‘Design in Conservative Times’ tackles conservatism in and around design, challenging both designer and user to actively engage with, and reflect upon their positions within our current, politically charged landscape. The focal point of this reflection …

What is artistic research? What is a research document? How do these relate to the making process, invention, and creativity? What exactly is expected of me? If you have ever asked yourself any of these questions, then this book is for you. Research Fo …

In October 2012, a group of 10 students from the Master Art Direction course at ECAL travelled to New York for a one week workshopat the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography. This publication is the result of interviews and photographic i …

This hands-on workbook playfully explores the tension between originality, imitation and individual taste by delving into Gerrit Rietveld’s design legacy through a selection of five do-it-yourself-copies of his iconic chair designs. Who are the people …

The prolific talent behind Radiohead’s iconic artwork reveals the creative process that has driven a career spanning more than 20 years. Widely regarded as one of the most important graphic artists of his generation, Stanley Donwood is the man behind R …

The anatomy of our bodies requires sitting; but do we design seats in the same way? Has our meaning of sitting been colonised by Modern design? And how is the diverse, social-cultural act of sitting itself reflected in this functional commodity? In obs …

Casco Issues is a magazine published by Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, which explores recurring issues that emerge from Casco’s program. The twelfth edition of Casco Issues, Generous Structures, is a playful enquiry into “playfulness” as a …

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, bekannt als Le Corbusier (1887–1965), beeinflusste die Gestaltung, Funktion und Bauweise von Gebäuden und Wohnhäusern ebenso wie die Kunst und das Design des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eine ausführliche, präzise Betrachtung seiner Rol …

Vehiculo. What was supposed to be a triptych on artistic views on mobility now gets a fourth chapter due to the overall positive responses we’ve received. This issue once again is filled with the output of forward-thinking individuals that much more pr …

Seit 20 Jahren prämiert der Verein 100 Beste Plakate e. V. die wegweisendsten Plakatentwürfe aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Zu seinem Jubiläum sind der Verein und seine Mitglieder sowie Grafiker:innen weltweit mit existenziellen Fragen ko …

Alfred H. Barr Jr., Gründer des Museum of Modern Art in New York, und Philip Johnson, angesehener Architekt, brachten Anfang der 1930er-Jahre die Prinzipien des Bauhauses nach Amerika – noch bevor Exilanten aus dem nationalsozialistischen Deutschland d …

The Handbook for Social, Ecological and Existential Utopia is published on occasion of the exhibition Life on Planet Orsimanirana. It understands itself as a ”collidoscope“ of a decentralised, non-hierarchical and generative process of world building b …

In Prospector – A Casting Eye on Haus-Rucker-Co and Post-Haus-Rucker Zamp Kelp, one of the founders of the legendary Viennese collective of architects and artists, sets out his intellectual cosmos and examines his performances, objects, and architectur …

Katalog mit 18 einfarbigen Abbildungen im Offsetdruck, gestaltet von Franziska Holstein und Jakob Kirch Broschur, 36 Seiten, 17×23,5 cm, Auflage 300 (nummeriert und signiert) Erschienen 06/2021 ISBN 978-3-945111-65-9

Das Haus der Kultur (HdK), heute Kultur- und Kongresszentrum (KuK), ist für Gera seit 40 Jahren stadtbildprägend. Das Gebäude verdeutlicht das kulturelle Selbstbewusstsein der während der DDR rasant wachsenden Bezirkshauptstadt Gera. Seine multifunktio …

Bastien Aubry, born in 1974 in Saint-Imier (Switzerland), attended the Ecole d’Arts Visuels Berne et Bienne, Switzerland. Since 2010 he is part of the artist group Aubry Broquard, which has been included in numerous exhibitions internationally, includi …

Bastien Aubry and Dimitri Broquard’s work is often based on everyday objects. Through a playful appropriation of design codes, they reinterpret and manipulate mundane objects, often with a tendency towards abstraction, to finally recontextualize them i …

Architecture on Display is a research initiative by Aaron Levy and William Menking that consists of interviews with each of the living directors of the Venice Biennale for Architecture. Architecture on Display is a research initiative by Aaron Levy and …

In the context of climate change, environmental degradation and related natural disasters, architectural photography takes on another dimension beyond aesthetic criticism, namely documenting processes for building sustainable and social housing. ‘Rebui …

Die Reihe «Visuelle Archive» ist das Ergebnis von Forschungsprojekten, die von der ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne initiiert und durchgeführt wurden. Sie nimmt unerforschte Hinterlassen­schaften von Designerinnen, Autoren und Marken in Augensche …

This publication is an updated reissue of the book designed by Experimental Jet Set and published on the occasion of ‘Wim Crouwel: Architectures Typographiques, 1956-1976’, an exhibition that took place in the beginning of 2007 at Galerie Anatome in Pa …

“New Aesthetic approaches type design as an opportunity to create art: looking at type design with a benevolence to experiments and processes, and finding potential in the unusual, that might point us into a new future of practicing visual communicatio …

D for Dummy Woman, M for Monster’s Tools, S for Style Defense, U for Unstable Signs – the Glossary of Undisciplined Design looks into undisciplinarity as a feminist unpacking of the field of graphic design, of dogmatic rules, discriminatory structures …

