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100 Quotes by Charles Eames

2008-06-06T10:11:00.007+09:00

editor: Carla Hartman & Eames Demetrios
publisher: Eames Office
designer: Design Guys
publication date: 2007
200 pages, b/w
language: English, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Japanese, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish
isbn: 9780615174211
This book was published on occasion of the 'Charles Eames Photo Exhibition: 100 images x 100 words' at AXIS Gallery, Tokyo, 2008. (from the AXIS website) This exhibition commemorating the centennial of Charles Eames' birth introduces 100 of his photographs that have not been publicly shown previously in exhibitions, and 100 of his quotations.
Eames Office
AXIS

Fireworks

2008-05-28T09:37:00.004+09:00

author: Mike Mills
designer: Rop
publisher: Nieves
publication date: 2008
20 pages, 15 full color plates
isbn: 9783905714340
Nieves: Fireworks
Mike Mills (official)

Nippon Gekijo Shashincho (Japan: A Photo Theater)

2008-05-27T15:25:00.009+09:00

photographer: Daido Moriyama
text: Shuji Terayama
designer: Naomichi Kawabata
publisher: Shinchosha
publication date: December 1995
218 pages, 148 b&w plates
isbn: 4106024187
This is a revised version. Original edition was published by Muromachi Shobo, 1968.
Moriyamadaido.com (official)
Wikipedia: Shuji Terayama

Takashi Homma: Tokyo

2008-05-23T12:11:00.009+09:00

author: Takashi Homma
text: Ferdinand Brueggemann
designer: de.MO
publisher: Aperture Foundation
publication date: May 2008
256 Pages, 125 color images
isbn: 9781597110594
Book Synopsis (from the publisher's site): For over a decade, Homma has turned his lens toward Tokyo's suburban environs and urban center. His vision of Tokyo navigates a finely nuanced line between sterility and sentimentality, presenting a sleek, contemporary vision of a postmodern megalopolis populated by a new generation of video game aficionados and enervated fashionistas.
While he has published extensively inside his native Japan, this is Homo's first volume published for an international audience. Takashi Homma: Tokyo compiles selections from each of the artist's six previously published titles about the city, including Tokyo Suburbia, his seminal work now considered a contemporary classic.
Aperture Foundation: Takashi Homma: Tokyo
Gallery 360 Degrees
PhotoGuide Japan: Takashi Homma
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Optimum

2008-05-23T10:21:00.006+09:00

producer: Japan Design Committee
planning & composing: Naoto Fukasawa, Kenya Hara, Taku Satoh
art director: Kenya Hara
designer: Kenya Hara, Kaoru Matsuno (Nippon Design Center, Inc.)
publisher: Rikuyosha
publication date: September 2002 (new edition: 2004)
176 pages, full color plates
isbn: 4897374510
This book was published on occasion of the exhibition 'Optimum' in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Japan Design Committee at Matsuya Ginza, 2002.
Nippon Design Center, Inc.: Hara Design Institute: Optimum (English)
Japan Design Committee: Optimum (Japanese)
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Purple Anthology

2008-05-15T17:37:00.010+09:00

concept: Olivier Zahm
editor: Mrrtynka Wawrzyniak
associate editor: Jordan Hruska
photo editing: Christophe Brunnquell, Elein Fleiss
texts: Bruce Benderson, Dike Blair, Elein Fleiss, Kim Gordon, Jordan Hruska, Gary Indiana, Sébastien Jamain, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Jutta Koether, Bob Nickas, Gaëlle Obiégly, Glenn O'Brien, Jeff Rian, Stéphanie Moisdon, Eric Troncy, Olivier Zahm
illustrations: Christophe Brunnquell
editor, art director, designer: M/M (Paris)
publisher: Rizzoli International
publication Date: May 2008
288 pages, full color
isbn: 9780847830206
from the publishers site: When those in the magazine industry need inspiration, they look to Purple. It has influenced countless other magazines and spawned trends that have trickled down through all levels of culture. To celebrate its fifteenth anniversary, this volume brings together the best in fashion, art, and culture from Purple’s illustrious history. Purple revolutionized fashion photography in the nineties by commissioning fine artists to shoot fashion editorials. What resulted was a raw, improvisational aesthetic, which continues to exert its power today. Many of our most promising artists contribute to Purple’s pages, including Terry Richardson, Juergen Teller, Jack Pierson, Richard Prince, John Currin, and Vanessa Beecroft. Among the celebrity muses who appear regularly are Kim Gordon, Chloe Sevigny, Kate Moss, Catherine Deneuve, and Vincent Gallo. Along with images, the book also presents essays by such renowned writers as Glenn O’Brien, Gary Indiana, and Dave Hickey. These texts further the book’s larger purpose: to chart the development of art and fashion during the past fifteen years. This is the ultimate deluxe collection for serious fashion, art, photography, graphic design, and magazine aficionados.
Rizzoli International: Purple Anthology
purple.fr

Beuys in Amerika

2008-05-13T11:39:00.008+09:00

photographs and texts: Klaus Staeck, Gerhard Steidl
publisher: Edition Staeck
publication date: 1987
220 pages, b/w and color
language: German/English
This is the photo documentary of Joseph Beuys's first visiting to USA, 1974. He lectured at New York, Chicago and Minneapolis. He returned to New York in same year for the famous performance 'I Like America & America Likes Me.'
New edition has been published by Edition Staeck/Steidl, 1997 (isbn: 3882435399).
YouTube: I like America
Wikipedia: Joseph Beuys
Free International University
Tate Modern: Joseph Beuys: Actions, Vitrines, Environments
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a dictionary of moving out

2008-05-12T09:38:00.005+09:00

art direction, photographs : Machiko Hirokawa
text arrangement: Michio Hayashi
publisher: 66productions
publication date: December 2006
104 pages, full color
isbn: none
A-things (Japanese)
A-things: blog: on "a dictionary of moving out" (Japanese)

Element

2008-05-11T12:56:00.006+09:00

author: Cecil Balmond
designer: Marc Ayala, Fruitmachine
publisher: Prestel
publication date: 2007
320 pages, 194 color & 180 b/w illustrations
isbn: 9783791337784
from the publisher's site: "Element" uses pattern, mathematics, and advanced geometry to create an unvonventional exploration of design. Balmond's narrative unfolds in three conceptual chapters - elements, pattern, nature - linked by two conceptual bridges - digital "tectonics" and numbers. Each of these aspects relates to the others in a number of ways, leading to an invaluable insight into the design process, a highly engrossing journey through the world around uns from the natural elements to the most advanced designs.
Prestel: Element
icon: Review: Element by Cecil Balmond
Arup: Cecil Balmond
Metropolis: The Beauty of Numbers
The Observer: Take a bow, Mr Balmond (by Deyan Sudjic)
BuisinessWeek: The Work of Cecil Balmond
Cecil Balmond: An Engineering Magician, Then (Presto) He's an Architect
Wikipedia: Arup
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Carl Andre: Extraneous Roots

2008-05-08T13:09:00.006+09:00

author: Rolf Lauter
publisher: Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
publication date: 1991
102 pages, 56 b/w plates
language: German/English
isbn: 3882704616
Carl Andre
Wikipedia: Carl Andre
Paula Cooper Gallery: Carl Andre
Yvon Lambert: Carl Andre

Food design

2008-05-07T00:28:00.006+09:00

author: Martí Guixé
texts: Inga Knölke, Joaquim Ruiz Millet
publisher: Galeria H2O
publication date: 2003
28 pages, full color plates
language: Catalan/English
isbn: 8493255408
Martí Guixé (official)
food-designing.com
food-designing.com: food-designing book
Galeria H2O (Spanish/English)
Galeria H2O: Martí Guixé (Spanish)
Design Museum: Martí Guixé

Balenciaga

2008-05-01T09:16:00.009+09:00

author: Lesley Ellis Miller
publisher: V&A Publications
publication date: September 2007
128pages, 80 colour and 20 b/w plates
isbn: 9781851775224
V&A Shop: Balenciaga
Balenciaga (official)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Cristobal Balenciaga (1895–1972)
Wikipedia: Cristobal Balenciaga
Wikipedia: Balenciaga
Victoria and Albert Museum: The Golden Age of Couture
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John MAEDA: Post Digital

2008-04-30T16:38:00.007+09:00

author: John Maeda
texts: John Maeda, Yoshiharu Fukuhara, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Shoji Itoh
art director: Tadachi Morisaki
publisher: NTT Publishing
publication date: August 2001
86 pages, color & b/w
isbn: 4757100523
This book has been published on occasion of the exhibition 'John MAEDA: Post Digital' at NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], 2001.
ICC Online: John MAEDA: Post Digital
Maedastudio
Maeda's Simplicity
The Laws of Simplicity
Rhode Island School of Design: John Maeda
Our (and Your) RISD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: John Maeda
Wikipedia: John Maeda
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In Almost Every Picture 4

