TOTAL ARMAGEDDON is about design. And culture. And complexity, notably how we, as a global civilization, deal with science fiction, taste, social media, the cities we live in, aesthetics, PowerPoint, burkas, Big Tech, full-contact sports, and other tho …

Author: Charlie Clemoes, Max Gershfield, Rudy Guedj, Mathew Kneebone, Lieven Lahaye, Carson Lee, Jungmyung Lee, Laura Pappa, Will Pollard, and Josse Pyl Client: J-LTF PRESS Designer: Karlis Krecers Pages: 224 Format: 110 x 180 mm Year: 2017 Price: € 15 …

“I collect misunderstandings and draw them.” Saehan Parc Originally from South Korea and now based in France, Saehan Parc graduated from Haute école des arts du Rhin (HEAR) in Strasbourg with a degree in illustration in 2017. Her images are made up of …

Dylan Jones (b. 1988, Keene, New Hampshire) is an illustrator and animator. As someone who has worked in the food industry for over a decade, Dylan feels that the road to efficiency means that one must learn to compartmentalize resentment. Pig looks at …

I thought it would be funny to make some drawings that reference the website, but rather than writing “Art” I decided to write “Abelow” in its place. These drawings are self-portraits. I just read a book called In the Flow by Boris Groys and there’s a …

Yannick Val Gesto admits to a self-confessed tendency to look for ‘hidden gems’ online — an act which fuels his art practice. He tries to find ‘rare’ pieces of visual integrity that can range from fan art to photographs to personalised memes, etc. What …

Johanna Tagada’s practice is built upon a commitment to extending art into daily life and, likewise, to incorporating daily life into artistic practice. The mutual inspiration of everyday rituals and artistic practice is particularly evident in Tea Ves …

The student projects from the preliminary course at the Bauhaus Dessau School of Design are a unique document of the learning process. They are evidence of the independent and multifarious approaches applied to the work of “translating” the particular …

Die Ergebnisse des Wettbewerbs werden auf einer Ausstellungstournee, beginnend mit der Auftaktausstellung in Berlin, anschließend an weiteren Stationen in D, A und CH gezeigt und im Jahrbuch »100 beste Plakate 17«, realisiert in Zusammenarbeit mit dem …

a dynamic platform that aims at documenting the Arab world’s visual culture through selecting and highlighting the best Arabic posters of the region – Originated in the German University in Cairo (GUC)

Die globale Rezeption bis heute – Die globale Ausstrahlung dieser Ikone der europäischen Moderne – das Buch zur zentralen Ausstellung zum Jubiläum 100 Jahre Bauhau

100 Jahre nach der Bauhaus-Gründung wird mit der Zeitschrift bauhaus ein bedeutsames Schriftzeugnis dieser Ikone der Moderne wieder zugänglich gemacht. In der von 1926 bis 1931 periodisch erschienenen Zeitschrift kommen bedeutende Stimmen der Bewegung …

Home Economics proposes alternative futures for the home, asking us to re-examine how we live through the lens of time. The book is the first print publication from The Spaces, produced to accompany the British Pavilion’s exhibition at the 15th Venice …

Poetic spaces, surreal structures and dramatic visions. The extraordinary career of Ricardo Bofill is collected in this monograph, which reveals his inspiring approach to architecture, and to life.

18 features a small selection of Ronan Bouroullec’s recent drawing. Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, born 1971 and 1976, respectively, in Quimper, France, studied at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and at the École des Beaux-Arts in Cergy-P …

The drawings in 101 are made with a software application conceived by Erwan Bouroullec which extracts lines and colors out of photographs. Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, born 1971 and 1976, respectively, in Quimper, France, studied at the École Nationale …

Typical buildings in four metropolises presented with plans, images and brief texts: the continuation of Christ & Gantenbein’s proven concept of building analysis.

This visual history brings together an extraordinary collection of books to illustrate a canon of more than five hundred years of Western book design. Beginning in 1471 with an edition printed by the influential Nicolas Jenson in Venice and ending in 2 …

Enghelab Street, Revolution Street, is located in the centre of Tehran—a main artery in the city’s cultural life with a host of bookshops. The publication presents a variety of photographic and propaganda books collected by Iranian artist Hannah Darabi …

Q: What did you do exactly? A: First, in May 2015, and then again in November 2017, we invited a selection of graphic designers to Otl Acher’s “Institut für analoge Studien” in Rotis, near Neukirch im Allgäu. Over two days these designers were intervie …

Der Band wirft einen neuen Blick auf Hannes Meyer – dem zweiten Bauhausdirektor in Dessau, der 1930 politisch aus dem Amt gedrängt wurde. Das Buch dokumentiert anhand von Faksimiles programmatischer Schriften, wie der engagierte Architekt und Sozialist …

Parallel Cities examines the history of the multilevel city with a focus on elevated pedestrian systems as a recurrent concept in urban planning and design. The book chronicles the evolution and migration of this concept from 19th-century French social …

Many designs that appear in today’s society will circulate and encounter audiences of many different cultures and languages. The Politics of Design enhances your visual literacy for communication beyond borders and cultures. “It’s the kind of literatur …

