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Zero Waste Ballpoint Pen in Black

Handmade and 3D printed from truly biodegradable bioplastic in Hamburg, Germany. 100% recyclable, climate-neutral and made entirely from European material. The Ballpoint Pen in Black comes in environmentally friendly recycled packaging and is part of our own recycling program.

Housing: Biodegradable bioplastic, Austria

Refill: Metal, extra broad in black, indelible according to ISO 12757-2, climate-compensated, Germany

Spring: Piano wire, Germany

Packaging: Recycled paper, Switzerland

Manufactured in: Hamburg, Germany

Mechanics: Screw

Gert Dumbar, Gentleman Maverick of Dutch Design

Gert Dumbar (1940) is one of the most influential—and colourful—graphic designers in the postwar design field, both in the Netherlands and abroad. As a young partner in Tel Design, he designed one of the most iconic symbols in the Dutch public domain, the logo for the Dutch National Railways, NS, to which he has added countless designs for other clients with his own Studio Dumbar. Applauded or reviled, Studio Dumbar has left an indelible mark on Dutch and international visual culture.

Dumbar produced a vast amount of work, for an enormously varied clientele, from avant-garde theatres to the central government, from hospitals to multinationals. That work and the Werdegang of its namesake are now—for the first time—described and interpreted with great verve by the two authors in a richly illustrated book.

Gert Dumbar, Gentleman Maverick of Dutch Design considers this fabulously versatile oeuvre in its time and context and examines the various roles Dumbar played—that of artist, provocateur and “design director”, student and teacher, cultural initiator and mediator. Unique is the treasure trove of sketches from the Studio’s archives, which were abundantly sampled for the book. It provides insight into Dumbar’s independent, agile mind, his gift for engaging talented young designers, and his ability to time and again seduce his very diverse commissioners to tread unconventional paths.

Max Bruinsma is a design critic, editor, curator and lecturer. He was the editor-in-chief of Eye: The International Review of Graphic Design (founded by Rick Poynor). He has written on design extensively, and has been teaching in many international positions.

Leonie ten Duis is an art historian and writer. One of her best-known books is The World Must Change: Graphic Design and Idealism / De wereld moe(s)t anders: grafisch ontwerpen en idealisme.

September 2024, Valiz supported by Creative Industries Fund NL, het Cultuurfonds and Jaap Harten Fonds Foundation

Claudia Reinhardt: Witwen / Widows

“I have always been fascinated by the dark bedrooms with their heavy oak matrimonial beds, the living rooms that were never used (at most when visitors from outside came), and the kitchens that had to be always spick and span and tidy. Symbols of a German childhood. Mirrors of a war generation that will soon no longer exist. For several years I visited more than thirty widows and photographed in their apartments. In my native town of Viernheim in southern Hesse, in Berlin, Hamburg, in the Ruhrpott and in Norway. I worked with a medium format camera, a cumbersome technique that gave me time and required a lot of patience.

I didn’t want to photograph the faces of the women, but rather in their apartments, to trace their inner state of mind. I found metaphors for their sadness, their melancholy and secretiveness. A difficult task, because for these women, home is not something to be shown and exhibited. Privacy is sacred to them. I was tempted by this challenge. This is exactly the essence of my photography. To gain access and insight. To tell hidden stories with pictures.” (Claudia Reinhardt, April 2020)

Conversations Across Place

Conversations Across Place (CAP) provides a publishing platform for international artists and writers engaging with landscape in the broader sense of geography, ecology, space, place, built and “natural” environments. Contemporary discourse focused on decolonial, feminist and queer methodologies is underscored through a variety of subjects and themes in order to reveal historical and present-day entanglements. The format of “conversation” – of translation and dialogue – frames this project, which originated in a process-based workshop. Artists, writers and architects gathered to converse across the borders that divide places and disciplines, enacting the tangling that already exists in our plural ecosystems.

Volume I: The first volume of Conversations Across Place grapples with the reflexive relationships of extraction, ruination and reverberation, working towards solidarity across places and perspectives. Within and between the essays, texts, interviews/conversations and artwork that make up the book, landscapes both metaphorical and material are mapped onto each other producing new images of liminal times and spaces that provide a critical opportunity to reassess diverse relationships to the world. The book uses queer and decolonial methods as explicit tools of disorientation, questioning the clarity of time and space that rises from a Western cis-heteronormative and imperial context. Rather than a field guide, this book proposes a constellation of material – a horizontal network made of various perspectives which together may point in new directions.

