Discover Critically Hot Books with Onomatopee Projects

Inspired by a DIY-attitude and hunger for critical elevation, Onomatopee Projects discusses and mediates a habitual visual sanctuary of pop culture, power, and other environments of visual consciousnesses. Each project, consisting of a boundary-pushing public program and an elevating publication, uses exceptional cultural attention as a source of wonder and knowledge that identifies a current experience of (visual) culture.

Onomatopee’s award-winning publications and experimental exhibitions are known for their technically smart, well-balanced design and editing. By assembling surprising teams of artists, designers, academic thinkers, creative writers, architects, exhibition designers, graphic designers, and more, the exhibitions’ curatorial formats challenge contemporary topics in unconventional ways.

Having the attitude of an independent project-space at its core, critical and engaged production is inherent to the program. At times more activist, it was only recently that Onomatopee opened up the regime of the capitalist high street through a range of interventions, discussions, and theorization and explored contradictions and oppositions by reflecting upon gender issues, contemporary girlhood, and object-subject relations. The organization also follows issues of the contemporary by both hosting and initiating projects. Most recent threads included experimental pedagogy and expanded fashion practice.

Onomatopee’s best-sellers include:

• Copy This Book: An Artist’s Guide to Copyright
• Post-Digital Print: The Mutation of Publishing Since 1894
• Extra-Curricular: On and around the topic of self-organized learning, curriculum, experiments, and alternatives in graphic design education
• Can You Feel it? Effectuating Tactility and Print in the Contemporary
• Modes of Criticism: Design and Democracy

Onomatopee publications are available in the US at artbook.com/onomatopee or at your local indy or museum bookstore.

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