Hassla Books is an independent publishing company with a focus on art and photography. They specialize in publishing small, low-run artist books that feature the work of both emerging and established artists, always working one-on-one with the artists to create a publication that evokes the very essence of the artist’s focus. This intimate process, coupled with Hassla’s simple aesthetic, allows for an interior view into the artist’s work.

Hassla Books are now available through Textfield Distribution or contact your local bookshop.

Textfield, Inc. is an independent publisher and distributor of art books, catalogues, editions, monographs and periodicals. We specialize in the distribution of quality publications from publishers in North America and Europe, to libraries, book shops, galleries and museums.

Publishers: 032c, Capricious, Christoph Keller Editions, David Kordansky Gallery, I-20 Gallery, Laura Bartlett Gallery, Nieves, Onestar Press, Peres Projects, Slavs and Tatars, Textfield, Vier5, and Wallspace.

Photography by Michael Wells. View all images here.

Municipal de Fútbol is a collaborative Edition about amateur soccer in Los Angeles — the everyday experience of playing in pick-up games, weekend and night park leagues. The Edition includes two books, one poster, nine artist lithographs and a fútbol jersey. Jennifer Doyle (Frieze) has contributed two essays to the books, both with Spanish translation. Edition design by Jonathan Maghen, with Photography by Michael Wells. Municipal de Fútbol is co-published by Christoph Keller Editions (DE) and Textfield (US), and Distributed by D.A.P. (www.dapinc.com).

Photography by Michael Wells. View all images here.

Municipal de Fútbol is a collaborative Edition about amateur soccer in Los Angeles — the everyday experience of playing in pick-up games, weekend and night park leagues. The Edition includes two books, one poster, nine artist lithographs and a fútbol jersey. Jennifer Doyle (Frieze) has contributed two essays to the books, both with Spanish translation. Edition design by Jonathan Maghen, with Photography by Michael Wells. Municipal de Fútbol is co-published by Christoph Keller Editions (DE) and Textfield (US), and Distributed by D.A.P. (www.dapinc.com).

Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2006)

Fever Pitch, article on ‘art about football’ by Jennifer Doyle, published in Issue 116 June — August 2008 of Frieze. Brilliant.

borrowed from South Willard

TATE ETC., beautifully designed by Cornel Windlin.

Samuel Nyholm
SANY-MIX IIX (Wrong Joke) 2007
Ink and gouache on paper, 49.5 × 35cm

Slavs & Tatars, World Tour 2002–2003 Archive, available at Stand Up Comedy.

Slavs & Tatars is the collaboration between Kasia Korczak and Payam Sharifi. Equal parts artist project and publishing concern, its goal is to explore the mutual and multicultural influences of ancient and contemporary Eurasia.

This reader in Whitechapel’s Documents of Contemporary Art series investigates the interchange between art and design. Since the the Pop and Minimalist eras–as the work of artists ranging from Andy Warhol to Dan Graham demonstrates — the traditional boundaries between art and architectural, graphic, and product design have dissolved in critically significant ways. Design and Art traces the rise of the “design-art” phenomenon through the writings of critics and practitioners active in both fields.

Edited by Alex Coles
With contributions by David Bourdon, Peter Cook/Archigram, Douglas Coupland, Kees Dorst, Charles Eames, Experimental Jetset, Vilêm Flusser, Hal Foster, Liam Gillick, Dan Graham, Clement Greenberg, Richard Hamilton, Donald Judd, Frederick Kiesler, Miwon Kwon, Maria Lind, M/M, N55, George L. Nelson, Lucy Orta, Jorge Pardo, Norman Potter, Rick Poynor, Paul Rand, Tobias Rehberger, Ed Ruscha, Joe Scanlan, Mary Anne Staniszewski, Superflex, Manfredo Tafuri, Rikrit Tiravanija, Paul Virilio, Joep van Lieshout, Andy Warhol, Benjamin Weil, Mark Wigley and Andrea Zittel

Thank you Tiffany!

