Chiharu Sakazaki has created many successful Japanese characters and mascots. This book shows her illustration techniques, character making process and working style through many of her famous illustrations. Not just for illustrators or people who want to become an illustrator, but also for anyone who wants to know more about character design in commercial applications. Japanese only. BNN. ISBN 9784861007439. Paperback. $35.
Arabic Graffiti brings together artists, graffiti writers and typographers from the Middle East and around the world who merge Arabic calligraphy with the art of graffiti writing, street art and urban culture. It features a rich assortment of photos of Arabic graffiti and street art styles and essays exploring the traditional elements, modern approaches, and the socio-political and cultural backgrounds shaping this work. From Here to Fame. ISBN 9783937946269. Hardback. $55.
Herve Descottes with Cecilia Ramos
A critical and conceptual look at lighting in the built environment. The key considerations of lighting design are illuminated through accessible texts and instructional diagrams. Six built projects provide concrete examples of the ways in which these principles are applied. Essays by architect Steven Holl, artist Sylvain Dubuisson and landscape architect James Corner explore the role of lighting in spatial compositions. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9781568989389. Paperback. $37.50.
Art & Agenda introduces a variety of artists who are advocating political and social reform on a local or global scale. Some are fighting against poverty or for women’s rights, some are working to rebuild Haiti in the wake of the earthquake, and others are using mass communication to criticise transnational companies. The book not only documents current work but also points to future forms of political discourse. Die Gestalten Verlag. ISBN 9783899553420. Hardback. $105.
Dzine
Dzine melds ghetto, baroque, bling and psychedelic in a playfully ironic way to create work that is unique in American contemporary art. It originates from the intersection of luxury and the street, where desire, identity, beauty, and meticulousness collide in kaleidoscopic colours. This is the first comprehensive collection of Dzine’s work in sculpture, painting and installation. Die Gestalten Verlag. ISBN 9783899553291. Hardback. $97.50.
Niels ‘Shoe’ Meulman and Adam Eeuwens
Artist Niels Meulman gained international fame as the graffiti artist ‘Shoe’ from Europe’s legendary Crime Time Kings and has since gone on to become an acclaimed Dutch calligrapher, typographer and designer. He explores the contours of words as images in ‘Calligraffiti’ – his hybrid art form blending calligraphy and graffiti, showcased here in this fine collection. From Here to Fame. ISBN 9783937946214. Hardback. $43.50.
Color Me Graffiti: How to Color Like the Masters is a colouring book that aims to educate and entertain, providing the next generation of writers, art enthusiasts and children with the chance to colour their world in graffiti style, with a range of illustrations, characters and styles from the best of the international graffiti and street art scene. From Here to Fame. ISBN 9783937946191. Paperback. $15.
Peter G Rowe
This book maps and describes the large development areas in big cities in China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, as they are striking out into new territories. Combining a typology of public architecture with an account of the composition of urban elements, the author establishes a much-needed link between urban planning issues and the architectural agenda. Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 9783764388157. Hardback. $98.50.
First recognised for her unique graffiti and street artwork, the South African Faith 47 is a self-taught artist who draws inspiration from her own political and existential questions. Her large, striking images thrive on broken-down cars and old factories, dusty side roads of lost towns and inner-city alleyways. Special limited edition hardback with silver embossed cover and jacket. From Here to Fame. ISBN 9783937946092. Hardback. $32.50.
First recognised for her unique graffiti and street artwork, the South African Faith 47 is a self-taught artist who draws inspiration from her own political and existential questions. Her large, striking images thrive on broken-down cars and old factories, dusty side roads of lost towns and inner-city alleyways. From Here to Fame. ISBN 9783937946085. Paperback. $22.
Alain KET Marduena
230 photos, drawings and illustrations document the graffiti of Ghost, one of the last survivors of the New York City train writing era. He works in classic train bombing styles, with a combination of loose letters and psychedelic cartoons that drip off the wall. Limited edition hardback with silver embossed cover and jacket. From Here to Fame. ISBN 9783937946252. Hardback. $32.50.
