The World in Your Hand. On the Everyday Global Culture of the Mobile Phone – Olaf Arndt, Günter Burkart, Kenichi Fujimoto, Dominic Johnson, Christiane Mennicke-Schwarz, Sadie Plant, Paul Feigelfeld & Jan Wenzel, Miya Yoshida.

Over the past decades, almost no other technological innovation has been able to find such widespread dissemination so easily, or so rapidly, nor take such all-embracing possession of our daily lives, as the portable telephone. As camera, Walkman, organizer, navigating device, and post box for private and business messages, the mobile phone does not only represent a connection to the world for the affluent parts of the planet the cell phone conquers public urban spaces as well commercial ones and dissolves previous borders between them. Its use causes fundamental shifts in cultural codes and intervenes in social textures.

With essays from the fields of cultural and media studies, philosophy, sociology and art: Olaf Arndt, Günter Burkart, Kenichi Fujimoto, Dominic Johnson, Christiane Mennicke-Schwarz, Sadie Plant, Paul Feigelfeld & Jan Wenzel, Miya Yoshida.

Text in German and English

Published by Spector Books

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Snapshots – Felix Gonzalez Torres

This book presents a selection of snapshots, and accompanying inscriptions, sent by Felix Gonzalez-Torres to Doug Ashford, Julie Ault, Bill Bartman, Susan Cahan, Amada Cruz, David Deitcher, Suzanne Ghez, Ann Goldstein, Claudio González, Jim Hodges, Susan Morgan, Robert Nickas, Mario Nuñez, and Christopher Williams between the years 1991–1995.

The snapshots are quick poetic communiqués, a visual report on Felix’s outlook at particular moments in time, small gestures of hope, pleasure, and desire. They give evidence to some of his multiple fascinations: pets, furniture, collectible dolls, politics, art, friendship, beauty, love and optimism.

Published by A.R.T. Press

D 32€

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Nuclear Plants Super Trumpf from flxlabs
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la boîte II, revue en 4 images n°31 > 60 + index
édition documentation céline duval, houlgate, 2009
format 23 x 17 x 3,2 cm
impression offset n&b, 400 ex
D 60€

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Larry’s 6. the design issue
colour, DINA3; featuring a photo story with Natascha Goldenberg and Alexander Semino

D 15€

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Diselbrugger Apokalypse
Emanuel Halpern (Zurich, Switzerland)
Published by Nieves. 2010

When someone as peaceful as Emanuel Halpern (Zurich, 1948) draws an apocalypse, things must be pretty bad with the world. His fifty large-scale coloured pencil drawings telling the story of the destruction of Dieselbrugg confirm this prediction. This is his comic version of Dürrenmatt‘s valley of confusion. Reality, which is usually slouching towards tragedy, can be described only by comic means. Both talented storytellers subscribe to this truism. They give us solid citizens with image and text collages that are almost excessively artistic and hypertrophic. But the images underline the fact that this is the only way that we can tackle and escape from the mess.

In the Dieselbrugg Apocalypse, Halpern manages to move between pilgrimage and the misery of refugees with the sure-footedness of a somnambulist. “You can‘t really be as dozy as that” he seems to be muttering. “Come into my yurt In here you will hear peace bells ringing,
you‘ll see bathing towels fluttering. This is Dieselbrugg.”

Guido Magnaguagno

D 37€

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Printed Matter / Drukwerk, Karel Martens with Jaap van Triest and Robin Kinross

Revised and extended, third edition, 50 years of work.
Published by Hyphen Press

The work of Karel Martens occupies an intriguing place in the present European art-and-design landscape. Martens can be placed in the tradition of Dutch modernism – in the line of figures such as Piet Zwart, H.N. Werkman, Willem Sandberg. Yet he maintains some distance from the main developments of our time: from both the practices of routinized modernism and of the facile reactions against this. His work is both personal and experimental. At the same time, it is publicly answerable. Over the now 50 years of his practice, Martens has been prolific as a designer of books. He has also made contributions in a wide range of design commissions, including stamps, coins, signs on buildings. Intimately connected with this design work has been his practice as an artist. This started with geometric and kinetic constructions, and was later developed in work with the very material of paper; more recently he has been making relief prints from found industrial artefacts. This book looks for new ways to show and discuss the work of a designer and artist, and is offered in the same spirit of experiment and dialogue that characterizes the work it presents.

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Apartamento #06
Featuring Carl Johan De Geer, Paz de la Huerta, Leon Ransmeier, 6a Architects, Anders Endstrom, Ramdane Touhami, Felisa Pinto, Herrenstein, Gosha Rubchinskiy, Paul Scheik, Coming to a boil, Outdoor living and cactus misfits, Les Nouïes, Island of calvary, Marlene Marino, Leopold Pomés, Today’s home, Charlie Koolhaas.
Plus: everyday life kids supplement with James Jarvis, Tomi Ungerer, Yukari Miyagi and Miranda July.

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the journal, entry no 29

Contributors issue 29:
Tim Barber Katherine Bernard Jonathan Black Joanne Blades David Blaine Joe Bradley Sarah Braman Coley Brown Christian Brylle Julia Burlingham Cody Chandler Irina Cocimarov Lily Cole Meghan Collison Eliza Cummings Lucia della Paolera Julia Dippelhofer Julia Frakes Oto Gillen Mark Gonzales Dennis Gots Phil Grauer Darius Greyson Alizée Guinochet Roni Horn Leigh Johnson Maciek Kobielski Harmony Korine Andrew Kuo Kathy Lo Nate Lowman Bill Saylor Peter Miles Keegan Monaghan Michael Nevin Kaoru Okubu Caroline Polacheck Naomi Preizler Jordan Robin Natasha Royt Jason Schwartzman Laura Selfridge, Romy Soleimani Juergen Teller Vanessa Traina Magnus Unnar Poppie van Herwerden Eugene Wasserman Martynka Wawzryniak Coco Young

D 16€
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Bad Day magazine, issue 9

Interviews with: Shary Boyle, No Age, Luis Jacob, Glenn O’ Brien, Karl Holmqvist, Gaspar Noé, Trembling Bells, Fred Armisen
Contributors: Asher Penn, Bruce la Bruce, Paul Kneale, Nick Flanagan, Jeremy R Jansen, Cathérine Hug

Extra: limited edition Karl Holmqvist poster inside

D 10€

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