Echo’s Bones is a public art project led by Sarah Browne with autistic young people in North County Dublin. It borrows its title from an unpublished story by Samuel Beckett...
Breathing Space showcases the work of twenty-three women photographers from Iran and their diverse approaches to their craft. Exploring a range of photographic styles and genres, they record the past...
Africa State of Mind gathers together the work of an emergent generation of photographers from across Africa, including both the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa. It is both a summation of...
A new anthology bringing together ten artist commissions and twenty-two texts from Autograph’s commissioning programme Care | Contagion | Community — Self & Other.Initiated during the first national lockdown in...
An entertaining and highly original introduction to graphic design, the Graphic Design Play Book uses puzzles and visual challenges to demonstrate how typography, signage, posters and branding work.Through a series...
Site Specific is a book that explores the ways photography can be exhibited. Casting a wide net, with 58 exhibitions featured, a range of exhibiting processes and styles are covered....
When a set of eight classic old No. 14 Thonet chairs are threatened with certain doom, their ingenuity saves the day! Together they discover not only a way to escape...
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...
Roseanne Lynch had an 18 month residency at the Bauhaus Foundation Dessau in 2018 and 2019. She immersed herself there in the sites of the Bauhaus and its Materials Research...
In the Black Fantastic assembles art and imagery from across the African diaspora that embraces ideas of the mythic and the speculative. Neither Afrofuturism nor Magic Realism, but inhabiting its...
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...
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 Cyberfeminism Index, hackers, scholars, artists, and activists of all regions, races and sexual orientations consider how humans might reconstruct themselves by way of technology. When learning about internet history,...
A singular achievement, Christina Sharpe’s Ordinary Notes explores, with immense care, profound questions about loss, pain and beauty; private memory and public monument; art; complexity; and the shapes of Black...
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...
Anime has been influencing cinema, literature, comic books, and video games around the world for decades. Part of what makes anime so popular are the memorable and breathtakingly detailed worlds...
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...
Laia Abril’s On Rape: And Institutional Failure is a visualisation of the origin of gender-based stereotypes and myths, as well as the failing structures of law and order, that continue to...
Passing Time is a collaborative publication between the artists, An Gee Chan and Justin Larkin. The publication presents a series of paintings of nocturnal skies alongside a collection of etchings...
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...
1999 marked the end of a decade of great social, economic, and cultural change in Ireland. Significant social milestones included church scandals, divorce and abortion referenda, the decriminalisation of homosexuality...
Among Oak is an artist’s book for all ages that tells stories about the natural world from a more-than-human perspective. The book is a collaboration between visual designer Nóra Békés...
A Special Area of ConVersation is a publication resulting from an artist residency sited on the Fingal Coast in Co. Dublin in 2019. The residency was part of 'An Urgent Inquiry'...
This new artist publication by Lisa Freeman and designed by the award-winning Or Studio documents the live performance Slipped, Fell and Smacked my Face off the Dance Floor (2022). It...
Challenging the colonial narratives surrounding the Netflix film Against the Ice, this personal, editorial project by a present-day descendant opens-up to cultural and historical inclusion by broadening the storytelling. The...
Homemade record sleeves is a project collecting and assembling a series of record sleeves. They were all reworked and customized by unknown artists who used the original cover as a...
Exit. Music. Lights. is a publication about theatricality, explored by a range of artists across forms. Designed by Clare Bell, this publication features contributions by visual artists, writers, and theatre-makers,...
Figure-ground perception is the cognitive mechanism through which we apprehend our surroundings, isolating the figure – the words on the page, the features of a face, the lines on a...
692 pages containing 19,840 letters, all derived from one framework. Letterform Variations is a playful study into letterform construction using basic grid and shape based systems, and its potential to...
What is it about animals? – those creatures that keep us company, a figure in a memory or folktale, the shadowy presence in a photograph, or an ancient drawing on...
