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• MBP Presents: “Vending Machines: Coined Consumerism”

  March 4, 2010

  New York, NY – March 4, 2010 – We’ve all slipped quarters into vending machines for one thing or another: a can of soda, a bag of chips, candy. Vending Machines: Coined Consumerism documents the very devices that supply us with these goods, and oh so many more. Author Christopher D Salyers chronicles the journey [...]

   

• MBP Presents “Hunt & Gather: Discovering New Art”

  January 28, 2010

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
  For more information, contact:
  Adri Cowan
  Public Relations Manager
  +1 347.830.6271
  adri@markbattypublisher.com
  New York, NY – January 28, 2010 – Mark Batty Publisher proudly presents its newest art book, Hunt & Gather: Discovering New Art, by author and London Miles Gallery (UK) curator Tina Ziegler, showcasing a contemporary view of international art featured in galleries and media [...]

   

• “Toy Instruments: Design, Nostalgia, Music” Celebrates the Cacophony of Kitsch

  January 25, 2010

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
  For more information, contact:
  Adri Cowan
  Public Relations Manager
  +1 347.830.6271
  adri@markbattypublisher.com
  New York, NY – January 25, 2010 – The newest release from Mark Batty Publisher, Toy Instruments (http://markbattypublisher.com/books/toy-instruments/), comprises an eye-popping collection of musical toys from around the world made between the 1950s and today. Culled from author Eric Schneider’s personal collection, Toy Instruments is the [...]

   

• MBP Presents “ABCing: Seeing the Alphabet Differently”

  January 7, 2010

  New York, NY – January 7, 2010 – Mark Batty Publisher is pleased to announce a new kind of alphabet book, ABCing: Seeing the Alphabet Differently, a primer to seeing and understanding the visual world. Not your average abecedary, ABCing is a crisp, stylish, colorful board book that will have a permanent home on [...]

   

• Mark Batty Publisher Presents “Textura: Valencia Street Art”

  November 12, 2009

  New York, NY – November 12, 2009 – Valencia, Spain’s third largest city, is a hotbed of vibrant street art, the best of which is featured in Textura: Valencia Street Art. Photographer Luz A. Martín, a native of Valencia, has been wandering the streets of her hometown documenting the artwork that brings the walls, alleyways [...]

   

• “Drawing Autism” Celebrates Artistry & Self-Expression of Individuals with Autism

  October 29, 2009

  New York, NY – October 29, 2009 – Over the last decade autism has become an international topic of conversation. Knowing no racial, ethnic or social barriers, today autism is diagnosed in 1 in every 150 children. Drawing Autism, the newest book from Mark Batty Publisher, celebrates the artistry and self-expression found in the drawings, [...]

   

• The Visual Creativity of Japanese Bento Boxes Returns with “Face Food Recipes”

  October 22, 2009

  New York, NY – October 22, 2009 – Two years ago, Christopher D Salyers’s Face Food brought the curious, cute and infectiously popular phenomenon of charaben, or character bento boxes, into homes across the globe. Face Food Recipes builds upon the success of Face Food with a new collection of charaben that also includes informative [...]

   

• INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE APOCALYPSE: the latest addition to MBP Illustrated Fiction

  October 1, 2009

  New York, NY – September 30, 2009 – Instructions for the Apocalypse fuses a collection of found photographs with the fictional account of one man’s descent into madness. Leaving “instructions” about living through an inevitable apocalypse for his estranged daughter Gareth Gray’s gloss of the last 200 years dissects the industrial military complex, technology and [...]

   

• MBP Presents EDGYCUTE: FROM NEO-POP TO LOW BROW AND BACK AGAIN

  September 30, 2009

  New York, NY – September 28, 2009 – For more than a decade, Harry Saylor, owner of Orbit Gallery, has been an advocate of art ranging from Neo-Pop to Low Brow, having represented the likes of Gary Baseman, Kathie Olivas, Travis Lampe, Angelique Hautkamp and Michael Caines. With this new book Saylor has utilized his [...]

