I had great weekend and finally found some time to see Trace Emin exhibition in Hayward Gallery and have some time for nice shopping. One of my new findings is a book Urban knits which is nice collection of playful ideas of using knitting and crocheting. It's seems that fabrics and threads are recently my object of interest but I guess it's because it's my Ma paper subject as well. 
As I got really in to crocheting and I am looking on different books and textile artists. I found those amazing crochet books form Japan they are cute and have great ideas and patterns to work form it looks that they are mostly in Japanese however I'm still tempted to get one of them and try it out. I'm just afraid they might be addictive. They are published by amazing Apple Mint publishing and so far I found they available here and here.
Laurence King book offer is getting better and better and it seems there is a bit competition between them Gestalten and Gingko Press. Cut and Paste a book about contemporary collage seems to be following the subject after Gestalten published Cutting Edge. However Laurence King seems to present little bit more fun publications like The Book of Skulls and The A-Z visual ideas: How to solve any creative problem for those stuck with a project...
There is already preview of new titles coming end of summer to the bookshops Gestalten, which is one of my favorite publishers comes with some exiting new titles. First is Delicate a book all about creative eating and new faces in the food industry showing new projects, places and products, very yummy.... Erratic a book exploring subjects of stabilty, symetry and movment in current work by artists, photographers and designers. The last very playful book with funny and clever images by Sarah Illenberger. And there is one more news about Gestalten they have opened Gestalten Space in Berlin which is a bookshop, concept store, gallery and a platform for artists to collaborate. I'm planning a trip to Berlin so this place will be first on my list.
My reading list is recently getting longer and longer and I think I'll need some holidays to get around all those books I have to read. One of my recent picks is is Alphabet by Roland Topor which is French artists with Polish roots. His work is very surrealistic and contains very specific type of humour. His is not very well known in England however it is some one to look at for sure.
Yesterday in Calgary there was a launch of the book and very nice party with lots of artists and cupcakes. Unfortunately I'm on the other continent and wasn't able to be there but here are pages with my drawings, I'm so happy to finally have this book in my hands. Some more information about book here
One of my favourite book series is Salsa - series of Hispanic books including famous titles like One hundred years of Solitude by Gabriel Gracia Marquez. What I really like about those book is their covers with very simple graphic and bold colors. Something perfect for spring train traveling.
Tomasz Broda is well know to all people from Wroclaw for his playful style and recreating the most famous spots in the city with the everyday objects. He made two books about Wroclaw first published couple of years ago 'Create your Wrocaw', book with a bit of history and famous people and places. Second one is Secrets of The Four Temples District published by Via Nova. This book is a collection of a short stories and information about this very special district in the city. 
