Toiletpaper

Toiletpaper is an artists’ magazine created and produced by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, born out of a passion or obsession they both cultivate: images. The magazine contains no text; each picture springs from an idea, often simple, and through a complex orchestration of people it becomes the materialization of the artists’ mental outbursts. Since the first issue, in June 2010, ‘Toiletpaper’ has created a world that displays ambiguous narratives and a troubling imagination. It combines the vernacular of commercial photography with twisted narrative tableaux and surrealistic imagery. The result is a publication that is itself a work of art, which, through its accessible form as a magazine, and through its wide distribution, challenges the limits of the contemporary art economy.

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Feature: Toshiko Mori

The February issue of a+u is our first monograph dedicated to the architectural practice of Toshiko Mori. Based in New York, the Japanese native founded Toshiko Mori Architect (TMA) in 1981. The introductory essay by Fred A. Bernstein, an architecture journalist, demonstrates her design approach and her keen eye for detail. Mori’s works are the result of an in-depth study of the site’s topography, vegetation, and landscape, as pointed out by Edward Eigen, a historian and scholar of European and Anglo-American landscapes in the long nineteenth century. Mori’s designs reflect a sensitive integration of design, materials, and technology with the site. In addition, Sean Kelly, one of Mori’s clients and an art gallery owner, speaks about the process of collaboration with Mori. 18 representative works after 2000, of which 9 are residences, are featured in this issue, alongside site photographs and survey maps.

To Mori, teaching is always in parallel with her practice. Her essay illustrates her career in architectural academia and the several initiatives she introduced while being a faculty member at various prestigious architecture institutions, including the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD).

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Feature: SuperNormal Architecture in the Netherlands 2010–2020

In this issue, together with guest editor Kirsten Hannema, Chief Editor of the nai010 Yearbook Architecture in the Netherlands, we will take a look at the last 10 years of Dutch architecture discourse. Previously, in our a+u 12:01 issue (Architecture in the Netherlands 2000–2011), which highlighted the country’s architecture scene right after the global financial crisis in 2008, the construction industry faced a slowdown. What we saw then, as “typically” Dutch, has gradually faded. Looking away from the “SuperDutch” stigma, we now see projects combining broader social issues, and taking on new forms of cultural energy. Yet, compared to the superstar generation that preceded them, these architects and their projects often go unnoticed. Therefore, in this issue, 19 projects are selected and placed into 3 themes to introduce a new attitude on today’s architecture in the Netherlands – the “SuperNormal”.

The 3 themes: “Reshaping the Polder” looks into pilot projects that rethink the sustainability of our construction practice. “Tabula Scripta” introduces transformation projects exploring how we rebuild under pre-existing conditions. “After the NAi” presents a body of public projects built during the period after 2012 when the national budget was cut. Each theme is accompanied by an essay written by Bob Witman, Jarrik Ouburg, and Sergio M Figueiredo, respectively. Finally, Floris Alkemade, Chief Government Architect of the Netherlands, shares with us in an interview about his reflections, actions, and predictions on the country’s architectural setting.

Thanks to Eelco Van Welie, Director of nai010 publishers, for his support, and to the authors and the architects who contributed to this issue.

Our three cover players, who each open a door to a different kind of playfulness, feature a human in deepdream, an avatar in hack mode, and a watermelon monster dressed up for an Unbirthday Party. SOFA’s funniest and deepest dispatch so far, our 4th issue captures the essential zeitgeist that everyone is longing for.

In a moment in time when adulting has never felt more urgent, and also frightening, IT’S PLAYTIME! puts culture in a headlock, wrestles playfully with childlikeness, games, new ideas, political strategies, brattiness, social media, slime, nostalgia, dark fantasies and paths to joy, in order to offer up fun as a soothsayer.

Here we are at a turning point—when the world is melting and teenagers are death staring world leaders, and demanding policy change. While LOLing (because we have to, it gives hope) and orbiting the newest frontiers of TikTok revenge, word games, ass augmentation and psychological analysis while microdosing, IT’S PLAYTIME! uncovers life below the surface of social media bravado. We float through fantasy rooms, go on dates with a clown, explore identity and mental health in alternate virtual worlds, and give voice to the thoughts and feelings of loud, restless, thoughtful youth culture in its crisis of consciousness.

