Blackout poems by Laura Fenner, Wayne Gannon, Orla Goodman, Robyn Murray, Meaghan O'Brien, Aoife O'Toole. ALSO editions is a Dublin-based publications imprint co-ordinated by Peter Maybury. It is set to...
My name is Ploy. I am an Irish Thai artist based in Dublin. My works revolve around human relationships, dual identity, Buddhist practices, and self-reflection. I enjoy creating projects that...
"In my twenties, it seems important to have a city-centre studio. I find a concrete boxabove an alteration centre in a building with a distinctive zig-zag façade I've admired for...
Comprising a series of iconic street photographs recast as guerilla street posters – and later rephotographed as they decayed on walls around the city – Jesse Marlow’s (De)Compositions is a...
Harvard Design Magazine Issue 53: Reuse and Repair Put the city up; tear the city down,put it up again; let us find a city. —Carl Sandburg, “The Windy City,” 1922...
Space is the place. According to the UN, there should be close to 9.6 billion people on Earth by 2050, and most of them concentrated in cities. This is happening...
Design is broken. Young and not-so-young designers are becoming increasingly aware of this. Many feel impotent: they were told they had the tools to make the world a better place,...
How to design the world: creating spaces for interplay Everyone is a designer. But while many practitioners may be looking for solutions or ideological certainties, Easterling argues that solutions are...
Leading architect Reinier de Graaf punctures the myths of contemporary architecture No longer does it suffice to judge a building solely by its appearance; it must be measured and certified....
Welcome to TYPEONE Magazine issue 10! Now stacked with 182 pages (30%+ increase), this issue is guest-edited and designed by Studio Groundfloor, the studio that has been shaping the look...
Climate breakdown, environmental justice, urban expansion, metropolitanisation. A multiplicity of dynamics are driving rapid infrastructural transitions, transforming cultures of movement. But these changes are all-too-often narrated at scales that surpass...
Lamentation practices can empower the potentiality to defy patriarchal orders ruling everyday life. Always a collective process, lamentation inscribes loss and vulnerability by tending bridges towards the world of the...
Whether in Tokyo, Madrid, or Paris, our latest crop of interiors defies the growing uniformity of urban landscapes by affirming their uniqueness. Indeed, a new kind of financialised architecture is...
Gerry Cahill is an Irish architect whose built work is primarily in housing, and primarily in Dublin. Most of Cahill’s homes were delivered with local authorities, voluntary organisations, or approved...
Grab a bag, pack your passport, camera, some sunglasses, swimminggear, and sturdy shoes, because this issue of The Modernist is heading OUTSIDE. Covering everything from cemeteries, to art in supermarket...
The first issue of The Modernist on the ‘O’ theme. Here we take on OBJECT and encounter items that while everyday are anything but mundane. Some classic designs from the...
A neighbourhood whole is often greater than the sum of its parts, and whilst the architecture and buildings are key components in creating a neighbourhood, it is the inhabitants that...
Line Which Forms a Volume is a critical reader and symposium of graphic design-led research that is written, edited, designed and published annually by participants of the MA Graphic Media...
Harvard Design Magazine 52: Instruments of Service' poses a simple question: What do architects actually make and how is this changing? At a moment when the word "design" has come...
Throughout their history, architecture exhibitions have embraced different approaches and constructed other modes of action within the discipline, playing a pivotal role in disseminating, diffusing, and experimenting with architectural culture....
Juri Velt explores potential scenarios emerging with the disappearance of a segment of society in a mountain town. Three tales unfold in the voids left by its departure, unravelling the...
After Architekturfotografie, its latticed step sister Pompei, Pompeii and the xerox-classic Models Bianca Pedrina continues her artistic journey through architectural incongruities.The title Architekturfotografie is intentionally misleading, as the Swiss artist Bianca...
In an increasingly digital world, brands are faced with the challenge of reshaping their identities in order to solidify their presence both online and offline, not to mention a variety...
Children's picturebooks are the very first book we encounter and play a major role in introducing us to both art and language. But what does it take to create a...
