Onomatopee
Onomatopee Projects is a curating and editorially led public gallery and publisher that is particularly known for its self-initiated and trans-disciplinary projects.
Nocturnalities
Agata Bar, Andrea Knezović (eds)
Various contributors
Design by Miquel Hervás Gómez
Nocturnalities: Bargaining Beyond Rest delves into the politics of rest within the European art world and aims to contextualize themes of sleep, exhaustion, anxiety, and precarity within the realms of cultural labour, knowledge production, and cultural institutional operations.
ISBN: 978-94-93382-09-1
Softcover, 272 pages, 140 x 200 mm
Published 2025, Retail Price: € 25,00
Design History Reader
Design and concept by Kristen Coogan
Various contributors
This book encourages a pluralistic approach to the teaching and narrating of the history of graphic design, presenting a history that actually reflects the diversity in the classroom and in the profession at large.
ISBN: 978-94-93382-08-4
Softcover, 324 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2025, Retail Price: € 26,00
Script for a Synthetic Play: The Public Building
Flora Reznik, various contributors
Design by Wibke Bramesfeld
By borrowing tools from the performance arts, embodied collective thinking around the notion of "the public building" is explored. The book also includes a fictionalized wrap-up discussion presented as a script, offering a fresh take on the ancient Greek comedy genre, drawing from its capacity to create a space for democratic, critical reflection on our political systems.
ISBN: 978-94-93382-17-6
Softcover, 118 pages, 165 x 220 mm
Published 2025, Retail Price: € 22,00
DEATH-DESIGN-DATA
Edited by Cecilia Casabona and Ginevra Petrozzi
Design by Marie Dvorzak
DEATH-DESIGN-DATA investigates the experience of death and grief in the digital era - one that is saturated with information yet finds itself devoid of rituality - and how art and design could play a role in reconciling humans with death.
ISBN: 978-94-93382-12-1
Softcover, 144 pages, 150 x 210 mm
Published 2024, Retail Price: € 20,00
Fieldwork for Future Ecologies
eds. Bridget Crone, Sam Nightingale, Polly Stanton
Fieldwork for Future Ecologies addresses the role that art practice and art-based research plays in expanding notions of fieldwork.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-91-8
Softcover, 544 pages, 138 x 215 mm
Reprint 2025, Retail Price: € 39,00
Reworlding Ramallah
Callum Copley (ed)
Design by Callum Copley, Francisca Khamis, Joud Toamah
The stories compiled in this book were the outcome of a writing workshop series led by Callum Copley in a town called Birzeit, a few miles north of Ramallah, Palestine.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-18-5
Softcover, 168 pages, 115 x 180 mm
Published 2019, RP 2024, Retail Price: € 12,00
Three becomes two becomes one becomes none
Leonie Brandner
Edited by Marjolein van der Loo
Design by Elisa Piazzi
This publication explores the medicinal and magical mandragora plant, and the many stories that grew around it across history.
ISBN: 978-94-93382-06-0
Softcover, 196 pages, 150 x 200 mm
Published 2024, Retail Price: € 22,00
A Tree, A Reader on Arboreal Kinship
SOLD OUT
Marjolein van der Loo (ed)
Various contributors
Design by Yannick Nuss
Through this reader, the aim is to nurture and encourage dialogues and to share inspiration on exercising arboreal kinship by taking the time to think about trees differently through imagination, art, music, storytelling, poetry, and images.
ISBN: 978-94-93382-00-7
Softcover, 128 pages, 110 x 170 mm
Published 2024, Retail Price: € 15,00
Dreams of dreams of dreams
Cecilia Casabona, Natasha Rijkhoff eds.
Design by Alex Foradori and Bianca Schick
Dreams - of dreams of dreams is an invitation to dream, act and radically imagine new common worlds.
ISBN: 978-94-93382-01-5
Softcover, 128 pages, 111 x 170 mm
Published 2024, Retail Price: € 15,00
Seasonal Matters Rural Relations (ENG)
Anastasia Eggers, Ils Huygens eds.
Design by Bonsma & Reist
Seasonal Matters Rural Relations addresses the role that artistic practices and fieldwork can play in the complexity of rural relations.
English edition!
ISBN: 978-90-833621-8-2
Softcover, 308 pages, 125 x 188 mm
Published 2024, Retail Price: € 25,00
Seasonal Matters Rural Relations (NL)
Anastasia Eggers, Ils Huygens eds.