2008-04-22T15:53:00.006+09:00

collector, editor, designer: Erik Kessels
text: Tyler Whisnand
publisher: Kesselskramer Publishing
publication date: December 2005
144 pages, b/w
isbn: 9070478072
from the publisher's site: Two sisters, sororal twins, grow up right before our eyes, diligently arranging dresses, coats, belts, shoes, gloves and often hairstyles that are identical. We see them promenading and posing for the camera in Barcelona during World War II. At a certain moment the tragedy of war manages to invade the photographs. We see a space left for the twin sister and we can only imagine what the cause of her absence could be.
Kesselskramer Publishing: In Almost Every Picture 4
Kesselskramer
Shane Lavalette: Erik Kessels: In Almost Every Picture
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Modernism on Paper: Japanese Graphic Design of the 1920s and 30s

2008-04-22T09:53:00.011+09:00

editor: Naomichi Kawabata
text: Naomichi Kawabata
art director: Masaaki Hiromura
publisher: Rikuyosha
publication date: December 2003
240 pages, full color plates
language: Japanese
isbn: 4897374820
This book has been published on occasion of the exhibition 'Modernism on Paper: Japanese Graphic Design of the 1920s and 30s' at Tokushu Seishi Pam, 2003-2004.
Rikuyosha: Modernism on Paper (Japanese)
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A Good Book

2008-04-21T10:07:00.007+09:00

author: John Körmeling
texts: Susanne Helmer, John Körmeling
designer: Geertjan Dusseljee
publisher: Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), Plug In Editions (Winnipeg) & The Power Plant (Toronto)
publication date: 2002
180 pages, ca. 450 images (color & b/w)
language: Dutch/English
isbn: 0921381220
Van Abbemuseum: A Good Book
John Körmeling (official)
Wikipedia: John Körmeling (Dutch)
KORT op komst: Körmeling - Draaiend huis (Dutch)
Kunst en publieke ruimte: John Körmeling (Dutch)

Saul Leiter

2008-04-19T19:11:00.012+09:00

author: Saul Leiter
texts: Agnès Sire (preface), interview with Saul Leiter by Sam Stourdzé
designer: Steidl Design/Rukminee Guha Thakurta
publisher: Steidl with Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
publication date: March 2008
144 pages, 50 colour & 50 b/w plates
isbn: 9783865215871
This book has been published on occasion of the exhibition 'Saul Leiter' at Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2008.
Steidl: Saul Leiter
lens culture: Saul Leiter
Milwaukee Art Museum: In Living Color: Photographs by Saul Leiter
M+B Gallery: Saul Leiter
Howard Greenberg Gallery: Saul Leiter: Early Color
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Artists for Tichý – Tichý for Artists

2008-04-17T17:06:00.014+09:00

texts: Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Roman Buxbaum, Adi Hoesle, Bazon Brock, Fatima Naqvi, Michael Stavaric
designer: Creativbüro Jürgen Mayer
publisher: Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg
publication date: 2006
112 pages, full color plates
language: German/ English
isbn: 9783939738169
This book has been published in connection with the exhibition 'Artists for Tichý – Tichý for Artists' at Museum Moderner Kunst Passau, 2006-2007. His works was exhibited with the following artists; Zbynek Baladran, Peter Beard, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Polly Borland, BazonBuetti, Rabea Eipperle, Eva & Adele, Fischli/Weiss, Günther Förg, Katharina Grosse, Georg Herold, Jonathan Meese, Klaus Mettig, Ernesto Neto, Walter Niedermayr, Arno Nollen, Michael Nyman, Ralf Peters, Peter Piller, Arnulf Rainer, Pamela Rosenkranz, Thomas Ruff, Karin Sander, Adrian Schiess, Stefanie Schneider, Bernhard Schobinger, Katharina Sieverding, Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger, Vaclav Stratil, Annelies Strba, Miroslav Tichy, Keith Tyson, Peter Weibel, Andro Wekua, Georg Winter, Erwin Wurm, Angelika Zeller.
Miroslav Tichý (official)
Miroslav Tichý ：Artists for Tichý (installation view)
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg: Artists for Tichý – Tichý for Artists
Museum Moderner Kunst Passau: Artists for Tichý – Tichý for Artists
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Peter Saville Estate 1-127

2008-04-16T09:41:00.009+09:00

author: Peter Saville
editor: Heike Munder
texts: Heike Munder , Michael Bracewell, Sarah Morris, Robert Longo, Kelly Walker, Slater Bradley, T. J. Wilcox, Thomas Grünfeld, Sean Snyder, Liam Gillick, Steven Gontarski, Nick Relph & Oliver Payne, Wolfgang Tillmans, Dan Fox (captions)
publisher: JRP Ringier
publication date: January 2008
272 pages, 240 color images
isbn: 9783905701661
JRP Ringier: Peter Saville Estate 1-127
Migros Museum: Peter Saville Estate 1-127
Saville Associates
SHOWstudio: Peter Saville
Paul Stolper: Peter Saville
Design Museum: Peter Saville
Peter Saville Graphic Design
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Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm

2008-04-15T09:55:00.011+09:00

texts: Herbert Lindinger (preface). Yujiro Nakamura (essay), Shutaro Mukai with Kohei Sugiura (He was the associate professor of Ulm) in conversation for Japanese edition.
translator: Shutaro Mukai
editor and publisher: Musashino Art University
273 pages, color and b/w plates.
language: Japanese
isbn: none
This is the exhibition catalogue of 'Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm' toured in Tokyo, Kyoto and Nagoya in 1989. The original exhibition 'Ulm... Die Moral der Gegenstände' (Ulm...The Morality of Objects) was shown in Ulm Museum and in Kunstverein Ulm curated by Herbert Lindinger. The original catalogue was published by Ernst & Sohn, 1987.
HfG-Archiv Ulm
frauen-hfg-ulm.de(German/English)
Wikipedia: Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm (German)
club off ulm (German)
Wikipedia: Max Bill
Wikipedia: Otl Aicher

Shiro Kuramata

2008-04-14T15:27:00.009+09:00

supervisor: Ikko Tanaka
chief editor: Makoto Ueda
designers: Ryohei Kojima, Shinichiro Hasegawa
texts: Shiro Kuramata, Arata Isozaki, Tadashi Yokoyama, Ettore Sottsass, Andrea Branzi, François Burkhardt
publisher: Kuramata Design Office
publication date: March 2008 (originally published 1996)
212 pages, full color plates
This book was published as a catalogue for the exhibition 'Shiro Kuramata 1934-1991' at Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo and other museums.
designboom: Shiro Kuramata
ArtandCulture: Shiro Kuramata
John Pawson: Essays: Shiro Kuramata
Wikipedia: Shiro Kuramata
Grey Art Gallery: Shiro Kuramata
Clear Gallery: Artists: Shiro Kuramata
Shiro Kuramata (unofficial. Japanese)

Wolfgang Tillmans (Wako Book 4)

2008-04-13T09:51:00.008+09:00

author, editor, designer: Wolfgang Tillmans
publisher: Wako Works of Art
publication date: April 2008
89 pages, full color
isbn: 9784902070316
This artist book has been published on occasion of the exhibition 'Wolfgang Tillmans: Lichter' at Wako Works of Art from April 10 to May 21, 2008.
Wako Works of Art: Exhibitions: Lichter
Wako Works of Art: Publications: Wako Book 4 "Wolfgang Tillmans"
Wolfgang Tillmans
Wikipedia: Wolfgang Tillmans
ArtandCulture: Wolfgang Tillmans

Primitive Future

2008-04-13T09:37:00.006+09:00

author: Sou Fujimoto
texts: Sou Fujimoto, Toyo Ito, Taro Igarashi, Terunobu Fujimori
art director: Satoshi Machiguchi (Match and Company, inc.)
publisher: INAX Publishing
publication date: April 2008
144 pages, 108 pages color
isbn: 9784872751482
This book is the first publication of the 'Contemporary Architect's Concept Series' by INAX Publishing.
Sou Fujimoto Architects (official. Japanese/English)
INAX Publishing: Primitive Future (Japanese/English)
Architectural Record: Sou Fujimoto Fractures Plans and Sections While Bringing Together People
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Love on the Left Bank

2008-04-08T20:11:00.007+09:00

author: Ed van der Elsken
lay-out: Jurriaan Schrofer
publisher: Edition Treville & Nadiff
publication date: January 2001
216 plates, b/w
isbn: 43099520X
This is a facsimile edition of the Ed van der Elsken's first and legendary photobooks. Originally published in 1956.
Ed van der Elsken (official, Dutch/English)
Netherlands fotomuseum: Ed van der Elsken
Wikipedia: Ed van der Elsken
guardian.co.uk Books: Paris when it sizzled
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Things I have learned in my life so far

