Barack Obama, Robert Pattinson, Pablo Picasso, Ödön von Horvath, Maruc Tullius Cicero, David Morrissey, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, and many more …This 16-page zine by artist, designer, and organizer Rosalie Schweiker is...
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...
There has never been a period in photography’s long history – no school, no movement – when flowers have not been a central focus, whether in the form of the...
‘Why Exhibit? Vol. 2, On Curating Photography’ combines articles and conversations on curatorial practices concerning photo-based images. Discussion centres on challenges curators and artists working with photography face today. How...
‘Talking about Photobooks’ gives an insight in the history of the photobook medium, its relationship to architecture and artificial intelligence, and the many roles the photobook can play in art...
Sonder is an Irish print literary journal publishing short stories, creative nonfiction, flash fiction and poetry. In Issue X, these stories centre around the theme of need and the idea...
Tolka is a Dublin-based biannual literary journal of non-fiction, publishing essays, reportage, travel writing, auto-fiction, individual stories and the writing that falls in between. They publish and promote work that...
Germany is a crime fiction country. If wanted, fictional murder and manslaughter can be witnessed many times a day throughout the main television networks. There are more than 238 crime...
'! All’arme / ? And what... if not' is at once experimental, interdisciplinary and intercultural. This collection teems with close observation and glancing intimations of human frailty and the minutiae...
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;...
In The Women Who Changed Photography the reader can discover 50 groundbreaking female photographers and how to incorporate their styles and techniques into their own photography. Often in the shadow of...
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...
Through a curated selection of quotations, images and interviews, Artists on Art takes the reader inside the minds of the world's most influential creative thinkers and doers. From Ai Weiwei...
Long taboo, lived experiences of motherhood – and all that accompanies it – are now the subject of urgent discussion. 'Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood' delves into the...
With a history tracing back to ancient Egypt, cats have not only gained the favour of humans by repelling pests, but have also provided us with companionship and plenty of...
Whether you look at them in awe or in fear, the world of small but mighty insects is an irreplaceable part of Earth and its ecosystems, and is equally strange...
Behind every accomplished artist is often a journal, sketchbook, or notepad where all their ideas and inspirations are gathered, a portable space where concepts and thoughts can be experimented and...
The body remains a battleground. Politicised, conceptualised and increasingly shared, our often-paradoxical relationship with the human form is nothing new, but finds itself heightened in the digitised, virtualised era of...
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,...
An updated edition of this essential practical handbook for all those involved in, or studying the dynamic field of curating. From pitching your ideas and writing loan requests to working...
Vol 10 of Winter Papers, Ireland’s annual anthology for the arts, is published by Curlew Editions. It offers fiction, non-fiction, poetry, photography, visual arts, along with craft interviews and in-conversation...
This massive publication offers the first comprehensive panorama of the Latin American illustrated book between the 1920s and 1940s, a period characterized by the rapid modernization of the region. The...
Deeply rooted in a form of artistic 'barefoot anthropology' 'Shaved Rapunzel, Scheherazade & the Shearling Ram from Arcady' reflects both on the culture of disconnection from the natural environment and...
'Curious' presents a series of interviews with curators and artists by Paul O'Neill, conducted at the turn of the millennium when contemporary curating was solidifying as a creative profession. While...
In recent years, collective approaches to curatorial practice have become prominent, and not for the first time. While the myth of the stand-alone curator has been largely dismantled in favor...
In his essay, the writer and artist Isaiah Lopaz tells of recovered memories, yearning desires and the bitter and painful disappointment that his place of refuge, Europe, became. His text...
Punks Listen – The Fanzine is a follow-up to the highly successful book of the same name. So far, the book has raised over €15,000 for the Red Cross Ukraine...
Each one started, each one started, each one started is a publication designed to contextualise and expand upon the ideas explored in Christopher Steenson’s artwork The Long Grass (2022–2024). Taking...
“Diasporic Threads platforms a stunning selection of works by contemporary Black women textile artists and is rich in critical insight and historical context.” - Ferren Gipson, author of Women's Work:...
Textiles have long been part of the fabric of disabled people’s lives and history. In common with banners of the women’s suffrage movement and trade unions, disabled activists have embraced...
A vital and tender record of the quilts that have shaped history — and the hands that stitched them. Throughout history, marginalised communities have turned to the collective intimacies of...
For centuries, people have stitched in good times and in bad, finding strength in the needle moving in and out of fabric. Stitching Freedom explores the embroidery made in prisons...