Also in the issue...

Rema's intergalactic afrobeats / The girls of Rocks / Meet some of the Dazed 100 / Fast times in the Hype House / Future youth inLagos and New Delhi / 100 gecs' virtual living

Focus on disability

The Belonging Volume

The Belonging Volume takes a planetary perspective to reflect on the significance of our existence and that of the intricate network of ecosystems we inhabit. It explores how intimate knowledge of nature can enable us to feel at home outdoors, and how finding wonder in our everyday lives can profoundly impact our worldview. It listens to the voices of the younger generation and ruminates on the concept of intergenerational equity, and it hears stories of collective action to tackle some of today’s most pressing issues. It inspires us to humbly step back from our anthropogenic view on the world so we may find belonging in nature and come home to ourselves.

Vol. 30

The Health Issue

ANDALUSIA • JAPAN • NEPAL • PORTLAND, OREGON • PUGLIA • WEST SWEDEN

Issue 18: Critique, Therapy and Toilets

Issue 18 introduces an exciting new content structure that takes as its thematic centre a long-form essay ‘On Coffee and Criticism’ by the incredible Noa Berger—a social scientist working on coffee consumption.

The idea of critique, in its many forms, guides our newest release. From pieces that explore the role criticism plays in our everyday lives and how we can turn it into constructive fuel for improvement, to a critical exploration of how we define ‘premium’ in paying farmers a decent price for their work, to how Modernist writers Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot used coffee as a literary device to explore the fabric of consciousness.

Ready to take a critical look at coffee? How about criticism itself? Get your copy of Standart issue 18 now.

Our spring issue celebrates first-time director Emerald Fennell’s scorching black comedy.

Being angry is exhausting. It saps your time, your energy, your resources – it eats away at you until all that’s left is a vibrating husk of barely-concealed rage. I’ve been so angry for so long at so many injustices that blight our society, it’s often difficult for me to really get a handle on that all-consuming wrath, and more importantly, channel it into something more productive than impotently raging at the general machine. It’s some 30 years since John Lyndon shouted “Anger is an energy!” in Public Image Ltd’s ‘Rise’,  but the sentiment remains. As cathartic as a primal scream can be, I’m all for finding ways to harness my disgust at the current world order for good.

Even before I joined team LWLies, I really believed in its strapline: ‘Truth & Movies’. That’s what we strive for here, and I strongly feel our latest issue, celebrating Emerald Fennell’s incendiary feature debut Promising Young Woman, reflects this editorial aim. It’s not often we get to showcase a debut feature (the last one was Mike Cahill’s Another Earth) but we’re excited to be championing Fennell’s fiercely original film, which feels particularly pertinent given the fraught cultural moment we’re living in.

In Promising Young Woman, Carey Mulligan is a woman driven to take drastic action relating to an “incident” that occurred some years previous during her time at medical school. It’s hard to ignore the relevance of Fennell’s film to the ongoing movements around #MeToo and Time’s Up, but conversations around female trauma at the hands of a male-dominated society didn’t start with these movements and won’t end with them either. Fennell’s pitch-black comedy is hard to stomach at times, but a piercing, vital addition to the growing canon of films that allow women to speak for themselves rather than through the gaze of men.

On the cover

We reached out to Belfast-based illustrator Laura Callaghan to provide our cover and endpapers, and she definitely delivered. Her hand-painted portrait of Carey Mulligan as femme fatale Cassie Thomas certainly packs a punch. We previously featured Carey on the cover back in 2009 for An Education. She joins the illustrious ranks of Robert Pattinson and Joaquin Phoenix in our Two Covers Club.

