The theme of the nineth issue of Here and There is HER LIFE. It deals with the various factors that make up the many waves in a woman’s life, such as working, becoming pregnant, giving birth. The colorful stories told by Elein Fleiss, Laetitia Bena, Yurie Nagashima, Miranda July, Midori Araki and Aiko Yamada, reflect each of their lives.

Nakako Hayashi writes: “There are various lives, various moments and various emotions. I wish to capture the ripples of emotion in our daily lives as seeds, right before they turn into fluff and float away. I wish to keep observing what grows from there. I guess this may be what I want to do with Here and There.”

SANPO is a Japanese word meaning walking around without purpose. The secando feature SANPO includes writing by two Japanese artists; Kanehito Koganezawa and Shimabuku.

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Illustrative is the leading international forum for contemporary illustration and graphic arts. Every year at two different creative cities around the world, the exhibition displays an inspiring collection of current illustrative und graphical art with over 600 works from more than 60 artists.

Over the course of two weeks, the festival celebrates the illustrative arts, presents new talents and trends, exchanges ideas, marvels at progressive technologies, and rediscovers forgotten styles. Illustrative features an exclusive exhibition and shows works from 60 internationally recognised illustrators in addition to hosting conferences, a film program, and parties. Illustrative displays not only the quality and fantasy of the latest graphic arts but also shows how the visual effects of graphic design, illustration, book art, comics, concept art, and animation spill into and influence the field of art.
The exhibition is accompanied by the Young Illustrator Award. The exhibition highlighting the contest winners will display the most intuitive inclinations of the genre and is an exciting measure for new trends.

Established in Berlin in 2006, Illustrative has been held twice in Berlin (2006/2007), once in Paris (2007), and once in Zürich (2008). To guarantee the topicality of the exhibition, before every Illustrative the art works are reconsidered by a curatorial committee lead by Berlin-based curator Pascal Johanssen.

The best editorial of the online blog is now printed on It`s Nice That issue 2.

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Lodown magazine has launched an extra visual-fueled DTP #1 = Desk Top Publishing.
The publication is in a bigger format, presenting the images of paintings, objects, and photography in full playful experiments.
Contributed by various artists such as Tom Sachs, Daniel Joseph, Mike Mills, Stefan Marx and many many more. Available now.

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Graphic Magazine #11

Kiosk, Forms of Inquiry, Kinross, Modern Typography, Graphy (1992, 2004, 2009), In Real Life, From Mars, Place It, Designing Critical Design, Visual Poetry Kumgangsan, Roma Publications 1-90, Extended Caption (DDDG), Graphic Design, In The White Cube, On Purpose

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Tokyo Edit is a new book published by ROCKET BOOKS.
This bulky 500 pages publication introduces you the very present of Tokyo in a non typical guide book style. Bi-lingual ( Japanese-English ).

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68 publishers.
A5. 80 pages. black/white + poster/dust jacket.
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