As an accompaniment to a national touring exhibition of material from the DRU archives, this book documents a groundbreaking approach to design that was shaped by inter-war developments in artistic discourse and post-war trends in industry and communication.

In his analysis in Notes Towards A Critique of Money, the Greek economist and philosopher Georgios Papadopoulos discusses the function of money in the current juncture of financial collapse and intensified social antagonism.

Combining Lacanian psychoanalysis and Baudrillardian structuralism, the book creates a universe where price and sign are entangled, giving rise to the dominant organizing form of capitalism. The fantasmatic management of desire enforces this structural principle on the subjective level and encourages the libidinal investment in the dominant representations of social reality as they are produced by the combined principles of signification and economic valuation. Here, money signifies the particular content that hegemonizes the universal ideological construction of capitalism providing a particular and accessible meaning to economic value, which colors the very universality of the system of prices and accounts for its efficiency

English

Paperback

142pp

Published by: Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL

£17

Two Peacocks is a project conceived of and led by artist John Walter. Developed over the course of one year, the project culminated in an exhibition that took the form of a Department Store at Gallery North, Newcastle and an accompanying book.

Designed by Daniela Meloni, Two Peacocks is both a catalogue for the show, as well as a dictionary for the methodology of the collaborative project.
Two Peacocks collapses together relational aesthetics, fictional narratives and materiality to produce a new kind of group show; one in which the authorship of the participating artists is collapsed and the hierarchies between craft and art, prop and masterpiece are questioned.
Participants in the project include: John Walter, Michael Whitby, Matthew Breen, Corinne Felgate, Hannah Gillespie and Neesha Champaneria, Ludovica Gioscia, Will McLean, Jamie Quantrill, Ollie Harrop, Diana Taylor, Cian Donnelly, Daniela Meloni.

80 pages

Hardcover

Published by Bibliotheque McLean

£15

Holly and Kasia is the first publication from the new publishing house Ida Rhoda. Using the backstage fashion photography of Holly Hay and Kasia Bobula the publication is a visual dialogue between female photographer and model — exploring how girls photograph girls, what a girl sees in a girl and maybe how she sees or would like to see herself.

Edition of 300

£6

A Tale Of Three Cities is the first printed arts journal to join up the points of Europe’s golden triangle: London, Paris and Berlin. Showcasing work from the best emerging and more established writers and artists in each city, the journal was launched in October 2011.
This first issue is a hand-numbered edition of 500, printed by the boutique publishing house Ditto Press.
Issue 1 features:

Zadie Smith and the Wandering Womb: an exclusive interview with a true London literary goddess

The Solidist Manifesto

New fiction from some of London, Paris and Berlin’s best young talents, including Literary Death Match creator Todd Zuniga, and Harriet Alida Lye, the editor-in-chief of Her Royal Majesty

‘William’s Farewell’, in its entirety: the debut collection of young British poet Tom Hosker

Painting and photography from artists including Joss McKinley, Athier, Damien Florébert Cuypers, and Estelle Hanania.

English

Softcover

70 pages.

£11

Mono.Kultur #29 features an inteview with Chris Taylor, the bassist of Grizzly Bear – the Brooklyn quartet who have created a strangely addictive sonic universe that defies comparison.

Taylor has also just released his first and irresistably groovy solo album as CANT, which turned out to be a surprising grand exercise in sloppy funk, and issue #29 is dedicated to the prolific and eclectic musician, producer and master cook, who was even kind enough to share the recipe for an entire dinner for your benefit.

In a beautifully relaxed conversation, Chris Taylor talked with Mono.Kultur about the magic of making music, why perfect does not necessarily mean good and the meditative effect of motorcycling.

For this issue, Chris Taylor not only shares a dinner recipe, but also opens his archive of personal photographs, which are included as part of a special fold out poster.

Interview by Renko Heuer
Photography by Chris Taylor
A Dinner by Chris Taylor & Itchai Schori
Design by Pia Hartmann & Christina Taphorn

Autumn 2011
English
15 x 20 cm
28 Pages & Fold Out Poster

£5

Ein Magazin über Orte (A Magazine about Places) is published twice a year. It deals with a different location in every issue. The magazine collects works of various authors in the form of photographs, drawings and texts.

Publishing and Design Elmar Bambach / Julia Marquardt / Birgit Vogel

£12

Dank is an independent skateboard magazine from Oslo, Norway. The magazine was founded in 2010 by three friends brought together by a shared passion for skateboarding and print media.

Dank #2 features interviews with Jon Kåre Skiple, Jan Henrik Kongstein, Nestor Judkins, Chad Muska, Greg Hunt, and Vivien Feil and Soy Panday of Magenta Skateboards. The second issue also has extensive photo sections, as well as stories on Tyler, The Creator and up-and-coming Norwegian band Young Dreams. All issues come with a supplement made exclusively for international readers, featuring English translations of all the stories.

£10

This book comes after the exhibition The Making of the Means by Ben Cain, which took place at Wiels (Brussels) in 2009. Conceived and designed by the artist, this book is not simply a record of the exhibition but rather attempts to reconstruct the exhibition anew. While the book doesn’t immediately offer comprehensive images of the show, it does carry discreet echoes of the graphic devices that were employed, such as indeterminate references to unions, clubs and guilds, and the graphic paraphernalia that might surround public declaration of rights, conditions and demands.

The exhibition, and consequently this book are concerned with the interrelation of making and viewing, with the gap between the actual and the virtual, and the interrelation of objects and matter with words and plans. The central interest here is that of ‘production’, and work, productive or operative activity, but not toil. With posters and hand-written text forming a significant body of the original show, the translation of the exhibition into book form is fluid and fitting, and was a consideration even as the original show was being developed. This book introduces some of the written dialogues that were present in the exhibition Making of the Means, and tries to maintain something of the open-ended conversational platform that was an essential characteristic of the show.

Signed and numbered edition of 200

£15