TERROIR
Roughly translating to mean ‘a sense of place’ in French, _Terroir _is a bespoke bi-annual magazine that seeks to collaborate with and showcase Singaporean perspectives on travel and what various places meant to them. The most striking thing about the mag is its design and production: each issue is printed on demand using an inkjet printer and 70 gsm newsprint paper before it’s stitch-bound and glued. Graphic designer Benjamin Koh averages around 10 hours to make each copy.
64 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW NOW FOR THEN: HOW TO FACE THE DIGITAL FUTURE WITHOUT FEAR
by Ben Hammersley
Editor-at-large for _Wired _magazine and the Prime Minister’s Ambassador to ‘Tech City’, London’s Silicon Valley, Ben Hammersley gives us the essential guide to the things we need to know for life in the 21st century. “The 64 ideas are all interrelated and are, I believe, changing how we live, work and relate to each other in ways that are completely new. Understanding them is the first and best step to dealing with our collective future. Each of the 64 is an ingredient, which added to another can make something delicious, or potentially very nasty. As we move solidly through the second decade of the 21st century, we do well to pay attention to these forces as they shape our lives.”
MAKER
Celebrating making and creativity, Alyse Archer-Coïté presents her new magaze MAKER a quarterly publication shedding light on the creative mind and spirit, articulating the often unexplored, more personal projects and perspectives of contemporary artists. Artists work in collaboration with MAKER to interpret and shape each issue through their unique points of view. We encourage contributors to utilize pages as a blank canvas examining the creators as a work of art themselves—peeking past the curtain to explore the enigmatic mind and the innovation behind it. We invite art-makers, taste-makers, image-makers, music-makers and love-makers, both emerging and established, to connect with like-minded individuals to achieve and strengthen their vision
THE BOLD ITAL
A quarterly magazine based in San Francisco, _The Bold Italic _shares ideas and items from the heart of the city. Originally conceived by _Gannett’s Design and Innovation _team with IDEO, this large-format publication features a strong emphasis on design and photography with original content and stories by ‘Bold Locals’ who write about their urban discoveries. Beyond a publication, they also curate events that get you behind the scenes with some of the boldest purveyors and merchants in the city. These social gatherings bring people together who share the same interests— or in many cases, obsessions. “This is not a finished product—not by a long shot. In fact, we’re trying new things all the time. We hope you’ll check back often to see The Bold Italic grow.”
OUTPOST JOURNAL
Outpost Journal is an annual, nonprofit print publication on innovative art, design and community action from cities (or cities within cities) that have been traditionally underexposed beyond their local contexts. Each lovingly produced issue of Outpost focuses on illuminating a hyper-local arts ecology via photography, design and creative additions (such as limited edition screen prints and special inserts) that vary by issue, as well as a guide to where to find the best art in town and where to eat and drink while you’re at it. In each issue, we’ll take you on a journey into the creative heart of a place, exposing the various ways in which unique local communities arise through creative collaboration and production. Where you live shouldn’t have to determine whether your work is relevant to an (inter)-national audience. Via features like Secretly Famous, guerrilla engagements with tourist attractions, historical explorations, mapping projects and deep dives into artist collectives and organizations, Outpost plans to do its part to expose less widely known creative culture.”
LIVING IN THE ENDLESS CITY: THE URBAN AGE PROJECT BY THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND DEUTSCHE BANK’S ALFRED HERRHAUSEN SOCIETY
by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic
“This follow-up to Phaidon’s successful _The Endless City _is a close look at the issues that affect cities, and thus human life across the globe in the 21st century. Based on a series of conferences held by the London School of Economics, _Living in the Endless City _examines Mumbai, Sao Paolo and Istanbul through a series of essays by global scholars and thinkers, photographs illustrating key aspects of life in the three cities and compellingly presented analytical data.”
THE OPEN-SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO: TRANSPARENCY, TRUTH, AND TRUST
by Robert David Steele
“_The Open-Source Everything Manifesto _is a distillation of author, strategist, analyst and reformer Robert David Steele’s life’s work: the transition from top-down secret command and control to a world of bottom-up, consensual, collective decision-making as a means to solve the major crises facing our world today. The book is intended to be a catalyst for citizen dialog and deliberation, and for inspiring the continued evolution of a nation in which all citizens realize our shared aspiration of direct democracy—informed participatory democracy. Open-Source Everything is a cultural and philosophical concept that is essential to creating a prosperous world at peace, a world that works for 100% of humanity. The future of intelligence is not secret, not federal and not expensive. It is about transparency, truth and trust among our local to global collective. Only ‘open’ is scalable.”
KERN AND BURN
“_Kern and Burn _is an online and print publication that curates discussions, interviews and essays. We invite design entrepreneurs—those who pursue self-initiated projects, think for themselves and channel personal passions into self-made careers—to share their perspectives. They are designers who dream big and burn the midnight oil to forge their own paths.”
CITY: A GUIDEBOOK FOR THE URBAN AGE
by P.D. Smith
“Today, for the first time in history more than half the population of the planet live in cities. Two hundred years ago, just 3% were city dwellers, but by 2050, 75% will be urbanites. The new book _City _is a guidebook to our urban age, taking the reader on a journey through the past, present and future of the world’s cities. Illustrated throughout and with essays on everything from Ellis Island and Eco-Cities, to Street Food and Tahrir Square, this is a fascinating celebration of our greatest creation—the city.”
DON’T GO BACK TO SCHOOL: A HANDBOOK FOR LEARNING ALMOST ANYTHING
by Kio Stark
Ironically, author Kio Stark is a teacher at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, a graduate program for geeks, hackers and artists. _“Don’t Go Back to School _is a handbook based on over 80 interviews with people who have successfully taught themselves a wide variety of skills and subjects outside of school. Some of them are dropouts, some of them went to college and some even went to grad school, but they all share an obsessive passion for the learning that they do independently. The book shares their secrets and strategies, so that anyone with curiosity and a desire to learn can find out how to do it without heading back to class.”