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This publication annually showcases the results of the competition ‘The Most Beautiful Swiss Books’, coordinated by the Swiss Ministry of Culture and aimed at promoting Swiss book design. The catalogue presents the award-winning books and their technical facts and figures, as well as the jury’s verdict. Moreover, it serves as a platform for discourse about book design and(...)
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The most beautiful swiss books 2009: the future issue
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This publication annually showcases the results of the competition ‘The Most Beautiful Swiss Books’, coordinated by the Swiss Ministry of Culture and aimed at promoting Swiss book design. The catalogue presents the award-winning books and their technical facts and figures, as well as the jury’s verdict. Moreover, it serves as a platform for discourse about book design and production and is in itself an example of contemporary graphic design trends. ‘The Future Issue’ is the third catalogue in the Back To The Future Trilogy, concerned with the past, present and future of book design.
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Although the pictogram-only narrative in Xu Bing's Book from the Ground can be read by anyone, there is much more to the story of Xu Bing's wordless book than can be gleaned from icons alone. This volume to Book from the Ground chronicles the entire project, mapping the history of Xu Bing's novel creation from inspiration to exhibition to publication.
The book about Xu Bing's book from the ground
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Although the pictogram-only narrative in Xu Bing's Book from the Ground can be read by anyone, there is much more to the story of Xu Bing's wordless book than can be gleaned from icons alone. This volume to Book from the Ground chronicles the entire project, mapping the history of Xu Bing's novel creation from inspiration to exhibition to publication.
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From his student days onward, Andy Warhol(1928-1987) was fascinated by the medium of print. He designed covers for large publishing companies and made silkscreens and lithographs for the covers of poetry books written by author friends. In his own books he documented the film and photographic work done at his Factory. Warhol also blasted apart the usual genres of(...)
Reading Andy Warhol: author, illustrator, publisher
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From his student days onward, Andy Warhol(1928-1987) was fascinated by the medium of print. He designed covers for large publishing companies and made silkscreens and lithographs for the covers of poetry books written by author friends. In his own books he documented the film and photographic work done at his Factory. Warhol also blasted apart the usual genres of literature by having sound recordings transcribed and published. Including a complete bibliography, this volume is the first substantial presentation of Warhol's important innovations in printed books.
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In these pages, Nicholas Basbanes shows how paper has been civilization’s constant companion. It preserves our history and gives record to our very finest literary, cultural, and scientific accomplishments. Since its invention in China nearly two millennia ago, the technology of paper has spread throughout the inhabited world. Basbanes traces paper’s trail from the(...)
On paper : the everything of its two-thousand year history by a self-confessed bibliophiliac
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In these pages, Nicholas Basbanes shows how paper has been civilization’s constant companion. It preserves our history and gives record to our very finest literary, cultural, and scientific accomplishments. Since its invention in China nearly two millennia ago, the technology of paper has spread throughout the inhabited world. Basbanes traces paper’s trail from the earliest handmade sheets to the modern-day mills. Paper, yoked to politics, has played a crucial role in the unfolding of landmark events, from the American Revolution to Daniel Ellsberg’s Pentagon Papers to the aftermath of 9/11. Without paper, modern hygienic practice would be unimaginable; as currency, people will do almost anything to possess it; and, as a tool of expression, it is inextricable from human culture.
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Les dimensions sociales du livre d'artiste (ouvrage collectif édité par Anne Mœglin-Delcroix, avec un ensemble d'études et de témoignages de chercheurs, d'historiens, de bibliothécaires, d'éditeurs et d'artistes, ainsi que la réédition de deux textes historiques de Dick Higgins).
Le livre d'artiste: quels projets pour l'art?
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Les dimensions sociales du livre d'artiste (ouvrage collectif édité par Anne Mœglin-Delcroix, avec un ensemble d'études et de témoignages de chercheurs, d'historiens, de bibliothécaires, d'éditeurs et d'artistes, ainsi que la réédition de deux textes historiques de Dick Higgins).
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For centuries, the physical book has been the ideal reading machine. So as books are increasingly supplanted by digital, onscreen reading, it is only natural that we find ourselves wondering what will be lost in the transition. This collection, edited by scholars with expertise in electronic publishing and the digital humanities, focuses instead on what we might gain—how(...)
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For centuries, the physical book has been the ideal reading machine. So as books are increasingly supplanted by digital, onscreen reading, it is only natural that we find ourselves wondering what will be lost in the transition. This collection, edited by scholars with expertise in electronic publishing and the digital humanities, focuses instead on what we might gain—how screen technology might shape and improve the very activities for which we have always used paper.
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Between 2010 and 2013, editor Brigitte Schuster interviewed thirteen prominent Dutch book designers. Among the designers in focus are Karen Polder, Armand Mevis, Walter Nikkels, Hansje van Halem and Joost Grootens. The interviews offer a fascinating look into the world of book designers who belong to different generations, and whose work has been shaped by different(...)
Book designers from the Netherlands
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Between 2010 and 2013, editor Brigitte Schuster interviewed thirteen prominent Dutch book designers. Among the designers in focus are Karen Polder, Armand Mevis, Walter Nikkels, Hansje van Halem and Joost Grootens. The interviews offer a fascinating look into the world of book designers who belong to different generations, and whose work has been shaped by different experiences. An intimate view of the designing process and the individuals themselves emerges as the methodology and motivations of each is uncovered.
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What exactly is a book? This wildly inventive and thought-provoking volume asks that question of more than 30 of today's top creative visionaries, from Ed Ruscha to Miranda July, John Baldessari to Jonathan Lethem. Each traditional element of a book—from endpapers to footnotes—is assigned to a different artist or writer invited to use the space as a creative playground.(...)
The thing, the book: a monument to the book as object
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What exactly is a book? This wildly inventive and thought-provoking volume asks that question of more than 30 of today's top creative visionaries, from Ed Ruscha to Miranda July, John Baldessari to Jonathan Lethem. Each traditional element of a book—from endpapers to footnotes—is assigned to a different artist or writer invited to use the space as a creative playground. The result is a collaborative group art project like no other.
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A “good book” and whatever it is that makes a book beautiful are not easy to define – the details of a design may well suit one book to perfection, but be very much out of place with another publication. With this in mind the author and designer Bernd Kuchenbeiser launched his website “A good book”, where publications of many different genres are presented and discussed(...)
61 books with black type on white cover
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A “good book” and whatever it is that makes a book beautiful are not easy to define – the details of a design may well suit one book to perfection, but be very much out of place with another publication. With this in mind the author and designer Bernd Kuchenbeiser launched his website “A good book”, where publications of many different genres are presented and discussed especially in the context of their creative design.
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Drawing attention to remarkable contemporary books by Swiss designers, printers and publishers, the competition for the most outstanding examples of book design in Switzerland has been held annually since 1943. The jury, which takes into account each book's overall concept, materials, graphic design and typography, with particular attention to innovation and originality,(...)
The most beautiful Swiss books 2011
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Drawing attention to remarkable contemporary books by Swiss designers, printers and publishers, the competition for the most outstanding examples of book design in Switzerland has been held annually since 1943. The jury, which takes into account each book's overall concept, materials, graphic design and typography, with particular attention to innovation and originality, awarded a total of 27 books published in 2011. Presented here is an overview of the awarded titles, plus a special focus on the winner of the Jan Tschichold Award, which honours excellence in the field of book design and was this year for the first time given to a printer, Erich Keiser of the Druckerei Odermatt.