Now it in its second printing, The Form of the Book Book brings together essential essays on the book its history, present, and possible futures by preeminent graphic designers and graphic design theorists/historians including Chrissie Charlton, Catherine de Smet, James Goggin, Jennie Eneqvist, Roland Früh & Corina Neuenschwander, Sarah Gottlieb, Richard Hollis and Armand Mevis. In a nod to Jan Tschicholds famous collection of essays The Form of the Book, first published in 1975, this book offers in-depth analyses of key moments in the history of book design in order to better imagine the many forms the book will take, and is already taking, in our digital age.

The Form Of The Book Book

Arts & Photography

Sara De Bondt, Fraser Muggeridge Ed

Graphic Design

Occasional Papers

Born in Flames, the publication, is an illustrated transcript of Lizzie Borden's 1983 film 'Born in Flames', edited and designed by Kaisa Lassinaro. It includes an interview with Borden conducted in L.A. by Lassinaro, as well as the lyrics of Undercover Nation by The Bloods and Born in Flames by Red Crayola, kindly supplied by Adele Bertei and Mayo Thompson.

Born In Flames (reprint)

EDITED

Tracing the history of graphic design over the past 30 years, this dense and informative reader presents a large selection of essays which address the origins and purposes of the field. Originally intended to accompany a May 2011 conference in London, the investigation expanded its scope as one text lead to another and further relevant input was discovered. The first anthology of its kind, this reader comprises some of the most influential published texts about graphic design history, underscoring the aesthetic, theoretical, politcal and social tensions that have underpinned it from the beginning. Included are texts by Steve Baker, Wen Huei Chou, Johanna Drucker, Victor Margolin, Catherine de Smet and numerous others.

Catherine De Smet: Graphic Design History In The Writing 1983-2011

Catherine De Smet, Sara De Bondt

Featuring a comprehensive selection of writings by renowned graphic designer, graphic design theorist and historian Richard Hollis, this densely illustrated book includes a wide array of interviews, essays, letters, articles and lectures. It covers virtually everything regarding the field and history of graphic design, from Soviet revolutionary posters and designers in Nazi Germany to Penguin book covers, New 'New' Typography, Max Bill and Nicolete Gray. Various texts on Robin Fior, Theo Ballmer, Uwe Loesch and Pierre Faucheux, among many others, add depth to this very thoroughly researched story of graphic design.

Richard Hollis: About Graphic Design

Richard Hollis

This book is the first since the early 1970s devoted to the extraordinary British Benedictine monk, scholar, translator, concrete poet and artist Dom Sylvester Houédard (192492). Edited by Nicola Simpson, with new essays by Gustavo Grandal Montero, Rick Poynor, David Toop and Charles Verey, 'Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter' offers a broad and richly illustrated introduction to this major artistic and theological figure.

Notes From The Cosmic Typewriter: The Life And Work Of Dom Sylvester Houedard

Nicola Simpson, Ed

Long out-of-print since its first edition in 1970, Robert Fillious work in continuous progress remains an essential primer to the artists still radical ideas on participatory art making and teaching. Along with extensive writing by Filliou, the book includes interviews with numerous artists close to him, such as Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, John Cage, Dorothy Iannone, Allan Kaprow and Diter Rot. This edition is an exact facsimile of the original, in order to preserve its highly inventive bilingual (English/German) layout and idiosyncratic composition.

Robert Filliou: Teaching And Learning As Performing Arts (English and German Edition)

Robert Filliou

Rethinking dismissive definitions of ""applied"" art, Alison Brittons collected writings reveal ceramics as an exploratory field that reflects on itself, in dialogue with many other areas of inquiry such as gender and cultural studies. Britton, one of todays leading ceramists and a writer on craft, has chosen a range of her own texts from essays to book reviews and interviews, which demonstrate a continuing desire to test the boundaries of her practice. 'Seeing Things' is essential reading not only for fellow ceramists but also anyone interested in the role of materiality and making in the wider cultural field.

Alison Britton: Seeing Things (collected Writing On Art, Craft And Design)

Alison Britton, Sara De Bondt

David Senior, bibliographer at the Museum of Modern Art Library in New York, selected a wide range of exhibition-related ephemera invitations, flyers and posters from the 1960s to the present and presents them here as an historically overlooked but integral aspect of exhibitions. Often the first point of contact between the audience and artist, such items form part of an essential lexicon for graphic designers, curators, art historians and anyone interested in the event-based nature of showing art. Filled with full-colour reproductions of numerous examples from the MoMA collection, the book includes new essays and analysis by Angie Keefer, Clive Phillpot and Will Holder, among others.

Please Come To The Show

David Senior, Ed

Philippe Thomas Declines His Identity

Daniel Bosser

Ellen Altfest: Painting Close-up

Anthony Spira, Ed

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