The two editors, graduate architects from the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture asked six renowned architects and four well-known artists, all among the latest generation in their field, about their underlying motivation, orientation and stances with r …

South African artist Nico Krijno’s photography exists at the intersection of performance, painting, montage, and sculpture. His photographs are full of visual codes, riddles, patterns, and colour. Krijno builds sculptures using discarded materials and …

Über sechzig Jahre lang sind Fan-Magazine – Fanzine – bereits eine der wichtigsten Ausdrucksformen der Selbstdarstellung. Oft handgemacht und selbst verbreitet, wird ihnen nachgesagt, nicht nur professionell hergestellte Zeitungen beeinflusst zu haben, …

‘The Mother Road’ is a publication that contains a double dvd with a five hour compilation video made from screen captures from the famed Route 66 as seen through Google Streetview. Hans Gremmen took 151.000 screen captures following the iconic Street …

Paul Graham’s Beyond Caring published in 1986 is now considered one of the key works from Britain’s wave of “New Color” photography that was gaining momentum in the 1980s. While commissioned to present his view of “Britain in 1984,” Graham turned his a …

Eine kritische Inventur 2019 jährt sich die Gründung des Bauhauses zum hundertsten Mal. Aus diesem Anlass hat ARCH+ mit dem „projekt bauhaus” eine kritische Inventur der Bauhausideen vorgenommen: In einem mehrjährigen Arbeitsprozess untersuchte eine in …

Every image in ‘All Our Suns’ is taken from Olaf Nicolai’s collection of pictures of outer space that have been printed in daily newspapers. These images suggest a high degree of objectivity, though technological settings as well as individual wishes a …

Hundertwasser, der weltbekannte Maler, entfaltete ein bahnbrechendes ökologisches Engagement und schuf eine natur- und menschengerechtere Architektur in Respekt vor der Natur und der individuellen Kreativität. Seine gesellschaftskritischen und ökologis …

Aurel Schmidt’s intricately detailed drawings are a reflection of her life here in New York in that their individual parts pulled from the physical and emotional detritus of downtown. The drawings include objects such as flies, condoms, and cigarette p …

Tillie S. Pine and Joseph Levine first published the children’s book ‘Gravity All Around’, illustrated by Bernice Myers, in 1963. In this new, unauthorised but admiring, edition graphic designer James Langdon gives the original a fresh twist by rotatin …

Guy Bourdin was a groundbreaking image-maker and undoubtedly one of the most influential fashion photographers of the twentieth century. Intriguing and revolutionary, his work has achieved a cult-like following; the striking use of color, suggestive na …

Heinz Hirdina is considered one of the foremost design theorists of the GDR. Together with the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Spector Books is publishing a three-volume set of the lectures on the Theory and History of Design that Heinz Hirdina held between …

Deutschland ist reich an herausragenden Zeugnissen moderner Architektur. Das Bauhaus war von Anfang an prägender Teil der Entwicklung des „Neuen Bauens“ im 20. Jahrhundert. Unser Verständnis von Leben, Arbeiten, Lernen und Wohnen ist nachhaltig davon b …

Over 37 years, i-D has carved its position as the premier source for fashion inspiration, and in 2012, joined the VICE Media family to expand VICE’s reach into digital fashion content. i-D has come a long way since its beginnings as a hand-stapled maga …

The publication looks at contemporary artistic practices that turn spaces into places. Space and place are explored as topics and mediums of playful investigation and serious reflection. Together with artists, designers, architects, curators, historian …

Every A Magazine Curated By is a new story waiting to be told …

60 Pages / DIN A4 / Drawings by the artist Ivana de Vivanco / High quality, thick and resistant Paper (175g/m2 Metapaper Extrasmooth)​ / Texts by the psychoanalyst (i.t.) Steffen Elsner / Designed by Patric Dreier.

Ecstatic Data Sets is a manual for a music-making machine of the near future. Whilst the technology already exists, these ideas are meant as a speculative projection, if read with a sympathetic ear this book could soon transform inside your mind and be …

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This recording features works by American poets Susan Howe and Nathaniel Mackey, as produced by visual artist Shannon Ebner. Juxtaposing historic and recent material from 1991–2018, the work brought together here examines the two writers’ lifelong preo …

Was ist Freundschaft? Die erste zwischenmenschliche Beziehung, die wir selbst wählen. Jörg Brüggemann und Tobias Kruse fragen, was für eine Art Beziehung »Freundschaft« ist, die weder familiär noch romantisch ist und doch oft so viel tiefer geht. Die b …

Katalog mit 146 Farbabbildungen im Offsetdruck, gestaltet von Anna Gille und Léo Favier mit einem Text von Lina Morawetz (dt./engl.) Broschur, 196 Seiten, 24,5×33,5 cm, Auflage 500 ISBN 978-3-945111-57-4

Katalog mit 25 Farbabbildungen im Offsetdruck mit Texten von Aneta Palenga und Georgia Ribes Zankl (dt.) Broschur, 48 Seiten, 20,9×16,5 cm, Auflage 500 Erschienen 04/2020 ISBN 978-3-945111-56-7

