Urban playgrounds form a vast, intricate spatial and social network. They are places where material innovation happens and stages for new professional collaborations that carry a wealth of social, spatial, and climate- and nature-positive design potent …

In the third issue of ‘Dirty Furniture
’ on the theme of the toilet, we wonder why poo-bum jokes are funny, lament the loss of the public loo, and stand for girls who stand. Sanitation in India is investigated, toilet paper unrolled, nappies reconsidered, and we interview a farmer and a toilet attendant. With Alex Schweder on pissing, Natalie D Kane on nappies, Alice Twemlow on graphic design, plus shitting monarchs, Superflex, and the poo emoji. 152 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English

COVER ME SOFTLY – TIMISOARA ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL – Catalogue ed. by Oana Stanescu, Chase Galis & Something Fantastic. Timisoara 2024. Beitr. von Nuar Alsadir, Benji B, Alice Bucknell, Jonah Coe-Scharff, Alyce Currier, Iman Fayyad, Chase Galis, Jul …

Sixteen of the acerbic historian’s essays and book chapters have been selected by the book’s contributors, ranging from classics such as ‘The Great Gizmo’ to lesser-known texts, such as ‘The Wall’, an intimate confession he penned at the hospital short …

This colourful, edgy, photo and typography-rich look-book retraces the best images and designs of revolutionary and liberation movements. Concepts around nuclear disaster, Palestine, technology, sexuality, Elvis, Muhammad Ali, Winston Churchill, virus …

The first comprehensive monograph on the cross-disciplinary practice including over 100 built and ephemeral works Since its founding in 1981, New York-based studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) has designed some of the world’s most revered civic spac …

Dublab: 20 Years of Future Roots Radio bends time and space through sound. Founded in 1999, Dublab has been streaming far-out music since the dial-up age. We travel back to the dawn of Internet radio―a pre-podcast/smartphone/social-media era with infin …

Cities of Repetition offers a comprehensive and visually compelling analysis of Hong Kong’s massive housing estates, using original drawings, diagrams, and photographs to reveal the intricacies and evolution of these ultra-dense environments…

«Architektur zu erschaffen bedeutet, Ordnung herzustellen»: Le Corbusier und sein kreativer Prozess

isolarii are island books—singular worlds, encapsulated. Together, they assemble disparate writers.

Materialbuch über ein vergessenes Gebäude der Arbeiterbildung in Leipzig Die Schule der Arbeit war ein Modellprojekt der Arbeiterbildung unter Leitung von Gertrud Hermes (1872–1942). Mit dem Neubau des Architekten Johannes Niemeyer (1889–1980) entstand …

A fascinating view of the career of Bridget Riley, one of the most significant living artists, through her personal archive of her own works on paper Devoted exclusively to the artist’s works on paper, Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist’s Studio e …

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To look at things #50 – A Site: The Palace of Typographic Masonry

This book is A Meaningful Order by OK-RM. Across its 328 pages it holds a new history of the distributed realities of design. It depicts designed objects on their own terms to give an account of vision, material, and curiosity—representing a selection …

herausgegeben von Annett Jahn und Ulrike Mönnig 320 Seiten 20,5 × 25,5 cm Gestaltung: Torsten Köchlin, Leipzig zahlreiche schwarz-weiße und farbige Fotografien Deutsch / English ISBN 978-3-944425-35-1

Following the success of the first two editions, Slanted Experimental Type 3.0 has evolved into an ongoing series, each edition exploring groundbreaking approaches in typography and graphic design. The third edition, developed in collaboration with stu …

Each issue features diverse content — essays, interviews, portfolios, re-publications, fiction as well as visual works — to satiate both type design experts, with contributions from or about recognized practitioners just as well as recent students, and …

Handbook of Tyranny portrays the routine cruelties of the twenty-first century through a series of detailed non-fictional graphic illustrations. None of these cruelties represent extraordinary violence—they reflect day-to-day implementation of laws and …

