FUEL Design & Publishing

19/08/2025

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/08/christopher-herwig-trucks-tuks/

Christopher Herwig journeys 10,000 kilometers and 208 pages, capturing the wondrous, idiosyncratic art form.

11/08/2025

New book Trucks and Tuks featured in the Guardian:

Photographer Christopher Herwig has travelled 10,000km in his quest to record this overlooked art form. He has documented the characteristics of each region – from Pakistan in the north to Sri Lanka in the south. Sadly, as a result of government directives, alongside the proliferation of cheap, ma...

08/08/2025

07/08/2025

Coming soon: 226 Garages and Service Stations. In the spirit of Ed Ruscha’s Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1963), photographer Philip Butler (author of London Tube Stations) has travelled the length and breadth of Britain photographing these diverse, eccentric and idiosyncratic buildings.
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Published on 4 September and available to pre-order on our website now.
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01/08/2025

We are pleased to announce a new book with Soviet Bus Stops photographer Christopher Herwig, ‘Trucks and Tuks: Decorated Vehicles of South Asia’. Featuring hand painted trucks and tuks tuks from Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh. Published on 4 September and available for pre-order on our website now.
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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

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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).