List of contributors:

Shruti Belliappa (writer) / Nicola Brandt: Artist (Founder and series editor of Conversations Across Place) / Ama Josephine B. Johnstone: Speculative writer, artist, curator and pleasure activist / Peter Coffin: Conceptual artist / Denise Lim: Decolonial sociologist and Fellow at Yale University / Solveig Lønmo: Art historian and curator / Lorenzo Nassimbeni: Architect and conceptual artist / Lipika Pelham: Writer, broadcaster and filmmaker / Elisa Schaar: Curator and art historian / Hildegard Titus: photographer and activist / Sumayya Vally: Architect and founder of collaborative architecture studio Counterspace / Frances Whorrall-Campbell: Artist and writer (Guest editor and curator of Conversations Across Place)

Book recommendations

“If there was ever a time when we needed new intellectual maps and new cultural thinking, it is now, if ever there was a time for inspiration and beauty, it is now, if there was a time for us to share the message that this volume has to offer, it is today. This is a timely and astutely considered book that offers affecting and important reflections on this complex moment of cultural adaptation.”

– Augustus Casely-Hayford, OBE, Director, V&A East

”Conversations Across Place: Reckoning with an Entangled World, Vol. 1 is a compelling collation of novel and enlightening perspectives organised around the idea of landscape/place. This collection of essays, interviews and images is provocative; creatively and imaginatively engaging with a host of critical contemporary paradigms through a wide and venturous lens.”

– Mark Raymond, Director, Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg

Timewarp

Timewarp by Lorenzo Petrantoni, graphic artist, illustrator, designer and artist from Milan, Italy, known for his reinterpretations of historical figures from the 19th and 20th centuries in his particular personal aesthetic. His works are created by using 19th century engravings from old books he finds in bookshops, libraries, markets and fairs around the world. Using hand-made collage, Petrantoni combines and assembles these engravings to create unique and striking images.

His compositions have become iconic, used by renowned brands like Coca Cola, Nespresso, New York Times, Newsweek, Samsonite, Vogue, Vanity Fair, and many more, as well as museums, publishers, and galleries worldwide. Thanks to his extraordinary creativity and technical mastery, Petrantoni gives vintage images new life and meaning, transforming them into works of contemporary art.

Timewarp presents these works from recent years and is a fascinating journey through time, where the past merges with the present through the creative genius of Lorenzo Petrantoni.

Collision + Hand-Signed Prints

When the book Collision was printed, Lars Harmsen was able to save some of the printed sheets. He took them to his screen printing workshop in Italy, where he overprinted them with colorful motifs, creating a series of unique pieces. No two prints are alike.

We have carefully selected and compiled five hand-signed, unique prints. The result is 20 sets of 5 prints each, which are included as a special edition with the book Collision. Exclusively available in our shop.

POSTER REX screen print / RAUSCH / Mirko Borsche

Unique POSTER REX screen print from the session RAUSCH together with Mirko Borsche in Munich, September 2015. In the Format 64 × 91 cm.

Poster Rex was founded in 2014 by Markus Lange and Lars Harmsen after a screen printing workshop in Cuba. In the following years, the two designers conducted numerous printing sessions and workshops around the world, inviting local designers to create experimental posters. Each session focused on predetermined themes from politics, current events, and social issues, emphasizing one thing above all: attitude!

What emerged is an impressive testament to the enduring power of creativity and the deeply human capacity for hope, often accompanied by a call to take concrete action. The poster collection now includes over 3,000 unique pieces.

