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Roots to Fruits: Nº1 Ghanaian Highlife, 2022
Project by: Mirelle van Tulder
Designer: Mirelle van Tulder
Pages: 32
Format: 13,5 x 27 cm mm
ISBN: 9789491003189
Year: October 2022 (New stock coming: shipping will be possible from March 2023 onwards)
Price: € 15,00
Roots to Fruits is a magazine about music; its migration and origins, and its role against oppression. The first issue is dedicated to Highlife and its vital role in the struggle for independence and the creation of an African identity during the time of Kwame Nkrumah. It features an article by Dele Adeyemo, and a visual essay by Mirelle with images from the archive of the Tropenmuseum and KIT (Royal Tropical Institute).
Dele Adeyemo’s ‘The Modernizing Beat’ rereads the production of space in a modernizing Ghana through highlife, taking the modernist New Town and Tema Harbour as a case study about how the emergence of the ‘worksong’ has governed urbanization in Ghana.
Project by: Mirelle van Tulder
Year: October 2022 (New stock coming: shipping will be possible from March 2023 onwards)
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Recollected Work
Project by: Mevis & Van Deursen
Designer: Mevis & Van Deursen
Pages: 206
Format: 205 x 275 mm mm
Price: € 35,00
Nothing about Dutch graphic design duo Mevis & van Deursen conforms to type. Praised for their innovative but clear presentation, they have designed everything from artist’s books for Gabriel Orozco and Rineke Dijkstra to an official government stamp commemorating the marriage of Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, based on the number two, since the wedding date was 02-02-02. This book represents a range of work from the past 15 years, mostly books but also posters and smaller pieces. However, the artists have chosen not simply to present the work again but to make it new through collage and reinterpretative interplay, thus "recycling" their innovative designs.
Project by: Mevis & Van Deursen
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WT reader: Not really being Anywhere except Everywhere. A Spring reader
Designer: Toshi & Marie
Pages: 96
Format: 230 x 340 mm mm
Price: € 10,00
The second WT reader publication done with all participants of WT year 05 and 06. A theme ‘the global picked out from the local and the local seeped through the global’ was developed, researched and illustrated with in-house-generated-brand-spanking-new content as well as some carefully selected existing material. Participants formed the editorial team, worked as contributors and, naturally, designers.
With contributions by: Sven Herzog, Peter Robinson, Italo Calvino, Maxine Kopsa, Dirk Herzog, Susanne Stetzer, José Da Fonseca & Pedro Carolino, Eric Cruz, Red Zinia, Louise Dossing, Darcy D. Jeffs, Toshimasa Kimura, Karen van de Kraats, Jeffrey C. Ramsey and Layla Tweedie-Cullen -
The Cultural Side of Innovation: Adding Values, by Dany Jacobs
Project by: Veenman Publishers & ArtEZ Press
Designer: David Bennewith
Pages: 192
Format: 135 x 190 mm mm
Price: € 20,00
This book includes an updated version of Dany Jacobs’ essay ‘Creativity and the Economy’, written as a preparation for the Innovation Lecture 2005 of the Dutch Ministry of economics Affairs on ‘Competing with Creativity’. In this book Dany Jacobs illustrates to what extent the cultural side of innovations is even more important than their technology. Moreover, he explains how to think about creativity in a more productive way, in order to increase the chance of success of innovations. This is illustrated with concrete cases from different industries.
Project by: Veenman Publishers & ArtEZ Press
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Nicosia This Week. An Unofficial Guide to the Biennial that never was
Project by: Werkplaats Typografie
Designer: Louise Døssing, Darcy Jeffs, Toshimasa Kimura, Jeff Ramsey, Susanne Stetzer, Layla Tweedie-Cullen, Karen Wiley
Pages: 192
Format: 165 x 230 mm mm
Price: € 30,00
This alternative guide to the city of Nicosia, Cyprus, was produced by Werkplaats Typografie participants to accompany Manifesta 6. Following the abrupt cancellation of Manifesta 6 in 2006, Nicosia This Week has now become one of the only existing historical documents of a potentially great event that never happened and a guide book to a city that will in all likelihood remain forever biennial-less.
