WILD ANIMALS
ROP VAN MIERLO

At first I didn’t like this book, but the more I spent time with it the more I realised that in order to capture spontaneity in such a way you have to make hundreds of illustrations in order to seize the perfect moment. This is not a book about cuteness its about patience.

PRO STRESS
H.HOOGERBRUGGE

The quote on the back: ‘I tried yoga but I find stress less boring’. I love this quote it pretty much sums up what I enjoy. Hoogerbrugge, a Rotterdam artist, knows how to make us aware of our daily habits.

VINEX ATLAS
JELTE BOEIJENGA, JEROEN MENSINK

If you collect atlases then please add this to your collection, I am always curious when Joost Grootens, the designer of this book comes out with a new one, and so far I am never disappointed.

LOVE FOR SALE – THE WORDS AND PICTURES OF BARBARA KRUGER
TEXT BY KATE LINKER

Last year I visited her 1 room show at the Stedelijke Museum in Amsterdam, finally after years of looking at reproductions in books. The scale was unbelievable, I think I was as tall as 1 letter.

KATALOG KAMIENIA

For a show room catalogue, this goes a long way. Every page looks like a painting. What is interesting though is how the book ends – a selection of images of ‘stone in use’ – unfortunately the whole section is black and white which makes it rather hard to distinguish which stone was used for what.

FUKT MAGAZINE FOR DRAWING
EDITOR – BJORN HEGARDT

I found this publication in a small Rotterdam book fair. If you can get a hold of the whole series or subscribe to the coming issues I truly recommend it. The editors have a great eye for selecting work.

THE CHINESE DREAM – A SOCIETY UNDER CONSTRUCTION
NEVILLE MARS, ADRIAN HORNSBY

From Dream, to Plan, to Architecture, to Art, to Nightmare, to Living, to Sleeping you will find everything in this 2000 page book. What you won’t find is a single blank page.

PORTRET + ATELIER
HEIJNIS

Last summer I visited 11 second hand book stores in 11 cities in the Netherlands, it was the best way to motivate myself to discover the Netherlands. I found this book in the city of Leeuwarden. This is the first book I have in my collection that smells! It smells of cigars. Every time I have a look I always have an image of elderly man lounging in his Eames, book on his lap, cigar in one hand and occasionally sprinkling his ashes on the pages he spent to much time on.

ZERO
STEDELIJK MUSEUM AMSTERDAM

Sometimes when you come across a great find there is always another price you have to pay, the book came with the miserable book seller who hadn’t sold a book since 1921, and his over excitement for human contact.

TROUWBOEKJE

I found this wedding certificate in Antwerp, coincidentally the lady mentioned in the book has the same birthday as me, or at least used to.