Marc Valli Livres

A comprehensive, up-to-date collection of the most exciting new graphic-design in the United Kingdom. What design scene is as diverse or cosmopolitan, more rich in influences and references, as packed with new trends and original ideas, as teeming with talent and ambition than the UK? To stand out in this competitive arena, British graphic designers have had to make their work ever more clever and polished, better informed. This fuels the distinctive, refined styles of such artists as Mark Farrow, Sea, Spin, Browns, Fuel, James Joyce, Zak, Studio 8 and Bibliotek. The UK (especially urban hotbeds like London, Manchester and Sheffield) is also a greenhouse for new musical styles and youth trends, and a fertile ground for eccentric visual artists like Non-Format, Ben Drury, The Designers Republic; and of course, also a major financial nucleus for studios like William Paul, BB Saunders and Saturday marking their styles and brands across the world. The main question in compiling a book on the best of new British design is not what to put in, but what to leave out. Stylistic novelty and visual distinctiveness are our key parameters. RGB features artists from highly diverse backgrounds, at all different stages in their careers, from household names to the newest young talents. RGB captures the UK s explosively vibrant and unpredictable realm of graphic design, in over 400 pages packed with exciting visual material.

Graphic 12 sets out to explore the current craze for customization.

Seriously, what is Post-Internet Art? Elephant's summer issue canvasses opinions from Cory Arcangel, Camille Henrot, Mishka Henner and, of course, Bruce Lee, to form 60 pages of glitches, pixels, memes, Google Maps and celebrities on screens. In the issue, we encounter Elmgreen & Dragset in the toilets of London's Hayward Gallery on the tenth anniversary of Prada Marfa, walk down the streets of NYC with offbeat design genius Paul Sahre, and go down on the farm with Rachel Howard. Meet the New Establishment: photographer Petra Collins, painter Michael Armitage, and sculptor Ben Woodeson. Discover the subversive wit of children's illustrator and erotic artist Tomi Ungerer in Journal.

Artless präsentiert einige der eindrucksvollsten Bilder, die von zeitgenössischen Künstlern und Illustratoren mit einfachsten Mitteln geschaffen wurden, von Farbstiften und Aquarellen bis hin zu Ton, Fundstücken, Tesafilm und Papier und Kleber. In individuellen Interviews mit 49 Künstlern untersucht das Buch, wie und warum diese Künstler die enge Verbindung zwischen den bescheidenen Werkzeugen und der Kunst, die sie erschaffen, finden.

Drawing has always been a fundamental skill and good drawing skills allowed artists to grasp the reality around them. At the turn of the millennium, however, the general impression was that with the wide availability of computers, scanners, digital cameras and image software, drawing would dwindle into a marginal activity. In fact, the opposite happened: the enthusiasm for digital imagery died down and the ability to draw has become a treasured skill. In the art world, attitudes to drawing have also changed. Drawing became a way of making a statement as an artist, of showing masterly skill – something that up to then had been most commonly associated with painting. After centuries in the shadow of its more illustrious fine art relatives, drawing started to be appreciated for its own sake, as an art discipline, an end in itself, an art form. Walk the Line: The Art of Drawing includes interviews with the international selection of artists, as well as examples of their work. It will appeal to anyone interested in contemporary art and illustration.