A Meaningful Order by OK-RM is a 328-page exploration of design’s distributed realities, shaped through dialogue, exhibition, and industrial production. Structured A–Z, it presents sixteen years of work via experimental lithography and designerly writing. Blending archive, interview, and reflection, it examines how designed objects generate meaning through form, context, culture, and conversation beyond academe.
Another Art Book, the final volume celebrating the archives of AnOther Magazine, revisits groundbreaking art commissions published since 2001. Featuring artists including Damien Hirst and Yayoi Kusama, it highlights the magazine’s bold integration of contemporary art into fashion publishing, culminating in collaborative projects that fused designers and artists, reshaping the relationship between both creative worlds.
This book chronicles Beau Geste Press (1971–1976) through works by founders and collaborators linked to Fluxus and neo-Dada. A detailed “catalogue dé-raisonné,” it examines experimental publishing methods and the press’s international influence, accompanying the 2017 CAPC exhibition.
Disobedient Objects explores the art and design of global protest from 1980 to today, showing how creative activism challenges authority. Featuring works by groups such as Bread and Puppet Theater and ACT UP, it presents posters, banners, games, and symbolic objects that demonstrate how social movements inspire collective ingenuity and political change.
Enghelab Street, Revolution Street explores Tehran’s iconic book district through Iranian artist Hannah Darabi’s collection of photographic and propaganda publications from 1979–1983. Covering a brief period of relative free expression between the Shah’s fall and the Islamic government’s rise, the book presents a visual essay with critical commentary by Chowra Makaremi, revealing rare printed materials from a transformative cultural moment
Full Scale False Scale is a study of a site-specific installation for the Museum of Modern Art, created for its 2019 reopening. Blending reader and collage, the book assembles research materials—spanning color theory, politics, and architectural motifs—into a constructed, subjective archive mirroring the installation itself.
Flashpoint! is an collection of protest photography in print from the 1950s to today. Surveying over 245 photobooks, zines, posters, and alternative journals, it examines how photography functions as both activist tool and historical document. Organised thematically, it highlights resistance movements worldwide, revealing how printed images shape, record, and amplify political struggle.
Gaz’s Rockin’ Blues celebrates London’s longest-running one-nighter club. The book chronicles three decades of the legendary night through its original flyers and posters, alongside photos and anecdotes. It offers a vibrant visual and cultural history of this much-loved institution and its lasting impact on London’s music scene.
Tsuguya Inoue, renowned Japanese graphic designer, showcases a dynamic series centered on the theme of “dragon.” Through striking photographs capturing geckos, mantises, and water drops, he creates playful, visually compelling graphics. The book highlights his signature humor and design skill, featuring recent projects for clients like Comme des Garçons, Morisawa, Parco, Suntory, and Asahi Shimbun.
Volume two of the monograph on M/M (Paris) traces the duo’s radical, cross-disciplinary practice since 1992. Featuring over 850 images arranged A–Z from “M” to “M,” it highlights collaborations across fashion, music, art, and publishing. Interviews and essays from leading creatives frame their influential visual atlas, completing the definitive Thames & Hudson edition.
This 528-page monograph celebrates twenty years of work by M/M (Paris), founded by Michaël Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak. Arranged alphabetically from “M” to “M,” it documents hundreds of projects spanning graphic design, fashion, music, art, film, and interiors. Featuring major collaborations and interviews, the book reveals their dialogic, cross-disciplinary approach and lasting influence on contemporary visual culture.
This book examines nine pioneers who shaped American graphic design from the 1930s to the 1950s, including Lester Beall and Paul Rand. Through over 200 illustrations, the book explores their education, philosophies, client work, and problem-solving, revealing the foundations of modern American visual communication.
This book surveys 1,800 recent print publications that operate outside the international book trade. Lacking ISBNs and produced on paper, they range from photocopied flyers to handcrafted editions and hardcovers. Created largely by young artists, these works highlight independent, experimental publishing, with illustrations chosen to reflect the expressive energy of contemporary art-driven print culture.
Notes From a Revolution chronicles the San Francisco Diggers, a radical 1966 Haight-Ashbury collective formed by members of San Francisco Mime Troupe. Led by activists including Peter Coyote, they fused anarchism, street theater, and direct action, distributing provocative broadsides while providing free food and services, capturing the spirit of early counterculture.