‘1-900-660-GALS’ celebrates 80s women's wrestling phenomenon 'GLOW' the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. Through the combined visuals of the four talented artists of No Bad News, colourful characters, strong women, and...
Woods found himself in Reykjavik, Iceland, where he came to learn through conversations with locals, of genetic ties between Irish and Icelandic people. From behind the camera, this trip saw Woods documenting...
Second edition of The Land for the People: The Sexual Case for Land Reform in Ireland. This workbook by Eimear Walshe highlights the relevance of 19th century land conflict in...
A History of Head Trauma is an experiment in short story making and presented as part of RHA FUTURES, Series 3, Episode 2. The beginning section of the book was...
Through a series of interconnecting paintings and drawings, poetry and insert leporello book the publication I Build My Own Island explores Pilkington's connections to Sligo. A series of recurring characters inhabit...
The work of Brooklyn-based photographer Joni Sternbach is held by many international collections, including the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and LA County Museum of...
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...
Isabel Nolan’s expansive practice incorporates paintings, sculpture, photographs, textile work, work on paper and writing. ‘Curling up with reality’ brings together a survey of her work over the last decade...
From July 1944 to April 1945, Lisa Garnier’s grandmother, Gisèle Chartraire was deported to the German concentration camp Ravensbrück. During the imprisonment she made a small notebook for writing down...
a cartography of the middle of nowhere is a charting of spatial ontologies which centre ideals and areas of radical resistance for those who dwell in the margins. Unfolding out...
Forte, this lively and friendly typeface that everyone knows, has been used, misused, and overused for over six decades now, ever since it was published by The Monotype Corporation in 1962....
Matter Mammal Oil Soar is an experiment in art writing which explores the work of visual artist Orla Whelan. Playfully subverting conventions of art criticism, this publication reimagines notions of...
Skein Press' first publication of 2022 and the first Solstice Stories book is by writers Kerri ní Dochartaigh and Mícheál McCann in collaboration with photographer Michelle Moloney. Through poetry, imagery...
In her book 26.01.18 photographic artist Louise Bøgelund Saugmann investigates breathing with the trees. As an astmatic child she was confined to her bed for days unable to breathe properly....
The majority of discussions surrounding young Sydney-based artist Daniel Boyd’s particular iteration of postcolonialist history painting, video and installation work have centred on the idea of the deletion of information...
Groundwork, a major new book by Sydney-based artist Bianca Hester, finds its footing in the volcanic terrain of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (Aotearoa New Zealand). An expanded sculptural project that grew...
Dane Lovett’s flower paintings both embrace and eschew their historical, thematic and allegorical roots. Dark, often monochromatic and subtly tonal in their palette, the scores of works that populate the...
Tracing the Melbourne artist’s photorealist graphite renderings of fruit, foliage and figure, Mad Deep Thoughts captures Riley Payne’s technical acumen and offbeat humour to equal effect. Comprising uncanny accumulations and pairings of classical...
Every regional city and town has basic amenities of some description. A post office, a school, a town hall, a police station, and sometimes, a swimming pool. Across the Australian...
Knowledge subjectivises us – it makes us who and what we are. It informs our evolving sense of self and our place in the world. One of the most powerful...
This beautifully designed monograph exhibits Elisabeth Wild’s kaleidoscopic and vibrant collages. Using cutouts of commercial imagery from glossy magazines, Wild composes a dimensionless reality that is witty yet menacing, ancient...
Walking through the Luxembourgish Ardennes, Gaffney documented his wanderings using polaroids. Later, he re-explored certain routes after nightfall, to photograph under the light of the full moon. Bathed in its...
Of Bounds, which includes an essay by the artist, combines two works that focus on land reform, borders, and the design of space. ‘Líne’, a series of colour photographs shot over...
Sampler is an artist's book on the occasion of Aleana Egan's solo show at Void Gallery, Derry. Egan has a nuanced approach to working with materials that are familiar and that...
Walking in the Way: Performing Masculinity catalogues a 12 year performance art project between the artists Pauline Cummins and Frances Mezzetti. Edited by Catherine Marshall and published by WAAG (Women...