"What I really like about Double magazine is the way this magazine deals with what it really loves, not only about the last news or last trends but mixing with news from the past. I mean we always try to mix energy that cannot disappear according to us and that could fit with the most relevant from today. An example? Never forget Paddy McAloon when you want to talk about pop music in England today ; never forget the designer Bob Mackie when you want to talk about the spectacular way of shows today. " – Fabrice Paineau

Luncheon Issue 9 - Spring/Summer 2020

Cover 1 - Kate Lindsey in Orlando with costumes by Rei Kawakubo, photographed by Paolo Roversi, 2019

Cover 2 - Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, A Passion Like No Other, 2012 

Cover 3 - Vita Sackville-West photographed by Snowdon, 1961

Luncheon is serving a cultural feast for issue 9; art by, stories on and conversations over lunch with Robert Wyatt, Alfie Benge, Lulu Kennedy, Alexis Taylor, Joyce Ng, Gareth Casey, Brian Molloy, Paolo Roversi, Sadie Coles, Ibrahim Kamara, Naum Gabo, Jeremy Lee, Robbie Spencer, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Martin Clark, Annie Collinge, Peter Rose Pulham, Kareem Reid, William N. Copley, Germano Celant, Freya E. Morris, Ben Toms, Rose Carrarini, Issy Wood, Robbie Spencer, Lars Brønseth, Madoka Rindal, Kuba Ryniewicz, Steven Campbell, Nam June Paik, Carol Campbell, Wiltons, Beca Lipscombe, Sarah McCrory, Jacob Lillis, Mairi McKenzie, Sophie von Hellermann, Philippe Garner, Jack Davison, Sook-Kyung Lee, Ronan Mckenzie, Rudy Simba Betty, Charlie Porter, Silka Rittson-Thomas, Valentina Ravaglia, Julie Greve, Reginald Moore, Alice Neale, Martine Rose, Isabelle Sayer, Fergus Henderson, John Booth, Margot Henderson, Estelle Hanania, Rollo Jackson, Mattias Karlsson, Marie Chaix, Lucy Kumara Moore, Ola Rindal and Jackson Boxer.

Summer/Autumn 2020 Another Man Issue 30

HIGH ART POP CULTURE – Introducing Another Man Issue 30, guest edited by #JoAnnFurniss. @jakegyllenhaal wears @prada

Photographed in New York, February 2020, by @alasdairmclellan

Styling by @elliegracecumming

Interview by #ChrisHeath

Art Direction by @studio191ny @lauragenninger

Grooming by @losigrooming

Twin Magazine is a biannual Art, Fashion and Feminism Book

Twin Issue XXII 

“As soon as you can crawl, you are put on a mat to train” quotes Kauan Gracie, recalling her earliest memory to stylist Beatriz Maués. The Gracies’ first female run Jiu-Jitsu academy celebrates the art of self defence through dance and sisterhood – shot by Liberto Filló and styled by Beatriz Maués.

 The Gracies set the scene for issue 22, where focus, determination and individual spirit are recurring themes throughout our features. Supermodel Carolyn Murphy covers Twin’s latest issue in an existential polar journey, shot by Hans Neumann. Paolo Such takes a walk with metal rapper Dana Dentata in LA and Stefanie Mosshammer covers the world’s fashion waste with an anthropomorphic clothing series. Molly Matalon explores sex and intimacy and Clare Shilland dreams of space and speed. 

Elsewhere we catch up with the prodigal theatre director Ola Ince who’s fresh from a run at The Donmar and about to tackle Shakespeare’s finest at The Globe; rising star Sophie Leseberg Smith talks the music of poetry and Rochelle White and Hamed Maiye talk the power of food through their creative platform, Eating At the Same Table. We profile rising Scandinavian artist Ragna Bley and get into the detailed perfection of Ron Nagle’s art. Liv Siddall welcomes the lunar return of The Big Moon and Kate Neave presents the daring feminist art of Harmony Hammond. And the radical vision of Tara Joshi, Otegha Uwagba, Valeria Napoleone and Daisy Walker are celebrated in ‘She Said Boom’. 

Moritz Schmid

Garten: Loungemöbel

Lampen

Vorhänge

Our photography issue features work by longtime collaborators, as well as some new ones. In it, Fashion and Style Director Radka Leitmeritz goes to Vegas to capture desert style and links up with tennis guru Gil Reyes. And we highlight Gorilla vs. Bear’s David Bartholow, who has been documenting the tour in Polaroid. We’re also pleased to present Stefanos Tsitsipas’ first published collection of photography, and Joel Drucker and Louisa Thomas commemorate their favorite tennis photographs, all behind a striking cover of Daniil Medvedev by Sam Hellmann.