With contributions by the three curators of the Manifesta 6: Mai Abu ElDahab, Anton Vidokle and Florian Waldvogel as well as Jan Verwoert, Paul Elliman, Yiannis Papadaki, Louise Tu’ and the participants of WT.Project by: Werkplaats Typografie
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To Err is Almost Human
Project by: DAI / Dutch Art Institute, CasCo
Designer: Cecilia Costa
Pages: 24
Price: € 7,00
Chris Meighan’s graduation publication To err is almost human concerns the creation of a machine capable of drawing itself. This work is an example of ‘Technical research as artistic medium’, a process further developed by Meighan since this publication was written. In this presentation he will explain the wider context of what this means in artistic and in social terms, and how making and technical discovery are both political acts and tools of personal empowerment. He will also address the concept of ‘emergence’, the idea of complex systems that can (appear to) take on a life of their own, and what this means for the autonomy of the artist and the work of art.
Project by: DAI / Dutch Art Institute, CasCo
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WT reader: The Summer Reader, Again, or A Diamond in the Rough
Project by: Werkplaats Typografie
Designer: Cecilia Costa, Scott Ponik
Pages: 256
Format: 105 x 175 mm mm
Price: € 12,00
Being at once a school and at the same time not a school, a workspace, the Werkplaats Typografie (WT) tends to want to comment on its own distinctive form of academic pursuit (by way of, amongst other outlets, these School Journals). And during this sometimes faltering, sometimes successful quest, I’ve often thought about Jacques Rancière’s Ignorant Schoolmaster. Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation, not least because it outlines an “intellectual adventure” whereby any hierarchy amongst the students and between them and their tutor dissolves.
Editorial Considerations (fragment), by Maxine KopsaProject by: Werkplaats Typografie
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Speaking of Frames
Project by: DAI / Dutch Art Institute, CasCo, Emily Williams
Designer: Julie Peeters
Price: € 7,00
Emily: "This publication is in a process of finding out what it is as I do it. I find myself amidst a development in my work. This publication falls in the middle of that as a holder. This development is me trying to move away from transforming objects physically to transforming them through talking about them, or to find a way to incorporate the narrative that arises from a work, as the more dominant part of the work. Through talking about objects, this can be used to place them in a different context, create networks between objects and address associations made through objects."
Artist books – The Dutch Art Institute is one of the master programmes of the ArtEZ institute of the Arts. The DAI is a practice based research institute but grants theory, knowledge production and reflection as important. Because of the international student body DAI does not work with compelling formats, but instead folds thematic seminars and conferences and lectures in a flexible way around running projects. Since 2004 WT and DAI cooperate in editing, designing and producing the yearly graduation booklets for DAI.
Project by: DAI / Dutch Art Institute, CasCo, Emily Williams
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Task Newsletter 2: Not What If What If Not
Project by: Alex DeArmond
Designer: Alex DeArmond
Pages: 161
Price: € 10,00
The Mundane Science Fiction issue: Tone it down/pull it back. The future never gets old. Metahaven discusses online utopian impulses. Rob Giampietro and David Reinfurt have a slightly phased conversation. Kate McKinney Maddalena provides the etymology of the word "mundane." Task interviews the NASA Earth Observatory. Randy Nakamura tries to hold back his emotions. Catalogtree predicts the future. Daniel Eatock, LUST, Peter Bilak, Sean Donahue, Mr. Keedy, Zak Kyes, and Wayne Daly describe things that never happened. Paul Elliman climbs the Tower of Song. Jimmy Carter addresses alien races. Apollo 8 gets unscripted. Buckminster Fuller coins a term. Christian Bale meets Ettore Sottsass. Google organizes the world. All this in the span of a day, the palm of your hand.
