LATEST ISSUE OF APARTAMENTO NOW IN STOCK

Issue 05 of Apartmamento Magazine-

The award winning magazine takes a radically different approach from your usual interiors and lifestyle magazines wherein young, stylised and aspirational apartment owners/ renters showcase their personal spaces.

£15
Available online or in store at Kingly Court.

THE BEAR IS BACK!

Above: A SECOND EDITION PRINT OF NICK'S BEAR ON BIKE PRINT IN SITU

Due to the success of the first two editions of the Bear on Bike print (or BOB as we find ourselves calling it now) and due to the response received from the article in the Telegraph last weekend, Nick has now printed a thrid edition of the Bear on Bike print which features a green bicycle. The prints are being framed for display as I type so will be in stock/ available for viewing in the next few days.


We do currently have several of the prints available unframed in the Ludlow shop so, if you can't wait, pop in and have a look. It will also be available to buy online by the end of the day.

Bear on Bike
Original hand-pulled screenprint printed on Stockwell cartridge paper.
Signed and numbered in pencil.
Paper size A2 - 59.4 x 42 cm (approx 24 x 17in)
Edition of 50
£80 unframed/ £140 framed

PLENTY...

Just arrived in our Ludlow store is this beautiful book by Yotam Ottolenghi.

Published in May this year, the much anticipated Plenty is a collection of recipes by Yotam Ottolenghi, many of which appeared in different forms in his New Vegetarian column in the Guardian's Weekend magazine, plus plenty of new vegetarian dishes.

All the recipes are true to the Ottolenghi form: vibrant, daring and highly original, with fantastic new photography by Jonathan Lovekin.

Available in store or online

Hardcover: 288 pages
Ebury Press (29 April 2010)
27.4 x 19.8 x 3.6 cm

BACK IN STOCK: RUSSIAN CRIMINAL TATTOO

Just arrived back in stock is the fabulous Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia vol I published by Fuel.

The photographs, drawings and texts published in this book are part of a collection of more than 3,000 tattoos accumulated over a lifetime by prison attendant Danzig Baldaev. Tattoos were his gateway into a secret world in which he acted as ethnographer, recording the rituals of a closed society. The icons and tribal languages he documented are artful, distasteful, sexually explicit and sometimes just strange, reflecting as they do the lives and traditions of Russian convicts.

Skulls, swastikas, harems of naked women, a smiling Al Capone,
medieval knights in armour, daggers sheathed in blood, benign images of Christ, sweet-faced mothers and their babies, armies of tanks, and a horned Lenin - these are the signs by which the people of this hidden world mark and identify themselves.

First published in 2003, this book already has a second edition and regularly sells out.

Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I

205x125 mm hardback
400 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9558620-7-6

D&AD Silver Award 2005

UNEXPECTED GUESTS

Published to coincide with the exhibition “Unexpected Guests. Yesterday’s houses, today’s design”, curated by Beppe Finessi in collaboration with Cristina Miglio and organized by the Association of Milan’s House Museums, this publication of the same title is a wonderful account of contemporary design and production and it's comparison to the craftmanship of past.

In four of Milan’s Museum Houses (Museo Bagatti Valsecchi, Casa Boschi di Stefano, Villa Necchi Campiglio and Museo Poldi Pezzoli), past and present objects reveal important and unforeseen consonance.

First, the wide range of designed objects (carpets, stool, combs, centre-pieces, suitcases, watches, and many others) in comparison with previous design habits that dealt almost exclusively with armchairs, chairs and lamps.
Also, the growing importance given to the decoration of surfaces, which is made possible in the very last years by the recent use of new materials and technologies also for small-scale productions.

AVAILABLE IN STORE

NICK MORLEY & THE BEAR IN THE TELEGRAPH...

In today's telegraph magazine, artist and ELP member Nick Morley features as one of "Britain's Best Sellers on Etsy".

Based in East London, Nick is also one of Material's best selling artists with his Bear on Bike print (also featured in the article) being a recent sell out.

To find out more about Nick, visit his website.

Watch out for his new print, "Handbag", arriving at Material soon.

ONE OF OUR CURRENT BESTSELLERS...

Today, I thought I would share with you our current best selling book in the London branch of Material. The book is titled Copywriting: Successful Writing for Design, Advertising and Marketing by Mark Shaw.

Creating effective copywriting is of vital importance in today’s design and communication industries. This book explores the challenges of commercial writing, providing the tools to become a confident and versatile copywriter. Leading copywriting talents from both the UK and the US are interviewed, major campaigns covering all areas of the industry are illustrated in colour and examined in depth, and exercises and tips aid in developing writing, editing, and presentation skills.

I don't get a whole lot of time to look through and experience all of our books but, after realising it's popularity, I took it upon myself to pick this little blighter up and have a bit of a read and it truly is a useful book. With so many of us setting up our own business, marketing our own products and promoting ourselves as creatives through means of blogging, it really is useful to know every which way to go about it and this book will certainly guide you in the right direction.

THIS BOOK WILL BE AVAILABLE TO BUY ONLINE FROM TODAY.

Paperback
80 illustrations
216 pages
246 x 172 mm
£17.95