Artifacts: Porsche Motorsport

Artifacts: Porsche Motorsport is an unparalleled artistic view into the objects, stories, and hands that have propelled Porsche through decades of velocity, experimentation, and myth-making. The book moves far beyond the surface of automotive history, opening access to the sites where innovation is usually kept hidden—Flacht, Weissach, and the restricted archives where the marque stores its most hard-won knowledge. Curated, researched, and photographed within these guarded spaces, the book offers a rare encounter with Porsche not as a brand, but as an evolving creative organism shaped by engineers, fabricators, visionaries, and the relentless pursuit of speed.

Presented with sculptural intention—dramatic lighting, high-resolution photography, and a sensitivity to form—each artifact becomes less a technical component and more a portrait. Photographer and lead creative Thomas Walk treats these pieces not as sterile remnants of machinery, but as lived objects carrying the gestures, improvisations, and imperfections of the people who made and raced them. Raceborn textures, burnished patinas, and the improvisational logic embedded in every weld and contour reveal motorsport as a deeply human practice: an art of problem-solving under pressure, iterated across generations.

Spanning 550 pages and more than 250 individual items, Artifacts: Porsche Motorsport becomes a layered narrative—an archive in motion—tracing the evolution of racing from its formative years to the present moment. The book itself operates as an object of design and devotion: created in collaboration with Andy Cruz of House Industries, who developed two new typefaces influenced by elements uncovered in the archives. Unclasp the motorsport-inspired belt buckle and the experience begins: not merely reading history, but entering it, page by page, artifact by artifact.

• Published by ERG Media
• 550 pages
• 34 x 42cm  (16" x 19" in)
• Hardcover with Swiss Binding

• Includes shipping box, slipcase and 16 page pull out Index, designed in collaboration with Andy Cruz (House Industries)