#TASCHEN

[oldcountrybear1955]

Tom of Finland Posterbook - Taschen

[zegalba]

Issey Miyake: Retrospective (1995)

[mypastnow]

[theflytrap]

[archivist-dragonfly]

Book 512

Masterpieces of Illumination (Codices illustres): The world’s most famous illuminated manuscripts 400 to 1600

Ingo F. Walther and Norbert Wolf

Taschen 2005

This edition, part of Taschen’s 25th anniversary series of reissues, is a stunning overview of history’s most glorious illuminated manuscripts. While a downside of the book is that it is mostly concerned with Western manuscripts (there are some examples from the Middle East), the book provides examples from over 450 works. With book details, brief histories, and 2 to 4 high quality scans from each work, this is an excellent historical journey of some of the most beautiful books that have ever been made.

[uwmspeccoll]

It’s Feral Friday! 

This week we’re taking a look at Taschen: Oliver Payne & Nick Relph. This beautifully designed exhibition catalog was printed by Busch Druck Medien Verlag (Bielefeld, Deutschlan) and published by Kerber Verlag in New York in 2004. It accompanied the exhibition Oliver Payne & Nick Relph, which was presented by the National Museum of Art (Oslo) and the Musee d'Art Moderne (Paris) the same year. Designed by graphic designer and artist Halvor Bodin, the text was authored by Payne & Relph in collaboration with curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, Andrea Kroknes (Senior Curator of the National Museum), and Sune Nordgren (director of the National Museum at the time).  

Oliver Payne & Nick Relph are a British artist duo who internationally exhibited film, video, & installation works from 1999 until 2009. Their practice grappled with themes of cultural identity, subcultures (such as skater, gaming, and DIY cultures), and corporate imperialism. This publication is particularly interesting within the context of our collection because it juxtaposes the design language of Fine Press movement forerunners like the Kelmscott Press with the lo-fi aesthetics of early internet & DIY culture and advertising, bringing the principles of the Arts & Crafts movement into critical conversation with the aesthetic and cultural landscape of our time.

In their early video work Driftwood (a "psycho-geographical tour of London"), Payne & Relph call to 'smash the symbols of the Empire in the name of nothing but the heart's longing for grace.' They demonstrate this ethos by gaming information and cataloging systems through their choice of the title Taschen, the moniker of one of the most ubiquitous and celebrated publishers of art books, thereby hacking their way into in a realm where artists working in new media and experimental art were rarely represented.

--Ana, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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[yiliy]

"Darth Vader is the bad father.

Ben Kenobi is the good father.

Star Wars came out of my desire to make a modern fairy tale. Fairy tales are how people learn about good and evil and how to conduct themselves in society."

- George Lucas

for The Star Wars Archives: 1977–1983 - Episodes IV-VI 40th Anniversary Edition by Paul Duncan for TASCHEN

[itsallmadonnasfault]

[germanpostwarmodern]

When legendary architectural photographer Julius Shulman passed away in 2009 he left a vast archive of more than 260,000 photographs. Already in 2000 Pierluigi Serraino together with Taschen published a selection of photos and projects in the volume „Modernism Rediscovered“, an already impressive gathering of beautiful California modern architecture. As a follow-up the publisher in 2007 released an even more comprehensive selection in the form of the present three-volume tome: on about 1,000 pages „Julius Shulman: Modernism Rediscovered“ not only collects architecture from California but also from other parts of the US as well as from Shulman’s travels to Israel, Mexico or Hongkong. The result is an incredible portfolio of beautiful photographs of outstanding architecture, some iconic but most of them hidden gems that are a joy to discover thanks to Shulman’s keen eye: through his natural understanding of the idea underlying the architectural surface and the building’s positioning in the surrounding landscape. At the same time his photographs give expression to an optimistic zeitgeist and a leisure lifestyle that is long gone.

With this said the present volumes open up a window to the past and a comprehensive overview of a legendary photographer’s work that is simply breathtaking. Glad to have it in my library!

[tankgirlfan23]

[coldcolornut]

[galerymod]

We love good comics, and that's why we love good editions from great publishers.

mod

Everyone should make a comic about their sexual obsession, well for some it would be really short, but for others it would be the nightmare of the moral guardians!

Please describe the content of the comic you envisage creating.

It is also only possible with simple means without real images only in their imagination. Here is a little guide

Think of it as an advertisement for something really crazy...... from the era of anarchist comics.

[zegalba]

Issey Miyake: Retrospective (1995)

[ndav1d42]

leárazás volt (talán még van is?) a Taschennél 🤩 az űrodüsszeiás könyvre nagyon régóta fájt a fogam!!

[artfulfashion]

Naomi Campbell for Ai Weiwei x Taschen January 2024 photographed Luigi & Iango

[archivist-dragonfly]

Book 556 and 557

Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles, Vol. 1 (1628-1900)

Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles, Vol. 2 (1901-1938)

Cees W. de Jong, Alston W. Purvis, Jan Tholenaar, eds.

Taschen 2009/2010

Of all my typography books, and there are a lot, these two might be the most useful. The Zapf books are the most aesthetically pleasing; the two Redstone books (#333 and 334) are the most inspiring; but these two are the most all-around useful. With thousands of pristine full-color samples ranging from type specimens, books, posters, and ads to invitations, magazines, and packaging, these “living” examples of type show exactly how, when, and for what purpose they were used. And that’s what makes these books so useful. Its isn’t just seeing how certain types were used, but how they fit into overall layout and design. Because of that, these may just be the most essential typography books I own. Not to mention they’re also among the most beautiful.