“Fingers Crossed” is a publication that showcases the result of research, design, and workshop processes during the ECAL/HKDI teaching residency program between September and December 2018 in Hong Kong. Published by Präsens Editionen, Luzern (CH) and w …

Middle Plane – Issue 02 Straddles the worlds of visual art and fashion. Each creation features a guest artist producing a limited collectable body of work Middle Plane #2 decided to work with Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s legacy. The collection comprises fou …

Katalog mit 115 Farbabbildungen im Offsetdruck, gestaltet von Bureau David Voss mit einem Text von Lina Morawetz (dt./engl.) Steifbroschur, 150 Seiten, 20×27,5 cm, Auflage 500 Erschienen 05/2020 ISBN 978-3-945111-58-1

Seitdem Europa sich in der Neuzeit anschickte, die Welt zum eigenen Nutzen zu erschließen und auszubeuten, setzte es seine Interessen mit Hilfe von Infrastrukturmaßnahmen durch. Mit reibungslosen und beschleunigten Stoffströmen mehrte Europa seinen Woh …

typography and graphic design

How can unique pieces be mass produced? Or: How can the computer take over and support creative work? Sol LeWitt writes in his Sentences on Conceptual Art: “The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. […] There are many side effects that the artis …

The work of Miranda July—the most impressively cross-disciplinary artist of her generation—is brought into focus in this mid-career retrospective. From her early rarely seen Riot Grrrl-influenced fanzines and performances to a career that has produced …

Wie wollen wir heute leben und mit welchen künstlerischen Mitteln können wir dafür Ansätze finden? Die ausstellungsbegleitende Publikation zum Utopischen bringt zeitgenössische Positionen aus Kunst, Architektur und Design in Dialog mit Referenzen der 1 …

The world is spinning faster than ever before and we are clinging on to an increasingly confusing explanation of why and where we are heading. In order to have a better understanding of the problems we face, The Free Lunch Commission will address one t …

MWH Enterprise is a series of fanzines using my commercial path as my source. They become a new portfolio, which will further redirect my work. I am a commercial photographer and the freedom that a fanzine gives me is bliss, so I will be launching a ne …

Released twice a year, KALEIDOSCOPE is a meeting place for a global community of creative minds, drawn by an audacious art direction and ever-surprising contributions from visionary artists, writers and image-makers. The magazine’s experimental approach also expands to our creative projects in print, online and live—as is best exemplified by the programming of Spazio Maiocchi, our home and exhibition space in Milan, and our annual festival Manifesto, inaugurated in 2019 at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris. Believing that artists are the real truth-tellers and agents of change, our work puts their vision and creativity front and center—a constant reminder about the importance of pushing boundaries and breaking new ground.

In the fine arts the 1990s are associated with conceptual sharpness and formal aesthetic reduction. But also with freedom of formats and expansion of curatorial action. During this time, the busy couple Axel and Barbara Haubrok began to build up a cons …

Rudy VanderLans has been documenting California’s landscape for years. For his latest monograph, This Vehicle Makes Frequent Stops, he’s selected more than 100 photographs spanning a decade and thousands of miles of California highways.

This book offers a visually unique approach to Frank’s films: only new stills taken from videotapes have been used and they add up to a visual essay on Frank’s cinema that establishes an engaging dialogue with his photographic work. Each film is introd …

Publications such as Rouge Fashion Book are looking to create something edgy and arty for the expanding Chinese niche market, bypassing China’s tight media controls with a Chinese and an American version

between design and art

Jedes Jahr prämiert der Verein 100 Beste Plakate e.V. die innovativsten und wegweisendsten Plakatentwürfe aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Das Jahrbuch ist längst zum Pulsmesser für Grafiker, Designer und Werbetreibende geworden. Dabei gilt …

From 1933 to 1934 Sanzo Wada published a collection of colour combinations that was the first of its kind in Japan. Following on that enduring bestseller, ‘A Dictionary of Color Combinations’ Vol. 2 brings back two more works by Wada published in 1935– …

oy Division fans, pop culture fanatics, and wannabe hipsters, take note. Forty years after the release of ‘Unknown Pleasures’, the band’s debut studio album, design studio Vieceli & Cremers presents ‘Division of Pleasures’. The album’s cover artwork wa …

From Adelaide to Zürich, The Place of Birth compiles the draft and final works of the 2019 Sandberg Instituut graduates from Master programmes Critical Studies, Design, Dirty Art Department, Fine Arts, Studio For Immediate Spaces, Radical Cut-Up, Shado …

OASE 105 – Practices of Drawing | It is hard to overstate the importance of drawing for architectural practice. Ever since antiquity, architects have relied on drawings to conceptualize ideas, provide instructions for workers and construct their ideas …

Wie steht es um deine Soft Skills, Darling? Während sich die Fronten gesellschaftlicher und politischer Realitäten verhärten, schaut die Epilog Nr. 9 auf die soften Nischen der Gegenwart und entdeckt Zärtlichkeit nicht als Rückzug, sondern als politisc …

This book focuses on Hans Haacke’s 2010 site-specific work, Once Upon a Time… in the desacralised church of San Francesco in Como, Italy, alongside the work Hans Haacke completed with students during his course as a visiting professor at the Fondazione …