Crossing by artist Dorothy Cross is a visual retrospective spanning over 35 years of her work as one of Ireland’s leading artists. The book includes a foreword by Edna O’Brien,...
Monospaced fonts are fascinating! Mono Moment is aimed at type designers typographers and designers, but also at people who are dealing with type design for the first time. The publication...
Anna Ehrenstein (b. 1993; lives and works in Berlin and Tirana) studies the exchanges between humans and objects in the digital era. Individual realities and reflections around migrant visual cultures,...
An artist’s book published by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios coincides with the opening of Niamh O’Malley’s exhibition, Gather, at La Biennale di Venezia in April 2022. Designed by Alex...
“Dear Brian O’Doherty,Here is my article, short enough and I apologize; I hope you can accept him [sic] and it will be in a sufficient harmony with the issue you...
Reversing the Eye publication and exhibition it accompanies take a fresh look at the arte povera movement rarely associated with photographic and filmic media. They invite the viewer to "reverse...
For centuries, the garden has been regarded as a mirror of society, a microcosm, in which the broader relationships between nature and culture are played out on small scale. From...
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,...
Bristningar (Rupture) is the middle part of Katinka Goldberg's trilogy of works, in which she is ‘exploring the tension between closeness and distance’, trying, no less, to locate herself both...
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...
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...
Bill Young is a US pilot.Bill Young has stayed in a lot of hotels. Bill Young likes carpets. Now you can share his joy. From Austin to Amsterdam, Lille to...
From Brutalist blocks to Modernist towers, this book is a visual celebration of 68 of London’s most iconic council estates, reminding us of the pride, thought and innovation that went...
Bookbinding is a unique and essential reference guide for designers, explaining industrial bookbinding techniques with a focus on the design and conception of print products. Packed full of insights from...
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...
A visual celebration of the shopping bags produced by British record stores between the 1940s and the 1990s. Fully illustrated with over 500 examples of this previously unrecorded aspect of popular culture. This...
'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...
As in many fields of art history, the work of women photographers has often been overlooked, and few of their names are now widely recognized. However, women were closely involved...
Issue #2 of SEED contemplates ‘labyrinths’. In Greek mythology, the labyrinth is an elaborate maze. For artists working today, it holds symbolic and psychological significance as we try to find...
The Journey of a Cloud is a riso print story book about a cloud in search of friendship. Tatyana Feeney is a children’s book author-illustrator based in Trim, Co Meath....
Issue 1 was curated and arranged to simulate the profound impact of the environmental crisis on our inner and outer worlds. Through HOAX contributors, the pages climb across the different ways...
Soft Rains Will Come is an artwork by Christopher Steenson, taking the form a spatial sound installation that operates as a live radio broadcast within the gallery space. The installation combines live shortwave...
A series of stills salvaged from expired Super 8 footage & reconfigured, in rough chronology, in photo-book form. The progression features the figure of a bird immersed in the static...
Presenting a diverse geographic and ethnic selection, the What They Saw anthology interprets historical photobooks by women in the broadest sense possible: classic bound books, portfolios, personal albums, unpublished books,...
This book – the first of its kind – explores the design story behind football, diving into how design has been used to push the game to its technical and...
"This collection of label art is a compelling look at a graphic Ireland that most fictional depictions of the country have overlooked. The acid-bright colours of Egan’s Lemon Crush and...
Why did Andy Warhol decide to enter the music business by producing the Velvet Underground, and what did the band expect to gain in return? What made Yoko Ono use...
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...
First published in France in 2013, My Mother Laughs is the final book written by the legendary and beloved Belgian artist and director Chantal Akerman (1950-2015) before her death. A moving and...
Looking Across the River is a book of visual poetry about growing up in Droghed, Co. Louth. The book is in three sections, each with a different focus. The Landscape...
Danielle Mericle’s The Dark Wood explores broad questions of history and our collective ability to document and learn from the past. Through intertwined images of abandoned Greco-Roman casts, an ancient...
