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Hungarian Book Design 2025 - EXTENDED Established in 2022, the Hungarian Book Design Award aims to compile and showcase, year after year, the publications from the Hungarian book publishing industry that have been designed and produced to the highest standards. From among the books published in a given calendar year, a jury of experts selects the best in two rounds; these are then featured in an exhibition of the winners and included in the award’s printed and online catalog. The organizers’ explicit goal is to integrate Hungarian book design into international professional networks, which is why they commit to nominating the winners each year for the “Best Book Design from all over the World” international competition organized by Stiftung Buchkunst. For the first time this year, the shortlist for the 2025 season will also be presented in ISBN+, where the books will be available for purchase. We are not organizing an opening event for the exhibition, but on June 6, the closing day, we will host a discussion and guided tour with Ákos Polgárdi (graphic designer, book designer, founder of the award), Zoltán Szmolka @szmolka_zoltan (graphic designer, book designer, jury member), and Zoltán Visnyai @visnya.i (graphic designer, book designer, multiple nominee and award winner). On view: May 9–June 6, 2026 Guided tour: June 6, 2026 (Saturday), 4:00 PM Venue: ISBN+, Project Room Hours: Mon–Fri 12:00 PM–6:00 PM, Sat 2:00 PM–6:00 PM (Closed May 24–June 1 for vacation)

Our Events in May🎉 @hungarian_book_design @kozpontbudapest @ue_a_e daniel @shoggoth_11 #isbnplusz #isbnplus #artbookshop #contemporaryculture

We have been living in this current political system for more than 15 years, and the system lives within us. It has crept under our skin and into our brains with its new, created words, rewritten concepts, manipulated images, and emblematic faces. It has also inscribed itself into culture, among other things through the MMA (Magyar Müvészeti Akadémia), the Hungarian Academy of Arts. Painter András Király elevates the MMA to a universal level, making it a metaphor for the system. Everything and everyone on his posters is MMA. Király began drawing his satirical poster series, Atelier Populaire, 13 years ago. The posters, which are also caricatures and puzzles, are prohibited from being displayed in public spaces. This book contains two studies about them in Hungarian and English, offering readers interpretation and context for the works. The volume presents all of the poster designs to date, and provides background information in Hungarian for some of them, as the puns only work in Hungarian. All this is happening to us. We collected it before it was forgotten. Atelier Populaire- MMA Plakátok 2012-2025 🏷️ 8000 HUF @andras_kiraly @gergely.nagy.3 #isbnplus #isbnplusz #sytemcritism #politicalpostersbooks #artbookshop

Május 20. Szerda 18:00 Az ISBN+ BookTalk második eseményének a vendége Schmied Andi, akivel a Trafóban aktuálisan látogatható kiállításának apropóján kortárs urbanisztikai és lakhatási kérdésekről fogunk beszélgetni. Az esemény során szó esik majd Schmied munkásságáról, a jelenlegi kiállításáról a Trafóban, valamint a doktori kutatásáról. Körüljárjuk miként került kapcsolatba a művész a luxus ingatlanbefektetések világával és megnézzük, milyen alternatív megoldási javaslatok léteznek, melyek korunk lakhatási válságára reagálnak egy olyan világot vizionálva, ahol a lakhatás nem luxus, hanem alapjog. Fotó: Schmied Andi @esztermacska @doravazsonyi #isbnplusz #isbnplus #localbookstore #artbookshop #booktalk #speculativearchitecture

🏰 Bunker Archeology 🏷️ 15.500 @spectorbooks #isbnplus #isbnplusz #artbookshop #budapestculture #bunkerarcheology

Plants and Seeds 🌱🌾 Seeds - Reclaiming Roots, Sowing Futures 🏷️ 11.000 HUF Sience/ Fiction: A Non- History of Plants 🏷️ 14990 HUF @spectorbooks #isbnplus #isbnplusz #artbookshop #budapestculture #naturetheory

Első hivatalos eseményünk /// Our first official event 2026. 06. 12. - 07. 16. 🔥SAVE THE DATE🔥 . 🏛️ @isbn_plus ✒️ @_mechagaijin3000_ 🖋️ @saine421 🎚️ usakovgeorgij . #artgallery #exibition #budapest #hungarianartist #kiállítás

Two delicate book from @witty_books 📓 I Am Not a Robot 🏷️ 10.900 HUF the black rat has died🏷️ 10.900 HUF @andreaalessandrini_net @misha_olga_bushkovs #isbnplus #isbnplusz #artbookshop #contemporaryphotography #budapestculture

We are happy to invite you to the book release of a treatise on fugueology, the second publication from fugue–fuga–fuge, @ue_a_e on May 22th in Budapest, from 18:00 at ISBN+ @isbn_plus on May 23rd in Bratislava, from 15:30 at Brot Books Deli, @brotbooksdeli There will be readings by the authors Paula Bracker @paulabracker Momo E. Hontebeyrie @monstreater_monster , Daniel H. Pineda @shoggoth_11 The evening will be accompanied by a presentation of the audiovisual research materials of the para-Center for Island Research.
 In music, the fugue arises when a theme is echoed in overlapping voices, creating a seamless, indivisible structure. On a larger scale, it describes transitions between landscapes and ecosystems, where boundaries blur into continuous zones of interaction and transformation.
a treatise on fugueology (2025) is the outcome of three years of collective artistic research conducted on Danubian Islands in Austria, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania. The Center developed tools and methodologies to unfold landscapes. In this un-folding exercise, they discovered **Fuguelogy** a tool to explore these zones of transition, folding us into fuguescapes beyond horizons.

New Zines from @deposit_zine Brad Downey: Looking Down 🏷️ 4500 HUF Albert Ganz: worldwide 🏷️ 2500 HUF @gyorsnyomda @bigtimebrad #isbnplus #isbnplusz #zineculture #budapestartbookshop #limitededitionprint

Two new publications from @becoming.press 😍😍 Retrograde Prometheus - Subjectivity & Computation 🏷️ 5990 HUF Of Enemies & Vension - First Materials for an Aztec Cosmotechnic 🏷️ 5990 HUF @christian__nirvana_damato #isbnplus #isbnplusz #becomingpress #criticaltheory #artbookshop

In 2023 I undertook a year-long, algorithmic pilgrimage through my hometown, Budapest. Guided by childhood drawings, inherited photographs, and recorded dreams, I walked all 23 districts of the city in an attempt to reclaim space and time for myself. A pair of eight-sided dice-one for direction and one for distance-determined my destinations, transforming the metropolis into an oracle, a game of passage. Bartha Máté: The Dice Man 🏷️ 4500 HUF @mate.bartha @witty_books #isbnplus #isbnplusz #artbookshop #kortarsfotomuveszet #barthamáté