Architecture

After a very successful first edition of the participatory book ‘What is the future of architecture?’ (available in our shop here) we are very happy to announce our decision to do it again and present – ‘What is the future of architecture? II’! The future of architecture is a participatory book...

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The body of the dancer: a fetish object! Although comtemporary dance started to break that wrong notion/understanding of the dancer as ‘the thing to watch for joy’, there are still photos, texts, interviews seeing the dancer as the nymph. The body that glitters, capable of doing the unbelievable; jumps and...

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Crap is Good publications is very proud to announce its newest title! The artist Valentina Karga shares her diaries from her adventures in search of self-sufficiency: What does an urban garden in a European metropolis have to do with a Mars simulation base in the desert in the USA? The...

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Büro NTMY, founded by Soraya Lutangu and Nina Reisinger, strives to use interdisciplinary and unconventional working methods – in particular terms of creative processes and new visual languages with a focus on ­typography. In a previous blogpost NTMY announced an open call for submissions as a contribution to their current exhibition at Gallery Praterstrasse (Berlin)....

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Future Anectodes, is a graphic design studio, originally founded in London by Aslı Altay and Mary Ikoniadou. Since 2011, Aslı Altay has been running the studio, Future Anectodes Istanbul on one of the uphills of Beyoğlu-İstanbul by herself. Altay’s book project, also named as Future Anectodes, is in the Artist’s...

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The first book ever published by crap is good asks off course for a first official book release! Not only will we celebrate the release of our book  ”What is the future of architecture?”, we will also celebrate the new publishing imprint that comes with it! Let’s make it official...

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After many months, and a big collaborative effort, we are very proud to announce the release of our first book! And with it, our very own publishing imprint! “The future of architecture” is an attempt to supply an insight into the question, “What is the future of architecture?”. Every architectural...

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“The future of” is the first participatory book project initiated by crap is good (thats us!) and tries to provide an insight into the future role of architecture. Every architectural attempt starts by making a representation of an imaginative situation or design, which will happen or could happen in the future.  In...

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Last thursday the opening of ‘The animated Gif exhibition’ took place in Antwerp. It was a nice evening with lots of people, short conversations, a band, finger food and drinks, some speeches and a lot of gifs. Crap = Good presented the ‘Animated gif player’, a device, like its name...

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You may remember Broken Dimanche Press from our post a few weeks back. Last Tuesday I went to visit co-founder and associate editor John Holten at  the office of  FUK Lab in Stattbad Berlin-Wedding. FUK is a young graphic design agency operating from the abandoned swimming pool (Stattbad) in Berlin and work in close, symbiotic collaboration with Broken...

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Behind the Zines introduces a cutting-edge selection of international zines and examines their role as a catalyst in the evolution of media and graphic design today. The book presents the broad range of existing zines that combine thought-provoking content with compelling design : from project-oriented portfolios and (pseudo) scientific treatises to...

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Crap is good is organizing a competition + exhibition! Inspired by the idea of the infinite loop of an animated gif. We aim to collect as many GIF’s as possible, all circles, and put them online as well as in a series of exhibitions. To make these exhibitions possible we...

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