#02 Stefan Marx

#03 Nieves (2)

Just as records have label colors, they can also serve as criteria for publishers to select books.

From an alternative perspective,
This is a "label-based book guide" by Hiroshi Eguchi, representative of Utrech, who introduces publishers and books that release high-quality works.
For the second installment focusing on the Swiss publisher Nieves, we introduce German designer Stefan Marx.

[Left] "I Wait Here For You Forever as Long as It Takes"
Stefan Marx (Published by Nieves)
3,990 yen

[Right] "Todenhausen"
Stefan Marx (Published by Nieves)
840 yen

Zines: Effortlessly Capturing the Roots of Creation

Born in 1979, based in Hamburg, Germany.
This is the latest collection from Stefan Marx, who also works as a designer and illustrator for the independent T-shirt label "THELUSY LIVIN'COMPANY."
Despite its unusual 96 pages for Nieves, a publisher known for lighter publications, the book is engaging with its well-balanced composition of sketches that resemble scribbles in notebooks and memos, geometric patterns, cute animals, and occasionally striking messages.
Released concurrently is the zine "Todenhausen," featuring idyllic landscapes and people of the German countryside town of Todenhausen.
His photographs, though he is not primarily a photographer, reveal his creative roots of drawing inspiration from everyday life, evident in his unique sense of composition and the humorous expressions of cows and sheep.
And most importantly, it's delightful that the two books feel so good together.

An inside spread from "Todenhausen."
The landscapes of the German countryside are graphically edited.
His unique compositional style offers a glimpse into his sensibility.

[Good Book Information]
"I Wait Here For You Forever as Long as It Takes"
Stefan Marx (Published by Nieves)
3,990 yen

"Todenhausen"
Stefan Marx (Published by Nieves)
840 yen

[INFORMATION!!] from OPENERS
The books introduced in this series, "Good Book from the Publisher,"
are now available for purchase on the web shopping site "rumors."