Do Sing - Reclaim your voice. Find your singing tribe. James Sills

'When you sing with two or three other people and you get it right – everything lifts a couple of feet off the ground.' Graham Nash

Singing is one thing, but singing together is something else. Powerful and uplifting, group singing creates deep human connections and benefits our wellbeing. And it's fun. 

Vocal leader James Sills believes that group singing has the power to change lives. It is a joyful expression of our humanity that gives us purpose, encourages us to be fully present, and helps foster social bonds. 

In Do Sing, James invites us to reflect on our own singing journey and asks: was there a time when you stopped singing, or were told you couldn't sing? Do certain songs trigger happy memories? 

With exercises to help unlock your voice, improve breathing, release tension, and a few simple songs to get you started, Do Sing will help you to overcome (often deep-rooted) inhibitions and reawaken a love of singing.

Do Sing is a welcome remedy to the challenges of modern life – and an invitation to experience the joy of group singing for yourself. 

Summary

Author: James Sills

PALETTE mini 03: Gold & Silver

New metallic graphics

viction:ary’s original PALETTE colour-themed series has been one of the most sought-after references for designers around the world. Each edition has formed the basis of a classic collection that continues to be relevant and reliable through the variety of compelling concepts and visuals featured. In keeping with the ever-changing demands of creative practitioners today, we are introducing the PALETTE mini series – redesigned in a convenient size for instant inspiration. Packed with style and substance like their predecessors with the addition of several new projects, they serve as instrumental and timeless sources of inspiration.

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.

This book is about disruption. About doing things differently. About having ideas that will change the world. That will at least change your world. It’s also about delivering those ideas.

Do Disrupt is an interactive workbook that will help you create or refine your business idea and take it from concept to market. It will encourage you to define your customer, identify the competition... and then outsmart them. You’ll also find out why you need a chat with your Nan and a tape measure.

Newly updated for 2017, this expanded edition features a new introduction, a brand new chapter on how to create positive change from within a larger organisation, fresh insight on global trends driving disruption, how to generate ideas, boost creativity and define your purpose. 

If you're starting a new business or you're the rebel inside, it's not enough to shake things gently. It's about thinking big. Being innovative. Making a difference. 

Author: Mark Shayler

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.

Dieses Postkartenbuch bildet den Auftakt zu einer Zusammenarbeit mit dem Alpinen Museum der Schweiz. Pro Halbjahr erscheint ein neuer Band mit rund 40 heraustrennbaren Postkarten, die einen wesentlichen Sammlungsbestand des Alpinen Museums an die Öffentlichkeit tragen. Den Karten ist ein Essay beigegeben, der das jeweilige Thema umfassend beschreibt. Den Anfang macht der fotografische Nachlass der Kunstanstalt Brügger in Meiringen (Berner Oberland). Über Jahrzehnte lichteten deren Mitarbeiter Hotelanlagen in der ganzen Schweiz ab. Dabei handelte es sich um Auftragsfotografie zu Werbezwecken. 2013 ging der gesamte Bestand der Kunstanstalt mit 97 000 Bildern an die Sammlung des Alpinen Museum über. Die hier publizierten Bilder zeigen eine Auswahl von Swimmingpools in den Schweizer Bergen. Das eigene Schwimmbad adelte so manches Hotel und verhalf zu einem zusätzlichen Stern. Künstlichkeit und Natur, Chlorwasser und Alpenblicke finden in diesen Fotografien in einer ganz speziellen Harmonie zusammen.

• Publish Date: July 10, 2018
• Format: Hardcover
• Category: Design - Graphic Arts - Typography
• Publisher: Rizzoli
• Trim Size: 8-1/2 x 11-1/2
• Pages: 288
• US Price: $45.00
• CDN Price: $60.00
• ISBN: 978-0-8478-6232-0

Le Corbusier Paper Models is a must for Corbusier fans and architectural model enthusiasts.

Paperback
44 pages
100 illustrations
Size: 355 x 279 mm
Published: 03/02/2020

The Khalili Collection of kimonos comprises over 200 garments spanning 300 years of Japanese textile artistry. The form of the T-shaped, straight-seamed, front-wrapping kimono has changed very little over the centuries, yet the collection reveals an astonishing variety of designs. The garments presented here convey the remarkable creativity of designers who produced works of art that would enfold the wearer. The enormous range of patterns were executed in a complex combination of techniques, with some garments requiring the expert skills of a number of different artisans.