Denise Scott Brown hat die Entwicklung der Architektur seit den 1960er-Jahren in vielfältiger Weise mitgeprägt. Ihr rebellisches Leben führt sie durch drei Kontinente – von der Kindheit in Südafrika in den 1930er-Jahren über die Ausbildung in England i …

… This book is for color Blue as personal perspectives and phycological approaches. I’ve been making the book over 3 months traveling around a couple of countries including Korea, Japan and United States. Basically it deals with what I’ve seen throug …

Sachsen ist nicht bekannt für avantgardistische Modernität – doch es lohnt sich, genauer hinzuschauen und zahlreiche Bauhaus-Spuren zu entdecken. Da wären zum die Anwendungen von Bauhaus-Künsten in der seriellen Produktion in Leipzig, Weißwasser oder H …

Karl Nawrot is a graphic designer whose work has a pronounced architectural sensibility. His oeuvre includes typography, illustration, and abstract graphic compositions, and he uses techniques usually associated with architectural processes to create l …

Früher entwarfen Designer Gegenstände. Heute wird praktisch alles designt: das Klima, Prozesse, Flüchtlingslager. Wenn jedoch alles designt wird, ist es höchste Zeit, Design nicht länger allein nach ästhetischen Gesichtspunkten zu bewerten. Wir brauche …

To celebrate the release of their capsule collection, brands P.A.M and Facetasm have collaborated on a book featuring Misha Hollenbach (P.A.M), Fergadelic (Palace), artist Matt Damhave, photographer Ari Marcopoulous, Hiromichi Ochiai (Facetasm), Daisuk …

Herausgeber Martin Jaeggi Gestaltung Studio Achermann Gebunden, 460 Seiten, 224 Farbabbildungen 25.2 × 32.3 cm ISBN: 978-3-905929-25-6

During Milan’s Design Week 2018, the Vitra exhibition “Typecasting,” curated by Robert Stadler, presented 200 objects in the former sports hall La Pelota in the city’s Brera district. In addition to generous photographic documentation, this eponymous p …

annual art edition

The work of Geoff McFetridge is concerned with the human condition. He engages existence and semiotics from a curious, pragmatic, poetic and personal point of departure. His paintings, drawings and sculptures often (quite literally) circle around topic …

The World of Apartamento: Ten Years of Everyday Life Interiors features a collection of the most inspirational people and interiors featured in the publication over the last decade.

„Diamonds“ ist ein Zusammenschluss der sechs Künstler Dez78, Daniel Tagno, Markus Mai, Osif Seiksuh, P. Vector Codierer und Tryone. Jeder von ihnen hat Wurzeln in den Berliner Parallel- und Unterwelten – und hier vor allem im Bereich des Graffiti-Writi …

newsprint, catalog 2018

A vital survey of 32 internationally recognized artists who make books as part of their creative practice – features 500 images of these rarely seen works

Edited by Kenichi Abe. Text by Hiroko Ikegami, Shinji Nanzuka, Keiichi Tanaami. This collection of collages by Tokyo pop artist Keiichi Tanaami (born 1936) presents a thrilling 1960s barrage of weaponry, superheroes and movie stars. Tanaami was on the …

Edition 76135 – Books from the HfG Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design The Manual of Travelling Exhibitions published by UNESCO in 1953 is a handbook on organizing touring exhibitions. Aimed at museums and other public institutions, it formulates a …

Protest. presents and reflects on present and past forms of protest and looks at marginalized communities’ practices of resistance from a wide variety of perspectives. The publication shows how protest draws on irony, subversion, and provocation from a …

A project on visual literacy for which Onomatopee invited graphic designers/typographers to visualise their position in relation to visual literacy. These visions resulted in the publication of vis à vue, a visual manual for visual culture. As people i …

Protest. presents and reflects on present and past forms of protest and looks at marginalized communities’ practices of resistance from a wide variety of perspectives. The publication shows how protest draws on irony, subversion, and provocation from a …

Der vielfach ausgezeichnete US-amerikanische Filmemacher Wes Anderson und seine Frau, die bekannte Kostümbildnerin Juman Malouf, zeigen ihre Lieblingsstücke der Wiener Museen. Innerhalb von zwei Jahren trafen sie ihre Auswahl aus mehr als vier Millione …

catalog 2016

Olgoj Chorchoj is a legendary poisonous sandworm of giant proportions which is supposedly found in the Gobi desert in Asia. It is said that nobody has seen it and lived to tell the tale. Mongolian herdsmen are even afraid to speak its name; for many of …

Contributions by Iggy Cortez, Cayetano Ferrer, Roksana Filipowska, Ane Graff, Milena Hoegsberg, Tom Holert, Charlotte Ickes, Marina Isgro, Rachel de Joode, Homay King, Alex Klein, Ignas Krunglevičius, Chris Marker, Daria Martin, Florian Meisenberg, Sha …

Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose a kind of design that is used as a tool to create not only things but ideas. For them, design is a means …