Award-winning British illustrator Marion Deuchars has returned with a new addition to her popular Let’s Make Some Great Art activity book series. From drawing and painting to collaging and printing, Let’s Make Some Great Art: Animals includes all kinds of art activities to engage budding artists and animal-lovers.

Get creative as you blow-paint your own strange creatures, make handprint animals, or use paper and fingerprints to make greyhounds, giraffes and tigers

The GRAFFITI BIBLE provides a comprehensive knowledge of the basics you should know if you are serious about the can, and explains the most diverse techniques as well as the most important styles.

But this publication can do even more than comparable learning books, because the content is extended by a very interesting facet, offering an insight into the graffiti culture itself through interviews with world famous graffiti writers like BATES, NYCHOS, CHAS, MADC, ASKEW and others.

The Kings & Queens of the scene tell us their story and secrets of how they became the best writers in the world.

In addition, you can study their works from the beginning to their current professional level! The author is Eske Touborg, who has specialized in publishing graffiti literature since 2014 and has already published several smaller titles.

Eske now bundles all his knowledge in this comprehensive guide, which more than deserves the name GRAFFITI BIBLE.

Amen! Measures: 30 x 21 x 3 cm

MOSES & TAPS™ Nine years after their legendary book INTERNATIONAL TOPSPRAYER™, which is out of print long-since and traded for hundreds of euros by now, MOSES & TAPS™ release a brick twice as thick: GRAFFITI AVANTGARDE™ GRAFFITI AVANTGARDE™ is a heavyweight!

With 544 pages, more than 2000 photos in ten chapters as well as a variety of exciting and subtle texts, it gives a deep insight into MOSES & TAPS™ broad work as graffiti artist since 2011.

The book shows how they managed the balancing act between bombing trains and being accepted artists and explains why these two worlds are not mutually exclusive.

The monograph begins with an interview with MOSES & TAPS™ by the criminologist Ike, in which she explores the question of what actually constitutes the graffiti avant-garde, who it is, what goals it has and what it drives.

The TOPSPRAYER™ chapter, in which MOSES & TAPS™ lead us through various stops on trains from Russia to the USA, is followed by the SPLASH™ chapter, in which you learn on which places you can leave colorful traces with spray cans without using a fatcap and letters.

Afterwards the scepter is handed over to ALIAS™, whose professed 1001 trains in 999 days on 176 pages are rounded off by his stories and the action photos of Edward Nightingale.

In SCRATCHITI™ MOSES™ shows why he paints glass panes in order to clean them, how he brings them from the train yards to the museum and back again and we learn why he hates Mickey Mouse.

In the chapter CORPORATE IDENTITY™ Robert Kaltenhäuser then deciphers how all chapters can be connected via MOSES & TAPS™ CI codes, why yellow-blue works better than Banksy and what s behind the TM. In IMAGE OF GRAFFITI™ TAPS™ makes clear, why Graffiti must be illegal and reveals how one can create an image of it on canvases nevertheless. 

While the chapter SCHÖPFERISCHE ZERSTÖRUNG™ („creative destruction“) deals with the complexity of MOSES & TAPS™’ works, which are expressed in collage pieces, the part KONZEPT-VANDALISMUS™ is dedicated to their unique conceptual works on trains – and sometimes also the walls inside.

To round the book off, MOSES & TAPS™ explain and illustrate in two separate chapters their very personal approach of developing their styles.

Estevan Oriol is a Mexican-American photographer who is famous for his black-and-white photos of Los Angeles low-rider and gang culture. Now he has trained his lens on the Japanese youth biker subculture known as “bosozoku”, whose adherents ride Japanese road bikes customised with extravagant paint jobs and modified with often illegal mufflers. Bosozoku motorcycles offer a nod to American chopper culture with a look found only in Japan.
ISBN 9781584237211. Gingko Press . hb. 160 pages, 200 x 255mm, 120 illustrations.
Publication date: August 2021.

