Nº 03. ‘The Story of a Mug, Greetings from the factory’ by Hanna Nilsson and Sofia Østerhus of Byggstudio (Stockholm) published by Everyday Life Books by Apartamento Magazine in October 2010, with the support of Iittala. [ Continue reading ]

I love visiting artists ateliers and studio's because it often tells a lot more than just their work. The cluttered spaces, packed with treasures and paraphernalia, finished and unfinished pieces of art. End of november Yale University Press will published the book ‘In Giacometti’s Studio’ by Michael Peppiatt. A beautiful insight in one of the most evocative and influential spaces in 20th-century art. [ Continue reading ]

Todd Selby shared his complete book, The Selby is in Your Place, online at Issuu, until friday next friday. Check it out, and buy the book (which will last longer than next friday ;-))… [ Continue reading ]

I think we’re all fascinated about these used pieces of luggage. Louis Vuitton together with Abrams will publish ‘100 Legendary Trunks’ this december. A book showcasing the most beautiful creations of the House. ‘Authors Pierre Léonforte and Éric Pujalet-Plaà curate 100 of the finest trunks the… [ Continue reading ]

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… [ Continue reading ]

‘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… [ Continue reading ]

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… [ Continue reading ]

  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… [ Continue reading ]

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… [ Continue reading ]

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)… [ Continue reading ]

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… [ Continue reading ]

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… [ Continue reading ]

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… [ Continue reading ]

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… [ Continue reading ]

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. [ Continue reading ]

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… [ Continue reading ]

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… [ Continue reading ]

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,… [ Continue reading ]

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… [ Continue reading ]

‘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)… [ Continue reading ]

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… [ Continue reading ]

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… [ Continue reading ]

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… [ Continue reading ]

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. [ Continue reading ]