{ths} is Mr. Trash

Editor: Thomas Schostok
with an introduction by Frank Erschbaumer

Language: English
Release: September 2008
Format: 21 x 27,3 cm / 8.25 x 10.75 inch
Features: 228 pages, full ‘too much’ color ‘everywhere’, casewrap-hardcover binding

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About Mr. Trash

Who took the ‘T’ into Trash? {ths}. Who is playing songs of Elvis in the background to get weird ideas. {ths} again. Who loves ‘Big ’Uns’, love, sex, rock & roll, girls, hot rod, dirtygraphy, Elvis songs from the ’70s, atom physics, Barry White, chocolate, wrestling, meat, viva Las Vegas, all things shaved, cocktails, horror B-Movies, German beer and rusty machinery halls? Our boy {ths}. Who call his style ‘Trash urban warfare porn dirt style pop’? Yes, {ths}. And who lives in a world of his own - a world in which you do not need a driving licence to drive a Mustang? Well, that would be {ths} as well.

Mr. Trash reproduces the extravagant work of Thomas Schostok {ths}. Raw, dirty, irreverent, uncensored, Mr. Trash spares no cliche, no absurdity in bringing you what the book’s publisher called “world’s strangest ejaculation of graphic design”. Not bound to the field of graphic design, the book represents the last 10 years of his work, blurring art and graphic design. Graphic design, typography, paintings, collage, Gluebooks - all his work in one book. Mr. Trash is an independent book, without the help of a publisher and without censorship. Hail to the King, Baby.

About the author

The artist Thomas Schostok {ths}, works with graphic design, collage, typography, drawing and painting. His work, reflected by mass cultural boredom, psychological warfare and professional wrestling, his artworks reference both graphic arts and ultimate trash. He lives and works in Germany.

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What the people say about Mr. Trash

Interesting book but…

…USELESS without change of content.
– Big German publisher for design books (no names to protect the innocent and guilty)

It’s a great piece of sleaze!

It’s not just a book about {ths} work. It feels like a story, something monumental. For me it’s not a monograph, it’s a work of art: one that should adorn all our coffee tables. His first book ‘Hard Blow’ showed us the work for his Gluebooks, but ‘Mr. Trash’ features it all: all his commercial work, all his paintings, all his art. It’s a sick, sick, sick book or like {ths} would say it: ‘It’s Trash urban warfare porn dirt style pop.’
– Chucky Truck

Free of censorship

{ths} kicked the publisher in their butts and published his own book. Free of censorship. That is probably the future of publishing.
– Chris Brown

No Comment

I won’t tell anything about his book, because I hate {ths}.
– Hans Meier