Alain KET Marduena
230 photos, drawings and illustrations document the graffiti of Ghost, one of the last survivors of the New York City train writing era. He works in classic train bombing styles, with a combination of loose letters and psychedelic cartoons that drip off the wall. From Here to Fame. ISBN 9783937946245. Paperback. $22.
Tatjana Doll
Her oversized enamel canvasses of everyday objects put German artists Tatjana Doll’s name on the map: cars, trains, containers, pictograms, babushkas, and yet the pictures do not show reality. This is also true of her fine drawings. The 350 drawings reproduced here are sometimes cartoonish, other times painterly, and usually sexually confronting, as the title of the book suggests. Distanz Verlag. ISBN 9783942405225. Paperback. $95.
Grand Stand 3 presents 145 remarkable trade-fair designs ranging from small booths to multi-level structures. Each stand is presented with a description of the design, photographs and a designer profile, and floor plans, sections, detail drawings and construction photos. The book is divided into nine categories: Apparel, Architectural, Consumer, Electronics, Interior, Lighting, Mobility, Services and Shoes & Accessories. Frame. ISBN 9789077174258. Hardback. $150.
While digital design advances, the taste for the texture and warmth of analog graphics persists. This book collects hand-made graphics including handwriting, calligraphy, typewritten letters and images from notebooks, sketchbooks, T-shirts, notice boards and more. By combining these fonts and images, designers can easily create graphic work with a difference. In Japanese and English, including a DVD-ROM with many examples. BNN. ISBN 9784861007330. Paperback. $50.
TwoPoints Net
Beautifully produced with prolific Spanish creative duo TwoPoints.Net, I Love Type is witness to the return of time-honoured typefaces, focussing on one family at a time. Capturing a myriad of inventive type treatments, including layouts, special printing and custom variants, the series is a review of how today’s designers are using classic fonts in modern contexts. I Love Bodoni is the third volume of the collection to hit the stores. Victionary. ISBN 9789881732859. Paperback. $45.
TwoPoints Net
Beautifully produced with prolific Spanish creative duo TwoPoints.Net, I Love Type is witness to the return of time-honoured typefaces, focussing on one family at a time. Capturing a myriad of inventive type treatments, including layouts, special printing and custom variants, the series is a review of how today’s designers are using classic fonts in modern contexts. I Love DIN is the fourth volume of the collection to hit the stores. Victionary. ISBN 9789881943897. Paperback. $45.
R Klanten, H Hellige (eds)
Topical exploration of the play between contemporary graphic design and traditional handiwork such as letterpress printing, hand-cut linotype, chiselled woodblocks and embossing. A rich selection of hand-printed material is complemented by personal insights from designers using these techniques to create cutting-edge work. New paperback edition of popular hardcover. Die Gestalten Verlag. ISBN 9783899553680. Paperback. $85.
This pop-up book tells the story of the sloth and its slowness, now placing it in danger from man’s short-sighted encroachment. Fourteen pop-up pages examine the gradual erosion of the Amazon forest. As we leaf through, animals and trees appear before our eyes and in our hands, as if in a natural environment that is constantly changing. Printed with soy ink on paper from responsible forests. Italian language only. Edizioni Corraini. ISBN 9788875702670. Hardback with pop up. $40.
Shuwa Tei
Intentionallies is a Japanese design firm dedicated to realising architecture and design through convincing ideas and fine craftsmanship. This portfolio covers 15 years of their work, with stunning photos, sketches and drawings documenting projects including houses, offices, shops, Tokyo’s remarkable Hotel Claska and even consumer products. Frame. ISBN 9789077174340. Hardback. $110.
This book features 80 interactive design projects for websites, mobile phones, games and social media including Twitter, showcasing the visual design, the building process, gimmicks, evaluation of results and impact and more. This case-study book contains plenty of useful tips for making technology your friend and realising projects that will be a hit with users. Japanese only. BNN. ISBN 9784861007576. Paperback. $50.
