FUEL Design & Publishing

25/07/2025

Brutalist Italy review in STIR world: A photographic book by Italian architectural photographers Stefano Perego and Roberto Conte depicts, as stated by the duo in the afterword, “A vision of Italy distinct from that found on postcards.”

Brutalist Italy is an ode to the unattended glorious world in concrete that the Milan-based photographers grew up admiring – “architectures located in the provincial parts of Italy that are not considered outside their towns”, as the duo tells STIR.

18/07/2025

11/07/2025

Chess Players: From Charlie Chaplin to Wu-Tang Clan.

1 Bob Dylan playing chess at a restaurant in Woodstock, 1964
2 Washington Square Park, NYC, 1980s
3 Lisa Lane (Women’s chess champion), New York, 1961
4 Chess with a Buick Special Coupe, 1963
5 Black Sea coast, Gudauta, Georgia, 1967
6 Steve McQueen in The Thomas Crown Affair, 1968

Compiled by FUEL, this incredible collection of photographs of chess players spans 130 years and demonstrates the unique relationship between chess and culture, featuring famous actors, artists, politicians and musicians.

04/07/2025

Details from Ukrainian Modernism by Dmytro Soloviov.
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Available on our website with 3 special Ukrainian Modernism postcards and 10% goes to the British Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal.
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27/06/2025

13/06/2025

Groups

06/06/2025

PROPAGANDOPOLIS by Bradley Davies

A visual testament to the enduring potency of propaganda, presenting over a century of incredible images from 62 countries – created by governments, their enemies and others, in an attempt to sway minds, shape narratives and enforce ideologies.

1. A Cuban illustration for ‘Tricontinental’ magazine (1995). Cuba supported the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) against the anti-communist National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA).

2. A Chinese poster (1964) depicting climbers summiting Mount Everest, carrying with them the national flag, a copy of the Little Red Book and a bust of Mao. With no photographic evidence, the announcement was treated sceptically in the West (though it has since been accepted as genuine).

3. ‘Purchase war loans for U-boats against England’ a German postcard from WWI (1914). By 1915, Germany began targeting merchant ships in an effort to strangle Britain’s economy.

4. ‘The cold face of death and war’ a British psychological operations leaflet from 1990. During the Gulf War (1990–1991) these leaflets were dropped over Iraqi troop positions. In 2006 Saddam was executed for crimes against humanity.

5. A British anti-Thatcher poster (1981) published during the Northern Ireland hunger strikes. These were undertaken by Irish Republican prisoners between 1980 and 1981 in protest at the government’s withdrawal of their status as political prisoners. Ten prisoners died, prompting international protest and outrage.

6. A booklet published by the Rhodesian Ministry of Information in 1974, during the Bush War (1964–1979), fought between the Rhodesian government and various guerrilla groups. The conflict ended minority white rule in Rhodesia, which was eventually renamed Zimbabwe.

7. A painting from 1976 by Dorzhiev Lubsan celebrating the Apollo–Soyuz mission of 1975, when the US Apollo module docked with the Soviet Soyuz capsule.

8. Front cover illustration by FUEL. An adaptation of the Hungarian poster ‘Protect Yourself’ by György Pál (c.1970).

30/05/2025

Ukrainian Modernism by Dmytro Soloviov, a Kyiv-based Ukrainian architecture photographer and researcher

Introduction by Owen Hatherley
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Available on our website with 3 special Ukrainian Modernism postcards and 10% goes to the British Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal.
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23/05/2025

Remembering the football writer and novelist Brian Glanville 1931–2025, described by The Times as ‘the finest football writer of his – or any other – generation.’

In 2006 Brian wrote a wonderful introduction to our book about football programmes, ‘Match Day’. We were delighted to receive his text typed out on A4 sheets, produced in the spirit of the golden age of football. RIP X

08/05/2025

Review in Degraded Orbit: Featuring structures weathered in turn by war, politics, and time, Ukrainian Modernism, new from FUEL Publishing, captures the country’s architectural infrastructure at a particularly fragile historical moment. The result is a striking document of buildings that are conceptually complex, surprisingly varied, and, despite everything, resilient in the face of insurmountable forces.

Ukraine’s 20th-century architectural legacy is complex, layered, and endlessly fraught. Featuring structures weathered by war, politics, and time in turn, Ukrainian Modernism, new from Fuel Publishing, captures the country's architectural infrastructure at a particularly fraught and fragile moment...

07/05/2025

What’s next for Christopher Herwig... find out soon. The poetry of the road continues.

25/04/2025

OUT NOW : Ukrainian Modernism by Dmytro Soloviov, a Kyiv-based Ukrainian architecture photographer and researcher.
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Introduction written by Owen Hatherley.
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Available on our website including 3 special Ukrainian Modernism postcards. 10% goes to the British Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal.