Whether you’re into the aesthetic or a real deal highballer this incredible new book on bouldering from Gestalten deserves a space making for it on your coffee table…
It’s that marvellous time of year when we stop yapping about cool trainers and massive coats for a bit and tell you about some suitable reading material to…
Having just done a podcast with Brian Cannon (have listen here), a man responsible for some of the most iconic record covers of the late twentieth century I…
If you know someone who appreciates the Asian animated artform better known as Manga then Thames & Hudson have released a book that is right up there neon-lit,…
As Christmas is all about ‘the kids’ and we think that everyone needs to read more here at Proper, we’ve decided to put together a list of tried…
Remember when you were a kid and you’d promise yourself that when you were a grown up you wouldn’t live like your stick in the mud parents. No…
Have you ever wondered where all those takedown images that instagram has got rid of due to deeming them way too dodgy? Yeah me neither, I’d kind of…
How good were posters in the olden days? Instead of nowadays where anyone with a pair of daft glasses and a macbook can knock up an ‘ad’ in…
Does cookery bore you these days? Do you feel like you’ve seen it all from molecular gastronomy to cooking with hay? Well here’s a cook book with a…
What we have here is a book that strikes the perfect balance between education and entertainment or edutainment as I like to call it. In Laurence King’s latest…
As with the award winning subject matter contained within it’s pages, the somewhat ironically original idea behind this book is one of complete genius. Using hashtags and a website address the author…
This magnificent new book from Abrams has even managed to out Wes Anderson Wes Anderson such are the sky high levels of charm, charisma and all round artiness contained…
In today’s world where short attention spans rule, the format used in Yang Lius’ third thought-provoking little book for Taschen is clearly the future. Yang’s graphic skills are…
The aptly titled ‘Pretty Much Everything’ is quite possibly one of the best looking and well put together books that I’ve ever read. Which I suppose is exactly…
You may be familiar with Edvard Munch’s instantly recognisable painting The Scream but did you know that it was inspired by a chronic hangover and a volcano? No…