2008-04-04T15:16:00.012+09:00

author: Stefan Sagmeister
texts: Stefan Sagmeister, Daniel Nettle, Steven Heller, Nancy Spector
art director: Stefan Sagmeister
publisher: Harry N. Abrams
publication date: February 2008
15 unbound signatures in a die-cut slipcase
isbn: 9780810995291
from the ThingsIHaveLearnedInMyLife.com: This book began as a list I made in my diary under the title Things I have learned in my life so far, which includes statements such as “Complaining is silly. Either act or forget” and “Trying to look good limits my life.” With the support of our clients, my studio transformed these sentences into typographic works, from billboards in France to sign-toting inflatable monkeys on the streets of Scotland. The book consists of 15 unbound signatures in a laser-cut slipcase. Shuffling the sequence of the signatures will produce 15 different covers.
ThingsIHaveLearnedInMyLife.com
Harry N. Abrams: Things I have learned in my life so far
Sagmeister, Inc.
Wikipedia: Stefan Sagmeister
Design Museum: Stefan Sagmeister
PingMag: Visiting Stefan Sagmeister
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Nagasaki, 11:02 August 9, 1945

2008-03-31T16:04:00.008+09:00

author: Shomei Tomatsu
texts: Shomei Tomatsu, Akiko Takana
designer: Shinji Horibuchi
publisher: Shinchosha
publication date: June 1995
160 pages, b/w
language: Japanese/English
isbn: 410602411X
This is the third edition of Tomatsu's 'Nagasaki' series.
PhotoGuide Japan: Nagasaki, 11:02 Aug. 9, 1945
Shomei Tomatsu Interface (Japanese)
Wikipedia: Shomei Tomatsu
SFMOMA: Shomei Tomatsu 'Skin of the Nation'
The New York Times: Silent Lament for a Japan Still Scarred by the War

Madeleine Vionnet

2008-03-30T19:53:00.010+09:00

author: Betty Kirke
foreword: Issey Miyake
244 pages, over 400 illustrations
publisher: Chronicle Books
publication date: 1998
isbn: 0811819973
Original edition first published in Japan by Kyuryudo, 1991.
Chronicle Books: Madeleine Vionnet
Vionnet
Wikipedia: Madeleine Vionnet
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline of Art History: Madeleine Vionnet
ArtandCulture: Madeleine Vionnet
Betty Kirke
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Contact

2008-03-26T15:04:00.008+09:00

author: Sam Taylor-Wood
designer: Bruce Mau Design
publisher: Booth-Clibborn
publication date: 2001
162 pages, full color
isbn: 1861542232
Booth-Clibborn: Contact
Wikipedia: Sam Taylor-Wood
White Cube: Sam Taylor-Wood
BBC: Sam Taylor-Wood Interview
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The Historical Mode: Fashion and Art in the 1980s

2008-03-25T12:51:00.007+09:00

author: Richard Martin, Harold Koda
designer: Charles Davey
publisher: Rizzoli
publication date: 1989
160 pages, double tone
isbn: 0847811549
This book has been published on occasion of the Exhibition at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, 1989-1990.
BNET.com: ArtForum: Couture de force - interview with curator Richard Martin
The New York Times: Richard Martin, 52, Curator of the Costume Institute
International Herald Tribune: An Appreciation of Richard Martin at the Met
The New York Magazine: The Dresser (0n Harlod Koda)
The Moment for the Moment: The Costume Institute's Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton

Thank You

2008-03-23T09:09:00.006+09:00

author: Robert Frank
editor: Ed Grazda
designer: Hans Werner Holzwarth
publisher: Scalo
76 pages, full color
isbn: 3931141276
Wikipedia: Robert Frank
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Inoue Tsuguya Graphic Works 1981-2007

2008-03-22T22:45:00.006+09:00

author: Tsuguya Inoue
texts: Shou Akiyama, Kishin Sinoyama, Hideki Nakajima
art direction: Tugusya Inoue
publisher: Little More
publication date: March 2007
336 pages, full color
language: Japanese/English
isbn: 9784898152232
Tokyo Art Directors Club: Tsuguya Inoue
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Les Années Pop

2008-03-21T00:07:00.008+09:00

director: Mark Francis
text: Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Tom Ford (introduction), Mark Francis, Catherine Grenier, Jean-Michel Bouhours, Martine Lobjoy, Chantal Béret
publisher: Edition du Centre Pompidou
publication date: March 2001
420 pages, 500 plates (450 in colour)
language: French
isbn: 2844260810
This catalogue has been published on occasion of the exhibition 'Les Années Pop' at Centre Pompidou, 2001.
Centre Pompidou: Les Années Pop (French)
Frieze Magazine: Les Années Pop
New York Times: Pop Art Was Part French: Mais Oui! Just Ask Them
Find Articles at BNET.com: ArtForum: 'The Pop Years' - art, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou

El Lissitzky: Life, Letters, Texts

2008-03-20T23:28:00.007+09:00

text: Herbert Read, Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers & others
publisher: Thames and Hudson
publication date: 1967 (reprinted 1992)
410 pages, 284 plates (103 in color)
isbn: 0500230900
Wikipedia: El Lissitzky
Getty Research Institute: 'Monuments of the Future': Designs by El Lissitzky

Fashion Newspaper

2008-03-17T13:24:00.007+09:00

author: Martin Parr
texts: Martin Parr, Paul Smith, Hiromi Nakamura
designer: Christophe Renard
publisher: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
publication date: 2007
64 pages, full color
isbn: none
This catalogue has been published on occasion of the exhibition 'Martin Parr: Fashion Magazine' at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2007.
The Japan Times Online: Exposing our tacky selves (on the exhibition)
Martin Parr (official)
Magnum Photos: Martin Parr
Wikipedia: Martin Parr
BBC: Blast: Martin Parr
channel4.com: More4: Martin Parr
we make money not art: Martin Parr retrospective: from fish & chips to mass tourism
Paul Smith

Static Fades

2008-03-17T11:26:00.012+09:00

editor: Dorothea Strauss
text: Christoph Doswald, Klaus Ottmann, Britta Schröder, Dorothea Strauss
designer: Gavillet & Rust
publisher: JRP-Ringier
publication date: June 2007
language: German/English
160 pages, 100 color images
isbn: 9783905770636
This catalogue has been published on occasion of the exhibition 'Static Fades' at Haus Konstruktiv, 2007.
JRP-Ringier: Static Fades
Carsten Nicolai (official)
art-tv.ch: Haus Konstruktiv: Carsten Nicolai "Static Fades" (movie, German)
e-flux: Carsten Nicolai (on 'Static Fades')
EIGEN+ART: Carsten Nicolai
Alva Noto
raster-noton
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DC: Lily van der Stokker: Small Talk

2008-03-16T10:55:00.010+09:00

text: Kasper König, Elfriede Jelinek, Christine Peitz, Angelika Nollert (interview with Lily van der Stokker)
publisher: Walther König
publication date: 2003
56 pages, full color plate
language: German/English
isbn: 9783883757384
This catalogue has been published on occasion of the exhibition 'DC: Lily van der Stokker: Small Talk' at Museum Ludwig, Köln, 2003.
Galerie van Gelder: Lily van der Stokker
Air de Paris: Lily van der Stokker
Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam: N° 39 Lily van der Stokker
Find Articles at BNET.com: ArtForum: Lily Van Der Stokker
Frieze Magazine: Archive: Lily van der Stokker
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Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec

2008-03-15T15:54:00.007+09:00

author: Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec
texts: Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, David Toppani, Claude AÏello, Giulio Cappellini
designer: Geoffery Cottenceau & Julien Gaillardot in collaboration with Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec
publisher: Phaidon
publication date: 2003 (reprinted in paperback 2008)
208 pages, 300 colour images
isbn: 9780714848600
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec Design (official)
Phaidon: Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
International Herald Tribune: Alice Rawsthorn: Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec reinvent convention
Inhabitat: Stitch Room by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec
designboom: Interview with Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec
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Fashion and Surrealism

2008-03-13T10:35:00.009+09:00

author: Richard Martin
publisher: Rizzoli International/Thames & Hudson
publication date: 1987
240 pages, 300 illustrations (50 in color)
isbn: 0500275505
from Publishers Weekly: The intersection of surrealism and fashion dates back to Max Ernst's mechanistic fantasies of mannequins and Rene Magritte's delving into the eroticism of clothes. Fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, in collaboration with Salvador Dali, made surrealistic dresses that shocked her clients. Illustrators A. M. Cassandre and Marcel Vertes borrowed surrealist imagery, while fashion trend-setters Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld got into the act. Photographers Cecil Beaton, Horst P. Horst and Andre Kertesz experimented with surrealist techniques, and today, of course, surrealism is everywhere in print and television ads, window displays, rock singer David Byrne's latest costumes. The book is broader in scope than its title suggests. Martin, editor of Arts magazine, brings a heavy-handed, academic approach to what should have been fun, but the study is an eye-opener nonetheless.
BNET.com: ArtForum: Couture de force - interview with curator Richard Martin
The New York Times: Richard Martin, 52, Curator of the Costume Institute
International Herald Tribune: An Appreciation of Richard Martin at the Met
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Workspirit Six