   

• GLITCH: DESIGNING IMPERFECTION Celebrates Technology’s Beautiful Mistakes

  September 21, 2009

  New York, NY – September 17, 2009 – Systems fail, errors happen, computers crash – and in some instances, these gaffes create unusual and brilliant visuals, or “glitches.” A glitch usually fixes itself in the amount of time it takes for it to be noticed in the first place, whether as a scrambled cable television [...]

   

• “The Noir A-Z”: It’s Not Your Kid’s ABCs

  September 9, 2009

  New York, NY – September 9, 2009 – We all remember the whimsical alphabet books of our childhood – and now, photographer Julian Hibbard offers an adult abecedary unlike any other, pairing a captivating word with a photograph for all twenty-six letters in the alphabet. The resulting book evokes a shadowy, sexy and voyeuristic noir [...]

   

• A Positive Spin on Negative Space from World-Renowned Illustrator Noma Bar

  August 20, 2009

  New York, NY – August 20, 2009 – Furthering the partnership begun with the publication of Guess Who?, internationally acclaimed illustrator Noma Bar – recently dubbed by the magazine Varoom as “an illustrator that defines the decade” – has compiled his newest collection of work, Negative Space. Comprising works commissioned by such prestigious [...]

   

• La Carmina Tours Astonishing Japanese Eateries in “Crazy, Wacky Theme Restaurants: Tokyo”

  August 13, 2009

  New York, NY – August 13, 2009 – Even if you’ve been to Tokyo, you’ve never done a restaurant tour like the one endeavored by La Carmina in Mark Batty Publisher’s Crazy, Wacky Theme Restaurants: Tokyo. La Carmina, the mistress of the hugely popular Gothic Lolita website, has traveled all over Tokyo to document insanely [...]

   

• EVERYMAN’S JOYCE: James Joyce for the 21st Century

  August 7, 2009

  Mark Batty Publisher Presents EVERYMAN’S JOYCE: James Joyce for the 21st Century
  Second installment of ‘Everyman’s Series’ illuminates complex works through visual perspectives.
  New York, NY – August 5, 2009 – Through the power of illustration, Mark Batty Publisher’sEveryman’s Series illuminates complex bodies of work by some of the 20th century’s most vital thinkers. W. Terrence [...]

   

• “DIY Album Art: Paper Bags & Office Supplies” Salutes 1990’s Punk & Hardcore Hand-Made Initiative

  July 8, 2009

  New York, NY – July 8, 2009 – In the early 1990s, a fresh, do-it-yourself approach began to percolate through the North American punk and hardcore scenes. The new DIY initiative didn’t stop at self-booking tours and self-releasing records – it involved designing and assembling every physical aspect of the release. Hand-gluing sleeves, silk-screening manila [...]

   

• “Truckers” Reveals the Diesel-Fueled Lives of America’s True Road Warriors

  June 10, 2009

   

  New York, NY – June 10, 2009 – The hard-working, perpetually-mobile truck drivers of America ferry the objects of our consumer cultures across the paved arteries of America: roads. These men and women are the realized human machines of the industrial age, the transporters of our everyday material needs and desires; and as integral parts [...]

   

• “Notations 21″ Sings the Praises of Musical Scores that Double as Instruments of Graphic Creative Expression

  April 13, 2009

  New York, NY, March 31, 2009 —Mark Batty Publisher springs into its new season of distinctive volumes covering the graphic and communication arts with a comprehensive anthology of illustrated musical notation. “Notations 21,” by New York-based musician and musicologist Theresa Sauer, features more than 300 pages of incredibly varied images that show how some composers [...]

