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ABC3D by Marion Bataille

Don’t miss the video preview of French designer Marion Bataille’s alphabet pop-up book ABC3D, in which letterforms literally leap off the page. Starting with the lenticular cover, letters morph into one another and spring into states of depth, all within a crisp black, white and red palette. The book will be published this fall and is available to preorder from Amazon.

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Graffiti NYC by Hugo Martinez

Hugo Martinez has been studying graffiti for over 30 years. We catch up with him visiting a London-based anarchist bookstore for a signing of his latest book, “NYC Graffiti.

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PSFK Snapshot San Francisco

PSFK SNAPSHOT SAN FRANCISCO is a Snapshot Report by trends publisher PSFK and a print on demand or POD book. Snapshot Reports contain PSFK’s “hand-selected collection of unique and innovative businesses, events, organizations and ideas in one of the most inspirational cities in the world.”. Per the website, PSFK traveled to the West Coast to explore the region and talk with “tastemakers, opinion leaders and new businesses to better understand the cultural, consumer and business trends impacting this hotspot”. A travel and trends book in one, more are planned. Of note, the cyclist on the cover is holding up a brake-less fixed gear bike, practically a religion in San Francisco. Softcover and hardcover, starting at $30 at Blurb.

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A Book : Jaime Hayon Works

Spanish designer and artist Jaime Hayon will be one of the most influential designers in the years to come, and this is the first monograph to present the full spectrum of his work. Ranging from clear and harmonious to playfully extravagant, all of the included examples of interiors, furniture, tableware and decorative ceramics attest to his inimitable grasp of form, style and colour. In addition to celebrated collaborations with clients such as Camper, Swarovski and Bisazza, Jaime Hayon Works contains previously unreleased personal sketches, illustrations and productions of new projects that will make its world premiere debut at the annual Milan Furniture Fair in April 2008.

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Clip/Stamp/Fold

An explosion of architectural little magazines in the 1960s and 1970s instigated a radical transformation in architectural culture with the architecture of the magazines acting as the site of innovation and debate. Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X – 197X takes stock of seventy little magazines from this period, which were published in over a dozen cities.

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