Sonia's Trees (2018-2021) is a labour of love, a manifestation in physical form of a call to protect and an invitation to care, felt and shared by the artist through...
On the 16th of September 2016, Adobe, Google, Apple, and Microsoft announced a new update to the OpenType specification that will allow for fonts to be variable. Through this update,...
In January 2017, the City of Zurich invited Huber/Sterzinger to design a poster series for the 500 Years of Reformation anniversary. The posters are based on visual associations drawn from...
A leading activist museum director explains why museums are at the centre of a political storm and how they can be reimagined In an age of protest, cultural institutions have...
The Covid-19 crisis teaches us how priceless human nearness is. Art and education can't do without it either. Like works of art, people lose their aura when kept at digital...
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Discover the glittering...
Most artists have, at some point, represented the universal symbol of creation which is the hand. Many of them have also chosen the hand as a recurring pattern in their...
Screenprinting is in the midst of a popular revival among beginners, students, hobbyists and experts alike. This is the essential studio workbook, built upon the expertise gained through the thousands...
Revenants documents selected works from Irish artist Kevin Mooney's recent practice. His paintings utilise languages of expressionism, alongside figurative elements that disclose political, social and cultural histories. As well as...
Images taken at the outset of the pandemic, while observing restrictions in the artist's hometown, in the Irish midlands. A fragmentary document, created at a moment of global stasis and isolation....
Images taken at the outset of the pandemic, while observing restrictions in the artist's hometown, in the Irish midlands. A fragmentary document, created at a moment of global stasis and isolation....
'The juxtapositions between writing and image work by analogies, sometimes obvious, other times barely perceptible, in an intense dialogue that plays on the contrast between the density of the text...
Between A Rock and A Hard Place profiles the circumstance and nature of paintings realised throughout the 1990s by Deirdre O’Mahony. Made in and about the Burren, an area of...
Punk Troubles: Northern Ireland examines the subject of Northern Ireland punk in the context of sectarianism. The book offers a new and unique perspective on The Troubles and the NI punk...
Edited by Kate Rhodes and Nella Themelios, this expanded second edition of An unreliable guidebook to jewellery by Lisa Walker further explores how the work of the internationally celebrated New...
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...
As a complex urban system, the city constantly seeks balance. The rise of new ways to co-create or experience cities is breaking down traditional urban planning dichotomies. Interactive maps, mixed...
Drawing on original documents, photographs, and detainee artwork, this book offers a unique insight into the experience of immigration detention in the United Kingdom. With interdisciplinary backgrounds in art, design,...
Holy Pictures captures the last vestiges of popular devotional practices once widespread in Ireland. Tony Murray’s vivid images from the late 1970s and early 1980s are a compelling record of an...
Some time later is the product of an exchange between the artist Brendan Earley and two writers, Pádraic E Moore and Chris Fite-Wassilak. The collaboration framed a space which allowed...
Rights of Way, the body as witness in public space takes our bodily movements as a departure point to cross into the terrains of art, culture, architecture, sociology, literature, and...
Amazonia: Anthology as Cosmology is devoted to Amazonia, its peoples, allies, and nonhuman spirits, and their myriad material and immaterial practices, from certain cosmopolitics and visual languages to past and...
The Restless Bogman is a book written by Artist, Laura Fitzgerald that accompanied her exhibition, "I have made a place" at the Crawford Art Gallery in 2021. Through the book, Laura wanted to...
Like a snake eating its tail, artificial intelligence exists in a circular relationship with its human creators. Atlas of Anomalous AI is a compelling and surprising map of our complex...
”Art can contribute to changing the world. It can bring new forms of subjectivity. We need to bring people to see things differently. Political subjectivities are not just an expression...
Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, artists who spend their lives thinking outside the box guide you to a new worldview; where...
What does it mean to be Black and alive right now? Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham have brought together this collection of work—images, photos, essays, memes, dialogues, recipes, tweets, poetry,...
