Veteran graphic design/typography and letterpress teacher from the London College of Printing: David Dabner talks... giving an insight into the principles of design, creative letterpress and why computers make students sloppy.
Artwords Bookshop is the specialist for books, magazines and videos on the contemporary visual arts and offers the most up-to-date selection of newly published titles, both nationally and internationally. Based in Shoreditch, Artwords offers online and offline purchasing.
Book Works is non-profit organisation based in London. Their mission is to commission and produce new books in collaboration with contemporary artists and writers. Image from The Guinness Book of Records, 1964 of Sparkie the budgie, courtesy of Andrew Dodds.
For three years, the artist Nils Norman has been photographing and researching adventure playgrounds in the United States and Europe, focusing primarily on London, where he lives and works. This book brings together a survey of photographs, playful axiomatic drawings, interviews and essays (by Paul Claydon and Keith Cranwell) to create a unique overview of London's adventure playgrounds today.
Paperback 64 pages 24 x 16 cm 75 photographs, 15 in colour £10
Zineswap aims to be a resource through which people can swap their zines with one-another.It also aims to become a vast archive of contemporary zine publishing, existing as both an online catalogue and an annual exhibition.
Here and There 8also see Vol.1 Nakako Hayashi 64 Pages, 21 x 29.7 cm, Duotone/Color Offset, First Edition, 2008
"The reason I decided to have the idea of loneliness as the subject of our feature was nourished through my e-mails with Elein Fleiss. It all started when I asked her, for a magazine, about Purple Journal's editorial direction. She then mentioned that as we live in the present, she sensed the need for artists to face the loneliness within. I was touched by her point of view and began to think that I would like to deal with the issue in Here and There as well. I truly hope that the feeling I nurtured for half a year will become the new seed for people who may pick up this issue.
This SANPO issue began from a chance conversation I had with Akira Onozuka. As trees grow older every year, Here and There has slowly, but steadily, brought people together and has grown in the past six years. I would like to send my gratitude to everyone who took part in helping me with this issue, including the writing, photography and translation. As you may have decided to pick this up, I wish that I will meet you someday, somewhere." Nakako Hayashi
Maximilian Haidacher has self-published a book-on-demand collection of his landscape/social documentary work Hotels des Alpes, concentrating on the colossal hotel structures that have come to dominate any accessible pass in the French Alps.
Buffet is a collection of special editions, book + print sets, artist's books, print/book trades and various interesting ways in which photographers are packaging and selling their work. Some are sold through galleries and publishers, some by the artists.