Exploring the intimate relationship between Hawaiian quilts, post-colonialism and ecological disaster, research curator Marenka Thompson-Odlum traverses Hawai‘i through the Poakalani quilting group and fifteen extraordinary quilts, newly commissioned by Pitt...
Tatreez — elaborate hand-embroidery — is an ancient Palestinian craft characterised by remarkable beauty and complexity. Beginning with an introduction to the regional diversity of historic Palestinian dress, Rachel Dedman...
W/w follows the trials and triumphs of Mary, an aspiring artist and writer, in conflict with the world around her. Confined to the porch of her family home, Mary’s consciousness searches for...
Why make art? Faced with a capitalist system that has turned art into artwork and creative expression into cut-throat competition, why do so many artists try anyway? In this eye-opening...
'Frustrated Writers' Group, Vol. 2' is a group anthology of writing and visual art from this artists' co-operative. The publication emerges from the group's twice-monthly writing workshops at the Unit...
Pig Pen is a collection of drawings by Rory Mullen. Taking the form of an artist’s sketchbook, the drawings act as notes, designs and proposals for future works. Drawing is...
Over the past 4 years artist Vanessa Daws and curator Rosie Hermon have been working on Swimming a Long Way Together a project inspired by the 20th century pioneering swimmer Mercedes...
'Lesbian Art Circle' is a publication and event series based in Dublin, Ireland which centres the visual and written work of queer women. The themes of 'Lesbian Art Circle, Volume...
'Ishango' is a small, independently published ethno-mathematical feminist revision of the Book of Genesis, as inspired by the works of Claudia Zaslavsky. The chapbook is illustrated by Irish artist Rachel...
'Sitting on the Sidelines' is the most recent poetry collection published by Femmesocial Press. It is a collection of enduring poems written by Mase Okor encapsulating the experience of young...
Text of the play No Woman is an Island designed as an art book by Éilís Murphy / Folded Leaf. The play, a performance lecture inspired by woman’s tireless pursuit of...
Poetry Ireland Review is a journal of poetry. Published three times a year, the Review includes the work of both emerging and established Irish and international poets, essayists, critics and...
Poetry Ireland Review is a journal of poetry. Published three times a year, the Review includes the work of both emerging and established Irish and international poets, essayists, critics and...
A True Record is the creative response to Marlay House by Grace Wilentz and Jane Cummins with documentary photographs by Aisling McCoy. Marlay House, dating to the 17th/18th centuries, is...
Commissioned by The Lab Gallery in response to the exhibition Hypnagogia, A not so final resting pose is a collection of texts varying from email threads to essays to outdated...
This collection consists of eighteen new ballads written by Val O’Donnell and set to airs of music which are referred to in Ulysses or in other works of James Joyce....
Observation Alters Observed is a publication that aims to shift our perspectives and generally expand our understandings of light (visible and invisible) and waveforms through film photography, illustrations and metaphoric observations. —...
For this addition to the Digressions series Virginie Yassef decided to discuss the process of adapting The Veldt with Mathieu Copeland and Philippe Quesne. This double interview shows an artist,...
In a culture dominated by prescriptive rationality, and the reduction of language to functions, Looking for a Sign champions the intersectional practices of art and magic, exploring their capacity to...
Health and Safety for Women explores the issue of gender data bias; the ways in which data collection favours men over women. Using the visual language of the 'Health and...
This collaborative project between visual artist, Brian Teeling and arts writer, Jennie Taylor explores Crawford Art Gallery’s buildings and its immediate surroundings through a printed publication which is populated by...
The Gubu Dolls Saga contains a novella set in the Gubu Dolls universe and a section explaining the concept behind the Gubu Dolls art project, which is on permanent public...
This book was published by Kevin Kavanagh in association with mscltr- on the occasion of Fancy Situations, 6th - 29th June 2024. 'Hello again, 30 years old now. Fancy Situations is...
The Pig’s Back (named for Donegal’s Muckish mountain and for the phrase ar mhuin na muice, to be in luck) is a literary prose journal that aims to bring the...
We're very excited to be featured in this wonderful collection of bookshops throughout Europe and the America's. A must have for lovers of bookshops! After a successful first round, Bookshop...
This limited edition publication was produced on the occasion of the 2023 TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais. A companion publication, with essays on the drawings of...
Sonder is an Irish print literary journal publishing short stories, creative nonfiction, flash fiction and poetry. In Issue IX, these stories centre around the theme of madness and the idea...
