaborative work. If you would like to go beyond these wonderful drawings to get a more comprehensive overview of this revered and subversive Canadian queer collective, simply swipe to find the large retrospective in book form. And now take a close look at the drawing on the cover. Have you already figured out what is depicted on it? Buy
02 Aug The Playbook – Jennifer Jacquet (PB)
From an astute observer of business behavior and expert in climate denial comes a thought-provoking explanation of how corporations delay, distract, and deflect blame and spread disinformation surrounding health issues, pollution, and climate change. Are you a corporation out to make your fortune at any cost? Are you worried about 'facts' and 'experts' getting in the way of your profits? Do you wish you could make scientists, journalists, and anyone who asks questions about your suspect business practices disappear? Now you can. Whether you are selling tobacco, dealing in oil, or pushing pharmaceuticals, denying climate change or exploiting workers, The Playbook is here to help you obfuscate your way to what you want. Including how to: Massage the statistics to suit your needs. Or, even better, fund studies to make up some new ones; Attract and cultivate university professors who have an axe to grind and are short of cash; Make your problem somebody else's problem - ideally the government's; Remember: Tame journalists, PR firms, think tanks, lawyers, and threats of physical violence are your friends! Follow these rules and you are guaranteed to make a killing. It's economic sense, after all.
08 Feb Around the World in 80 Books
A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them. Inspired by Jules Verne’s hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard University’s department of comparative literature and founder of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic’s restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books from around the globe. Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran and points beyond, and via authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel Prize–winners Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, Mo Yan, and Olga Tokarczuk, he explores how these works have shaped our idea of the world, and the ways in which the world bleeds into literature. To chart the expansive landscape of world literature today, Damrosch explores how writers live in two very different worlds: the world of their personal experience and the world of books that have enabled great writers to give shape and meaning to their lives. In his literary cartography, Damrosch includes compelling contemporary works as well as perennial classics, hard-bitten crime fiction as well as haunting works of fantasy, and the formative tales that introduce us as children to the world we’re entering. Taken together, these eighty titles offer us fresh perspective on enduring problems, from the social consequences of epidemics to the rising inequality that Thomas More designed Utopia to combat, as well as the patriarchal structures within and against which many of these books’ heroines have to struggle—from the work of Murasaki Shikibu a millennium ago to Margaret Atwood today. Around the World in 80 Books is a global invitation to look beyond ourselves and our surroundings, and to see our world and its literature in new ways.