Plants have always symbolised more than what meets the eye: beauty, fragility, renewal, and the delicate balance of life on Earth.
Neo Botanica – An Atlas of Artificially Generated Flora is a new take on the world of botanicals, showcasing the work of contemporary artists who create gardens of imaginary flora.
Its pages bloom with artificial hybrid flowers and computer-coded bioforms in a collection of extraordinary new species.
A key is hidden inside each of the book’s pages. By using a free app, an extra dimension of the artworks can be accessed – unlocking an animation and bringing the images to life.
Beautifully designed, and with over 260 botanical artworks from leading digital artists, Neo Botanica is a reimagining of the natural world – as you’ve never seen it before.
Featured artists: Refik Anadol, Tatsuru Arai, Luca Bogoni, Andrea Brewster, Andee Collard, Zach Darren Corzine, Mauro Cosenza, Linda Dounia, Stephan Duquesnoy, Elekktronaut (Bileam Tschepe), Entangled Others, Katherine Frazer, Hannes Hummel, Hypereikon, Joann, Markos Kay, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Jim Linear, David Lisser, Fuse*, Generative Art Studio, Phenomena Labs, Andréa Philippon, Andrés Reisinger, Anna Ridler, Monica Rizzolli, Nat Sarkissian, Drake Smith, Leonardo Solaas, Spacefiller (Alex Miller), Ivona Tau, Aurèce Vettier.
Analogue Photography—Reference Manual for Shooting Film
You may have found an old Konica at the thrift store or inherited a Leica, or you may be one of the many younger photographers who are being drawn to analogue for the first time, as a way to enrich and expand their practice. In either case, this book provides all the information needed to help you understand your camera and get out and start using it.
The fundamental technical sides of both cameras and photography are covered. There are, however, no tips on how to take ‘better’ photos, no sections on lines and shapes, silhouettes, texture or composition. This is purely a technical manual: once you have mastered the mechanics of photography, you will have total creative control over your camera, a tool for taking photos exactly as you want them.
Whether as a primer or a reference manual, this is the perfect book to (re)kindle your love of analogue photography.
Reviews:
“Having read it from cover to cover, I will hereby be officially recommending a copy of this book to every film photographer that I meet … It says on the cover ‘Reference manual for shooting film,’ and it most certainly is. The layout is easily accessible and engaging, with cross references on every page, a comprehensive index, and handy charts right at the back. The contents cover everything: from information about exposure and filters, to fundamental camera function, and beyond!” — Film Shooters Collective
“A strong recommendation. It manages to explain the more complex subject matter without over complication or getting too bogged down in unnecessary detail.”— 35mmc.com
“Superb design and a bespoke typeface for a new guide to analogue photography” — Creative Boom
Avatar Cards
Bloomerang Avatar Cards are your companions. Each one embodies a distinct quality – a creative superpower.
Use these cards as inspiration to create your brand’s archetype or to identify qualities you’d like to develop within your team or yourself. The back of each card features a description of what the avatar represents.
This set includes 20 avatars.
Watch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfnc7P8wh9k
Trust—Building on the Cultural Commons
How can we break through a culture of mistrust? Suspicion regarding our fellow beings, the authorities and enterprises is growing, blamed on passing the buck and feelings of impotence. We seek remedies in regulations, contracts and procedures, assurances, audits and consultancy. As well as in good governance and transparency. But do they actually make for real trust? Is trust not always somewhat blind?
Trust—Building on the Cultural Commons highlights the crucial role played by cultural commons, shared ‘common’ life and its customs, practices, knowledge and values. After all, trust is a matter of culture, emotion and even aesthetics. Wide-ranging trust starts with the sharing of vulnerabilities, and it is Pascal Gielen’s belief that the ‘common’ provides the necessary scope. Breathing space and scope for experiment. How might a society and a policy build on this?
This book is an English and international version of “Vertrouwen: Bouwen op het cultureel gemeen,” written by Pascal Gielen and published by Valiz in November 2023. For this new English language publication, Gielen has broadened the scope of the former book, and has included several international case studies of cultural commons.
