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Tom Waits & Anton Corbijn
saw this great book at rizzoli uptown today, a bit pricey, but awesome. on my xmas list if the 6,000 copies don’t run out until then… by pp.
as Hergé once said : “Tout de même, ce n’est pas très rassurant, tout ce noir”
“oil, fortune, dollars, contract, businessman, property, country, crazy, transvestites, city, cars, factories, cars, crisis, sport, world, cars, factories, success”
since we talked about tintin previously with dd’s latest post, i thought i could bring up this experimental comic book from matt madden : “tnt in america”. it isn’t new that some people criticize tintin comics as being violent, cruel and sometimes colonialist. madden chose an artistic way to express his vision of america. he took original editions of the comic “tintin in america”, cut the pages one by one, covered them with a thick layer of black ink, rewrote selected words and added pictograms based on the originals’ actions and speech bubbles. at the end, you can’t really tell exactly what’s going on, but it’s got something to do with violence and america by lil
nigel scott – blue
well, that’s just nice. sort of pure. by pp.
tracey emin x kate moss
hotter than hot! by pp.
RETO CADUFF- FRECKLES
freckles, a book by reto caduff, only available at dashwood. if it’s there, it means it’s good. by pp.
JAMES GRAY – BOOK
well, i don’t know where to get that but that must be awesome. by pp.
do you have the look? la eyework
when full on 80’s meet “studio harcourt” portraits you get “la eyework” campaigns. the famous californian spectacles brand release a book with all those famous portraits. by pp.
francois berthoud – studio
german publishing house hatje cantz had the great insight to publish a monograph on mythic illustrator francois berthoud, the book is beautiful and seeing the making of this artwork is really inspiring and quite intriguing. a must have i would say. by pp.
inez & vinoodh – pretty much everything
i heard about this book for almost 5 years now and was starting to think it was an urban legend…. well now it’s there, it’s at taschen and it looks good. a bit late for x-mas though. by pp.
freunde von freunden – the book
rizzoli – louis vuitton
after the beautiful book on maison martin margiela, rizzoli has a new beautiful book in the pipes, not that the brand is as appealing as MMM but the book design look awesome! ex-“work in progress”, li inc studio is responsible for this beautiful stack of papers, can’t wait to have a look at that… ok, i’m a little book nerding here, i agree. by pp.