A newly revitalized edition of Tomi Ungerer’s children’s classic. Snail, where are you? At a party? At sea? In the mountains? Young sleuths will have hours of fun finding Tomi Ungerer’s snail in his many disguises. This beautiful, classic concept book, …

An overview of the work of illustrator and designer Milton Glaser during the 1960s and 70s From 1954, when he co-founded the legendary Push Pin Studios, to the late ’70s, Milton Glaser was one of the most celebrated graphic designers of his day, whose …

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Frank Gehry und Hans Scharoun sind einander nie begegnet – und doch sind zwei ihrer berühmtes- ten Bauwerke aufs Engste miteinander verknüpft: die Walt Disney Concert Hall von Gehry in Los Angeles (2003) und die Berliner Philharmonie von Scharoun (1963 …

The book examines the tower as the architectural expression of a long-term commitment to the city. The conclusion is that development must be driven not only by property value and architectural ingenuity but also by respect for collective memory and co …

Graphic Design in the Post-Digital Age examines the challenges and opportunities in the wake of the rapid rise of creative coding within a growing community of designers opting to make their own design tools. This comprehensive overview covers educatio …

The book is structured into twenty-nine essays, each dedicated to a pair of urbanistic concepts. Discussing historical and contemporary, interpretive and designerly approaches to urbanity, the notions composing the 29 pairs relate dialectically, as the …

Over one hundred tried, tested, and speculative exercises that expand the way we look at fashion, how we are part of its system, and how we can practice fashion otherwise. ‘Radical Fashion Exercises’ contains a copious collection of bottom-up activitie …

Nowness Files charts the evolution of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, under the deanship of distinguished architect Wiel Arets, from 2012-2018. It is the second publication in the NOWNESS series from Illinois Instit …

In Einstürzende Reichsbauten entwickeln die Künstlerin Henrike Naumann, die Kunsthistorikerin Angela Schönberger und der Architekt und Designtheoretiker Andreas Brandolini ein Projekt, das Naumanns Arbeit Ruinenwert (2019) in ein diskursives Verhältnis …

PAULA SCHER: TYPE IS IMAGE – MÜNCHEN, PINAKOTHEK DER MODERNE – Catalogue ed. by Angelika Nollert. Munich 2023/24. Beitr. von Caroline Fuchs & Angelika Nollert. 31 x 41 cm. 208 lose ineinandergelegte S. mit 101 farb. Abb. (herausnehmbare Poster).

An unprecedented survey of more than 250 architects who continue to define one of the most polarizing yet celebrated of styles Brutalist architecture inspires a passionate response, be it adulation or contempt. There is no disputing, however, that the …

ROZBEH ASMANI: 54 LITFASS KIOSK. Köln 2017. 14,5 x 24 cm. 56 S. mit farb. Abb., Ausst’verz., broschiert – Text in dt. & engl. Sprache.

Jedes Jahr prämiert der Verein 100 Beste Plakate e. V. die innovativsten und wegweisendsten Plakatentwürfe aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Das Jahrbuch, das von wechselnden Grafiker:innen und Designbüros entwickelt wird, stellt alle Gewinn …

FORMAFANTASMA: OLTRE TERRA – OSLO, THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ART, ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN – Catalogue ed. by Hanne Eide, Krisitian Wikborg Wiese & Marianne Yvenes. Oslo 2023. 21 x 28 cm. 192 S. mit 262 (154 farb.) teils ganzseit. Abb., broschiert – Te …

Seit vielen Jahren beschäftigt sich Carsten Nicolai (geb. 1965 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, heute Chemnitz, lebt und arbeitet in Berlin) mit Wahrnehmungsprozessen und macht die Mechanismen optischer wie akustischer Sinneseindrücke erlebbar. Von besonderem Inter …

Christian Jankowski, John Bock, Olaf Nicolai, Katharina Sieverding und Monica Bonvicini

Klub books, 2023

In the Swiss province, at the foot of picturesque mountains, on a quiet lake, a biotope of avant-garde design has formed. The self-proclaimed “Poster Town” Lucerne has managed to merge the boundaries between art and design, creating a contemporary desi …

The late 1960s saw the publication of underground magazines almost everywhere in Germany. They were part of a broad cultural tendency that was seen as revolutionary—a “great social happening” (Rolf Lindner) that originated in the USA and encompassed fi …

Now available in paperback, this book on the celebrated Dada artist Hannah Höch explores her use of collage as the artistic medium of choice for both satire and poetic beauty. World-renowned for her work during the Weimar period, Hannah Höch was a pion …

Die vorliegende Publikation würdigt das Frühwerk eines der Hauptvertreter der klassischen Moderne und präsentiert neben historischen Quellen neue, bisher unveröffentlichte Dokumentationen der Häuser und ihrer ersten Bewohner.