Pascal Gielen is a writer and full professor of sociology of culture and politics at the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA) where he leads the Culture Commons Quest Office.
Karina Beumer is a visual artist. Her work starts from drawing, and often leads to other forms of art, such as music, video, sculptures, writing.
Wicked Arts Education—Designing Creative Programmes
Wicked Arts Education helps you to design exciting arts educational programs from scratch. These arts programs make a meaningful connection between the culture of the student, the arts, and society. We have tested our arts educational design strategies around the world and found that they challenge arts educators to explore curriculum ideas collectively, creatively and productively.
In a time of individualization and polarization, we believe in the power of learning collectively about, in, and through the arts. Although Wicked Arts Education can be used to create personalized learning trajectories, it advocates building learning communities in which students and teachers share interests, expertise, and opinions.
Wicked Arts Education can be used in a variety of educational contexts: from primary to higher education, and for arts curricula inside and beyond schools. The term ‘arts’ underlines that this workbook is suitable for the visual arts, music, dance, theatre, film or design, but also for designing interdisciplinary arts projects and courses. So, whether you are an arts teacher, an artist, or a curriculum designer, or if you want to set up a single lesson or a complete arts curriculum, this book is for you!
Valiz supported by Amsterdam University of the Arts.
Draw
Kenya Hara inspires the world with his impeccable design – from the subtle atmospheres and environments he creates as the art director of Muji, to his ethereal exhibition designs, to his simple everyday objects, packaging and books. His design aesthetic can be traced back to a private practice: the diligent drafting of ideas and forms in delicate sketches and drawings which ultimately develop into convincing solutions.
For the first time in his career, Kenya Hara gives insight into the captivating early stages of his design process. Ranging from tentatively sketched beginnings to confident designs of complex concepts, Draw immerses readers in the renowned designer’s forty-year-long process of sketching and drawing by hand, leaving no doubt about the origins of his authentic designs.
Set to inspire the next generation of creatives, the book can be read as a gentle, persuasive call for the return to analogue processes in the design cycle.
Walking Sticks
From a practical tool to status symbol, the walking stick is a universal object that has been imbued with symbolism, craftsmanship, and innovation throughout its history. Across different cultures and eras it has taken on different uses and meanings, whether agricultural, religious, ceremonial, orthopaedic or sartorial. Eighteen designers ranging from Jasper Morrison to Julie Richoz were invited to reimagine the walking stick for an exhibition at the Triennale Milano curated by the Milan-based Japanese designer Keiji Takeuchi. This elegant book showcases their designs and demonstrates how a humble object can be a source of pleasure and pride.
Presented in a slim vertical format suited to its subject matter, Walking Sticks is introduced by Keiji Takeuchi and includes photographs by Miro Zagnoli as well as an essay by the design curator and critic Marco Sammicheli, which explores the cultural significance of this understated object.
The Anatomy of the Architectural Book
The Anatomy of the Architectural Book examines approaches to structuring, constructing and designing architectural books and traces how they have changed over time. The discipline has been exposed to debates, just as building construction has been exposed to the charms of book making.
Poster Cult
Dafi Kühne is one of Switzerland’s foremost poster designers whose diverse, bold work embraces both traditional production tools and modern design processes. Although his posters are printed on presses from the 1960s, they do not look like typical letterpress prints. Instead, they connect with the history of letterpress production while pushing the boundaries of long-established graphic and typographic techniques. Using analog printing presses, computer software applications, laser cutters, and freshly cast hot-metal-type, he creates wildly creative, large-format posters. Working from his vast letterpress studio in the Swiss Alps, Dafi Kühne simultaneously drives poster culture and upholds the cult of the poster.
Kühne’s first monograph with Lars Müller Publishers, True Print, served as an introduction to Dafi’s work from the years 2009 to 2016. Poster Cult focuses on the processes, background and context that inform his more recent poster work.
