YRD.Works erarbeitet mit ihren begehbaren und nutzbaren Raumskulpturen eine aktive Schnittstelle zwischen Architektur, Performance und sozialem Ereignis. Ausgangspunkt für eine Projektidee ist neben besonderen Architektursituationen oft das Finden kult …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

STEDELIJK A-Z: EXPLORE THE COLLECTION. Text by Rein Wolfs & Frank van Lamoen. Cologne 2024. 11,5 x 17 cm. 333 S. mit 172 (153 farb.) teils doppelseit. Abb., Glossar, broschiert – Text in engl. Sprache.

Beginning with the exhibition craze of the 1950s, Linus Rapp’s monograph Wohltuende Sachlichkeit looks at the design work carried out at the HfG and the way this was reflected in theoretical considerations. In this sense, the book interprets exhibition …

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

From 2021 to 2024, OK-RM assembled a group of artists, designers, architects, researchers, musicians, and dancers to create new propositions for collective working and making. Commissioned by Goldwin 0 as a means to influence and inspire through new fo …

A book of images originally presented as a slideshow lecture.

The story of a stool, from its origin as a necessary furniture to repopulate a disused park in East London to becoming an ubiquitous sight in international art centres and people’s homes in New Zealand or Korea. Martino Gamper’s Arnold Circus Stool acc …

We draw diagrams to help us think, communicate, and put forth what we think is important or what we want to be true. While some diagrams are seen as statements of fact, they can also further agendas by discounting other realities beneath a cloak of per …

In 1961, Belgian architect René Heyvaert conceived ‘Denver Mosaic’ for a building on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado. Due to its scale, permanence, and site specificity, the mosaic has a spatial operation that is closely linked to architecture and em …

_Kulturgeschichter Abriss und Einordnung _Mit zahlreichen Praxisbeispielen _Zusammenstellung der besten Monospace-Schriften _Handbuch, Nachschlagewerk und Inspirationsquelle in einem Monospaced-Schriften gehen auf die Schreibmaschine zurück und sind ch …

Originally introduced by French biologist Pierre-Paul Grassé in 1959 to describe a coordination mechanism used by insects, the term “stigmergy” describes the principle that the work of a single agent-whether natural, animal or human-always leaves a tra …

Mit über 800 Werken beherbergt das Museum Ludwig eine der weltweit umfangreichsten Sammlungen zur Russischen Avantgarde. Über 70 Künstler aus dieser Zeit, darunter Persönlichkeiten wie Alexandra Exter, Natalja Gontscharowa, Alexei von Jawlensky, Wassil …

Mit über 800 Werken beherbergt das Museum Ludwig eine der weltweit umfangreichsten Sammlungen zur Russischen Avantgarde. Über 70 Künstler aus dieser Zeit, darunter Persönlichkeiten wie Alexandra Exter, Natalja Gontscharowa, Alexei von Jawlensky, Wassil …

An enticing collection of before-and-after scenarios, created by master artist and acclaimed author of “This Is Not A Book” Graphic artist Jean Jullien insightfully and comically depicts a set of clever and surprising before-and-after two-frame narrati …

design spasky fischer, new tendency, 2024    

From the iconic 1964 Olympics poster by Yusaku Kamekura to the psychedelic posters of Tadanori Yokoo, Japan has made its way to the forefront of impactful and effective graphic and poster design since its post-war days. Fast forwarding to the Reiwa era …

In der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts haben Designerinnen Pionierleistungen hervorgebracht. Ihr Mut und ihr Talent werden vor dem Hintergrund gesellschaftlicher Widerstände in Ausbildung oder weiblicher Selbstständigkeit sichtbar gemacht. Zu ihrer …

Today, design occupies an increasingly expansive field. Promoters argue that almost anything can be design. But by expanding its definition, design is no longer just about solutions and innovation, but often the root cause of problems and conflict. For …

Can design cater to a diverse society? How does it respond to the disparate demands of the people using it? Debates about inclusion and participation have been an important part of the design discourse since at least the 1980s. Contemporary design appr …

Welcome to the third issue of Sociotype Journal, the type specimen for designers who like to read. Our theme this time round is Home. What makes a home? And how does power (or the lack of it) change the concept and the reality of what ‘home’ means? Joi …

