Analogue Books

Edinburgh book shop Analogue Books, support and champion new talent whilst publishing their own books to create an exciting and current mix, offering something for everyone.

How To Be a Man: A Guide To Style and Behavior For The Modern Gentleman

The ultimate sartorial and etiquette guide, from the ultimate life and style guru. By turns witty, sardonic, and always insightful, Glenn O’Brien’s advice column has been a must-read for several generations of men. Having cut his teeth as a contributor at Andy Warhol’s Interview in its heyday, O’Brien sharpened them as the creative director of advertising at the hip department store Barneys New York for ten years before starting his advice column at Details magazine in 1996. Eventually his column, "The Style Guy," migrated to its permanent home at GQ magazine, where O’Brien dispenses well-honed knowledge on matters ranging from how to throw a cocktail party (a diverse guest list is a must), putting together a wardrobe for a trip to Bermuda (pack more clothes for less dressing), or when it is appropriate to wear flip-flops in public. How To Be a Man is the culmination of O’Brien’s thirty years of accumulated style and etiquette wisdom, distilled through his gimlet eye and droll prose. With over forty chapters on style and fashion, on dandies and dudes, grooming and decorating, on how to dress age-appropriately and how to age gracefully, this guide is the new essential read for men of all ages.

Men's File

Men's File is a modern magazine tracing the Roots of Style. Everything from product reviews of garments, motorcycles, boots, fashion, shops around the world, travel, and every other thing you want to read about. All the material is original and shot and written very well. Everything a men's magazine should be.

Kate Steciw: The Strangeness Of This Idea

Photographer Kate Steciw's debut book, The Strangeness Of This Idea, juxtaposes highly altered digital images and collages with seemingly naturalistic shots, resulting in a carefully planned confusion for the viewer, who is constantly forced to reassess exactly what is and what is not real.

Home Sapiens Magazine

Home Sapiens Magazine is an independent publishing project that explores what makes home. It is not just a new title on interior design and lifestyle trends, but rather a cult series of monographs on contemporary domestic living. Home Sapiens magazine comes from the paradigmatic change of the living place concept: from the home-object, a container of goods and persons (Home Capiens) to the home-subject, a relational entity endowed with sensitive intelligence (Home Sapiens).

Nobrow

Nobrow was set up in the winter of 2008 to provide an independent publishing platform for illustration and the graphic arts that would showcase some of the best talent out there today, whether fresh out of college or from the ranks of well seasoned veterans.

Their aim is to place a renewed focus on quality in print, using wherever possible the best materials they can get their hands on and always trying to play with format, colour, size and design to ensure that their publications are well conceived and individual. 

i-D Covers: 1980-2010

In celebration of 30 years at the forefront of international fashion and lifestyle publishing, this book edited by Creative Director and i-D founder Terry Jones, features all of the iconic covers to date as well as the best stories behind the making of the images. In personal discussion with many of the creative talents he has worked with over the years, Terry Jones weaves his own personal web of diary, memories, and magic to give the reader an unforgettable look into a secret world before the digital age made everything accessible and public.

Made from Plastic's favourites include:

The Essential David Shrigley

The Essential David Shrigley is a beautifully designed and comic collection of work, celebrating one of our finest contemporary artists. It features the very best of Shrigley's work, odd, funny, wise and engaging from old and new. 


Made from Plastic's favourites include:

Take Ivy

Take Ivy was originally published in Japan in 1965, setting off an explosion of American-influenced “Ivy Style” fashion among students in the trendy Ginza shopping district of Tokyo. The product of four sartorial style enthusiasts, Take Ivy is a collection of candid photographs shot on the campuses of America’s elite, Ivy League universities. To celebrate the re-release of Take Ivy at Power House Books, Aclaim Mag asked UK boutique Coggles to take some of their favourite images from the book and give their own contemporary reinterpretations to outstanding results.

True Prep

From Lisa Birnbach, the author of The Official Preppy Handbook—and designer Chip Kidd—comes a whole new take on the prep world that Birnbach turned into an international best-selling phenomenon thirty years ago.

True Prep (Knopf publishing) is a contemporary look at how the old guard of natural-fiber-loving, dog-worshipping, G&T-soaked preppies adapt to the new order of things. Birnbach considers the prep attitude towards money (ambivalent), schools (good investment), wardrobe (now your clothes fit), work (some careers will never be prep), decorating (ask mummy), scandal (including rehab and prison), and food and drink (with some classic recipes for both). She also looks at weekends (and what to do to get asked back), entertaining, sports (including sailing and shopping), weddings, etiquette, the Internet and electronic gadgetry, political correctness, reality TV, and . . . polar fleece. And last but not least: a do-it-yourself eulogy.

