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Images should tell a story, they are a lingering snippet of time, that leaves the viewer questioning, what has just happened? What is about to happen? Why are these people there? What are they doing? Is the composition set up? Why has it been set up that way?

Hannah Starkey uses actors in carefully chosen settings to create lingering pictures in time that raise all of these questions, in choosing women that are ‘ordinary’ and clothed, she is challenging the ‘raunchy aspect’ of how women are represented in everyday imagery. Her work, creates a counter aesthetic for representing women. As one of the most influential and significant photographers of her generation, she creates images that emerge from the split second of the everyday and are resolved into what appears to be an extended moment in time.

Art catalogue, published on the occasion of the exhibition Hannah Starkey 29 Pictures at the Mead Gallery. Design by Stefi Orazi studio

Who doesn’t know typographer/art director from the 50s and 60s Roger Excoffon? Published for an exhibition at Musée de l’imprimerie in Lyon, this book gather more than 100 documents previously unpublished.

éditions Deux-Cent-Cinq
Format 14 x 19,5 cm / 128 pages
Softcover
French texts
1000 copies, printed in France!
Graphic design: Extrafine
15 €

The rapidly expanding online market for digital typefaces is exciting and diverse. With new fonts and type foundries launching on an almost daily basis, it has been difficult to keep track of notable developments—until now. Type Navigator is a useful current handbook of modern fonts, independent foundries, and innovative type designers that provides an overview of today’s vast market. This comprehensive publication offers a valuable overview of international sources for quality fonts. In addition to concise profiles of type foundries and recent typefaces, Type Navigator features inspirational visual examples of fonts in use. A free digital collection of 100 typeface variations from 20 choice foundries accompanies the 320-page book.

Jan Middendorp, TwoPoints.Net
Release Date: September 2011
Format: 24 × 30 cm
Features: 320 pages, full color, hardcover, incl. CD-ROM with 100 typefaces from 20 foundries
Language: English
Catalog Price: €49.90 / $78.00 / £45.00

Gleaned from thousands of images, Mid-Century Ads: Advertising from the Mad Men Era offers the best of American print advertising in the age of the “Big Idea.” At the height of American consumerism magazines were flooded with clever campaigns selling everything from girdles to guns. These optimistic indicators paint a fascinating picture of the colorful capitalism that dominated the spirit of the 1950s and 60s, as concerns about the Cold War gave way to the carefree booze-and-cigarettes Mad Men era. Also included is a wide range of significant advertising campaigns from both eras, giving insight into the zeitgeist of the time. Bursting with fresh, crisp colors, these ads have been digitally mastered to look as bright and new as the day they first hit newsstands.

Hardcover, 2 vols. in slipcase, 24 x 33.6 cm, 720 pages, € 39.99

3 years, 148 posts, 904 comments and over 2.5m visits later, Design Assembly (as we know it) is no more. ‘3’ archives over 100 published articles, comments included, as well as showcasing new and exclusive words and images from some incredible people.

£40.00 Free P+P

Aperture is pleased to present The New York Times Magazine Photographs ($75), edited by Kathy Ryan, which reflects upon and interrogates the very nature of both photography and print magazines at this pivotal moment in their history and evolution. With a preface by former editorial director Gerald Marzorati, this volume presents some of the finest commissioned photographs worldwide in various sections, including reportage, portraiture, style, and conceptual photography, and photo illustration.

Diverse in content and sensibility, and consistent in virtuosity, the photographs are accompanied by reproduced tear sheets to allow for the examination of sequencing and the interplay between text and image, simultaneously presenting the work while illuminating its distillation to magazine form. This process is explored further through texts offering behind-the-scenes perspective and anecdotes by the many photographers, writers, editors, and other collaborators whose voices have been a part of the magazine over the years.

PWR PAPER #6, a paperback book of 152 pages (12 € + Shipping), collects material by these cultural producers:

2029, Aaron Graham, Andreas Banderas, Anonymous, Ben Schumacher, Brad Troemel, Carson Fisk-Vittori, Deterretorial Support Group, Energy:Pangea, FAUX/real, Goodiepal, Ingo Niermann, Inka Lindergård & Niclas Holmström, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Johannes Thumfart, Jon Rafman, Juliette Bonneviot, Kareem Lotfy, Katja Novitskova, Martin Kohout, Nathalie du Pasquier, Oregon Painting Society, Rachel de Joode, Sarah Hartnett, Shawn C. Smith & Travess Smalley.

The book is available for purchase from a number of locations worldwide: Printed Matter in New York, Motto in Berlin, OMMU in Greece, Malmö Konsthall in Sweden and more to be announced soon.

It can also be ordered directly on http://www.pwrpaper.com

Otl Aicher, Gestalter

Otl Aicher (1922–1991) was perhaps the most influential designer in postwar West Germany. He became famous for his design of the commercial face of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich and his sport pictographs, and created the logos for large Germany companies such as Braun, Lufthansa, and BMW. As cofounder and later head of the pioneering Ulm School of Design, Aicher left his mark on whole generations of graphic designers. His connection to the circle around the resistance movement The White Rose was formative for his political involvement. He was married to Inge Aicher-Scholl, sister of Hans and Sophie Scholl, core members of the movement who were executed in 1943.

For this first critical biography, Eva Moser interviewed Aicher’s companions, family members, clients, and friends. Her text is supplemented by private family and professional photos as well as selected examples of Aicher’s seminal design ideas.

Text in German
2011. 456 pp., 374 ills., 35 in color
17.00 x 24.00 cm
softcover
€ 35.00

After years in the making ‘Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design‘ will be available next month.

This long awaited title on one of the greatest American designers of the 20th century has been written by distinguished design historian Pat Kirkham, who knew Bass personally, and is designed by his daughter, Jennifer Bass. As well as hundreds of images of Bass’ life and work, some of which are previously unpublished, there is a foreword by Martin Scorsese.

The release of the book is also being marked by a special event at MoMA on November 14th, featuring the New York premiere of Saul and Elaine Bass’ Academy Award-winning short ‘Why Man Creates’, 1968 (newly preserved by the Academy Film Archive). Among the evening’s guest presenters are the book’s author, Pat Kirkham, a distinguished design historian; Chip Kidd, the award-winning contemporary graphic designer and writer noted for his brilliant book covers; and Kyle Cooper, a legendary graphic designer in his own right, with such unforgettable film title sequences as Se7en, X-Men: First Class, the Spider Man trilogy, and countless others.

For more information please visit: http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/13752

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My good friend Brian W. Ferry just informed me his first book “Quality Of Life” is out today…

Quality Of Life, a collection of photographs by Brian W. Ferry. Brian is an American-born, self-taught photographer currently residing in London, UK. He has contributed work to publications from other independent publishers such as Lines & Shapes and Kinfolk Magazine, as well as completing commissions for the likes of Starbucks and Ralph Lauren.

The images included in Quality Of Life were pulled from the vast quantity of photographs that Brian took between January 2010 and January 2011, his first year living in London. Many of them were first shared on his popular blog The Blue Hour, and neatly encapsulate what he has said sums up the nature of his work: a desire to document the small and often seemingly unexceptional moments of day to day life, capturing these quietly beautiful details and making visual diary entries, allowing us to dwell on them with him.

First Edition of 500 copies
167x215mm / 48 pages / 37 colour images
Soft cover, perfect bound / Printed on Munken Lynx
Published November 2011 / Printed in Scotland
£13.00