Machine Art

text: Philip Johnson (preface of Sixtieth-Anniversary Edition and History of Machine Art), Alfred H. Barr, Jr. (foreword)
publisher: Museum of Modern Art
publication date: 1934 (This is the Sixtieth-Anniversary Edition, 1994)
isbn: 0870701355
MoMA.org: Philip Johnson discussing the 1934 exhibition Machine Art
Art for Trade's Sake: The Fusion of American Commerce and Culture 19270-1934: Machine Art Exhibition
Wikipedia: Philip Johnson
Wikipedia: Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

Subjective Atlas of Palestine

• editor, designer: Annelys de Vet
• publisher: 010 Publishers
• publication date: 2007
• 160 pages
• isbn: 9789064506482
• from the publishers site: The Dutch designer Annelys de Vet invited Palestinian artists, photographers and designers to map their country as they see it. (...) All in all, the contributions give an entirely different angle on a nation in occupied territory. In this subjective atlas it is the Palestinians themselves who show the disarming reverse side of the black-and-white image generally resorted to by the media.
• Subjective Atlas of Palestine
• 010 Publishers: Subjective Atlas of Palestine
• Studio Annelys de Vet
  

Luminous Mandala: Book Designs of Kohei Sugiura

• supervisor: Shoji Usuda
• directors: Kohei Sugiura, Atsushi Sato
• texts: Seigo Matsuoka, Midori Wakakuwa, Shoji Usuda, Kohei Sugiura
• publisher: Creativeworld Live 2007 Committee/Time Gear
• publication date: June 2007
• 144 pages, 124 pages in color
• language: Japanese
  
• isbn: none
• The posted images are from the Yasuhiro Ishimoto's photobook Den Shingon-in Ryokai Mandala (The Mandalas of the Two Worlds) designed by Kohei Sugiura. Published by Heibonsha, 1977.
• AbeBooks.co.uk: Kikuji Kawada: The Map (original edition designed by Kohei Sugiura)
• Answers.com: Kohei Sugiura
• ggg: The 221th Exhibition: Wind and Lightning: A Half-Century of Magazine Design by Sugiura Kohei
  

Urotsuki Yata (Yata, The Vagabond)

• author: Renzaburo Shibata (novel), Tadanori Yokoo (illustration & design)
• publisher: Shueisha
• publication date: May 1975
• 320 pages, full color
• language: Japanese
• isbn: 009378004304
• out of print
• This book is a collaboration work by the Japanese famous novelist Renzaburo Shibata (1917-1978) and Tadanori Yokoo. It was serialized in the Weekly Playboy magazine.
• Tadanori Yokoo Official Site

Unlimietd: Comme des Garçons

• creative director: Sanae Shimizu
• contributor: Julien d'Ys, Stephane Marais, Paolo Roversi, Christian Astuguevieille, Suzy Menkes, Janie Samet, Anna dello Russo, Olivier Zahm, Richard Buckley, Jonathan Newhouse, Ronnie Newhouse, Isabella Blow, Elisabeth Paillie, Michael Roberts, Nicola Formichetti, Franca Sozzani, Bridget Foley, Andrew Davis, Susannah Frankel, Cathy Edwards, Giuseppe Angiolini, Harry Houben & Ms. Sylvie Vanhove, Tommy Perse & Anne-Marie Perse, Sarah Lerfel, Armand Hadida, Maria Luisa Poumaillou, Christine Samain, Joyce Ma, Susanne Tide-Frater, Shinichi Muto, Joan Burstein, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Azzedine Alaïa, Alexander McQueen, Viktor Horsting & Mr. Rolf Snoeren, Karl Lagerfeld, Donna Karan, Paul Smith, Walter van Beirendonck, Gérard Barrau, Harold Koda, Claire Wilcox, Valerie Steele, Jorge Silvetti, Linda Loppa, Didier Grumbach, Merce Cunningham, Rei Kawakubo & Comme des Garçons Stuff
  
• editor: Sanae Shimizu, NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)
• art director: Kazunari Hattori
• designer: Mina Tabei
• publisher: Heibonsha
• publication date: June 2005
• language: Japanese/English
• 288 pages, full color
• isbn: 9784582620252
• The Present book is a compilation based on reporting for two television programs the NHK Special, "What the World Values in Her Fashion: REI KAWAKUBO and Comme des Garçons," and the Hi-Vision Special, "Fashion Revolutinonary: REI KAWAKUBO and the World of Comme des Garçons." Single frames of video filmed with a Hi-Vision camera were captured, and transformed into static images, after which the images were digitally printed. (from afterword by Sanae Shimizu)
  
• The wearer can feel it if the cloths are free-spirited. (comment by Rei Kawakubo including the book)
  
