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 …

This ambitious book brings together a wide international selection of new and recent writing by educators and practitioners who question the rules and hierarchies of graphic design education today. It holds a vivid mirror up to the ways in which graphi …

“Soll Kaufkraft erreichbar sein, muss die Produktion auf diejenigen zugeschnitten werden, die sie haben. Wertvolle Materialien, raffinierte Behandlung der Oberflächen, verblüffende Materialkombinationen und künstlerische Komposition werden hoch gehandelte Gestaltungskategorien. Das Ganze ist aber nicht experimentelle Lust, um das notwendige Repertoire zu erweitern, vielmehr wird das Design artifiziert. Der Handel mit diesen Waren verbindet sich mit der Propaganda von Designerpersönlichkeiten. Sie treten wie „Kultur”-Idole, wie „Stars” auf, nur nicht so massenhaft. Das trifft besonders im Bereich des Möbelbaus und der Raumausstattung zu. Myriaden von Stühlen, Sesseln, Regalen und Lampen füllen die internationalen Fachzeitschriften. Das Hauptinteresse gilt den sinnlichen Qualitäten der Dinge. Ihr Gebrauchszusammenhang ist primär repräsentativ. Gebrauch wird Inszenierung, Demonstration luxuriöser Verhältnisse, Darstellung von Reichtum und abstrakter Modernität, vorlaute Dekoration. Merk-würdig !” Chup Friemert Re-Print der Erstveröffentlichung in der Reihe Materialien Nr. 4 / 83, herausgegeben von der Presse und Informationsstelle der Hochschule der Künste Berlin 1983

in light of the reawakening interest in R. Buckminster Fuller’s works and thoughts, and of their growing importance for our technological world, it is time for a reedition of this comprehensive and legendary publication from 1999. The visual reader You …

Riso Paradiso is a collective of six individuals connected by research and creation in the fields of risography, graphic design, printing techniques, visual communications, photography, illustration and publishing. The book is continuation of a residen …

The LODOWN 25 − 10 SCRAPBOOK issue offers a free-wheeling stream of consciousness, an iconoclastic bundle of joy, a possible antidote against the new Biedermeier. Please do me a big favour and inform me about the amount of copies you’d like to order, a …

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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 …

Beauty lies in the details. Organised each year, the competition for the Most Beautiful Swiss Books recognises outstanding graphic design in the field of books, promotes and showcases high-quality production, and raises public awareness of the winning …

Presented here are the results of the annual competition to discover the most beautiful Swiss books, but published as nineteen separate issues. Designer Teo Schifferli transformed the nineteen winning books into vessels for the catalogue, with a graphi …

Teo Schifferli, whose work involves the idea of “the architecture of the book”, was responsible for the design and typesetting of this year’s roundup of the best of Swiss books. The catalogue can be viewed as a list of characteristic elements drawn fro …

Creativity has been hailed as the driving force and most important skill of the twenty-first century–a power to be taught, understood and deployed on all levels of society. Debate concerning the origins and potential of creativity is mostly confined to …

OASE 105 – Practices of Drawing | It is hard to overstate the importance of drawing for architectural practice. Ever since antiquity, architects have relied on drawings to conceptualize ideas, provide instructions for workers and construct their ideas …

Norm was formed in 1999, and today involves the graphic designers Dimitri Bruni, Manuel Krebs, and Ludovic Varone. The Swiss studio’s precise solutions are characterised by reduction and strict rules like grids, proportions, and modularity, based on a …

As the Cold War gained momentum in Europe, Tito’s break with Stalin led to Yugoslavia being expelled from the Eastern bloc in 1948. Confronted with this new reality, the Yugoslav government decided to bridge the indeterminacy of its cultural politics t …

Ausstellen des Ausstellens untersucht die Geschichte des Ausstellens von der Vergangenheit bis in die Gegenwart. Die Ausstellung in der Staatlichen Kunsthalle Baden-Baden nimmt ihren Ausgangspunkt bei den Vorläufern der modernen Museen und frühen Kunst …

Written by one of the twentieth century’s leading textile artists, this splendidly illustrated book is a luminous meditation on the art of weaving, its history, its tools and techniques, and its implications for modern design. First published in 1965, …

