David Krut Publishing,
Africa’s No 1 Arts Bookstore and Publisher

David Krut Publishing (DKP) is pleased to be at Design Indaba EXPO for the first time. The company aims to promote, through the TAXI Art Books and other publications on the arts, design and architecture, the work of South African artists, writers on the arts, and graphic designers. DKP’s publications have been consistently well received both locally and abroad and are regarded as important contributions to the archive on contemporary South African art history. While we remain a small company, we seek to raise the bar for art book design and printing in South Africa; to this end we collaborate closely with highly regarded designers, and continue to print all of our titles locally.

This year we are seeking to expand our reach into the field of design in general and graphic design in particular through a number of initiatives. The first is the launch of a design book series called Skill Set – written and designed by Michael MacGarry – aimed at showcasing local design and providing much-needed material to secondary and tertiary institutions as well as design practitioners. The books will include useful information on aspects of design, examples of work by local designers, and interviews with South African design professionals. Volume One in the series, A Primer in Graphic Design, will be followed by handbooks on industrial design, fashion design and stage design, to name a few.

The second, ongoing, initiative is a focus on providing design books to schools, tertiary institutions and libraries. We have sourced a number of valuable design books for teachers and learners and distribute them through our bookstores in Cape Town and Johannesburg as well as directly to teachers at institutions across South Africa. Some of these titles on design and architecture (all available in our bookstores) are:

Design Books From David Krut Publishing
Skill Set One: A Primer in Graphic Design
Light on a Hill: Building the Constitutional Court of South Africa
Architecture and Vegetation
Points for Departure
Design Books from other Local and International Publishers
10 x SA Fashion Week
An A – Z of Type Designers
Craft Art in South Africa
Design for the Other 90%
Design Like You Give a Damn
Design Thinking
Design, Writing, Research
The Designer’s Desktop Manual
Inspiring Designers: A Source Book
Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design
Modern Architecture and Design
Notes on Book Design
Ogilvy on Advertising
Thinking with Type
Understanding Design
The Visual Dictionary of Fashion Design

DKP is beginning a collaboration with Assouline Publishing, New York who also distribute titles from the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum, New York. We are delighted to showcase some of their titles in our booth at Design Indaba. These gorgeous publications will be added to our distribution list and will be available in our bookstores and to the trade.

Finally, we are pleased to have begun collaborating with the Montebello Design Centre. Not only is our Cape Town branch situated on the premises of MDC in Newlands, but we have begun discussions on schools outreach, the facilitating of workshops for visual arts teachers at the Centre, and the promotion of design books in our store.

Where to find us

Cape Town
David Krut Publishing: Fine Art and Books, 31 Newlands Avenue, 021 685 0676
Manager: Alastair Whitton
alastair@davidkrut.com
carla@davidkrut.com

Johannesburg
David Krut Publishing and Bookstore
140 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood
Constitution Hill, Braamfontein
Johannesburg Art Gallery, Joubert Park
011 880 5648
dkarts@icon.co.za

www.davidkrutpublishing.com

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