Project by: Alex DeArmond
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Facsimile of ‘a Typographic Meal to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Libelle’, cooked by traveling vegan chef Joshua Ploeg
Project by: Werkplaats Typografie
Designer: Marc Hollenstein, Stephen Serrato, Julie Van Severen
Pages: 20
Format: 213 x 297 mm mm
Price: € 4,50
A facsimile booklet in b/w with recipe ‘graphs’ inspired by the meals of touring vegan chef/caterer and pioneering queercore punk musician Joshua Ploeg. Resulting from the workshop held at WT, January 23, 2009 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Libelle.
Project by: Werkplaats Typografie
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Open Impact Channel. Your limit is our imagination
Project by: Self initiated
Designer: Ines Cox, Lauren Grusenmeyer
Pages: 72
Format: 335 x 220 mm mm
Price: € 10,00
Open Impact Channel is an advertising company meeting the awareness needs of companies. Dedicated exclusively to the creation of innovative advertising programs, the principal operators, Cox & Grusenmeyer, provide a new avenue of promotional effectiveness. The public space and artistic environment is the playground! The mission is to invent new carriers for advertising by providing an intelligible re-use of existing promotional material.
Project by: Self initiated
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Life Is Too Short
Project by: Dutch Art Institute Enschede / DAI, CasCo
Designer: Ines Cox
Pages: 116
Format: 240 x 170 mm mm
Price: € 7,00
Life is Too Short is a manual followed by a series of re-enactments of self-help videos found on youtube. "Are we in perpetual state of recovery? Can it be overcome?" The work appropriates the narratives, voices and gestures of those reproducing recovery as a manual towards a disembodied and success process. The problem here (as the potential movement) is to consider the re-enactment of these voices as what won’t unquestionably reproduce its sameness, but on the contrary, will allow the discrepancies and discontinuities between the original and the copy, between the translation of one body to another, between the subject and its desired model.
The Publications Project is a collection of artist books issued by the Dutch Art Institute and designed in collaboration with the Werkplaats Typografie.
Project by: Dutch Art Institute Enschede / DAI, CasCo
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Delta by Ruben van Klaveren
Project by: DAI
Designer: Goda Budvytyte
Format: 170 x 240 mm mm
Price: € 9,00
"The Third Archetype" is a prose narrative explicating the installation "Delta."
This publication is part of the Publications Project, a collection of artist books issued by the Dutch Art Institute and designed in collaboration with the Werkplaats Typografie.Project by: DAI
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De Zolder van Duitsland by Seth de Rooij
Project by: Ko Jacobs
Designer: Dries Wiewauters
Pages: 146
Format: 240 x 170 mm mm
Price: € 21,00
Initiatief ‘De Zolder van Duitsland’ maakt deel uit van een reeks van publicaties op initiatief van ArtEZ Academie van Bouwkunst, Arnhem. Dit boek is gebaseerd op het afstudeerproject van Seth de Rooij aan ArtEZ Academie van Bouwkunst. Mentoren: Ralph Brodrück, Wim Korvinus, Ady Steketee en Lada Hrsak. Met dit project won Seht de Rooij in 2006 de Archiprix.
De zolder is de plek van de verdringing, maar ook van de herinnering. Dat wat wordt verdrongen is niet voorgoed weg en kan in principe worden hervonden. Dresden is het symbool van het Duitse collectieve geheugenverlies geworden. Vandaar dat Seth de Rooij in zijn ontwerp de Erlwein-Speicher heeft omgedoopt tot de ‘Zolder van Duitsland’. Deze zolder moet in zijn visie dat wat verdrongen was terugbrengen in het geheugen. Als ‘Zolder van Duitsland’, een depot of pakhuis van hedendaagse kunst, krijgt de Erlwein-Speicher weer een eigentijdse plek in de recente geschiedenis en in de skyline van Dresden.
