Featuring a wealth of sketches, precision drawings, and computer-generated artwork, as well as a range of styles, concepts, languages, and alphabets, Free Hand illustrates the idiosyncratic creative processes behind the design of typefaces, logos, and word-images.

American artist Vija Celmins (b. 1938) is widely admired and respected for her sublime images of night skies and ocean waves. "Vija Celmins:

Becoming Disfarmer uses a compelling sequence of over 100 images to tell the story of Mike Disfarmer's vernacular portraiture and its transformation into art. This monograph features his vintage prints along with a selection of enlargements made from his negatives in the 1970s, through which his work first became known.

'An Archeology of Fear and Desire' is an attempt to recontextualise Israel as place and metaphor, exploring longing, belonging and exclusion. Frédéric Brenner follows up his opus Diaspora with a visual essay about Israel, a land of devouring myths in which constructs – social and religious – perpetuate a tyranny of roles, which render us strangers to what is most intimate in ourselves.

Joachim Brohm (Jahrgang 1955) unternimmt ein foto-urbanistisches Projekt mit Langzeitbeoachtung. Von 1992 bis 2002 fotografiert er auf ein und demselben Areal, das - am Rande einer deutschen Großstadt gelegen

First book dedicated to Casilli's decade-defining entertainment portraits.

‘A grove of giant redwoods or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great or beautiful cathedral.’
Theodore Roosevelt

"Something So Clear" is Kapil Das’ patient look behind the visual clichés and stereotypes that have come to define India. Consisting of a tight edit from thousands of photos taken over a decade, the book shows the spectrum of India through land- and streetscapes, portraits and everyday happenings, some as deceptively simple as a man carrying a mattress or a beetle resting on a leaf.

Der Flughafen Roissy Charles de Gaulle war für JH Engström (Jahrgang 1969) schon immer ein besonderer Ort. Im Alter von zehn Jahren zog er mit seinen Eltern nach Paris. Charles de Gaulle war sein erster Kontakt mit der Welt außerhalb seines Heimatlandes Schweden. Engström verbindet ein intensives Verhältnis, nicht nur mit Paris, sondern auch mit Charles de Gaulle und Flughäfen im Allgemeinen.

American artist Roe Ethridge's latest book takes its title from the French "C'est pas du luxe", an ironic phrase which alludes to the superfluous nature of luxury whilst proclaiming how essential it is to existence.

Charles Fréger has photographed a series of portraits of Breton women wearing costumes and headdresses of endless variety: from high starched towers to elaborately pinned, tucked and embroidered confections of handmade lace, as delicate as they are distinctive.

This book offers a visually unique approach to Frank’s films: only new stills taken from videotapes have been used and they add up to a visual essay on Frank’s cinema that establishes an engaging dialogue with his photographic work.

Coming Up for Air presents a body of photographic work that immerses the viewer in a dense, fluid visual environment where perception is deliberately unsettled.

Auf der Suche nach dem Verlorenen. Der international bekannte Modefotograf Alexander Gnädinger widmete sich in den letzten 2 Jahren einem freien Projekt, um ein Gegengewicht zu seiner kommerziellen Arbeit zu schaffen. Extrem stilisierte, ästhetisch verdichtete Bilder, wie sie z.B. seit Jahren für seinen Kunden Adidas entstehen, sind sein Markenzeichen.

"Her∂ubrei∂ at Home" is a collection of photographs of the landscape of home in Iceland. Her∂ubrei∂, Iceland’s much-loved mountain, and Stéfan V.

In 1994, after seeing photographs of the plastic sheets given to Rwandan refugees to live under, Shigeru Ban went to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to propose ideas for better shelters. Since then, Ban has been critically heralded for his innovative approaches to environmentally sound architecture and his devotion to humanitarian efforts in the wake of some of the most devastating natural and man-made disasters.

In the mid-seventies, the Viking Landers were the first to land on planet Mars. Though the alien landscape was magnificent, there were no canals or skeletons or wind-blown ruined dwellings. Today, not a single trace remains of Viking Landers 3 and 4. But myth (and conspiracy theories) have it that an alien survey was commissioned of planet Earth.

The publication is the first comprehensive documentation of the project White Space in White Space, which was initiated by Stano Filko, Miloš Laky, and Ján Zavarský in 1973 and evolved over the course of almost ten year. This book examines all the international exhibitions (Brno, Budapest, Paris, Warsaw, Beograd, Kassel), the collected manifestos, and the artists’ writings as well as the project’s further transformation in the practice of Stano Filko as a solo artist.

