Essay / Patsy Healey / Kajima Institute Publishing / 2015 / Kayo Murakami (ed.) / Japanese edition / 135 x 195 mm / 368 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-4-306-07318-0 / Japanese edition of an academic thesis written by town planner Patsy Healey. Its small format and a layout characterised by generous page margins allow readers – whether they be town planners or architects – to carry the book with them on their travels in order to jot down their thoughts and discoveries, thereby turning the object into a diary. The legibility of the book’s title is subtly and painstakingly challenged on the cover by means of computer graphics with information from the architectural examples mentioned inside.

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Essay / Sebastià Jovani / Plec 22 / 2019 / Pere Torrell (ed.) / Catalan edition / Paperback with flaps / Digital printing / 105 x 180 mm / 104 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-94426-95-7 /

«After numerous furtive attempts, a highly dangerous conglomerate of media terrorism has succeeding in developing Phylosofar, a synthetic pharmacological substance which, injected, acts as a catalyst for a substance of high noetic concentration: polyscriptylene logos-diethylamide: [Σ(n-1 ΘxC20H25N3O].» Sebastià Jovani (Excerpt from the back cover.)

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Essay / Sara Caldas / Hoaki, Elisava / 2019 / English and Spanish editions / Paperback with flaps / 190 x 250 mm / 184 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-17656-02-7 (english) / The content of this book is divided into two halves, fifty per cent is text and the other fifty per cent are images. In other words, pages designed only to be read alternate from beginning to end with exclusively visual pages, creating a sustained and balanced rhythm halfway between the essay and the visual formats. «Design, Create, Thrill is meant to be used as a tool to create successful emotion-driven design and to help designers to harmonize concepts, thoughts and ideas to touch someone’s heart. The book presents twenty-three principles which […] are grouped into chapters according to the level of emotions that they elicit. The reader will find timeless design pieces from all over the world and from distinct points in time, as well as brief interviews and conversations with some of the mentioned authors». Sara Caldas. (Excerpt from the back cover).

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Essay series / Universitat d’Alacant / 2019 / Enrique Nieto (ed.) / Spanish edition / Paperback / 115 x 200 mm / Colour / “a”: Arquitectura in-dependiente / José Maria Torres Nadal / 264 pages / ISBN: 978-84-9717-667-5; “b”: Algunos objetos de deseo / José Pérez de Lama, Remedios Zafra, Iván López Munuera, Ernesto Castro / / 120 pages / ISBN: 978-84-9717-666-8 / The Denise Scott Brown Collection is conceived as a compilation of heterogeneous academic essays. Chiefly designed as reading books, visually austere and typographically rigorous, the layout of their inner pages is enhanced by blank spaces to encourage footnotes. The poster-cum-dust jacket is at once a fragment that acts as a visual enticement and a separate souvenir.

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