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👀📕 Love the cover of this Yayoi Kusama book. ‘Infinite Present’ is a tribute to her original and unique art, focusing on...
28/01/2025

👀📕 Love the cover of this Yayoi Kusama book. ‘Infinite Present’ is a tribute to her original and unique art, focusing on Fireflies on the Water one of her most iconic Infinity Mirror Rooms.

Down to the last two copies of ‘Creative Selection’. Find it in our Theory book section.
28/01/2025

Down to the last two copies of ‘Creative Selection’.

Find it in our Theory book section.

👀Love this shot from of their CP delivery 📩.
27/01/2025

👀Love this shot from of their CP delivery 📩.

Love the end colourful end-blocking of ‘Circle! Square! Progress!: Zurich’s Concrete Avant-garde’. Find it in our ‘Art’...
26/01/2025

Love the end colourful end-blocking of ‘Circle! Square! Progress!: Zurich’s Concrete Avant-garde’.

Find it in our ‘Art’ book section.

‘A New Program for Graphic Design’ is the first communication-design textbook expressly of and for the 21st century. Thr...
26/01/2025

‘A New Program for Graphic Design’ is the first communication-design textbook expressly of and for the 21st century. Three courses – Typography, Gestalt and Interface – provide the foundation of this book.

Find it in our Graphic Design section.

Just found one copy of ‘No Magic in Riso’ while tidying the studio! This title is currently out of print. Find it in our...
24/01/2025

Just found one copy of ‘No Magic in Riso’ while tidying the studio! This title is currently out of print.

Find it in our Graphic Design section.

‘Digital Art: 1960s–Now’ is a new history of digital art from the 1960s to the present day, with decade-by-decade essays...
24/01/2025

‘Digital Art: 1960s–Now’ is a new history of digital art from the 1960s to the present day, with decade-by-decade essays exploring evolving digital art practices, alongside interviews with artists, gallerists, museum curators and collectors.

Pick up a copy in our Art Books section or tap to purchase. Book design by Ku**er & Herrman.

Tracked down two copies of ‘1,000 Marks: by Pentagram’ which can be found in our Graphic Design section.
22/01/2025

Tracked down two copies of ‘1,000 Marks: by Pentagram’ which can be found in our Graphic Design section.

New stamp / New thank-you cards featuring the adorable face illustration by
22/01/2025

New stamp / New thank-you cards featuring the adorable face illustration by

Dafi KĂŒhne is one of Switzerland’s foremost poster designers whose diverse, bold work embraces both traditional producti...
21/01/2025

Dafi KĂŒhne is one of Switzerland’s foremost poster designers whose diverse, bold work embraces both traditional production tools and modern design processes.

Although his posters are printed on presses from the 1960s, they do not look like typical letterpress prints. Instead, they connect with the history of letterpress production while pushing the boundaries of long-established graphic and typographic techniques.

Using analog printing presses, computer software applications, laser cutters, and freshly cast hot-metal-type, he creates wildly creative, large-format posters.

‘Poster Cult’ focuses on the processes, background and context that inform his more recent poster work. Find it in our Graphic Design books section or tap to purchase.

Blue Monday 💙
20/01/2025

Blue Monday 💙

😍 Loving the beautiful choice of stocks in this ‘PALETTE mini Series Sketchbook’. Pick up a copy in our Lifestyle sectio...
20/01/2025

😍 Loving the beautiful choice of stocks in this ‘PALETTE mini Series Sketchbook’. Pick up a copy in our Lifestyle section at CP.

Down to the last two ‘Logo Book Sets’ as Monogram Logo is being reprinted! You can find them in our Graphic Design secti...
20/01/2025

Down to the last two ‘Logo Book Sets’ as Monogram Logo is being reprinted!

You can find them in our Graphic Design section.

Adidas or Nike? đŸ””đŸ”ŽFind both books in our ‘Fashion’ book section.
19/01/2025

Adidas or Nike? đŸ””đŸ”Ž

Find both books in our ‘Fashion’ book section.

Already down to the last two copies of the ‘Mount Fuji 360’ book. Find it in our Graphic Design section.
18/01/2025

Already down to the last two copies of the ‘Mount Fuji 360’ book.

Find it in our Graphic Design section.

Sample Sale: I have just added 2 copies of ‘Japanese Layout Design’ to our sample sale section.
18/01/2025

Sample Sale: I have just added 2 copies of ‘Japanese Layout Design’ to our sample sale section.

What’s your go-to book on typography and grids? Here are some of ours! Check them out in our graphic design section. ...
17/01/2025

What’s your go-to book on typography and grids?

Here are some of ours! Check them out in our graphic design section.

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To start at the beginning, my wife and I conceived the idea of Counter-Print, like many a great idea before, at the pub. We'd been buying vintage books from her native Belgium for some time and bringing them in to work to show our colleagues at our respective design studios in London. We'd sold the odd book we had bought back to friends and colleagues, not for a profit I might add, but this led us to believe that there might be an opportunity for selling these titles to a wider audience.

Our first site only had a few books available but every time we would put them on, they would quickly sell. The joy of unearthing classic design books on our travels in Belgium and Holland, coupled with the buzz of 'the sale' lead to a really rewarding period in our lives, both professionally and personally. We traveled, met wonderful like-minded people and were able to explore our passion for books and design which dated back to our time studying Graphic Design on the same course at University.

Within a year, the small success we were having with Counter-Print, coupled with design work we were taking on, allowed us to quit our day jobs in London and we added to our work load our first publishing venture as Counter-Print. We first came out with our quarterly newspaper, the only thing we could afford to print at the time, and later graduated to editing, designing and publishing books of our own.

First and foremost Counter-Print is an online book shop and we now sell new books on design from a variety of publishers we admire, as well as children's books and – with the launch of the new site – we have added a 'Lifestyle' section which we hope to expand over the coming months.