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A pioneering appraisal of female typographers, with historical research and interviews with contemporary practitionersThis important new book surveys the past and present of women working in typography. The first section looks at the statistics, data and an overview of the field apropos of gender, supplemented with biographies of female type designers that worked in the 19th and early 20th centuries. These women contributed to the industry sig...

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Digital art scholars reflect on the cultural impact of digital exhibitionsThis publication investigates the idea of digital exhibitions, gathering artistic and theoretical reflections on post-digital culture. Contributors consider the transformative potential of exhibitions experienced individually behind screens, focusing on questions of subjectivity, technical elements, circulation and cultural impact.

The first issue of this new journal examines the building block of the digital image: the pixelExamining the pixel from a technical, ethical, artistic and economic perspective, with essays from visual artists, engineers, art historians, computer scientists and designers, this first issue of Resolution will be of great interest to graphic-design professionals.

Exploring the radical potential of fiction as a tool for social change through design, afro-surrealism, and alternative pedagogiesThis book chronicles the workshops for the first edition of the Porto Design Biennale, called the Young Curators Lab. The project explored fiction as a curatorial tool for social change through speculative design, afro-surrealism and alternative pedagogies.

Four Dutch collaborators on performance as a way of producing versions of the selfApproaching performance as a method of producing different versions of the self, in Another Version four Dutch collaborators--performance artist, author and critic, dramaturge and sociopolitical designer--explore technologies and processes of so-called "versioning" and how to understand the self within this multiplicity.

On the constraints of systems in designIn graphic design, the concept of systems is profoundly rooted in form. Starting from a series of design research residencies in the context of the Porto Design Biennale, this volume proposes a variety of social and political perspectives to challenge this deeply engrained tradition.

Conservativism in design: on the relationship between making things and making things great again Sporting two front covers (i.e. one on the back, one on the front) for its two thematic sections--Graphic Design in Conservative Times and Fashion Design in Conservative Times--this pocket-sized volume deconstructs and analyzes various forms of design against the backdrop of an increasingly conservative world. From the perspectives of feminism, ra...

Exploring how design educators deploy the idea of the "radical"This book argues that, over the past 15 years, there has been a consistent deterioration of democracy in tandem with the establishment of the marketization and monetization of design education. Navigating difficult external political contexts in the middle of internal power struggles, college design courses seem to be incapable of challenging political, social, cultural and environ...

We live in times of great social ambiguity. A recent exhibition, curated

A plea for Black self-emancipation and political action from Nigerian actor Bode OwaThis collection of short stories, commentaries on existential fear, opinions and poems by Nigerian-born, Antwerp-based actor, playwright and musician Bode Owa express the desire to dismantle the structural tools keeping Black peoples in penury.

An alternative artistic guidebook to the Georgian capitalComposed of artistic accounts that critically reflect on recent urban and social changes in Georgia's capital Tbilisi, this book unveils multifaceted perspectives on a city trying to negotiate its complex heritage, its contentious present and potential for the future. It also serves as an alternative guidebook.

A hybrid inquiry into Australia's experimental, radical, artist-run initiatives Excavating a shared history of independent practice stretching back to the 1980s, Permanent Recession situates new research into artist-run initiatives within a rich continuum of debate about the Australian artmaking context. Hybrid in form, the book is part research, part advocacy document and part literary review.

An experimental monograph that explores Nathaniel Mellors's linguistic manipulation , absurdist comedy and aspects of video , sculpture , performance and critical writing interwoven in his work. Featuring a selection of his original scripts from 2006 onward that have since been developed into video and installation works , including Ourhouse (2010) and Brain One-Mózg Jeden (2006). Contributions by artist and writer Mick Peter and art critic Jo...

In this fourth edition of Field Essays we explore the specific decolonial and tactile research approach in the work of Paris-based design-duo dach&zephir., Convinced of the symbolic act of transmission and the gestures objects convey they zoom into the historic making of identity.

We are fascinated by systems of manufacture for art and culture as opposed to the romantic notion of the artist laboring in solitude within their studio. By emphasizing values placed on the production and handling of artistic goods, we are presenting this work as a visual tribute to the creative process.'This publication sees Katrin Korfmann and Jens Pfeifer place the composition and materialisation of cultural identity in focus. This feat is ...

Diagrams of Power collects contemporary artworks and projects that use data, diagrams, maps, and visualizations as ways of challenging dominant narratives and supporting the resilience of marginalized communities.

Pondering the virality of images in our mediated society, this work is a case study around the image of female butts, booties, and behinds and their influence in media, society, and art.

Politics of Feelings / Economies of Love is a publication that brings about a set of reflections on the possible relation between ideology and social emotions, sexuality and nationalism, love and emotional community within nationalist and/or market fundamentalism. It attempts to find out how these issues were tackled in film, visual arts and architecture, and to try and draw some new lines of understanding love as a tissue in which political, ...

Decoding Dictatorial Statues is a collection of images and texts revolving around the different ways we can look at statues in public space. How can we decode statues in terms of their object hood and materiality, their role as media icons and their voice in political debates?