• Dover Street Market
• Wikipedia: Comme des Garçons
• amazon.com
  

Penguin by Designers

• editors: Phil Baines, Steve Hare
• texts: Steve Hare (forward), Phil Baines , John Miles, Germano Facetti, Romek Marber, Jerry Cinamon, Derek Birdsall, David Pelham, Jim Stoddart
• designer: David Pearson
• publisher: The Penguin Collectors' Society
• publication date: March 2007
• isbn: 9780952740179
• The Penguin Collectors' Society
  
• The Penguin Collectors' Society: Publications: Penguin by Designers
• CR Blog: Penguin by Designers
  
• Happy Birthday Penguin
• Victoria and Albert Museum: 70 Years of Penguin Design
• from the publishers website: In June 2005, to coincide with Penguin Books' 70th anniversary, Derek Birdsall, Jerry Cinamon, Romek Marber, John Miles, David Pelham and Penguin Press's current art director Jim Stoddart, all delivered illustrated talks at the V&A on their work designing for Penguin. The day was chaired by the type designer, teacher and graphic designer, Phil Baines. These talks have been edited and collected into a 184-page B-format paperback, with all 250 of the speakers' slides and book covers reproduced in colour. This original, limited-edition book has been designed by the D&AD award-winner David Pearson.
  

An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar

• author: Taryn Simon
• texts:Taryn Simon, Althea Wasow, Aliza Watters, Salman Rushdie (foreword), Elisabeth Sussman and Christina Kukielski (introduction), Ronal Dworkin (commentary)
• designers: Joseph Logan, Taryn Simon
• 151 pages, 70 colour plates
• publisher: Steidl
• publication date: March 2007
• isbn: 9783865213808
• This book has been published on the occasion of an exhibition at The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankufurt am Main, 2007-2008.
• Taryn Simon
• Steidl: An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar
• Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK)
  
• Wikipedia: Taryn Simon
• amazon.com
  

Lumen #01: Gray Scale/Dogoo Hair

• author: Tomoo Gokita (Gray Scale/painting), Masayuki Shinoda (Dogoo Hair/photography)
• editor: Shigeo Goto
• designer: Satoshi Suzuki
• publisher: Artbeat Publishers
• publication date: 2006
• isbn: 4902080079
• 48 pages, b/w
• edition: 1000
• from the publishers site: LUMEN is new art book project by emerging artists whom we chose. We publish the photograph, drawing, and graphic, etc. by the size of the newspaper.
• Artbeat Publishers: Lumen #01
• on Tomoo Gokita: atm Gallery, artloversnewyork.com
• on Masayuki Shinoda: Public/image.org (Japanese), gotodirection (Japanese)
  

Visionaire 20: Comme des Garçons

• guest editor: Rei Kawakubo
• editors: Stephen Gan, James Kaliardos, Cecilia Dean
• contributors: Bruce Weber, Peter Lindbergh, Karl Lagerfeld, Inez van Lamsweerde, Vinoodh Matadin, Nick Knight, Alexander McQueen, Martin Margiela, Craig McDean & M/M, Mario Sorrenti, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Paolo Roversi, Steven Klein, Michael Thompson, Miles Aldridge, Stephane Marais, Julien d'Ys, Masayuki Hayashi, Richard Burbridge, Marc Atlan, Joe McKenna, Elisabeth Djian, Alexandra White, Andrew Richardson, Katy England, Eric Wright, Mako Yamazaki, Kishin Shinoyama, Tsuguya Inoue
• designers: Florentino J. Pamintuan, Greg Foley, Tsuguya Inoue (for 'Six 1/4')
• publisher: Visionaire Publishing
• publication date: 1997
• isbn: 999759828
• edition: 2800
• Visionaire 20: Comme des Garçons
• Dover Street Market
  

Cindy Sherman

• texts: Betty van Garrel, Verena Leuken, Hal Foster, Margrit Brehm, Peter Schjeldahl
• designer: Gracia Lebbink
  
• publisher: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
• publication date: 1996
• language: English/Dutch
• isbn: 9069181533
• 176 pages, 71 plates, b/w and color
• This is the exhibition catalogue of 'Cindy Sherman' at Museum Boijmamns van Beuningen (Rotterdam), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid), Sala de Exposiciones REKALDE (Bilbao) and Staatliche Kunsthalle (Baden-Baden), from 1996 to 1997. It contains her works 'Untitled Film Stills' 'Disgust Pictures' 'Sex Pictures' and 'Horror Pictures' series.
• out of print
• Metro Pictures: Cindy Sherman
• MoMA: The Colleciton: Cindy Sherman
  
• Wikipedia: Cindy Sherman
  

Jocks & Nerds: Men's Style in the Twentieth Century

• author: Richard Martin, Harold Koda
• designer: Charles Davey
• publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
• publication date: 1989
• isbn: 0847810453
• 223 pages, 375 illustrations (150 in color)
• out of print
  