Malaysia ah? Yes! We speak Manglish lah! focuses on Malaysia and Manglish, emphasising the nation’s diverse, multi-ethnic, and multicultural society. Malaysia’s main ethnic groups—Chinese, Malays, and Indians—speak languages such as Mandarin,...
Nathan G. Lowry is an Irish artist based in Co. Dublin, Ireland. Process in Progress: Faces, Spaces and Figures features a selection of Lowry's favourite artworks from over the years. Within this...
'The pressure is on for me to conform. There have been some things happening recently. Strange weather, weird vibes. Unsettling neighbourhood relations. An argument over a right-of-way. A tussle with...
In On Slaugther, artist Klara Hobza uses scientific drawings to accompany Markus, a dropout in the forests of Sweden as he slaughters a sheep. The best impression of the book...
Tripple Dribble is a long term project by French artist Julia Borderie. It was initiated in collaboration with basketball players in Montreal (2015) and Val-de-Marne (2018, with Céline Bouffard) and...
By Olivier Bertrand; Clémence Fontaine; Chloé Horta eds. The question posed by the title of this book seems even more relevant for young artists today than it did in 2020, when...
'Cruising Archaeology', which shares its name with the Instagram account @cruisingarchaeology, is a carefully curated project that sees artists (who remain anonymous) reconstitute and repurpose items that have been discarded...
Tolka is a biannual literary journal of non-fiction: publishing essays, reportage, travel writing, auto-fiction, individual stories and the writing that flows in between. Full line-up includes: Kimberly Campanello Tim MacGabhann...
"For Girls' Night, I travelled around Ireland to photograph teen discos, and to try and capture the anticipation of girls as they prepared for them. In a way, I wanted...
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...
Over the summer of 2021, writer and artist Nathan O'Donnell spent several weeks on the Tipperary shoreline of Lough Derg, exploring its history, ecology, and topography and gathering stories about...
“The sea water heals me spiritually, physically, and mentally – every day, however cold, I swim – sometimes alone, sometimes with a friend, sometimes with the crew. Nearly always, I...
Hoods is Michael Goldrei's 2nd self-published book, and features a collection of photos taken in Cuba in 2017 of the weird & wonderful car hood ornaments he saw there. Much...
This book opens out from the middle with accordion folds to the left and right – one for each hand. The ten pages have ten fingerprints and the names for...
Back to Basics: A Guide to Ecological Photo Chemistry marks a pivotal moment in photography's journey towards sustainability. Crafted with meticulous attention to environmental impact, it's not just a guide...
We know that celebrities can make great muses: think of the work of Richard Phillips, who has painted an entire series of works inspired by Lindsay Lohan, Robert Pattinson, and...
Kitty, the cute and mute cartoon protagonist of Hello Chaos, a Love Story: The Disorder of Seeing and Being Seen, embarks on an ill-fated endeavour to win the eyes of her estranged...
How To Soften Corners is a playful how-to guide to hospitality. It tells the story of an art project/college canteen called Luncheonette which operated at the National College of Art...
Jana Müller’s new artist book, Falscher Hase/Mock Rabbit opens by shedding light on criminal investigations in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), offering an artistic exploration of historical narratives and...
Richard Nairn has spent a lifetime studying – and learning from – nature. When an opportunity arose for him to buy a small woodland filled with mature native trees beside...
Voice Tracking is a text commissioned by Muine Bheag Arts in response to Grass Roots 2023. Grass Roots took place in August 2023 and included contributions from artists Cóilín O’Connell,...
The photograph is not just an image but an event, one in the longer sequence of a photographic moment. Challenging given definitions of photography and of the political, Ariella Aïsha...
You spin me round is a collection of essays, an essential mixtape that takes elements of music – songs, performances, albums, gigs – as points of departure. The writers reflect...
Artists have been experimenting with film and pushing the boundaries of the moving image since the earliest years of the medium. Gaining momentum with the emergence of the expanded cinema...
In 2019, the previously unseeable became seen when the first image of a supermassive black hole was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project. Taking its initial inspiration from...
During the past half-century, contemporary art practices, theories and criticism have engaged intently with notions of the postnational. Nonetheless, the presence of the nation-state and nationalisms in art history remain...
This publication was conceived on March 15, 2021, when more than one hundred thousand people marched across Australia in a series of March 4 Justice protests calling for gender equality...
this is no longer entertainment is formed entirely out of untreated anonymous or pseudonymous text found in the open comments sections of media websites and other digital platforms. It was composed...
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...