True Print
Dafi Kühne is a Swiss designer who works with analogue and digital techniques to produce fresh and unique letterpress-printed posters. Using very different kinds of tools — from a computer to a pantograph — for his compositions, he pushes the boundaries of design. Never afraid of getting his hands dirty in his creative workshop, Dafi Kühne embraces the labor involved in the entire process of creating a poster, from initial idea to finished product.
Fusing modern means with the century-old tradition of letterpress, he forms a new vocabulary for how to communicate through type and form in a truly contemporary way. Never retro, his work is a clever response to the search for new possibilities of graphic expression: True Print.
Rome – Las Vegas
The cities of Rome and Las Vegas commonly sit at opposite ends of what architecture represents: whereas the former capital of the Roman Empire is perceived as ancient, proper and eternal, Sin City is described as flashy, vulgar and fake. Yet, both find themselves historically and contemporarily at the intersection of power and play.
Released fifty years after Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi’s now canonical “Learning From Las Vegas” (1972), the images in this book capture the atmosphere of both cities from the sky to the ground, revealing unexpected similarities and rediscovering Las Vegas’s extravaganza on the streets of Rome. Iwan Baan’s photographs contrast and subvert common perceptions of authenticity and artificiality and ultimately question such bipolar distinctions. In their dialogue, the photographs follow Scott Brown and Venturi’s plea to first look, understand and only then judge.
Type Specimen | Typo Poster | Typo Ping Pong #1 | Riso Print | Misprint + Unikat
Typo-Poster Typo Ping Pong #1 | Riso Print | Misprint + Unikat from TypoGraphicDesign as a Riso Poster in DIN A3.
Each misprint is only available 1 time. Limited Special Edition.
Design: Typo Graphic Design ■ Manuel Viergutz
Typeface: Typo Ping Pong #1
Size: 29,7 cm B × 42 cm H (DIN A3)
Paper: Metapaper, warmwhite, extra rough 175 g/m2 (uncoated paper FSC + PEFC, 100 % made from wind energy)
Colors: Eco-friendly risography with spot colors Black, Orange and Medium Blue from drucken3000 in Berlin
Colors on the screen may differ from the original.
Type Specimen | Typo Poster | Typo Ping Pong #1 | Eyes | Riso Print
Typo-Poster Typo Ping Pong #1 Eyes rom TypoGraphicDesign as a Riso Poster in DIN A3.
Design: Typo Graphic Design ■ Manuel Viergutz
Typeface: Typo Ping Pong #1
Size: 29,7 cm B × 42 cm H (DIN A3)
Paper: Metapaper, warmwhite, extra rough 175 g/m2 (uncoated paper FSC + PEFC, 100 % made from wind energy)
Colors: Eco-friendly risography with spot colors Orange and Medium Blue from drucken3000 in Berlin
Colors on the screen may differ from the original.
Type Specimen | Typo Poster | Typo Ping Pong #1 | Mouse | Riso Print
Typo-Poster Typo Ping Pong #1 Mouse from TypoGraphicDesign as a Riso Poster in DIN A3.
Design: Typo Graphic Design ■ Manuel Viergutz
Typeface: Typo Ping Pong #1
Size: 29,7 cm B × 42 cm H (DIN A3)
Paper: Metapaper, warmwhite, extrarough 175 g/m2 (uncoated paper FSC + PEFC, 100 % made from wind energy)
Colors: Eco-friendly risography with spot colors Orange and Black from drucken3000 in Berlin
Colors on the screen may differ from the original.
Paul Hutchinson: B-Boys, Fly Girls & Horticulture
B-Boys, Fly Girls & Horticulture documents the photo project by Paul Hutchinson dedicated to the Hip Hop scene in Germany and India. The photographer grew up in a post fall-of-the-wall Berlin and used to be part of the Hip Hop circles in the 90s. Now he approaches this youth culture as an attentive observer.
In his work, Paul Hutchinson shows the subculture as a sensuous experience. Through his both sober and sensitive photographic look he provides the insights into the daily life, surroundings and individual stories of the young hip-hoppers. For his portraits, he keeps taking new perspectives showing the juveniles as immersed, almost isolated individuals. The rhythm and motion that are commonly associated with this music and dance culture are only indicated through their attributes while the real ambience is created by carefully chosen details. An overall image emerges from this nonlinear narrative and the fragmentary shots convey a genuine impression.
