(Lukas Feireiss, florian holder; ed.)

Notes on Book Design is a collection of 50 texts written by designers Siri Lee Lindskrog and Amanda-Li Kollberg of graphic and type design studio Formal Settings, based on books from the collection of Hopscotch Reading Room in Berlin. The texts draw pa …

The scarcity of resources, climate change, and the digitalization of everyday life are fuelling the economy of swapping, sharing, and lending—all of which are in some way linked to a culture of commoning. In this context, we understand commons as commu …

Display ist kein objekt, keine skulptur. Architektur oder performance display ist objekt, skulptur. Architektur und performance. Display bewegt sich zwischen kunst. handwerk und design. Display ist modularer rahmen und container. Display ist immer eine …

Spike’s Autumn issue is decoding AI. As the release of ChatGPT set off an official flurry of brisk developments and prognostications, how is this newest of techs crashing into creativity, labor, and everyday life? Perhaps it’s a cheat code to liberate …

European architecture is characterised by an ongoing exchange of cultures, ideas, and influences. In recent decades, this process has intensified. Ideas developed in one region can migrate and bear fruit elsewhere. Existing architectural conventions ar …

Over the last few decades the term “bootlegging” has become understood as a creative act. The debates about homage, appropriation, and theft that are common in the art world are now being held in the sphere of corporate branding, social media, and the …

The third issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to folding. Tools magazine is the brainchild of Clémentine Berry. The magazine aims to simultaneously promote and investigate the detail …

English architect and writer Sir Peter Cook, renowned for his free-thinking spirit translated into architectural lines and shapes, is perhaps most well-known as the co-founder of the avant-garde architectural group Archigram in the 1960s. A selection o …

The world is made up of a thousand colors, and no sound is like another. It’s noisy! We have finally accepted the dissonances because we are not all cut from the same cloth. Yet, we live under the same sun together. This year’s key visual, created by H …

Letters and typefaces not only transport information but also create a feeling and have a personality. Lettering takes this a step further—with its movement, artistic strokes, and variety, it has the potential to radiate a whole range of energies and t …

Bilderbuch is a book of twenty-four images interpreted by Theresia Enzensberger. Images that broke news, made headlines–sometimes even replaced them–and went around the globe. In her texts, Theresia Enzensberger reflects on them and places them in an a …

Die Betrachtung von Raumkulturen und Alltagsrealitäten der Raumproduktion nimmt einen anderen Weg als die normativen architektonischen und urbanistischen Diskurse. Sie wird zu einer allgemeineren Fragestellung, beschäftigt sich aber gleichzeitig mit ga …

The Great Repair” is an oxymoron. The title captures the convergence of two seemingly contradictory principles: the revolutionary ambition for systemic change and the evolutionary act of repair. The resulting aspiration is one that, despite its plea fo …

It seems that—with increased urgency—we are more frequently finding ourselves grasping for an “after,” especially as we face futures with apprehension. “After” exists at different scales of time and context: there’s after an instant, after a day, after …

FUKT Magazine, one of the world’s leading, engaging and inspiring drawing magazines returns for its 20th edition. This new anniversary release looks at the art of portraits in contemporary drawing.  

Das Künstlerbuch „Der müde Koch“ zeigt in luziden und sinnlichen Bildern weniger den Alltag in einer Küche als vielmehr die darin formulierte Absicht, sich durch die Kamera von eben dieser lohnbringenden Tätigkeit zu distanzieren. Kongenial ergänzt wir …

Here begins the third cycle of ARCHIVIO: four thematic issues, each edited by a Guest Editor specialized in the field in order to have an expert eye to open the doors of the archives and show you where to look in these vast worlds. The first, ARCHIVIO …

In ihren Bildwelten nimmt die Schweizer Künstlerin Miriam Cahn (geb. 1949 in Basel, lebt und arbeitet in Stampa, Schweiz) die Aufhebung von gesellschaftlichen Normierungen vorweg und tritt der tradierten Inszenierung des Weiblichen sowie geschlechtersp …

For the first of our five covers of Autumn 2023 BEYOND BORDERS issue, talking to the singer alongside friends and collaborators, we reflect on the fearless artistry of a star who’s pursuing the riskiest of paths to pop immortality. Rosalia wears silk b …

AnOther Magazine Autumn/Winter 2023 Issue The first of our nine covers is Hunter Schafer by Viviane Sassen and Katie Shillingford. The second of our nine covers is Marina Abramović by Jordan Hemingway and Ellie Grace Cumming. The third of our nine cove …

Analog zum chemischen Prozess des Steamcrackens, bei dem langkettige Moleküle in ihre Einzelteile aufgespalten und anschließend zu jedweder neuen Verbindung zusammengesetzt werden können, dekonstruiert und rekonstelliert Florian Merdes in Steamcracker …

Gertrud Hermes und die Schule der Arbeit 1928-33 Ein Rechercheprojekt von Ute Richter Eine vergessene Geschichte: Die Schule der Arbeit (1928–1933) war ein Modellprojekt der Leipziger Arbeiterbildung unter Leitung von Gertrud Hermes. Mit dem Neubau des …

