Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Friday, July 08, 2011
new books for bots!
A Touch of Code
Interactive Installations and Experiences
Today’s designers are creating compelling atmospheres and interactive experiences by merging hardware and software with architecture and design. This book is a collection of this innovative work produced where virtual realms meet the real world and where dataflow confronts the human senses. It presents an international spectrum of interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of laboratory, trade show, and urban space that play with the new frontiers of perception, interaction, and staging created by current technology. The work reveals how technology is fundamentally changing and expanding strategies for the targeted use of architecture, art, communication, and design for the future.
R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, V. Hanschke
Preface by Joachim Sauter
GESTALTEN (April 2011)
24 x 28 cm, 256 pages, full cover, hardcover
Art & Agenda
Political Art and Activism
This book explores the current interrelationship between art, activism, and politics. It presents new visual concepts and commentaries that are being used to represent and communicate emotionally charged topics, thereby bringing them onto local political and social agendas in a way far more powerful than words alone. It looks at how art is not only reflecting and setting agendas, but also how it is influencing political reaction. Consequently, Art & Agenda is not only a perceptive documentation of current urban interventions, installations, performances, sculptures, and paintings by more than 100 young and established artists, but also points to future forms of political discourse.
R. Klanten, M. Hübner, A. Bieber, P. Alonzo, G. Jansen
Texts by Pedro Alonzo, Alain Bieber, Silke Krohn
GESTALTEN (April 2011)
24 x 30 cm, 288 pages, full color, hardcover
Roger Gastman's
Tools of Criminal Mischief
Roger Gastman has created more books on graffiti culture than anyone. He's edited and published countless artist monographs and anthologies and even served as Consulting Producer for the film documentary "Exit Through The Gift Shop".
For Tools of Criminal Mischief, Mr. Gastman has trawled his personal archive to present the quirky stories and visual oddities that inspire him personally; from the story of infamous Baltimore Graffiti Writer SHAKEN, to 1940's hobo train art, '70s gang graffiti, photos of graffiti writers' personal aerosol arsenals, spray paint collectibles, ephemera and more.
In the author's own words - " The danger, history, process, spray cans, magic markers, and the local styles are just a few parts of graffiti that I fixate on. Different aspects interest me at different times, but what always continues to excite me is the oddity - especially pedestrian graffiti and the strange pop-culture references".
112 pages
9" x 11 3/4"
Hardbound
265 color illustrations
Limited to 1500 Copies worldwide
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
The New Age of Feminine Drawing
- The New Age of Feminine Drawing
(The Age of Feminine Drawing, vol. 2)
The New Age of Feminine Drawing demonstrates clearly how and why illustration in fashion has made an amazing comeback. Having virtually reached saturation point, photography is no longer the all-powerful medium of creativity, and has once again given way to the age old art of drawing.
The drawings featured in this exciting new title represent many different styles and a broad cross section of artists. All works featured have one thing in common: they possess a uniquely feminine power of seduction.
Categories covered include magazine covers, posters, cosmetic advertisements, lifestyle advertisements and entertainment products. Artists featured include Akari Inogouchi, Annika Wester, Carine Brancowitz, Cecilia Carlstedt, Cedric Rivrain, Christina K. Coco, Elisa Johns, Laura Laine, Lotie, Maren Esdar, Jarno Kettunen and more.
Gingko Press, 256 pages, Paperback, 165 x 222 mm, color illustrations throughout, English
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Gentle Giants Exhibition // 15th July
The creations of robot art take, interpret and shape
the commonly perceived attributes of and also the
views on robots and thereby give them even more
meaning and personality. Strychnin Gallery's 'Gentle
Giants' will showcase a diverse selection of some of
the most influential and innovative creations of robot
art done by a well selected group of artists. The
exhibition will focus on the gentle, smart, helping and
almost human aspects of robots that are enriching
our society.
The list of participating artists includes: Michael
Salter, Himatic, Doktor A, Mike Libby, Skeleton Heart,
Seymour, Nemo Gould, John Lytle Wilson, SQUP,
Caroline LeBreton, Stefan Fromberger and many
more.
Supported by BIG BROBOT
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
The Modernist
Editors: R. Klanten, H. Hellige
Today’s designers and illustrators are synthesizing the best elements from past eras of graphic design to create a new visual language with a reduced and rational approach. The Modernist documents this uniquely contemporary, yet timeless aesthetic that is built upon the rediscovery and seamless melding of classical type elements and collage of the 1950s, the geometric patterns and graphic elements of the 1960s and 1970s, and the vector graphics and computer-aided montage of the 1990s. With its fresh perspective on the legacy of past craftsmanship and quality in outstanding current work, The Modernist expands our understanding of what modern graphic design can be.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Arm zeigen!
Hemden: WESC
Mit Temperaturen an die 30° sollte auf luftige und armfreie Alternativen zurückgegriffen werden. Zu kriegen natürlich im Big Brobot!
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
From Style Writing to Art
From Style Writing to Art: A Street Art Anthology
Magda Danysz with Mary-Noelle Dana
Softcover, 400 pages, English, DRAGO
“From Style Writing to Art” is the first Street Art anthology ever published. The book represents a comprehensive survey of one of the largest artistic movements ,from its origin dating back to the mid-20th century to its continued perseverance and increased role in popular culture today. It is divided into sections by period, each containing detailed accounts of the emergence of different styles and techniques as they came to be used on walls and in streets around the world. Each section also provides biographies of the most acclaimed artists in the field, 50 in all. Over 400 pages long with 200 illustrations, the book is an art-lover’s guide to the Street. The book is authored by Magda Danysz an established Paris and Shanghai-based art dealer along with Mary-Noelle Dana.
Friday, June 17, 2011
MODART No.2
MODART NO.2 HIGHBROW, LOWBROW, NOBROW BUCH
| von Harlan Levey |
In their second volume, Modart coins a new term, Moussism to describe a post-everything era in the arts. According to the editors, Moussism is a non-traditional community based movement, which is not limited to a period, place or classical notion of aesthetics, discipline, medium, ideology or style.
Hardcover
256 Seiten
27,9 x 27,3 x 2 cm
Sprache: Englisch
256 Seiten
27,9 x 27,3 x 2 cm
Sprache: Englisch
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
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