Language: Dutch
Project by: Ko Jacobs
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Arranging Flower Arranging – 2021 edition
Designer: Andrea Salerno, Yeliz Secerli
Pages: 160
Format: 197 x 275 mm mm
Price: € 35,00
Andrea: “In early 2018, I came back home with a book titled Flower Arranging, an illustrated home reference manual about floral decoration dated 1966. The book was printed in Holland, yet published almost simultaneously in Des Moines (1965) and Glasgow (1966). The volume appeared to be sold in a no-longer existing bookshop in Johannesburg, between Pritchard and Loveday Streets, and eventually travelled back to the Netherlands, where I found it in a charity shop not too far from my house. Soon afterwards I started rearranging its sequence of flower arrangements with the help of Yeliz Secerli.”
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Fehler lesen. Korrektur als Textproduktion
Designer: Tabea Nixdorff
Pages: 80
Format: 230 x 304 mm mm
Price: € 18,00
“Fehler lesen. Korrektur als Textproduktion” is an essay on textual errors and a personal quest to find them. Misprints demonstrate the vulnerability of a text. Here we catch a glimpse of the pre- and post-production phases, work that is to a large extent invisible. Thus, the juxtapositions of words that are printed and those that are intended (errata) reveal far more than a simple genealogy of wrong vs. right: they document vestiges of the work done in the shadows, the wrestling with language. Displacements, reconstructions, and lacunae become visible. In her essay Tabea tracks the social, linguistic, media, and poetic dimensions produced by correction and textual criticism. Who does the correcting and what traces does this mostly invisible work leave behind? What shifts in meaning do mistakes trigger? To what extent does the medium play a part in authoring the text. “Fehler lesen. Korrektur als Textproduktion” appears as part of the Applied Publishing Studies series.
ISBN: 9783959052320
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Ubuntu (I Am because We Are)
Designer: Sarah Cleeremans
Pages: 165
Format: 195 x 255 mm mm
Price: € 35,00
In August 2015, photographer Rebecca Fertinel was invited by her friend Tracy Tansia for a wedding. In this way, Fertinel became acquainted with the warm, impudent attitude of life of the Congolese community in Belgium and with the Bantu concept of Ubuntu: that you only become human through a connection with everything and everyone. With additional text by Hans Theys.
Editor: Lecturis
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Obsidian dreams
Designer: Jannete Mark
Pages: 12
Format: 210 x 297 mm mm
Price: € 10,00
This book was inspired by ancient rituals that used obsidian mirrors as a method to predict the future.
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Stories from Kings County Hospital
Designer: Sarah Cleeremans
Pages: 88
Format: 140 x 215 mm mm
Price: € 15,00
A collection of stories, poems and observations about psychiatry, the power of language, the romanticised notion of madness, equality, grief, gender and escaping reality by creating a counter narrative. This publication culminates a six-month stay from Berentsen at the mental health department of Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York.
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WT reader: Octopus of Offshoots
Project by: Werkplaats Typografie
Designer: Adriaan van Leuven, Oliver Boulton
Pages: 237
Format: 135 x 210 mm mm
Price: € 17,00
This reader culminates a year of activity under the umbrella of WT Speelplaats.
As the custodians of year 19, — Adriaan Van Leuven and Oliver Boulton — proposed a way of working through imitation. Be it a method, model or base; by adopting the action(s) of someone or something. Imitation, not so much in the aspect of ‘copying’, but in the idea of chewing, digesting and regurgitating an existing thing. Imitation, as something we do naturally, as a pedagogy; a process of learning. Imitation, as a coming inhale, exhale. Imitation as a means to reflect, detangle and recognise our surroundings, times, contemporaries, idols. Imitation as a way to embrace or confront one’s swamped reference pool. Imitation, as an open question, put to ourselves and our colleagues: how do you find your voice? At which point Kathy Acker yelled back at us: “Why [do] I have to find my own voice and where [is] it?”
