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Chicks on Speed (COS) are an ever-changing multidisciplinary art group who apply a punk-inspired DIY ethic to interrogate the boundaries of art, craft, fashion and music. This highly innovative book documents their recent Objeckt Instruments project and 2010 exhibition at Dundee Contemporary Arts. The outcome of collaborations between international artists, scientists and designers, including Turner Prize-winner Douglas Gordon, the resulting dialogues, innovations and craft experiments have produced fantastical creations.

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In this first illustrated book of the celebrated choreographer's life and work, extracts from personal journals and letters with photographs from his own collection reveal how some of the masterpieces of 20th century musical theatre and dance came about.

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The Work Beyond examines the extraordinary work of French-born artist Henri Barande. Edited by art critic David Galloway, the book contains stunning reproductions of Barande s sculptures and paintings, together with a collection of essays by Henri Claude Cousseau, Romaric Sulger Buel and Michel Weemans that explore Barande s artistic achievements. This extensive monograph is published on September 8th 2016 and coincides with an exhibition at Saatchi Gallery which opens on October 4th. Booth-Clibborn Editions have chosen to reflect the extraordinary breadth and sequential nature of Barande s work in the book design. Each of the 3,500 book covers, all based on Barande s paintings , will be unique and numbered.

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Portable studio documents contemporary British youth culture, and was created in collaboration with the young people Appleson met and photographed on the streets of Birmingham in 2014. Inspired by the way identities are now curated online, the project works with a wide range of individuals to create an 'archive' of found and commissioned material, exploring identity and experience as expansive, multimedia portraits. Portable Studio inverts the traditional idea of the studio portrait/street photograph - the 'snapshot' is now just the starting point.In 2014 Trevor Appleson was commissioned by MAC Birmingham and the Library of Birmingham to create a new body of work exploring the city’s youth culture. Equipped with a film camera and a plain black cloth to use as a backdrop for his photographs, Appleson went out into the streets of Birmingham to its music venues and its shopping districts, in daytime and at night and photographed its youth, from ravers to girl guides, most in their teens and early twenties.Portable Studio will feature approximately 200 portraits alongside a fascinating archive donated by the sitters; a unique mix of physical and digital material ranging from crumpled diaries to selfies posted on social media, the contents of ‘memory boxes’, to vintage family photographs and Google search histories.The book is divided into three sections:Portraits: grouped by location and ‘tribe’, ravers, punks, rockers, school kids etc.Archives: 70 personal archives from selected subjects invited to collaborate further.Index: an annotated index completes the project with notes and descriptions.Supported by Arts Council England, Portable Studio is a critical document of contemporary British youth culture, made in collaboration with a selection of the 700 young people Appleson photographed for his commission.

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My Friend from Memphis presents Huger Foote's latest body of work. He uses a unique printing process - the pigment transfer method - to achieve unequalled colour and depth in his prints. This collection of images, shot in Memphis, Africa, London and Paris, extracts from the most ordinary settings and scenes [a launderette, a burger joint, a flower shop] a geometry of formal relationships previously unnoticed. His vision is tuned in to shape, colour and line. Behind the apparent tranquillity of his photos, lies a personal story. Foote was shot during a car-jacking in his hometown of Memphis. In retrospect, he credits this event with awakening his artistic voice. His convalescence gave him the breathing space to rethink his art. My Friend from Memphis comprises approximately 100 colour photographs, accompanied by three essays from writer Susan Minot, photographer William Eggleston, film director Bernardo Bertolucci and Richard Serra the sculptor, each commenting on Foote's work. Huger Foote, son of civil war historian Shelby Foote, has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles and throughout the USA. His work has appeared in Double Take, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Details, Interview and other publications.

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As one of the leading architectural practices in the UK, Wilkinson Eyre Architects have designed buildings and bridges that have caught the imagination of people throughout the world. Their work shows an innovative approach to design which challenges new technology and materials while retaining an artist's perspective. This book looks at the philosophy and inspiration behind the work of this architectural practice. Rich in visual images, the book is complemented by perceptive essays written by Chris Wilkinson and James Eyre, which explore themes as diverse as identity, geometry, sustainability, lightness through form, and responsivity. Passionate about what their buildings look like and how they feel inside, the authors review in their entirety 27 projects that range from cultural, corporate and educational spaces to bridges and transport projects - a fascinating insight into the key issues that are driving the architecture of today.

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We enter petrol stations, make our purchases and leave, without stopping to consider the creative and technical skill that has gone into the genesis of these modern-day icons. Minale's latest book not only provides us with a compendium of recent petrol station design including all the leading international names (e.g. Shell, Texaco) from the USA to the Middle East to Russia as well as the designers who created each project. An essential book for anyone interested in design, marketing or retail.

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Tony Evans remains one of Britain's most highly regarded still-life photographers who worked successfully in editorial and advertising fields on both sides of the Atlantic. This publication is a survey, as well as a celebration of his best work.

