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BOOKS ON DESIGN THEORY, AESTHETICS AND HISTORY

PUBLISHER
Spector Books

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Spiralbound, 13.25 x 9.75 in. / 368 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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ISBN 9783959051040 TRADE
List Price: $45.00 CAD $60.00

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SPECTOR BOOKS

Under the Radar

Underground Zines and Self-Publications 1965–1975

Edited by Jan-Frederik Bandel, Annette Gilbert, Tania Prill.

Under the RadarThe mid-1960s witnessed a boom in underground and selfpublished works. Hectographs, mimeographs, and offset printing not only allowed for the production of small, lowcost print runs but also promote a unique aesthetic: using wild mock-ups, messianic amateurs combined typescript aesthetics, handwriting, scribbled drawings, assemblages of collaged visuals, porn photos, snapshots, and comic strips. The typography consciously frees itself, in parallel to a liberalization of linguistic and visual forms of expression in the name of a new sensibility. This book (which appears in conjunction with an exhibition at the Weserburg in Bremen) is the first to present the underground and self-published works that came out of West Germany in such depth, while also showing the internationalcontext in which they emerged: not as an anecdotal history but as an attempt to tap into the aesthetic cosmos of a Do-It-Yourself rebellion, one that also challenges us to take a new look at the current boom in independent publishing, the risograph aesthetic, and so on.

Featured image is reproduced from 'Under the Radar.'

Under the Radar

STATUS: Out of stock

Temporarily out of stock pending additional inventory.

FORTHCOMING AND NEW: DESIGN AND DECORATIVE ARTS

Design Struggles

DESIGN STRUGGLES

Valiz

ISBN: 9789493246522
USD $35.00
| CAD $49

Pub Date: 9/30/2025
Forthcoming


Modern Americanness

MODERN AMERICANNESS

KANT

ISBN: 9788074374401
USD $75.00
| CAD $105

Pub Date: 10/7/2025
Forthcoming


Design and Visual Communication

DESIGN AND VISUAL COMMUNICATION

Inventory Press

ISBN: 9781941753712
USD $32.50
| CAD $45 UK £ 26

Pub Date: 9/30/2025
Forthcoming


Post-Digital Print

POST-DIGITAL PRINT

Set Margins’ publications

ISBN: 9789083499376
USD $28.00
| CAD $38

Pub Date: 6/24/2025
Active | In stock


The Design Comedy: The Descent through Inferno

THE DESIGN COMEDY: THE DESCENT THROUGH INFERNO

Set Margins’ publications

ISBN: 9789083499369
USD $20.00
| CAD $28

Pub Date: 9/30/2025
Forthcoming


The Last Basket Makers from Risa

THE LAST BASKET MAKERS FROM RISA

Set Margins’ publications

ISBN: 9789083499307
USD $25.00
| CAD $35

Pub Date: 9/30/2025
Forthcoming


Ninety-Nine Graphic Design Workshops

NINETY-NINE GRAPHIC DESIGN WORKSHOPS

Set Margins’ publications

ISBN: 9789083499314
USD $30.00
| CAD $42

Pub Date: 9/30/2025
Forthcoming


Visualization as Assemblage

VISUALIZATION AS ASSEMBLAGE

Set Margins’ publications

ISBN: 9789083499383
USD $27.00
| CAD $38

Pub Date: 9/30/2025
Forthcoming


Disarming Design

DISARMING DESIGN

Valiz

ISBN: 9789493246447
USD $32.50
| CAD $45

Pub Date: 11/18/2025
Forthcoming


Designerly Ways of Knowing

DESIGNERLY WAYS OF KNOWING

Set Margins’ publications

ISBN: 9789083449883
USD $18.00
| CAD $27

Pub Date: 2/11/2025
Active | In stock


Splendours of the Atlas

SPLENDOURS OF THE ATLAS

Silvana Editoriale

ISBN: 9788836658930
USD $45.00
| CAD $68

Pub Date: 5/27/2025
Active | In stock


Folds

FOLDS

Walther König, Köln

ISBN: 9783753307329
USD $39.95
| CAD $59.95

Pub Date: 4/15/2025
Active | In stock