Project by: Werkplaats Typografie
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Power
Designer: Hannah Sakai
Pages: 100
Format: 108 x 174 mm mm
Price: € 15,00
A collection of 3D power strip models available for purchase online.
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BLOOD
Designer: Line-Gry Hørup
Pages: 428
Format: 195 x 255 mm mm
Price: € 50,00
‘BLOOD’ is a collection of poems written by Danish writer and art-educator R. Broby-Johansen (1900 – 1987). It was first published in 1922, for then the following day to be seized by the authorities and sentenced Broby to jail due to what at the time was considered profane content. Since, the poems have become legendary for their brutal expression. With this publication, the poems are for the first time translated from Danish to English, accompanied by an image appendix of photographs depicting the archive of Broby. The archive contain material for the work Broby would use the rest of his life on.
Author: R. Broby-Johansen
Design, edit & translation: Line-Gry Hørup
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Daniel & Rudi, A telephone book
Project by: self initiated
Designer: Moriz Oberberger
Pages: 100
Format: 210 x 297 mm mm
Price: € 25,00
Daniel R. & Rudi O. loved their books. Over the course of their lives, they collected around 30.000 all together. This book is a record of the telephone conversations these two men may or may not have had.
Project by: self initiated
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Supersize #2: book
Designer: Moriz Oberberger in collaboration with the Mexican streetwear brand Pay’s
Pages: 128
Format: 148 x 210 mm mm
Price: € 20,00
This is the second iteration of a series of very large drawings translated into three different formats; a book, a sweater and a mural. It’s the outcome of personal observations and stereotypical representations of the ordinary daily life in Mexico. It was first drawn on a sheet of paper, then, resized and decomposed into a book. After that a detail was taken out for the sweaters and it was reunited again for the mural. Enlarging the drawing into a super size is a method that aims to unveil the truth between the stereotypes and reality, similar to a magnifying glass that allows us to discover the truthful nature of the object we are looking at.
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Supersize #2: sweater & book
Designer: Moriz Oberberger in collaboration with the Mexican streetwear brand Pay’s
Pages: 128
Format: 148 x 210 mm mm
Price: € 120,00
Supersize #2 is the second iteration of a series of very large drawings translated into three different formats; a book, a sweater and a mural. It’s the outcome of personal observations and stereotypical representations of the ordinary daily life in Mexico. It was first drawn on a sheet of paper, then, resized and decomposed into a book. After that a detail was taken out for the sweaters and it was reunited again for the mural. Enlarging the drawing into a super size is a method that aims to unveil the truth between the stereotypes and reality, similar to a magnifying glass that allows us to discover the truthful nature of the object we are looking at.
Sweater size: M
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Paris, May 2018
Project by: self-initiated
Designer: Simona Koutná
Pages: 39
Format: 353 x 500 mm mm
Price: € 28,00
Two faces of unknown street girls plus Aurélie, a young artist who exploits images of her body online. But is reluctant to be recorded by someone else [me].
A six day document created between 9—14 May 2018; a series of 64 portraits from street commercials, a poem and the texts ‘I’m all yours’, and ‘Paris’ presented in a form of artist magazine, ‘Paris, May 2018’.
Project by: self-initiated
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The Story (Cahiers du Cinema)
Project by: self-initiated
Designer: Melina Wilson
Pages: 130
Format: 205 x 260 mm mm
Price: € 25,00
An account of events tying the trajectory of Jean-Luc Godard between Hollywood and Maputo at the end of the seventies, my mother being stuck in Switzerland, my current research, repelling magnets, and why failures are not what they seem. Presented at the show "*****WT in LA in February 2017 at HMCT, Art Center, Los Angeles. The publication includes a copy of Les Cahiers du cinéma Nr. 300 with added footnotes as my voice-over, inserted pictures, a copy of the script of Godard’s unmade film "The Story", and a postface added after watching "King Lear" months later.
