- Black Dog Publishing
Black Dog Publishing (London UK) is a British
publishing company specialising in illustratednon-fiction books on contemporary culture. Topics covered by Black Dog includearchitecture ,art ,craft ,design , environment,fashion ,film ,music andphotography .Founded in 1993, it has steadily begun to build a presence in the UK and the United States, as well as in the European export markets. On the company website, Black Dog describes itself as aspiring to "take a daring, innovative approach to our titles, to maintain high production values and authoritative content and to produce books that challenge, provoke and entertain." [http://www.blackdogonline.com/about-us.html]
Black Dog was featured in a
Time Out magazine article on London's small independent book publishers along withPersephone Books ,Bitter Lemon Press andPushkin Press . [http://www.timeout.com/london/books/features/2644/1.html] Its releases have on the whole received positive reviews in the major UK and US broadsheets and magazines. [http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1983079,00.html]Recent projects by Black Dog include the
Labels Unlimited andEdge Futures series, the officialLondon Eye book [http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2007/aug/30/uk.london?page=4] , and a book about theRiot Grrrl movement titled "Riot Grrrl: Revolution Girl Style Now!".Black Dog has also released biographies of such figures as
Charlemagne Palestine ,Alvar Aalto ,Colin St John Wilson ,Tod Browning andJean-Luc Godard .Notable authors of Black Dog titles include
Rob Young ,Lydia Lunch ,Patrick Brill ,Beth Ditto andPeter Wollen .In 2007 Black Dog released "Making Stuff for Kids", an instructional craft book for children, in collaboration with
The Guardian newspaper.External links
* [http://www.blackdogonline.com Black Dog Publishing website]
* [http://www.londonbookfair.co.uk/page.cfm/action=Exhib/ExhibID=02696 Black Dog Publishing profile on the London Book Fair website]
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