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If you have ever thatched a roof, measured a skull, stuffed a rabbit or walked on a whale, you may recognize some of these tools. Or, if you admire the work of Warhol, Duchamp and Cornell, you will understand the fascination of these accidental masterpieces of the everyday. Some are the tools of vanished trades, others anonymous implements of simpler cultures, but all have been chosen for their intriguing functions and their elegant, suggestive forms, whether for

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The first publication on the outstanding experimental typography designer Oded Ezer

Oded Ezer: The Typographer‘s Guide to the Galaxy presents the typographic experiments and experimental typography of visionary artist and designer Oded Ezer for the first time. A pioneer in the field, Ezer is one of the most influential designers today, who is reinventing the art of typography.

Based in Tel Aviv, Ezer has an almost scientific approach to type design in which he explores the anatomy of letters and alphabets. His Hebrew and Latin characters and alphabets are influenced by calligraphy and integrate elements that are not typical for font design, such as ornamental and organic shapes that resemble creatures. The book introduces his type art and hybrid typo creatures, including projects from his Biotypography series. Here, Ezer applies biological systems and organic beings to create and modify type into hybrid type insects and animals as well as cloned sperm creatures that are half sperm, half human with typographic information implanted in their DNA with Typosperma, the latter of which has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Further experiments such as his Tortured Letters series, Typoplastic Surgeries and Typo Mythologies are included.

In addition to these projects, this monograph also documents elegant and concise logo designs that Oded Ezer has created for international brands and institutions, as well as his collection of font designs. Oded Ezer also highlights the designer’s current work including a collection of photographs of his lab experiments in the studio, exhibition installations, sketches and illustrations along with detailed texts about each of his projects. With two forewords by Paola Antonelli, Curator of the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA, New York and renowned designer, illustrator and typographer Marian Bantjes, this publication showcases a remarkable portfolio of work and offers a rare insight into Ezer’s design process.

Life’s ironies are easier to take in with a sugar coating. 

This coating entertains and acts as a remedy for the bitter truth while you die laughing. Brimming with cheerful colours, juxtaposed details and quirky characters, illustrations of dark humour weave together a twisted yet oddly familiar narrative we can all empathise with. 

Off the Wall amasses 30 some artists whose works are as somber as they are hilarious. Look at how satirical ideas play out in imagery to voice societal concerns, reflect on human nature or simply as a candid expression of the artist’s peculiar creative universe. 

Through short interviews and a carefully edited showcase, the book takes readers to explore artists’ enigmatic minds as they give insight into how they walk the fine line between being funny and unsettling.

An introduction to the Japanese art of living of Ogata through the vision of its founder, Shinichiro Ogata.

As an expert in the cultures and traditions of ancient Japan, Shinichiro Ogata has dedicated himself to a contemporary reinvention of this solemn yet simple ideal of a harmonious life. His eponymous spaces in Japan and Paris are at once a tea salon, pastry shop, restaurant, bar, art gallery, and crafts and housewares store where every element is infused with a pared-back, refined style, holistically in tune with surroundings and nature.

Beautifully printed, this elegant volume provides a comprehensive overview of Japanese art of living, with chapters on tea, cuisine, wagashi (traditional confections), crafts, fragrance, and floral art. Readers are invited to consider a new outlook, nourished by millennia-old traditions and materialized through exquisite objects and sensorial experiences. Each section explores the details and innovative possibilities for deeply rooted traditions as well as the social and aesthetic rules that sustain them, while beautiful photographs showcase Ogata’s signature design as well as its flagship Paris space. Written in the first person, Shinichiro Ogata’s text offers a deeper understanding of his creative process and unique aesthetic vision. This is an exquisite book for aficionados of Japanese refinement and craftsmanship.

About the Authors:

Shinichiro Ogata is a Japanese designer. He founded Simplicity Co., Ltd. in 1998, a multidisciplinary company with activities ranging from a design studio to tea, cuisine, wagashi, crafts, and other fields. Ogata opened in Paris in 2020. Dennis Paphitis is the founder of Aesop. Kei Osawa is a French-Japanese researcher and curator at the University Museum, the University of Tokyo.

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Olbinski combines painting, illustration, graphic design, typography, and stage design into poignant and memorable images, revealing his exceptional ability to depict the world of performing arts and entertainment in his own unique form

Intended for promoters, designers, organizers and brand managers, On Spot chronicles over 100 site-specific gatherings that vary in scope from tiny arts festivals to a NATO summit. On Spot demonstrates how successful events design their campaigns utilizing tools such as posters and banners, installations and interactive smartphone apps, websites and wearables. With striking photography that places these tools within their target environments, each example suggests how best to blend traditional promotional materials with new media to achieve maximum visibility.

