Bits and Bobs and Books | London again.. in detail.

'The London Art Book Fair is an annual event devoted to international art publishing. Hosted by the Whitechapel Gallery in association with Marcus Campbell Art Books, The London Art Book Fair presents the work of individual artist publishers, galleries, magazines, colleges, arts publishing houses, rare book dealers and distributors alongside a wider associated programme of talks and events'

Books again... more books! Or rather a little bit about publishing in general. I was quite excited about the whole thing for various reasons, mostly for the fact that I love books, I love the texture/smell of books and I love well designed books. So, generally speaking, it was really nice to see that in the fast digitalising world and the web take over... books are still alive. In advance, my apologies for the lack of images and over-explosion of web links, but not too sorry because they're really worth checking out.

I absolutely loved German publishing group Revolver especially because of this amazing find - FUKT magazine. It is a shame it hasn't reached UK yet.

Mörel Books - very talented publishing group who, I realised, produced the publications for Ryan McGinley's Moonmilk and A Season In Hell Rimbaud - Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe. These can be found in Alison Jaques Gallery, since they actually held 'Moonmilk' and 'A Season In Hell' exhibitions last year. Both were fantastic and I actually got to meet and talk to Patti Smith at 'A Season in Hell's opening night. She did performed several songs and finished off with 'Because The Night' of course (I find it funny; it is still every one's favourite)... so, a massive crowd of guests packed outside the gallery sang with her. Epic evening... I left kind of high.

Also would like to quickly pin point Afterall, US based Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Norwegian guys Morten Andersen and Forbundet Frie Fotografer and lovely independent publishers like Laughter.

A spread from Fuji Book by Yasushi Cho (Laughter)

Bits and Bobs and Typography | London.

First of all, it was London Design Festival last week. Sad but true, the industry is in financial shit-hole, I'm afraid. There were, of course, some good exhibition to check out. However, in comparison to the last year's festival, this one is just a slight disappointment. I would like to expect more from Frieze Art Fair in October.

Down to business. I'm always happy with Kemistry Gallery, because they love typography and you know I love typography. Typography is my better side really. Their recent exhibition is Gastrotypographicalassemblage - The Designs of Lou Dorfsman.

I am also always very happy with Magma, probably the only descent art & design book shop in London; and the only place to get magazines from, since Borders are gone. Now, I am not talking Heat or Nuts or what have you, I am talking 'superior' UK and International publications (on design, fashion and culture). Actually, that tiny news stand opposite Liberty is also pretty good, but let's just leave it at this.

Going back to typography... here are some really great books on the subject I found in Magma couple of days ago. I am including my quick overall description. For more detailed information please click on the book title. I wanted to include 3D Typography by Jeanette Abbink as well, but unfortunately I couldn't find good pictures to go with it.

I Wonder - Marian Batjes

Futuresque; image based typography or rather images with typographic solutions - pick whichever one you like.

Typo Lyrics - The sound of Fonts

Old school, three dimensional.

Retro Fonts - Gregor Strawinski

The title says Retro, Retro it is; very arty, very inspiring.

Onwards.

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'The photographs that can never be taken again' - Nadav Kander

So, looking back at the previous post, I think I will keep this one brief. As part of my Masters Degree, I am working on the essay which explores the topic of space, place and mobility in photography. The photographer I am writing about is Nadav Kander, incredibly talented, incredibly brilliant of course (this is why I don't do photography for living).

Yangtze, The Long River Series. 48 photos. I am struggling to edit.