Get the new book: REBEL PRINTS—The Poster Rex Manifesto

Lars Harmsen and Markus Lange, the duo behind Poster Rex, know about the power of signs. Their posters combine contemporary aesthetics with uncomfortable images from our turbulent times, often in a political and/or socio-critical context. Poster Rex represents pop culture and the enduring strength of creativity and human resilience, the rebellious spirit of PosterRex provokes and awakens hope. This is evidenced not only by the screen-printed posters but also by the powerful statements of over25 designers and artists they’ve collaborated and printed with on-site, including notable figures such as Peter Bankov (CZ), Edwin van Gelder (NL), Mirko Borsche (DE), Götz Grämlich (DE), Ariane Spanier (DE), Officina Arara (PT), Yetkin Başarır (TR), and many more …

REBEL PRINTS—The Poster Rex Manifesto is a selection of screen-printed posters created over the last 10 years in collaboration with Poster Rex and artists from around the world.

Grafikmagazin 04.24 – Illustration

As the name indicates, Grafikmagazin is a print magazine focusing on all things graphic design. Primarily it’s aimed at professional creatives and design students from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and beyond.
Grafikmagazin presents outstanding work from graphic design, typography, illustration, photography, design theory, research, paper, and printing every two months. The editorial team of Grafikmagazin created a variety of sections and categories but selected focus themes for each issue, like “Illustration”. The topics portray how imaginative, eclectic, and playful graphic design can be while featuring successful branding concepts and niche ideas.

The extensive “Showroom” section lets readers know other creatives and the stories behind design studios worldwide. The “Design and Research” category presents interdisciplinary projects that show how science and research can benefit from creative solutions and play an active role in graphic design. In the “Production and Publishing” section, everything revolves around print. You will find exquisite books, sophisticated annual reports, and high-quality embossed greeting cards. Also, the cover artists of each issue are interviewed or get to highlight their ideas.

Each cover is printed on a different paper, and the design interprets the particular Grafik+ theme more broadly or shares a fresh perspective on a unique design technique. This particular cover was realized in six different versions from different studios and artists, each riso-printed. The Grafikmagazin team, its correspondents, and freelancers are bound and driven by the firm belief that print is not dead. With the will to prove just how alive it is, and the motivation to start something fresh yet deeply traditional, they strive for nothing less than to create another print magazine that makes history.

Risograph Art Print July

Graphic art print with bright riso colors — perfect for any room. Environmentally friendly risography print on the finest 170 g Munken paper with a high-quality feel.

Unframed.

Risograph Art Print August

Graphic art print with bright riso colors — perfect for any room. Environmentally friendly risography print on the finest 170 g Munken paper with a high-quality feel.

Unframed.

Risograph Art Print October

Graphic art print with bright riso colors — perfect for any room! Environmentally friendly risography print on the finest 170 g Munken paper with a high-quality feel.

Unframed

Creative Flow Cards

Understand the stages of creative flow. This set of cards contains 9 stages that every creator goes through when bringing an idea to life.
Use the Creative Flow Cards to identify which stage you are at right now and receive guidance on what to pay attention to while you’re here.

Superpower Cards

Superpower Cards contain 25 qualities that a high-performance team with a maker’s mindset should cultivate within. Use this tool to identify your team’s strengths and the gaps that need to be filled.
You can also use these cards for personal self-reflection to identify your personal strengths—your innate superpowers.

Worlding Ecologies – Art, Science and Activism Towards Climate Justice

How can art, science and institutional practices counteract the negative consequences of climate and ecological breakdown? How can these practices and ideas advance systemic change? Worlding Ecologies serves as an anthology of examples and wayward navigational tool, assembling eighteen authors exploring this question from their diverse backgrounds–as scientists, artists, philosophers, activists, theorists and curators–to rigorously approach urgent ecological challenges, including climate breakdown, pollution, biodiversity loss, environmental and social justice.

This book emphasizes the fundamental role of art as a vehicle and support structure for intersectional ecological thought. Whilst navigating imagination, worlding-possibility, science fact, social justice and climate action, the book prompts a fundamental role for art to create the blueprints for regenerative and sustainable more-than-human worlds. Structured alongside three sections–Science and Climate Truth; Activism and Climate Justice and Social Justice in Institutional Ecosystems–Worlding Ecologies moves from fieldwork-taking to patchwork-making, unifying the arts with science, politics and ecology into a field of synthetic thought and commitment.