2008-03-12T16:01:00.005+09:00

design & concept: Irma Boom
publisher: Vitra
publication date: 1998
176 pages, full color
isbn: none
Vitra
Irma Boom
Design Museum: Irma Boom

Lilly

2008-03-11T11:13:00.007+09:00

author: Lieko Shiga
art director: Hideki Nakajima
editor: Shigeo Goto
publisher: Artbeat Publishers
publication date: December 2007
104 pages, 95 full color plates
isbn: 9784902080131
Lieko Shiga (official)
Artbeat Publishers: Lilly
rapt! blog: Lieko Shiga’s Golden Mirage
Asian Photography Blog: Lieko Shiga
Sendai Mediatheque: 'Re: search': Lieko Shiga
amazon.co.jp

North Lake Shore Drive

2008-03-10T19:00:00.005+09:00

author: Wesley Willis
publisher: Nieves
publication date: 2007
16 pages, full color
isbn: 9783905714296
This books has been published in occasion of the exhibition 'WW vs. GRRRR' at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, 2007.
Nieves: North Lake Shore Drive
Art of Wesley Willis
Wikipedia: Wesley Willis

Love You Tokyo

2008-03-09T00:36:00.010+09:00

photographer: Kineo Kuwabara, Nobuyoshi Araki
text: Naohiro Takahashi
designer: Toshine Ishihama
publisher: Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
cover photographer: Eiichiro Sakata
isbn: none
This catalogue was published on occasion of the two-person exhibition 'Love You Tokyo,' by Kineo Kuwabara & Nobuyoshi Araki at Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, 1993. Mr. Kuwabara (born 1913) died December 10, 2007...R. I. P.
Find Articles at BNET.com: Art in America: Kineo Kuwabara and Nobuyoshi Araki at the Setagaya Art Museum
Kanro Sｈobo: Love You Tokyo (Japanese)
Wikipedia: Kineo Kuwabara
nobuyoshiaraki.com (official)
Wikipedia: Nobuyoshi Araki
YouTube: Akira Kurosawa & Ros Primos 'Love You Tokyo'

Strip: One Mile of Urban Housing in The Hague

2008-03-08T09:16:00.005+09:00

texts: Kees Christiaanse, Hans Ibelings, Gerard van Otterloo
photographer: Hans Werlemann
designer: Irma Boom, Sanne Beeren
publisher: NAi publishers
publication date: 2003
504 pages, color & b/w
isbn: 9056622633
NAi publishers: Strip

Tokujin Design

2008-03-06T10:55:00.006+09:00

author: Tokujin Yoshioka
art director: Tsuguya Inoue
publisher: Gap Publication
publication date: April 2002
204 pages, color & b/w
language: Japanese/English
isbn: 4901594524
Tokujin Yoshioka Design
designboom: Tokujin Yoshioka
YouTube: Professionals 'Tokujin Yoshioka' (NHK TV Programme. Japanese)
amazon.co.jp

Rosso, rosso Valentine

2008-03-05T15:55:00.007+09:00

editor: Eugenio Pacchioli
texts: Eugenio Pacchioli, Giovanni de Witt
publisher: Associazione Archivio Storico Olivetti
publication date: 1999
32 pages, full color plates
language: Italian
isbn: none
This is a exhibition catalogue of 'Rosso, rosso Valentine' at Associazione Archivio Storico Olivetti, 1999.
Associazione Archivio Storico Olivetti: Rosso, rosso Valentine (Italian)
Associazione Archivio Storico Olivetti (Italian/ English)
The Olivetti Group: Culture and Design: Olivetti Design
YouTube: Olivetti Italian Design
Wikipedia: Olivetti
Design Museum: Ettore Sottsass
Designboom: Ettore Sottsass
Typewriter.be: Olivetti Valentine Typewriter

Wonder

2008-03-03T11:15:00.008+09:00

designer: Sabine Verschueren
text: Tyler Whisnand
publisher: Kesselskramer
publication date: April 2006
144 pages, full color
isbn: 9070478080
Kesselskramer Publishing: Wonder
Kesselskramer
amazon.com

Bad Food Gone Worse

2008-03-03T10:15:00.007+09:00

concept, design: Ewoudt Boonstra
photographer: Ewoudt Boonstra, René Nuijens
text: Tyler Whisnand
publisher: Kesselskramer
publication date: April 2006
76 pages, full color
isbn: 9070478099
Kesselskramer Publishing: Bad Food Gone Worse
Kesselskramer
PingMag: Bad Food Gone Worse
amazon.com

Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky

2008-03-02T10:53:00.013+09:00

author: Alexandra Munroe
texts: Alexandra Munroe, Arata Isozaki, Kojin Karatani, John Clark, Bert Winther, Taro Amano, Nam June Paik, Barbara London, Reiko Tomii
designer: Elissa Ichiyasu, Arlene Lee
publisher: Harry N. Abrams
publication date: 1994
416 pages, color & b/w
isbn: 0810925931
This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky' at Yokohama Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum SoHo and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1994-1995.
Find Articles at BNET.com: Art in America: 20th century AD (exhibition review)
New York Times: Japan's Avant-Garde Makes Its Own Points (exhibition review)
Getty Center Exhibitions: Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art (exhibition of Japanese postwar art, 2007)
Marianne Boesky Gallery: The Masked Portrait (exhibition of Japanese art from 1949 to the present, 2008)
Wikipedia: Gutai Group
Wikipedia: Fluxus
TABlog: An Introduction to 'Mono-ha'
Kamakura Gallery: Mono-ha
Wikipedia: Butoh
amazon.com

Vija Celmins: Works 1964-95

2008-03-01T22:42:00.010+09:00

editor: James Lingwood
text: James Lingwood, Neville Wakefield, Stuart Morgan, Richard Rhodes
designer: Peter Saville & Paul Hetherington
publisher: Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)
publication date: November 1996
112 pages, full color plates
isbn: 1900300044
This book has been published on occasion of the exhibition at Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid), Kunstmuseum Winterthur (Switzerland), Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main), 1996-1997.
Art:21: Vija Celmins
Wilipedia: Vija Celmins
Find Articles at BNET.com: The Independent: Vija Celmins ICA, London

Tadanori Yokoo: Retrospective Scenography

2008-03-01T16:15:00.007+09:00

photographer: Kishin Sinomaya
model, text: Tadanori Yokoo
text: Yukio Mishima (introduction. Japanese/English)
designer: Ikko Tanaka
publisher: Kodansha
publication date: November 1992
208 pages, color & b/w
isbn: 4062055961
Tadanori Yokoo Official Site
Wikipedia: Tadanori Yokoo
Kishin Shinoyama Official Site
Wikipedia: Kishin Shinoyama
from the website of Tokyo Design Center: Shinoyama took photographs of the popular actors and the celebrity in the 60's and the 70's, with Yokoo who appeared to be really unique and active in Japanese art scene.

Bruce Nauman: 25 Years

2008-03-01T15:39:00.008+09:00

editor: Susan Brundage
designer: Smatt Florence
publisher: Leo Castelli Gallery/Rizzoli International Publications
publication date: 1994
isbn: 0847818179
Wikipedia: Bruce Nauman
Art:21: Bruce Nauman
Leo Castelli Gallery
Leo Castelli

Palast der Republik: Ein Rückblick

2008-02-29T10:39:00.006+09:00

author: Andreas Ulrich
publisher: Prestel
publication date: July 2006
80 pages, color & b/w
language: German/English
isbn: 3791336924
Wikipedia: Palast der Republik (English)
Brokedown_Palast.mov (documentary movie. 19.54 min.)
Palast der Republik in Berlin (texts & images. German/English)
Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani: Palast der Republik (artwork)

ISSEY MIYAKE East Meets West

2008-02-27T15:32:00.006+09:00

author: Issey Miyake
editor: Kazuko Koike
art director: Ikko Tanaka
texts: Diana Vreeland, Mutsuo Takahashi, Arata Isozaki, Eiko Ishioka, Masako Shirasu with Issey Miyake
publisher: Heibonsha
publication date: February 1978
216 pages, color & b/w
language: Japanese/English
isbn: 4582620019
Issey Miyake
Pleats Please
21_21 Design Sight
The Art Directors Club: 2006 Hall of Fame: Issey Miyake
Inamori Foundation: The Kyoto Prize 2006: Issey Miyake (contains Miyake's profile, citation, commemorative lecture, workshop, press page)
Wikipedia: Issey Miyake
amazon.co.jp