Planners, privatisation, and police surveillance are laying siege to urban public spaces. The streets are becoming ever more regimented as life and character are sapped from our cities. What is...
A pocket colour manifesto for a new futuristic feminism. Injustice should not simply be accepted as “the way things are.” This is the starting point for The Xenofeminist Manifesto, a...
This publication is written within the field of fotografisk gestaltning (photography) and is a study of the potential for queer community to emerge through photographic acts. It consists of two...
"The tension implicit in any photograph is the tension between an inert, black-and-white, two-dimensional object, and an event that actually existed in the phenomenal world. A successful photograph mediates, though...
Conceptual Art in a Curatorial Perspective: Between Dematerialization and Documentation focuses on the curatorial practice of exhibiting conceptual art. The fact that conceptual works are not object-based, creates challenges in...
‘Feminisms’ (as a plural) is widely used today to draw attention to inequalities and to critique the status quo in limiting women’s roles/ positions/ lives/ potential. Art can offer a...
A radical Latina perspective on race, liberation, and identity Elizabeth Martínez’s unique Chicana voice has been formed through over thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women’s...
A founding text of transnational feminism. For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history of women’s movements...
In On Photographs, curator and writer David Campany presents an exploration of photography in 120 photographs. Proceeding not by chronology or genre or photographer, Campany's eclectic selection unfolds according to its...
Failed Images: Photography and its Counter-Practices tries to understand photography in its difference from the reality it shows. It sets as a task to analyse the different ways the photograph transforms...
The work presented in this book is an invitation to undertake an urgent architectural and political thought experiment: to rethink today’s struggles for justice and equality not only from the...
Homebound – New Wave shows the collaborative works of designers, artists, and authors, answering and visualising the influence of the pandemic on their attitudes and projects! The Homebound project was...
The Risograph printer is at the forefront of a new creative explosion. More and more artists and designers all over the world are rediscovering this stencil duplicator for themselves, sparking...
Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly is the first book to catalog the entire career of the Guerrilla Girls from 1985 to present. The Guerrilla girls are a collective...
The flag bearing twelve yellow stars on a blue background has become Europe’s most recognisable symbol. Since its introduction by the Council of Europe in 1955, it has stood for...
PALETTE — Viction:ary’s best-selling colour-themed series — has been one of the most sought-after references for designers around the world. In keeping up with the needs of digital-savvy creative practitioners...
PALETTE — Viction:ary’s best-selling colour-themed series — has been one of the most sought-after references for designers around the world. In keeping up with the needs of digital-savvy creative practitioners...
With more than 600 new entries, this revised and expanded logo bible builds on the breakthrough success of the original edition. Arranged across more than 80 categories according to their...
Minimalist design has grown into a popular and timeless aesthetic due to its emphasis on uncluttered spaces and the exclusion of unnecessary elements, making it the perfect anecdote to the...
Custom type solutions for identity design Custom typefaces have become an increasingly common means for forward-thinking brands to establish and further strengthen their visual identities. By expressing a unique personality...
Playing with typographic puzzle pieces is one of the joys of graphic design and typographers have many entertaining, esoteric and eccentric options at their disposal. The Typography Idea Book presents...
Cheap, disposable, often with poor audio quality but with great visuals, flexi discs were vinyl’s poorer cousin in the pre-digital age. Given away with magazines or sent out by advertisers,...
In our haste to consume the things we love, we often disregard or discard packaging without a second thought. While many would argue that they bear no significance or should...
In our haste to consume the things we love, we often disregard or discard packaging without a second thought. While many would argue that they bear no significance or should...
PALETTE — Viction:ary’s best-selling colour-themed series — has been one of the most sought-after references for designers around the world. In keeping up with the needs of digital-savvy creative practitioners...
PALETTE — Viction:ary’s best-selling colour-themed series — has been one of the most sought-after references for designers around the world. In keeping up with the needs of digital-savvy creative practitioners...
