I’m very pleased to give you the first preview of the 4th issue of It’s Nice That. Packed with beautiful content – interviews with Nick Knight, Neville Brody, Miranda July, Trokia, RBG6, Noma Bar and Bompas & Parr, features by Sara De Bondt, Adam Buxton, Adrian Shaughnessy, Jez Burrows, Mike Lemanski, Peter Nencini and Micah Lidberg as well as tons of work from the likes of Michael Landy, Rui Teneiro, Peter Grundy and more – it looks like their best issue so far. And when placing your pre-order before the 30th of September you will receive a free screen print by James Jarvis, commissioned especially for the issue, with your publication. Check their shop for more information >

‘The ball is round´, as Sepp Herberger, the former German national coach, once accurately observed. It’s time to feel a whiff of soccer history again – with a series of Fifa World Cup balls photos through time, from 1930 to present, shot by Jens Heilmann, edited by Lars Reichardt, René Sopp and Gunther Weis.

1930 TIENTO

The edition is limited (1000 copies in English – 500 copies in German) and consists of 7 pigment prints (1930, 1954, 1966, 1974, 1986, 1998 and 2006) and a marvelous designed book with legends surrounding all these balls.

The design agency Caramel, my friends from the south, created a beautiful book for the 23-year-old photography student Valentina Vos’ graduation project. The book is about new faces, young girls, just scouted by modeling agencies, standing at the beginning of their career as a model. ‘With her project she shows the true face of fifteen girls … results in touching, funny, but mostly honest and loosened pictures. Without any added make-up or photoshopping of the models. Vos does her own styling, using a lot of personal items of her subject. The girls are portrayed as they are, Vos has captured their soul.’ A fantastic project, bound together in a beautiful book, and available online at valentinavos.com

It’s better in the wind is a beautiful photographic essay by Scott G Toepfer. So nice, so inspiring! I really feel the need to hop on my bike and start a journey myself! “Whatever it is, it’s better in the wind.” Wait for the book to be published, the 20th of august…

And another book about cyclists. Well, a book to be… ‘The Bicycle Portraits project was initiated by Stan Engelbrecht (Cape Town, South Africa) and Nic Grobler (Johannesburg, South Africa) early in 2010. Whenever they can, together or separately, they’re on the lookout for fellow commuters, and people who use bicycles as part of their everyday work, to meet and photograph. They’re finding out who rides bicycles, why they ride bicycles, if and why they love their bicycles, and of course why so few South Africans choose bicycles as a transport option.’ Follow their journey here >

Dutch photographer Niels Helmink photographed shop keepers in their specialty stores. Truly inspiring. More beautiful stores after the click. And be sure you’ll buy his book here. (via TdN)

Cicero deGuzman, the guy behind Godspeed 45/06 just wrote me with some great new work and the release of the 3rd Godspeed Document. The quarterly collection of photographs documenting custom motorcycle builders, their work, and their workspaces features The Harpoon, Trevelen, and Yaniv from Powerplant Choppers out in California, Bling’s Cycles and Jason Moss representing the east coast, and from Sao Paulo, Brazil, The Sinistros and Joe King. Again, a beautiful book, hardbound, 160 pages and available at godspeed4506.com

Yesterday I received a very kind email from Nuno Matos, sharing his project Pele. A collection of seven pairs of men’s shoes documented in a beautiful little book where he shared his creative journey, the inspiration, the process and the result. We really hope to welcome this nice publication in Anothershop somewhere soon!

We are very proud to announce that we, together with Tenue de Nîmes, may cary the beautiful Japanese Midori Traveler’s Notebook in our little online boutique. The Traveler’s Notebook is a hand made black leather cover with white and an extra ruled paper refil (nr 003 and nr 002) made in Japan, a zipper and card file (nr 008 and nr 007) to cary all the collected paper treasures, and comes in a fine box and extra cotton pocket to cover the notebook while on the road. (All the inserts from nr 001 till nr 010 are also available at Tenue de Nîmes)
Next month I’ll be on a trip to Morocco, to the desert, use this beauty and report on it while traveling. To be continued…

And our Journal de Nîmes Nº 4 is also available as of today!
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The second book of Allison Davies, published by Charles Lane Press, is a publication packed with beautiful and desolated landscapes. ‘Portraying herself as a solitary wanderer in the spectacular vistas of alien worlds, she appears only obliquely in her images, veiled in a spacesuit of her own design… Where exactly is Outerland, if it is not in fact a harsh and dystopian vision of our own planet deep in the future?’ Outerland by Allison Davies: 65 images, bound together in a Tyvek and gold foil-stamped publication is made in a series of 700 copies and online available at Charles Lane Press.

A new book by Viviane Sassen, Sol & Luna, was made on assignment and initiative from Our Legacy and Libraryman. Viviane Sassen has completed a specially made and well-built series of imagery with androgyny and beauty as the key principle. A beautiful 32 pages hardcover book, printed in an edition of 300 numbered copies is now available at Anothershop.

Last week Bas shared this fantastic work with me and just wanted to share it with the rest of the world. Anna Atkins (16 March 1799 – 9 June 1871), the English botanist and photographer, is considered the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images and the first female photographer as well. We really love these (photo)graphic pages taken from “Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions”…

Dutch online design magazine Fontanel published an extensive, custom designed article on Kenya Hara’s book Designing Design. Japanese graphic designer Kenya Hara wrote a personal introduction addressed to Fontanel’s readers;

[...] I wrote this book out of a desire to communicate my approach and feelings to people around the world. Specifically, I envisaged the reader as being a Dutch woman designer aged about 27. Someone who no longer feels stimulated by brand marketing methods or advanced designs articulated by new media, and who is beginning to think about what sort of design is important for real people with bodies and feelings. [...]

The book is a lovely composition of his shared thoughts, philosophy, commercial work and expositions. Muji’s design and communication advisor wrote among others a delicate chapter on the beauties of white, an oath to the sensibility of all things paper and a refreshing final chapter on the history of design.
Read the review (Dutch only) on Fontanel and be sure to buy Designing Design.

The second issue of Lay Flat, Meta, is edited by Shane Lavalette with guest editor Michael Bühler-Rose. The book brings together a great selection of contemporary photographers. Amongst them are Semâ Bekirovic, Lucas Blalock, Anne Collier, Lisa Oppenheim, James Welling and many more…

Finally had the time to do a major update on Anothershop. We are very proud to carry the handmade TravelTeq Trash 15″ bag in Fox Red (will feature it later this weekend here on Anothersomething). A super nice little notebook with two envelope compartments, black laser graphed cover and packed in screenprinted envelope all made by the Belgium designer Geoffrey Brusatto. Two issues of Men’s File, a modern magazine tracing the roots of style. (will feature it later this weekend here on Anothersomething). And this nice little book ‘Rules for my Unborn Son’ by Walker Lamond. One man’s instructions for raising a thoughtful, adventurous, honest, hardworking, self-reliant, well-dressed, well-read, well-mannered young gentleman.

And the best things are yet to come! For example the Roberu iPhone case, the ShapeMaker by Millergoodman, Some/Things issue 2 and much more. Start shopping — Stay tuned…

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…