About Graphic Design. Richard Hollis.

The book features a comprehensive selection of writings by renowned graphic designer, graphic design theorist and historian Richard Hollis, including interviews, essays, letters, articles, lectures and course outlines. About Graphic Design is densely illustrated with over 500 thumbnail images.

Edited by Richard Hollis
Designed by Richard Hollis with Pedro Cid Proença

D 19€

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Graphic Design: History In The Writing (1983-2011).

The first anthology of its kind, Graphic Design: History in the Writing (1984–2011) comprises some of the most influential published texts about graphic design history. The book documents the development of the relatively young field of graphic design history from 1983 to today, underscoring the aesthetic, theoretical, political and social tensions that have underpinned it from the beginning. Included in the anthology are texts by:

Jeremy Aynsley
Steve Baker
Andrew Blauvelt
Piers Carey
François Chastanet
Wen Huei Chou
Denise Gonzales Crisp
Brian Donnelly
Johanna Drucker
Steven Heller
Richard Hollis
Robin Kinross
Ellen Lupton
Victor Margolin
Ellen Mazur Thomson
Philip B. Meggs
Gérard Mermoz
Abbott Miller
Rick Poynor
Martha Scotford
Catherine de Smet
Teal Triggs
Massimo Vignelli
Bridget Wilkins

Edited by Catherine de Smet and Sara De Bondt

D 25€

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Bauhaus Magazine #3

Die dritte Ausgabe der Zeitschrift “bauhaus”, die von der Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau herausgegeben wird, ist den Dingen gewidmet. „Ein Ding ist bestimmt durch sein Wesen“, schrieb der Bauhausgründer Walter Gropius 1925. Das Wesen der Dinge zu erforschen, hat sich die Zeitschrift vorgenommen. Parallel zur großen Retrospektive des Jahrhundertgestalters Marcel Breuer wurden Dinge ausgewählt, die auf den ersten Blick banal erscheinen mögen, an denen sich aber Utopie und emanzipatorische Wirkung, Fetisch und Konsumverhalten untersuchen lassen – vom Teelöffel bis zum Kaktus, vom Preisschild bis zum Spiegel, von der Schachtel bis zum Fahrplan. Das Heft unternimmt den Versuch, herauszufinden, wie das Bauhaus den Umgang mit den Dingen verändert hat und wie sich die Auseinandersetzung mit dem “Ding an sich” heute gestaltet.

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Wrong Test. Riccardo Previdi.

Conceived as a work halfway between an artist’s book and an exhibition catalogue, Wrong Test by Riccardo Previdi presents the newest works from the series Tests that the artist started to work on three years ago. Previdi culls his test patterns mostly from the internet. He started out using test patterns created to calibrate printers, to verify the color accuracy of digital cameras, or in conjunction with medical testing. Previdi prints the images on standard A4-sized paper, crumples them up, photographs them and then reprints them, often in enlargement, following this process of apparent destruction. Printed on a wooden board or stretched on a frame, the Tests vary in texture and are integrated into spatial interventions and installations in dialogue with existing architecture. Wrong Test presents some 46 test patterns across 120 pages, accompanied by a brief text extracted from Amazon.com customer reviews of the commercial products. The series was produced for this publication.
The selection, reminiscent of a visual scientific study, places particular focus on the commercial use of digital photographs and sheds light on various aspects of the technical image. Another focal point is the confrontation with the history of the technical image and the conditions of seeing.
The catalogue includes two critical texts by Laura Barreca, the curator of the exhibition, and Thomas Tiel.
The “Premio Selezione” is a project by the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, conceived as an opportunity to present the excellence of young Italian art. The winners – artists selected by an international jury – hold a personal show at the exhibition spaces of the Italian Cultural Institute in New York. Riccardo Previdi and Nicola Pecoraro are the winners of the first edition of the “Premio Selezione” held in 2011.

Edition: 500 copies
Year: 2011
Editor: Lorenzo Micheli Gigotti
Art Director: Francesco de Figueiredo

Wrong Test is published in conjunction with the first edition of the “Premio Selezione Italian Cultural Institute New York 2011” at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York.

20€

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Motto will be open at Markthalle Neun on June 10 from 11-17!

Am 10. Juni findet der nächste handmade supermarket statt. Mit dabei sind rund 60 DesignerInnen & Minilabels. Hier könnt Ihr sehen, wer alles dabei ist. Außerdem könnt Ihr am DIY-Stand von Dawanda nach Herzenslust basteln (auch wenn Ihr nicht mehr ganz klein seid). Wie immer gibt es tolles handmade Essen von der Marktküche, tolle vegane Burger & Smoothies von Sun Day Burgers, Tapas von La Cazuela und wunderbaren Kaffee.

handmade supermarket wird organisiert von supermarché – handmade * organic * fair & Hirschkind – Mode für Stadt, Land, Bett am Lausitzer Platz 11 in Kreuzberg.

