Combining selections from her celebrated performance pieces as well as independent projects, Valie Export’s photography takes center stage in this unprecedented exploration that offers new insights into the career of an early radical feminist artist. In groundbreaking controversial works such as Touch and Tap Cinema and Action Pants: Genital Panic, Valie Export was one of the first feminist artists to reconsider the ways in which the female body is depicted in conventional film and media. This volume considers how Export’s photography plays into these projects, as a means of documentation, as experiments, or as independent works. Beginning in the late 1960s it spans decades of conceptual photographs that critically examine visual images’ and mass media’s modes of functioning, portrayal, and perception. Rarely seen publicly, these photographs afford new insights into Export’s oeuvre. They are situated at the nexus of film, video, and body art and causally linked to the socially critical and feminist issues around subject and space, performance and visual image, body and gaze, and femininity and representation. The volume traces Export’s photographic work as parallel to her first performance pieces and then later in her career as she investigates all characteristics of the photographic image, from one-point perspective to cropping, to the temporal implications of static individual images. Accompanying the first exhibition to highlighting Export’s photographs this stunning volume was produced in close collaboration with the artist and reflects her exacting standards and vision.

Bind: paperback

Pages: 272

Dimensions: 230 x 285 mm

Publication Date: 30-05-2023

You’ve seen their work—but have you seen them? From advertising to architecture, cartooning to fashion design, Black designers have been working in every major industry but, for the past decades, have not been given the spotlight anywhere near to the extent of their white counterparts. This vibrant and wide-ranging book more than corrects that oversight, bringing a century of Black designers and their work fully into focus. The book is organized into three sections by discipline, focusing on Fashion, Architecture and Graphic Design. Each section explores the key figures from the 20th century whose pioneering work gradually entered the mainstream, before revealing how, today, the Black design community is finally becoming visible. Each section features interviews that shed light on its historic period, as well as a deeper dive into several designers whose work and life represents their era. Filled with photographs and illustrations throughout this is a compelling and entertaining visual essay that reports from the intersection of race and the arts while raising important questions about the nature and sustainability of Black design in western culture

Bind: hardback

Pages: 224

Dimensions: 17 x 24 mm

Publication Date: 10-10-2023

Get to know and take a ride with the eight-time world-champion. Being Marc Márquez lifts the curtain behind the iconic acronym MM93 and reveals what matters to the fastest man on two wheels both on the racetrack and in life. Whether it's friendship, fun, focus, loyalty, spirit, or family—in eight chapters, he allows readers to get an up-close look, opening his tinted visor to let us peak into his mind and all-out racing soul. This book shares the personal insights and credos of a tireless fighter and unapologetically optimistic family guy.

Bind: hardback

Pages: 224

Dimensions: 200 x 260 mm

Explains how to design an elegant and holistic visual identity for a contemporary brand. Multiply serves as a definitive guide for creating meaningful, elegant and timeless brand identities. Chapters on Discovery, Direction, Typography, Photography, Illustration, Design, Digital Physical provide an insightful step-by-step approach on how to develop the various visual elements that define a contemporary brand in various media, channels, and activations. Through the expert eyes of Mario Depicolzuane and a close-knit community of industry-leading designers, creative directors, and tastemakers, the book will explain how to develop a brand's world and to design with grace, rationality, thoughtfulness, and intuition.

Bind: hardback

Pages: 240

Dimensions: 210 x 260 mm

Publication Date: 27-10-2023

Welcome to the beating heart of the home! From Scandinavian design to vintage style, this book shows what’s cooking. In today's world, the kitchen has become much more than a space for cooking—it's where families gather, friends bond, and memories are made. Kitchen Interiors show-cases stunning designs from around the world that are perfect for any kitchen size or style. From small kitchenettes to grand kitchen islands, this book features the best examples of contemporary kitchen design. Discover how modern applications blend seamlessly with traditional design and how compact kitchens can be transformed with smart storage solutions. This follow-up to Kitchen Kulture and Kitchen Living delves into the evolution of kitchen design. Learn how kitchens have become the new living room and how they continue to inspire us with their functionality, beauty, and ability to bring people together.