Bauhaus and documenta are two globally successful cultural brands, representing a modern Germany that is both cosmopolitan and innovative. They both came into being at a time when civilization was in a state of collapse, and they both exemplify the ide …

errestrial Tales: 100+ Takes on Earth is a collection of representations of the globe over the last 2000 years – from a sculpture of the 2nd century Farnese Atlas, in which the celestial sphere rests heavily on the Titan’s shoulders, to one of the many …

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, …

The two editors, graduate architects from the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture asked six renowned architects and four well-known artists, all among the latest generation in their field, about their underlying motivation, orientation and stances with r …

Über sechzig Jahre lang sind Fan-Magazine – Fanzine – bereits eine der wichtigsten Ausdrucksformen der Selbstdarstellung. Oft handgemacht und selbst verbreitet, wird ihnen nachgesagt, nicht nur professionell hergestellte Zeitungen beeinflusst zu haben, …

Eine kritische Inventur 2019 jährt sich die Gründung des Bauhauses zum hundertsten Mal. Aus diesem Anlass hat ARCH+ mit dem „projekt bauhaus” eine kritische Inventur der Bauhausideen vorgenommen: In einem mehrjährigen Arbeitsprozess untersuchte eine in …

Hundertwasser, der weltbekannte Maler, entfaltete ein bahnbrechendes ökologisches Engagement und schuf eine natur- und menschengerechtere Architektur in Respekt vor der Natur und der individuellen Kreativität. Seine gesellschaftskritischen und ökologis …

Tillie S. Pine and Joseph Levine first published the children’s book ‘Gravity All Around’, illustrated by Bernice Myers, in 1963. In this new, unauthorised but admiring, edition graphic designer James Langdon gives the original a fresh twist by rotatin …

Heinz Hirdina is considered one of the foremost design theorists of the GDR. Together with the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Spector Books is publishing a three-volume set of the lectures on the Theory and History of Design that Heinz Hirdina held between …

Deutschland ist reich an herausragenden Zeugnissen moderner Architektur. Das Bauhaus war von Anfang an prägender Teil der Entwicklung des „Neuen Bauens“ im 20. Jahrhundert. Unser Verständnis von Leben, Arbeiten, Lernen und Wohnen ist nachhaltig davon b …

How can unique pieces be mass produced? Or: How can the computer take over and support creative work? Sol LeWitt writes in his Sentences on Conceptual Art: “The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. […] There are many side effects that the artis …

Wie wollen wir heute leben und mit welchen künstlerischen Mitteln können wir dafür Ansätze finden? Die ausstellungsbegleitende Publikation zum Utopischen bringt zeitgenössische Positionen aus Kunst, Architektur und Design in Dialog mit Referenzen der 1 …

Jedes Jahr prämiert der Verein 100 Beste Plakate e.V. die innovativsten und wegweisendsten Plakatentwürfe aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Das Jahrbuch ist längst zum Pulsmesser für Grafiker, Designer und Werbetreibende geworden. Dabei gilt …

From 1933 to 1934 Sanzo Wada published a collection of colour combinations that was the first of its kind in Japan. Following on that enduring bestseller, ‘A Dictionary of Color Combinations’ Vol. 2 brings back two more works by Wada published in 1935– …

From Adelaide to Zürich, The Place of Birth compiles the draft and final works of the 2019 Sandberg Instituut graduates from Master programmes Critical Studies, Design, Dirty Art Department, Fine Arts, Studio For Immediate Spaces, Radical Cut-Up, Shado …

OASE 105 – Practices of Drawing | It is hard to overstate the importance of drawing for architectural practice. Ever since antiquity, architects have relied on drawings to conceptualize ideas, provide instructions for workers and construct their ideas …

– SYD SHELTON… in late 70s England, Shelton was a key-activist in the RAR movement, not only as a photographer and visionary, but also as one of the driving forces behind the accompanying, brilliant publication “Temporary Hoarding“ – a magazine that …

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 …

Rem Koolhaas widmet sich mit seinem neuesten Forschungsprojekt den rasanten und oft verborgenen Veränderungen, die sich in den weitläufigen, nicht-urbanen Regionen der Erde ereignen. Diese ländlichen, abgelegenen oder verwilderten Gebiete sowie die 98% …