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New series of publications: GO Fonts GO (GO) Letterforms Typedesign GO Shapes Gooo G Alphabets O GO Letters Characters Luca Typefaces from students Graphic Design, a typographical research exploring experimental letterforms, digitizing historical revivals and finetuning micro typography. Typedesign as a dialogue between drawing, digital shapes and graphical applications. Guided by Frederik Berlaen, lecturer typedesign within Graphic Design, LUCA School of Arts, Ghent, since 2007. The first seven publications have now been released: 2007-2008: designed by Axelle Hostyn 2008-2009: designed by Sofie Verbert 2009-2010: designed by Lut Van den Heuvel 2010-2011: designed by Kato Van Nerom 2022-2023: designed by Auke Dezeure 2023-2024: designed by Dania Idelbi 2024-2025: designed by Auke, Axelle, Dania, Kato, Lut, Sofie

You want a nine and end up with a six

20p., 210 x 297 mm Concept and design by Michaël Bussaer € 9,00 A 12‑page booklet as a tribute to the upside down use of the apostrophe — a sequence of typographic errors, unbothered by their own wrongness. How language behaves when software applies confidence instead of typographic knowledge. This marks the first in a new series of small, self‑initiated publications Grafische Cel intends to publish.

For Attention, Art in the fold of education

248 p., 120 x 195 mm Edited by Nancy Vansieleghem and Roel Kerkhofs Foreword by Tim Ingold Designed by Cara Haverbeke, Lola Van Roy ISBN 9789492574282 € 25,00

An artistic dance, full of hesitation and small experiments, curious of what emerges in the folds where art and education meet. Today we face challenges that destabilize our experience of living together. In these uncertain times, we seek ways of staying with the trouble. Unexpected overlaps and detours led us to Tim Ingold, whose work offers a vocabulary for attending to the present. This book gathers practices that cultivate attentiveness, creating connections in the fold of art and education. A posture of dwelling and studying-following the rhythms of the world, being affected by its materials, bodies, and forces, and imagining the future anew.

Doppler Effect / Reverse Perspective

176 p., 135 x 210 mm Edited by Sarah M. Whiting (Harvard Graduate School of Design), Wim Goes (Faculty of Architecture, University of Leuven), Ron Witte (Harvard GSD), and Volkmar Mühleis (LUCA School of Arts, Ghent) Designed by Jutta Vandenbussche ISBN 9789492574268 € 20,00

Splash Résidu. A publication by The Mental Masonry Lab

232 p., 170 x 230 mm Edited by Mira Sanders & Cédric Noël Essays by Ive Stevenheydens, Nel Janssens & Wim Goossens Designed by Ella Dejaegher ISBN 9789492574251 € 25,00

Splash Résidu, a captivating publication delving into the fascinating world of residue aesthetics, created by The Mental Masonry Lab (TMML). Since its inception in 2014, TMML has fostered action and reflection in urban contexts, bringing together artists, designers, writers, scientists, and passers-by. At the heart of TMML’s ethos is a deep fascination with residue—a material both symbolic and tangible, existing on the fringes of control. Navigating the threshold between disappearance and manifestation, TMML engages in explorations across streets, museums, and urban landscapes, gathering inspiration for spatial experiments and public encounters. This publication highlights their journey, revealing the creative insights gathered along the way. Splash Résidu transcends boundaries, fostering curiosity and sharing discoveries through drawing, writing, and exhibitions.

Micronarratives and the City. An Annotated Map of Bucharest 168 p., 170 x 240 mm Edited by Alina Cristea, Ileana Marin, Mira Sanders Designed by Fien Vaneenooghe ISBN 9789492574244 € 20,00

This publication maps spatial experiences/wanderings through the city of Bucharest. Through photography, text, drawing, film and mixes of different media, the authors explore the mapping of (micro) situations witnessed in the city of Bucharest. The use of image and text forms a common thread across the contributions of the different authors: Alina Cristea draws from her research and practice Bucharest. The City with One Inhabitant. The City-Me, Mira Sanders brings in the act of drawing to represent/explore ways of spatial experiences, and Ileana Marin examines the creative power of wandering in the city of Bucharest through a selection of Romanian literary works. The publication does not aim to give an exact representation of Bucharest, rather to make side notes of its city-ness and to what extent the authors’ actions reveal (or not) other features of the city, at a given time in this spatial context.