After several weeks of preparation with Harsh and 9 straight days of intense/hard work by our students at CalArts (and our Teachers Assistant Diego), we are finished with Practicum! For our Practicum (Textfield Workshop), we had the students make their own book/mag/zine. In order to make a magazine in such a short period, Harsh and I selected 2 formats for them to work with, developed a Content Library and a limited Type Library. Students paired themselves into groups of 2 — each group was responsible for selecting a topic and compiling, editing and laying out their own 16-page Signature (112 pages total). We couldn’t have been more excited with the results.

Special thanks goes to our Teachers Assistant Diego Padilla, who went above and beyond to make sure the students kept on top of their work and contributed so much to the critiques, really outstanding — Also Stacey Hauge Printing in Valencia, who did an amazing job of folding, trimming and binding our Project. Dennis (owner), Bryan and their staff, spent over 3 hours working closely with us and (unexpectedly) did our job Pro Bono — we cannot thank you enough for your time, experience and generosity.

Dennis has 8 adopted German Shepherds — please visit the German Shepherd Rescue website for more information.

Textfield Publication Workshop
24 January — 1 February 2008
Instructors Jonathan Maghen and Harsh Patel

There is something for everyone here: Bibliobit.

One of my favorite Banknotes.

Profile of Tony Wilson (RIP) on C4 TV in 1984.

Personal Blog of Toru Adachi, Bookendless. Mr. Adachi is the Editor of the books Moriyama, Shinjuku, Aaraki and Unlimited: Comme des Garçons for the Japanese Publisher (Heibonsha LTD).

Opening december 15th: 7up, a selection of the Royal Academy of Arts 2007 graduates, seven artists handpicked by museum director Wim van Krimpen.

With work by

Lilian Kreutzberger / Paintings & drawings
Wieteke Heldens / Installations
Rosa Boekhorst / Drawings
Niels Broszat / Paintings
Isabella Rozendaal / Photography
Helgi Kristinsson / Sound installation
Sooreh Hera / Photography

Exhibition at Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
Stadhouderslaan 41 / Den Haag
Opening exhibition / Saturday Dec 15th ‘07 / entry with invitation only
Exhibition Dec 16 ‘07 - Feb 3 ‘08 / Tuesday - Sunday 11:00 - 17:00

Also, the book launch of Isabella Rozendaal’s “On Loving Animals” published by Veenman publishers.

A new blog by the people of One Star Press: After Art News

AAPA

Updates

We are proud to announce the newest Patrón of our Fútbol Club — Stählemühle. Founded by Christoph Keller and Christiane Schoeller, Stählemühle produces the finest distillates from regional fruits and international fruit specialties. Christoph Keller is also currently curating a series artist books, Christoph Keller Editions, published by JRP|Ringier.

Nice book and music catalog at Post Poetics, located in Seoul. Thanks Sun.

Forms of Inquiry exhibition opens today at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. Forms of Inquiry presents architecture as seen through the practice of graphic design. The exhibition highlights work by 20 contemporary international graphic designers who were asked to contribute ‘inquiries’ into architectural subjects. These self-propelled inquiries have been developed into a myriad of media and forms. The works exhibit a common desire to reframe the circumstances surrounding graphic design practise at the start of the 21st century.

A Reading Room situated in the Front Members’ Room will make visible the process of debate and exchange. This open library is guest-curated by eight publishers/designers who will contribute a selection of independent scholarly publications, books and zines, both new and historical, exemplifying graphically driven modes of inquiry from around the world.

Great article in the New York Times on the 2nd annual NY Art Book Fair. Several of our Publishers (Nieves, Passenger Books and Peres Projects) participated and said it was great. We’ll be participating next year!

Once again, Jacob Holdt’s still very important Book, American Pictures, recently republished by Steidl, under the title United States 1970–1975 with excellent reproductions, but (unfortunately) without the original accompanying texts.

Wesley Willis North Lake Shore Drive Catalogue, Published by Nieves.

New issue of Fairy Tale, Picture Book.

The best Publisher for books on Typography, Hyphen Press (with a new site)…