Crayon-Pinceau 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-Art …

The shift towards digital modes of production has fundamentally changed both cartography and graphic design. The omni-present computer, the interactive possibilities of digital media and the direct exchange of visual information through networks have b …

Enzo Mari curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Francesca Giacomelli examines over 60 years of activity of one of Italy’s greatest masters and theorists of design. The exhibition consists of a historical section and a series of contributions from internat …

Highlights of our SAVAGES issue include… – RICKY POWELL… It’s probably a truism, and doubly true for those of us invested in the idea of culture, that when we finally go, we have a nagging fear that others will eulogize us with half-baked notions abo …

The Cosmos of Design is a journey through the characteristic features of design thought processes that usu-ally occur unconsciously. With the help of simple examples, designing is explored step by step: Creative experimentation and speculative thinking …

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This book focuses on infographical designs that will be used for print and computer screen media, and introduces plenty samples of excellent designs all over the world. With contributions by Saskia Rasink, Studio Nebulosa, Vy Tat, Thomas Vanhuyse, Migu …

peter Behrens (1868-1940) ist ohne Zweifel einer der bedeutendsten europäischen Meister der Moderne. Nach Anfängen als Maler wird er um 1900 schnell zu einem Protagonisten der Kunstgewerbereform und des Deutschen Werkbundes. Seien Arbeit als Chefgestal …

REVELO – to unveil, to lay bare in Latin – proposes an immersion on the field of a building site by developing a collaborative process which aims to valorize its ­actors and their works. Through various chronicles, the contributors of this edition pres …

The establishment of a large number of small independent publishing houses fifteen years ago led to a revival of risography. Artists and designers from all over the world have installed a “Riso” in their studios to produce small print runs inexpensivel …

Experimental Jetset’s second volume in its self-reflective series is an inquiry into the role of the city as an infrastructure for language and vice versa, seen through the lens of four significant movements: Constructivism, Situationist International, …

It’s a manifesto for independent type foundries showcasing their work in an effort to promote freshly designed fonts, and why we should support them. An exhibit of over 400 of today’s most adventurous typography labels and designers, showcasing their p …

The flag bearing twelve yellow stars on a blue background has become Europe’s most recognisable symbol. Since its introduction by the Council of Europe in 1955, it has stood for the unification of Europe’s nation states. It was precisely this yellow ci …

Lucerne-based Armin Hofmann (* 1920) is considered one of the most influential graphic designers in Switzerland. With his extensive graphic and educational work, he has contributed significantly to the international reputation of Swiss graphic design a …

This atlas of more than one thousand Modernist architectural masterpieces uncovers hidden gems while offering new perspectives on old favorites. In 2006, architectural designer and curator Adam Štěch embarked on a photographic project to document the b …

In 1989, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) developed a daring architectural typology—a “project without form”. The setting is a laboratory headed by Rem Koolhaas, in which actors from different disciplines work on three competition challen …

In diesem Band wird mittels zusammengetragener Echt-Foto-Ansichts- karten der DDR ein vielfältiger Blick auf die Ostmoderne Architektur in Gera möglich. Sie zeigen eindrucksvoll die einstige Neubauarchitektur, Inneneinrichtung sowie die Bildkunstwerke, …

Enzo Mari curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Francesca Giacomelli examines over 60 years of activity of one of Italy’s greatest masters and theorists of design. The exhibition consists of a historical section and a series of contributions from internat …

Between 1954 and 1974, Hans Hillmann designed over 150 film posters for masterpieces of cinema — including films by Jean-Luc Godard, Luis Buñuel, Alfred Hitchcock, Sergio Leone, Ingmar Bergman, Orson Welles and Akira Kurosawa. In the early 1950s, while …

Edited by Benjamin H. Bratton, Nicolay Boyadjiev and Nick Axel 1st edition, 2020 Text in Englisch Paperback 548 pages, 470 color and 146 b/w illustrations 20 x 27 cm ISBN 978-3-03860-220-0 In cooperation with Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture, …

Before Alexa and the iPhone, there was the large and unwieldy mainframe computer. In the postwar 1950s, computers were mostly used for aerospace and accounting purposes. To the public at large, they were on a rung that existed somewhere between enginee …

The groundbreaking new study on the early Soviet Union’s Higher Art and Technical Studios, known as Vkhutemas, and their pioneering curriculum that has been a source of inspiration for generations of architects, designers, and artists until the present …

Architectural training seems to be more difficult to organize than ever before. After May 1968, education was radically democratised, or at least that was the intention. However, the 1999 Bologna Declaration radically changed the structure of architect …

‘Tokyo Papers’ comprises a collection of 41 monoprints created by Dutch graphic designer and typographer Karel Martens between 2019 and 2020. In 2018, Martens received a package from artist-curator Pierre Leguillon that contained filled-in Japanese for …

Published with Na Kim’s eponymous solo exhibition at the Seoul Museum of Art, which is dedicated to letting children explore the artist’s visual language through works in various mediums, this book offers a better understanding of those works and her o …