The Endless City

2008-02-26T23:20:00.005+09:00

author: The Urban Age Project by the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank's Alfred Herrhausen Society
editor: Ricky Burdett, Deyan Sudjic
designer: Atelier Works
publisher: Phaidon Press
publication date: 2007
512 pages, full color
isbn: 9780714848204
Phaidon: The Endless City
Urban Age
Where: The Endless City Q&A
amazon.com

The Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock

2008-02-25T16:47:00.006+09:00

author: Steven Jacobs
designer: Piet Gerards Ontwerpers
publisher: 010 Publishers
publication date: 2007
language: English
344 pages, 475 illustrations
isbn: 9789064506376
This book has been published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Alfred Hitchcock & PauHof: The Wrong House' at deSingel, Antwerp, 2007.
010 Publishers: The Wrong House
deSingel: Alfred Hitchcock & PauHof
The Art and Popular Culture Wiki: The Wrong House
Wallpaper.com: Book: The Wrong House
YouTube: Alfred Hitchcock: The Wrong House - Steven Jacobs

Zero Thumbnail

2008-02-24T12:42:00.011+09:00

author: Kenjiro Okazaki
text: Michio Hayashi
publisher: aritctoc
publication date: July 2007
64 pages, 50 full color plates
language: Japanese
isbn: 9784903549002
This book has been published on occasion of the exhibition 'Kenjiro Okazaki: Zero Thumbnail' at A-things, Tokyo, 2007. All works are zero size painting.
A-things blog (installation view of the exhibition. Japanese)
Art Yuran: Zero Thumbnail (exhibition review. Japanese)
Kenjiro Okazaki (official)
artictoc
Kenjiro Okazaki Recent Paintings (Tokyo, 2004)
Wikipedia: Kenjiro Okazaki

Bent & Broken Shafts of Light

2008-02-24T09:36:00.007+09:00

concept: Lawrence Weiner, Gijs van Tuyl, Veit Görner, Gerard Hadders
text: Gijs Van Tuyl
design: Andreas Tetzlaff, Gerard Hadders (BLH Schiedam)
publisher: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
distributor: Hatje Cantz Verlag
publication date: 2000
language: German/English
82 pages
isbn: 3775710256
This book was published as a catalogue of the Lawrence Weiner's exhibition 'Bent & Broken Shafts of Light' at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 2000-2001.
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg: Bent & Broken shafts of light, 2000
Wikipedia: Lawrence Weiner
Dia Art Foundation: Lawrence Weiner
Lisson Gallery

Formulare gestalten. (Designing Forms.)

2008-02-22T11:14:00.007+09:00

concept, text, design: Borries Schwesinger
publisher: Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz
publication date: 2007
324 pages, color & b/w
language: Deutsch
isbn: 9783874397087
Formulare gestalten. (Deutsch)
Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz: Formulare gestalten (Deutsch)
Paper Ideas: Formulare gestalten
Fontblog: Mein aktuelles Lieblingsbuch... (Deutsch, on this book)
Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2008: Book Design Prize
amazon.de

Droog Design: Spirit of the Nineties

2008-02-21T10:34:00.005+09:00

editor: Renny Ramakers, Gijs Bakker
texts: Paola Antonelli, Renny Remakers, Yvonne Brentjens
designer: Roelof Mulder in association with Annemarie van Pruyssen
publisher: 010 Publishers
publication date: 1998
144 pages
isbn: 906450301X
010 Publishers: Droog Design
Droog Design
Design Museum: Droog Design
Design Hub: Droog - the design tells the story
wikipedia: Droog Design
amazon.com

Bless/Cream

2008-02-20T13:22:00.006+09:00

text: 夏侯露茜 (Luci Hale)
images: Bless, Mark Jansen
48 pages, full color
publisher: Bless/Cream
publication date: 2005
isbn: none
This is a special edition for Cream summer issue 'Pretty Gorgeous,' 2005.
Bless
Hong Kong Art & Culture Guide: CREAM Special Interview
Thinksilly: Luci Hale (official blog)
LUCIHALE 夏侯露茜 (private blog)

Česká inspirace/Czech Inspiration

2008-02-19T09:50:00.007+09:00

author: Jan Kaplický, Ivan Margolius
designer: Jan Kaplický
publisher: Fraktaly Publishers & Zlatý řez
240 pages, 223 full color plates
language: Czech/English
isbn: 8086627098
from the publisher's site: 240 pages present the wide ranging creativity of Czech scientists, engineers, architects, designers and artists: images of "Czech inspiration" from the sugar cube to the ship propeller, concrete structures, automobiles, aeroplanes and art. The selection is based on the vision of two authors who share both a Czech and British point of view: architect Jan Kaplicky of Future Systems and architect and writer Ivan Margolius.
Wikipedia: Jan Kaplický
Future Systems
Ivan Margolius - Heda Margolius Kovály
Czech 100 Design Icons

Transition of Modern Typography in Japan 1925-95

2008-02-18T16:32:00.006+09:00

supervisors: Seigo Matsuoka, Ikko Tanaka, Katsumi Asaba
art director: Ikko Tanaka
designer: Tetsuya Ota
texts: Seigo Matsuoka, Ikko Tanaka, Katsumi Asaba, Hiroyuki Koga, Naomichi Kawabata, Yoshio Hayakawa, Tadanori Yokoo, Masayoshi Nakajo, Shoji Usuda, Akio Kanda, Shukuro Habara, Keiichiro Fujisaki, Norio Ohashi
publisher: Transart
publication date: February 1999
208pages, full color
language: Japanese
isbn: 4924956724
Transart: Transition of Modern Typography in Japan 1925-95 (Japanese)
ggg: 1946-95 Japanese Typographic Design -Transition of Modern Typography in Japan
Tokyo Type Directors Club
amazon.co.jp

Thought Leadership by Design

2008-02-17T20:43:00.007+09:00

compiler, arranger, publisher: Nate Burgos
106 pages, b/w
publcation date: 2007
from the publisher's site: Thought Leadership by Design is a concise, timeless volume of contemporary quotes on the powerful, evolving nature of Design and its vital influence on society, business, technology, education, and most importantly: Everyday life.
Thought Leadership by Design (on this book)
Design Feast: Growing webliography of design (by Nate Burgos)

Eerste hulp bij design

2008-02-17T18:30:00.011+09:00

text: Saskia du Bois
concept & produce: Saskia du Bois, Rixt Hulshoff Pol
designer: Mannschaft
illustrator: Robert Vulkers
language: Dutch
publisher: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
publication date: February 2006
isbn: none
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Miwa Yanagi

2008-02-15T11:58:00.007+09:00

author: Miwa Yanagi
texts: Peter Herbstreuth, Chizuko Ueno
intervew: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Hans Ulrich Obrist & Miwa Yanagi
designer: Miwa Yanagi, Fabienne Lindner
publisher: Deutsche Bank Art/Hatje Cantz Verlag
publication date: 2004
image section as 43 page foldout (full color)
language: German/English
isbn: 3775714502
This book has been published on occasion of the exibition 'Miwa Yanagi' at Deutsche Guggenheim, 2004.
Hatje Cantz Verlag: Miwa Yanagi
Deutsche Guggenheim: Miwa Yanagi
Miwa Yanagi (official, Japanese/English)

Erlings Vindue (Erling Window)

2008-02-13T17:53:00.007+09:00

curator: Kristofer Hultenberg, Johanne Løgstrup
contributing artists: Kristofer Hultenberg, Myne Søe-Petersen, Jesper Fabricius, Lise Harlev, John Kørner, Julie Nord, Thomas Fleron, Elsebeth Jørgensen
editor: Johanne Løgstrup
photographer: Myne Søe-Pedersen
designer: Annis
publisher: Flamingoeffekten
publication date: 2005
69 pages (including postcard, bookmark, poster), color & b/w
isbn: 8799099500
from the publishers site: The first publications by Flamingoeffektens Catalogue and Artist book in connection with the exhibition project Erlings Vindue in 2004-2005. The Artist book contains multiples by the artists.
Mapping Memory (Elsebeth Jørgensen's site): Press Release: Exhibition, “Erlings Vindue”, Antikvariatet 2B, Copenhagen