Epic Train Journeys compiles the world’s most memorable rail routes, from luxurious locomotives to budget-friendly local rides, into an essential guide. Train travel has always been more than just getting from A to B. It is one of the only modes of transport that allows you to unwind in style, get lost in the breathtaking scenery whizzing outside, and dine on a rolling culinary adventure. A new generation of explorers are on board with the boundless possibilities of rail travel, with many favoring it as a more sustainable alternative to flying.

Train expert Monisha Rajesh presents 50 legendary routes inspired by her extensive voyages. This wondrous journey winds through mountainous terrains, tropical jungles, and occasionally places one wouldn't dare to venture. From local day-trips to cross-country connections that last for days on end, this is a showcase of everything from cheap seats to luxury locomotives. More than just route suggestions, Epic Train Journeys is your ticket to make the most of traveling by train. All aboard!

Format: 22,5 x 29 cm

Features: full color, hardcover, stitch bound, 288 pages

ISBN: 978-3-96704-020-3

Monisha Rajesh is an author and journalist who has worked for the likes of Time, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, and The Guardian. She was also a train travel columnist for The Sunday Telegraph. Her first book, Around India in 80 Trains (2012) was featured in The Independent’s top ten books on India. Her second book, Around the World in 80 Trains (2019) won the National Geographic Travel Book of The Year prize and was shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Award.

Blank State is more than a coloring book: it is an exercise in collaboration, inviting the participant to contribute to the act of creation. Architecture and urban planning impacts our lives dramatically, dictating how we interact with our everyday environments, yet they are largely out of the layperson's control. This book allows everyone to make their mark through the use of color and value. Starting with prehistory and progressing through a re-imagined past, present and future, this book reinvents an architectural legacy, a "blank state" ready to be colored in or not. All that is needed is imagination and a willingness to dream.

A comprehensive history and interpretation of the Street Art movement, featuring all the key practitioners from Banksy to Swoon.

Street Art is a phenomenon and subcultural movement that reaches from the darkest urban backstreets to the most glamorous international art fairs. Simon Armstrong examines how it evolved from its origins in the 1970s New York graffiti scene to embrace many new materials, styles and techniques along the way, tracing how this marginal art form graduated into art galleries and the art market, while also heavily influencing design, fashion, advertising and visual culture.

Despite having earned a place in the canon of 20th-century art history, Street Art’s qualifications are often disputed both by the art establishment and practitioners themselves, all concerned with notions of authenticity. Examining Street Art’s controversial history in detail, this book provides a full-colour worldwide journey, taking in all of the movement’s significant artists and artworks, styles, materials and methods, and showcasing the works that have come to define it more than any other. It also examines its close relationship to Pop Art and Digital Art, and explores possible futures for Street Art.

About the Author
Simon Armstrong is an author, artist, agent, editor and book-buyer for Tate Modern, Tate Britain and Tate Liverpool. He has worked as a DJ, club promoter, Head of Retail at London's Design Museum. He is the author of Cool Art and Cool Architecture.

• ISBN: 9780500294338
• Paperback
• Language: English
• Number Of Pages: 176
• Published: 19th September 2019
• Dimensions (cm): 21.59 x 13.97 x 1.27 cm

Lose yourself in the vast sewer networks that lie beneath the world's great cities - past and present.

Let detailed archival plans, maps and photographs guide you through these subterranean labyrinths - previously accessible only to their builders, engineers and, perhaps, the odd rogue explorer.

This execrable exploration traces the evolution of waste management from the ingenious infra-structures of the ancient world to the seeping cesspits and festering open sewers of the medieval period.

It investigates and celebrates the work of the civil engineers whose pioneering integrated sewer systems brought to a close the devastating cholera epidemics of the mid-19th century and continue to serve a vastly increased

• Author: Stephen Halliday
• ISBN 9780500252352
• Hardcover
• Pages 256
• Dimensions 170 x 240mm