This book explores the most influential printed books in Western history, tracing how print shaped science, politics, religion, and culture, and documenting the transformative impact of publishing on the development of Western civilization.
The Queer Tree of Life traces international queer LGBTQ publishing from 1880 to 2019. Featuring over 400 examples, it explores how print—once clandestine—shaped identity and visual culture. From fanzines and self-publishing to academic texts, pornography, and artist books, it highlights publishing as a catalyst for non-heteronormative self-understanding and community formation.
Self Publish, Be Happy explores the recent revolution in self-published photobooks. Blending manifesto, practical manual, and survey, Bruno Ceschel highlights key success stories, case studies, and artist testimonies. With insight from Museum of Modern Art librarian David Senior, it situates today’s DIY photobook movement within a broader artistic legacy.
Shotgun Seamstress collects all eight issues (2006–2015) of Shotgun Seamstress, founded by Osa Atoe. This cut-and-paste DIY zine centers Black punk and outsider identity, reclaiming rock as Black music. Featuring artists like Death and Poly Styrene, it celebrates radical politics, gender diversity, and self-defined Black expression.
Sounds Codes Images examines the shifting boundary between sound and image, focusing on intersections of visual art and music. Drawing on sound studies, music theory, and acoustic ecology, it maps Czech visual art and synaesthetic approaches. The book also presents Czech, Slovak, and international artists experimenting with graphic scores, sonification, visualization, resonant objects, installations, and digital media.
In the late 1960s, Tadanori Yokoo explored mysticism and psychedelia, influenced by travels in India. Though often compared to Andy Warhol or Peter Max, his layered imagery was deeply autobiographical and original. Internationally recognized, he appeared in MoMA’s 1968 “Word & Image” show, and in 1972 the Museum of Modern Art held a solo exhibition of his graphic work.
The renowned and influential book artist Hedi Kyle shows you step–by–step how to create her unique designs using folding techniques. Presents bookbinding and paper craft projects include flag books, blizzard books, the fishbone fold, and nesting boxes.
A timely exploration of political organising, publishing, design and distribution in 1970s Detroit.
These Are Situationist Times! explores the radical 1960s magazine The Situationist Times, tracing its six inventive issues and their challenge to cultural conventions. It examines situationism, experimental publishing, and artist-led production, while reassessing contemporary relevance. The book also revisits unpublished material developed with Hans Brinkman for a planned seventh issue centered on pinball, enriched by rare archival discoveries.
This experimental volume reimagines what a book can be by inviting over thirty leading artists and writers to reinvent its traditional parts. Endpapers, footnotes, page numbers, even the ribbon bookmark become individual artworks. The result is a playful, collaborative object that blurs boundaries between literature and visual art, celebrating creativity, surprise, and the book as medium itself in inventive ways.
The Work of Tsuguya Inoue 1981–2024 is a comprehensive collector’s edition surveying 503 works, including new projects, by influential Japanese art director Tsuguya Inoue. Spanning over four decades, it highlights his dynamic graphic design for clients such as Parco and Comme des Garçons, tracing a bold, evolving visual career across 696 full-color pages.
This book explores the mid-1960s boom in West German underground and self-published works, produced with hectographs, mimeographs, and offset printing. Embracing DIY experimentation, creators combined typescripts, handwriting, collages, comics, and photography to forge a radical new aesthetic. Published alongside a Weserburg Bremen exhibition, it situates these works internationally and reconsiders today’s independent publishing and risograph revival.
Unusual Sounds traces the full history of library music through interviews with its composers, producers, and musicians, appearing amid renewed interest and major-label reissues. Originally created as low-cost stock soundtracks for television and genre films, library records evolved into a thriving industry. Behind many anonymous releases were leading late-20th-century composers, whose inventive work flourished within commercial constraints.
This book explores the dynamic relationship between fashion and graphic design, revealing how clothing draws on visual communication and graphic language. Spanning streetwear, ready-to-wear, and haute couture, it showcases diverse international styles to demonstrate how typography, imagery, and layout shape contemporary fashion aesthetics and identity across global design cultures.