Pet Architecture Guide Book

2008-02-12T12:10:00.000+09:00

author: Tokyo Institute of Technology Tsukamoto Architectural Lab & Atelier Bow-Wow
publisher: World Photo Press
publication date: August 2002
language: Japanese/English
176 pages, full color
isbn: 9784846523275
from the Tsukamoto Lab's site: Pets, companion animals of the people, are usually small, humorous and charming. We find what we could call "Pet Architecture", architecture having pet like characteristics, existing in the most unexpected places within the Tokyo city limits. They are areas such as a 1-meter width space among many closely placed buildings, a small and subdivided piece of land, or a long and slender city block sandwiched between the road and the railroad. These unusual places are the byproducts of urban development and have been produced abundantly in Tokyo. This undefined space has come into existence in the marginal realm between the different city systems, or it is immanent in the city system itself! They are small and though they appear, at first glance, to be somewhat cold and distant to the surrounding environment we can say that this type of architecture adopts the attributes of pet culture and have become pets of the city environment. They too are small, humorous and charming in their own way! This book is a GUIDEBOOK of pet architecture scattered all over Tokyo.
Atelier Bow-Wow
Tsukamoto Lab.
World Photo Press: Pet Architecture Guide Book (Japanese)
amazon.com

Superstudio: Life without Objects

2008-02-11T19:43:00.000+09:00

author: Peter Lang, William Menking
publisher: Skira
publication date: August 2003
231 pages, color & b/w
isbn: 8884915694
This book was published to coincide with the exibition 'Superstudio: Life without Objects' at Design Museum (London), Pratt Manhattan Gallery (New York), Artists Spaces (New York), 2003.
Design Museum: Superstudio
Artists Space: Superstudio: Life Without Objects
Wikipedia: Superstudio
we make money not art: Pioneers of conceptual architecture
Skira: Superstudio
amazon.com

On Kawara 1952‐1956 Tokyo

2008-02-11T17:01:00.000+09:00

author: On Kawara
texts: Tsuji Matsuda, Makoto Oda, Tadashi Yokoyama
designer: Studio Give
publisher: Parco Publishing
publication date: October 1991
207 pages, 72 plates
language: Japanese/English
isbn: 4891942916
The early works of On Kawara including 'The bathroom' Series (1953-1954) and 'Events in a Warehouse' series (1954). There is the 'Newspaper Headlines 1952-1956' at the back of the book.
Wikipedia: On Kawara

Reflections

2008-02-11T14:38:00.000+09:00

author: Naruki Oshima
designer: Masuo Kuroda
publisher: Gallery White Room Tokyo
publication date: February 2008
20 pages, full color
isbn: none
This is the catalogue of Naruki Oshima's photo exibition 'Reflections' at Gallery White Room Tokyo, 2008.
from the gallery's site: “Reflections” is the series presented in Japan and abroad since 2002, notably including the exhibition at the 9th Venice biennale in 2004, and has established high international recognition. Naruki Oshima captures the contiguous layered images reflected on the glass facade of the buildings facing to the urban streets as momentary visions of the cities. In his works, each ordinary scene is converted into extraordinary abstract image space. He intentionally breaks the lines and the aerial perspective of the images and by doing so to remove the visual rules, he succeeds to strengthen the continuity of seemingly puzzling visual phenomenon.
Naruki Oshima (official)
Gallery White Room Tokyo: Reflections
Galerie Heinz-Martin Weigand: Naruki Oshima

a+u Special Issue: CCTV by OMA

2008-02-11T10:47:00.000+09:00

texts: Rem Koolhaas, Ole Scheeren
publisher: A+U/Japan Architects
publication date: July 2005
language: English/Japanese
212 pages, full color
isbn: 4900211591
from the publisher's site: Aiming for the China 2008 Olympic Games, many famous international architects have started to inject their design concepts into China, the construction war has reached its peak, of the many projects, CCTV(China Central Television) stands outs prominently. This issue clarifies the whole picture based on the latest data with full cooperation by OMA.
a+u Special Issue: CCTV by OMA
Wikipedia: CCTV Headquarters
CCTV New Site Construction & Development Program
OMA: CCTV - TV Station and Headquarters, China, Beijing, 2002
Arup: China Central Television (CCTV) Headquarters Building & Cultural Centre, Beijing
Flicker: CCTV Building Development Construction Beijing 2007
YouTube: CCTV Rem Koolhaas/OMA

Appearances: Fashion Photography Since 1945

2008-02-10T09:47:00.000+09:00

author: Martin Harrison
publisher: Jonathan Cape
publicaton date: 1991
312 pages, full color
isbn: 0224028871
synopsis (from amazon.uk): A study of fashion photography since 1945. It places fashion photography in the main stream of popular culture and it links the imagery to the art of photography itself by drawing on such influential figures as Robert Frank and Walker Evans. It also charts the rise of the magazines and the influence of the great art directors and editors of the time. The book and accompanying exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum have been prepared with the full participation of the leading figures in the field, from Richard Avedon and Irving Penn to Bruce Weber. Its conclusion at the start of the Nineties is that there is no longer a distinctive form of fashion photography; there is simply photography.
f rom Library Journal (amazon.com): Photography as a fine art is often shaped by work done in the field of fashion. As well as peddling clothes in the pages of women's magazines, fashion photographers also influence and reflect society's attitudes and obsessions. Thus, the elegant, chic, and sophisticated fashion images of the postwar period gradually evolved into the decadent, soft-porn statements typical of the 1980s and 1990s. Art historian Harrison discusses the sociological issues behind these photographic trends by examining not only the impact made by fashion photographers but also the influence of certain powerful and creative art directors. In addition, he covers the often overlooked area of male fashion, attempting to explain why this subject has received such little serious attention.The author does well in identifying the models used in each fashion shot. (Most of us have forgotten that Anjelica Huston also worked as a model.) Unfortunately, there is little new material in this book--little that was not covered in the same author's Shots of Style (Faber & Faber, 1986), written as an exhibition catalog for the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1985. Although neither book is indexed (which makes anthologies of this size difficult to use), the earlier work lists the photographers alphabetically in the table of contents, while the present work does not, merely offering such vague chapter headings as "Inside" and "White Heat." Chicago readers will be disappointed that Victor Skrebneski's work is not included. Superfluous if your library has Shots of Style .- Margarete Gross, Chicago P.L.

20 jaar/years 010

2008-02-09T23:11:00.001+09:00

editor: Hans Oldewarris, Peter de Winter
designer: Piet Gerards
publisher: 010 Publishers
publication date: 2003
language: Dutch/English
296 pages, full color plates
isbn: 9789064505003
010 Publishers
010 Publishers: 20 jaar/years 010

Toyo Ito: The New "Real" in Architecture

2008-02-09T16:28:00.000+09:00

texts: Toyo Ito, Koji Taki, Cecil Balmond, Takashi Hasegawa
designer: Yukimasa Matsuda, Shimpei Nakamura
publisher: Toyo Ito Exibition Executive Committee
publication date: October 2006
language: Japanese/English
184 pages, color & b/w
isbn: 4925204203
This catalogue has been published on occasion of the exibition 'Toyo Ito : The New "Real" in Architecture' at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Sendai Mediatheque and The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama from 2006 to 2007. The exibition introduced Ito's 8 recent projects.
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery: Toyo Ito : The New "Real" in Architecture
JDN Report: Toyo Ito: The New "Real" in Architecture (Japanese)
Wikipedia: Toyo Ito
Toyo Ito (images, from early works to present projects)
designboom: Toyo Ito (interview)

IDEA No. 311: Sound Cosmography

2008-02-07T11:02:00.000+09:00

publisher: Seibundo Shinkosha
publication date: July 2005
issn: 00191299
from the publisher's site: Response in Silence: on the way to ECM covers / "the heaven is round and the earth is square" The world of Kohei Sugiura's record jackets./ datamatics = C4I + data.series--a project by Ryoji Ikeda / Karlheinz Stockhausen's original drawings: between sound and sight / Emotions and Expressions--Works of Hidetoshi Mito.
IDEA No. 311: Sound Cosmography
ECM (official)
Google Image Search: 杉浦康平 (Kohei Sugiura)
Ryoji Ikeda (official)
Wikipedia: Ryoji Ikeda
Karlheinz Stockhausen (official)
Wikipedia: Karlheinz Stockhausen
The Unofficial Karlheinz Stockhausen Website: Stockhausen Verlag: Complete CD Edition
mitografico (Hidetoshi Mito, official)

The Artist Publisher: A Survey by Coracle Press

2008-02-06T18:48:00.000+09:00

publisher: Crafts Council Gallery
publication date: 1986
64 pages, b/w
isbn: none
from the Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE, Bristol's site: In 1986 Brian was responsible, with assistance from Simon and myself, for organising 'The Artist Publisher', an exhibition that went on at the Crafts Council Gallery in Waterloo Place, London SW1. The catalogue, which Brian edited, is an invaluable reference work examining the notion of artists’ publications in the widest possible sense while at the same time tracing the historical precedents that led to artists’ books. Brian died in 1999. A book commemorating his life and work 'The Printed Performance' (RGAP, 2000) gives an insight to his unique contribution to small-press publishing.
Coracle
from the Coracle's site: Coracle is a small publishing press directed by artist and writer Erica Van Horn and poet, artist and editor Simon Cutts from what was a small farm in between the hills of South Tipperary Ireland, since 1996. Before that time it was based in London from the nineteen seventies culminating in its last bookshop project workfortheeyetodo. In the nineties there was another base in Norfolk, England.
The Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE, Bristol
The Artist Turns to the Book (Getty Exhibitions)
Crafts Council