Bind: hardback

Pages: 256

Dimensions: 210 x 260 mm

Publication Date: 30-09-2023

A comprehensive history and how-to treatise on mezzotint engraving, a printmaking technique known for creating lush tonal gradations and dramatic lighting effects Award-winning mezzotint engraver Carol Wax traces the art form's beginnings in 1642, through its growth as a vital British industry for reproducing paintings, to its demise after the invention of photography and resurgence as a means of original expression. This newly revised edition explains various means for creating dark backgrounds on copper plates and rendering images reductively, or in the mezzotint manner. Copious illustrations accompany step-by-step technical instruction and include prints by practitioners at the forefront of the current mezzotint revival. Includes helpful information on • tools • inks • papers • printing techniques • using mezzotint with other mediums • related engraving and drypoint techniques Additional updates emphasize nontoxic materials and make this book useful to artists with diverse experiences and interests.

Bind: hardback

Pages: 312

Dimensions: 230 x 300 mm

Publication Date: 28-11-2023

Perfect for dads and lovers of cheesy puns and one-liners, this pocket-sized collection offers a year's worth of mirth suitable for all ages There's something very special about dad jokes - they're always enjoyably terrible, sometimes quite witty and occasionally downright hilarious. So if you're a dad looking to add to your collection of funnies, or you'd like to beat your old man at his own game, this is the book for you. Packed into these pages are pithy wisecracks, comically cringeworthy puns, silly one-liners and enough other types of joke to last an entire year. Among the hundreds of groan-worthy gags you'll find gems like: - How many tickles does it take to make an octopus laugh? Ten tickles. - Why are balloons so expensive? Inflation. - What do you call an elephant who doesn't matter? Irrelephant. - How does the moon cut his hair? Eclipse it. - Did you hear about the circus fire? It was in tents. Unapologetically themselves, just like dads, these are jokes to inflict with glee on all the family.

Bind: hardback

Pages: 160

Dimensions: 101 x 136 mm

Publication Date: 09-08-2023

Embracing every aspect of Modotti’s brief but stellar career and filled with archival images and insightful essays, this is certain to be the definitive reference work on a photographer whose art was suffused with humanity, emotion, compassion and technical brilliance. Tina Modotti’s work spans less than a decade, but in that time she created uniquely powerful and lyrical images that combine masterful technique with a deep concern for the rights of the poor and marginalized. Organized thematically, this sweeping overview of her life and oeuvre offers gorgeous reproductions of her portraits, still lifes, architectural images, and documentary photographs. The wide- ranging and substantial biographical material offers important and illuminating background about her experience in the theater and silent film industry, her relationship with Edward Weston and friendships with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, her political radicalization and her activism around worker’s rights and Mexico’s indigenous peoples. Uniquely adept at spanning the genres of abstraction and landscape, portraiture and photojournalism, Modotti was as talented as she was passionate. This tribute to her life and work firmly establishes her as one of the most important photographers of her time.

Bind: hardback

Pages: 272

Dimensions: 220 x 250 mm

Publication Date: 31-07-2023

First shapes with fantastic underwater creatures! Fish, Octopus, turtles – what shape are they?! Our latest collaboration with Marcos Farina and the follow up to the much-loved and popular Little Gestalten board books, The Animal Show and How Many Birds?, Fishing For Shapes explores first shapes in Marcos’ colorful and fun way – with underwater creatures!

Bind: hardback

Pages: 24

Dimensions: 150 x 150 mm

Publication Date: 20-02-2024

The incredible world of the animals, plants, and other nocturnal phenomena that live their lives throughout the night. Most living things are active as long as the sun shines on the sky, but at dusk, when the light dims, life continues. The moonlight illuminates the Earth, plants come to life, animals awaken and some organisms glow like jewels in the dark. For these creatures, plants and natural phenomena, the night falls and another day begins.

Bind: hardback

Pages: 48

Dimensions: 280 x 320 mm

Publication Date: 31-08-2023