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Eight:48’s seventh issue, ‘You are Here’, focuses on designers and their relationship with the cities they live in. The issue features viewpoints from Tim Bjørn, SB Studio, Somewhere Else, Mainstudio and Bond among others.

Issue Price: £6 (including p&p to UK)
Pages: 40pp
Format: Tabloid Newspaper
Print: Four Colour

To buy issues 1-7 of Eight:48 for a special price of £35 please go to www.counter-print.co.uk

Each graphic designer and artist designed a poster that expresses personal social agenda. This project reviews the social function of posters. This issue of GRAPHIC consists of 22 folded posters and designers’ short commentaries.

CONTRIBUTORS
åbäke
Alex DeArmond
Anthony Burrill
Bart de Baets & Sandra Kassenaar
Bureau Mirko Borsche
Experimental Jetset
Jin Dallae & Park Woohyuk
Jin Jung
Kimm Kijo
Lawrence Weiner
Mark Owens
Metahaven
Moon Seungyoung
Paul Elliman
Paul Sahre
Pierre Bernard
Richard Niessen & Esther de Vries
Rumors
Scott King
Sulki & Min
Sung JaeHyouk
workroom press

For the third volume of their eight-part series, Bracket – They survey 16 individuals on the future of education and its’ impact on creativity.

Featuring: Bianca Chang (Sydney), Craig Oldham (Manchester), Jack Sanders (Austin), Jasper Morrison (London), Jocelyn Glei (Brooklyn), John C Jay (Portland), Kenya Hara (Tokyo), Kirby Ferguson (New York), Kyle Bean (Brighton), Makoto Azuma (Tokyo), Masashi Kawamura (New York), Nicole Lavelle (Portland), Sarah Temple (London), Steve Heller (New York), Timothy Goodman (New York) and Xavier Encinas (Paris).

It’s Nice That No.7 features profiles of celebrated photographer Martin Parr and the brilliant Taryn Simon; interviews with i-D founder Terry Jones, Nieves editor-in-chief Benjamin Sommerhalder and hyper-cool duo Lernert & Sander; a free comic by the very talented illustrator Sophy Hollington, and much, much more.

Out now.
£9.00

Matter is a new biannual publication, from the team behind Kilimanjaro, that records the ways in which new and developing technology affects culture, lifestyle, fashion, and the arts.

Created by the studio behind the acclaimed arts and culture magazine Kilimanjaro, Matter shares the former’s curatorial approach to design and content. Designed to appeal to a consumer eager to tap into an ever-changing and increasingly sophisticated world, with particular regard to the twin disciplines of high-end design and culture, its inaugural issue is covered by the iconic trip-hop artist Tricky, who talks exclusively to Matter about music, imperfection, and reinvention.

Matter’s USP is the fact that it is the first art and style publication to examine these subjects through the lens of modern technology; in doing so, it brings together the creative and the rational in a way which is rarely seen in the realms of printed matter.

First issue includes:
Dieter Rams, Ole Scheeren, Matthew Collings, Pierre Huyghe & William Gibson.

Google’s Creative Director of Data Arts, Aaron Koblin, on digital art. Iconic fashion designer Rick Owens presents an Anthology Of Colour. Editor Jennifer Higgie on twenty years of Frieze magazine. Art & The Automobile, featuring the American artists Richard Prince and Erwin Wurm. Tate Exhibitions Curator Tanya Barson on the Lyon Biennale. Celebrated conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner, shot by NY underground photographer Ari Marcopolous. Photographer – and former director of Dior Homme – Hedi Slimane’s best images of women.

Matter magazine is 200 pages, and retails at £8.00

Self Service Magazine #35

Essentials lists from Camilla Nickerson, Isabel Marant, Jane Birkin, Aaron de Mey, Victoria Beckham, Amanda Brooks and Jean Touitou. / Shala Monroque photographed by Ezra Petronio. / Arizona Muse and Daphne Groeneveld photographed by Alasdair McLellan. / Cody Young and Arthur 
photographed by Venetia Scott. / Malgosia Bela photographed by Glen Luchford. / Claudia Schiffer photographed by Angelo Pennetta. / Gertrud Hegelund photographed by Theo Wenner. / Anja Rubik photographed by 
Ezra Petronio. / Q&A with Erdem Moralioglu, Alexander Wang, Olivier Theyskens, Thom Browne, Peter Dundas, Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Marco Zanini, Phillip Lim, Lazaro Hernandez, Jack McCollough, Maria Grazia 
Chiuri, Pierpaolo Piccioli, Christophe Lemaire, Prabal Gurung, Adam Kimmel, Reed Krakoff, Rodolfo Paglialunga, Serge Cajfinger, Jason Wu, Humberto Leon, Carol Lim, Katie Hillier, Bouchra Jarrar, Clare Waight Keller, Isabel Marant, 
Sébastien Peigné, Romain Kremer, Hakaan Yildirim, Joseph Altuzarra, Guillaume Henry, Yvan Mispelaere, Kim Jones, Anthony Vaccarello, Kate and 
Laura Mulleavy, Nicola Formichetti, Alexandre Vauthier, Thakoon Panichgul.