Nasser Road, Kampala: nicknamed Uganda’s Silicon Valley. This street is a mythical place known for its printing trade and as a centre of fraud. From fake identity cards to university degrees, anything can be made and bought here. This publication draws …

Eine grandiose Hommage an die Kunsthalle in Rotterdam, ein frühes Schlüsselwerk von Rem Koolhaas und OMA

Design spielte neben dem Städtebau und der Architektur eine zentrale Rolle für die Gestaltung der sozialistischen Zukunft. Ins besondere die Wohnungsfrage wurde auf beiden Seiten des Eisernen Vorhangs zum Gradmesser für die erfolgreiche Umsetzung der V …

The Advanced School of Collective Feeling explores the advent of radical new conceptions of the body—a phenomenon known in the 1920s and ’30s as “physical culture”—and their impact on the thinking of some of modern architecture’s most influential figur …

Das gewöhnliche Design (The ordinary Design) is a hidden classic of German design history, something the vinyl era would have called a B-side hit. As early as 1976 a group of students and young professors at the Faculty of Design at the University of A …

Platform is the Harvard University Graduate School of Design’s annual compendium of select student work, events, lectures, and exhibitions. Taking the artistic still life as its departure point, the ninth edition of Platform chronicles the 2015–2016 ac …

A Cat-Tree for the Arts is the name of the sculpture that provided low-threshold and free access to art in the foyer of the Kunsthaus Graz from 2019-2022.

Das Projekt Neuwerk – Magazin für Designwissenschaft wurde 2009 von Eva Kristin Stein und Florian Walzel im Rahmen des Masters Design Studies an der Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle initiiert. Die diesjährige Ausgabe des studentischen Magazins …

Matthias Brunner, Chris Dähne und Carsten Ruhl herausgegeben vom Center for Critical Studies in Architecture CCSA 100 Seiten 20 × 27 cm, teils mit verkürzten Seiten Gestaltung: hla.studio, Leipzig 14 farbige, 31 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 26 Zeichnunge …

Headdresses and head coverings are among the most powerful vehicles of cultural identity, referring variously to nationality, subculture, gender, ethnicity, religion, and profession. Yet cultural identity is also continuously evolving. ‘Hybrid Heads’ i …

Most Touched ist die bislang umfangreichste Fotosammlung von Türgriffen in Buchform. Mehr als 1.000 Exemplare trug die Design- und Architekturexpertin Barbara Glasner in jahrelanger Arbeit zusammen. Mit Fotografien von über 100 Künstler*innen, Architek …

On 4 May 1968, a few hours after angry student protesters in Paris had caused the Sorbonne to be evacuated, the exhibition 50 Years Bauhaus opened at the Württembergischer Kunstverein. Conceived by Herbert Bayer, Ludwig Grote, Hans Maria Wingler and Di …

Ronan Bouroullec has always drawn daily. A pure artistic practice that he considers autonomous from the profession for which he is internationally recognized. But if there is a porosity between these two sides of his activity which feed each other, Ron …

This publication can be considered an omnibus of sorts, accompanying the exhibition of the same name that took place at the MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome in 2021. Held at the IN-DESIGN section of the museum, the monographic column of Museu …

Exhibition catalogue edited by Dakin Hart The Noguchi Museum, 2017 Texts by Joseph Becker, Dakin Hart, Emily King Book design by Geoff Han Photography by Naho Kubota

The second edition on Exhibition Prosthetics is published on the occasion of Joseph Grigley’s exhibition at the New York Art Book Fair, 2010. “…moving closer to the artwork involves moving away from the artwork — to look closer at fringes and margins a …

Der Maler, Fotograf und Werbegrafiker Anton Stankowski entwickelte sein vielschichtiges Werk aus dem Kontext der 1920er-Jahre. Geprägt durch die Russische Avantgarde, De Stijl und die theoretischen Konzepte des Bauhauses avancierte Anton Stankowski zu …

Dieses Buch untersucht den Garten als Ort, an dem wir unser Verhältnis zur Natur gestalten. Eindrucksvolle Bildstrecken zeigen wegweisende Gartengestaltungen etwa von Derek Jarman oder Piet Oudolf und Textbeiträge von ExpertInnen hinterfragen kritisch …

16 × 24 cm, 504 pages, English, hardcover with Peydur neuleinen, offset printing with 10 HKS spot colors, thread-stitching, website access to see and test typefaces ISBN 978-3-948440-41-1

Kazuyo Sejima, William Baker, Wiel Arets, Junya Ishigami, Stefano Boeri, Peter Eisenman, Ben van Berkel, Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Phyllis Lambert, Riken Yamamoto, Herman Hertzberger, Armand Mevis, David Adjaye, Erwin Olaf, Dominique Perrault, Stan Alle …

What does the author’s ‘owning’ of a project mean? And does this sense of ownership still prevail in contemporary architecture culture? Other more open forms of cooperation and co-creation are emerging alongside the concept of individual singular autho …

The Auto-Ethnographic Turn in Design is emerging from a growing recognition of design’s capacity to make sense of one’s world while at the same time to express and convey this personal insight or knowledge through rich, layered, and ultimately meaningf …

Our identities used to be shaped by our communities, families, and friends, but in the online era we inhabit today, we are expected to write our own success stories on social media platforms. We design our own identity, create our own image, and presen …

Global dramas can lead us to question our own credibility and the significance of our own lives and/or actions. Recent events in Ukraine have led us, the Slanted team, to ask what our work is really for? Can we accelerate the transition to a sustainabl …