Handmade Supermarket
Markthalle Neun

Correspondencia Nr. 2

Correspondencia is a bi-annual literary and arts magazine published in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Dossiers visuales:
Takashi Homma & Henry Roy.
Fragmentos visuales:
Henrik Grönvold, Susanna Howe, Gert Jonkers, Jeremy Liebman, Vava Ribeiro, Ana Armendariz, Ana Martinez Ramos, Alejandro Ros.
Textos:
Asli Cavosuglu, Erik Heywood, Carmen Iriondo, David Leda, Henry Roy, Amalia Sato, Mercedes Villalba, Philip Watts.
Extractos:
Roland Barthes, Peter Benchley, Albert Camus, Grillo Demo, Jean Genet, Matt Haynes, Katherine Mansfield, John Ruskin, Agnes Varda, Clare Wadd, Virgina Woolf.
Cartas:
Clyde Barrow, Charles Baudelaire, Rupert Brooke, Jean Cocteau, Bart de Baets, Henry Miller, Bonnie Parker, Mariquita Sanchez de Thompson, Francois Truffaut, Jacques Vaché.

14cm x 19,5cm 160 pages

D 18 €

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Status. Fotomuseum Winterthur.

24 Dokumente von heute / 24 Contemporary Documents

Hrg./Eds. Daniela Janser, Thomas Seelig
German/English
27.9 x 37 cm
105 pages

D 25€

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‘If you leave’. Book presentation. Motto Berlin. 07.06.2012
start 6pm

if you leave is a collection of contemporary photography. Snapshots of a journey made by wanderers who study the mysterious yet uncannily peaceful feeling of desolation and loneliness.
More concerned with the impact of a single image, rather than a body of work by an individual photographer, it is the representation of a silent idiom of faces, landscapes, subjects and objects, all in their most personal and intimate états d`être.
As a collection if you leave features the work of over a 250 different photographers from all over the world.

Photographer Laurence Von Thomas has been curating this collection online since november 2009.

http://if-you-leave.tumblr.com/

The Number and the Siren. Quentin Meillassoux. Urbanomic.

A meticulous literary study, a detective story à la Edgar Allan Poe, a treasure-hunt worthy of an adventure novel – such is the register in which can be deciphered the hidden secrets of a poem like no other. Quentin Meillassoux, author of After Finitude, continues his philosophical interrogation of the concepts of chance, contingency, infinity and eternity through a concentrated study of Mallarmé’s poem Un Coup de Dés, patiently deciphering its enigmatic meaning on the basis of a dazzlingly simple and lucid insight with regard to that ‘unique Number that cannot be another’.
Un Coup de Dés jamais n’abolira le Hasard constitutes perhaps the most radical break in the history of modern poetry: the fractured lines spanning the double page, the typographical play borrowed from the poster form, the multiplication of interpolations disrupting reading. But the intrigue of this poem is still stranger, always resistant to full elucidation. We encounter a shipwreck, and a Master, himself almost submerged, who clasps in his hand the dice that, confronted by the furious waves, he hesitates to throw. The hero expects this throw, if it takes place, to be extraordinarily important: a Number said to be ‘unique’ and which ‘can be no other’.
The decisive point of the investigation proposed by Meillassoux comes with a discovery, unsettling and yet as simple as a child’s game. All the dimensions of the Number, understood progressively, articulate between them but one sole condition: that this Number should ultimately be delivered to us by a secret code, hidden in the Coup de dés like a key that finally unlocks every one of its poetic devices. Thus is also unveiled the meaning of that siren, emerging for a lightning-flash amongst the debris of the shipwreck: as the living heart of a drama that is still unfolding.
With this bold new interpretation of Mallarmé’s work, The Number and the Siren offers brilliant insights into modernity, poetics, secularism and religion, and opens a new chapter in Meillassoux’s philosophy of radical contingency.
The volume contains the entire text of the Coup de dés and three other poems, with new English translations.

D 21 €
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Was einem Heimat War. Peter Granser. Bücher und Hefte.

Peter Granser set off in search of traces of the town of Gruorn on the Swabian Alb, which was forcibly evacuated in 1939. He documents the eventful history of a landscape that was used for over 100 years as a training ground for the armed forces. In 2005, the terrain, still strongly contaminated with projectiles and unexploded ordnance, was declared a biosphere reserve.

Pages: 88
Size: 17 x 24 cm
Weight: 450 g
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9783981453027

D 28€

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