Andrea Anastasio and V. Gheeta When designer and artist Andrea Anastasio visited the United States some years ago, he was fingerprinted (like everyone else) by the airport immigration authorities. This moment — both banal and ominous — stayed with him until it worked its way into his art. The result is Fingerprint, a visual fable that celebrates resistance to state surveillance and control. The artist’s fingerprints, screen printed onto the pages of the book, create progressively complex patterns and sequences, transporting the fingerprint from the world of forensics and law into the freeing world of art and imagination. An accompanying essay by historian and political activist V. Geetha points to those suggestive instances when people across cultures and nations have resisted fingerprinting, asserting their right to existence while fighting all attempts to foreclose their identities.

Popular Culture/Design/ Social History Hardback 136 pages, colour Worldwide English language rights reserved French rights: Editions Alternatives £ 19.99 / $ 35 / Rs.1400

I Love My India: Stories for a city Avinash Veeraraghavan I Love My India is a visual journey through Indian cities from a rare non-western point of view. A witty and original account of street life, kitsch and popular culture, it combines the eye of the ironic insider with that of the curious traveller. The book moves through the spaces and signs of the city-both imaginative and physical-commenting on the complex and often surreal forms of human arrangements. The stories in I Love My India are non-linear. They invite the reader to tease out and re-invent their meanings. Photography/Design/Popular culture/ Architecture Softcover 96 pages, colour ISBN: 978-81-86211-65-6 Co-published with Dewi Lewis Publishing £ 16.99 / $ 29.95 / Rs.1200 REVIEWS I Love My India celebrates and re-affirms our enduring love for ‘the street’. - Eye Magazine, London In a realm of Calvino-esque echoes, the ‘invisible cities’ begin to unravel their presence…until the entire space is filled with accessories of powerful and resounding language…the sensitivity of a young visionary begins to speak out, articulating his own tongue in a seductive idiom. - Andrea Anastasio

V. Geetha & Sirish Rao, Illustrated by M.P. Dhakshna According to a second century Indian theory of aesthetics, there is a spectrum of nine emotions that the superior work of art should evoke and represent. This book picks each of the emotions apart, and explodes them into their modern context: Indian cinema billboards, or hoardings, as they are popularly known. A team of hoardings artists from Chennai’s vibrant Kollywood movie industry have created monumental paintings expressing each of the nine emotions in their own inimitable style. For the initiated, insightful essays illuminate this fascinating intersection of culture, commerce and politics. Graphic Design/Cinema Hardcover, 96 pages, colour

Shahid Datawala Designed as a large matchbox – complete with slipcase and striking edge – Matchbook is the first ever collection of Indian matchbox labels. Curious and visually stunning, matchbox labels come in a staggering variety of designs. A well-established brand quickly spawns imitations and variations as small producers compete with large ones in an anarchic marketplace. The book showcases almost 1000 colourful members of this extended family, including such brands as Cheetah Fight, Judo Deluxe, Tip Top, and New Shit. The introduction provides an insight into India’s complex match industry, where an unjust economy throws a shadow over the vibrant graphic art it produces. Graphic Design / Street Art Paperback 121x159mm 196 pages colour