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Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared. (Voltaire)

Social networks are dominating today‘s headlines, but they are not the only platforms that are radically changing the way we communicate. Creatives such as designers, photographers, artists, researchers, and poets are disseminating information about themselves and their favorite subjects not via predefined media such as Twitter or blogs, but through printed or other self-published projects—so-called zines. Those who publish zines are mostly interested in sole authorship, namely that all components including text, images, layout, typography, production, and distribution are firmly in the hands of one person or a small group. At their best, the results convey a compelling and consistent atmosphere and push against the established creative grain in just the right way. They provoke with surprising and non-linear food for thought. In short, zines are advancing the evolution of today‘s media.

With a cutting-edge selection of international examples, Behind the Zines introduces the broad range of zines that exists today. These include zines that function as a new kind of project-oriented portfolio to showcase a self-profile or document an exhibit. While some act as (pseudo) scientific treatises to call the reader‘s attention to a specific topic, others serve as playrooms for creatives to run riot and express themselves and communicate with each other in a space that is free from editorial restrictions.

The book examines the key factors that distinguish various zines. It introduces projects in which the printing process significantly influences aesthetics or in which limited distribution to a small, clearly defined target audience becomes part of the overall concept.

Behind the Zines not only documents outstanding work, but also shows how the self-image of those who make zines impacts the scene as a whole. Through interviews with people involved in zine production and distribution, the book sheds light on various strategies for this evolving media form.

Publisher: Gestalten
Edited by: R. Klanten, A. Mollard, M. Huebner
Language: English
Format: 24 x 28 cm
Features: 240 pages, full color, softcover
ISBN: 978-3-89955-336-9

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Eight:48’s fourth issue, ‘The Future Issue’, focusses on new design companies and illustration collectives that have sprung up over the last two – three years. These studios include Six, Always with Honor, Design Studio, Steven Bonner and many more. The issue features a forward from Mike Radcliffe, of Represent, containing advice for designers in 2011, as well as articles on promoting yourself when you leave college, the perils of working from home and viewpoints on the future of design from 11 young, creative outfits.

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Counter-Print
Counter-Objects
Eight:48

Language: English
Year: 2011
Format: 289 x 400 mm
Features: 40 pages

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The second issue of Counter-Print’s newspaper, Eight:48, centers around the theme of ideas and inspiration.
Titled, What’s the Big Idea?, it is forwarded by Roger Fawcett-Tang and contains original articles from Bruno Maag and Jonathan Turner. It also contains ten interviews with leading designers, illustrators and photographers.
They are Corey Holms, Build, Eskimo Square, Mr Bingo, Melvin Galapon, Troika, Jamie Portch, Luke Lucas and Tim Johannis.

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Counter-Print
Counter-Objects
Eight:48

Language: English
Year: 2010
Format: 285 x 390 mm
Features: 40 pages, 4 colour throughout

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Eight:48 is a new paper for the creative community. In a tabloid format, each issue will focus on a different topic of debate, relevant to the current creative scene. Ten leading designers, illustrators and product designers have been asked their opinion on the ‘future of print’ in the first issue and have the opportunity to showcase their work and talk about their influences. Issue 01 is forwarded by Steven Heller and contains original articles from Dan Rolfe Johnson and James Pallister.

The contributors for issue 01 are Julien Vallee, Mat Cook, Anthony Burrill, HelloVon, Jason Tozer, Face 37, Robert Hanson, La Boca, Supermundane and MillerGoodman.

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Counter-Print
Counter-Objects
Eight:48

Language: English
Year: 2010
Format: 285 x 390 mm
Features: 40 pages, 4 colour throughout

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U&lc magazine (Upper & lower case) was a defining voice in graphic design between 1970 and 1999. It was in some ways a lifestyle magazine for the desgin community providing a fascinating intersection of popular cultural and graphic design in the last quarter of the 20th century. The list of editorial contributors to U&lc is long, and many prominent designers worked on designing entire issues. Their best work is showcased in this book through the reproduction of selected covers, stories and illustrations from the nearly 120 quarterly issues that were published. Counter-Print currently has 10 issues of U&lc available to purchase.

Designer: Herb Lubalin
Year: 1982
Language: Dutch
Format: 280 x 380 mm
Features: 80 pages

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In “Heavy Metal. Lovers.” we look into blackletter fonts and their modern applications. Slanted presents the innovative work of Invisible Creature (Seattle), historic type-treasures from the archives of Linotype (Bad Homburg) and Klingspor Museum (Offenbach), the photo documentation “True Norwegian Black Metal” from Peter Beste (New York) etc. …
The sections “Fontlabels, Fonts & Families,” “Fontnames Illustrated” and “Typolyrics” introduce contemporary blackletter fonts and designers from all over the world (e.g. Aeronaut/Georg Herold-Wildfellner, SAR-Lupe/David Millhouse, Adso/Bruno Bernard), followed by interviews with Alejandro Paul, Bernard Stein, Alex Trochut and Christophe Szpajdel and an interesting type essay by Horst Wöhrle.
Furthermore Slanted Magazine introduces numerous (blackletter) projects of professionals and students (Jeremy Hall, schmitz & wiesner, s=eee etc.).
The chapter introduction pages are decorated with Hubert Jocham’s headline-font “NeoThorn S10,” exclusively created for this issue in two styles. Our readers can get the beta-version of this brand new typeface for free. Furthermore Hubert Jocham created the text typeface “NeoText S10” which will be available at type foundry Volcano Type (www.volcano-type.de).

This issue completes our 4-part-poster-series and forms now the 4-word-sentence ”Porn 4 Type Lovers.”, a quote from Ivo Gabrowitsch (FontShop International) about Slanted.

