Graphic design / typography

An history of graphic design before modernity: this first volume is a transdisciplinary collection of documents recording the existence of graphic design before the development of the written form.

Will Sweeney's new graphic narrative is set in a retrofuturistic England ruled by a twisted elite who exploits a population inhabiting decadent urban centers. Monsters populate this strange world, and humanity's last chance lies in the power of the Vorpal Sword—a metaphysical blade of vital creative energy…

Issues 5 to 8 of the critical review dedicated to Graphic design. Compilation includes studies on the following subjects: an Instagram post by studio Experimental Jetset for the Paradiso cultural centre in Amsterdam; a series of gestures, from Harun Farocki to L'Architecture Aujourd'hui; the publication Parallel Encyclopedia by Batia Suter; Charles Mazé & Coline Sunier's residency at the Villa Médicis.

The first four issues of the critical review dedicated to the analysis of Graphic design, published by Empire books (studio Syndicat). Each publication documents a specific object, addressed by a renowned author: the Rouge-gorge series at Éditions Cent pages by S.P. Millot; the database colorlibrary.ch by studio Maximage; the monograph Recollected Work by Mevis & Van Deursen; and the invitation cards by the artist Stanley Brouwn.

A list of 112 artists names modified with Open Office corrector (artist's book).

This artist's book is based on an Adirondack furniture book donated to Philippe Weisbecker 20 years ago by a New York friend who worked in a hardware store.

The magazine dedicated to drawing makes its comeback with nine long-length interviews with Sarah Tritz, Maximage, Ernest T. (Taroop & Glabel), Masanao Hirayama, les éditions Matière, Aidan Koch, Yannick Val Gesto, Stefanie Leinhos, and Galerie 126.

This exhibition catalogue offers a thorough examination of the artist's book as both an artistic and editorial medium. Focusing on the collection by Jean-Paul Guy, the publication presents 68 artists' books by the likes of Ed Ruscha, Dieter Roth, Michael Snow, and Robert Barry.

ECAL – University of Art and Design Lausanne is recognized as a world reference in terms of graphic design. This success is largely based on a strategy of workshops that allow students to learn from the best Swiss and international designers on the school premises. This book retraces projects conducted in the Bachelor's Graphic Design and Master's programs between 2010 to 2015.

Built by the design collective Metahaven, the project Black Transparency questions how information is organized globally and what role the concept of transparency occupies within it. This book engages transparency's junctions with design, architecture, and pop culture through Metahaven's research on technology, structures of information, networks and the Internet.

Manuel Raeder's 2016 Wall Calendar (with Armando Andrade Tudela, Mariana Castillo Deball, Heinz Peter Knes, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tris Vonna-Michell...).

The present portfolio is a sampler of some various structural beam combinations from 20th Century edifices. It can be viewed as a book, spread by spread, or pinned on the wall, according to taste, the way a kid might stack up building blocks.

Fines as an artistic medium: Stefan Marx illustrates the monetary penalties collected by Christoph Keller for its activity as a distiller.

A new drug on the market: an illustrated kaleidoscopic trip by Arnaud Loumeau.

Artist's book (drawings).

For this artist's book, Izet Sheshivari used three different photographic technologies to produce this selection of landscape images which play with the codes of classic road movies.

A corpus of contemporary Roman inscriptions, which testifies the importance of language—institutional as well as popular—in the collective space of the streets (artist's book).

With Grotesque female creatures, atomic lightbeams, skulls, Pop monsters and ukiyo-e decoration... These polychromic hallucinations of a Master of Psychedelic art were inspired by a near-death experience.

A series of photographs by Izet Sheshivari made on the island of Fårö, where Bergman shot numerous films (newspaper).

Different “augmented” perspectives from a visit of Giorgio de Chirico's flat.

Federico Pepe's Magnum opus (limited edition artist's book).

300 drawing by Portuguese artist Gonçalo Pena.

12 typescripts of concrete poetry (signed and numbered artist's book).

A new reappropriation of Ed Ruscha's Various Small Fires and Milk (signed and numbered artist's book).

Speculative Drawing presents fifteen books—from monographs and translations to collections of essays—that emerged from the research platform Speculative Poetics, conceived by Armen Avanessian in 2011.

Twenty-six serigraphs by the Dutch graphic designer.

A series of 365 cartoon drawings, made daily in 2012, exploring philosophical thoughts concerning art, being, knowledge, logic and skateboarding.

A subjective lexicon, proposing keywords for contemporary publishers and book freaks.

The first in-depth survey of Duarte's practice, and the first time that a selection of his poems and texts have been translated into English.

This set of cards features 50 drawings by Masanao Hirayama, each of them printed twice. It can be played as a memory game, or as the Japanese card game Karuta, or simply as a game with your own rules.

A tribute to the French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) and to the typographic strategies with which Dubuffet achieves, on a visual level, his plan to destroy language through books and lithographs.

New York drawings.

The catalogue of the Prize for the Most Beautiful Books in Brussels and Wallonia, accompanied by a reference book on the Belgian typographer which name has been associated with the Prize.

A sprawling series of buildings designed by the artist in the northern Yucatán in Mexico: a pivotal work by Jorge Pardo, his most recent and expansive Gesamtkunstwerk to date.

Bouroullecs' drawing practice.

An extension of the exhibition "Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language," curated by Laura Hoptman at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Interviews with Flag / Aubry-Broquard, Lætitia Gendre, Thomas Mailaender & Dominique Théâte, Benjamin Marra, Moolinex, Lord Jon Ray, Shoboshobo, David Shrigley, Fabio Viscogliosi.

First publication dedicated to Isou's extensive work with hypergraphics.

Artist's book based on Steven Harrington's series of Totem drawings.

Third issue of United Dead Artists' illustrated newspaper.

Special issue: 12 pages / 12 authors. An erotic & nightmarish cover illustration by Stephane Blanquet, a masochistic fantasy by Namio Harukawa, a Metal Monster by Francesco Defourny and many more.

Artist's book (a tribute to the beauty of the greenhouse).

A broad selection of Bastien Aubry and Dimitri Broquard's ceramic works.

Auerbach's eponymous painting series for the first time in book form.

A children's book by Nieves editor-in-chief.

29 highly surreal works by Keiichi Tanaami.

Three posters in gatefold record sleeve.

A typographic composition inspired by Shining accursed writer's manuscript in which only appears one sentence, constantly repeated: “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”

Dada, Fluxus, futurism, spatialism, lettrism, concrete poetry, cut-up… a 560-page anthology of typographical explosions and poetic experiments by Al Dante.