'Page 1: Great Expectations' is an unusual typographic experiment designed to explore the relationship between graphic design, typography and the reading of a page. Crafted to engage the culturally curious, this publication collects the responses of 70 international graphic designers when posed with the same brief to design and lay out the first page of 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens, a text chosen in part because it directly references lettering as Pip searches for clues about his family from the letterforms inscribed on their tombstone. Each layout is accompanied by a short rationale explaining the designers decision-making process.

Page 1 Great Expectations

Arts & Photography

EDITED

Graphic Design

Lecturis

Often referred to as the divine proportion, the golden mean has long served as a blueprint for aesthetic appeal. Golden Meaning puts this to the test, exploring the relationship between graphic design and mathematics. Intended to be as intriguing as it is illuminating, this title collects the responses of 55 (think Fibonacci) designers, typographers and image-makers to the same brief to communicate, explore or explain the golden mean. New works tackle this ancient mathematical quandary with intelligence, style and a generous pinch of wit. Each design is accompanied by a short rationale explaining the designers decision-making process.

Golden Meaning Fifty Five Graphic Experiments

Ed van der Elsken dove into his extensive archive in the late seventies to compile a book of his black-and-white images of Amsterdam, the city in which he had always lived, with the exception of 1950-1954. He often worked in the neighbourhood of his house on Koningsstraat, taking photos on the Nieuwmarkt, Zeedijk and Waterlooplein. Atmospheric images of the fifties, the riots during the turbulent sixties, lots of people, young people, but also architecture and degradation in the old city centre. This unique document has now been reissued, including new scans from the original negatives.

Ed Van Der Elsken - Amsterdam! Engl Ed.

Ed Van Der Elsken

Photography & Video

Joost van Bleiswijks quest for the archetypal form may have launched his career, but his clear visual language is now the logical result of the construction process. Made of rectangular sheets, the forms of this product designers output tend to be almost abstract in their geometry, forcing him to select recognisable images. His studio and real-life partner, Kiki van Eijk, makes things that are simultaneously whimsical and surreal, emphasising the child-like wonder of objects, essentially toys for grown-ups. This compelling story of two designers  critical and supportive of each others work, immersed and inspired by their environment  can be read from either cover.

Co-evolution - Kiki Van Eijk And Joost Van Bleiswijk

Jeroen Junte

Irma Boom has become one of the most widely renowned and laureated book designers in the world today. Her often ingenious solutions to individual book productions have gained her international fame and her work is now collected by many leading museums such as the MoMa in New York. Besides book designs she also creates corporate identities, postage stamps and posters. The Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam Library honoured Irma Boom with a major retrospective exhibition of her work, now traveling to Paris. To accompany this exhibition she produced an exceptional catalogue; this miniature book contains a complete overview of her work, now re-printed in a slightly bigger version and with more pages.

Irma Boom: The Architecture of the Book

Irma Boom

Mathieu Lommen

Willem Van Genk - A Chronicle

Nico Van Der Endt

As a member of the artist group Les Nabis, the French-Swiss artist Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) was at the artistic forefront of Paris during the fin de siècle. He became internationally renowned for his powerful black-and-white woodcuts, which were unparalleled both in style and technique as well as in ambience. They contain a latent tension or threatening quality and the humour is often paired with biting social criticism. This catalogue to an exhibition in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, provides an overview of all facets of Vallottons oeuvre and offers a new perspective on this intriguing artist.

Felix Vallotton - Fire Beneath The Ice

VARIOUS

A book of sketches by a graphic designer is unique. Jurriaan Schrofer did not discard his drawings and he even kept production drawings and other pre-press material. His sketches and illustrations from the period 1950-1990 have a special visual and poetic strength. For this publication a large selection of them has been made, introduced by an essay. The book also contains an extensive presentation in word and image of the design and printing process in the pre-digital era. Frederike Huygen is an art and design historian and has written many publications about design.

Schrofer Sketches (Dutch and English Edition)

Frederike Huygen

Compiled and presented by photographer Inga Powilleit and styling director Tatjana Quax, who visited fifteen young Dutch design studios to discover their wildly varied ways of working, this book is a compendium of fascination and inspiration and a reflection on how times have changed. In searching for the innovative methods of the new generation, they discover abundance in waste, technological developments, and the need for global connectivity. Through captivating photographs of designers at work, it forms a portrait of unceasing creativity. Featuring Atelier NL, Pepe Heykoop, Daan Roosegaarde, Scholten &amp; Baijings, Formafantasma, Christien Meindertsma and more.

How We Work The Avant-garde Of Dutch Design (English and Dutch Edition)

Merel Bem

Finnish photographer Heikki Kaski shot the images for this photobook in a small town called Tranquillity, located in Central Valley, California. Hot and dusty, with junk piled in empty lots and run-down buildings, it seems to be a typically quiet place in the middle of nowhere, resigned to its own character. Yet in the people Kaski portrays, one can sense an underlying tension. Their faces are rarely divulged covered by hair, turned away or blasted in white light so we are forced to read their bodies and postures, or to look for signs in the birds swirling overhead, the gnarled trees and dried grasses, the patient dogs. Tranquillity won the Unseen Amsterdam dummy award in 2013.

Heikki Kaski - Tranquillity

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