The young photographer develops his own style that combines documentary and poetics and expresses the inner motion through the aesthetics of color and form. The pictures from the Botanical Garden in Bangalore are presented alongside the pictures of the Hip Hop scene. They serve as a metaphorical imagery to explore the idea of “exoticism” that corresponds with the “foreignness” of the Hip Hop culture in India.
“But it is this spirit of negating all pragmatic circumstances, of pushing on and on, affirming life, that I found so inspiring while working amongst the youngsters in east and west.” (Paul Hutchinson in B-Boys, Fly Girls & Horticulture, 2015)
Paul Hutchinson: Wildlife Photography
In his second monograph, Paul Hutchinson looks at an underground station in the Neukölln district of Berlin. Wildlife Photography is a playful journey into an every-day appearance of exoticism.
In 2014 the interior design of the U-Bahnhof Hermannstraße had suddenly been overhauled: aiming to avoid further potential spaces for graffiti, the train station was redesigned into a lively jungle scape. The columns, walls, doors, the tiles and floors, were filled with colorful illustrations, merging into large frescos that cover the inside of the station. Hutchinson has taken this as starting point for a conversation with the mindset behind the illustrations and to hint at the socio-urban context in which this jungle has been placed: originally a laborers’ stronghold, the immediate environment of the train station is still quite far from being gentrified, the inhabitants by now mainly of non-German descent.
As an eager customer of Berlin’s public transport system and part of the local community Hutchinson, as most of his neighbors, at some point was unable to stop asking himself what this jungle was all about. Where do the monkeys, tigers and parrots come from, and what are they looking for here, underground?
In this publication images from the U-Bahnhof are juxtaposed with seemingly “real exotic” pictures. A fake jungle is placed next to a real one: we see a real butterfly next to a fake anteater, an illustrated bird meeting his live counterfeit, observe a girl in a leopard suit dancing. All this while the architecture of a public space merges with depictions of animals that radiate their own photo-ethnographic feel – and with graffiti.
While Paul Hutchinson’s first publication with The Green Box mainly looked at something familiar to him within a foreign setting – Hip Hop culture in India –, this artist book investigates something utterly foreign within an environment he feels only natural about – a Berlin underground station.
With a postface by Shahin Zarinbal.
Paul Hutchinson: Schmetterlinge
Following up on Wildlife Photography, Schmetterlinge is the second volume of a series of small-scale publications which Paul Hutchinson conceived in collaboration with The Green Box. In these books Hutchinson looks at seemingly banal situations and circumstances that, however disregarded, carry a deeper meaning and noteworthiness to the artist.
Inspired by the butterflies’ magical realism in-midst of the grey structures of east Asian cityscapes, Hutchinson creates images of a seemingly absurd beauty which question the conventional borders of fiction and reality. We see butterflies surrounded by plants and abstract shapes, collaged with manga-themes and QR-codes, next to cigarettes, iPhones and plastic bottles. By applying a playful thought to the act of image-making, Hutchinson opens up a space in which this well known subject can be interpreted fully anew. These images, created through performative actions, evoke their very own sense of aesthetics and bare witness to the urban-poetic feel which is inherent to Hutchinson’s work.
Type Specimen | FCK AFD | Sticker Set | 148×210mm
Sticker-Set as Type-Specimen for the icon typeface FCKAFD Icon Font. Also as Mini-Poster in DIN A5 with 20 stickers.
Design: Manuel Viergutz, TypoGraphicDesign.de
Typeface: FCKAFD Icon Font
Size: DIN A5 | 148 × 210 mm (B×H)
Sheets: 1 1 sheet as sticker set (free-form) with 20 stickers 😍
Paper: 90 g/m² Recycled adhesive paper, white
Colors: 4/0 c
Colors on the screen may differ from the original.