Language: Deutsch, English
Release: Spring 2010
Format: 21 x 27 cm
Features: 164 pages

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NEWWORK magazine is a large-format arts publication for Connoisseur of fresh ideas. Designed and published biannually by studio NEWWORK, each issue features new work from a wide range of artists and creators in the worlds of fine art, design, high fashion, culture, and politics. From art directors to business leaders, design students to curators, NEWWORK’s contributors are united in their passion to push the boundaries of their disciplines. Among the magazine’s special features are bold, custom-designed typefaces and a twist on the traditional newspaper format, offering a stimulating juxtaposition of striking design and everyday simplicity. Since pages can be separated, each layout can be hung on the wall as an individual art piece.

The fourth issue of NEWWORK MAGAZINE finds a range of artists and designers harnessing the power of contrast in its various forms to bring dimension, meaning and mystery to their work. Witness the juicy juxtaposition of graphic and narrative elements in the iconic imagery of photographer Albert Watson. Observe the synergy of classic Swiss restraint and unbridled post-modern play in the typographic design of Wolfgang Weingart and the kinetic interplay of geometric and organic forms in the poster design of Bruno Monguzzi. From the one-two punch of high contrast black-and-white forms in the photography of Julian Abram Wainwright and the drawings of Robert Longo, to the poetic tension between two and three dimensions in Werner Jeker’s enigmatic collages, this issue profiles artists who use dynamic dualisms to yield complex and elegant visual solutions.

Format: 32″ x 21.5″
Features: 120 pages / softcover
Language: English

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Recently released by the makers of Frame, the first issue of Elephant magazine is a new great and important publication which every designer should not miss. Focusing on art, visual culture, design and fashion Elephant features the new trends, city guides and innovation with a selection of great articles and interviews with the most famous directors and artists from the world of design.
The magazine is divided into five parts: meetings, research, studio visits, economies and cities.

PART 1: MEETINGS & CLASHES

Saville Meets Art
Über art director Peter Saville talks about the difference between art and design. Is there any?
Gutiérrez Meets New Magazines
Ex-Pentagram partner and founder of seminal magazine Matador, Fernando Gutiérrez tells us how to make a (legendary) magazine.

PART 2: RESEARCH

Sticks In The Mind: The New Collage Movement
Forget photoshop, collage is where distinctive ideas are now coming from. Featuring up-tothe-minute work by Craig Atkinson, Emmanuel Polanco, Serge Bloch, Sviatchenko, Sara Fanelli, and Rico Motohashi.
Make Popcorn Online: Art & The Internet
Dutch/Brazilian artist Rafael Rozendaal tells us how to make popcorn pop on a web page, or how to make (and sell) art on the internet. Is a domain name a piece of art?
Universal Everything
How can one create a whole new visual and cultural universe out of a garden shed (though a nice one)?
Wheels & Buttons: How Bikes Are Changing Fashion
We explore how bicycles are influencing fashion, creating new styles and cuts that adapt themselves to riding in cities.
Hell Yes: Text, Type, Painting & All
How text art is growing more ambitious and on your face. Featuring work by Chris Tosic, Liz Collini, Mike Perry and more.
Fire & Ice
We feature a new wave of designers that are taking Nordic fashion into very different shores. Work by Won Hundred, Carin Wester, Henrik Vibskov, Hope, Whyred, and Julia Hederus.

PART 3: STUDIO VISITS

Boris Hoppek’s naughty notebooks.
Robert Nicol’s romantic landscapes.
Misaki Kawai’s wild mixture of painting & illustration.
Gianpaolo Pagni’s illustrations.

PART 4: CREATE YOU R OWN ECONOMY

How To Start A Publishing Company
Adrian Shaughnessy (founder of Intro, designer and author) and Tony Brook (Spin) talk about Unit Editions, their new publishing venture.

PART 5: DESTINATIONS

Things To Do In Sao Paulo When You Are Not Dead
With every issue Elephant will explore a different city. In issue 1, Elephant lands in São Paulo.
Tuca Vieira
São Paulo’s Spiderman.
São Paulo Showcase
Artwork by Bruno 9li, Herbert Baglione, Bruna Canepa, Felipe Cretella, Bruno Dicolla, Julio Dui, Carlo Giovani, Pedro Inoue, Mario Niveo, Paula Ordonhes, Wagner Pinto, Andres Sandoval, Sesper and Ana Starling.

Language: English
Release: Winter 2009/10
Features: 205 pages

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In “Stencil. Type.” we look into stencil fonts and their modern applications to produce evidence that this type features special and often misjudjed aesthetics.
Slanted presents the innovative work of Gavillet & Rust and their fontlabel Optimo (Geneva), the large format paintings of Christopher Wool (New York), an impressive photo series of Francois Fleruy (Paris) and many more. The sections “Fontlabels, Fonts & Families”, “Fontnames Illustrated” and “Typolyrics” introduce contemporary fonts and designers from all over the world, followed by interviews with John Boardley, Kouga Hirano and Chip Kidd and an interesting type essay by Hannes von Döhren.

Furthermore Slanted Magazine introduces numerous stencil-works of professionals and students (Hauser, Schwarz, Mind Design, Ko Sliggers, Autobahn, etc.).

The chapter introduction pages are decorated with Hubert Jocham’s headline-font “NeoParts S9”, exclusively created for this issue. Our readers can get this brand new typeface for free. As the previous issue #8, the cover is wrapped with a poster – the third one of a series of four. By end of the series, the aligned posters will create a sentence. “PORN” was the first word, followed then by “4” – “TYPE” is now the third part of the puzzle.

Language: Deutsch, English
Release: Winter 2009/10
Format: 21 x 27 cm
Features: 164 pages, softcover