Who decides what happens after sex? The last decade has seen many significant changes to the laws governing women’s reproductive rights around the world, from liberalisation in Ireland to new...
Publication accompanying the exhibition The Blue Rooms at the City Assembly House, September 2023.The Blue Rooms is a series of projected images in domestic rooms in houses in Dublin City,...
Words about Words playfully explores the language of lexicography, using 26 captivating collages to bring to life esoteric terms, from abecedarian to zeugma. Each book is unique by virtue of...
Fly the Flag is a handmade artist’s book documenting a participatory art project by Éilís Murphy. Climate Camp was held in a field beside the Shannon Estuary near Tarbert, Co Kerry,...
The act of translation is concerned with the slippages, peculiarities, and mysteries of language. Particularly with poetry, readers are invited into a whole new world of meaning and possibility, and...
In Stanisław Lem’s novel Fiasco (1986) the attempts to communicate with the inhabitants of a distant planet fail because of the human crew’s inability to distinguish the members of...
GOT DAMP was a project developed by artist Avril Corroon from research into living conditions as a galvanising issue for communities in exercising their political voice. At the heart of...
Lighting the Archive, which went online in 2020, is an open-ended series of conversations with artists like Annette Kelm, Elfie Semotan, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Ulrich Wüst about photographic techniques, structures...
Open your eyes to a new world view with 100 women and nonbinary photojournalists’ stories from behind the lens. 85% of photojournalists are men. That means almost everything that is...
In this groundbreaking work, Ariella Azoulay thoroughly revises our understanding of the ethical status of photography. It must, she insists, be understood in its inseparability from the many catastrophes of...
A unique, boxed set of 30 instruction cards by Marina Abramovic to teach you this legend of performance art's method for reaching a higher consciousness and confronting life's challenges. Using...
Since man first walked the Earth … in heels, no other art form has wielded as unique an influence on pop culture as Drag. Drag artists have now sashayed their...
Densely filled with reproductions of newspapers, magazines, mimeographs, news-sheets, pamphlets, and other ephemera, this book investigates the Italian scene during the turbulent years between 1966 and 1977. These revolutionary printing...
It Reeks of Radio is a book-length poem composed entirely from fragments of communication around historical (pre-1980s) RTÉ Radio programming - the result of poet Christodoulos Makris' year-long engagement with...
When one speaks of the beauty of Mother Nature, lush leaves and bright blooms in the sun often come to mind. However, there is so much charm to be found...
A world without plants is a world without life, both literally and figuratively. Besides forming the very basis of human survival on Earth, they are also an important source of...
To keep up with the demands of creative practitioners of today, the original PALETTE books have been redesigned into the PALETTE mini series, a flip-friendly, compact source of colour-themed inspiration...
Although it is human nature to tiptoe around the uncomfortable, some artists are inspired by the unsettling to create intriguing works of art that push the boundaries of normality and...
This richly illustrated catalogue celebrates two genre-defying artworks by Jesse Jones 'Tremble, Tremble' and 'The Tower.' Includes contributions from feminist activist and writer Silvia Federici, curators Tessa Giblin and Tara...
Top Irish art critic Cristín Leach weaves history and art to present us with the diverse perspectives of twelve key figures from the rich 200-year lifespan of the Royal Hibernian...
Logotype mini is the definitive modern collection of logotypes, monograms and other text-based corporate marks. Featuring more than 1,300 international typographic identities, by around 250 design studios, this is an...
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...
In Do Good, Get Paid, Natalie Fee, environmental campaigner and founder of City to Sea, shares her experience of setting up a successful non-profit organisation, and provides all the practical, easy-to-follow...
This third book in the popular Do More Art series exposes how the simplest of writing tools is in fact the key to an entire universe of artistic expression. From...
Through a curated selection of quotations, images and interviews, Filmmakers on Film reveals what matters most to the masters. Discover how the giants of filmmaking - from Sofia Coppola to...
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...
Across photography, sculpture and painting, a new wave of Black artists is challenging persistent tropes in art and wider society to depict a richer portrait of the lives of Black...
What if you could sit down with your favourite artist and ask them anything you liked - Life? Work? Inspiration? Based on new interviews and archival material from a huge...
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....
Symbols play an integral role in almost all branding programmes. This book explores the visual language of symbols according to their most basic element: form. Over 1,300 symbols from all...
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...
Reaching some of the darkest corners of the world, this is a compendium of travel destinations like no other. Author Peter Hohenhaus has visited nearly all of the places featured...