Postmodern Architecture

Less is a Bore

A curated collection of Postmodern architecture in all its glorious array of vivid non-conformity

Owen Hopkins

A curated collection of Postmodern architecture in all its glorious array of vivid non-conformity

This unprecedented book takes its subtitle from Postmodernist icon Robert Venturi's spirited response to Mies van der Rohe's dictum that ‘less is more'. One of the 20th century's most controversial styles, Postmodernism began in the 1970s, reached a fever pitch of eclectic non-conformity in the 1980s and 90s, and after nearly 40 years is now enjoying a newfound popularity. Postmodern Architecture showcases examples of the movement in a rainbow of hues and forms from around the globe.

SPECIFICATIONS:

Format: Hardback
Size: 290 x 250 mm (9 7/8 x 11 3/8 in)
Pages: 224 pp
Illustrations: 200 illustrations
ISBN: 9780714878126

How can we make sense of a world where we have both too many billionaires and too many foodbanks? We're supposed to go to university, forge a career, get wealthier, buy a house - but why is that so hard for most of us to achieve?

Split makes sense of our world by looking at class society - delving into the deep-rooted economic inequalities that shape our lives. From the gig economy, rising debt and the housing crisis that affects the majority of people, to the world of tax havens and unfair inheritance that affect the few…

Now is the time to fight back against the 1%.

The Author: Ben Tippet is an educator, activist, and writer. He is currently doing a PhD at the University of Greenwich, researching the causes of wealth inequality in the UK. He is a researcher for The Transnational Institute and has written for Novara, Stike! and Economy.

Creative people are often known to seek inspiration from nature. Besides providing the setting for ideation and imagination, it is a canvas full of complex shapes and lines interwoven with each other, countless varieties of colour palettes, as well as diverse tones and textures that set distinct moods and atmospheres.

Flora & Fauna explores the ways with which these timeless elements have been re-interpreted and incorporated into modern branding and design work. Spanning a wide range of project types such as logos, icons, packaging and print ads, it showcases a world of creativity as diverse as nature itself.

Editor: Victionary
Specs: 190 x 255 mm, 256 pp
Format: full colour, softcover with jacket
Release date: October 2018
Language: English

New Retro : Graphics & Logo in Retro Style

Designers often look to earlier decades or generations for inspiration, borrowing motifs and palettes that are recognizable through their ability to elicit nostalgia.

Kraftwerk
Future Music from Germany

Imagine the best movie-themed pub quiz you’ve ever been to, but without suffering the hangover the next morning!

From heroic heroines, famous final lines and award-winning directors, to Hollywood’s golden age, memorable movie flops and the film world’s biggest franchises, the book’s over 1,600 questions cover every aspect of the movies. 

Thrown in among the brain-testing questions are a series of visual quizzes and challenges—including an It’s a Wonderful Life spot-the-difference and the world premiere of a Jean-Claude van Damme-themed wordsearch!

Paperback
288 pages
280 illustrations
Size: 234 x 153 mm
Published: 26/08/2019

Der fast schon legendäre Zürcher Künstler Walter Pfeiffer präsentiert in seinem neuen Buch über 100 Porträts von Frauen. Die Arbeiten sind fast allesamt unveröffentlicht und zeigen eine neue Facette in Pfeiffers Werk.

Pfeiffer benutzt souverän die Bildersprachen hoher Kunst und trivialer Werbung, inszeniert mit einfachen Mitteln kluge und klassische Bilder von Schönheit und Glück, immer im melancholischen Wissen um Künstlichkeit und Spiel. Stilsicher, assoziativ und unverschämt erotisch fügt er seine Bilder zu einer Enzyklopädie der Sehnsucht.

«Listig und elegant entziehen sich Walter Pfeiffers Fotografien allen Einordnungsversuchen und umreissen eine eigene Welt in der Schwebe zwischen Sein und Schein. Sie verweigern sich der mit ernstem Nachdruck geführten Zeigegeste der Dokumentarfotografie, bei der sich die Fotografie in einem vermeintlich linearen Wirklichkeitsbezug erschöpft, aber auch der reinen Lust an der filmischen Phantasmagorie, die die inszenierte Fotografie der letzten Jahre prägte. Vielmehr sind Pfeiffers Bilder utopische Variationen über die Wirklichkeit, die das platt feststellende ‹Es war so› der Dokumentaristen durch das erzählerische ‹Es war einmal› des Märchens ersetzen.» 