This book offers practical help and guidance to aspiring illustrators. All areas of the job are covered – creating a portfolio; approaching potential clients; preparing for meetings and negotiating contracts;...
The result of 35 years of experience in the publishing and printing industry, this bible provides all the information needed by anyone who wants to print and produce any type...
Africa in Fashion explores the kaleidoscope of craft cultures that have shaped African fashion for centuries and captures the intriguing stories of contemporary and avant-garde African brands. Part One looks...
Writing great copy is often assumed to be a natural talent. However, there are powerful techniques one can employ to craft strong written content with ease. This essential guide teaches...
The ability to imagine different possible futures and the will to influence the course of events are deeply human. These ideas about the future can also determine which of the...
Discover the vibrant world of expressive typography, where letters dance off the page and words become works of art. In an era dominated by fleeting attention spans and visual overload,...
The title of this publication, Rich Views, takes its name from the physical location of the Richview campus where the architecture facilities of UCD are held. Richview occupies a peripheral...
This anthology is a critical reflection on the making of Soil Lab, a project built with a community in North Lawndale, Chicago, and hosted by the Danish Arts Foundation at...
Since the Boyer of 1996 of ‘Building Communities: A New future for Architectural Education and Practice’ there has been some movements in architectural and design schools and practitioners exploring ways...
The seventh issue of A Line Which Forms a Volume documents and explores the role of emotions in the process of design research. Internally, participants from MA Graphic Media Design – London...
The ‘north’ is subjective. The Modernist is produced out of Manchester and, as such, they consider themselves to be northerners. However, to their Scottish cousins this is nonsense: to them...
When we think of modernism, we immediately think of the shiny and new. However, what was once cherished can soon become unloved, ignored, and neglected. This issue looks at things...
Michael Scott’s Áras Mhic Dhiarmada and Busáras is one of the most important modernist buildings in Ireland. Built between 1947 and 1953, it was intended to be a bus station...
Contemporary architectural criticism tends to focus on the theories and concepts behind buildings. Yet there is much to be learned by venturing beyond the library walls to contemplate the real...
How often have you seen a label on a product proclaiming it to be made from ‘recycled material’, ‘bioplastic’ or similar, without it giving any details of the concrete environmental...
A Line Which Forms a Volume 6 is a critical reader and symposium of graphic design-led research that is written, edited, designed and published annually by participants of the MA...
A Line Which Forms a Volume 4 is a critical reader and symposium of graphic design-led research. Bridging the gap between academia and the public sphere of design, it just...
Some art forms have had more of an impact on the language of graphic design than others, but not many have helped contribute the same dynamism, energy and vitality as...
Materials have the power to affect human experiences and emotions by helping us build intimate connections with inanimate objects through touch and feel. Whether they are used as a point...
An exciting new series from industry leader Victionary, BRANDlife examines immersive brand experience across a variety of consumer or service related businesses in the fields of hospitality, retail and dining....
Concept stores and pop-ups are all about discovery and stimulation. In a world where shopping options abound in the digital realm alone, perceptive brands are pushing creative boundaries to weave...
Digital Textile Design, Second Edition covers everything students and practitioners of textile design will need to learn about designing and printing digitally. Written specifically for textile designers, Digital Textile Design,...
A product can be manufactured in many ways, but most designers know a handful of techniques only. With specially commissioned diagrams, case studies and photographs of the manufacturing process, Making...
The Visual History of Type is a comprehensive, detailed survey of the major typefaces produced since the advent of printing with movable type in the mid-fifteenth century to the present...
In this, the first product design book devoted purely to styling, Peter Dabbs helps students and professionals to understand how to style their own consumer-focused products. Providing a clear and...
This unparalleled and wide-ranging book surveys the history of applied arts and industrial design from the eighteenth century to the present day, exploring the dynamic relationship between design and manufacturing,...
We all engage with digital user experience design and user interfaces every day - if you are reading this on an e-commerce platform then you are doing it right now....
