We just unearthed ONE brand new, still sealed copy of this now-out-of-print monograph on the internationally acclaimed –  yet enigmatic – photographer and street artist, JR.

Learn more and see some spreads from the book at the publisiher's page: https://www.phaidon.com/store/art/jr-can-art-change-the-world-9780714879444/

Did someone say, ""gift book?"  The editors at the esteemed art book (among other things) publisher have put together their pick of "graphic classics" in this heavy duty oversize volume that is searching for a home on a coffee table of someone you know. 

This is what they have to say about it:

Discover 500 of the world’s greatest graphic designs in one big, bold, and brilliant volume

This deep dive into graphic design history presents the work of more than 400 designers across 33 countries and 5 continents, with work dating back to the 14th century.

Reimagined from the Phaidon best-seller Graphic: 500 Designs that Matter, the book’s dizzying array of designs range from the Gutenberg Bible to Joy Division album art, with work by both anonymous creators and industry icons such as Aleksandr Rodchenko, Paul Rand, Paula Scher, Ahn Sang-soo, and Julia Born.

The generous format and two-part design structure allows designs to be shown in detail, with large images up front and a 300+ word text for each entry in the back – making this equal parts picture and reading book. A design category key adds functionality while indicating the sheer variety of disciplines at work within one medium, from advertising and information design to posters, books, magazines, and logos.

This book is the perfect reference guide for design and art lovers, enthusiasts, and professionals at any stage of their careers, as well as all those interested in and impacted by visual communication.

Carefully revised to bring every detail up to date, organized chronologically, and with the addition of 50 new examples that highlight designers reshaping the graphic culture of today, this collection is more comprehensive, compelling – and relevant – than ever before.

Featured designers include: Reza Abedini, Otl Aicher, Herbert Bayer, Max Bill, Laurenz Brunner, A. M. Cassandre, Joseph Churchward, Alan Fletcher, Federica Fragapane, Graphic Thought Facility, Béla Horovitz, Eric Hu, Shira Inbar, Tibor Kalman, Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., Frith Kerr and Amelia Noble, Anita Klinz, El Lissitzky, George Lois, Karel Martens, Bruno Munari, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Hassan Rahim, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Stefan Sagmeister, Koichi Sato, Paula Scher, Elena Serrano, Ladislav Sutnar, Ikko Tanaka, Jan Tschichold, Carol Twombly, Jop van Bennekom, Andy Warhol, and Tao Yuan-qing.

Specifications:
  Format: Hardback   |||   Size: 310 × 230 mm (12 1/4 × 9 in)   |||   Pages: 528 pp   |||   Illustrations: 714 illustrations   |||  ISBN: 9781838668426

 

Check out some spreads from the book HERE. 

Get ready for 448 pages of zines!  Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines is the catalogue created to accompany – and represent – the exhibit of the same name that was held earlier this year at The Brooklyn Museum.  It a very nicely produced French-flapped softcover volume that assembles reproductions of and from zines created from the 1960s to the present, almost all of which have been scanned (at high resolution) directly from copies of the actual zines, and fabulously printed in the UK.  The selection encompasses a wide variety, largely chosen for æsthetic reasons and/or artistic merit, with a notable focus on punk and queer zines. 

Most of these zines have been rescued from obscurity, and will likely only ever be encountered by the average citizen here in the pages of this collection, but there are also sprinkled among the hundreds of reproductions works by better known artists who have done important work in the zine field, most notably Raymond Pettibon and the Destroy All Monsters crew, along with Richard Kern, V. Vale and others.

There are a pair of introductory essays that provide an overview, and then also six specialist essays that focus on particular aspects of zine culture and history.  But mostly, there are zines!

Here's the publisher page which includes a dozen images of/from the book.

While this book was published in the first half of 2024, this is the first holiday season (Christmas) that it's been available.

BACK IN STOCK!

 

Here's a brand new, sealed copy of 45 different postcards from Shoichi Aoki's second Fruits collection, Fresh Fruits, from way back in 2005.

We sold these postcards by the bushelful back in the day, and just discovered this ONE unopened box set in... THE ARCHIVES!