The First Picture Book: Everyday Things for Babies

2008-02-05T14:21:00.001+09:00

photographer: Edward Steichen
texts: Mary Steichen Calderone (preface), John Updike (afterword)
designer: Katy Homans
publisher: Jonathan Cape
publication date: 1993
68 pages, 24 duotone plates
isbn: 0224035673
This is the reprinted edition of the same title published in 1930.
from photo-eye: One of the first children's books to be illustrated with photographs, Steichen's The First Picture Book was originally published in 1930. Now back in print, this book contains some of Steichen's least-known, but most appealing images. The book was originally commissioned by Mary Steichen Calderone, Steichen's daughter and a leader in the progressive school movement of the time, to help young children recognize and name objects. Reproduced in a small, clothbound edition, this book contains images that both adults and children will find timeless in their beauty.
Andrew Cahan: The first picture book (original edition)
Wikipedia: Edward Steichen

UNDERCOVER Jun Takahashi featured by W.W.

2008-02-04T14:19:00.001+09:00

creative director & art director: Joel Chu
publisher: communion w limited
publication date: April 2004
348 pages, color & b/w
isbn: 4898151221
Style.com: Undercover (images of Paris collection)
honeyee.com: Jun Takahashi_blog (Japanese)
International Herald Tribune: articles on Undercover by Suzy Menkes
Hint Fashion Magazine: Jun Takahashi Interview
amazon.co.jp

Sori Yanagi Design

2008-02-03T18:26:00.000+09:00

author: Sori Yanagi
texts: Charlotte Perriand, Angelo Mangiarotti, Timo Sarpaneva, Sori Yanagi, Shukuro Habara, Shutaro Mukai, Masaru Katsumi, kiyoshi Seike, Ren Suzuki, Akira Tamura, Wahei Sakai, Ikko Tanaka, Mayumi Miyawaki, Kohei Sugiura+Shoji Usuda, Motomi Kawakami, Ryu Niimi (biography & other texts by Yanagi included)
designer: Sori Yanagi
publisher: Kawade Shobo Shinsha
publishing date: October 1998
language: Japanese (partly English/French)
232 pages, color & b/w
isbn: 4309255116
This book has been published on occasion of the retrospective exibition 'Sori Yanagi Design' at Sezon Museum of Art, 1998.
Yanagi Sori, A Designer (official, Japanese/English)
Yanagi Sori Exhibition in Sezon Museum Reception 1998/4/17
Wikipedia: 柳宗理 (Japanese)
Sori Yanagi Products Support Site (Japanese)
hhstyle.com: Sori Yanagi (Japanese)
Vitra: Sori Yanagi
Nihon Mingei Kan (Japan Folk Crafts Museum)
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Mr. Salesman

2008-02-02T16:37:00.000+09:00

editor: Diane Keaton
text: Diane Keaton
publisher: Twin Palms Publishers
publication date: October 1993
96 Pages, 50 gravure plates
isbn: 0944092268
from the publisher's site: This beautifully reproduced book is part of a new series of small gravure books described by Twelvetrees Press as photo noir. "A door, isolated in a wooden frame, opens to the man carrying a briefcase. He smiles out of the old void as he prepares to step into the new, from nothing to nothing, with a grin on his face. The sleeve of his three-button suit falls an inch and a half above the crisp white cuff of his shirt that act as the perfect frame for the handshake of Mr. Salesman." - Diane Keaton.
Twin Palms Publishers/Twelvetrees Press: Mr. Salesman
The New York Review of Books: Diane Keaton on Photography
Wikipedia: Diane Keaton
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Instant Light: Tarkovsky Polaroids

2008-01-31T11:09:00.000+09:00

author: Andrei Tarkovsky
editor: Andrei A. Tarkovsky, Giovanni Chiaramonte
texts: Andrei Tarkovsky, Tonino Guerra, Giovanni Chiaramonte
designer: Andrea Lancellotti
publisher: Thames & Hudson
publication date: March 2006 (paperback)
136 pages, 69 plates (62 in colour)
isbn: 0500286140
from the the introduction by Tonino Guerra: Tarkovsky often reflected on the way that time flies and this is precisely what he wanted: to stop it, even with these quick Polaroid shots … These images leave us with a mysterious and poetic sensation, the melancholy of seeing things for the last time. It is as though Andrey wanted a swift way to pass his own enjoyment to others. They are something to be shared, not only a method of making his own wish to stop time come true. And they feel like a fond farewell.
Thames & Hudson: Instant Light Tarkovsky Polaroids
Nostalghia.com: An Andrei Tarkovsky Information Site
Wikipedia: Andrei Tarkovsky
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Doug Aitken: A-Z Book (Fractals)

2008-01-31T10:26:00.000+09:00

author: Doug Aitken, Philippe Parreno
editor: Marion Boulton Stroud, Russell Ferguson, Beatrix Ruf
contributor: Michael Speaks
publisher: Hatje Cantz
publication date: May 2003
128 pages, 78 plates (77 in color)
isbn: 9783775712910
from the publisher's site: A, B, C, D, E... In this new, experimental volume of the work of artist Doug Aitken, the alphabet serves as an underlying organizational structure, a map which readers can turn to as a guide for moving through the book's images and texts... Published in conjunction with The Fabric Workshop and Kunsthalle Zürich.
Hatje Cantz: Doug Aitken: A-Z Book (Fractals)
Doug Aitken (official)
Wikipedia: Doug Aitken
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AGI: New Voice

2008-01-29T22:10:00.000+09:00

editor: Jianping He
designer: Jianping He
publisher: Hesign
publication date: 2006
language: English/Chinese
280 pages, full colour
isbn: 3981054458
中国平面设计在线: New Voice - AGI 04/05新会员作品集
Hesign
Artnews.info: Jianping He
Rene Wanner's Poster Page: Book Review: New Voice, AGI New Members 04/05
AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale)
from the AGI's site: ...featuring the work of the new AGI members 2004/2005. The book also includes reports about the AGI Congress in Beijing (2004) and in Berlin (2005).

Les Plus Petites Maisons

2008-01-29T16:33:00.000+09:00

author: Atelier Bow-Wow
photographer: Takashi Homma, Roy Kaijima, Atelier Bow-Wow
publisher: Atelier Bow-Wow
publication date: March 2001
language: Japanese/English/French
56 pages, color & b/w
isbn: none
This small book has been published on occasion of the exhibition 'Les Plus Petites Maisons par Atelier Bow-Wow,' IFA Paris, 2001.
Atelier Bow-Wow
Tsukamoto Lab.
Kaijima Lab. (Japanese)
Made in Tokyo
House & Atelier Bow-Wow
PingMag: Atelier Bow-Wow: architectural pragmatism
amazon.com: Une petite maison (by Le Corbusier)

a+u Special Issue: Cecil Balmond

2008-01-28T18:11:00.000+09:00

texts: Cecil Balmond, Toyo Ito (interview)
publisher: Japan Architects
publication date: November 2006
language: Japanese/ English
296 pages, full color
isbn: 490021163X
from the publisher's site: This features the work of Cecil Balmond, an internationally renowned designer, structural engineer, author and Deputy Chairman of the multi-disciplinary engineering firm Arup. His work and on going projects showing the intriguing creative process of Cecil Balmond are revealed in this much awaited monograph.
a+u Special Issue: Cecil Balmond
Arup: Cecil Balmond
The Observer: Take a bow, Mr Balmond (by Deyan Sudjic)
BuisinessWeek: The Work of Cecil Balmond
Cecil Balmond: An Engineering Magician, Then (Presto) He's an Architect
Wikipedia: Arup

Lygia Clark

2008-01-27T11:08:00.000+09:00

texts: Manuel J. Borja-Villel, Guy Brett, Ferreira Gullar, Paulo Herkenhoff, Suely Rolnik
designer: Edicions de l'Eixample
publisher: Fundació Antoni Tàpies
publication date: 1998
368 pages, color & b/w
language: Portuguese/French
isbn: 2711836649
This catalogue was published on occasion of the exhibitions 'Lygia Clark' at the following museum from 1997 to 1999; Fundação Serralves (Porto), Fundació Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona), MAC/Galeries contemporaines des Musées de Marseille (Marseille), Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris), Société des expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels), Paço Imperial (Rio de Janeiro).
Fundació Antoni Tàpies: Programme: Lygia Clark
Fundació Antoni Tàpies: Publicatons: Lygia Clark
Lygia Clark Org
Wikipedia: Lygia Clark
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Sils