This innovative and unique book is a visual guide to the buildings that surround us. Architectural features are pinpointed and labelled on images of buildings so that, unlike with other...
The Brand Book provides a straightforward and practical guide to the fundamentals of brands and branding, enabling anyone in business to create their own powerful brand. Entertainingly written in jargon-free...
This book explains, in simple steps and non-mathematical terminology, how to create repeat patterns in a line, on the plane, as tiles and as Escher-like repeats. The book also...
Creating a brand identity is a fascinating and complex challenge for the graphic designer. It requires practical design skills and creative drive as well as an understanding of marketing and...
Contemporary mythologies are out there, in the urban chaos. Monsters, giants, constructions, spirits and creatures of all sorts tell the cities’ everyday life struggles if one is willing to listen...
Humans lack the capacity to comprehend geological time, a breadth unfathomable from our biological perspective. Our callous extraction of resources negates the patience of geomorphology. The Burren’s karst landscape instinctively...
This second publication in the Exchange Series, Dublin Exchange responds to a specific moment in the city’s architecture history. In 2021, architect Niall McCullough (1958–2021) died. McCullough was one of...
Housing Unlocked: Ideas from a Living Room is the companion book which gathers the ideas, ambitions and debates of the award-winning Housing Unlocked architecture exhibition. Housing Unlocked is a collaboration...
Douglas Crimp (b. Coeur d’Alene, USA, 1944; d. New York, USA, 2019) was one of the most influential art critics, curators, and AIDS activists of his time. His writings on...
An assembly of speculative essays, reviews, interviews and collected statements, its concern is with the recent history of the book and the idea of publication arising from its occurrence in...
A Room with a View takes place in and around the Pensione Seguso, a historic, family-run hotel in Venice. Guided by architecture professor Verena von Beckerath, the contributions to this...
Cassandra Press was founded in 2016 by artist Kandis Williams as an independent publishing project. At its core, Cassandra Press examines tools of perception and racism, and their dominant role...
In their most colourful issue yet, we step into the life and work of architect Francis Kéré, known in equal measure for his lighthearted and innovative architecture, his remarkable background, and...
Rising from London’s Erith marshes in the 1960s, Thamesmead was London County Council’s bold attempt to build a new town to address the city’s housing shortage after the Second World...
Nowhere in Cycladic culture has love been defined in a singular all-encompassing manner. Forces of attraction, affection, connection, and relation were ascribed in a plurality of ways. Through symposia in...
Epidemics and pandemics undermine societies and highlight the vulnerability of relations people have created to the land, other species, and each other. This book presents fragments of disease management in...
What would be of contemporary culture if we did not recognize the impact of migration in cultural and socio-economic crossings? This book explores human migration in different times, contexts, and...
Today, many feel fettered by insomnia, untouchability, and restrictions on movement. Looking for a more holistic approach to bodily and mental health, this book explores architectures and elementary forms of...
What does it mean to drill deep and interfere with the configuration of tectonic plates? What does it mean to hollow out and alienate islandic undergrounds? How is wealth extracted...
Aggressively rebounding after recessions and the pandemic, sprawling landscapes of tourism in the Mediterranean continue to build upon the iconic spatial typology of sea & sun vacationing: the beach. But...
Following the example of French and British railway companies, C.P. (Portuguese Railways) built houses and social facilities between 1910-20, to support its employees and their families. Key projects implemented during...
This second investigation in the Street Report publication series looks at the Sungei Road Thieves Market in Singapore, a place where an informal and fluid network of market vendors come...
The last copy is reduced in price due to slight damage on the cover. What is the future of the book? And, specifically, what is the future of books on art,...
Atelier HOKO’s encounters with public bins reveal how unexpected or “improper” use or interactions, no matter how minor, are rich areas for study and observation, sometimes humorously so. This well...
The world today faces overwhelming ecological and social problems and the concern for material existence on earth is more pressing than ever. Making Matters spells out various roles that visual...
The world today faces overwhelming ecological and social problems and the concern for material existence on earth is more pressing than ever. Making Matters spells out various roles that visual...
