Paris-based independent publishing house focusing on countercultures and design history. Really nice booklets cataloging design visuals by theme like music, packaging, sports etc... Go explore their huge collection !
Shipping worldwide. You can find them in Paris at librairie Sans Titre.
Shoot out to the beautiful book about the 1970 World Exposition in Osaka by Masala Noir. A complete discovery of the event with blueprints, design elements, photos etc...
Paris-based independent publishing house B42 has published this year a retrospective of the work of the Swiss designer Rudi Meyer. Product design, map design and advertising, this interview of the designer shows 60 years of selected works.
How to overcome the gender binary characteristic of the French language? Post-binary typography is the work of Camille Circlude, where they explain the history of gender-inclusive writing and present a way for going further with new character modelizations. In french.
💛 #6 - Thames & Hudson - A to Z of The Designers Republic
Finally a book available about the work of the English designer Ian Anderson of The Designers Republic. Wrap Records, Aphex Twin, Wipeout, contribution to IDEA, Emigre... 1400 illustrations on 500 pages to showcase the work of one of the father of what we call now Y2K aesthetic.
cartoonist and risographer based in Brooklyn, Wren McDonald is publishing fanzines and beautiful posters about Japanese pop culture, from giant robots to Akira's motorbike.
"6 years have passed since your lover left Earth.6 years you’ve spent on a ship in the quiet of Space, trying to find them. You sit at the edges of the Universe, reserves low, watching life go on. With no way home, all you can do is send your last transmission.."
This solo RPG asks you to write your last transmission. You will need a deck of cards, so why not buying this minimal one from the design museum ?
Icarus FC is a company specialized in making football kit for teams.
They have started to do special shirt designs for fake, dead, or niche teams.
From a nuclear city in Ukraine to micro-nation in Florida; each kit has its own story. They have even imagined a fake championship in Ancient Greece called "The Hellenic League of Champions".
💚 #12 - Olivetti Identities. Spaces and Languages 1933–1983
A must have to go deeper in one of the most innovative company of the last century.
Made by the Swiss school ECAL and the Università degli Studi di Ferrara, this book "analyzed the corporate identity journey of Olivetti from the establishment of the Olivetti advertising office in 1933 to the opening of the permanent Olivetti pavilion at the Hanover Fair in 1983".
Another title from Les Presses Du Réel. It's in french but maybe available in other languages somewhere so I continue to write in english : Collection of writings and speeches in French by Adriano Olivetti, the entrepreneur behind the company, who transformed his factory of writing and calculating devices into a laboratory for experimenting with a new model of social, political and cultural life: a model of “concrete utopia”.
speaking of kids, why do they have all the nicest products ??? Sticky Lemon is a company founded in 2016 in the Netherlands. If you don't have kids like me, some bags are still big enough for an adult I think.
Matchbloc is a small indie print and publishing collective in Glasgow, Scotland. They sell prints taken from our collection of matchbox labels from east Europe.
£1 from every print sold goes to Refuweegee - a charity providing provisions and a warm welcome to people forcibly displaced and arriving in Glasgow.
It's great to revive those beautiful illustrations.
The design studio with the most beautiful subway maps has now an international shop. New York, Paris, Tokyo, Seoul, and European trains networks are available. I bought the Tokyo map five years ago; the print quality is excellent.
Its an old partnership between Puma and the french streetwear brand Quatre Cent Quinze but it seems there are still items online so go grab a Bauhaus branded hoodie or shirt. A nice to have to do exercice before the ballet.
