Denim Legends is one of these books I thought I wont buy because it’s good, but not worth the full 800 euro’s. So I’m very happy to see that the best part of it, the first half of the book which is filled with the vintage stuff before 1980, is shot by one photographer, Michael Wells, who shared it online in his portfolio. Well, not everything, but enough for me to re-consider buying the book anyway…

SOME/THINGS Magazine Nº 1 is a beautiful publication by Monika Bielskyte with work of Roger Ballen, Zhang Huan, Antoine D’agata, Boris Bidjan Saberi, Lina Scheynius and much, much more… It is a 300 pages black and white/full colour heavy wight book packed with a certain dark feeling in all the work published. We are very proud to announce that, beside Colette in Paris, the Acne stores around Europe, Photographers Gallery in London, Rick Owens in NY and Japan, the magazine is available at Anothershop.
And another update in the shop is the lovely book by Merijn Hos – The Marigolds. Enjoy!

‘Moments Within a Moment’ is a limited edition box set designed by Buero New York in collaboration with photographer Jim Krantz to accompany his exhibition at Colette running through Saturday January 30th. (Thank you Edson)

Yesterday Merijn Hos launched his monograph The Marigolds in the American Book Center in Amsterdam. Can’t wait to get my hands on this lovely little book stuffed with his bizarre characters, beautiful collages and abstract landscapes. You can buy the book online at Hugo & Marie, and offline at the ABC, Amsterdam (a.o.).

More news from The Selby. Todd Selby put together his best and never-before-seen shots from more than 30 people, along them Simon Doonan, Jonathan Adler, Faris Rotter, Andre Walker and Olivier Zahm, in his first book The Selby Is in Your Place. ‘The result is a collection of unique spaces bursting with energy and personality that together create a colorful hodgepodge of inspirational interiors.’
Reserve your copy now…

Together with Red Wing, Olaf Tamm published a new book: “Wall of Death – Theatre of Motorcycling”. It is a tribute to these reckless motorbike-riders who perform their acrobatic art since almost a century. The drivers speed through vertical walls of a gigantic wooden drum, showing their repertoire of insane stunts on souped-up, museum-worthy Indian Scout motorbikes dating from the 1920s. The air vibrates from the roaring engines and the scent of oil and gasoline hangs in the wooden barrel that trembles and creaks with the beat of the engine’s staccato.
It took the photographer three years to travel through the whole of Europe and chase extraordinary pictures and exciting stories for his new project.

This beautiful hardcover book with more than 100 coloured pictures on 132 pages plus dvd (with the b/w short film „MOTODROM“ by Joerg Wagner) is now available at Tenue de Nîmes and online at Anothershop.

The movie news of the year―at least on this side of the Atlantic―has almost wholly revolved around Spike Jonze’s filmic adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s seminal children’s book, Where the Wild Things Are, an innocent-looking 48-page essential that no good mother would be caught without. The big screen version of the generation-transcending classic is quite visually spectacular and emotionally moving (I’m not going to get into criticism or review here―The New Yorker’s for that), which is, not incidentally, what most Sendak fans assumed it wouldn’t be. (“How can you―and why do you want to―inject live-action life into a masterpiece of the two dimensional?” many asked.) The magical transformation from innocuous paperback to grandiose $100-million-dollar-budget silver screen spectacle can be explained by noting the importance of a simple “a-ha” moment Jonze had several years ago upon splitting with his girlfriend Sophia Coppola: The Wild Things embody wild emotions (anger, fear, and loathing; happiness, exuberance, and excitement). The trouble-making director, along with one of this generation’s most lauded scribes, Dave Eggers, transformed Sendak’s bedtime story into an exploration of the most primordial feelings that unify us all.

Unusually, the film did not come attached with the usual Disney-style marketing package (numerous throw-away action figures, cheap pajamas, lunch boxes, video games, and so on), but rather a sort of grassroots call to (creative) arms. Where The Wild Things Are gave people the bug to simply create in reverential celebration of a seminal work of toddler fiction. Obviously, Jonze et al. had a roll in the development of these “extended value” efforts, but theirs was more of the warm, encouraging father than the demanding, out-of-touch boss. Read on for a rundown of some of my favorite objects that were created in concordance with the flick. Read the rest of this entry »

Farewell books just released Sensation by Noriko Takazawa. 24 pages black and white photography, printed in an edition of 500 copies.

We are very proud to announce that we received the Qompendium Print Publication Vol. 1 for Anothershop. It is ‘a selective journey through the multiverse of intentional and unintentional time capsules featuring an array of exceptional pictorial essays, unabridged interviews and supplementary brand editorials’. Designed with an exceptional eye for detail and aesthetic and beautifully printed and finished it got my heart.

Lately we’ve been busy creating a ‘news paper’ for Joolz. As Anothersomething we participated in the paper by selecting some beautiful toys, books and kids’ stuff in the Jewels page. Clockwise: A beautiful shinning Egg Bank by J Schatz, a swiss Deer by Big Game, some Japanese Table Manners by FunFam, a colorful Flight Suit by Sneraev, this lovely little book Victor and Susie by Brighten the Corners, the beautiful leather Ollie by Olivia Bertus (available at Mos, Maastricht), my favorite baby blankets by Mantita, the uber-slick Streamliner by PlaySam, Play All Day published by die Gestalten, the cardboard Trojan Horse by Kids On Roof and some cool toys by Play Forever. Enough for your little love…

To read the article click here.
To read the whole Joolz Paper click here.