Authors: Ursula Biemann, Federica Bueti, Eva Burgering, TJ Demos, Zoénie Liwen Deng, Jeff Diamanti, Lisa Doeland, Taru Elfving, Sami Hammana, Christopher F. Julien, Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk, Michael Marder, Chus Martinéz, Victoria McKenzie, Margarida Mendes, Vincent Normand, Filipa Ramos, Jessica Ullrich
Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk (1988, NL) works as director and curator at RADIUS, center for art and ecology located in Delft, which he founded in 2021. Lekkerkerk published The Standard Book of Noun-Verb Exhibition Grammar (Onomatopee, 2018) and Bestiary of Corona Animals (Onomatopee, 2020).
Eva Burgering is head of production and publications at RADIUS.
RADIUS is a center for contemporary art and ecology in Delft (NL). RADIUS works collaboratively with artists and other stakeholders to tell the urgent and necessary story of climate and systems change by means of art. RADIUS does so through a continuous program, consisting of exhibitions, public and educational programs.

June 2024, Valiz in collaboration with RADIUS, center for contemporary art and ecology | supported by Mondriaan Fund, M.A.O.C. Gravin van Bylandt Stichting

Flowers in the Dark No.1

What is real and what is fiction? We can distort and disfigure our faces using various digital filters. A self-portrait is created that can only be produced in a digital world. This image plays with the viewer with its surreal look and asks is it real or fiction.

The Flowers in the Dark No.1 print with surreal surrounding comes as a DIN A1 print on 246g/qm photo paper (C Type Fuji Gloss). The print is sold unframed.

characters#04

character#04 is the fourth specimag by Character Type. This blend of type magazine and a typeface specimen introduces Character Type’s newest typefaces Early Sans and Late Serif. character#04 features “The Alphabetical Room” an exploration into the boundaries and limits of writing within a 3D grid by Liad Shadmi.

The magazine is printed with three spot colors on rough natural paper.

Brasilia – Chandigarh

In 1960, Brasília was celebrated as the realization of an urban planning vision based on designs by Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer. At the same time, the sectoral city of Chandigarh was materializing according to plans by Le Corbusier. The “test tube city” emerged out of modern Western planning euphoria, marked by utopian ambition, and was exported across the globe. In both cities, foreign architecture commingled with indigenous culture, forming new and independent identities.
Brasilia – Chandigarh explores how modernism has been appropriated in both cities, and how their inhabitants deal with its legacy in their everyday lives. Commonalities and differences are identified through images by the photographer Iwan Baan, taking stock of contemporary life in both cities.

Eine Art zu leben – Ballenberg Notizen

Eine Art zu leben (A Way of Life) is an invitation to rediscover the material world with fresh eyes, inspired by the humble surroundings of Ballenberg.

Ballenberg is an open-air museum in the Bernese Oberland in the Swiss Alps, which brings together farmhouses from across the country, spanning the 14th to 19th centuries. This book, edited by the entrepreneur and long-time driving force behind Vitra, Rolf Fehlbaum, is the result of a trip undertaken to Ballenberg by designers Jasper Morrison and architects David Saik, Tsuyoshi Tane and Federica Zanco.

The authors share a fascination with the simplicity, practicality and functional beauty of the world in which rural populations lived. Eine Art zu leben compiles their observations and discoveries, revealing how architecture, furnishings and tools were always committed in their design and execution to the needs and necessities of everyday life; genuine solutions were found with the available means. Contemplating this intrinsic relationship between design, form and function, the book serves as a gentle reminder to resist the fads of today’s consumer world.

German edition

A Way of Life – Notes on Ballenberg

A Way of Life is an invitation to rediscover the material world with fresh eyes, inspired by the humble surroundings of Ballenberg.

The authors share a fascination with the simplicity, practicality and functional beauty of the world in which rural populations lived. A Way of Life compiles their observations and discoveries, revealing how architecture, furnishings and tools were always committed in their design and execution to the needs and necessities of everyday life; genuine solutions were found with the available means. Contemplating this intrinsic relationship between design, form and function, the book serves as a gentle reminder to resist the fads of today’s consumer world.

English edition

Talking Bodies – Image, Power, Impact

Bodies are classified by category and incorporated into narratives that are invariably oriented toward a supposed norm, one that, in turn, can mostly be understood as a system of belonging or exclusion. Non-binary, queer, ill, disabled, old and Black bodies are strikingly underrepresented and only come into view when their depiction is motivated by the message. As much as generalizing is essential to quick communication, it is also dangerous. Power relations and norms with respect to gendered, racialized and nonnormative bodies are continually upheld, adding legitimacy to their marginalization and discrimination.

