Design for Today winter spring list 2017-18

DESIGN FOR TODAY Winter & Spring list 2017-18

DESIGN FOR TODAY Winter & Spring 2017-18

Welcome Welcome to the new catalogue from Design For Today. It’s now two years since our launch and with new books to showcase, and more to follow, we’re having fun! This Summer saw a special book from Jonny Hannah, The Captain’s Alphabet, and I’m thrilled to be able to re-print Quiz, a little gem from Enid Marx, first published in 1942.

We are proud to print in Britain and most of our books are printed in East London using spot lithography, a craft based process where the artist has complete control. Our editions are small, bridging the gap between artist’s editions and mass market books, and we are so grateful to all our stockists and to those who support our publications and keep encouraging small publishers like ourselves.

A boy grows.

As Time Passes ...

by Madalena Matoso & Isabel Minhós Mar tins As Time Passes .... boys grow, carpets fade, tracks become roads, words change, shadows move ... but some things remain forever.

This thoughtful, and wonderfully illustrated book is the first English language translation of Isabel Minhós Martins’ exploration of the passing of time. As Time Passes we change, our environment changes and our understanding of time itself, seasons, years and decades, develops too. Here it is explored sensitively and humourously through Madalena Matoso’s stunning illustrations.

A book for all ages.

44pp 200mm x 225mm hardback ISBN: 978-0-9932866-5-0 £12.95

The Print Shop is a celebration of 40 Years of Calverts, the Printers Co-op based in the heart of East London’s Bethnal Green.

It illustrates the story of a book as it progresses from scribble, to dummy, to selecting fonts, paper size, bindings, colour and then printing and finishing. Each panel of the concertina is printed using a different print and finishing process. Some panels will be die-cut, others embossed or blocked and there will be little inserts too. A mini risobook, tipped in paper samples ... and more!

by Alice Pattullo

Concertina 115mm x 1320mm ISBN 978-1-912066-68-1 £10

Jonny Hannah is one of the most influential illustrators of his generation and The Captain’s Alphabet celebrates Jonny’s fascination with the sea and it’s folklore. The book is lithographed in 5 spot colours on Munchen paper with an additional book Southward Ho! included in a pocket at the rear. It is available in a standard edition of 850 copies and quarter bound in blue cloth. There is also a Special Edition of 100 signed and numbered copies, complete with an additional screen print on 4mm plywood, all housed in a cloth bound slipcase.

ISBN 978-1-912066-72-8

64pp, 210 x 210mm.

standard edition ÂŁ25 special edition, ÂŁ75 published in July 2017.

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STOREYS

by Esther Cox

A game of Architectural Consequences

24pp (card covers) 120mm x 225mm ISBN: 978-0-9932866-4-3 cello bagged £11.95

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STOREYS is designed and illustrated by Esther Cox, a textile designer living and working in Brighton.

It is a book designed to be cut out to form three storeys, in the tradition of those ‘Heads, Legs & Bodies parlour games much loved by the Surrealists and children everywhere.

The book is a playful adventure of pattern and architecture inspired by the journey of the Modernist movement in 20th Century British architecture as well as the textures and designs of John Piper.

Open the book, cut and flip the sections to create your own modernist facades!

Esther’s work has recently been featured in a pair of posters for London Transport.

scan the QR code and you will see an illustrated guide to the buildings and architects within 3 STOREYS

A Little Book of Things to Be by Alice Pattullo

100mm x 700mm cello bagged ISBN 978-1-912066-69-8 ÂŁ4.00

An exquisite mini concertina of just 10cms in hight by 70cms long. It’s a midcentury careers guide, a collection of trades and figures to delight and amuse.

Lithographed in 4 spot colours by Alice Pattullo at Calverts, East London. The perfect little gift.

The 1940’s Bantam Picture Books The

Bantam Picture Books were pub lished during the darkest days of WW2, at a tim e of paper sho and rationing. rtages However, despite , perhaps even defiance of circ in umstances, the quality of war tim illustration blo e book ssomed. This was never more evid than in The Ban ent tams which are recognised tod amongst the fine ay as st examples of 1940s autolithog children’s boo raphed ks. They were the brainchild Carring ton wh of No el o commissioned the cream of the available illustrat ors for these littl e books. They printed on thin were paper, roughly stapled, and few sur vived, but the have ir quality shines.

Hilary Stebbing’s

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limited edition of 850 copies DE SIG N FO R TO DAY Published by DE SIG N FO R TO DAY

T WO BANTA M PICTURE BOO KS

ISBN 978 -0-9932 866 -7-4

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Hilary Stebbing’s Bantam Picture Books The Bantam Picture Books were published during the darkest days of WW2, at a time of paper shortages and rationing. However, despite, perhaps even in defiance of circumstances, the quality of wartime book illustration blossomed. The two Bantam Picture Books illustrated by Hilary Stebbing are amongst the finest of the series and we are delighted to be re-publishing these gems of mid-century illustration in a limited edition of just 850 numbered copies.

2 Bantams 107 x 142mm with additional folder ISBN 978-0-9932866-7-4 £10.00

VISA AND Visa and Solo is a folding book from Design For Today. It is designed, and hand screen-printed in four colours by Otto Graphic from his studio in Bath, in a limited edition of 500 copies.

