Initiated by professional curator and editor Freek Lomme, ‘Can You Feel It?’ invites the reader to explore tactility and our interaction with printed matter. Six international artists produced either graphic samples or the essence of tactility during a residency at the Frans Masereel Centrum. Compiling their practice-based experiments and processes, this book also includes animated introductions of printing techniques in the form of fictionalised characters, and eight essay contributions ...

Slow Costuming delves into a comprehensive approach to costume design, emphasizing on the synergy between all elements involved in the crafting process of a performance. This method highlights the critical collaboration between the costume designer, performer, and the entire team. The fusion of the designer's and performer's work during fittings, creation, dressing, and performing is essential. The interplay between costume and embodiment is pivotal in animating a narrative. Well-fitted costu...

Afonso Matos is a Portuguese designer and researcher who is based in The Netherlands. This book is a collection of fanzines inspired by conversations and texts around four main themes: the bubble of the (critical) design school; the power of design and the agency of designers; the nature of design; and collective power. Included are excerpts from Matos’ thesis on the use of design as a social critique and agent of change, his transparent disclosures and personal investigation into the impac...

Part design experiment, part critical theory, and part how-to manual, ‘What is Post-Branding?’ introduces a creative counter to the neoliberal orthodoxy of branding. Conceived and written by Dr Oliver Vodeb - an extra-disciplinary designer, critical theorist, and educator active in Melbourne - and Jason Grant - a designer and co-founder of Inkahoots Design - the book empowers a better design of public communication for civic and activist groups by replacing corporate branding’s predator...

Als er iets is wat Marianne absoluut niet wilde dan is het een boek over haar en mijn werk. Aangezien ik wat anders over dit soort zaken denk en het noodzakelijk vond om haar te gedenken is deze uitgave toch tot stand gekomen. – André Toet

‘Fuck design, let’s dance’ omvat het oeuvre van ontwerpers Marianne Vos en André Toet. Het is een overzicht van hun individuele werk, opdrachten die zij gezamenlijk deden en ontwerpen die zij maakten onder het door hun opgerichte ontwerpbureau Sam...