Available at international book stores, Colette.fr and from info@selfservicemagazine.com

What does a beautiful book mean in this contemporary era? This issue of GRAPHIC features the best book competitions mostly in Europe. Through the interviews with the members of committee/jury and the designers’ comments on the winning books, this issue is looking for the meaning of beautiful book.

EDITORIAL
This issue of GRAPHIC covers best book competitions that judge the “beauty” of the contending books. A total of eight competitions or events are included: national competitions (from the Netherlands, France, Belgium, and Sweden as well as the best-known one, The Most Beautiful Swiss Books) that reflect the book culture of their respective countries; Best Book Design From All Over the World held in Germany, which is the most representative international competition; Walter Tiemann Prize which is a unique competition focusing on typography; and Beautiful Books in Korea, which was held for the first time to select Korean books with good design.

As the titles suggest, the purpose of these competitions is to select the most beautiful books from each country. This means we can look at current trends in book design by examining them, which is the starting point of this issue. We hope the biggest benefit is that it provides a comprehensive overview of the criteria of a “beautiful” book sought by each competition.

The key sentence that penetrates the theme of this issue should be “What does a beautiful book mean to you?”, which is the question we presented to every interviewee. Of course, the intention was not to get the best answer but to collect various ideas on the qualities of a “beautiful book” from this ambiguous question. This question is also directed at ourselves and our readers, with the goal of prompting renewed reflection on book design by reading the answers and asking ourselves the same question at the same time.

Every text (such as interviews or comments from juries and designers) is, in fact, linked to this question. While the interviews with the organizers of the competition explain the unique cultural background of selecting “beautiful books,” the jury’s commentaries provide aesthetic justifications for it by summarizing why a particular book is beautiful. The comments from the designers strenuously reflect current trends, which equate the design process to book design itself.

It was only with the generous cooperation from the organizers and jurors of the competitions and the designers that this issue of GRAPHIC could be published. We would like to convey our sincere gratitude to every contributor.

CONTRIBUTORS
Anisha Imhasly
Arina Stoenescu
Cornel Windlin
Etienne Robial
Greger Bergvall
Julia Blume
Julien Magnani
Just Enschedé
Konstanze Berner
Lim Kyungyong
Pierre Huyghebaert
Uta Schneider
Vanessa van Dam

Process Journal Edition Five is the first edition to feature our design update. Comprising of a more flexible grid, updated captioning, new contents page and a brand new cover, the updated design still stays true to our original objective: ‘capturing beautiful work in a printed publication that allows the design to do the talking’. We feel these changes have made it that little bit easier to read and a touch more refined. As part of the update, we have also revised our structure. Now comprising two essays, ten interview features and two written profiles, we feel this adjusted structure allows us to include a greater diversity of content and assists us in defining what Process is really about.

Edition Five contributors include:
Christopher Doyle, Thomas Williams, Farrow, Aesop, Winkreative, Moving Brands, Holt Design, Gavillet & Rust, HORT, The International Office, L2M3, Xavier Encinas and Research & Development.

Now shipping worldwide from the Published by Process Online Store.

Designed by Joseph Hales and edited by Carianne Whitworth, Playground Magazine is pleased to present The Exchange Issue. Its features include interviews with IFS, Ltd, the Yale graduates whose collaborative publication was bartered for during the New York Art Book Fair; artist Rebecca Lennon, who covertly records the confused conversations between debt collection agencies after she has placed them on the phone to one another; and – skyping from the Miami Poetry Festival – illustrator Sam Winston, who reworks and exchanges the visual structures of archetypal texts. Further highlights include an essay on the Dutch tulip bubble, an explanation of how Karl Marx’s overcoat contributed to the creation of his seminal text Capital, and a currency created exclusively for this issue of Playground by designer Fraser Muggeridge.

Issues can be exchanged for a mere five pounds from the stockists listed on www.playgroundmag.co.uk, or from our online shop: www.playgroundmagazine.bigcartel.com

Edition of 200
44 pages
240mm x165mm
Printed by Ditto Press on Munken Pure and Popset Lime

Response is a bi-annual journal which explores contemporary Antipodean graphic design. An initiative of AGDA Victoria, the publication was created to fill a perceived deficiency in the local publishing scene.

The launch issue is centred on the theme of ‘What’s Next?’ and features content from creatives including Garry Emery, John Warwicker, Fabio Ongarato Design, Spike Hibberd and New Zealand’s Alt Group. A collaborative project in the truest sense, Dominic Hofstede and Paul Marcus Fuog are responsible for curating and designing the first two issues.

Design: Dominic Hofstede with Paul Marcus Fuog