Yearbook of Type #7—Plant Edition
Building on the success of its predecessors, the Yearbook of Type #7 presents an updated design concept that features new interfaces and fresh features for an enhanced reading experience on 608 (!) pages. With a thematic focus on plants, this edition offers a unique perspective on typography and presents a wide range of new and high-quality fonts, where there is something for every purpose and taste.
Each typeface is now showcased on three pages and offers a comprehensive overview of its properties and characteristics: A double page spread with an appealing visual sample of the font emphasizes the character of the font. The third page offers a detailed overview of the font and its special features, information on language support, styles, weights and widths, OpenType features, and detailed background information about the designer and the foundry.
A comprehensive index allows for quick reference, while the online microsite enables easy browsing and direct purchases. The book is accompanied by a freely accessible online microsite, which allows easy browsing and direct purchase of all the fonts presented.
- Detailed presentation of 180 recent typefaces
- Ample background information
- Index of all 206 type designers and 108 foundries from 29 countries
- Explanation of all OpenType features
- An online microsite that directly links the typefaces to the foundries’ websites (from this edition, as well as editions 3 through 6)
Presented type foundries: 205TF, AG Typography Institute, AinsiFont, Alex Slobzheninov, Ampersand Type Foundry, Antipixel Type Studio, Apex Type Foundry, Azuliq Type, Bastarda Type, Binnenland, Black[Foundry], Blast Foundry, Blaze Type, Bleifrei Type, Bureau Sebastian Moock, BVH Type, Cadson Demak, Cape Arcona, CRU Brand Consultancy, CSTM Fonts, Darden Studio, Detail Type Foundry, Displaay Type Foundry, DSType Foundry, edition.studio Type Foundry, Fabio Haag Type, Fable, Face2Face, Faire Type, Fatype, Fincker Font Cuisine, Fontwerk, Formula Type, Frere-Jones Type, Friederike Wagner, Frost, Fuenfwerken Design AG, Gradient Type, Hanken Design Co.®, Hoftype, Huy! Fonts, It’s Just Letters, Jeremy Tankard Typography, Kobu™ Foundry, Kontour Type, LA BOLDE VITA, Latinotype, Lazydogs Typefoundry, Le Laïc: Type Foundry, Lian Olsen, Lift Type, Mark van Leeuwen, Monolith, Morisawa.Inc, Mostardesign Type Foundry, NEW LETTERS, nice to type, Nonspace, Nouvelle Noire, Nova Type Foundry, Ntsal, OPS Type, Paratype, Peter Schmidt Group, phosphorus, Playtype, Posterizer KG, Range Left Shop, RazziaType, Retype, Revolver Type, Rosetta Type Foundry, Sacha Rein, Schriftlabor, Sharp Type, Stan Hema, Studio Bollo, Studio Principle, Studio Rene Bieder, sugargliderz, Text Field Office, The Northern Block, Thomas Hirter, tictactype, TIGHTYPE, André Toet, Tour de Force Font Foundry, TYPE FIRM, TypeMates, Typerepublic, TypeTogether, Typogama, Typonym, Typotheque, Ultra Kuhl, Viktor Nübel Type Design, VJ Type, W Type Foundry, Wannatype, WELTKERN® Typefaces, XYZ Type, Zakznak, Zetafonts
The Yearbook of Type #7 is a must-have for typography enthusiasts—a go-to source for finding the perfect typeface or a spark of inspiration!
“The overall design of the book is a real pleasure, not only stimulating but also informative.”
Rudolf Paulus Gorbach, tgm-Blog
Type Specimen | Chalk Hand Marker | Postcard Set | Zodiac Sign Letter
Postcard-Set as Type-Specimen for the handwritten typeface Chalk Hand Marker. Also as Mini-Calendar in DIN A6 with illustrated Zodiac Sign Letter.
Design: Manuel Viergutz, TypoGraphicDesign.de
Typeface: Chalk Hand Marker
Vector Icon-Set: Zodiac Sign Letter – Chalk Hand Marker
Size: DIN A6 | 148 × 105 mm (B × H)
Sheets: 13× Postcards as a Set with 12 Zodiac-Sign Typo-Illustrations (+ Cover) 😍
Paper: 300 g/m² strong & stable postcard cardboard
Colors: Colorful 4/1 c
Colors on the screen may differ from the original.
