Bertjan Pot’s most well known product is probably the Random Light (1999) but the Masks he makes out of colourful rope have also drawn quite some attention. Both the Random light and Masks started as a material research, which is basically the starting …

Designer Markus Weisbeck has had a sustained focus in recent years on basic visual research. This book presents eighteen visual works created between 2011 and 2022. Most of the designs are predicated on the principle of improvisational loops. Interim r …

Katalog mit zahlreichen Farbabbildungen im Offsetdruck, gestaltet von Andrej Loll mit einem Text von Saskia Dams (dt.) Broschur, 128 Seiten, 23×31 cm, Auflage 750 Erschienen 11/2022 ISBN 978-945111-84-0

Erstmals erzählt vorliegende Publikation die Geschichte des wegweisenden norwegischen Designers Terje Ekstrøm (1944-2013), dessen Entwürfe zur Erneuerung und Unabhängigkeit der norwegischen Designszene in den 1970ern und 1980ern beitrugen. Ekstrøm steh …

Whether a keepsake, memento, or heirloom, everyone has their own talis- mans: objects with a value that is only of significance to their owner. The meaning of such objects gets assigned silently, internally, often without any words being articulated, a …

The chairs in this private collection are not an assembly of objects of everyday use. They are a congregation of creatures often eluding their primary purpose as seating. Metaphorically exaggerated height and disassociation transform the chairs into in …

German / English First edition of 500 252 pages, 25,5 x 19,6 cm published by Kult Books ISBN: 978-91-984059-8-9     Die Arbeit ist eine visuelle Studie der architektonischen Infrastruktur für die Unterbringung von Geflüchteten in Deutschland …

Books in reverse chronological order 2022-1986. With comments here and there. Text by Irma Boom, Rem Koolhaas, Michael Rock, Mathieu Lommen, Louwrien Wijers, Nina Stritzler-Levine & Johan Pijnappel. 3rd rev. & expand ed. Cologne 2022. 51,5 x 67 …

A much-needed publication celebrating the endless creativity of Anni Albers, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Anni Albers (1899–1994) was a textile designer, weaver, writer and printmaker, who was among the leading pioneers …

‘Graphic Design Is (…) Not Innocent’ questions ingrained approaches, values, and assumptions of graphic design in globalised societies. The publication aims to initiate a dialogue between designers, scholars, critics, and commissioners, who investiga …

Ettore Sottsass (1917–2007) was an architect and designer, labeled the godfather of Italian design. Born in Austria and based in Milan, Sottsass studied architecture at the Politecnico di Torino in Turin. After spending most of World War II in a concen …

Das Design Methods Movement war eine sehr unbeliebte Bewegung – so unbeliebt, dass sogar ihre Begründerinnen sich bald von ihr distanzierten. Hartnäckige Auseinandersetzungen über die Art und Weise des Entwerfens legten die politische Dimension von Ges …

British architect Cedric Price (1934–2003) had a lifelong fascination with the mechanization of society and its effect on people’s lives. In the 1960s and ’70s, Price began to look for answers to some of the pressing problems he saw in society in the t …

Founded in 1988 by Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, UNStudio is one of the most successful architectural practices in the Netherlands. With projects such as the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Arnhem Central Station, Raffles City Hangzhou in China o …

The Nest is a book, conceived and designed by Scott Massey, about process—the process of designing, and how it changes both what we make and who we are. The Nest is also a book about memory—how memory builds up in layers and influences our experiences, …

Piet Mondrian hat die Entwicklung der Malerei von der Figuration zur Abstraktion maßgebend geprägt. Anlässlich seines 150. Geburtstags widmet sich Mondrian Evolution seinem vielgestaltigen Werk und seiner künstlerischen Entwicklung. Zunächst in der Tra …

Edited by James Glisson. Contributions by Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Aaron Betsky, Marshall Brown, and James Glisson. Foreword by Larry J. Feinberg 1st edition , 2022 Text in English Hardback 124 pages, 102 color and 9 b/w illustrations 23 x 31 cm ISBN 978 …

Edited by Nele Dechmann and Atlas Studio. Contributions by Nele Dechmann, Tom Emerson and Silvan Lerch. Photographs by Titus Solohery Andriamananjara and Nele Dechmann 1st edition, 2022 Text in English Hardback

A landmark survey of one of architecture’s most controversial yet popular styles – in a great, new, classic edition The Brutalist aesthetic is enjoying a renaissance – and this book documents Brutalism as never before. In the most wide-ranging investig …

Karel Martens ist seit vielen Jahrzehnten eine einflussreiche Figur in der visuellen Kultur der Niederlande. Martens hat einen Abreißkalender “Jeder Tag ist ein neuer Tag” entwickelt. Für jeden Tag des Jahres hat Martens ein einzigartiges Design gescha …

Le Corbusier’s buildings have long been part of the inalienable canon of twentieth-century architecture. But Le Corbusier’s work as a book designer and author is scarcely known. He planned and realized over 40 books in his lifetime. Architect of Books …

With contributions by 6A ARCHITECTS, GLENN ADAMSON, ASSEMBLE, JEREMY DELLER, PETER DORMER, TANYA HARROD, MARTINA MARGETTS, CLARE TWOMEY, JOHN ROBERTS, CATHARINE ROSSI, RICHARD SENNETT, FLORE DE TAISNE The notion of the handmade has shifted from the mar …

