The Library

The Library

Building a library of art + design books, catalogues, essays and documents — Hosts: @paul-prudence @vortac — Send a direct cast for an invite — 'Archive of Casts' solution provided by @nftbiker

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📖 Welcome! Let’s build /the-library together, a living repository of our favorite books, catalogues, essays and documents, about → art → design → typography → creative coding → visual arts related + your own images + short reasoning + author, title, field of art Hosted by: @paul-prudence @vortac

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CodeCrafted Generative Design in Branding (Edited by victionary, 2025) https://victionary.com/collections/art-design/products/codecrafted?variant=47863337386226 "We live in a fast-paced digital world where algorithms and data are reshaping design. From interactive installations to boundary-pushing print work, the fusion of programming, technology, and design creates visuals that captivate, evolve, and adapt across mediums. CodeCrafted is your window into the future of branding, where code and creativity merge to build dynamic identities. This book features a rich showcase of brilliant generative design work, and insights from top studios like DIA, Studio Dumber_DEPT®, and LAVA. It also includes essays from generative design pioneer Patrik Hübner and coding expert Tim Rodenbröker, offering deep dives into the field’s creative and technical potential. Specs: 170 x 235 mm, 304 pp Format: full colour, soft cover with plastic sleeve Release date: August 2025 Language: English ISBN 978-988-76845-5-8"

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c.r.y.&.f.u.c.k. n°39789 "The Israeli Cartoonists Association has strongly criticised the decision to award an Eisner Award – the most prestigious American award in the industry – to War on Gaza, a comic book written and illustrated by Joe Sacco and focusing on the events unfolding in the Gaza Strip in recent months.⁠"

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GM oldies but goodies 💫

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Rosaire Appel Voices Pending, 2023 I've been collecting Rosaire Appel's affordable artist books for some time and love her work. She specialises in a lively take on asemic writing and comic book abstraction. *** 'Voices Pending is a full-color anthology of abstract comics by Rosaire Appel. Comics imply talk, not only noise-talk but silences and gestures. Combinations of reading and looking create an inherent tension even in traditional comics, and talk, as it moves through rooms and country-sides is sequential. But: understanding is a moving target. Rosaire Appel lives and works in New York. Her field is abstract visual language. She writes: "I bridge the gap between verbal writing and its visual counterparts through non-symbolic mark-making and asemic writing. Asemic writing looks like writing but has no semantic value. It is ancient as well as contemporary. ' More impressions in the comments.

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Francesca Woodman Untitled, Rome, Italy, 1977-1978 [from the book: On Being an Angel]

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Gasbook 6, visual exhibition, 1997 Experimental magazine for digital culture, this release includes a CD-ROM, a VHS tape, a T-shirt (lost) and a booklet Featured: Designers Republic++, Futura 2000, JODI, tomato https://store.gasbook.tokyo/collections/gasbook?srsltid=AfmBOooUT7aL-TkbugPWl3HaMCAN-ITu3VdNEExboOcy-BuyoiDm3A5g

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Ben Collier: "Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy" 2024, MIT Press (downloadable from link below) "A biography of Tor—a cultural and technological history of power, privacy, and global politics at the internet's core." https://freecomputerbooks.com/Tor-From-the-Dark-Web-to-the-Future-of-Privacy.html

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Deborah Turbeville

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10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)) Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Ian Bogost Jeremy Douglass, Mark C. Marino, Michael Mateas Casey Reas, Mark Sample, and Noah Vawter '10 PRINT is a book about a one-line Commodore 64 BASIC program, published in 2012. Realising that @vortac's masterpiece in /geoblocks on Monday reminded me so much of the patterns in 10 PRINT, I wondered if anyone had added this book to the /the-library Hey, even if they did, here's the reminder :) PDF >> https://10print.org/10_PRINT_121114.pdf @vortac's piece >> https://farcaster.xyz/vortac/0xe2260058 GOTO 10

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Illustrations from Taking Measures Across the American Landscape - James Corner & Alex McLean, 1996. This is a series of illustrations I return to again and again. More images in the comments. 'landscape representation not only reflects a given reality but also constitutes a way of seeing and acting in the world'

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Electrified Books is a publishing house for digital artist books, founded by Esther Hunziker, a media artist based in Basel, CH. Their releases usually come in a limited physical version (a USB stick) and a free download, using the ePub format to create interactive content. https://electrfd.net/

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Jürg Lehni: Typeface as Programme - The Nature of Type Design in the Digital Age https://www.typotheque.com/articles/typeface-as-programme

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Well, I’m pretty excited I received this today! POLYHEDRA, by Peter R. Cromwell A classic 📐

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