Design by Bonsma & Reist
Seasonal Matters Rural Relations addresses the role that artistic practices and fieldwork can play in the complexity of rural relations.
Dutch Edition!
ISBN: 978-90-833621-5-1
Softcover, 308 pages, 125 x 188 mm
Published 2024, Retail Price: € 25,00
Of Dogs and Daughters
Simona Koutná, Carmen Dusmet Carrasco, Giuseppa, Dodie Smith, Susan van Veen
Design by: Andrea Salerno
Of Dogs and Daughters - Between Surrogate and Self, written by Sonia Koutna, brings a compelling record of female writers whose voices have been documented through friendships and chance encounters.
ISBN: 978-90-833621-9-9
Softcover, 72 pages, 110 x 170mm
Published 2024, Retail Price: € 14,00
Superstorm - Design and Politics in the Age of Information
Author: Noemi Biasetton
Design: Michele Galluzo
The Superstorm is a conceptual and narrative metaphor to illustrate the evolution of the relationship between political communication and new media technologies, which culminated in the tempestuous Western political visual culture of today. This book traces the development of the Superstorm from the 1960s to the present and proposes new coordinates that designers may consider.
ISBN: 978-90-833621-7-5
Softcover, 256 pages, 110 x 170 mm
Published 2024, Retail Price: € 19,00
Visions By #5
by Saúl Baeza and Laura Clèries
People about Material Cultures.
ISBN: 978-94-93382-00-8
Softcover, 72 pages, 210 x 297 mm
Published 2024, Retail Price: € 17,00
ITS (IM)POSSIBLE FORMATION: The Book
Leonie Harkes, S*an D. Henry-Smith, Jesse Muller, Sal Randolph, Natasha Rijkhoff, Formal Settings, Romy Day Winkel, Mia You
Design by Tjobo Kho
This publication started with a warehouse full of books, which turned into an exhibition, and then turned back into printed matter.
ISBN: 978-90-833621-2-0
Softcover, 112 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2024, Retail Price: € 24,00
Longing for Lo-fi
SOLD OUT
Author: Sébastien Bovie
Design: Lisa Ladent
Glimpsing Back Through Technology.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-97-0
Softcover, 160 pages, 125 x 200 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 18,00
Sketches of Transition
Lara Almercegui, Maria Barnas, Michele Bazzoli, Dagmar Bosma, Yana Naidenov
Design by Kai Udema
An Atlas on Growth and Decay.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-98-7
Japanese Binding, 144 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 30,00
Notes on Book Design
SOLD OUT
Written and designed by: Formal Settings
50 texts written by designers Siri Lee Lindskrog and Amanda-Li Kollberg, based on books from the collection of Hopscotch Reading Room in Berlin.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-96-3
Softcover, 344 pages, 111 x 181 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 19,00
Research for People Who (think they) Would Rather Create 1.1.2
Dirk Vis and Florian Cramer eds.
Design: Robert Reinartz
This book contains all relevant aspects that need to be considered during a research and documentation process.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-43-7
Softcover, 136 pages, 130 x 200 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 15,00
VISIONS BY #4
Saúl Baeza, Laura Clèries (eds.)
VISIONS BY people, about Material Cultures.
ISBN: 978-90-833621-6-8
Softcover, 80 pages, 210 x 297 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 17,00
Enfleshed
REPRINT 03/2025
eds. Kristiina Koskentola, Marjolein van der Loo
Graphic design: Yannick Nuss
Enfleshed: Ecologies of Entities and Beings brings together practitioners, thinkers, and artists from across Eurasia to collectively explore multispecies ecologies.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-94-9
Softcover, 176 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 24,00
Greenhouse Stories
d-o-t-s (Laura Drouet, Olivier Lacrouts)
Graphic design: Structure Bâtons
Architecturally speaking, the term greenhouse refers to buildings designed to optimally protect, cultivate and propagate plants. Greenhouse Stories is an invitation to critically look at greenhouses as controversial (agri)cultural production tools.
ISBN: 978-90-833621-0-6
Softcover, 220 pages, 160 x 220 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 22,00
Durable Discussions
Editors: Rasha Dakkak, Rana Ghavami, Miquel Hervás Gómez, Annelys de Vet
Various authors
Durable Discussions brings together seventeen essays written by designers and artists from the Disarming Design Department of Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-88-8
Softcover, 432 pages, 115 x 175 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 19,50
Immutable: Designing History
SOLD OUT
Author: Chris Lee
Immutable: Designing History explores the banal genre of the document and its entanglement with statecraft and colonial(ism/ity).
