Friday, 13. August 2010
Not a new book, but one that I missed last year, it is a fantastic source of inspiration. The book gives insight into the inner workings and private inspiration of creatives from the world of advertising, design, graphic design, fashion design, art, street art, and illustration. Intimate and often unseen, sketchbooks ...
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Monday, 09. August 2010
It's not very often that we, especially, as Westerners, can witness at first hand the total destruction of huge urban areas, unless you are watching a Bruckenheim film. Detroit is such a case. The once proud city of automobile manufacturing is literally falling apart. Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre documented ...
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Monday, 02. August 2010
Published here for the first time are Palladio's preparatory materials for an illustrated edition of Polybius' Histories alongside Palladio's material for his edition of Julius Caesar' Commentaries, (1575). Long thought to have been lost, his original Polybius has now been recomposed by drawing on three manuscript copies: the mock-up used ...
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Friday, 09. July 2010
In and Out of the Marital Bed is a book about sexually charged... or with a descrete sexual tension... images from Renaissance Europe.
What else do you need to know?
The author, Diane Wolfthal, is chair of the art history department at Rice University.
From YUP.
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Tuesday, 01. June 2010
Oldie but goldie, so good as a matter of fact that I think this should be a mandatory piece of printed material in any ones home, irrespective of how much actual interest there is in design. This is the most comprehensive publication ever produced on the work of American artist ...
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Friday, 28. May 2010
This is my type of book. Robert Scholes and Clifford Wulfman argue that magazines are the keys to understanding modern culture. Not all magazines mind, but modernism publications that pushed a full spectrum of arts.
You can't help but think that future investigation of the internet will yield a similar hypothesis.
From ...
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Thursday, 20. May 2010
Great little toilet humor book, no pun intended. For $10 this is a 300+ page collection of random facts about bugs, disease, animals, and more, each one properly sourced — should you actually want to know more about it — and accompanied by a witty one-liner. Obviously a great bathroom reader, ...
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Tuesday, 18. May 2010
Another great publication by Rizolli, "French Country Style at Home" by Sebastien Siraudeau does exactly what it says on the cover, This enchanting volume unlocks the door of French homes tucked away in the country, from a farmhouse in the Cévennes to a castle lost in the heart of the Morvan mountains. ...
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Tuesday, 11. May 2010
Rizolli keeps putting them out there, what can I say, favourite publisher right now? Seriously, their catalogue just keeps impressing me on a daily basis. Today's choice easily goes to this book: "Time: The Illustrated History of the World's Most Influential Magazine". The title alone says it all, but just ...
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Wednesday, 05. May 2010
An important book for any real music lover and those nubucks trying to be at least. Bob Mould, Grant Hart, and Greg Norton formed Hüsker Dü in 1979 as a wildly cathartic outfit fueled by a cocktail of anger, volume, and velocity. Here's the first book to dissect the trio ...
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Wednesday, 05. May 2010
Finally, one of the funniest websites " Shit My Dad Says" is being brought to the printers. Fact is, you can't have your laptop on your toilet without being kicked out by your girl, so this is great news. Bringing toilet humour back to where it belongs, from your desk ...
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Tuesday, 04. May 2010
You should know about Sang Bleu by this time, one of the greatest independent published magazines on all that is good. Art, tattooing, fashion and everything in between that should tickle your interest.
The new issue sits proudly at 308 pages and is available at WoodWood.
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Friday, 30. April 2010
A great book by Voyager Press, this should drive all you Americana nutheads berserk. Essentially, "Ghost Towns of the Southwest" is a guide book on the historic mining camps and ghost towns of Arizona ( don't go there if you're not a card carrying member of the KKK ) and ...
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Thursday, 29. April 2010
On May 15, Voyageur Press will release Neil Young — Long May You Run: The Illustrated Historyby Daniel Durchholz and Gary Graff. The 224-page book follows Young’s career from the days of Buffalo Springfield through Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and into his solo career. Long May You Run is the first ...
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Tuesday, 27. April 2010
Rizzoli keeps delivering the greats with this self explanatory book - I was pretty sure I had a good running with the amounts of beer I have drunk so far but judging by this book I have found a great excuse to keep drinking. Not that I needed one but ...
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