Bitterfeld’s county museum, Kreismuseum Bitterfeld, contains a black box with herbaria dating from 1931. This collection, compiled by botanist Hans Weber, is an inventory of the flora gathered in the nearby Goitzsche region, a forested area of floodpla …

Sam Chermayeff [et al.]: Creatures, edited by Moritz Küng, is a look back through nearly two decades of experimental projects undertaken by the Berlin-based architect Sam Chermayeff and his collaborators—for the most part pieces of furniture whose use, …

How do we make sense of the Earth at a moment in which it is presented in crisis? Geostories is a manifesto on the environmental imagination that renders sensible the issues of climate change and through geographic fiction invites readers to relate to …

Verlag Kettler, D-Dortmund deutsch/englisch, 704 Seiten, 16,5 × 24 cm, Softcover Gestaltung: Claudiabasel Grafik & Interaktion, CH-Basel ISBN 978-3-86206-995-8

Inspired by an interview with Bruce Lee, where he refers to an aspect of Taoist philosophy, that water can teach us “the way,” the graphic designer, creative activist, lecturer, author, and founder of the eponymous studio for branding communication Raf …

Tobias Rehberger (geb. 1966 in Esslingen, lebt und arbeitet in Frankfurt/Main) verbindet in seinen bildhauerischen Arbeiten Strategien aus unterschiedlichen, auch kunstfernen Disziplinen. Mit seinen zur Nutzung bestimmten Interieurs gehört er zu den ei …

Swiss university ECAL is widely considered to be among the leading art and design institutions of the past two decades. Here, for the first time, ECAL’s teaching methods are revealed to a wider readership. The book poses the question ‘How should design …

About the book “Chances are if you’ve shaved with an electric razor, blow-dried your hair, or sparked up a cigarette in the past 60 years, you owe a debt of gratitude to Dieter Rams.” – New York Times Made in close collaboration with Rams himself, this …

Museums facilitate encounters among visitors, objects, and stories while also facilitating the staging of these visits. In the 19th century, the transition from city to museum interior was dramatized, while in the 20th-century post-war period the “barr …

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With elementary materials—wood, paper, clay, tape, paint—Fleur van Dodewaard creates ephemeral compositions that play with the possibilities of photography, sculpture, and painting. Situated at the intersection of these disciplines, her work uses photo …

The sulphur concrete block came out of various experiments performed by the Minimum Cost Housing Group at McGill University in Montreal in the 1970s. The international research group explored self-building using materials that would present an alternat …

Architects and urban planners have long oscillated between powerlessness and megalomania, seeking to design habitats, civilisations, and even the entire planet. But in the current climate of geopolitical uncertainty, occurring against the backdrop of u …

Forming a comprehensive picture of the multiple processes, regulations, institutions, technologies, networks, and operations that we have come to understand as the distributed infrastructural arena in which we act, yield, and plot is a perennial challe …

What role might architecture—and the architect—play in the twenty-first century? What possibilities arise when we view architecture as a form of agency rather than as a collection of objects? What spatial dynamics emerge when we turn our practices away …

American Bauhaus creates a space for the history of Black Mountain College, which provided a new creative home for many World War II refugees in Europe from 1933 to 1957 and allowed the Bauhaus to live on in the United States. A unique place of freedom …

New Aesthetic 3 A Collection of Experimental and Independent Type Design by Leonhard Laupichler & Sophia Brinkgerd (ed.) 272 pages ISBN 978-3-9820440-9-5 Design and art are constantly evolving. In both professions, we either risk that our work is t …

Vor langer Zeit, so die Theorie, als die Menschen anfingen Bauwerke zu entwerfen, gab es zwei Arten von Gebäuden. Es gab Häuser, für alltägliche Bedürfnisse, und es gab Tempel, um das Bedürfnis nach etwas jenseits des Alltäglichen zu befriedigen. In be …

The Urban Design (UD) degree programme has been working on different types of urban research since 2008. »Tom Paints the Fence« is a presentation of UD’s urban narrative: the city is not a given entity but is something we produce. The project thus comb …

Herbert List was fascinated by the ”artificial humans“—life-size figures moulded in wax—on display at the Panoptikum in Vienna’s Prater. In 1944, he photographed these waxworks, depicting them as “corpses set in position and daubed with make-up—frozen …

The publication is based on the editor’s discussions with the architect, civil engineer, and artist Hans-Walter Müller, who has been developing forms of pneumatic architecture since the late 1960s. Müller has designed inflatable volumes for artists lik …

Drifters, by classic definition, aren’t necessarily individuals you want to spend time with, as they tend to waste everything from everyone else before they disappear. They’re regarded as scammers, frauds, bottom feeders, wanderers. They are pioneers o …

Contributions by ARTS OF THE WORKING CLASS, CLAUDIA BANZ, LISA BAUMGARTEN, STEFF BENTRUP, BRAVE NEW ALPS, COLIN CROUCH, HANS-CHRISTIAN DANY, DESIGNER + CULTURAL, WORKERS UNION, DESIGN INTERNS CLUB, DIEDRICH DIEDERICHSEN, EMMA DOWL… more A critical di …

Im großen Chor der Kunstszene ist der Autorenschmuck eine kleine, aber gut vernehmliche Stimme. Unter den angewandten Künsten ist er seit einigen Jahrzehnten Motor für Innovationen und Seismograf für aktuelle Diskurse. Das GRASSI Museum für Angewan …

A project for making easy-to-assemble furniture using rough boards and nails. An elementary technique to teach to look at present production with a critical eye