With more than 200 original illustrations and photographs, True Prep is quickly becoming Made from Plastic’s favourite new book

Sketchbook

Sketchbook is a new quarterly magazine, showcasing established and emerging creative talents in fashion, design, culture, photography and illustration. It featuring original sketchbook graphics, exclusive interviews, with the aims to provide an entrance into the minds of switched-on, aware and intelligent creative’s and inspire those who wish to be part of such an innovative industry. Their second issue, entitle The London Fashion Designers Issue is on sale now and a thoroughly enjoyable read so check it out.

The Bearded Gentleman

Now facial hair is something that should never be entered into half heartedly mainly due to the fact that if you get it wrong you end up looking like a tit as it is one of the ultimate representations of masculinity and often a defining characteristic. The Bearded Gentleman is the definitive guide on all things fuzzy faced from, how to grow them, how to maintain them and where they come from. 


This book gives you an insight into the history of facial hair and its effect/impact on politics, class and sexuality in a witty yet informative and is a must read for those who are about to embark on that wonderful world of facial hair, Made from Plastic going to go for the “Painters Brush”.

Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York

Store Front, The Disappearing Face of New York is a visual guide to New York City’s timeworn storefronts from Gingko Press. It’s a collection of powerful images that capture the neighbourhood spirit and familiarity that these shops once embodied. Almost all of these businesses are a reflection of New York’s early immigrant population, a wild mix of varying ethnic backgrounds. This is book is an exceptional visual history of New York and its ever changing face and a one of Made from Plastic’s favourite new books.

It's Nice That

Made from Plastic is sure you are all aware of It’s Nice That, that lovely site who continually provides us with finest and newest talent from around the globe, more importantly though as it’s that time again with their bi-annual publication nearing stores. It’s Nice That bi-annual showcases their most interesting editorials from the last six months, with issue #3 available now so go and treat yourself to something that will take a prominent place on your coffee table.

The Big Butt Book

Yep, we all love a good butt, tush, derriere or ass, whether it’s big or small (However we all know Sir Mix-A-Lott like his girls with a lot of back) and it looks like the clever fellow at Taschen have done it again, with their ongoing big book collection. The Big Butt Book is the fourth instalment from Dian Hanson’s body part series, which focuses on the more erotic areas of the human body without being smutty, with her latest venture including over 400 photos from 1900 to present day. Whether your fan of the female behind or not, this is another fantastic coffee table book, which will be hitting any book shop worth its salt next month.

100 Years of Menswear

100 Years of Menswear (Laurence King publishing) is a fantastically insightful and rich, comprehensive collection of images covering menswear over the last 100 years with text by fashion historian Cally Blackman (currently a lecturer in London). This book has masses of photography and illustrations bookmarking all eras of the last century, including images of Hollywood style icons, the artist personalities and more.


This is a fantastic book, which Made from Plastic loves and is a must for all fashion students, historians of dress and lovers of men's clothes.

Elephant

Made from Plastic has fallen in love with Elephant, a brand new magazine to come from Marc Valli (Magma) and Matt Willet (Studio 8), which portrays opens your eyes to best current work in art and other creative industries that usually go under the radar. Elephant is not only a visual joy but offers more depth in content than most visual magazines out there, so be sure check it out with issue two on its way very soon.

Vintage T-shirts

Over the years the T-shirt has moved on from the undershirt to walking billboard of self expression and individualism. Whether it’s music, politics, TV, Film or a DIY special, the T-shirt has consistently been a firm favourite of ours, with those clever folks at Taschen compiling a collection of over 650 classics, with their up and coming publication Vintage T-shirts.

The book draws primarily from the 1970’s and 1980’s and acts as a cultural timeline, instead of nostalgic nonsense. The book is set for release in March and is much more than your book standard coffee table book must for anyone who loves a good printed T-shirt.

The Coveted

Made from Plastic has recently had a sneak peak at a new magazine called The Coveted, which celebrates the Scottish Fashion Industry, supporting and promoting existing and emerging talent. The Coveted promises to bring you cutting edge fashion talent from designers, illustrators, models, photographers, bloggers, writers and more.

Avedon Fashion 1944-2000: The Definitive Collection

Avedon Fashion 1944-2000: The Definitive Collection encompasses six decades of extraordinary images by Richard Avedon, one of the most influential fashion photographer of the 20th century. This book offers a wide array, from his groundbreaking early photographs for Harper's Bazaar through his constantly inventive contributions to Vogue, and The New Yorker, showcasing his innovative take on fashion over six decades.