Henry van de Velde (1863–1957) is a pivotal figure in the history of modern design. His range was prodigious: from furniture, jewellery and dress design to interiors and entire buildings....
The first anthology of its kind, Graphic Design: History in the Writing (1983–2011) comprises the most influential texts about graphic design history published in English. Edited by a graphic design...
This book offers a collaborative panorama of Belgian graphic design history from a multiplicity of perspectives, with essays on type design, colonisation and labour relations among other subjects. Contributors include...
In this minimalist black and white zine, graphic designer Scarlett Xin Meng isolates specific physical spaces into a series of abstracted graphic works. Meng's publication is a study of perspective,...
An inventory of posters produced by Draw Down Books for art book fairs, workshops, and lectures between 2013 and 2021. Documenting Draw Down's activities throughout the period, the publication also...
A monochromatic publication that brings together a series of texts written and designed by graphic designer Maziyar Pahlevan. Educated in Iran and the Hague before obtaining his MFA from Yale,...
Gitai (Gitai means biological mimicry in Japanese) is an art book collection with the theme of "object’s mimicry" by a Japan based designer, Tomoyuki Koseko. By applying the concept of...
A book, supposedly by the presumed pseudonymous “Satoshi Nakamoto”, of private musings, poetry, drawings and collage/imageries that expose the interiority of one committed to absence. Published by FUFU PRESSEdition of 15Softcover 66 pages203 × 266...
*aaaaaaaaaaaargh is about the shape of words and how words are shapes and sounds and containers of the struggle in the world. Published by FUFU PRESSUpdated Edition of 15Softcover 108 pages207 × 273...
Auditing Intimacy catalogues the last five years of O.J.A.I.'s postcard correspondence. In addition to over 80 images, the publication contains a specially commissioned essay by curator Alicja Melzacka dealing with self-institutionalization -...
It is almost impossible to separate the ascendance of Modernism from the rise of the machine. In the long history of humanity, machines are a relatively new part of our...
In this issue, The Modernist are looking at all things grand, large, colossal and epic; literally, metaphorically and otherwise. John Grindrod celebrates the much maligned Millennium Dome. While its initial ambition...
“The photobook does not contain the photos in a fish tank. It would be ideal for a photobook to release photos and images like fish in the river. The most...
Mini Stories came about from our love of history and story-telling. Inspired by the everyday, we delve into the back stories of what surrounds us - from the wonderful natural...
Proprietary algorithms, secret data troves, and inscrutable systems rule the day. How is this registered in art? In Poetics of Encryption Nadim Samman explores works that highlight the hidden dimensions...
This book serves as an introduction to the key elements of good illustration. The Illustration Idea Book presents 50 of the most inspiring approaches used by masters of the field...
Driving the Human is a catalyst for experimentation, shaping sustainable and collective futures that combine science, technology, and the arts in a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach. This publication documents all...
å falle mellom stoler by Jelsen Lee Innocent is a project that encourages a discourse that surpasses the aesthetic of ethnic integration as proof of racial progress in Norway. In...
In 1924, the Philadelphia architect Horace Trumbauer was commissioned by tobacco millionaire and plantation owner, James Buchanan Duke, to develop and expand the existing Trinity College campus of Duke University...
For Pompei, Pompeii Swiss artist Bianca Pedrina carefully inspects the relationship between form and function in a newly implemented accessibility project in Pompeii. The project consists of iron elements embedded...
Ankommen is a study of architectural infrastructure for state-provided accommodation for refugees in Germany. During the so called European migrant crisis from 2015 on Germany got known for its 'welcome...
Together! The New Architecture of the Collective presents an overview of contemporary collective housing projects from contexts as different as Europe, Asia, and the United States. The exhibition catalogue traces...
Garden Futures examines what gardens and their design reveal aboutour relationship to nature. In exploring the history of ideas behind the moderngarden, this book takes a close look at the...
Employing the concept of an anarchic organisation of cinematic spaces, the author embarks in this volume on a journey toward an imaginary political trope for the cinema of the present...