• from Publishers Weekly: Jocks and Nerds are just two of the 12 "male identities" Martin and Koda (Fashion and Surrealism) identify as this century's "persistent style modes"; the others: Worker, Rebel, Cowboy, Military Man, Hunter, Joe College, Sportsman, Businessman, Man About Town, Dandy. Illustrated with fashion shots from GQ, Esquire, L'Uomo Vogue and other magazines, the book also includes movie and publicity stills and candid photographs of the famous wearing their emblematic clothing--Eisenhower's jacket, Mark Spitz's red-white-and-blue swimsuit, Bogart's trench coat, Brando's T-shirt. There is plenty of frightful writing, for example, this description of cowboy dress: "His spurs, essential for moving a recalcitrant horse, give him armadillo-like invulnerability." Other passages, however, buoy up otherwise tiresome lectures: "Today's rolled chinos and blue jeans with the cuffs turned up still suggest the minor rebellion in protected circumstances associated with college life."
• The new York Times: MEN'S STYLE; Tested by Time (on 'Jocks and Nerds')
• The New York Times: Richard Martin, 52, Curator of the Costume Institute (obituary)
• New York Magazine: The Dresser (interview of Harold Koda)
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Harold Koda named new curator-in-charge of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  

The Books and Magazines of Takashi Kono

• texts: Naomichi Kawahata (introduction, Japanese/English), Takashi Kono, Masayoshi Nakajo, Gan Hosoya, Hannmo Sugiura, Michiaki Matsuyama (Japanese)
• cover graphics : Kazunari Hattori, 'Shikaku Dentatsu (Visual Communication)'
• publisher: Seibundo Shinkosha
  
• publication date: December 2007
• issn: 00191299
• from the publisher's site: This special issue introduces the book and magazine design of Kono Takashi (1906-1999), a leading force in graphic design in Japan for more than half a century, beginning in the 1930s.
  
• IDEA No. 326: The books and magazines of Takashi Kono
• Deska: Gallery 5610
• m. a. x. museo (The Exhibition 'Max Huber+Takashi Kono' from May 26 to October 31, 2007. Italiano/English)
• The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo: Graphic Design of KONO Takashi (Japanese)
• ggg: Takashi Kono Exhibition (Japanese)
  

TDC BCCKS: Issay Kitagawa+Graph

• author: Issay Kitagawa+Graph
• designer: Issay Kitagawa+Graph
• publisher: BCCKS Inc.
• publication date: November 2007
• edition: 250
• This booklet has been published on the occasion of 'TDC BCCKS: the 20th Anniversary Exhibition--Exhibition of 35 books and 77 postcards .'
• TDC BCCKS: Issay Kitagawa+Graph
• Graph
• TDC BCCKS (Japanese)
• Tokyo Type Directors Club (Japanese/English)

Shinro Ohtake Zen-Kei: Retrospective 1955-2006

• author: Shinro Ohtake
• texts: Shinro Ohtake, Manabu Yuasa, Tomoko Yabumae, Keiko Okamura
• designer: Shingo Ikeda (67)
• publisher: Grambooks
• publication date: October 2007
• language: Japanese/English
• isbn: 978903341026
  
• 1152 pages, 2000 plates and more. With 2CD performed by Dub-Hei & New Chanell
• This catalogue has been published on the occasion of an exhibition 'Shinro Ohtake Zen-Kei: Retrospective 1955-2006' at Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, from October 14 to December 24, 2006.
  
• Shinro Ohtake Zen-Kei: Retrospective 1955-2006
• Shinro Ohtake Archive
  

The Power of Fashion: About Design and Meaning

• editor: Jan Brand, José Teunissen in cooperation with Anne van der Zwaag
• author: Nanda van den Berg, RosettaBrooks, Patrizia Calefato, Ginger Gregg Duggan, Akiko Fukai, Henk Hoeks, Eric de Kuyper, Dirk Lauwaert, Ulrich Lehmann, Gilles Lipovetsky, Ted Polhemus, Jack Post, Karin Schacknat, Anneke Smelik, José Teunissen, Chris Townsend, Barbara Vinken, Anne van der Zwaag
• designer: Roger Willems (see Roma Publications)
  
• publisher: Uitgeverij Terra, ArtEZPress
• publication date: 2007
  
• isbn: 9789058975119
• 416 pages
• from the jacket of book: Fashion encompasses much more than just the latest skirt length, the newest colours or the most up-to-date accessories. Image, individuality, group identity and many other factors also play a role. Fashion is no longer governed by the catwalk; what happens in the street is at least as important. Fashion is a mirror of society and reveals all its social connections.
  The Power of Fashion uses word and image to explain how fashion is interwoven into every facet of society the world over. A thread running through the book is formed by prominent designers, a colourful, innovative sampling of what fashion now has to offer.
• ArtEZ Modelectoraat