   

• From Apple to Zat: “In China, My Name Is,” Pursues a Unique Cultural Development in Modern Chinese Society

  March 5, 2009

  New York, NY, February 25, 2009 — In China, most people regard the giving of a name as one of the most important personal choices one can make in life. But since Chinese words improperly pronounced often have completely different meanings than what is intended, many Chinese select English names that have certain significance for [...]

   

• In “Protest Graffiti Mexico: Oaxaca,” words and photos depict the call for social justice through the visual language of the street

  February 26, 2009

  New York, NY, February 3, 2009 —Shortly after major public unrest and protest violently exploded in the Mexican city of Oaxaca in 2006, journalist and economist Louis E.V. Nevaer and the late photographer Elaine Sendyk began to document the ensuing social protest graffiti movement there for a new book called “Protest Graffiti Mexico: Oaxaca,” from [...]

   

• “Chicken: Low Art, High Calorie” is the latest book from Mark Batty Publisher to identify and explore a sub-genre of commercial design

  February 2, 2009

  New York, NY, January 26, 2009 — After receiving a flyer from a fast food restaurant that featured the suggestion “Dunk Your Dipper,” graphic artist Siâron Hughes had an epiphany: She decided to make a serious cultural examination of the signage, slogans, menus and overall visual elements that distinguish chicken eateries throughout London. The result [...]

   

• “New Skateboard Graphics,” from Mark Batty Publisher, celebrates hundreds of the dramatic concepts and illustrations that distinguish the market today

  New York, NY, January 19, 2009 — With more than 70 brands of skateboards now being manufactured in the United States, and a growing number of hardcore enthusiasts who take very seriously the board designs they prefer to possess, an extensive photographic documentation of the scope of modern skateboard motifs is a welcome idea. Mark [...]

   

• In “Going Postal,” Martha Cooper Puts Her Unique Photographic Stamp on One of Street Art’s Most Distinctive Techniques

  January 29, 2009

  New York, NY, January 5, 2009 — With persistence and admiration, Martha Cooper spent the last few years photographing the work of urban street artists who share ideas, viewpoints and other personal expressions in public using common postal stickers in uncommon ways. Because they are freely accessible in large quantities, postal stickers have long been [...]

   

• “Bay Area Graffiti” is the first book ever to document the vibrant graffiti scene exclusively throughout the San Francisco Bay Area

  New York, NY, December 18, 2008 — Graffiti, an art form that, like many of its practitioners, is often confounding, unappreciated and very colorful, is the topic of an absorbing new book that focuses on the graffiti scene in a region often regarded as being just as colorful: the San Francisco Bay Area.
  Mark Batty Publisher, [...]

   

• “Shapes for Sounds” Explores the Development of the World’s Greatest and Most Important Invention: the Written Alphabet

  New York, NY, September 17, 2008 — Mark Batty Publisher, a leader in distinctive books covering the graphic and communication arts, has released “Shapes for sounds,” a book that examines one of the most fundamental discoveries in human history: the idea that shapes can represent sounds, which is the basis for all of the world’s [...]

   

• In “Decay” Cameras & Lenses Preserve what Time & Nature Destroy

  Mark Batty Publisher, a leader in distinctive books covering the graphic and communication arts, has released “Decay,” an absorbing photographic exploration of the specter and remnants of objects, both manmade and natural, that time has withered away into curiosities, question marks and memories.
  Photographed by two accomplished lensmen, Nathan Troi Anderson and J.K. Putnam, “Decay” uses [...]

   

• Iran: a Place of Complex Emotions, Memories, Ideas—and Hope—as Depicted by Leading Photographers, Writers and Visual Artists

  Mark Batty Publisher, a leader in distinctive books covering the graphic and communication arts, has released an absorbing new volume that probes the complexities of everyday life in contemporary Iran. “Urban Iran,” a selection of slice-of-life essays and images by writers and artists who live, were born, or have returned to the beleaguered yet optimistic [...]