This annual lists 100 creators who explore new frontiers in motion graphics. Projection mapping techniques, datamosh, Ustream, 3D, AR – this book shows the latest projects, with sample works on the included DVD. Five live motion projects feature at the end of the book. This is a mush-have for motion graphics enthusiasts. In English and Japanese. BNN. ISBN 9784861007743. Paperback. $68.50.
Lucy and Jorge Orta
With hundreds of drawings and photographs, this documents recent work by the Paris-based Lucy and George Orta, whose work – a mix of fashion, art, architecture, performances, multimedia events and public debates – examines universal concerns about community, shelter, migration and sustainable development, and suggests solutions by modelling fresh approaches to social dilemmas. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9781568989914. Hardback. $60.
Material World 3 offers over 100 materials and semi-finished products carefully selected by matériO, the French library of emerging materials. The collection covers materials with a wide variety of properties and aesthetic qualities, such as modular undulating wall coverings, fish-skin leathers and photovoltaic textiles in a wide survey of materials and finishes for interior design and architecture. Frame. ISBN 9789077174265. Hardback. $110.
Mina Perhonen
Minä Perhonen is a fashion label working to produce clothes which do not lose their allure over time. The label aspires to develop new materials and techniques with production centres in Japan and abroad. The name is Finnish, as designer Akira Minagawa sympathises with the lifestyle and the culture of Finland; “minä” means “I” and “perhonen” is “butterfly”. Japanese only, mostly visual. BNN. ISBN 9784861007460. Paperback. $46.50.
Megan Werner
Physical models remain a uniquely revealing and compelling tool for the architect. More forcefully than any other way of visualising a building, models represent ideas, as opposed to images. Model Making explores this ancient architectural craft with hundreds of colour and black-and-white photos. Megan Werner is the founder of San Francisco model-making firm zDp Models. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9781568988702. Paperback. $37.50.
The Modernist is a collection of work in graphic design and illustration that is created with minimal intrusions. The deliberately limited palette of colours, tools, and geometric forms that such design uses makes the work seem both contemporary and timeless. The bookdocuments the current reduced, matter-of-fact, and practical design approach, with examples of unobtrusive but effective design solutions that appear to have been created in a past era. Die Gestalten Verlag. ISBN 9783899553444. Paperback. $85.
Jens Besser
300 images reveal the vibrancy of a new type of muralism as it rises from the shadows of urban spaces in cities world-wide. From much-celebrated pieces in prominent places to those hidden in anonymous, decayed ruins, it features the large-scale murals and small interventions of some of the most exciting international artists associated with this movement. From Here to Fame. ISBN 9783937946290. Hardback. $55.
Sarah Cooper, Nina Gorfer
Artists Sarah Cooper and Nina Gorfer work at the intersection of contemporary photography with the painting of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For My Quiet of Gold, they travelled to rural Kyrgyzstan to collect stories in conversations and interviews with local inhabitants. Out of these tales, the duo created striking portraits, their carefully staged photos reworked digitally to add further layers of meaning. Die Gestalten Verlag. ISBN 9783899553673. Hardback. $105.
Many of today’s most innovative street artists come from Latin America. Nuevo Mundo is the first book to give a comprehensive documentation of today’s street art in Latin America. Hundreds of images document work by established artists and promising new talents from Argentina, Brazil, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Die Gestalten Verlag. ISBN 9783899553376. Hardback. $85.
Chris Keeney
In the age of digital everything, the counter-intuitiveness of the pinhole makes it a fun DIY art form. Made from oatmeal canisters, mint tins, or even a toilet paper roll, a future pinhole could be sitting under your sink right now. Chris Keeney provides a welcome blend of instruction and example in this illustration-filled book. A gallery of pinhole pictures proves that these cameras take some serious shots and some funny ones, too. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9781568989891. Hardback. $26.
Kao Kao Panda
“There are moments when I feel that this world is so beautiful.” This is the first art book of Kao Kao Panda, an artist who feels moved in morning and evening sunshine, surfs a wave, and lives together with aroma of the ocean. Based in Kamakura (overflowing with nature and brimming with bright sunlight), she makes happy paintings affected by energy from the sun, the sea, the sky and the wind. In Japanese and English. BNN. ISBN 9784861007507. Hardback. $54.