ISBN: 978-94-93148-42-0
Softcover, 126 pages, 127 x 197 mm
Retail Price: € 22,00
Incomplete Neighbor
Authors: Raffaella Crispino, Hans Demeulenaere, Tal Bechler
Design: Bureau Vielcazat
Incomplete Neighbor explores how our mind complements the reality around us.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-93-2
Softcover
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 36,00
Not My Sister
By: T.M. Cabrera
OUT OF PRINT
ISBN: 978-90-83362-14-4
Softcover, risograph
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 19,00
Kid of the Internet
By Georgiana Barcan
id of the internet is a collection of visual and written essays about living and growing up in late 2000s Romania. Autobiographical and at points fictional, the hybrid work follows the life-changing impact of the internet in the artist’s hometown and community. An embodied, local history of the world wide web in Eastern Europe.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-81-9
Softcover, 60 pages, 210 x 148 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 12,00
Unununimimimdededesign
Editor: Joannette van der Veer
Design: Lot Mars & Studio Bramesfeld
Various authors
The hesitant state of design. If all within design is being undone, unmade, and unlearned, what is it exactly that is being done, being made, and being learned?
ISBN: 978-94-93148-89-5
Softcover, 136 pages, 130 x 200 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 17,00
Building Human Relations Through Art
Editor: Seda Yildiz
Authors: Zdenka Badovinac, Branislav Dimitrijević, Milica Pekić, Seda Yildiz
Design: Rob van Leijsen
Belgrade art collective Škart, from 1990 to present.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-82-6
Softcover, 240 pages, 155 x 210 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 19,00
Speculative Facts
Editor: Department of Speculative Facts
Various authors
The Department of Speculative Facts connects two seemingly contradictory approaches: Speculation and fact-checking.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-51-2
Softcover, 288 pages, 148 x 210 mm
Published 2021, Retail Price: € 20,00
The Material Kinship Reader
Editors: Clementine Edwards & Kris Dittel
Design: Jena Myung
Various authors
SOLD OUT Material beyond extraction and kinship beyond the nuclear family.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-78-9
Softcover, 480 pages, 114 x 162 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 22,00
In these Circumstances
Editors: Philippine Hoegen, Lilia Mestre
Design: dare to know
Various authors
On collaboration, perfomativity, self-organisation and transdisciplinarity in research-based practices.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-85-7
Softcover, 240 pages, 130 x 205 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 24,00
Graphic Events
Edied and Designed by Nick Deakin and James Dyer
A Realist Account of Graphic Design.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-66-6
Softcover, 220 pages, 111 x 181 mm
Published 2021, Retail Price: € 22,00
UNDER REEF
Text and Design: Mike Corrao
Under Reef is a media and design-oriented work of experimental literature, in which a hybrid entity forms, combining the digital and the analog, the visual and the literary.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-64-2
Softcover, 140 pages, 127 x 182 mm
Published 2021, Retail Price: € 9,00
Floppy Disk Fever
Editors: Niek Hilkmann and Thomas Walskaar
Authors: Niek Hilkmann, Lori Emerson, Jason Curtis
Design: Thomas Walskaar
The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-86-4
Softcover, 158 pages, 203 x 203 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 18,00
A Cookbook of Invisible Writing
Text, design, illustrations: Amy Suo Wu.
Editing: Clementine Edwards.
Invisible ink colouring book, recipe book, puzzle book and artistic research book. This book also serves as a starter pack to run workshops for those who are interested in alternative forms of communication.
ISBN: 978-94-91677-95-3
Spiral bound, 224 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2020, Retail Price: € 20,00
CriticALL!
Editor: Joanette van der Veer
Design: Studio Bramesfeld
Various authors
(un)professional everyday design criticism. Design criticism for all.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-49-9
Softcover, 104 pages, 112 x 240 mm
Published 2021, Retail Price: € 15,00
Breadcrumb
Eliot Z. Felde, Cristina Ramos (eds.)