   

• Literary Illusions Get Innovative Graphic Treatment in Mark Batty Publisher’s “The Inner Life of Martin Frost”

  Mark Batty Publisher, a leader in distinctive books covering the graphic and communication arts, has released “The Inner Life of Martin Frost,” an inventive graphic novel that takes an element of Paul Auster’s novel, “The Book of Illusions,” and marries it with artist Glenn Thomas’s distinctive drawings and typography. Merging form with function, function with [...]

   

• Land of the Rising Graffiti Artist: New Book Documents Japan’s Exploding Street Art Scene through Images and Interviews

  August 12, 2008

  New York, NY, August 12, 2008 — Mark Batty Publisher, a leader in distinctive books covering the graphic and communication arts, has released the first book to take readers on such a comprehensive and intimate tour of Japan’s burgeoning graffiti movement. Written and photographed by Remo Camerota, “Graffiti Japan” provides a revealing Japanese perspective on [...]

   

• Urban Guerilla Protest

  July 28, 2008

  New York, NY, June 17, 2008 — Mark Batty Publisher, a leader in distinctive books covering the graphic and communication arts, has announced the publication of “Urban Guerrilla Protest,” an absorbing documentation of the media guerrillas who ruled the urban landscape between 1995-2005. Using an array of methods designed to seize the attention of the [...]

   

• Famous People Recording Awful Albums: Mark Batty Publisher Launches Uproarious New Book on this Noisy, Peculiar Topic

  May 27, 2008

  New York, NY, May 27, 2008 — Mark Batty Publisher, a leader in distinctive books covering the graphic and communication arts, has announced the publication of “Celebrity Vinyl,” a book that reveals the pitfalls of TV stars, sports heroes and other media icons who decided to record music albums of their own. Every album illustrated [...]

   

• Mark Batty Publisher Launches “Arabic Tattoos,” the First Book to Examine the Growing Phenomenon of Arabic Body Art

  May 12, 2008

  New York, NY, May 12, 2008 — Mark Batty Publisher, a leader in distinctive books covering the graphic and communication arts, has announced the publication of “Arabic Tattoos,” an intimate collection of photographs, stories and essays that explores the rise in popularity in the West of Arabic language and Arabic symbol tattoos. “Arabic Tattoos” provides [...]

   

• Travelor’s Advisory

  April 22, 2008

  New York, NY, April 22, 2008 — Mark Batty Publisher, a leader in distinctive books covering the graphic and communication arts, has announced the publication of Traveler’s Advisory, a photo essay that provides readers with tongue-in-cheek advice and humorous asides on the travails of travel.
  Whether heading out on vacation or recalling trips of the past, [...]

   

• Mark Batty Publisher Launches New Book that Gives Fresh Perspectives on the Art of Movie Posters

  April 15, 2008

  New York, NY, April 15, 2008 – Mark Batty Publisher, a leader in distinctive books covering all the graphic and communication arts, has announced the publication of Translating Hollywood by movie poster aficionado, Sam Sarowitz. Culled from the vast collection of Sarowitz’s Posteritati Gallery in New York City, Translating Hollywood examines the creative choices made [...]

   

• A Major New Compilation of Articles on Type and Typography From Mark Batty Publisher

  April 2, 2003

  FROM GUTENBERG TO OUR DIGITAL AGE, type and typography have proven to be seminal communication tools with a reach as wide as language itself. This is evident in Type & Typography, an entertaining collection of 36 articles, presenting a wide spectrum of facets of type and typography. Written by prominent experts in the field in [...]

   

• Mark Batty Publisher announces the publication of: The Well-Made Book: Essays and Lectures by Daniel Berkeley Updike

  October 21, 2002

  West New York, New Jersey, October 21, 2002
  Mark Batty Publisher announces the publication of “The Well-Made Book: Essays and Lectures by Daniel Berkeley Updike”, edited and with an introduction by William S. Peterson. The book is on sale today through Mark Batty Publisher.
  The distinguished printer Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860-1941), proprietor of the Merrymount Press in [...]

   

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