Notes on Bimbos and Bodybuilders 352 p., 148 x 210 mm Dirk Lauwaert Prijs 2021 (Scriptieprijs LUCA School of Arts 2021) Author: Stan Van Rompaey Promotor and final editing: Isolde Vanhee ISBN 9789492574237 € 25,00 SOLD OUT

Inspired by Susan Sontag’s Notes on “Camp”, Stan Van Rompaey attempts to penetrate the very essence of all things “camp”, the manifestations of camp past and present, and the critical appeal she reads in them. The climax of her research is the Post-Sontagian “Camp” Manifesto. The calls in the manifesto are as sincere as they are contrived, as personal as they are political, soaked in the so-called post-irony that the artist embraces as an inevitable condition of her generation. In her manifesto, she calls for a revolutionising of everyday life, the overturning of conventional categories and language systems associated with heteronormativity, the celebration of excess, the elimination of shame and guilt, for a rebellious hyper-awareness too, prompted by the realisation that no form of aesthetics is innocent, nor is its critique.

The Collective Spark. Igniting thinking in groups, teams and the wider world

272 p., 125 x 200 mm Edited by Martin Ringer, Rob Gordon and Bert Vandenbussche Designed by Sam Corijn ISBN 9789492574220 € 29,90 This book shows how to think together with others and to help others to think together with you. The chapters are written from a rich store of knowledge, experience and understanding that illumi-nates the hidden complexities occurring whenever people meet to collaborate, plan, review, innovate, learn, teach, consult or facilitate. From their various professions and work areas, the authors delve beneath the surface of visible interactions to reveal the knowledge and wisdom that exists in intuitive and unconscious processes. The result is a profound and informative book that is engaging, accessible and readable, to inform everyday practice in groups, teams, committees, organizations and communities. With contributions by: Martin Ringer, Rob Gordon, Bert Vandenbussche, Richard Morgan-Jones, András Gelei, Rosealeen Tamaki, Bob Hinshelwood, Susanne Broeng, Barry Jones, Marina Mojovic, Efrat Ginot, Kristina Karlsson.

Acts of Painting 256 p., 170 x 230 mm Edited by Ritsart Gobyn together with Tom Van Imschoot Designed by Stella Schöning ISBN 9789492574213 € 25,00 This book explores various forms of painting in which the act of painting itself is foregrounded. It offers a range of perspectives on how and why such paintings consciously show, reflect upon and sometimes even stage their own making. Every painting is of course the result of a process, but the paintings and texts on painting discussed here make the artistic process itself the centre of attention. Or, at least, they make it tangible. With contributions by Melissa Gordon, Matthieu Ronsse, Melanie Deboutte, Isolde Vanhee, Jenny Brosinski, Rachel Esner, Kees Goudzwaard, Moritz Neuhoff, Franziska Reinbothe, Daniel Jensen, Benedikt Leonhardt, Matthias Weischer, Manor Grunewald, Max Frintrop, Tom Van Imschoot and Ritsart Gobyn.

Apologie van het schrift 2 vols., 200 p. Auteur: Willem Styfhals Grafisch ontwerp: Dear Reader, ISBN 9789492574190 € 25,00

In een tijd waarin digitale tekstverwerkers onze schrijfcultuur volledig bepalen, is het handschrift ten dode opgeschreven. Voor Willem Styfhals is dit het uitgelezen moment om een cultuurfilosofische analyse van het handschrift te ontwikkelen. Apologie van het schrift is een postscript van het met de hand geschreven woord, een lijkrede van een dode letter. Aan de hand van het werk van Belgische dichter-schilder Christian Dotremont, maar ook van de Franse denkers Gaston Bachelard en Roland Barthes, reflecteert dit boek over het wezen van het schrijven. Hoe kunnen we, los van enige romantische nostalgie, het verschil tussen het geschreven en getypte woord bepalen? Hoe bepaalt de materialiteit van het schrift de betekenis van onze teksten? In een poging deze kwesties op te helderen combineert het boek filosofische reflectie met typografisch experiment. Voor het ontwerp van dit boek ontwikkelde grafisch ontwerper Eva Moulaert (Dear Reader,) in samenwerking met letterontwerper Wouter Van Nes een lettertype dat gebaseerd is op haar handschrift.

Artuarium 376 p., 170 x 240 mm Edited by Nancy Vansieleghem & Volkmar Mühleis Designed by Hannah Boogaerts ISBN 9789492574206 € 18,00

The Artuarium presents keywords to reflect on art education today. Every keyword contains a text and/or an image that has been constitutive for the formation of the art school. Some texts unfold critical ideas and questions, some images evoke careful ob-servations, some texts tell stories, others reflect on the reflection.

With contributions by: Giorgio Agamben Aristoteles, Herman Asselberghs, Maïté Baillieul, Joseph Beuys, Augusto Boal, Agnes Bube, Leonardo da Vinci, Serge Daney, Marc De Blieck, Fernand Deligny, John Dewey, Ana Dimke, Mattijs Driesen, Marguerite Duras, Jerzy Grotowski, Boris Groys, Kerstin Hallmann, Lisa Jevbratt, Allan Kaprow, Paul Klee, Eva Koethen, Wiebe Koopal, Julie Lesenne, Tyson E. Lewis, Audre Lorde, Pierangelo Maset, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Volkmar Mühleis, Ludwig Münz, Kakuzo Okakura, Jacques Rancière, Adrienne Rich, Andrea Sabisch, Ousmane Sembene, Richard Serra, Michel Serres, Friedrich Schiller, Susan Sontag, Nancy Vansieleghem, Ella Ziegler.

