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book art
A working library of design, type, and visual culture.
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2017Poster, A Book Is Nothing But a Person Talking Publicly, 1920 (CH 18638825-2)
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2020Type design, textiles, book covers and more: Willie Shaw brings function and beauty in equal measure to his graphic design practice
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2024Studio Spass’ large-scale type installations are inspired by tear-off calendars
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2015We spoke to studio Brighten the Corners about their fave books
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2013Sculpture: Gemis Luciani creates stunning objects from humble phonebooks
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2008Bryony Lloyd
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2018Stefanie Leinhos' new book encourages you to Read It Out Loud
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2018Kristine Kawakubo’s handmade books focus on typographic experimentation
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2013Bookshelf: Let Tom Edwards teach you about the days of yore via his brilliant books!
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2024Claudia de la Torre’s artist editions are expanding the idea of what a book can be
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2014Artist Lenka Clayton gives us a peek at her favourite books
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2016Sascia Reibel tackles abstract topics in her type-based book designs
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2014Illustration: Alessandra Genualdo’s work for The Boy Who Always Looked Up by Ryan Gander
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2012Top-notch illustrator Emiliano Ponzi gives us a guided tour of his Bookshelf and five favourite tomes
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1945Soldiers' Verse
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2017Photographer Ian Kenneth Bird shares his top photobooks
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2024Anthony Burrill and Oswin Tickler showcase the “abstract nature of type” with creative code
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2011Unbound: Tibor Fischer
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1546Livre de Moresques, page 16 (verso)
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2018Patrik Mollwing appropriates our "search by hashtag" culture in his latest book
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2013Graphic Design: Bernadette Engel's typographic homage to the smell of books
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2012Excellent illustrated posters showing how books change with their readers
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2019Hugo Scott's first monograph features 20 photographs in a handmade photo box
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2017Illustrator Jon Burgerman's bookshelf is full of absolute corkers
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2011Benjamin Sommerhalder: Ghost Knigi
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2014Illustration: Amélie Carpentier's illustrated book about love troubles
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2010Visual Editions
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2012Victory Journal
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2018Edition Taube's latest book is an oblong sculpture of leaning pages
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2011Bookshelf: Sam Winston
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2015Giulia Garbin's gorgeous new book pays homage to the typographers of Turin
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2013Publication: Tartaruga Press pay homage to London's scrubland in beautiful new book The Marshes
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2014New Unit Editions offering explores combined power of text and imagery
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2021In his latest photobook, Luke Stephenson revisits the locations where Britain’s biggest fish were caught
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2013Graphic Design: gu&em studio produce some of Seoul's nicest artist books
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2018Fraser Muggeridge Studio releases not a monograph featuring 160 works, but a Crayonograph
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2013Publication: Visual Editions take on the beast of a challenge that is Don Quixote
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2017Our 2016 Grads create Make Books with G . F Smith
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Nash, Paul
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2017Nicolas Jaar releases Network, a book inspired by radio
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2014Art: Rebekah Miles creates beautiful hand-painted book covers for Rodarte
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2019Klasse John Morgan takes Virginia Woolf’s Solid Objects through a variety of translation processes
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2017Illustrator Nadine Redlich on her most-loved books
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2012Snake Scans and Utopian Domes — The wonders of indie publishers Shelter Press
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2014Art: Louis Reith creates beautiful works of art from found books and objects
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2013Adam Avery aka The Suffolk Punch Press wows us with his brimming portfolio!
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2015We talk to Rumors about its art direction for Verso Books
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2016Illustrator Yann Kebbi's book of abstract and moody monoprints
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2015Pure joy! French studio Atelier Bingo share their favourite books
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1945Soldiers' Verse
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2013Åbäke design Yuri Suzuki's first ever book, a fascinating take on his sound work
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1945Soldiers' Verse
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2023A cinematic history of Egypt as told through its movie posters
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2014Henrik Franklin produces a table of tiny books for miniature art gallery
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2012Together, As always – A brilliant collection of personal notes from second-hand books
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2017Spanish studio Creanet pushes the form of the magazine with its latest project
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2016Marion Jdanoff's skillful screen prints and books are packed with vibrancy
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2022A nostalgic approach to analogue media dictates Studio Front-Door’s publication-focused practice
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2014Things #7: Featuring lots of books filled with pages covered in remarkable things
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2021If you think paper bags are mundane, Tim Sumner asks you to think again
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2017Don’t Mug Yourself: Joe O’Donnell turns The Street’s debut into a choose your own adventure
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2014Bookshelf: Ti Pi Tin bookshop founder Katja Chernova recommends five must-have publications
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2014Things #5: Featuring loads of lovely books and a giant stuffed blobfish!
