Details is the new publication by Wayne Head. The series investigates a variety of architectural details from around the globe, highlighting the importance of considering details in architecture and how the relationship of whole and parts is central to considered buildings. What makes them good or bad, what they say about a building, an architect, a place, or a movement in history. If a building can manifest how we think, how does a detail speak about the whole? Can you have good details and a bad building? Or a good building made out of bad details? These and other questions are explored in this new publication made out of a series of beautifully illustrated collectible pamphlets.

Arnaud Desjardin, founder of The Everyday Press, is the publisher behind this project. Arnaud has a background as a book seller of rare and out of print art books. His decision to start a publishing company was born out of a desire to publish the kind of art books that museums, galleries and other commercial publishers are not producing today. This is how Everyday Press began making collaborative artists books that sets them apart from the norm. Each publication follows a different design process, depending on the subject and the artists involved in the project.

Volume One of the series contains a selection of illustrated architectural details in concrete, glass, metal, stone and wood. The pamphlets have been made using risograph printing, a technique that lies halfway between screen printing and photocopying, and although not widely used after falling out of fashion decades ago, it gives the prints a handcrafted quality that sets them clearly apart from the mass produced publication.

The publication was presented by Wayne Head at RIBA Bookshop on the 3d of November 2015.