Talking Bodies examines different mechanisms of representation of the body in media cultures—from stereotypical forms of gender representation to the persistence of the regime of the white gaze and to self-staging on social media—and situates them in a cultural, historical and sociological context. This publication brings together international posters from a wide range of categories and reveals continuities as well as changes and deviations in the depiction of the human body. Unsettling and even provocative poster compositions provide food for thought and inspire the discovery of new visual dialogues. Talking Bodies strives to promote a critical reappraisal of media images of the body.

How to Design a Revolution. The Chilean Road to Design

A bold project for change unfolded in Latin America at the beginning of the 1970s. After an electoral victory in Chile, the socialist government led by Salvador Allende and his governing coalition, Unidad Popular, embarked on a mission to bring about a socialist revolution through existing democratic institutions to address the most pressing needs of the Chilean people. The result was an unprecedented alliance of socialism, democracy and design.

How to Design a Revolution. The Chilean Road to Design provides the most complete analysis of the graphic and industrial design projects developed during Salvador Allende’s presidency. The book’s twelve chapters tell some of the most remarkable histories of this innovative design experience, including histories of the powdered milk measuring spoons designed to combat child malnutrition, the posters that encouraged collective action and a state-of-the-art operations room built to manage Chile’s state-run industries. Through these and other projects we see how Chile’s designers worked to create a path to social and material justice.

Fifty years after the civil-military coup d’état that put an end to democracy in Chile, and with it these design initiatives, the book provides a reminder of Latin America’s transformative capacity and a source for reflection and creative inspiration.

Modern Man in the Making

Otto Neurath’s famous Modern Man in the Making, first published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1939, captures and describes the state of the world in the 1930s by using text and figurative illustrations. From 1925 onwards, Neurath and his team had worked on a new visual language termed “Isotype”. At a time that saw the rise of new mass media making hitherto unthinkable amounts of information available, Neurath felt the need for a systematic visualization explaining facts, statistic data and comparative numbers in simple ways. The book can be seen as one of the most influential predecessors of today’s ever-present infographics. Its topics include diverse social issues of the time such as mortality, health, employment, trade, education, mobility, migration and demographics.
Modern Man in the Making shows Neurath’s democratic endeavor to make knowledge intelligible and available to all. This pivotal historical picture-text book is made available again as a reprint of the original publication in the series XX The Century of Print.

Sam Prekop, Drawings

The very first page promises: it’s all about the whole. Drawings.

If you look at the simple geometric shapes drawn with colored pencils one by one, you might think you recognize certain objects. Despite their direct language, however, they do not pretend to represent anything in particular. They exhibit their pure construction. Yet the mysterious order of this exciting construction kit seems unchanging. The beauty of Prekop’s drawings, like their rhythm, is only get in one piece.

Chicago-based musician/artist Sam Prekop is a founding member of The Sea and Cake and has released several solo albums. This book collects 27 of his drawings from autumn 2023, printed in original size.

Developments

This psychological, almost therapeutic artist-photobook reveals lesser-known connections between creatively inclined individuals in working-class societies, addiction problems, and mental illness. Tino Zimmermann, a member of the milieu he photographs, makes his case through images from his personal archive. These photographs emerged when he accidentally discovered photography as a means of self-therapy after discharging himself from a psychiatric clinic during a drug-induced schizophrenic episode.

The book offers an intricately composed, chronological narrative of six years, presenting the argument that a lack of societal acceptance for young, creatively inclined individuals leads to a range of well-known, potentially preventable problems and hardships. Another point of focus is the topic of depression—the most prevalent and debilitating mental condition in many developed countries, which despite its epidemic status remains heavily stigmatized and insufficiently discussed.

Solely designed by the artist himself, this is a book for photo and artist-book enthusiasts. According to Zimmermann, it is a work not only to raise awareness and to help de-stigmatize common patterns, but ultimately a work that will resonate the most with other neurodivergent people, who are probably going to find these tellings relatable. 2019, an early prototype edition of Developments was awarded the German Photobook Award.