Art & Design

"12 songs for the peaceful winters of the world, and 1 song for your soul." Originally released in 2011, Janis Crunch & haruka nakamura collaboration album "12 & 1 song" is now reissued in a newly packaged CD edition with a special inclusion of 5 bonus download tracks. On a wintery night in 2007, the duo were in the process of a candle-lit recording session for haruka nakamura’s solo album “grace”. Instinctively, they decided to venture off the album recording and to compose a Christm...

Eric Gill's opinionated manifesto on typography argues that 'a good piece of lettering is as beautiful a thing to see as any sculpture or painted picture'. This essay explores the place of typography in culture and is also a moral treatise celebrating the role of craftsmanship in an industrial age. Gill, a sculptor, engraver, printmaker and creator of many classic typefaces that can be seen around us today, fused art, history and polemic in a visionary work which has been hugely influential o...

American artist Brice Marden (b.1938) has had a profound impact on painting today. While there has been a sea change in art movements, Marden has unwaveringly adhered to modernist principles of abstraction. From his early monochrome paintings to landscapes of China or the Greek island, Hydra, composed of vivid and calligraphic loops and webs, Marden’s deeply personal work incorporates multiple art historical and cultural inspirations. Hardback: 144 PagesProduct Dimensions: 172 x 245 mmISBN: 9...

Bum·fuz·zle [buhm-fuhz-uhl]A vagrant lover is loyal to heartsick.Lost in the puzzle between the flustered heart and the confused head. Forever responsible for the love i've tamed,one can only attempt to cut the chord, burn the rope & bury the crater deep. 1 Gaudi2 The Chefalo Knot3 Quit You4 Dear Paramour5 Artful Dodger6 Lyre Lyre Hearts on Fyre7 Bumfuzzle8 Inchision9 Old Nine10 Glow released August 27, 2013  Music & lyrics written by Inch Chua.With the exception of Bumfuzzle (Go Up I...

Eschewing the usual criteria of chart success or acknowledged influence, the Copendium - a collection of album reviews and themed track samplers - takes energy, originality and heaviness as its bearings. The result is a feast of obscure and neglected masterworks that together form a surprising but entirely credible new tradition. Krautrock, motorik and post-punk, stoner and doom metal, occasionally even jazz, spoken word and hair metal: they are all represented in a wholly persuasive sequence...

Special guest: ARA OPHIDIA, DHARMA, BANI HAYKAL Songs & lyrics by X' Recorded and produced by ARCN TEMPL Basic tracks recorded at The Well, September - October 2010 Additional arrangement and recording at The Black Axis, April - June 2012 Mixed by Leslie Low at The Well, June 2012 Mastered by James Plotkin Photography by Vivian Wang Art & Design by Lasse Marhaug ..Sodom Me Her Soul’s Demise Nosferatu Lord of Mirage Zombie Hitler Youth Lucifugous Lamb (Von) Satan’s Blood Rosalie’s Fray...

Guinness was first started when its founder Arthur Guinness leased an abandoned factory building for his brewery business. This Irish brand has become the only ale brewer to make into the mainstream of alcoholic beverage industry, while simple and clean tasting lager beer has attracted majority of beer drinkers around the globe. Unlike other rival companies with keen interest in business expansion, Guinness keeps up with its efforts in developing relevant technology to achieve perfection in t...

A global toy manufacturer, lego first started from a small Carpenter’s workshop in 1932. Its signature bricks offer unlimited building possibilities and let a wealth of creative ideas emerge through play for anyone. Behind the worldwide popularity of lego, there lies a set of meticulous calculation based on thorough knowledge in engineering.Magazine: 130 pagesProduct Dimensions: 170 x 240 mmISBN: 9788998415143Published by Magazine B

My Kampong Sketches comprises Ishak’s reminiscences of the kampong he grew up in. Preserved in the form of black-and-white sketches, his childhood memories include now-iconic images of night-soil workers hauling the buckets to a waiting vehicle; a fishmonger smoking opium and enjoying music from his ‘Rediffusion’ set; and children riding their tricycles in the village. Through this sketchbook, Ishak wishes to share his brand of nostalgia not only with people who have been familiar with the ka...

Phenomenon No. II is a scientific hypothesis about the circumstances surrounding the life of Pao, a wedge-head carrot. The scientific analysis is put forth by a character named X, who, one year after sighting the revelation in the form of a giant yellow orb, attempts to decipher Phenomenon No. II o R B, referencing Quantum Mechanics, the EPR paradox and parallel universes as he does so.PaperbackProduct Dimensions: 189 x 290 mmPublished by Math Paper Press

Roots is ND Chow’s first exhibition in Singapore and coincides with the launch of his book of the same title, featuring images taken from a two-year journey around the world 15 years ago. Now a successful portrait photographer in Tokyo who has shot celebrities such as Ayumi Hamasaki and Patti Smith, Roots is Chow’s personal reflection on his search for identity and the origins of his creativity.Paperback: 128 Pages Product Dimensions: 232 x 297 mmISBN: 9784838725724Published by Magajinhausu

With 'Apple' as the subject of the first publication from the research programme 'Science of the Secondary', Atelier HOKO presents an inquiry into our behaviours and experiences observed through our interaction with the humble fruit. From the very moment we set our eyes on the apples that are displayed in the fruit stall to the strangely familiar memory of an apple within us, this book offers an alternative insight into things that are not yet discovered. Magazine: 44 Pages Product Dimensions...

This classic work, first published in 1971, explores the transition in painting styles from the late Sung period to the art of Yuan dynasty literati. Building on the pioneering work of Oswald Siren and James Cahill, Susan Bush’s investigations of painting done under the Chin dynasty confirmed the dominance of scholar-artists in the north and their gradual development of scholarly painting traditions, and a related study of Northern Sung writings showed that their theory was shaped as much by ...

translated Gabriel Rockhill The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aesthetics" from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques Rancière reveals its intrinsic link to politics by analysing what they both have in common: the delimitation of the visible and the invisible, the audible and the inaudible, the thinkable and the unthinkable, the possible and the impossible. Presented as a set of inter-linked interviews, The Politics of Aest...

John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and W. Eugene Smith - and the lives of those photographed - with fierce engagement, intensity and tenderness. The selection is made and introduced by Geoff Dyer, author of the award-winning The Ongoin...

Witches & Wicked Bodies provides an innovative, rich survey of images of European witchcraft from the sixteenth century to the present day. It focuses on the representation of female witches and the enduring stereotypes they embody, ranging from hideous old crones to beautiful young seductresses. Such imagery has ancient precedents and has been repeatedly re-invented by artists over the centuries, to include scenes with corpses and cauldrons, caverns and kitchens, and the dead being raise...

zingmagazine came out of the idea that within certain disciplines, artistic and otherwise, various cross-references occur, both with individuals and the material of their particular interest. Rather than remaining isolated and apart, either through an unaware and uninformed (or aware and informed) malaise, there is a need to commingle arenas. By establishing a forum of collaborative exchange, zingmagazine examines points of both similar and dissimilar articulations. Like sets and subsets in a...