Rainer Haupl, Sabine Marinescu, Janina Poesch
Magazine of scenography, trade fair and exhibition design. This issue looks at particular projects that affect children and young adults, including a museum, a school campus and a science centre tailored for adolescents. AVedition. ISBN 9783899861297. Paperback. $29.50.
The 10th volume of this world-wide creative journal presents interviews with creative agencies and fashion designers, the latest information on creative spots in London, the history of the famous Central Saint Martins art school and columns from around the world. Mainly Japanese, with some English. BNN. ISBN 9784861007736. Hardback. $10.50.
Bruno Marchand, ed
The architect Renato Salvi’s Transjurane A16 highway received international recognition for the uncompromisingly contemporary and subtle way that its concrete bridges, tunnel entrances and ventilation structures work with the wild beauty of the Jurassic landscape. Other chapters of this first-ever monograph on the Swiss Italian document a selection of his remarkable single-family houses, school buildings, and renovations. Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 9783034606899. Paperback. $80.
John A. Loomis
The greatest architectural achievement of the Cuban Revolution, the Escuelas Nacionales de Arte, stood unfinished on the outskirts of Havana, abandoned after an ideological attack during its construction. When this book was first published in 1999, the Cuban government agreed to restore the organic complex of brick and terracotta Catalan-vaulted structures, documented and updated here in photographs, drawings and interviews. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9781568989884. Paperback. $45.
Irana Douer
Ruby collects current work by 65 talented young artists with one thing in common: whether working in fantastical illustration, hyper-real photography, or figurative painting or sculpture, these artists all depict or conjure up surreal otherworldliness. Ruby is a project by Buenos Aires-based curator, editor, and artist Irana Douer. The book presents artists, illustrators, photographers, and designers from around the world. Die Gestalten Verlag. ISBN 9783899553437. Flexi. $70.
Amber Grunhauser
Sabe is a true master of graffiti styles. He is able to step in and out of advanced mechanical compositions, bubble styles, throw-ups, characters and photo-realism with ease. With a ‘paint now, think later’ attitude he mixes up these styles to suit the occasion, leaving a legacy of playful hybrids that sit left of mainstream. From Here to Fame. ISBN 9783937946221. Paperback. $22.
Amber Grunhauser
Sabe is a true master of graffiti styles. He is able to step in and out of advanced mechanical compositions, bubble styles, throw-ups, characters and photo-realism with ease. With a ‘paint now, think later’ attitude he mixes up these styles to suit the occasion, leaving a legacy of playful hybrids that sit left of mainstream. Limited edition with silver embossed hardcover and jacket. From Here to Fame. ISBN 9783937946238. Hardback. $32.50.
Beta Tank
Taxing Art is an insightful case study by Beta Tank that illustrates the influence of tax laws on art and creativity. The Berlin-based studio created a series of ‘blended’ works, which were partly handmade and partly machine-made, and sent them around the world. Naturally, this resulted in differing customs duties. The book is a buoyantly ironic, clever documentation and analysis of the effect of bureaucratic procedures on innovative work. Die Gestalten Verlag. ISBN 9783899553468. Paperback. $70.
R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, V. Hanschke
A Touch of Code examines how personal experiences are created where virtual realms meet the real world and where dataflow confronts the human senses. It presents interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of laboratory, trade show and urban space that play with the frontiers of perception, interaction and staging created by current technology, in brand and product presentation, exhibits, architecture, art and design. Die Gestalten Verlag. ISBN 9783899553314. Hardback. $105.
Traditional Japanese packaging is an art form that applies sophisticated design and natural aesthetics to simple objects. This documents the traditional packaging collection of the late Hideyuki Oka. Featuring the embodiment of ‘Wa’ culture’s aesthetic, his collection is largely comprised of bamboo, rice straw, hemp twine, paper and leaves, all of the objects made from natural materials. Japanese only, mainly visual. BNN. ISBN 9784861007712. Paperback. $42.
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