X/100 — Expect Nothing — Appreciate Everything The motto of this year’s 100 Beste Plakate is enticing and delivers on its promise: Every year, the association 100 Beste Plakate e. V. honors the most outstanding and creative poster designs from Germany, …

Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa have compiled 204 everyday objects in search of super normal design: alongside examples of anonymous design, there are design classics like by Jacobsen, Rams, Bill or Noguchi. With products by Newson, Grcic, the Azumi …

Als Metabolisten bezeichnet sich eine Gruppe von Architekten, Designer und Stadtplanern, die ihren ersten gemeinsamen Auftritt 1960 auf der World Design Conference in Tokio hatten. Dieser eindrückliche Bildband stellt die Architektur der Metabolisten v …

The Journey of Things by Magdalene Odundo has been published alongside the exhibition of the same name presented at The Hepworth Wakefield in Spring 2019. The book features 44 of Odundo’s vessels alongside a large selection of museological and contempo …

Visual Identity Design X Type Design & Typography We’ve done it a little differently this time around. To help inject even more value for you, we’ve partnered up with The Brand Identity as our guest Editor! TBI and its team of talented writers expl …

Künstlerbuch mit 47 einfarbigen Abbildungen im Offsetdruck, gestaltet von Jakob Kirch Broschur, 96 Seiten, 23,5×31 cm, Auflage 300, nummeriert und signiert Erschienen 05/2024 ISBN 978-3-910704-02-2

Wie kaum ein anderer verkörperte Alexander Rodtschenko (1891-1956) den Künstlertypus der Avantgarden, dessen Hauptinteresse sich auf rationale Verfahren der Formbildung richtet. Er betätigte sich auf praktisch allen Feldern künstlerischen Ausdrucks, ne …

More Paperwork explores the myriad number of everyday and specialized objects that utilize the considerable strengths, diversity, adaptability and versatility of paper. The author’s selection of paper-based products will be chosen both for their inhere …

Die Ausstellung sowie das Buch zur großen Bonner Werkschau des Biennale-Teilnehmers (Soloshow im deutschen Pavillon 2009) halten einige Überraschungen bereit. Vor allem das Buch gibt einen umfänglichen, von Liam Gillick selbst erstellten Überblick sein …

An original account of the life and work of legendary designer Jan Tschichold and his role in the movement in Weimar Germany to create modern graphic design. Richly illustrated with images from Jan Tschichold’s little-known private collection of design …

POV Magazin published by N.D. Plume @nd.plume Starting from Leipzig as a meeting point, this magazine collects different graffiti positions. Based on photographic documentation of graffiti as well as the before and after of the action, differences and …

The problems facing us during this particular global moment, together with continuous ecological and social transformations, constitute the starting point of the works created by the young Italian designers presented in Italy: A New Collective Landscap …

Seit der Moderne steht die Kunst für Freiheit, Provokation und Mut. 1972 sollte sie ihr Potenzial als emanzipatorische und gestalterische Kraft im Gesamtkunstwerk der Spiele der XX. Olympiade in München nachhaltig entfalten. Das war die große Vision de …

Textilien für die Räume der Moderne Im Berlin der frühen 1930er-Jahre schuf Otti Berger als weibliche Einzelunternehmerin Stoffe, die das Verständnis von dem, was Textilien sein und leisten können, grundlegend veränderten. Für ihre Möbelstoff-Designs, …

After a previous focus on questions of historiography and the archive, In Medias Res #2: Architecture in Motion continues Fluentum’s ongoing investigation into the history of its grounds with a focus on its architecture and surrounding material culture …

Dan Graham (1942–2022) was one of the most influential protagonists of conceptual art from the 1960s on. With his walk-through glass Pavilions, he places architecturally designed elements in space, thereby altering the viewer’s perceptions of its surro …

Ein Lehr- und Handbuch zur Konstruktion von Räumen ausgehend von zehn grundlegenden Raumtypen. Mit Beispiele u.a. von Gottfried Böhm, Félix Candela, Caruso St John Architects, Le Corbusier, Egon Eiermann & Sep Ruf, Annette Gigon / Mike Guyer Archit …