Future Book(s)
Sharing Ideas on Books and (Art) Publishing
Editors: Pia Pol, Astrid Vorstermans
Design: Line Arngaard, Wibke Bramesfeld, Isa Grienberger, Elisabeth Klement (met Katla Einarsdóttir), Zuzana Kostelanská, Dymfy van Meel, Victoria Paeva, Laura Pappa, Lotte Lara Schröder and Irene Stracuzzi
June 2023, Valiz | pb | 496 pp. | 24 x 17 cm (h x w) | English/Nederlands (multilingual,
no separate editions) | ISBN 978-94-93246-27-0
The printing has kindly been supported by Wilco Art Books.
In de media:
- Click here to read the piece about Future Book(s) on the website of PAGE (28 October 2023)
- (Only in Dutch) Click here to read the review of Future Book(s) by Katía Truijen in Boekman (#137, Samen Werken, Winter 2023/2024)
- Click here to read the review of Future Book(s) by Formidable Magazine (10 February 2024)
What is the future of the book? And, specifically, what is the future of books on art, design and architecture, and cultural-critical publications? We asked a large number of international interested individuals to respond to this question. Journalists, artists, architects, curators, translators, designers, philosophers, sociologists, teachers, book scholars, publishers, printing houses, distributors, booksellers, historians and art-historians, critics, policymakers, editors, students, and many others have enthusiastically shared their views with us, looking ahead five, twenty or seventy-two years (to the year 2100). At times utopian, wildly fantasizing, at other times with realistic scenarios, in both text and images, exciting for anyone who loves books and/or is involved in books and cultural content. Each section of this publication will be designed by various young designers, to celebrate its scope and diversity.
Themes: Attention, Collaboration, Colour, Conflict, Craft, Creativity, Diversity, Ecology, Generations, History, Humour, Innovation, Interpretation, Oxygen, Politics, Society, Stewardship, Sustainability, Soft Power, Technique, Tempo, Translation, Zest.