Otto’s work takes its inspiration from mid-century Polish poster art and Russian Constructivist designs, known for their montage of photos, type, and bold, printed design elements. There are also echoes of the infographics pioneered by Gerd Arnst and the mid 1940s Isotype Institute children’s books of Marie Neurath.

Otto experiments with new designs and pushes the boundaries of visual language. In Visa and Solo Otto offers a witty socio-political commentary on the perils, and temptations, of modern day shopping.

‘Buy Now, Pay Later’, ‘Buy One, Get One Free’, ‘Earn Bonus Points’ The familiar supermarket slogans are set alongside bold bright, constructivist graphics as figures hurry to shop.

This is a modernist picture book for adults, although of course can be read by children. It has 24 panels, printed double-sided onto card, and then hand assembled, cut and folded into a square book that can be ‘read’ in a variety of foldings and pairings of images and text.

D SOLO

by Otto Graphic

32 panels 135mm x 135mm ISBN 978-0-9932866-1-2 cello bagged ÂŁ14.95

a limited edition of 500 copies

UP MY STREET

by Louise Lockhar t

Up My Street is a 10 panel, double-sided concertina printed in East London by spot lithography.

It is designed by Louise Lockhart and is a tribute to those independent, quirky shops of our High Street. It’s also a modern twist on Eric Ravilious’ 1938 High Street and the 1930s lithographed Pere Castor books. On one side are the shop fronts whilst on the reverse are the shopkeepers busy behind their counters.

1.39 metres long!

139cm x 23.5cm ISBN 978-0-9932866-0-5 cello bagged £14.95

Heads, Bodies & Legs

by Alice Pattullo

Heads, Bodies & Legs is based on the centuries old parlour-game of consequences. Three or more players play the game, each drawing a section of a body, then concealing their contribution before passing the drawing on. The Surrealists adopted the game, renaming it ‘Exquisite Corpses’, enjoying the surreal possibilities and unexpected consequences.

This contemporary version is illustrated

by Alice Pattullo, and printed by spot lithography. The book arrives uncut, allowing the owner the choice of having fun with the scissors, or simply to enjoy the mid-century inspired illustrations.

32pp (card covers) 105mm x 240mm ISBN 978-0-9932866-3-6 cello bagged £11.95

We are thrilled to be re-publishing Quiz, by Enid Marx. It is by far the scarcest of her wartime lithographed books, mainly because of it’s small size and ephemeral quality.

This reissue is spot lithographed in East London, as was the original, and comes with the little envelope so it can be posted off much in the same way as the Quiz of 1942.

40mm x 95mm with accompanying envelope cello bagged ISBN 978-1-912066-70-4 ÂŁ5.00

ILLUSTRATED CARDS Six Views of Bloomsbur y

by Alice Pattullo Alice’s Bloomsbury Souvenir is now completely sold out so we have issued this set of six Views of Bloomsbury, taken from the panels of the original concertina and now available as a pack of postcards.

150mm x 100mm 6 cards cello bagged £3.50

Up My Street cards by Louise Lockhar t

210mm x 150mm with envelope cello bagged £2..95 each, set of 4 £10.00

By Alex Barrow Published Spring 2018

Alex Barrow is illustrating a book very close to his heart, a ‘squeeze-book’ of illustrated accordion music from around the world.

It will be in accordion format and the special edition will feature die cut plywood accordion endpapers!

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WALL of STUFF

by LIZ LOVELESS

24pp 210mm x 195mm ISBN: 978-0-9932866-6-7 hardback £14.95

A sad and lonely man who begins to collect ‘stuff ’ that just might come in handy finds himself slowly trapped and isolated by his possessions.

Fortunately, his faithful dog comes to the rescue, burrowing through piles of obsolete TVs, newspapers and baggage to find his master.

A tale of hoarding and the redemptive power of mans’ best friend.

Liz Loveless is an established illustrator and author of children’s books and runs The Factory Press from her Hackney studio. Liz’s multi-media work incorporates found objects and her drawings.

Limited edition of 950 copies including 150 signed specials with an additional signed and numbered print

Books in Preparation Mark Wilkinson A Countryside Alphabet Mark is currently working on a project for Design For Today, a lino-cut alphabet. Aside from featuring the animals, flora and fauna there will be some unusual plates too! Published in 2018.

Jill McDonald & The Puffin Post

by Sherief Hassan 2017 is the 50th Anniversary of the Puffin Club.

Founded by Kaye Webb, with Jill McDonald as the in-house illustrator, the Puffin Club, and it’s magazine The Puffin Post, did more to bring quality reading to children than almost any other initiative.

This is the first illustrated history and tribute to Jill McDonald and the Puffin Club. 256pp. Published in 2018

The study of Noel Carrington’s life in publishing and Design. This explores his career from the days at the OUP to Country Life, Penguin and his own publishing.

Set in context with an overview of his Design propaganda and the artists he commissioned.

256pp. Published 2018

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OUT OF PRINT Brick House

by Alice Pattullo A Bloomsbury Souvenir

by Alice Pattullo

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