Sulfur Archive
A personal library of publications created for those who align with taste-guiding logics and seek depth in their mundane: the passionate, the seekers, the drifters, the devotees of the archive.
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This book follows the 2024 exhibition of 250 posters at the Vancouver Art Gallery: it comprises reproductions of the work and an index, along with essays by Grant Arnold, AA Bronson, Cathy Busby, William Holmes, Gary Dufour.
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Small Architecture / Natural Architecture is a two-volume collection of essays by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma on his life and career.
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Unlicensed contains twenty-one interviews with a range of creative practitioners on the topic of bootlegging.
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Failed Images approaches photography in terms of its divergence from the reality it would claim to show.
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Bill, a magazine without words.
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Essayism is a book about essays and essayists, a study of melancholy and depression, a love letter to belle-lettrists, and an account of the indispensable lifelines of reading and writing.
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Art project that looks like a house but is really a critique of museums and how art is shown and valued.
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Jo Nagasaka of Tokyo-based Schemata Architects works on various projects, from furniture to architecture, and is intent on narrowing the gap between the two aspects of academic and “living” architecture.
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This book is the result of discourse, between Oliver Knight, Rory McGrath (OK-RM) and James Langdon, in London and Berlin. It was made and remade as an idea of itself: versions of it were spoken aloud, thought through, dismissed.
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Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now is a timely visual essay by artist and writer Carmen Winant.
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Cristina Stölhe had the idea of making a giant poster, as big as possible, on which we would dump her images as in the interface of her iPhone.
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In 100 Whites, Hara gives one hundred specific examples of white—such as snow, Iceland, rice, and wax.
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Exploring one of the most influential methods of contemporary cultural production, Self-Organised takes a broad view on the matter.
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On My Mind is many books in one. Each page of text is divided down its center: one side contains the thoughts of clients, colleagues or close friends and the other the response of Nagasaka himself.
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A *New* Program for Graphic Design is a do-it-yourself textbook that synthesizes the pragmatic with the experimental and builds on mid-to late-20th-century pedagogical models to convey advanced principles of contemporary design for a general reader.
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The 333th edition of idea, the legendary Japanese magazine on international graphic art and typography, lent 226 pages to Emil Ruder, showcasing his work, influence, and legacy in the world of typography and beyond.
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F.R. David Winter 2023 / Spring 2024 is a collectively-compiled "Erratum", or addendum [if you will] to the twenty-three issues from 2007 until now.
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Our lives are filled with objects. Everyday things used in everyday settings, they are our constant companions. As such, writes Soetsu Yanagi, they should be made with care and built to last, treated with respect and even affection.