Art & Sandwiches
ISBN: 978-94-93148-52-9
Hardback, 188 pages, 160 x 200 mm
Published 2021, Retail Price: € 22,00
Field Essays #5
Editor: Sophie Krier
Authors: Sophie Krier, Rolando Vázquez, Saodat Ismailova
Design: In Edition
Meanderings in worlds of mourning.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-83-3
Softcover, 128 pages, 170 x 235 mm
Published 2021, Retail Price: € 20,00
Re-Assembling Motherhood(s)
By: MATERNAL FANTASIES
Design: dalek
On Radical Care and Collective Art as Feminist Practices.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-57-4
Softcover, 180 pages, 165 x 240 mm
Published 2021, Retail Price: € 20,00
Design in Conservative Times
Editor: Jeanette van der Veer
Design: Studio Bramesfeld
Various authors
Design in Conservative Times tackles conservatism in and around design.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-17-8
Softcover, 104 pages, 112 x 190 mm
Published 2020, Retail Price: € 15,00
Being Imposed Upon
By: publiekeacties (Vesna Faassen & Lukas Verdijk)
Dutch and French language only
ISBN: 978-94-93148-26-0
Softcover, 272 pages, 110 x 180 mm
Published 2020 Retail Price: € 17,00
Empathy Revisited
Editor: Mariana Pestana, Sumitra Upham, Billie Muraben
Design: Macedo Cannatà
Various Authors
This book brings together ideas and projects that seek to define a new role for design based on empathy.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-59-8
Softcover, 408 pages, 165 x 240 mm
Published 2021, Retail Price: € 24,00
Process Music
Text & Design: Kenneth FitzGerald
Songs, stories, and studies of graphic culture. Process Music provides deeper readings and close viewings of graphic design artefacts and activity, and combines academic rigor with the accessibility of popular forms like music journalism.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-77-2
Softcover, 336 pages, 130 x 209 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 18,00
What We Could Have Become
Artist: Malu Blume
Sascia Bailer ed.
Reflections on queer feminist filmmaking
ISBN: 978-94-93148-97-0
Zine, 44 pages, 190 x 250 mm
Published 2021, Retail Price: € 11,00
Photobooks&
Author: Matt Johnston
Editor: Emmanuelle Waeckerlé
Design: Ward Goes and Juul van der Zandt
Discusses key themes of the contemporary photobook – from the medium’s post-digital and post-photographic situation, to the purposes of publishing, issues of accessibility and the act of reading.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-65-9
Softcover, 210 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2021, Retail Price: € 20,00
Shallow Waters
Editor: Bureau LADA
Design: Haller Brun
Various authors
Shallow Waters explores two extreme cases of urbanised shallow water territories – Markermeer/IJsselmeer in the heart of the Netherlands and the Venetian Lagoon.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-69-7
Softcover, 142 pages, 346 x 254 mm
Published 2021, Retail Price: € 17,00
Artist Run Democracy
Author: Jim Ricks
Sustaining a model, 15 years of 126 gallery.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-73-4
Softcover, 224 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2021, Retail Price: € 15,00
Script for a Synthetic Play
Editor: Flora Reznik
Design: Studio Bramesfeld
Various authors and contributors.
On (Un)grounding community and the generative power of fiction.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-72-7
Softcover, 172 pages, 165 x 210 mm
Published 2021, Retail Price: € 17,00
Her Hair
Author: Claudia Pagès
Graphic Design: Priscila Clemente
Claudia Pagès’ writing emerges from the agora and the marketplace, where language is passed back and forth alongside coins and vegetables, jokes and greetings swapped like counterfeit underwear and bags of pork gelatine.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-24-6
Softcover, 196 pages, 115 x 180 mm
Published 2020, Retail Price: € 15,00
Meeting Grounds #4
Editor: Amy Gowen
Various Authors
Meeting Grounds - Reader Four, the Community Garden explores the key functions of community gardens in creating vital social spaces for the city.
Zine, 130 x 175 mm
Published 2021, Retail Price: € 10,00
Entreprecariat
Author: Silvio Larusso
Graphic design: Federico Antonini and Alessio D’Ellena
everyone is an entrepreneur nobody is safe. With a foreword by Geert Lovink and an afterword by Raffaele Alberto Ventura.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-16-1
Softcover, 260 pages, 105 x 170 mm
Published 2019, Retail Price: € 18,00
Art, Engagement, Economy
By: Caroline Woolard
Various contributors
proposes a politics of transparent production in the arts, whereby heated negotiations and mundane budgets are presented alongside documentation of finished gallery installations.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-34-5
Softcover, 568 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2020, Retail Price: € 22,00
A Place to Stay (NL)
Editors: Tessa Blokland, Irene Fortuyn, Shay Raviv
Design: Thijs Verbeek
Various authors
Embedded design in de praktijk / Nederlandse versie
ISBN: 978-94-93148-54-3
Softcover, 136 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2021, Retail Price: € 20,00
A Place to Stay (ENG)
Editors: Tessa Blokland, Irene Fortuyn, Shay Raviv
Design: Thijs Verbeek
Various authors
Practising embedded design / English version.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-53-6
Softcover, 136 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2021, Retail Price: € 20,00
In the Name of <3 – Who claims love?