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2019Viktor Hachmang’s Bookshelf is “a physical database of obsession”
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2020Charlie Engman talks us through his ten-year project photographing his mum, Kathleen
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2019Viktor Hachmang’s new book combines traditional printmaking with the digital
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2015Join us for our book-themed Nicer Tuesdays!
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2014A sneak peek at Lightning & Kinglyface's Printed Pages photographic feature
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1945Soldiers' Verse
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2010A Humument iPad App
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2017Photographer Nina Manandhar shares her most inspirational books
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2018A Bookshelf of out-of-print, hard-to-find and rare books from Callin Mackintosh
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2012Bookshelf: The inimitable Jean Jullien tells us his top 5 books!
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2012"I'm excited to wear layers again!" — The return of Shit Girls Say...in book form!
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2018Visual Editions reveals latest immersive digital book, Breathe at Nicer Tuesdays
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2018Irma Boom’s new Viktor&Rolf tome for Phaidon “defies codes of bookness”
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2010An Awesome Book
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2013Illustration: Spectacular new book by French illustrator Marion Fayolle
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2014We picked our best bits from the London Art Book Fair!
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2012Please pray silence one and all for the Bill Murray colouring book
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2016Félix Decombat takes us to an eerie virtual dimension in his Risoprinted book
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2020Judging a book by its cover: Seth Bogart’s vivid ceramic library
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2017Unit Editions’ upcoming book on the unparalleled work of Paula Scher
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2018Okuyama Taiki became interested in design while running a free bookshop in Tokyo
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2013Photography: The cutest bookworms of the New York Art Book Fair
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2013Publication: Simon Hanselmann has a dirty, creepy satirical new book out for you to purchase at once!
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1898Album: Karagheusian/ Gulistan
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2012Wolfgang Tillmans' new book turns his lens on the wider world with jaw-dropping results
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2024Henry Gorse’s new book aptly asks, Who the Fuck is Henry Gorse?!
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2013PP D325 poster by will h bradley for the chap-book
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2013Exhibition: New exhibition of Dayanita Singh's book art is a must see
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2019Catalog Press is questioning what a book can be (and maybe it's made of cheese)
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2011Poster Exposition du livre 1894
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2012Museum visitors re-interpret classic books in Ross Phillips' new project
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2019Calendars, Penguin postcards and two football publications: It’s the first supplement of 2019’s Things!
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2015Henning M Lederer animates vintage book covers and the result is hypnotic
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2024Dibujo de Diego Rivera para el libro del escritor ruso Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg, "Relato de la vida de una tal Nadienka y de ciertas revelaciones que ha tenido", 1916
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2018"I love to manipulate books": Graphic designer Laura Jouan's experimental projects
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2017Tyler Comrie's considered and communicative book covers and editorial illustration
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2011Ditto Press
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Nash, Paul
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2022The ever-curious Haeji Jeong is a designer who wants you to “intervene” in her work
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2015This month's Nicer Tuesdays explores publishing!
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2018Artist Laura Kuusk creates a pop-up book using Google image search
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2013Publication: This book of Howard Tangye's fashion illustrations is set to be a corker
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2018Landfill Editions show us a bunch of its brilliant new illustration titles
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2008BibliOdyssey
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2012Otracosas de Villar Rosas: Otrolibro Vol. II
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2015Carl Kleiner's analogue archive in the latest issue of Printed Pages
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2017Cheeky, French illustrator Cécile Dormeau shares her favourite books
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2015Meet the people behind IDEA Books, finders of the finest cult books ever made
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2016Going Down Swinging, the publication visually representing literature
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2015Jeremy Leslie celebrates the nitty gritty, unglamourous side of independent publishing
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2018Paperpress locates the point where “graphic design and description overlap”
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2011Bookshelf: Luke Best
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2016Our Polite Society and Paul Gangloff question the future of the book
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2012Poster - book destruction
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2021Kelmscott Press Typefaces Detail
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2018Peter Funch shares the photo books that inspire his own practice
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2013The Annual 2013: First look at the cover of our big bumper book of the year!
