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Design & Fashion - September 2021

This document provides descriptions of 7 books related to design and fashion. It summarizes each book in 1-2 sentences, noting key details like the title, publisher, page count, illustrations, and price. The books cover topics like contemporary artists and social change, the history of an institute examining design's role in problems and conflicts, an artist known for geometric pattern work, gridded notepads for creative exercises, a typeface designer's letterforms, and an artist who collaborates with animals in her work.

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Design & Fashion - September 2021

This document provides descriptions of 7 books related to design and fashion. It summarizes each book in 1-2 sentences, noting key details like the title, publisher, page count, illustrations, and price. The books cover topics like contemporary artists and social change, the history of an institute examining design's role in problems and conflicts, an artist known for geometric pattern work, gridded notepads for creative exercises, a typeface designer's letterforms, and an artist who collaborates with animals in her work.

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DESIGN & FASHION

Paris LA Issue 17 - Change Agents - A Portfolio of Fifty Contemporary Artists


DoPe Press 2021 ISBN 9771969741013 Acqn 31730
Pb 22x28cm 304pp col ills £24.25

This special expanded edition of the arts magazine features a portfolio of work by 50
contemporary artists whose practices reflect our current times as they work to move culture
forward, plus a collection of conversations, visual essays, and texts. Some of today's most
innovative and imaginative artists, authors, curators, and theorists show where we came from and
clarify the paths and possibilities ahead, including Shinique Smith, Arthur Jafa, Legacy Russell,
McKenzie Wark, and more. With visual essays by Monica Nouwens and Emilie Noteris, poetry by
Anna Kleiva and Jennifer Elise Foerster, writings by Lea S. McChesney and Anne Dressen, and
works by numerous artists.

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DESIGN & FASHION

Expansive Bodies - Contesting Design At The Nieuwe Instituut


nai010 publishers 2021 ISBN 9789462086654 Acqn 31735
Pb 22x32cm 310pp col ills £45

Design occupies an increasingly expansive field these days. No longer just about solutions and
innovation, design is often the root cause of problems and conflict. For museums that engage in
this world, this poses an existential challenge wherein how design acts, to what end, and for
whom needs to be closely examined. 'Expansive Bodies' is an account of the past eight years at
Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, in its own attempts to come to terms with this shifting ground.
The book comprises an oral history of the institute, an illustrated account of its exhibition history,
and sixteen essays, each exploring different ideas about cultural practice and the ways design
operates today.

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Tokolo Patterns 2001-2021


Bss Bijutsu 2021 ISBN 9784568105278 Acqn 31743
Pb 15x15cm 320pp col ills £43.50

Asao Tokolo grew up studying architecture, but today engages in a practice that traverses
boundaries between the various fields of art, architecture, and design. In particular, he devotes
much of his time to creating emblems and patterns based on simple geometry that can be
reproduced using a compass and ruler. Much of this body of work can be found in this book,
which gathers two decades of Tokolo's prolific creative practice. Applying basic rules and
structures, he has generated overwhelming diversity and variation, from simple to highly complex,
in an extension of the most fundamental and ancient human expression, the urge to depict
repetition through patterns.

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Grid Pad Number 1


Formist Editions 2021 no ISBN Acqn 31781
Pb 11x16cm 96pp col ills £26.50

Presenting playful gridded postcards for creating, drawing, and thinking, 'Grid Pad' offers creative
freedom while giving your ideas structure; grids with infinite possibilities, whether for art, planning,
doodling, or designing. The notebook consists of 96 tear-off cards and six different geometric
grids, and is perfect for pens, pencils, or paint. See where your brain takes you by creating
everything from greeting cards and abstract games, to geometrical patterns and 3D drawings.
The concept came from designer Mark Gowing's frequent use of grid systems in his creative
process. But the selection of readily available notepads with multiple grids was limited, so 'Grid
Pad' was born.

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Kris Sowersby - The Art Of Letters


Formist 2021 ISBN 9780648596349 Acqn 31770
Pb 15x20cm 800pp col ills £75

Considered one of the leaders in his field, typeface designer Kris Sowersby founded Klim Type
Foundry in 2005. Peruse a visual feast of letterforms in an examination of Sowersby's practice
where the characters and letters stand alone, as independent works of art. Explore their
interconnections, individual function and form, and celebrate the absurd beauty involved in
creating multiple expressions of predetermined alphabets through nuance and theory, removed
from the context of language systems. The publication features over 750 large character
illustrations selected from Sowersby's award-winning typefaces, plus an essay by graphic
designer and educator Paul McNeil.

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Aki Inomata - Significant Otherness


Bss Bijutsu 2020 ISBN 9784568105292 Acqn 31798
Hb 16x22cm 176pp col ills £46.50

Focusing on how the act of "making" is not exclusive to mankind, Aki Inomata develops the
process of collaboration with living creatures into full-blown artworks. While the study and
application of the norms and forms of nature has been traditionally labelled "organic design" in
Western culture, Inomata takes the traditionally Eastern stance that humans are part of nature.
Leaving behind "human-centred design", she embraces an interspecies approach and closely
observes the behaviour, expressions, and traces of activity of various animals - hermit crabs,
molluscs, beavers - appropriating them as actors in her fascinating creations. A safeguard against
our own self-destructiveness.

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