Self Service 1-31
Launched 15 years ago, world-renowned fashion magazine Self Service are opening their entire archives with the help of Idea Books. The exhibition/pop-up shop will be housed in the front room at the St Martin’s Lane hotel, London from February 18th-25th. All issues can be purchased, priced according to availability, as well as limited-edition signed posters by David Sims, Terry Richardson, and Roger Deckker.
Partners & Spade Books
Check out two new additions to Partners & Spade′s ongoing publishing program of concept photo books. BENEFITS OF LOOKING UP contemplates the surprising and uplifting moment of finding a balloon trapped in a tree, while I THINK I CAN, I THINK I CAN looks at explores the seemingly impossible through images of plants growing through cracks in concrete. After dozens of titles with limited print runs, sold only in their gallery and select stores, Harper Collins hope to bring these to a wider audience with purchase available at www.harpercollins.com for $10 each.
Inventory Magazine
Inventory Magazine is the new project from Ryan Willms, founder of the discontinued and highly rated h(y)r collective online magazine. Inventory will also exist as on online magazine, but a hard copy will be available too. With a strong influence from Japan, their first issue takes a look at the people behind Yuketen, Nigel Cabourn and Engineered Garments which thrive overseas and are now becoming just as popular in the western world. Editorial features include a look at our favourite parkas for winter and Nom de Guerre’s fall collection.
Oooga Booga at The Swiss Institute
Ooga Booga is an independent book/art store in LA’s Chinatown, which has been championing artists and small pulishers since its opening in 2004. For two and a half months they will be taking up residence in The Reading Room at The Swiss Institute in Soho NYC with a selection of 300 + titles from self to professionally published.
Until Feb 13, 2010
Artists on Their Bicycles New York
The Swiss Institute has just published “Artists on Their Bicycles New York,” a 2010 Calendar, portraying twelve of today’s most famous artists on their bikes, with photography by Luke Wassmann and art direction by Li Inc. Limited Edition of 500, numbered.
apartamento 4
Taking a completely new approach in the interior design magazine market, apartamento features real people in real environments, with interiors we can all aspire to rather than over-styled, over-glossy, catalogue-like spreads. The 4th issue is now available in all good magazine stores, and in our opinion is definitely worth picking up.
31 Rue Cambon
We’re excited to learn of the first issue of the new Chanel magazine art directed and designed by Purple’s Olivier Zahm. Named 31 Rue Cambon after the first ever Chanel boutique, it will be distributed worldwide in all of their stores soon.
Alexsandra Mir: ‘Triumph’
Inspired by a friend who had been a famous athlete in his youth and kept mementos of his achievements, Mir placed an ad in the local newspaper in her home town of Palermo, Italy, asking for old sports trophies. Within a few months, Mir collected 2,529 trophies and had them cleaned and archived. In her solo show at the Shirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, the trophies were displayed individually and in groups on plinths and the floor, or piled on top of each other like detritus. Mir explored the power of the trophy, both a coveted symbol of accomplishment and a garish, mass-produced item of little value. For those who missed the exhibition, check out the results in this new book published by Walter Konig. Available now on www.artbook.com
Kinokuniya
Since 1981, Kinokuniya, the hip Japanese bookstore chain, has served New York’s Japanese-language readers from its outlet at Rockefeller Center with it’s impressive stock of imported Japanese paperbacks, latest issues of hard-to-find magazines, DVDs (such as the animated films of Hayao Miyazaki - Spirited Away) and CDs. Now the company has decided that Japanese is no longer the center of its universe. It’s new store overlooking Bryant Park will house a majority of English-language titles in an effort to expand their audience. But Japanophiles fear not: The new three-storey store, one of nine Kinokuniyas in the United States, is stocked with plenty of Japanese-language novels, fashion magazines and a huge manga (comic) collection in both Japanese and English. The old store will close at the end of the year.