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2013Bookshelf: Illustrator Ben Newman shares his top five tomes
Identity
2021The identity for London Centre for Book Arts by Studio Bergini represents the joy of materiality in graphic design
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2015Ceramicist and illustrator Charlotte Mei's Bookshelf unites Picasso and Akira
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2015Isabel Seiffert's beautifully designed, considered tribute to print
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2014Photographer Catherine Losing shares her five favourite books
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2015Artist’s book from Paris studio Akatre is a paragon of post-grunge design
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2017Poster, A Book Is Nothing But a Person Talking Publicly, 1920 (CH 18638825)
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2013PP D321 poster by will h bradley for the chap-book
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2024José Abreu Morell - DIA DEL LIBRO
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2020The American Bookmaker - Volume 3-4
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2026Matchbox label - Open Book 1920s-30s (circa 1920s) - MBP1487059801
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2021The American Bookmaker - Volume 14
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2020The American Bookmaker - Volume 12
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2026The Open Book Play Poster Starring Evelyn Nesbit
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2025Feria Nacional del Libro, 1945 - poster - adv (54137516938)
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2021The American Bookmaker - Volume 17
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2021The Riverside Press-1911
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2021The American Bookmaker - Volume 16
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2015F. Champenois imprimeur-éditeur
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2021The American Bookmaker - Volume 15
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2017Graphic designer Braulio Amado picks out his favourite posters of 2016 from his new book
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2010Martin de Thurah: Limit To Your Love
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2013Illustration: Our hearts ache over Leanne Shapton's new book Sunday Night Movies
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2021Step inside the European free party scene as it happened, with Mattia Zoppellaro’s new book Dirty Dancing
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2013Bookshelf: Animator Julia Pott treats us with her funny, sweet book selection
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2016Art editor of The Paris Review, Charlotte Strick on her most-treasured tomes
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2014Stunning new concertina book from the illustrious Benjamin Courtault
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2019Dylan Jones has made a book of drawings, and it’s weird
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2012Bookshelf: Adrian Mole vs. Rebel Youth! It can only be the Bookshelf of illustrator, Suzi Kemp
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2019“Colourful bravado and a disdain for continuity”: Breakdown Press on the new edition of Windowpane
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2014Simone Koller makes stunning publications from the most complex conceptual ingredients
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2013Studio Audience: Featuring a bridge, a brilliant book and can you teach creativity?
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2021Printed on green paper made from algae, this book documents the latest ECAL students’ sustainable projects
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2011Eamonn O'Neill
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2018Artist Danny Fox on his new book, A Cut Above The Eye
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2018Klaus Kremmerz illustrates his first book, The Swimmer
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2013Painter Martin McGinn's still-lifes of art history books are a meta treat
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2018Risograph printing is pushed to its best in Michiel Schuurman’s new book
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2014The Bookshelf of London-Based printers/publishers/creatives Hato Press
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2015Tom Phillips' magnum opus turned a Victorian novel into a work of art spanning 50 years
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2020Fenna Fiction’s collages modernise the cut-and-paste medium, without sacrificing its analogue warmth
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2011Weird Book Room
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2012Friday Likes 18
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2015The Photographer’s Gallery shows us their favourite books
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2022Anna Hoyle wants you to judge her fake books by their comical covers
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1945Soldiers' Verse
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1847Designs for Book-Clasps in the Italian Style
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2013Film: To celebrate the Autumn edition of Printed Pages we've made a cheeky film
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2016New book celebrates printed matter at Leipzig’s Academy of Fine Arts
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2015Microserifs: We ask Douglas Coupland about the design details in his seminal texts
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1957Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live — Soviet poster
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2009Little Friends of Printmaking
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2012Nice stop-motion advert shows off the Moleskine online store
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2016Filmmaker Tomas Leach shares some of his favourite books
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Josef Čapek: Typografie - titul knihy s motivem lišky
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2017Graphic design grad Georgia Cranstoun reconsiders authorship with a “bootleg” book
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2025Michael Ezzell turns literature into picture books with surrealist illustrations
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2017Illustrator Rob Flowers shares his treasure trove of books
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2013Bookshelf: This week it's creative director of Drawn & Quarterly, Tom Devlin
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2018Matthew Craven creates a new handmade universe in his book, Primer
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1945Soldiers' Verse
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2019Kentaro Okawara on how he is “always thinking about making art and books”
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2013Publication: Elizabeth Peyton creates a romantic tome for Nieves
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2013Illustration: New work from French book magicians, Icinori
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2024Elizabeth Goodspeed on the best bits of the New York Art Book Fair
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2023Find your True North
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2014Art: Book artist Guy Laramée creates a jaw-dropping landscape out of 24 encyclopedias
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2013The Publishing Lab is a really god resource for weird and wonderful textual treatments
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2011Bookshelf: NoBrow
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2017The smiles of Printed Pages: A simple pause for a moment of happiness
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2013Vibrant illustrated book from German artist Franziska Walther
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2025A24’s latest book unpicks the beauty and craft behind Past Lives
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2017Nieves founder Benjamin Sommerhalder shares his passion for books and zines
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2012Bookshelf: Illustrator Hattie Stewart takes us on a tour of her Bookshelf
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2014Graphic novelist Matilda Tristram shows us her five favourite books
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2010Pau Wau Publications
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2015