After they’ve published A Year of Mornings: 3191 Miles Apart (Princeton Architectural Press, September 2008) where they shared their morning captures Maria Alexandra Vettese and Stephanie Congdon Barnes now comes with 3191: Evenings. It is an author-curated look at the 214 evenings diptychs—always taken between 5 pm and 10 pm, and without discussion between the two women. Where A Year of Mornings conjured the brightness of a new day, 3191: Evenings bookends the pair fully by creating a space to end the day in a gentle spell of activity, a glow of peace and ultimately an unquestionable allure of darkness. Next week this lovely paperback with 120 pages, filled with 342 beautiful evenings will hit the stores. If you can’t wait reserve your copy here.

Godspeed 45/06 is a quarterly collection of photographs documenting the craftsmanship of bike builders, their work, and their workspaces. The premier issue features Keino Sasaki, White Knights in the House of Kolor, Walt Siegl, and the crew over at Works. This hardcover document with 158 pages filled with beautifully documented bikers is independently photographed, designed, and published by one man. It inspired us again to continue our ideas around ‘Another Publication’. Stay tuned for that one…
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Olympia Le-Tan grew up in house where the walls were covered in beautiful books. Inspired by the amazing first edition covers of her favorite classics like The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Catcher in The Rye, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Winner Take Nothing, Moby Dick amongst others, she created 21 different handbags bags. The bags are hand embroidered book shaped minaudieres, all limited editions of 16 pieces, lined with vintage Liberty print and mounted onto a custom made brass frame. It’s an homage to an aesthetic that has sadly been replaced by cheap looking supermarket images. The collection is ironically named after the Bo Diddley song “You can’t judge a book by its cover”. Of course you can!

At Anthem, we’re all book lovers but in different ways. I personally tend to find myself diving into novels, nonfiction tomes, and, yes, comic books of all shapes and sizes, while others within our editorial family veer more towards the art side of the spectrum, gobbling up coffee table volumes and artist monographs every chance they get. Our mass-market preferences aside, though, we all lovingly support anyone bold enough to try their hand at small press. From ‘zine publishers to pamphlet printers to digital distributors, the independent book-lovers of this day and age inspire us―and pique our curiosity.

For the first installment of Another Anthem, we’ve chosen three such entities that share nothing more in common than a deep-seated passion for the smell of heavy ink mixed with thick paper, the sensation of turning the pages of a yet-to-be-broken-in creaky spine, and, of course, the excitement that one wells up upon discovering a new novelist, illustrator, poet, painter, or what have you. Independent publishers, like us, are indiscriminate as long as the content they carry is top-notch.

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These tiny notebooks really challenge me to go out and meet more people, write about them, illustrate and get inspired by all the creativity… It challenge me to meet poets, runners, scientists, chefs, artists and all the others and write about them until every single notebook is filled with inspiration. The Archie Grand notebook corporation.

It’s nice that a blog turns into a book, it’s nice that ‘It’s nice that 2‘ pre-orders comes with a free screen print of Rob Ryan and it’s nice that there are interviews with Peter Funch, Karlssonwilker inc, UnitedVisualArtists and much more… Pre-order now at It’s Nice That.

Lately I’ve had some doubts about buying or not buying the book of the Sartorialist – since it’s an online thing. But yesterday I bought one. Why? Because Scott Schuman changed the way we look, changed fashion, changed photography and finally changed the web and inspired so many people! That said, it’s a must have, a time capsule, a piece of art. Thank you Scott!

Rishi Sodha, the founder of Designers Against Human Rights Abuse (DAHRA) just contacted us to tell about their second book ‘3 Minutes‘. In 3 Minutes creatives were each given a 3 minute audio interview with a Tibetan refugee to translate using primarily typography into a 16 printed page booklet. These booklets were then combined with an 11th booklet with the original interviews in to form the book, which comes in an embossed black slip case.

3 Minutes, featuring Bibliotheque, Brighten the Corners, Stefan Gandl (NeubauBerlin), Alex Haigh (Thinkdust / HypeforType), Nick Hard (Research Studios), Jeff Knowles (Research Studios), Abbott Miller (Pentagram), Si Scott, Paul Skerm, Un.titled.

Very, very nice project – and since all the proceeds are going to Tibet Relief Fund we all need to buy one!

Onitsuka Tiger is celebrating its 60th anniversary with the publication Made of Japan by the editors of Zoo Magazine. Made of Japan features more than 30 iconic personalities, including Chiharu Shiota, Naomi Yotsumoto, Yusuke Iseya, Hirofumi Kurino, Thomas Demand, and former star athletes Dave Cowens and Lasse Virén.

The magazine will be distributed to exclusive shops in Japan, the US and Europe as of September 1st. Stores include Colette (Paris), do you read me?! (Berlin), SPRMRKT (Amsterdam), International Magazine Store (Antwerp), Selfridges (London) and Henrik Vibskov Boutique (Copenhagen) and online at Tokyoartbeat.com

The Selvedge Yard shared a beautiful collection of images by writer and photographer Danny Lyon from 3 of his books: The Bikeriders, The Destruction of Lower Manhattan and Conversations with the Dead (Just bought it! happy to find a quite affordable one, since it’s very expensive and hard to find). A beautiful time capsule of the iconic 1960s & 70s of America…