Following on the widely read The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues, which explored how museums are changing through conversations with today’s generation of museum directors, New York-based author and...
The photobook visually and materially contextualises arrangements of photographs and brings them into a sensually tangible form. The book format, the materiality of the paper, and the type of binding...
As much as skills and styles matter when it comes to design, every visual begins with a fundamental element that can be enhanced or expanded into an aesthetically pleasing and...
Hold That Thought is a walk through the work of visual artist Johannes Langkamp. This book is a reflection of an archive with (digital) works of art, experiments, (kinetic) models...
In 1969, shortly after moving to Detroit, Lorraine and Fredy Perlman and a group of kindred spirits purchased a printing press from a defunct militant printer and the Detroit Printing...
Idealism and imagination, dreams and reality, all come into play when we consider glass: from an elemental, ritual and decorative material of mysterious origins, to functional, technological, mass-produced commodity. Remaking...
For thousands of years, architects have used models to invent, experiment and communicate. A world in miniature, such models are even more varied in their purposes and materials than their...
Global dramas can lead us to question our own credibility and the significance of our own lives and/or actions. Recent events in Ukraine have led the Slanted team to ask...
In this collection of idiosyncratic lessons, architect and teacher Pier Paolo Tamburelli engages with the very foundations of architecture, proposing a series of new and open-ended perspectives on how we...
Why does a newspaper look different than a magazine or a book? What effect does using a certain typeface or a specific grid have? And why do some layouts just...
The minimalism movement has become a mainstay in popular culture, due in no small part to the mounting pressures of modern life and the need to cut clutter. In graphic...
When a product is labelled as “Made in Japan”, it is often a promise of quality, and the consistent clarity, order and precision of Japanese designs definitely ensures that the...
Colour is one of the essential elements of many branding designs. It can help give an identity personality and warmth, express emotion, communicate messages in an unconscious and subtle way...
This booklet, published in 2023 by Common Ground, Create and Half Letter Press, traces the richness and diversity of artist Kate O'Shea's response to the Just City Counter Narrative Neighbourhood...
Site Report is a collection of poetry in prose, verse and screenplay, where windows are a lot more than panes of glass, tables have minds of their own and sinks...
Since the global financial crisis of 2008, which was triggered by a real estate crisis, there is a renewed search for alternative forms of housing production that escape speculative interests...
Diagrammatic writing is a poetic demonstration of the capacity of format to produce meaning. The articulation of the codex, as a space of semantically generative relations, has rarely (if ever)...
‘Critical Designers’ produced by an increasing number of design schools are prompted to address social, political and environmental issues through their practices. Yet, who can afford to continue such effort...
Hands reaching and feeling, noses sniffing, eyes scrolling: the magic at book shops and at book fairs is also very much a tactile one. But what exactly is the tactile,...
The local authority, the borough council, was the furthest away from central government, but many of its officers were fiercely proud of their municipality and their role in shaping its...
This book is an attempt to think through life and the universe in graphic-design terms. With concise drawings and brief texts, illustrator and designer Ruida Si quietly shows humanity in...
The Air from Other Planets introduces an architecture built and controlled by amplifying and designing the energy within our electromagnetic, thermodynamic, acoustic, and chemical environment. This approach to design exchanges...
Immutable: Designing History explores the banal genre of the document and its entanglement with statecraft and colonial(ism/ity). This is framed as a ~5,000 year chronology, imbricating the developments of money...
All times appear equally and at once. The past no longer recedes in an orderly way, but threatens to resurface at any moment in the guise of the contemporary. Nostalgia...
There is a spot. It is the perfect spot to stand. But somewhere above there is also a rock. A rock from the sky. Published by Walker BooksSoftcover96 pages260 x 195...
Atelier E.B: Passer-by examines an essential facet of the fashion industry: the world of mannequins and retail display. Since the Surrealists took them up in the early twentieth century, mannequin...
This revised and expanded second edition of Hey: Design & Illustration contains many new projects as well as the work and collaborations carried out as part of Hey's expansion into...