Gebunden, 188 Seiten, 133 Farbabbildungen

Limit Yourself
And Unleash Your Creativity

Ralph Burkhardt

Telling yourself you have all the time, all the resources and all the money in the world just kills creativity and self-discipline. Why not try to limit yourself and unleash your creativity! Designer and advertiser Ralph Burkhardt has put together this inspirational pocket book, with a proven method that can help you tap into your creative and business potential and, above all, get results. Replete with quotes, checklists, cool illustrations and encouraging words, this little book packs a punch, revealing the simplest and most effective way to tap into your creative genius and set goals. A great tool to pass around during brainstorming meetings, or to keep handy on your desk at work.

Limit Yourself and Unleash Your Creativity contents:

What, why, who?

ABOUT CREATIVITY

What is creativity?

Everyone can be creative!

The true creative myth

The creative process

Reflect on your creativity

Think inside the box

ABOUT LIMITATIONS

Limitation’ might sound like a bad word

Who needs limitations?

What kind of limitations are there?

What limitations can do for you

What you need to bring

Who’s afraid of the blank page?

The creative trajectory

Why total freedom doesn’t liberate

Creative boundaries

Ready, mindset, go!

01 LIMITATIONS OF TIME

Learn to love deadlines

Make better use of your time

The five-minute time limit

One painting / poster / logo / lettering a day

02 LIMITATIONS OF RESOURCES

How to deal with a limited budget

Improvisation = innovation

Exploration through limitation

03 LIMITATIONS OF DESIGN PRINCIPLES

Refine your colour palette

Limit your typefaces

Why Frank Gehry loves limitations

Music at the limits

04 LIMITATIONS OF A BRIEF

‘ Do whatever you like!’

Discovering the client’s needs

Just don’t do it

What to learn from Dr. Seuss

05 LIMITATIONS OF MEDIUM

What is minimalism?

How to simplify and intensify

Maximum meaning, minimum means!

Embracing technical limitations

Use your digits!

06 LIMITATIONS OF SKILLS

Maintain momentum

Team up with others

Try random limitations

Harness someone else’s creativity

07 LIMITATIONS OF SPACE

Size does matter!

Decide what’s important

Do it ‘Like a Rolling Stone’

The ultimate limitation scale

FINAL THOUGHTS

Take the first step!

What to do with immutable limitations

A generation of demands

Limited to only one world

Credits / Bibliography / Thanks

Paperback
128 pages
40 illustrations
Size: 178 x 120 mm
Published: 04/11/2019

SPRING & SUMMER 2020

The 31st edition of Fantastic Man explores the extraordinary world of REM KOOLHAAS and his fixation with the countryside. Made with, and on, the legendary architect and contrarian thinker it is a thorough investigation into how we live now and how the rural might bring us into the future.

Beni Bischof

Texte 3

Mit Texte 3 erscheint eine weitere Publikation von Beni Bischof ohne Abbildungen und nur mit Textzeilen bestückt, im handelsüblichen Taschenbuchformat. Es ist wiederum Beni Bischofs persönliches Abbild seiner Sammlung von reisserischen Headlines und Slogans, absurden Kommentaren und sonderbaren Bemerkungen. Sein Textarchiv dient als Impulsgeber für Bildfindung und Werktitel und ist unmittelbare Inspirationsquelle für seine Werke.

Beni Bischof

Texte 2

Wild, unbändig und humorvoll – Beni Bischofs Inszenierungen folgen seinem unbändigen Schaffensdrang und verbinden gekonnt alle Medien: Von wandfüllenden Malereien über groteske Collagen zu filigranen Zeichnungen, von surrealen Objekten zu materialverschlingenden Skulpturen. In seinem pointierten künstlerischen Schaffen schlägt sich die Banalität des Alltags thematisch genauso nieder wie politische Diskussionen. Virtuos führt Beni Bischof den Betrachter aufs Glatteis und entlarvt die Mechanismen und Illusionen der uns umgebenden Medien-und Glamourwelt.
Psychobuch (2014), seine erste Publikation in der Edition Patrick Frey, war zugleich Gesamtschau dieses dichten Schaffens sowie eigenständiges Künstlerbuch. Texte 1 (2015) erschien anlässlich der Verleihung des Manor-Kunstpreises 2015 und der damit verbundenen Einzelausstellung im Kunstmuseum St.Gallen.  Mit Texte 2 erscheint nun der zweite Band im Taschenbuchformat und vereint einmal mehr Beni Bischofs überbordende Sammlung von Headlines, Slogans, Witzen, Junk-Mails, Lyrics, filmischen Dialogszenen, Lebensweisheiten und vielem mehr – eine momentane Auswahl und zugleich subjektive Quintessenz seines über Jahre angehäuften Textarchivs. (Nadia Veronese)