Ein präziser Blick auf das architektonische Umfeld, den sozialen Kontext und die geografischen Gegebenheiten wurde für die Projekte durchgehend vorausgesetzt, die im dritten Band der von András Pálffy edierten Reihe Konzept und Entwurf präsentiert werden.

Das Buch gibt einen umfassenden Einblick in das vielgestaltige Werk Ingrid Wieners, die die Gobelinweberei als zeitgenössisches Medium neu entdeckt hat.

his intimate book explores Broy Lim’s realization of his homosexuality in his hometown of Singapore, where it still remains illegal. Combining personal texts and photos, and now they know narrates Lim’s sexual identity and his nine-year relationship with his partner, while also representing the broader struggle of many youths who navigate their sense of self in conservative heteronormative societies.

Francesco Clemente wie man ihn kennt: eine Bildsprache, die aus einer Vielzahl von Symbolen, Mythen, Kulturen und Philosophien schöpft. Aufgeladen von Erotik seine Frauenporträts, die er in Pastelltechnik auf Rives Papier schuf.

Günther Selichar’s preferred thematic field of work, and his oeuvre has revolved around it since the early 1980s, is the media and mass media.

A digest of magazines around the world edited by Maurizio Cattelan and Paola Manfrin, Permanent Food is a cannibal magazine. Bound together in each issue of this periodical of pilfering from Maurizio Cattelan and Paola Manfrin is a thoroughly bewildering, amusing, grotesque, and blasé selection of images culled from anywhere, everywhere, and nowhere.

The photo of a woman’s leg stepping onto an open book when climbing out of bed served as inspiration.
I asked some of my friends to take a picture for me according to these guidelines. They should photograph themselves stepping on a book with their bare feet. It was agreed that the authors of the photos remain anonymous

“Arc” by award-winning author Paul Savoie is a poem which captures the pensive impressions of a moment and is suffused with a quiet musicality.

Dance and musical improvisation are ephemeral expressions urging us to embrace the moment in thoughtful joy. Devon Fornelli’s improvisations documented here are two performances:

Alejandro Cartagena’s photographs of recently built Mexican suburbs, ask us to look at this phenomenon of the suburban environs and how it has fueled variously the need for solutions to overcrowded cities, or the desire to form and incorporate community living where replication and anonymity are the rule rather than the exception.

On the occasion of the exhibition Die fünfte Säule [The fifth column], curated by Moritz Küng, Joëlle Tuerlinckx presents the lecture-performance Les moments d?espace ? lecture for YouTube in 591 panels (version 17.11.11) and the publication Moments d?espace.
On 591 PowerPoint pages the artist describes her subjective and partially autobiographical thoughts concerning the paradox of space in the form of ?textimages? in French with English subtitles. While these are projected uncommented, Tuerlinckx improvises a musicalpiece on a first-generation Casio synthesizer.

Edition of 12, Set of 18 screenprinted ceramic tiles (15 x 15 x 1 cm),
handmade box, book-binding linen, numbered, signed Edition.
Edition Salon für Kunstbuch 2021, in cooperation with Fiona Liewehr

NORMAL 2 - direkter Urbanismus x 4 zeigt die Realisierungen der 4 künstlerisch-urbanen Interventionen für NORMAL - ein Projekt für das Graz Kulturjahr 2020 und verortet diese im internationalen Diskurs, basierend auf transparadisos Methode des direkten Urbanismus.

The liberal capitalist world order that prevailed after 1989 is today in a stage of advanced disintegration. The collapse of this order exposes the illiberal core of its freedoms and forms of ownership shaped by the market: the violent unfreedoms of the dispossessed as well as the willingness of the propertied to use violence. Art, too, reveals itself as the venue of these forces and their exclusions:

'The book Public Sphere by Performance results from a two-year research project Performance and the Public that Ana Vujanović, Bojana Cvejić and Marta Popivoda carried out in 2011 and 2012, during the residency of TkH (Walking Theory) platform (Belgrade) at Les Laboratoires d’Aubervillier. The part of the research of Marta Popivoda gave rise to the documentary film Yugoslavia: How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body.

Another Gaze, a feminist film journal #04 brings together essays, conversations, and critical reflections that examine cinema through feminist, queer, and

Written in the 1950s and ’60s, the “action poems” comprising a A User’s Manual were published in their complete form in 1969 when they were paired with the 52 collages of Weekly 1967, the first of Kolář’s celebrated series in which he commented visually on a major event for each week of the year. Taking the form of directives,

Curator Christine Eyene challenges the Eurocentric and patriarchal frameworks that have informed the history of sound art and, to some extent, continue to define current practice. Sounds Like Her is a challenge

A major figure of the French arts scene, Xavier Veilhan (born in 1963) lives and works in Paris. His work is the result of a plural practice, shared between sculpture, painting, environment, live performance, video, and photography.

