In conjunction with Italian Press Skira Editore and Rizzoli Books, Installation previews some of their finest and most beautifully designed picks for this week’s Collect, ranging from the Design and Applied Arts to Photography and Fashion.   Adam Silverman Ceramics Foreword by Shepard Fairey, Texts by Lisa Gabrielle Mark, Brooke Hodge, Julie Lazar, and Kulapat Yantrasast This debut edition […]

Installation previews TASCHEN’S fall collection and selects seven wondrous books that we would like to add to our own personal libraries.  Explore the titles of artists, photographers, architects and luminaries and lose yourself inside the creative minds of Fritz Kahn, Oliver Byrne, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Zaha Hadid, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin and Peter Beard.       […]

Jeremy August Haik, artist and contributing editor at Conveyor Magazine, explores the impression that books have on our personal environments.   Installation Magazine: Describe your journey towards becoming an artist. Jeremy August Haik: I was actually in a media studies program as an undergraduate and was working with a photojournalist.  His agency had started to retrofit […]

In the Black Book series, Manny Prieres investigates books that bind American culture.  The pillars of literature often have a controversial history: banned, burned and reviled, these titles become even more appealing once they are marked as taboo.  What does mainstream culture want to hide? Prieres’s renderings are deceptively simple conveyed in various shades of black. […]

Purveyor of rare books and artworks, LEADAPRON is the destination to uncover titles culture vultures crave and likely never knew existed.  Owner Jonathan Brown shares some of the gems in his collection with Installation Magazine. All images © of LEADAPRON