Type Specimen | Headline Poster | Sticker Set | 148×210mm
Sticker-Set as Type-Specimen for the variable Sans-Serif typeface Headline Poster. Also as Mini-Poster in DIN A5.
Design: Manuel Viergutz, TypoGraphicDesign.de
Typeface: Headline Poster
Size: DIN A5 | 148 × 210 mm (B × H)
Sheets: 1 Sheet as Sticker-Set with 25 stickers 😍
Paper: 90 g/m² Recycled adhesive paper, white
Colors: 4/0 c
Colors on the screen may differ from the original.
Dennis Fuchs – Becher
The publication Becher by Dennis Fuchs presents works from the series of small porcelain and ceramic sculptures. The objects move (often literally swaying) along the line between sculpture and drinking vessel. Fuchs mugs play with classics of design history such as the German onion pattern and break up the seemingly familiar with aspects of contemporary consumer culture. No two mugs are the same; their diversity takes the relationship between form and function ad absurdum. As Julia Meyer-Brehm notes, the “mugs combine painting, drawing and sculpture, appearing naive and at the same time incredibly smart.”
In the exhibition context, visitors can choose and drink from the multitude of different cups. The selection creates a connection between art and the visitors’ idiosyncrasies, but also between the drinkers themselves. A special detail is the cover of the book, which contains an integrated beer mat – a useful gimmick that recalls the origins of Fuchs’ cups in pubs and project space bars.
About the artist
Dennis Fuchs (*1992 in Berlin) lives and works in Berlin. He studied teaching art and philosophy/ethics and fine art (Meisterschüler) with Ina Weber at the UdK Berlin and as an exchange student in London and Tokyo. He has exhibited in Berlin, Zurich, Milan and Tokyo.
He worked as a guest lecturer for sculpture and multimedia at the UdK Berlin and as a lecturer in cooperation with the Bauhaus Archive Berlin. His works were awarded with the Special Jury Prize of the Takifuji Art Awards Japan and the Audience Award of the Kunstverein Ebersberg.
Dennis Fuchs – Die Materie freut sich, Happy Matter 2
Die Materie freut sich, Happy Matter 2 is a perpetual monthly calendar by Berlin artist Dennis Fuchs. In addition to new works, the calendar is supplemented by important national and international anniversaries such as Chocolate Day, World Cheese Day, Christmas and many more.
Dennis Fuchs’ small sculptures attribute an emotionality and the ability to act autonomously to the material. The exhibited objects oscillate between snack bar and restaurant, work and leisure, “high and low”. Since a stay in Japan, the artist has been working with replicas of food, which originally served to overcome language barriers when ordering in restaurants. Aesthetic and culinary decisions overlap in the production process of the small sculptures. They are given arms and legs and come to life. Arranged in scenes on bistro tables, they pass the time either lethargically or productively. They include both standardized foods and unconventional vegetables.
About the artist
Dennis Fuchs (*1992 in Berlin) lives and works in Berlin. He studied art education and philosophy/ethics and fine arts (master student) with Ina Weber at the UdK Berlin and as an exchange student in London and Tokyo. He has exhibited in Berlin, Zurich, Milan and Tokyo. He worked as a guest lecturer for sculpture and multimedia at the UdK Berlin and as a lecturer in cooperation with the Bauhaus Archive Berlin. His works were awarded with the Special Jury Prize of the Takifuji Art Awards Japan and the Audience Award of the Kunstverein Ebersberg.
Some Magazine #19—Ready
Some Magazine #19—Ready deals with the phenomenon and the beauty of finishing things.
When is a piece of creative work ready, when have we finally reached the end of the process? Or is there no such thing as “ready” in our world permanent intermediate state? The Some team talks to artists and designers from very different fields and cultures about their methods, their thoughts, sometimes their despair and then also about final results.
A magazine full of inspiring examples that takes the reader on a journey to and through very different creative practices in art and design.
A Magazine for Visual Inventors!