How does the world form itself? How does it create itself as a world? And how do we understand the role of the visual in this regard? Most responses to these questions within cultural theory and visual culture refer to the rise of globalization, thus h …

Coinciding with ‘MacGuffin 13: The Letter’, the magazine collaborated with Archief Cairo, a collective based in Egypt, to organise a temporary design studio in November 2023. This week-long event brought together a diverse group of young image-makers, …

ISBN/EAN: 9780571283361 Sprache: Englisch Umfang: 256 S. Format (T/L/B): 2.7 x 19.8 x 12.9 cm Einband: Paperback

How Richard Riemerschmid’s designs of everyday—but “extraordinary”—objects recalibrate our understanding of modernism. At the beginning of the twentieth century, German artist Richard Riemerschmid (1868–1957) was known as a symbolist painter and, by th …

her sensitive photographs, Estelle Hanania captures highly charged, violent moments in the works of artist and choreographer Gisèle Vienne, moments that are at the same time both fragile and poetic. In her complex oeuvre, Vienne develops systems of sig …

Walter Benjamins früher Versuch zum Verständnis einer immer noch jungen Technik, der auch heute noch verblüffend aktuell ist. „Nicht der Schrift-, sondern der Photographieunkundige wird der Analphabet der Zukunft sein.“ Benjamins Aufsatz, 1931 in zweiT …

Walter Benjamins früher Versuch zum Verständnis einer immer noch jungen Technik, der auch heute noch verblüffend aktuell ist. „Nicht der Schrift-, sondern der Photographieunkundige wird der Analphabet der Zukunft sein.“ Benjamins Aufsatz, 1931 in zweiT …

Faire – To look at things #46 – A calculated approach: Norm’s unreasonable reasonableness

Faire – To look at things #46 – A calculated approach: Norm’s unreasonable reasonableness

A collection of essays, analyses and examples regarding the theory and production of bound volumes, this small but dense publication includes contributions by Catherine de Smet, James Goggin, Richard Hollis, Sarah Gottlieb, Armand Mevis and Chrissie Ch …

Works by Martine Syms explore how mass media shapes and frames identities and cultures. Drawing from early cinema, television, the internet, social media, and ambient footage produced by phones and surveillance, Syms addresses the ways in which represe …

DAMN° is an independent publication with open-minded views on the interchangeable worlds of design, architecture and art. In making meaningful connections rather than dictating tastes, its approach to storytelling brings editorial content beyond hype o …

Smiljan Radic. Serpentine Pavilion 2014: Serperntine Gallery

Helene Hegemann über Patti Smith, Christoph Schlingensief, Anarchie und Tradition

NO SOLO (NO BOOKS 2), 2024 EDITION

The most systematic exposition of Bifo’s philosophy to date. We live in an age of impotence. Stuck between global war and global finance, between identity and capital, we seem to be incapable of producing that radical change that is so desperately need …

How to design the world: creating spaces for interplay Everyone is a designer. But while many practitioners may be looking for solutions or ideological certainties, Easterling argues that solutions are mistakes and ideologies are unreliable markers. In …

Wild Windows is a recent study of Brazilian modernism, published in the form of an artist’s book. The title refers to Claude Lévi-Strauss’ The Savage Mind and to Veronika Kellndorfer’s more than twenty years of research on the pictorial significance of …

Sowing Unrest – The Biennale Reader wurde anlässlich der dritten Biennale Matter of Art veröffentlicht. Mit neu in Auftrag gegebenen und wiederveröffentlichten Essays, Gesprächen, Gedichten und künstlerischen Beiträgen verknüpft es die beiden kuratoris …

The second issue of the Chapters series focuses on the question of how design processes can be shaped through dialogue to give different actors the opportunity to add, remove or change something in an attempt to exceed the expectations of everyone invo …

Buchgestaltung: Omnigroup, Lausanne Deutsche Ausgabe 220 Seiten, ca. 120 Abbildungen, 16 × 24 cm, Broschur