Fantom Magazine – First Issue this fall.

Posted in magazines, photography, Uncategorized on September 16th, 2009
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You were perhaps lucky to get the free preview copy this summer, mostly if you were in Milan or Nyc.

Fantom magazine’s first issue is coming later this fall. More soon!

Chimurenga # 14

Posted in Motto Berlin store, Uncategorized on September 1st, 2009
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Chimurenga # 14, Everyone Has Their Indian features words and images on the Third World project and links, real and imagined, between Africa and South Asia.

Contributors include: M. Neelika Jayawardane, Emily Raboteau, Rasheed Araeen, Martin Kimani, Shailja Patel, Rustum Kozain, Kai Friese, Amitav Ghosh, Manu Herbstein, J.S. Saxena, Ranjith Kally, Vivek Narayanan, Achal Prabhala, Akin Adesokan, Neo Muyanga, Philippe Rekacewicz, Percy Zvomuya, Mahmood Mamdani, Binyavanga Wainaina, Raqs Media Collective, Pravasan Pillay, Rigo 23, Andile Mngxitama, Naeem Mohaiemen, Tsuba Ka 23, Girija Tropp, Robben Island Museum, Speculative Archive and many more.

Graphic #11

Posted in Uncategorized on August 28th, 2009
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D 20€

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Encens Magazine # 24

Posted in Fashion, magazines, Motto Berlin store, Uncategorized on August 26th, 2009
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Encens Magazine # 24

The world of Dries van Noten:

Dries Van Noten – Jules François Crahay – Cinzia Ruggieri – Rick Owens – Per Spook – Véronique Leroy – Romeo Gigli – Alaia …

Now at Motto Berlin.

Sliding the Slow Split. OMP 14

Posted in Uncategorized on August 23rd, 2009
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Sliding the Slow Split by Navid Nuur. Published by Onomatopee.

15€

During his working period at the Cacaofabriek, Navid developed an artistic signature that grabbed Onomatopee’s attention. Titles of works should function, according to Navid, both as a literary designation of meaning as of a visual addition to this conceptual stance. This was Navid’s working challenge. Navid figured out a way how he could play with the text’s ink by spraying water on the text, on the canvas. The ink of the text would flow downward, leaving layers of ink in different colours behind. Black ink, for example, contains multiple colours of witch some flow further down then others. A flowing colour radiance is what resides on the canvas.

The combination of both text and visual appearance make this publication suiting to Onomatopee. Besides this reason comes that Navid is a great guy.

D 15€

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Book of houseplants

Posted in photography, Uncategorized, Zines on August 23rd, 2009
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Artwork by Ariel Dill & Denise Schatz
Design by Miya Osaki

Images from Martha, 1973, Rainer Werner Fasbinder

8 €

Die schönsten Schweizer Bücher erstmals in Berlin. (04.09.09)

Posted in Uncategorized on August 23rd, 2009

Der seit 1999 vom eidgenössischen Bundesamt für Kultur organisierte Wettbewerb wird jährlich durchgeführt. Die fünfköpfige Jury unter dem Vorsitz von Cornel Windlin prämierte im Januar 2009 insgesamt 33 Bücher des Buchjahrgangs 2008. Anlässlich von MISS READ, dem Artist Book Festival in den KW Institute for Contemporary Art, werden die schönsten Schweizer Bücher 2008 bei do you read me?! (500 Meter von den KW entfernt) vom 4. bis zum 12. September 2009 zu entdecken sein.

Eröffnung: Freitag, 4. September 2009, um 18 Uhr
Ausstellungsdauer: 4. – 12. September 2009
Öffnungszeiten: Montag–Samstag, 10 – 20:30 Uhr, Sonntag, 6. September 13 – 18 Uhr

do you read me?!, Magazine und Lektüre der Gegenwart, Auguststraße 28,
10117 Berlin-Mitte. Tel +49-30-695 49 695, www.doyoureadme.de

Hyphen Press

Posted in Motto Berlin store, typography, Uncategorized on August 22nd, 2009
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Motto is happy to stock a large selection from Hyphen Press.

Available in Berlin store:

Asleep in the afternoon, E.C. Large
Sugar in the air, E.C. Large
Paul Renner: the art of typography, Christopher Burke
God’s amateur: the writing of E.C. Large, Stuart Bailey and Robin Kinross
Detail in typography, Jost Hochuli
A view of early typography: up to about 1600, Harry Carter / Introduction by James Mosley
Anthony Froshaug: Typography & texts / Documents of a life, Robin Kinross
Fragments of utopia: collage reflections of heroic modernism, David Wild
Models & Constructs: margin notes to a design culture, Norman Potter
What is a designer: things, places, messages, Norman Potter
Active literature: Jan Tschichold and New Typography, Christopher Burke
Typography papers 7 – Department of Typography, University of Reading
Typography papers 5 – Department of Typography, University of Reading
Designing books: practice and theory, Jost Hochuli & Robin Kinross
The transformer: principles of making Isotype charts, Marie Neurath and Robin Kinross
Type now: a manifesto, plus work so far, Fred Smeijers

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_(SIC): Photographie moderne / Modernité photographique

Posted in Uncategorized on August 17th, 2009

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_(SIC) is an annual Belgian magazine adopting a specific art history approach to deal with modern and contemporary art.

A collection of texts devoted to modernity in photography.
Edited by Alexander Streitberger.
Texts by Alexander Streitberger, Marc-Emmanuel Mélon, Stephanie Diekmann, Carl Havelange, Michel Poivert, Danielle Leenaerts, Nathalie Boulouch, Hilde van Gelder, Victor Burgin.

12 €

Roven

Posted in Uncategorized on August 17th, 2009

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Roven, revue critique sur le dessin contemporain

Roven est une nouvelle revue critique sur le dessin contemporain,
éditée par Roven éditions.

Roven aborde les multiples pratiques du dessin : le dessin dit «
traditionnel » et, dans un sens plus large, le dessin sous toutes ses
formes. Que le dessin existe de façon autonome ou qu’il soit une étape
du processus créatif, il est un réel laboratoire de création,
étroitement lié à toutes les disciplines et à tous les supports.

L’approche critique de Roven met en valeur la manière dont le dessin
est pratiqué, utilisé, détourné, référencé, afin de stimuler le
dialogue sur ce support et plus largement sur l’art contemporain.

Roven est conçue autour d’un rubriquage qui comporte des textes
critiques monographiques et thématiques, des sujets relatifs au
dessin, un portfolio d’un artiste peu connu et une partie de création
inédite.

Au sommaire du numéro 1 : entretien Sam Durant par Lillian Davies,
Abdelkader Benchamma par Kathy Alliou, Isabelle Cornaro par Mathilde
Villeneuve, Kiki Smith par Clément Dirié, Robin Rhode par Béatrice
Gross, Théophile Bra par Julie Ramos, Paysage du dessin contemporain
par Guitemie Maldonado, une sélection de livres de Jonas Storsve par
Aude de Bourbon, un dossier thématique sur la ligne coordonné par
Joana Neves avec des contributions de Jacinto Lageira, Pierre
Leguillon, Chris Sharp, etc.

Contributions d’artistes : Marcelline Delbecq, Alexandre Léger,
Rainier Lericolais et Amanda Riffo.

112 pages
21 x 26 cm
18 euros