Project by: self-initiated
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Warmer Wind
Project by: DPress
Designer: Andrea Salerno
Pages: 128
Format: 145 x 105 mm mm
Price: € 16,00
A flipbook out of which a warm breeze blows.
Project by: DPress
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Finissage
Designer: Line-Gry Hørup, Julie Héneault, Margaux Parillaud, Ursula Marlee Marcussen
Pages: 128
Format: 135 x 205 mm mm
Price: € 20,00
‘Finissage’ is a collection of text and images following a research of the physical as mental stretch of time and collective labour.
Design, writing and photography: Julie Héneault, Margaux Parillaud, Ursula Marlee Marcussen and Line-Gry Hørup.
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Lonely Travellers: A Short Journey to be Performed. Hanan Benammar
Project by: Dutch Art Institute / DAI
Designer: Mathew Kneebone
Pages: 30
Format: 120 x 170 mm mm
Price: € 12,00
The audio book ‘Lonely Travelers’ is a sonic juxtaposition of a radio piece as a printed script and a poem individually recorded over 200 audio tapes randomly collected in US, Europe and North-Africa.
The tapes are together in the book with the script of the radio piece. The radio piece is composed from transcriptions of secret audio recordings of group discussions that occurred during the process of a group of artists trying to work together as part of the ‘Publishing Class, How To Live Together’ series.Project by: Dutch Art Institute / DAI
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From Behind The Eyelids, Toeh Meisami
Project by: DAI / Dutch Art Institute
Designer: Yin Yin Wong
Pages: 48
Format: 105 x 160 mm mm
Price: € 8,00
A short story/brief history of an Iranian family involved in and affected by the turbulent political situation of the country (specifically during the years before and after the 1979 revolution in Iran). The text, in each ten chapters of the book, is divided into the main and the marginal. While the main text has taken a subjective approach and narrates the personal, the marginal text refers to the historical and political events that happened parallel to the events of the family.
Project by: DAI / Dutch Art Institute
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Dutch Resource: Collaborative Exercises in Graphic Design
Project by: Werkplaats Typografie with Valiz Publishers
Designer: Various
Pages: 360
Format: 170 x 235 mm mm
ISBN: 978-9080818576
Year: 2006
Price: € 25,00
Ten WT participants asked an equal number of Dutch graphic designers to join forces with them during their work period for the Chaumont Graphic Arts Festival in the summer of 2005. ‘Dutch Resource’ is a report of that collaboration; in ten different sections, each person’s working method becomes apparent and we are shown how the dialogue was put into effect. The book gives an accurate picture of the uncompromising practice of today’s graphic designer, a specialist and jack-of-all trades in one, who is not only meant to be a good designer but often works as a writer, researcher, editor, curator, critic and photographer as well. It shows work from: Lust, Mevis & Van Deursen, Julia Born, Roma Publications, Irma Boom, Maureen Mooren & Daniël van der Velden, Stuart Bailey, Will Holder, Experimental Jetset & Jop van Bennekom.
Project by: Werkplaats Typografie with Valiz Publishers
Year: 2006
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In Alphabetical Order. File Under: Graphic Design, Schools, or Werkplaats Typografie (WT)
Project by: NAi Publishers
Designer: Stuart Bailey
Pages: 96
Format: 170 x 240 mm
Price: € 20,00
Between its covers are: a book about typography and graphic design, arranged around work from a single source and incubator, the Werkplaats Typografie. The book shows a selection of the work in thematic pages of images, such as posters, CD’s, books and postcards. Six highly distinctive authors describe the studio’s philosophies on typography and graphic design as well as the Werkplaats Typografie’s intentions and methods.
Edited by Stuart Bailey. Text by Paul Elliman, Anthony Froshaug, Melle Hammer, Robin Kinross, Norman Potter.Project by: NAi Publishers
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