This publication Sobre El Río (Passage) tells of the journey of a photographic research of the origins of cumbia music along the lower Magdalena river in Colombia.

Vrach is Renaud Regnery's collection of all the sketches made for the painting of the same name: Vrach, 2019, plaster, acrylic paint and alkyd lacquer on wallpaper on canvas, 200 x 135 cm.

The book is a compilation and an archive of press cuttings, consisting of more than two hundred articles, commentaries, reports, and advertisements that

The book includes the first publication of Gidal's text from 1978, with a new introduction. Gidal in this dense theoretical essay deals with the limits of language and representation in the practice of experimental filmmaking and writing.

The term ‘ricochet’ is a means to discuss unintended consequences, rapidly delivered information and viral outbreaks, but it is also used to describe the way in which sound echoes or reverberates against objects in space.

RAW Académie was developed in Dakar to create a space of experimental teaching and collaboration, of deconstruction and exposure, of knowledge and nourishment. Koyo Kouoh, founder of RAW Material Company, wished for curatorial inquiry and critical writing to join artistic thinking at this site of international encounters. During these two-month long sessions that take place twice a year, young artists and

Morceaux choisis is the first seminal overview of Saâdane Afif’s artistic practices. The publication features 48 exhibitions or performances organized in 28 separate sections, covering a period of 14 years.

Fake Star is a story about a plaster copy of a meteorite and its original, about an emerging nation aiming to prove its worth at the Paris World Exposition 1900, about encounter of King Oscar ll of Sweden, and the Russian representative at the pavilion of Finland, Prince Tenisheff.

Window is Alexis's first full length novel in the form of a truelife vignetted memoire. Written from a swivel chair in Crown Heights, the stories meander through Alexis's surreal memories of growing up gay in Kansas, grasping for substance in fleeting hookups, gaining possessive rein on his powers of seduction (often via texting), and abusing them in San Francisco. Accompanied by photos from his voluminous archive, these stories are a full, and blurry, portrait of searching for "true love" in a multitude of disposable romances.

In Noir – A Serendipitous Encyclopedia Inspired by 1001 Names for the Color Black graphic designer Sandra Praun takes on the color black and the language that charges it with a variety of characteristics. The book consists of three parts:

We are on the verge of sharing our cities with autonomous vehicles. Recent developments in driverless technologies are having an impact on our urban environment, raising questions about how self-driving vehicles could be integrated into our daily lives.

Music has been just as central as art, film and architecture in the formation of the German capital’s unique identity, although too often neglected by Berlin’s historians and biographers.

Much is popularised of the Mafia in film, literature, music and urban legend. Some stories are inspired by and respectful of the facts, but many are presented through a creative lens distorting how organized crime began. References are often made to criminal activity in the infamous Prohibition Era, but few stories cover the preceding years, until now. This new book

Osawatomie is a direct allusion to the eponymous battle waged by the abolitionist John Brown of whom Victor Hugo at the time of saving him from hanging says "Yes, let America know and think about it, there is something more frightening than Cain killing Abel, it is Washington killing Spartacus".

The motifs produced during time-intensive dyeing processes – which uses indigo, urine, and extracts of natural waste materials – are neither conventional fabric nor lace patterns, and they have only a distant relationship to batik painting. Yet, they are simulations and portraits of both.

Impulse Interviews consists of over 60 interviews with some of the 20th Century’s most engaging and important cultural creators.

"Short Term Eternity" brings together two artists – Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978, USA) and Anu Vahtra (1982, Estonia) – whose practices are related to each other in many ways, even if they are born in different times and locations. The aim of the book is not

The Repetition Festival Show Tessa Giblin, Saskia Vermeulen, Rhea Gaardboe Dall, Andrea Viliani Parution date: 2011

For the 17th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, the Lithuanian Space Agency and its founder Julijonas Urbonas present Planet of People, an artistic study into a hypothetical artificial planet made up of human bodies. Along with the exhibition in Venice, the LSA introduces its first annual report.

In its obsession to classify and find an underlying order to nature, one of the objectives of science has been to develop a system of taxonomies for bodies. Through their representation systems and the devices used for their exhibition, cartographies of the

Looking at cartographies through sexual dissidence facilitates a process of resignification that speaks in other terms,

Mister Spare owns a pen that can write 320 miles. That's how the pen was sold to Mister Spare: as a 320-mile pen. But Mister Spare isn't going anywhere. Mister Spare writes in the same notebook every day.