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Pastel Tuning
Fotokino 2023 ISBN 9782902565559 Acqn 34405
Pb 22x30cm 16pp col ills £14

'Pastel Tuning' is published on the occasion of an installation carried out as part of a micro-
residency at Studio Fotokino in Marseille in 2023. Made from recycled offset plate cardboard, the
installation structure unfolds around the central glass roof of the exhibition space. The boundaries
between painting and printed image are blurred as the abstract images are bathed in a light tinted
by viscerally vivid pastel colours.

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Tropical Reading - Photobook and Self-Publishing

Limestone Books 2024 ISBN 9789083361635 Acqn 34414
Pb 14x20cm 344pp col ills £30.50

Tropical Reading: Photobook and Self-Publishing illustrates the photography practitioners and
artist collectives from each city in Southeast Asia, examining why they chose to get into self-
publishing. It explores how independent art bookstores came to be the social parlours of the self-
publishing crowd. Furthermore, observes how the outsider artists, archives and arts initiatives of
Southeast Asia came to shape the face of photography and self-publishing in their respective
cities. The index is a compilation of our project field research, condensing the profiles of all the
interviewees - from people to bookstores to organisations - to make a kind of alternative Yellow
Pages for the Southeast Asian art scene. Colour covers supplied randomly.

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The Birth of a Style - The Influence of the Basel Educational Model on Swiss Graphic
Design
Triest Verlag 2024 ISBN 9783038630777 Acqn 34419
Pb 19x25cm 474pp col ills £57.50

Author Dorothea Hofmann reveals a highly differentiated picture of the Swiss direction in graphic
design in this history of the "Schweizer Grafik" from a new perspective. Characterised by its
undogmatic viewpoints, the courage to experiment, and a clear relationship to the modern, the
Basel Educational Model is an important forerunner to the international reach of Swiss graphic
design in the 20th century. More than 400 illustrations portray the precision, objectivity, and
reduction of the innovative work that visually inspired an entire epoch. The book features work by
Hermann Eidenbenz, Armin Hofmann, Nelly Rudin, Wolfgang Weingart, April Greiman, and more.

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Pocket Decision Book

Happy Potato Press 2024 ISBN 9788090636507 Acqn 34420
Pb 5x7cm 208pp col ills £15.75

Introducing 'Pocket Decision Book', a tiny but unique tool which aims to make your decision-
making process simple yet effective. With just a flip of its pages, you can find answers to your
pressing questions by having the options of "YES" or "NO" clearly stated. Is it a tool, a statement,
or a joke? Or perhaps the most powerful book ever? You decide, but use it wisely!

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Yangon Fashion 1979 - Fashion = Resistance

Fraglich Publishing 2022 ISBN 9783950407938 Acqn 34440
Pb 11x30cm 152pp col ills £45

This book by Lukas Birk offers a unique insight into the photographs that brought a spark of free
expression to the fashionable youth of Yangon in the late 1970s, despite military rule. Photo
studios around Yangon University and downtown attracted an enormous number of young clients
posing in stylish outfits, some of which were even custom-tailored for the occasion. The resulting
images are something like an old-school Facebook: an exchange of physical imagery, as the
photographs were usually shared with friends. The images in the book show that fashion always
comes through. No matter the barriers, people want to look beautiful and present themselves as
such.

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I AM GONZO - My dirty italian zines fuck serious scientific books - New, revised edition
Viaindustriae 2023 ISBN 9788897753186 Acqn 34609
Pb 13x19cm 272pp col ills £28.50

This revised edition of 'Gonzo' includes three new erotic stories and supplementary matter to
bring it up to date as a new issue of the series. A porn addict amateur who collects dirty Italian
comics in an "animalistic" way, Gonzo applies a conservative technique whereby he hides these
questionably viewable images within scientific libraries. This book addresses a widespread form
of collecting that avoids the subject of the "arty" comic strip and instead dives headlong into
obscene material and the viewer's experience of it. This mega-collection of pornographic Italian
comics faithfully presents the genre from its sensual, sexual-phobic beginnings (1960-1970) to its
porno-violent shift, between the years 1985and 2000. Voyeuristic and chock-full of thematic
variants, from transgenderism and homoeroticism to fairytale, zombie, and cyber porn.

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