How do you make a book about a period that is behind you? The publication Six impossible things before breakfast is a journey across twenty-five years of Verzameld Werk [Collected Work] and beyond. Verzameld Werk was an open house in the heart of Ghent. A playground for designers and guests, architects and artists. Tailor-made by thinkers and doers. It was founded in 1991, with Ingrid De Coster as one of its founders.

For this book, Ingrid De Coster collaborated with Loes Verstappen and Bas S...

'My Mom Wants to Go Back Home' is a documentary diary by photographer Hanna Hrabarska. Together with her mother Iryna, she fled the war in Ukraine, to find a temporary home in the Netherlands.

'This book is a journey. In the beginning it runs across borders, countries and cities. Later it extends inwards, into a landscape of our thoughts, feelings and emotions.'

Hanna Hrabarska (1986) is a Ukrainian photographer, visual artist, and photojournalist. She holds a Master of Arts in Journalism fr...

Hyperbody is een onderzoeksgroep naar nieuwe wegen voor het ontwerpen en maken van niet-standaard- en interactieve architectuuraan de Faculteit Bouwkunde aan de Technische Universiteit van Delft onder leiding van Prof. Kas Oosterhuis.<br/>Deze publicatie geeft een overzicht van de resultaten van Hyperbody. Na uitgebreid onderzoek naar software- gereedschappen (voor directe interactie en parametrisch ontwerpen) en het toepassen van nieuwe productietechnieken (bestand-naar-fabriek produc...

In celebration of its rich history in the arts and design community, the 350-year-old Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp undertook assembling a five-year overview of its arts research programs. In both text and image, AND/AS reflects on what research in the arts means for the artist, for art education and for the art world. The comfortably sized and well-illustrated book offers at its core visual insight into the strategies, processes and results of artistic research in a variety of disci...

The work of Koen Taselaar is a unique universe in which only he determines the rules. He makes skillful drawings, but also clumsy ceramics and elaborate Tapestries.

Taselaar’s visual language emerged from the grey area in which text is not only meaning but also form. He expresses this in drawn puns, imaginary record sleeves or large psychedelic paintings. In search of ways to process his diverse output, he makes publications and large scale drawings, which function as flat exhibition space...

More than 70 percent of the world’s population will be living in urban areas by 2050. Cities in Africa, Latin America and Asia in particular are growing like never before. Photographer Yvonne Brandwijk and journalist Stephanie Bakker travelled to five of the fastest-growing cities in the world. Not to Mumbai or Shanghai, but to the up-and-coming cultural, creative and economic hubs of tomorrow: Kinshasa, Lima, Yangon, Medellín and Addis Ababa. 


In this book, they share five years of tra...

Bob Custers is architect and founder of VOCUS Architects. In The Joy of Daily Drawing. Bob Custers, he shows a unique and complete development in drawing of 50 years, in which the growth from child to adult architect can be seen. The result is a book of more than 600 pages that contains a wealth of images, texts and insights. The book shows the value of drawing as a means of reflection, introspection and research, but above all contains an inspiring message for young designers and architectur...