Sammeln und Archivieren bilden die grundlegende Methode von Barbara Proschak, dabei forscht sie mit ihren fotografischen Arrangements an den Rändern der Fotografie. Das Buch ist die Essenz von Proschaks genreüber­greifenden fotografischen Skizzenbücher …

While the artistic practice of Andrzej Steinbach includes the medium of photography, sound, video works, sculptures as well as installations, he finds his focus in the field of photography. The publication Andrzej Steinbach: Models and Protocols theref …

The most comprehensive collection of New Yorker cartoons published in book form, The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons is a prodigious, slip-cased, two-volume, 1,600-page A-to-Z treasure! Nearly 3,000 cartoons from 1924 to the present have been curat …

This book assesses the paintings of Tal R (b. 1967), an Israeli-born Danish artist whose enigmatic work offers intersections of personal experience and wider history through a visual jigsaw, finely balanced between representation and abstraction, of wh …

Bilderbuch is a book of twenty-four images interpreted by Theresia Enzensberger. Images that broke news, made headlines–sometimes even replaced them–and went around the globe. In her texts, Theresia Enzensberger reflects on them and places them in an a …

Purple Magazine’s Revolution Issue is its most passionate ever, with stories infused with the love for change and alternative solutions and yet full of heartache as regression and inequalities rise.

Featuring: Jean Paul Gaultier, Sven Marquardt, Homi K. Bhabha, Marisa Olson, Charles O’Rear, Margeaux Labat, Maia Wyman, Kenny Campbell

41 artists, designers, writers, scientists and architects worked on contributions concerning strategies for the now, for the future, for the chess, for the disguise, for one self. As far as strategies go, the production of the contents for this book fo …

Fotobuch mit Farbabbildungen im Offsetdruck, gestaltet von Alexandra Rusitschka mit einem Text von Prof. Dr. Rolf von Lüde (dt.) Broschur, 48 Seiten, 17×24 cm, Auflage 500 Erschienen 09/2023

Was wir wahrnehmen, nehmen wir auch für wahr. Keinem Organ wird hierbei mehr Evidenz zugesprochen als dem Auge. Dabei ist das Sehen keineswegs unvoreingenommen. Perspektive, Wissen und Intuition prägen die Visualität. Was Realität ist und was Einbildun …

A total of 400 books which appeared in 2022 were entered into the annual competition for a chance to be named among the most beautiful Swiss books. All books were judged by a new jury chaired by Sereina Rothenberger. The designers of this catalogue too …

The 28th edition of The Gentlewoman arrives in style with Chaka Khan as this season’s cover star.

The Dailies collects snapshots of a world unmistakably our own yet equally strange. Made through Thomas Demand’s renowned practice of constructing, photographing, and destroying meticulous paper models, this series captures minor, everyday moments base …

Die jährliche Wettbewerbsdokumentation der Stiftung Buchkunst: “Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher” und der “Förderpreis für junge Buchgestaltung” in Wort und Bild.

176 Lexikoneinträge und 13 ausführlichen Fallbeispiele zur Protestarchitektur aus zwei Jahrhunderten: Resurrection City, Washington DC (USA, 1968); Republik Freies Wendland, Gorleben (Deutschland, 1980); Hüttendorf Startbahn West, Frankfurt am Main (De …

Who Can Afford to Be Critical?: An Inquiry Into What We Can’t Do Alone, as Designers, and Into What We Might Be Able to Do Together, as People

Honich – Magazin für literarische Texte ist ein junges Literaturmagazin aus Leipzig, das es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht hat, die Vielfalt der Literaturlandschaft zwischen Berlin und Leipzig, Wien und Basel abzubilden. Im Magazin werden literarische Texte …

What is an object? This question was addressed by Graham Harman, the originator of object-oriented philosophy and a central figure of speculative realism, in a lecture at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Providing a thorough exposition of the object from a …

The AA Book 2023 presents a synopsis of the 2022–23 academic year at the Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture. The layout of its pages has been generated by the students and tutors of each unit or programme within the school, in parall …

Der Kunstkritik wird seit Jahrzehnten eine Krise diagnostiziert – und auch einer ihrer Grundpfeiler, die Rezension, scheint schlecht dazustehen. In den Seiten überregionaler Tageszeitungen nimmt die Anzahl an Ausstellungsbesprechungen kontinuierlich ab …

Focusing on Enzo Mari’s book The Function of Esthetic Research (1970), which has become a rare physical artefact, only accessible to few, this record converts his words into an original musical encounter thanks to specialised computer-aided singing tec …

Malerisch liegt am Fuße des Erzgebirges das Schloss Wildenfels. Es ist vorrangig für seine einmaligen Interieurs aus dem 18. Jahrhundert bekannt. Sie lassen von fernen Länder und vergangenen Zeiten träumen. Auf den Wandbespannungen des „Chinesischen Ka …

Present’s mission is to inspire starting by producing stories from around the world on creating, discipline and self-care, through the lens of makers and creators of today. Cover 1 is a portrait of Hung La, founder of LUU DAN, photographed by Stanley M …