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While it is by no means exhaustive, Premonition - aims to provide a broad introduction to the highly diverse and energetic nature of Ukraine's art-scene while exploring movements and trends over the last decade or so. Some of the artists have established reputations in Ukraine and emerged in the 1990s while others have only recently graduated from art college. Yet few, if any, are well known outside their homeland. Consequently Premonition: Ukrainian Art Now presents a wonderful opportunity to provide a showcase for this exciting group of artists.

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Laid out in front of Blackpool Tower in England's famous seaside resort, the Comedy Carpet is the largest work of public art in Europe. Thousands of jokes and quotations by more than 850 comedians and writers from the early days of variety to the present day are set in 2200 square meters of granite and concrete in a design inspired by theater posters and bill stickers.

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In his latest book, Known Unknowns, Charles Saatchi provides fascinating insights into some of the world's lesser-known but truly extraordinary historical events and social phenomena. 100 individual essays illustrated with 198 arresting photographs tackle subjects as varied as the tattoo habits of Russian criminals, the Vatican's favourite Barbie, North Korean traffic jams, American gun legislation and the world's richest animal.

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Since 2004, London's Elms Lesters Painting Rooms has become a major exhibition space for street and graffiti art, exhibiting such artists as Ron English, Space Invader and Kaws. Graphic designer Iain Cadby has enjoyed a unique collaboration with the gallery and this book documents the work he created for their exhibitions from 2008- 2014. Divided into 12 sections examining different projects, the book contains not just beautifully photographed work, but also drawings, proofs, early designs, rejected designs, gallery shots and detailed descriptions his creative process.

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The Lomo camera, an icon of mid-20th century design, is perceived as unable to take a bad picture, due to the unique, glass lens and capability for handling low-light levels. This antidote to all things digital and slick has found a vast international following of people who use it to document every aspect of their lives. This has spawned fan clubs and competitions the world over, culminating in the 2001 final in Cuba. This work features many images by keen lomographers, alongside facts, figures, anecdotes and ravings.

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We can't tell where the game begins - its toys - and where the drama ends - the metropolitical tragedy. Therein lies the paradox of urban art, the paradoxical aesthetic between the panic and the circus games. Mockery, childishness or neo-terrorism, no work of architecture lends itself to laughter, contrary to sculpture it can frighten, seriously disturb, or sometimes even raise a smile, but joy is never part of the edifice. Just what will become of our cities, these concentrations of real estate inertia?

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Since The Paragon Press was founded in 1986, it has established a reputation as one of the major print publishers of our time. Based in London, Paragon specialises in producing original print series by leading contemporary British artists, including Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Anish Kapoor and Rachel Whiteread. This book illustrates and documents all twenty-five projects produced between 1995 and 2000, a period which has witnessed an extraordinary growth in interest in contemporary British art. Most of the series contain around 10 prints each, while some are much larger: the Chapmans' Disasters of War set comprises 83 separate etchings. Working in series, the artists have created narratives, or through repetition and emphasis have built a larger, grander statement than would be possible with single prints. In this way each project counts as an exhibition in itself, and most have taken months, if not years, to complete. The print techniques include screenprint, etching, linocut, woodcut and pigment prints. The book contains a foreword by Charles Booth-Clibborn, founder of The Paragon Press, an introduction by Patrick Elliott, Assistant Keeper at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, and an essay by Jeremy Lewison, Keeper of Collections at the Tate, London. The print projects are illustrated in colour in chronological order and are followed by detailed narratives, mainly based on in-depth interviews, by Patrick Elliott. There are biographies and bibliographies of each artist. The book offers a thorough and indispensible survey of the many different trends in Contemporary British Art.

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This volume gathers Stephen Bayley's collected writings on design. Since the late 1970s, Bayley has advised Sir Terence Conran, created the influential Boilerhouse Project at the Victoria and Albert Museum, directed London's Design Museum and advised the Labour government. His journalism, although best known for covering taste and design in the widest meaning of the words, has also delved into a much wider range of issues related to popular culture, car culture, art and society. The book groups early academic pieces, essays from exhibition catalogues and book extracts.

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In his new book, DEAD, A Celebration of Mortality, Charles Saatchi confronts the inescapable subject of death, decay and mortality in a series of perversely entertaining essays written in his characteristically dry, sardonic and amusing style . The 52 essays span a wide variety of topics; the Russian mafia, snake eating spiders, Attila the Hun, The Wild West, being run over by your own dog , the most effective poisons, fatal curses, near- death experiences, premature burials, snuff movies and lethal sex.

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'Artists live by curiosity and enthusiasm, qualities readily evident as inspiration in dogs.' Robert Adams, Why People Photograph I, Jack Russell is a journey of discovery that will enthrall dog lovers everywhere. When photographer Andy Hughes, a life long admirer and owner of Jack Russells, realised that he had many more pictures of his dogs than he did of his family and friends, he decided to create this joyous enterprise, photographing one dog which lead to another dog until he had traveled the length and breadth of the UK and then ventured to the USA.