Avenue of the Americas, near 40th Street
Books are also sold online at www.kinokuniya.com
Jean Philippe Delhomme ‘The Cultivated Life’
Jean-Philippe Delhomme is a prolific name in the world of illustration and often described as the Parisian answer to the smart cartoons that appear in the New Yorker. His instantly recognizable style is world-renowned in a range of media - from chic television ads for Saab to the boutique campaigns for Barneys and fashion advertising. Drawing from the trials and tribulations of the contemporary lifestyle—the design addict cautiously circling the latest modern furniture piece in an upscale boutique, or finding the perfect outfit to convey one’s current philosophy—Delhomme chicly illustrates the humor in all that surrounds him. This monograph published by Rizzoli, the first-ever English compilation of his work, includes over 100 illustrations and an insightful essay about Delhomme’s work.
AnOther Fashion Book
AnOther Fashion Book, a greatest hits compilation of the fashion photography that has been featured in AnOther Magazine and AnOther Man over the past eight years is out now. The first in a series of collectable books brings together in one volume extensive work by the most iconic names in fashion and art photography including Craig McDean, Nick Knight, Mario Sorrenti, Sam Taylor-Wood, Horst Diekgerdes, Stephen Shore, David Sims, Terry Richardson, Willy Vanderperre and Glen Luchford.
Corporate Diversity
Swiss Graphic Design and Advertising by Geigy, 1940–1970
This book is the first comprehensive presentation of Geigy design, whose studio was the launching pad for one of the great periods of Swiss graphic design in the 1950s and 1960s, and demonstrates the importance of the country’s contribution to the international history of design. The studio was lead by Max Schmid and employed Karl Gerstner, Armin Hofmann and Herbert Leupin among others.
19.8 x 26.4 cm, 208 pages, 385 illustrations, hardcover
100+ Nieves Zines at Printed Matter
From April 4th – May 23rd 2009 Printed Matter will be showing an exhibition with the legendary Swiss publisher Nieves. The exhibition will feature a full retrospective of Nieveʼs ʻzine program since 2004 as well as a selection of the books published by the press since its founding in 2001. The publications have taken on a variety of forms, from limited edition, photocopied zines, to more-formally recognized hardcover, perfect-bound and offset books.
Printed Matter, Inc. is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1976 by artists and art workers with the mission to foster the appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of artists’ books and other artists’ publications.
Printed Matter, 195 Tenth Avenue at 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011 Tel. 212 925 0325
do you read me?!
do you read me?! offers a selected assortment of magazines and readings from around the world. The spectrum ranges from fashion, photography and art through architecture, interior and design to cultural matters in general.
Magazine und Lektüre der Gegenwart, Auguststrasse 28, Berlin-Mitte
Selected Works, Subjective Inventory
“This book is about representing a personal and intimate creative process, that usually happens behind the scenes. It was through these productive dialogues in which very often meaning and medium were questioned, when individual perception was juxtaposed with conventional patterns and habits of vision, that their creative inspiration was triggered, enabling us to produce our most personal and meaningful work. Taken out of context, the work is presented here from different perspectives and points of view. Printed campaigns as well as the same images uncropped—as seen through the lens of the photographers—unpublished images, design, research, or prototypes are opposed to finalized projects as seen in the public arena, such as on billboards or store windows.”
—Ezra Petronio and Suzanne Koller
On Display
Veenman Publishers have released “On Display” by the Dutch master of still life photography, Maurice Scheltens.
In “On Display” Maurice Scheltens demonstrates the art of staging and reassembling objects into surreal miniature worlds. His style is playful and highly personalised and his work ranges from art pieces to applied projects and editorial commissions. Rearranged and reedited for this glossy-book, the photographs in On Display represent an overview of Scheltens’s work of the last ten years. Alongside commissions from Vitra and Nike, Fantastic Man and Wallpaper, it also includes work for galleries and museums. An essay by Emily King reflects on Scheltens’s multi-layered constructions and cross-references the worlds of fashion, design, architecture, painting, photography and graphics.