When I wake up, when I check the time, when I brush my teeth, when I get dressed, when I have breakfast, when I cross the street, when I call to say I’ll be late again, when I work, when I have a break, when I get back home, when I relax and when I go to sleep I am surrounded by graphics and illustrations.

'One Day' takes a comprehensive look at how these graphics have entered our daily lives, and adorn everything from alarm clocks to skateboards. Not only do these graphics apply beauty, life and personality to our objects, but they also create a relationship with us, when they become part of the “visual soundtrack” to our lives.

Founded in 1975 and based in New York City, The One Club produces three annual awards competitions that are widely considered the most respected in the world: the One Show, One Show Design, and One Show Interactive. The One Club is a non-profit organization that hosts educational events, maintains a full-time exhibition gallery, hosts an ongoing series of lectures and events, and produces publications that include the quarterly one.a magazine and the One Show and One Show Interactive annuals.

Scanning the world for the best new graphic design talent, Mike Dorrian and Liz Farrelly have collated the work of 100 new designers, from So Paulo to Tokyo, Melbourne to Los Angeles, into a book that will both inspire and impress. The book focuses on practitioners still in the first decade of their career, either working alone or teamed up into small companies, showcasing projects, aesthetics and methodologies which push boundaries and redefine working practices. As well as pinpointing the best new talent worldwide, this visually stunning survey provides a showcase of cutting-edge imagery for a student and professional audience.

Thanks to affordable technology and up-for-it, media-savvy clients, a huge number of designers set themselves up in their own studios, straight from college. The kind of work that results is often fast, furious, rule-breaking and inspirational. These designers are also characterized by their love of their locale, along with nomadic tendencies and a small is beautiful attitude.

"One of the most useful books to cover the whole of the field...Mr. Ford is to be congratulated on having produced a work that should stand the test of time." — Carpet Review Weekly

In this comprehensive survey, P. R. J. Ford shows readers how to recognize the different structural and design features of oriental rugs and carpets. The designs are grouped according to their essential characteristics. This approach illuminates the cultural background of each, revealing at once the similarities and the differences between the various carpet-weaving areas

Illustrations of modern types, with descriptions of their key characteristics — construction, materials, sizes, colors — and of the clues that establish a rug's precise origins, appear together with a balanced appraisal of the qualities of modern production from towns, villages, and tribal areas. Extensive cross-referencing and detailed indexes make this an invaluable reference guide for dealers and collectors, and for anyone who has an appreciation of and interest in rugs.

800+ illustrations and photographs, 400 in color

Combining the delicate and tranquil beauty of Oriental design with the luminous appeal of stained glass artistry, this unique pattern book presents 47 exquisite designs. Traditional Asian motifs include cranes, peony blossoms, geishas, and other images, all specially designed to meet the demands of stained glass craft projects from lightcatchers to lampshades

Spain's Alhambra Castle continues to amaze with its stunning repertoire of Moorish-style embellishments. This unequalled collection by the great Victorian artist and architect Owen Jones displays 180 full-colour plates that expertly reproduce original designs from the palace's windows, ceilings, wall panels, door arches, porticos, and more. This special printing includes gold as a fifth colour to closely simulate the original designs.

A lavish survey of the grotesque style in European painting and decoration, from Roman times to the late nineteenth century.

In the fifteenth century, the ruins of Nero's Domus Aurea were discovered in Rome. The first explorers to enter the interior of this spectacular palace complex had the sensation of finding themselves in a series of grottoes, and this is why the fanciful frescoes and floor mosaics discovered there were called "grotesques."

A fashionable form of ornamentation in ancient Rome, grotesques consist of loosely connected motifs, often incorporating human figures, birds, animals, and monsters, and arranged around medallions filled with painted scenes. Fifteenth-century artists such as Perugino, Signorelli, Filippino Lippi, and Mantegna copied the ancient Roman examples; the most famous use of the style was Raphael's Loggie in the Vatican Palace, which became immensely famous and influential all over Europe.

This magnificently illustrated book covers the entire history of the grotesque in European art, from its Roman origins through the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century. It illuminates how grotesque decoration was transformed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries into arabesque, chinoiserie, and singeries, and how it continued in the nineteenth century, leading eventually to Art Nouveau.

Any artist would treasure this glorious collection inspired by flowers and animal life from land and sea. Budding blossoms, imaginative marine life, and other incredible creatures reflect the outer limits of fantasy. Reproduced from a German classic of natural history, the 154 creatively stylized images were designed with distinctive drama. The accompanying CD-ROM includes individual files of all of the images in the book. They can be used in a wonderful variety of arts and crafts projects.

Image File Information:
Includes 154 images saved as 300-dpi, high-resolution and 72-dpi, Internet-ready grayscale JPEG files. Also included are high- and low-resolution color scans of each page as shown in the book.