2008-01-25T14:43:00.000+09:00

author: Gerhard Richter
editor: Hans-Ulrich Obrist
texts: Hans Ulrich-Obrist, Peter André Bloch
publisher: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Walther Konig
publication date: November 2002
86 pages, 41 plates (full color)
language: English/German/French
isbn: 9781891024559
from the publisher's site: Whenever Gerhard Richter goes to Sils, a small town in the Swiss Alps, he makes photographs, some of which he overpaints and adds to his Atlas. Others he treats as autonomous works, as in those presented in this intimate artist's book. In the overpainted photographs, the levels of reality evident in photography are combined with those that exist in painting. However, the paired concepts prove redundant of both the realism in photographic representation and the abstraction in nonfigurative painting. The photographs reveal a parallel between both forms of painterly practice, evidence of the simultaneous existence of contradictory bodies of work in Richter's oeuvre.
D. A. P.: Gerhard Richter: Sils
Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter Archive
Wikipedia: Gerhard Richter
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LOVABLE, alternative folk design

2008-01-24T13:36:00.000+09:00

author: William Warren
designer: Airconditioned
publisher: Often Publisher
producer: Trico International
publication date: 2007
language: English/Japanese
32 pages, full color
isbn: none
William Warren (official)
London Metropolitan University: William Warren
By Trico: William Warren (Japanese)
By Trico

The 2000 Excellence in Design Award: Rei Kawakubo

2008-01-23T13:39:00.000+09:00

editor: Brooke Hodge
texts: Peter G. Rowe, Jorge Silvetti, Brooke Hodge
publisher: Harvard University Graduate School of Design
publication date: 2000
68 pages, full color
isbn: none
from the Harvard GSD's site: The Excellence in Design Award is an initiative recognizing the outstanding work of individuals in the related Design Arts.
Harvard University Graduate School of Design: Publications: The 2000 Excellence in Design Award: Rei Kawakubo
Harvard Design Bookstore: 2000 Excellence in Design Award: Rei Kawakubo
Wikipedia: Comme des Garçons
Dover Street Market

Cappuccetto Giallo

2008-01-20T11:14:00.001+09:00

author: Bruno Munari
publisher: Edizioni Corraini
publication date: March 2007
16 pages, full color
language: Italian
isbn: 9788875701048
This is the reprinted edition. The original was published by Einaudi, 1972.
Edizioni Corraini (Italian/English)
Edizioni Corraini: Cappuccetto Giallo (Italian)
Associazione Bruno Munari (Italian)
Wikipedia: Bruno Munari (Italian)
Wikipedia: Bruno Munari (English)
Au grand cirque de Bruno Munari (French)
Collezione Bruno Munari (Italian)
Munart (Italian)
Bruno Munari Lab. (Japanese)

Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses

2008-01-19T21:49:00.000+09:00

editor: Elizabeth A. T. Smith
texts: Reyner Banham, Dolores Hayden, Thomas Hine, Thomas S. Hines, Esther McCoy, Helen Searing, Elizabeth A. T. Smith, Kevin Starr
designer: Lorraine Wild
publisher: The MIT Press
publication date: April 1999 (new edition)
384 pages, b/w & color
isbn: 0262692139
This book has been published on occasion the exhibition 'Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses,' curated by Elizabeth A. T. Smith at the Temporary Contemporary of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1989-1990.
The MIT Press: Blueprints for Modern Living
Wikipedia: Case Study Houses
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Radical Fashion

2008-01-19T12:35:00.000+09:00

editor: Claire Wilcox
featuring designers: Azzedine AlaÏa, Hussein Chalayan, Comme des Garçons, Jean Paul Gaultier, Helmut Lang, Alexander McQueen, Maison Martin Margiela, Issey Miyake, Junya Watanabe Comme des Garçons, Vivienne Westwood, Yohji Yamamoto
texts: Valerie Mendes (foreword), Claire Wilcox (introduction), Judith Clark, Susannah Frankel, Amy de la Haye, Alistair O'Neill, Valerie Steele
cover photography: Nick Knight
designer: A2-Graphics/SW/HK
publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
publication date: 2001
150 pages, full color
isbn: 0810965887
This book has been published on occasion of the exhibition 'Radical Fashion' at the Victoria & Albert Museum, 2001-2002.
from the V&A site: Radical Fashion, the book, explores further the work of the eleven designers featured in the exhibition. Providing a permanent record of the exhibition it takes a closer look at the uncompromising and highly influential place of each in contemporary fashion. The text is written by leading fashion historians and social commentators who explore their different worlds. The book is beautifully designed and illustrated throughout with striking catwalk images and photographs from leaders in the field such as Nick Knight, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, as well as images from the V&A's world famous dress collection. Plus, each designer has art directed an eight page photo essay specially for the book which provides a unique insight into the creative process involved in their individual presentation of fashion.
V&A Museum: Radical Fashion
The Observer: Special reports: Radical Fashion
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Archigram

2008-01-18T22:54:00.000+09:00

concept: Alain Guiheux
texts: François Barré, Alain Guiheux, Peter Cook, Michael Webb, Dominique Rouillard. Jean-Claude Garcias, Reyner Banham
publisher: Editions du Centre Pompidou
publication date: July 1994
language: French
224 pages, 150 plates (60 color, 90 b/w)
isbn: 2858507864
This catalogue has been published on occasion of the exhibition 'Archigram' at Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, 1994.
Archigram (official)
Centre Pompidou: Archigram
Design Museum: Archigram
The Bartlett: Architecture: Archigram - RIBA Royal Gold Medalists 2002
Wikipedia: Archigram
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Kiwamete Yoi Fukei (Extremely Good Scenery) = Short Hope

2008-01-17T14:26:00.001+09:00

author: Takashi Homma
text: interview of Takuma Nakahira by Takashi Homma
designer: Kazunari Hattori
publisher: Little More
publication date: June 2004
112 pages, full color
isbn: 489815123X
This is the photobook featuring the photographer Takuma Nakahira in his daily life. Homma also directed the movie of the same title.
from the publisher's site: Takashi Homma, one of the representing photographers in Tokyo, shoots the life of legendary photographer Takuma Nakahira. During the 1960's and 1970's when new movements was beginning to grow up in each field, Takuma Nakahira denied the existent expressions of photography, by the radical words and works. Also, the smart and great photographer had provoked and led the times. In 1997, he had went into coma at a party, and lost his whole memory. This book shows the photographer's life after the sufferings.
Little More: Kiwamete Yoi Fukei (on the movie, Japanese)
culturebase.net: Takashi Homma (last updated October 31, 2005)
Shugoarts: Takuma Nakahira
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Inframince: Duchamp empaqueté

2008-01-15T00:02:00.000+09:00

editor, designer: Yukimasa Matsuda
text: Chihiro Minato (foreword), Yukimasa Matsuda, Tsuyoshi Ishida
publisher: Ushiwakamaru
publication date: December 2006
language: Japanese/English
146 pages, color & b/w
isbn: 4434086375
Ushiwakamaru (Matsuda Office's official. Japanese)
ssahn.com (Korean graphic designer Ahn Sang-Soo's blog. Matsuda's portrait)
L'esprit d'escalier (on this book. Japanese/English)
Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp World Community
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Nakaji Yasui 1903-1942: The Photography

2008-01-14T23:35:00.000+09:00

photographer: Nakaji Yasui
texts: Nakao Yasui, Yuri Mitsuda, Norihiro Nakajima, Joe Takeba
publisher: Kyodo News, Tokyo
publication date: 2004
322 pages, double tone
language: Japanese/English
This is the catalogue of the first full-scale retrospective of Japanese legendary photographer Nakaji Yasui titled 'Nakaji Yasui 1903-1942: The Photography' at The Shoto Museum of Art (Tokyo) & Nagoya City Museum, from 2004 to 2005. The catalogue has been published as the hardbound book after the exhibition (isbn: 9784764105423).
Wikipedia: Nakaji Yasui
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Gio Ponti: Gli anni di Stile 1941-1947

2008-01-13T11:45:00.000+09:00

author: Massimo Martignoni
editorial director: Enrico Morteo
texts: Massimo Martignoni, Lisa Ponti (preface)
designer: Daniele Ledda
publisher: Abitare Segesta Edizioni
publication date: 2002
language: Italian
138 pages, full color
isbn: 8886116845
Gio Ponti left Domus to found another magazine Stile (Style) in 1941. He edited until 1947 when he returned to Domus.
Wikipedia: Gio Ponti
Design Museum: Gio Ponti