The age of the internet and media have brought about a growing interest in Asian culture and its various languages across the region. Due to theie unique structures, the Han characters are being...
Videogame Atlas presents a journey through twelve well-known videogame worlds via panoramic maps, intricate exploded diagrams and detailed illustrations. The book offers a playful new way of seeing these beloved...
2nd, revised and extended edition. This new edition (first published in 2017) includes a number of new projects as well as an introductory text presenting important recent developments in robotics...
The Logo Design Idea Book is an accessible introduction to the key elements of good logo design, including insights into the logos of iconic brands.This guide is an indispensable resource for...
Printmaking is a practical and comprehensive guide to printmaking techniques.This fully updated edition includes expanded chapters on digital and mixed media processes, and a brand new 'Print & Make' chapter,...
The secret history of mid-century America might've been just another Saturday night after all. Pennies in a Stream haphazardly documents the nation's surreal suburbanesque diversions through an illogical dreamscape of...
Queer Earth Food is a collection of writing and art on food, the earth, and queerness. In this book you will find firsthand accounts of rural queer experiences. The contributors...
Bungalow Bliss, first published in 1971, was a book of house designs that buyers could use to build a home for themselves affordably. It first appeared two years before Ireland...
Is it a book, an exhibition, a catalogue of the exhibition? Is it mass produced? Is it unique? Dayanita Singh is a book artist who stretches the imagination of what...
This book is a revelatory guide to hundreds and hundreds of original 7” record cover sleeve designs – visual artefacts found at the heart of the most radical and anarchistic...
‘Our current modus operandi can’t support the kinds of futures we envision for ourselves and those to come. As architects, builders, and citizens, we must urgently rethink our relationship to...
Slanted Magazine #40 Experimental Type opens eight doors, each one offering a glimpse into spaces that were explored by pushing conventions, limitations, and thoughts to the next level. We all know though,...
29Letters Type Foundry S.L. is dedicated to creating and publishing multiscript typefaces. Its Arabic and Latin typography leading edge arises from its collaborative team of professional Arab and European type...
29Letters Type Foundry S.L. is dedicated to creating and publishing multiscript typefaces. Its Arabic and Latin typography leading edge arises from its collaborative team of professional Arab and European type...
The world today faces overwhelming ecological and social problems and the concern for material existence on earth is more pressing than ever. Making Matters spells out various roles that visual...
Through a collection of essays by selected scholars and practitioners, this volume explores the ways in which digital technology has deeply influenced how one produces interacts with, and consumes narratives...
What role does storytelling play in urban imaginaries? How do these imaginaries converge or diverge from reality? Can we use stories to test ideas for future architecture? Concrete & Ink:...
Nine essays on home, identity, and ruins. Writers, artists, curators, and researchers discuss homelessness and war, utopias of free movement, reconstructing cities and their histories, and the ethics of art....
What does it mean to acknowledge one’s closeness to, enmeshment in or even kinship with the material world? And what does it mean to question family structures – the way...
Inspired by the recent tendency among architects and designers to opt out of traditional office work in favour of creating self-initiated interventions in public space,‘Co-machines’ maps out a new architectural movement motivated...
From Google reviews to YouTube tutorials, and from online service desks to real-life ‘may I speak to the manager’ requests–we are all critics of our designed environments. It seems therefore...
An independent bookshop in Glasgow. An ice cream parlour in Havana, where strawberry is the queerest choice. A cathedral in ruins in Managua, occupied by the underground LGBTQIA+ community. Queer...
'We present Opening Distance as an act of moving away. Movement into spaces outside supposed centres. In doing this, we aim to share and listen in more considered ways. This...
Originally from Chicago, Ryan W. Kennihan has been working in Dublin since 2007 and has taught at various universities. His architecture is reserved, peaceful and elegant. Each building is a...
100 Poster Battle 2 — Sharing Cultural Identities is an experimental, bilingual poster design project supervised by Lars Harmsen and Markus Lange, that brings together students from different universities to...