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For ten years, Trace magazine has been the leading source of “transcultural” fashion and ideas, offering a global perspective geared towards fashion-forward urban youth. To celebrate that milestone, the editors have collected a decade of style into one powerful retrospective. Ten Years of Trace includes previously unpublished material and behind-the-scenes essays written specifically for this retrospective. Selected “Best Of” articles trumpet the past decade of music and arts coverage. Ten Years also spotlights Trace’s creative pool of photographers, stylists, and designers, who have influenced the magazine’s powerful visual element. For ten years, Trace magazine has been the leading source of “transcultural” fashion and ideas, offering a global perspective geared towards fashion-forward urban youth. To celebrate that milestone, the editors have collected a decade of style into one powerful retrospective. Ten Years of Trace includes previously unpublished material and behind-the-scenes essays written specifically for this retrospective. Selected “Best Of” articles trumpet the past decade of music and arts coverage. Ten Years also spotlights Trace’s creative pool of photographers, stylists, and designers, who have influenced the magazine’s powerful visual element.

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In Tunnels Portuguese photographer Andri Principe explores the boundaries of knowing oneself and others through themes such as isolation and absence. By photographing people from behind, while hiding or through windows, Principe captures images that deal with issues such as loneliness and the difficulty of communicating, while also reflecting on the limits of the photographic medium.

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St Petersburg's 300th annuiversary was in May 2003. This text combines original photography - over 250 full-colour illustrations with a unique collaboration between Russian and non-Russian writers to reveal the essence of one of the world's most beautiful cities.

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Four young artists set off on a year-long journey (Sept 02 - Sept 03) across the Middle East, working through Turkey, Iran, Kurdish Iraq, UAE, Oman, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Iraq and Israel. Their aim was to show - through art - their collective experience of the people and places they encountered, to leave behind popular misconceptions and, through an exchange of ideas, to enhance understanding. The result is Off Screen. Welcomed everywhere as artists, they got to places that journalists, tourists and writers don't get to. They made portraits of Iraqi artists in Baghdad three months after Bush declared hostilities over and hours later recorded the 4Ysuperscript th¨ of July celebrations in one of Saddam's former palaces; they recorded the invasion of Iraq from a village in Jordan, student protests in Iran, weddings, prayers, poems, wallscapes, MacDonald's workers in Oman, short stories about female identity and much, much more. This book presents the atmosphere and feel of the streets, mosques, homes and deserts they visited. Spontaneous images using tactile forms, colour and layered collages of typography and iconography are interwoven with diary extracts and ephemera to communicate a visually rich, deliberately subjective and very accessible record of this extraordinary journey. But more than that, this is a highly original portrait of cultural identity in the 21Ysuperscript st¨ century.

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London-based 'Dazed and Confused' magazine started life as a group voice for the capital's exploding creative scene. This volume combines the best of past 'Dazed' editorial and images with new commissions from fashion photographers, artists and documentary photographers. Contributors include Nick Night, Araki, Donna Trope, Rankin, Phil Poynter, Matt Collishaw, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Mike Kelly, Takashi Homma, Sam Taylor-Wood and Gillian Wearing.

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A unique survey of a new graphic language, this was the world's first book of fax art. It examines the output and influence of the fax as a creative tool by collating the most inventive responses to a call for entries sent to hundreds of international artists, designers, architects, film-makers and musicians.

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This source of reference documents dialogues between over 100 organizations, marketeers, designers and artists around the world - from the creators of Japanese fog parks to the creatives behind Nike Town - exploring the possibilities of a radically progressive approach to marketing.

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A visual survey of the public myths and collective symbols used in the making of the Islamic Revolution in Iran and the subsequent war with Iraq. The book traces a remarkable period of history in which the power of words and images successfully challenged the military might of an established state, setting forth an avalanche of public sentiment that led to revolution.

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A comprehensive insider's view of the world's fastest-growing winter sport and the energetic subculture it has spawned. It offers a holistic picture with action shots, behind-the-scenes reportage, hospital portraits and the latest graphic designs and illustrations. These images are infused with commentary, quotes and jargon from those who live for snowboarding - pitching iconic high-points alongside day-to-day minutiae, weather obsessions with the trappings of a professional rider's engagements.

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To understand any society look first to the outsiders...This monograph will tell the story of one of Saudi Arabia's most talked about contemporary artists. Abdulnasser Gharem stands apart in so many ways. He is a soldier and an artist. He is widely regarded as a pioneer in the region for his firebrand intellectual courage and innovative use of materials. Even though his work is in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Victoria & Albert Museum, he does not produce art for the sake of basking in its reflected glory but for bringing about change.

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This volume documents a selection of items from the Millennium Products' chosen by the UK's Design Council as a showcase of ground-breaking work by Britain's leading designers, inventors, manufacturers and retailers. These products exemplify fantastical, futuristic or radically simple solutions to age-old problems and everyday needs. The book fuses visual documentation of the development and practice of these award-winning ideas with in-depth interviews and comments from the inventors, designers, manufacturers and, crucially, the end-users themselves'

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This work provides a response to the explosion of creativity at the cutting edge of urban culture in 90s Britain. With leading names from photography, graphics, and fashion, the book accompanies the Barbican exhibition of the same title.

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