School of Equals 240 p., 150 x 220 mm Edited by Stijn Van Dorpe and Sarah Késenne Designed by Emmely Comhaire & Septian Priyatna ISBN 9789492574183 € 15,00

The publication School of Equals collects a series of reflective texts, instructions, notes, testimonies and slam poetry reflecting the mechanisms at art schools that give rise to exclusion and inequality. A great deal of attention goes to the decolonising and intersectional feminisms that are questioning the status quo of arts education at the institutional level. The publication exposes in that sense situations of discord in relation to the art academy -which is often considered a neutral place- and wants to intervene in essentialist approaches of identity and difference. Through a variety of personal and peripheral writing practices, the interdisciplinary writing was approached as a critical strategy intervening in the homogenisation and objectification of debates on these issues. Authors that didn’t follow official or formal arts education, or texts that can not simply be placed into recognisable critical frameworks, were thus considered as significant. The publication can be viewed as an attempt to place critical and emancipatory approaches in arts education higher on the agenda.

Goodbye to Morrissey. An Essay on Art and Morals – Volkmar Mühleis

192 p., 120 x 195 mm Author: Volkmar Mühleis Graphic design: Marie De Keersmaecker ISBN 9789492574152 € 15,00 SOLD OUT

Goodbye to Morrissey is a case study about what it means in Pop culture to place trust in someone, to be their fan. As such, it deals on the surface with the political and ethical conflict exemplified by the swing of the singer Morrissey to the radical right. On a deeper level, it treats the fundamental questions accompanying Morrissey’s shift: the relationship between art and morality, idol and idolizer, critique and myth. Superficiality and profundity – Pop and philosophy – illuminate each other in one provocative essay.

Bioscopic Books 144 p., 118 x 205 mm Authors: Tine Guns, Inge Ketelers, Isolde Vanhee Graphic design: Septian Priyatna

Catalogue on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Bioscopic Books’, from 24 April till 6 June 2021 at Kunsthal Gent.

Films have always had an eye on books, but books have been staring right back at them, fascinated by the modern flair, the power and the light of cinema. The ‘Bioscopic Books' exhibition brings together artist's books from past and present that relate implicitly or explicitly to the medium of film. It is no coincidence that the artist's book emancipated itself as an autonomous art object shortly after the emergence of cinema. Whereas painting and photography envied film for its moving images and narrative power, the artist’s book fully embraced its cinematic potential, experimenting with new possibilities to generate form and meaning sequentially, not only in words, but also and especially through images. In turn, filmmakers discovered that various combinations of images and complex camera movements are possible on and between the pages of a book. In Kunsthal Gent, over 60 books are exhibited that have been carefully selected by several experts on photobooks and artist’s books. Moreover, three new artist’s books have been created especially for the exhibition by Tine Guns, Sophie Nys and Nicolas Provost. These three books are presented alongside three films from the same artists to wrap up the dialogue between books and films.

Concept and realization exhibition: Tine Guns, Inge Ketelers & Isolde Vanhee

Alas – Sophie Nys

208 p., 195 x 165 mm ISBN 9789492574145 € 18,00

This publication is realized upon invitation by Tine Guns within the research project Bioscopic Books. Artist’s Books As Seen Through the Cinema Eye and made possible by the support of LUCA School of Arts and the research group Image.

Infinite thanks goes to Peter de Voogd, the collector and owner of the illustrious library from which all the images in this publication originate. Without his generosity, hands and knowledge it would have been unthinkable to compile this remarkable collection of black pages, all captured from more than hundred different editions of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne.

Clementine – Clementine Hoens 288 p., 240 x 300 mm Dirk Lauwaert Prijs 2019 (Scriptieprijs LUCA School of Arts 2019) Auteur: Clementine Hoens Promotor en eindredactie: Tom Van Imschoot ISBN 9789492574138 € 28,00 Deze publicatie is gerealiseerd door de Grafische Cel naar aanleiding van de LUCA School of Arts Scriptieprijs Dirk Lauwaert. Het lijvige boek is het werk waarmee Clementine Hoens afstudeerde aan de opleiding Grafisch Ontwerp; onder begeleiding van de promotoren Randoald Sabbe en Peter Van de Cotte. Scriptiepromotor, redactie en eindredactie: Tom Van Imschoot. De realisatie van het boek werd mogelijk gemaakt door de financiële steun van vele schenkers en LUCA School of Arts.

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