The new issue of Useless, freshly relooked by officeabc.

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We’ve got the LOVELY DAZE publications from Taiwan in store now.
LOVELY DAZE is a curatorial journal published biannually in limited editions.
Each issue is consisted of visuals and texts, based on concepts, techniques and aesthetics in relations to the topics of the issues.
The latest edition presents a special Rose recipe book – a collection of delicious recipes composed by pastry chef Angela Garcia with drawings by artist Cristina Rodriguez.

The first box set edition is also available in a very limited number at Motto.

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.

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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.

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Artwork by Ariel Dill & Denise Schatz
Design by Miya Osaki

Images from Martha, 1973, Rainer Werner Fasbinder

8 €

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

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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Put About: A Critical Anthology on Independent Publishing presents a timely discussion about independent publishing and publishing by artists, focusing on books where the makers keep control of every aspect of production through to distribution. Combining an interest in what and why publishers and artists feel compelled to deliver such materials, together with the economic models, audience and networks of association that can give independent productions a wider cultural presence, this book features a broad range of written and visual pieces alongside ‘case-studies’ from a selection of contemporary international publishers.
Contributors include: John Baldessari, Simon Bedwell, Michael Bracewell, Andrea Brady, Cabinet Magazine, Bonnie Camplin, Maurizio Cattelan, David Dibosa, Matthew Higgs, Stewart Home, Lucy Lippard, Emily King, Gunilla Klingberg, Jakob Kolding, John Miller, Paul D. Miller aka Dj Spooky, Aleksandra Mir, Stéphanie Moisdon, David Osbaldeston, Raymond Pettibon, Lynne Tillman, Nicolas Trembley, and Axel John Wieder.

Color Dying Light by Sam Falls, Hassla’s 10th release.

9 x 12 in., saddle-stitched, 16 pages, self cover, color offset
Edition of 500
ISBN 978-0-9800935-9-9
Publication date: August 2009

In the spring of Obama’s first year in office I was driving Sam to an Easter service at a Mennonite church in Portland, and he described to me, in one sentence, the feeling he often hoped to convey in his work. “It’s like floating in a warm bath” he said, “not having to make a decision just yet.”

Last time I spoke with him, he said he wanted more abstraction. He said, “Show me anything I’ve never seen before.” Some might take this to betray a certain cynicism or discontent with the world as it is. I would disagree. Sam’s work is more hyper-real than surreal. The fantasy contained in his photographs is not a move away from reality, but closer to it. So close that recognizable forms change shape. Through the devotion of his eye we might better understand the infinite complexity of every subject which surrounds us, thus our world grows larger. This expanding universe may not always be able to make me happy, but when I look at Sam’s photos, it grants me what Roland Barthes found to be one of thet most elusive sensations of all, ease.

– Joshua Willey, August, 2009