Author: Charlie-Camille Thomas
Design: Êkhô studio
In the Name of <3 reveals the intricacies and problematics surrounding the heart symbol and explores how technological, political and historical dominance has impacted the development of communication and our access to (online) information today.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-36-9
Softcover, 152 pages, 105 x 148 mm
Published 2020, Retail Price: € 14,00
Echoing Exhibition Views
Edited and introduction by A.R. practice (Ann Richter & Agnieszka Roguski), Texts by Melanie Bühler, Erika Landström, Agnieszka Roguski
Subjectivity in Post-Digital Times. Explores the different medialities and intersubjective shifts that follow the moment of seeing a physical exhibition today.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-23-9
Softcover, 80 pages, 170 x 240 mm
Published 2020, Retail Price: € 14,00
Meeting Grounds
Editor: Amy Gowen
Design: Studio Bramesfeld
Various authors
On Locality, Community, Connection & Care.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-61-1
Softcover, 140 pages, 120 x 170 mm
Published 2021, Retail Price: € 12,00
Rights of Way
Editor: Amy Gowen
Design: Studio Bramesfeld
Various authors
Rights of Way takes our bodily movements as a departure point to cross into the terrains of art, culture, architecture, sociology, literature, and politics, to envision varied forms of witnessing, and apply them to our direct environments.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-70-3
Softcover, 236 pages, 130 x 200 mm
Published 2020, Retail Price: € 15,00
Fiction Practice
Mariana Pestana ed.
Exploring the radical potential of fiction as a tool for social change through speculative design, afro-surrealism, critical fabulations and alternative pedagogies.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-15-4
Softcover, 128 pages, 110 x 180 mm
Published 2019, Retail Price: € 16,00
Detective Elchmanyahu’s auto-da-fe
Editor: Orit Bulgaru and Jonathan Touitou
Authors: Jonathan Touitou
Design: Quentin Gaudry
Detective Elchmanyahu's auto-da-fe follows the bound to fail investigation on the fire that burned a public art collection in southern Tel Aviv.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-63-5
Softcover, 230 pages, 110 x 178 mm
Published 2021, Retail Price: € 17,00
Extra-Curricular
Author: Jacob Lindgren
Extra-curricular is a reader of texts on and around the topic of self-organized learning, curriculum, experiments, and alternatives in graphic design education.
ISBN: 978-94-91677-92-2
Softcover, 328 pages, 152 x 222 mm
Published 2018, Retail Price: € 22,00
Ode to Construction
By Polina Joffe
Ode to Construction explores the intersections of graphic design and art through generative code, gesturing playfully and melancholically towards the foundational legacies of the Suprematist and Constructivist movements of the early 20th century.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-35-2
Softcover, 664 pages, 114 x 118 mm
Published 2021, Retail Price: € 25,00
Copy This Book
Author: Erik Schrijver
This book is an artist’s guide to copyright, written for makers. Both practical and critical, this book will guide you through the concepts underlying copyright and how they apply in your practice.
ISBN: 978-94-91677-93-9
Softcover, 192 pages, 140 x 195 mm
Published 2018, Retail Price: € 17,00
Sounding Things Out
Author: Esther Venrooij
Graphic Design: Arthur Roeloffzen
Sounding Things Out explains what it is like to work as a composer with sound and installation art.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-27-7
Softcover, 144 pages, 110 x 150 mm
Published 2018, Retail Price: € 15,00
The Magic Circle
Author: Jan Tumlir
Graphic Design: Arthur Roeloffzen
On The Beatles, Pop Art, Art-Rock and Records.
ISBN: 979-94-91677-43-4
Softcover, 233 pages, 110 x 150 mm
Published 2015, Retail Price: € 15,00
Liminal Places
Author: Chiara Dorbolo
Design: Anna Maria Fink
OUT OF PRINT Seven Spatial Stories to Return Home.
ISBN: 978-94-93148-75-8
Softcover, 160 pages, 125 x 176 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 17,00
Hollow
Artist: Nina Fránková
Contributors: Amy Gowen, Kris Dittel, Denisa Kollárová, Pedro Moraes and Anne Grøtte Viken
OUT OF PRINT
ISBN: 978-94-93148-71-0
Softcover, 160 pages, 165 x 240 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 17,00
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