Directions - Issue 16 - The Promadic Traveller

Go there now with Directions, an annual magazine that looks at movements underway in art, design, food, wellness and fashion, and how they affect the way we live and travel.

Featuring leading writers, photographers, illustrators, and designers.

Directions explores a different theme in each issue, culling the insights of various thought leaders and industry innovators into a vividly illustrated, boundary-pushing travel and lifestyle magazine.

DIVERSITY NOW ISSUE,

SPRING/SUMMER 2020

Reportagen Magazin

Reportagen, das unabhängige Magazin für erzählte Gegenwart. Herausragende Autorinnen und Autoren berichten in spannenden Reportagen aus dieser Welt. Vor Ort recherchiert, persönlich bei den Protagonisten und abseits der ausgetretenen Pfade. Jeden zweiten Monat neu.

A brand new collection of thought provoking stories of adventure, exploration and experience.

144 pages, perfect bound, and printed in full colour on FSC approved uncoated 120gsm paper in the United Kingdom.

Features:

Ocean Pools. Among the Waves of Mayumi Oda. The Sky Above the Boats. High Latitudes: Integrity at the End of the World. Paddle Your Own Kayak. Oxides. Surfing Explorer Peter Troy. Sand: Between Land and Sea.

32x23.8 cm / 100 pages / printed on paper made from recycled algae

TypeNotes is a magazine dedicated to typography and graphic design. Drawing on Fontsmith’s in-house expertise as well as hearing from voices around the creative industries worldwide such as Design Army, Noise 13, Chris Pitney, The Company You Keep, Construct, Adam Higton and Triboro to name but a few.

Issue three was two years in the making and well worth the wait.

Features:

• Erik Brandt’s garage gallery goes global
• A treasure trove of typography at the BFI
• A big typographic night out
• Creative opportunities with variable fonts
• How to use symbols and set type properly
• A guide to type styles
• Design heroes with Georgia Fendley
• Behind the scenes at St Bride
• Adam Higton’s sketches
• How fonts are used by artists from Ed Ruscha to Tracey Emin, via Bob and Roberta Smith, and the Guerrilla Girls
• And so much more!

Minchō #19 echoes this recent fascination with cooking in an issue about food, creativity and collaboration whose aluminium container on the front-cover invites you to open it and sample a selection of works and articles that will help you to take a cultural approach to this succulent theme.

 
We have selected a front-cover image that is unusual for our magazine: the photograph of the creative invitation to an edible exhibition that the London artist and activist, Bobby Baker, organised in her house of Acme Studios in 1976, which is the perfect metaphor for the creation of something exciting out of the ordinary. And this is what food-themed art and cooking is all about.
 

Illustration: Louise Lockhart (interview) // Food through the Eye of an Illustrator (Furze Chan, Lucile Prache & Vicki Turner) // Derek Yaniger
In Motion: Céline Devaux (Le repas dominical)
Comic: Roberta Vázquez
Art + Design: Louise Fili // Manuel Estrada
The New Contemporary: Bobby Baker (cover artist)
Have a Nice Book:  Felix Bork (Und Was Isst Du Dann?)

Our Jan/Feb issue pays tribute to Terrence Malick’s extraordinary World War Two drama.

There was no way I’d describe myself as a “Malick Head” way back in 2010, prior to seeing his rhapsodic Palme d’Or winner, The Tree of Life. But I definitely would now. The seismic activity generated by that film at the time of its (weirdly precarious) release nevertheless led me to travel to France by road to see it before it came out in UK cinemas, as no distributors here wanted to touch it for some reason.

Though you can trace a stylistic evolution from his feted debut feature, Badlands, from 1973, to the work he’s making now, The Tree of Life felt like an epochal moment in Malick’s career, and within global cinema culture. And that feeling was evident even within people who didn’t chime with the film. The 2010s was Malick’s decade, a period of feverish creativity, formal experimentation and swimming against the harsh tides of identikit convention. Character, story, editing, framing, sound design, costume, dialogue, special effects – everything is up for grabs.

In this issue of LWLies, we take a voyage through time, delving into the Terrence Malick story from his earliest days as a jobbing screenwriter with a handy knack for salty Southern idioms, to the present day and the release of his heady ode to resistance and spirituality, A Hidden Life.