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荷兰设计师Ivo Schmetz的自制书《Archivo De Pivo》，以视觉、文字、设计和摄影为载体，建立了一个全然来自于个人经历与想像的，无规则无边界，介于真实与虚拟之间的世界观。全部内容都由Ivo Schmetz一手包办，平时，他忙于阿姆斯特丹设计工作室310k和唱片厂牌Basserk。秘密炮制三年时间，才正式对外释出这本发自内心的，充满了快乐、能量、灵感与个人情感的《Archivo De Pivo》。
Archivo De Pivo is an autonomous book about the world. It transforms personal memories, dreams, fantasies, ideas, stories and travel experiences into a new borderless universe. The writer plays with the truth and fiction and is not concerned about objectivity or accuracy. It is an open hearted, warm, layered and vibrating view on the world. Ivo Schmetz has written, photographed, designed and published the whole book himself. During normal work days he is busy with his design studio 310k or record label Basserk but this project was his own and he has kept a secret until it was completely finished. He worked on it for more then 3 years, quietly behind his laptop during the nights or with a hangover in the weekend. The result is this: a book that is coming straight from the heart, full of joy, energy, inspiration and personal feelings!
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在过去的十年中，自闭症这个社会议题引发了很多人的关注。每150个儿童中，就有1个患有自闭症。《Drawing Autism》一书中，收录了全世界50位自闭症人士的绘画和拼贴作品，试图通过这些作品来窥探他们看待世界的独特视角。他们中有如Gregory Blackstock，Jessica Park、叶平连（Ping Lian Yeak）等成就卓越的艺术家，也有很多名字不被大家所知道的天才，例如之前介绍过那位，喜欢画鸟的13岁的荷兰小画家David Barth。
Over the last decade autism has become an international topic of conversation. Knowing no racial, ethnic or social barriers, today autism is diagnosed in 1 in every 150 children. Drawing Autism celebrates the artistry and self-expression found in the drawings, paintings and collages created by individuals diagnosed with autism. The work of over 50 international contributors exhibits unique perspectives on how these individuals see the world and their places in it. Author Jill Mullin, a behavior analyst and educator, has assembled a staggering array of work from established artists like Gregory Blackstock, Jessica Park and Ping Lian Yeak to the unknown but no less talented. Their creations, coupled with artist interviews, comprise a fascinating and compelling book that makes visual how autism manifests differently in every diagnosis.
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Kenna Moser现居美国贝里布里奇岛，她用从古董店里收集来的邮票、信件、图书、字典，与自然中的碎片，如蕨类植物、羽毛、花卉，在木板上做拼贴，用蜂蜡覆盖后，再用油画进行局部的细致描绘，来创造出属于她自己的生态系统和视觉语言。“跟大的画作相比，小画作更容易让你在一个小空间里产生共鸣”，Kenna Moser说。
Kenna Mose lives in Bainbridge Island. These paintings begin with an antique letter and collage elements carefully cut out, glued to a wood panel and followed by a signature layer of beeswax. The beeswax is applied hot, smoothed and buffed. Garden specimens and small figures are painted on top of the wax. The resulting paintings speak to a personal relationship with the written word and the natural environment. “Big paintings come at you. Little ones require you to approach them and experience them in a small space,” says the artist Kenna Moser.
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“我曾经的理想之一，是在实验室做一个操作员，为来做实验的学生们配试剂，装瓶，或者制作石蜡切片标本。日复一日，沉默的简单重复劳动中包含着最大的诗意。拍照片给我带来的享受与此类似，那过程就如同为世界制作切片标本，对于标本的价值我很少去关心，它们单个来看是脆弱、虚假、不值一提的，但我知道，有朝一日这些标本能够重组出一个过去的世界，无数的‘虚假’生出了真实。面对世界我常常觉得是无力而不可得的，拍摄则让我觉得能用穷举的方式去尽可能接近这个世界。‘即鹿无虞，惟入于林中’，这便是我对摄影的全部想法吧。”——陈思然
来自香蕉鱼书店及其背后的香蕉鱼影像书籍出版社A Perfect Book的夏天制作，陈思然的个人摄影作品集。
Bananafish Books is very proud to announce it’s first publication, A r i a, a new photobook by Chen Siran which is also the first book of the photographer. Chen Siran is a female photographer currently living and working in the city of Beijing.
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“冷漠的对待他人和生活，是设计的头等大罪”，Dieter Rams说。Dieter Rams的生活和工作始终围绕着“思考人们如何生活，以及如何生活的更好”这个中心点，他在1960年代设计的产品至今仍被人所用。Jonathan Ive为该书撰写了序言，Klaus Kemp为我们讲述了老爷子的早年生活，他是一位建筑师，这种知识背景一直影响了他一生的创作。本书不但分享了Rams的优秀设计和观点，更是Rams的生活和工作的一次全面而深入的记录。绝大部分的内容着眼于在他在Braun和Vitsoe担任工业设计师期间的工作，并从设计草图、技术图纸、设计原型、成品、市场营销等方面的物料的展示，串联起Rams的工作过程和经历。除此之外，本书最精彩的两个章节应当属Rams自己的家——这位拥有建筑师背景的人唯一建造完成的房屋。本书共320页，由Phaidon出版，Kobi Benezri担任设计。
”Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design” – Dieter Rams. Dieter Rams’ life and work are indelibly linked to his thoughts about how people live, and how they can live better. Products he designed in the 1960s are still being produced and sold today – only one demonstration of the strength of his work. This comprehensive monograph covers both Rams’ life and his work, as well as his ideas on good design, which continue to inspire designers and consumers today. A personal foreword by Jonathan Ive evokes the influence that Rams has had on his own work and, by extention, the objects with which so many of us share our everyday lives. An introduction and an essay by Klaus Kemp tell the story of Rams’ early life, his training as an architect, and the intellectual context in which his ideas were developed. The next four chapters examine Rams’ work and his life – which are more or less synonymous – in depth. This includes his role at Braun as well as the work he did for the furniture company Vitsoe. Each chapter includes sketches, prototypes, finished products and the marketing for those products, giving a complete picture of Rams’ work and its context. Two other chapters in this section present Rams’ own house, the only work of architecture that he completed, and examine the products he designed at the level of detail, a crucial aspect to his work. A further chapter examines Rams’ ‘ten commandments’ of good design and his credo, ‘less but better’, in the context of his role as head of design at Braun, and a final chapter explores his legacy in the work of contemporary designers including Naoto Fukasawa, Jonathan Ive, Sam Hecht, and Konstantin Grcic.
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Each year CPNB (Collective Promotion Dutch Literature) organises the Dutch Book Week to promote Dutch literature. And every year a specific genre is being profiled. This year the (auto) biography is featured. This is translated in the theme ‘Geschreven Portretten’, which translates in ‘Written Portraits’. Van Wanten Etcetera created the campaign, which show the different faces behind the (auto) biographies. Anne Frank, Vincent van Gogh, Louis van Gaal and Kader Abdolah (writer of the biographic Book Week give away). Souverein made the artwork and did an amazing job creating realistic images. Even the structure of the original book pages was used for the text inside the portraits to get right structure for each portrait.
每年，荷兰CPNB都会组织荷兰图书周来推动文学的发展，并以一个特定的流派为主题，今年的主题是自传，由设计师Van Wanten Etcetera创作的一系列活动海报“脸书”（Written Portraits）恰如其分的呼应了该主题。而这些书页肖像，正是每本书的作者（Anne Frank、Vincent van Gogh、Louis van Gaal、Kader Abdolah）的肖像，所谓书如其人。
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