After the end of the Second World War, it becomes clear that the victorious powers cannot agree on a joint future for Germany. The Cold War begins. Germany is divided into two separate states. In Berlin, the division is carried out on a small scale. In …

“At a moment of tremendous technological and cultural change, David Reinfurt makes the case that graphic design is not merely a craft, but a fundamental way to understand and engage with the world. Discursive, expansive, and inspiring, this book redefi …

An East German mordernism existed in parallel to West German modernism in the fields of architecture and design. Walter Scheiffele shows the interplay between the two by looking at furniture making, for which the Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau had been …

Radical Cut-Up: Nothing Is Original investigates the cut-up as a contemporary mode of creativity and important global model of cultural production. The term cut-up serves as an open container for a long list of terms and actions that describe the combi …

This versatile collection presents the ideal library for anyone who wants to know how type works and, more importantly, how to use it. A compilation of 100 must-reads on typography and typeface design caters to professional graphic designers, students …

Arabische Schrift und Kalligrafie gehören unmittelbar zusammen. Frühere Kalligrafen kreierten die schönsten arabischen Schriften. Mit dem sichschnell ändernden Zeitgeist haben sich die Anforderungen an die arabische Schrift allerdings geändert beziehun …

klasse Typografie Leipzig, hgb Leipzig (prof. Ludovic balland), 2019

‘Psychedelic Death Pop’ is a sprawling, large-format collection of recent visual work by Keiichi Tanaami. As one of the leading pop artists of post-war Japan, he has remained active as multi-genre artist since the 1960s, with works spanning graphic des …

The first wooden letters were craft-produced in the 18th century. Their use spread with the expansion of commercial advertising in the 1820s; production was mechanised and new types with increased visibility were created. In addition to dated products, …

Typeface Hack: Schriftgestaltung Hochschule Augsburg Maurice Göldner (Hrsg.), Studierende der HSA Projektdokumentation Juli 2019, Lab M 3.11b 2019

From street fashion to high culture the work of Virgil Abloh, a celebrated young multihyphenate artist, is showcased in this lavishly illustrated book. Virgil Abloh’s story is both quintessentially and subversively American. Born to Ghanaian parents in …

The “Swing” can be either a book, a game, or an entertaining strip to hang up. The concertina-fold pages are full of black and brown stylised animals that chase one another, overlap, leap with their “heavy bodies” onto the ends of the simplest of swing …

Für die Ausstellung BAU [ SPIEL ] HAUS hat das Neue Museum Nürnberg, gefördert durch den Fond Bauhaus heute der Bundeskulturstiftung, zum 100. Jubiläum der Gestaltungsschule eine ambitionierte, dreiteilige Publikation herausgegeben: einen Katalog, eine …

Dutch artist and contemporary jeweller Manon van Kouswijk’s working methodology is based on exploring and translating archetypal jewellery forms and motifs through a range of materials and processes. An integral aspect of her practice is the framing an …

(English edition). Ausst’publikation. Fondation Beyeler, Basel. Hatje Cantz 2016. Beiträge von Theodora Vischer, Sam Keller et al. Englisch. 272 Seiten, 301 Abb. 24,6 x 30,5 cm. 1,7 kg. Leinen. 9783775741279. art-19063

FK TYPE: FACES doku­mentiert Arbeiten der Fachklasse für Type-Design der HGB Leipzig im Entstehen.

Speaking of: Youth isn’t simply this once in a lifetime event, it neither just appears from out of nowhere nor does it vanish on a specific day. It feels more like an ebb and flow kinda thing without its affiliated orderliness. The marketing machines m …

Crash, the independent magazine for Fashion and Arts Lovers.

_ Featuring exclusively women graphic designers _ Promising newcomers and established studios _ Each presented by brief introduction followed by selection of works _ Includes interviews on the topic with 22 notable women from the design scene As a resp …

The English architect, historian, critic, and educator Kenneth Frampton received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the latest Venice Biennale 2018. There is no architecture student that is not familiar with his book ‘Modern Architecture: A Cr …

Born in 1940 in Amsterdam, Anton Beeke learned graphic design without any formal training. He was renowned for his provocative poster designs, which explored themes of love, sex, and violence, for numerous clients, including theatre groups such as Tone …

Theory of Type Design’ by internationally renowned type designer Gerard Unger is the first comprehensive theory of typeface design. This volume consists of 24 concise chapters, each clearly describing a different aspect of type design, from the influen …

Why do design? What is design for? These are forward-looking questions for a creative discipline that seems more slippery to define than ever. In a world of dwindling natural resources, exhausted social and political systems, and an overload of informa …

Ex Nihilo is a project by artist Daniel Shea and OK-RM, commissioned by 1017-ALYX-9SM. It is a work of fiction, exposing the mysteries of how matter and being appear to emerge from nothing. At times, these artefacts have been formed by a geological aeo …

With his residential buildings, office blocks, schools and factories, Boris Velikovsky (1878–1937) made a definitive contribution to Russian avant-garde architecture. His early constructions, such as Gribov House in Moscow, are still very much bound to …

Ralf Burmeister, Michaela Oberhofer, Esther Tisa Francini (Hrsg.). Ausst’publikation. Berlinische Galerie. Scheidegger & Spiess 2016. Beiträge von Christian Kaufmann, Johannes Beltz et al. Deutsch. 224 Seiten, 241 Abb. (davon 203 farbig und 38 s/w). 23 …

Die Publikation „Bauhaus | documenta. Vision und Marke“ (hrsg. von Birgit Jooss, Philipp Oswalt und Daniel Tyradellis) verbindet die thematischen Ausrichtungen der Ausstellung mit den kunsthistorischen Perspektiven der Virtuellen Ausstellung. Die reich …

Each issue of TO THINK asks just one question and aims to see what happens when we place deep thinkers together by raising debate around questions we are constantly faced with; and by doing so deliberately force new collisions and contrasts that allow …

Curated by Risa Hirota, the exhibition ‘Shapes and Forms: Clothes, The Body’ at Iwami Art Museum in Japan examines the echoes between the shape of a garment and the human figure, as well as the relationship between the two. It is also the first large-s …

Art works inspired by Mies van der Rohe by international artists such as Rita Ernst, Daniel Libeskind, Sarah Morris, Erwin Wurm, Rem Koolhaas, Konstantin Grcic, Kurt Schwitters, Carl Andre, Peter Eisenman, Isa Genzken, Alexander Calder, Thomas Ruff, Ed …

Jahrzehntelang war die Designerin und Architektin Eileen Gray (1878-1976) so gut wie vergessen. Heute wird sie im selben Atemzug mit Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe oder Marcel Breuer genannt, und einige ihrer Entwürfe – etwa der Tisch E-1027 oder der …

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 ist erstmalig eine Koopera …

From street fashion to high culture the work of Virgil Abloh, a celebrated young multihyphenate artist, is showcased in this lavishly illustrated book. Virgil Abloh’s story is both quintessentially and subversively American. Born to Ghanaian parents in …

In Fragments of a Crisis untersucht Julian Irlinger das Verhältnis von Ästhetik und Ideologie anhand künstlerischer Arbeit in der Weimarer Republik. Sein Ausgangsmaterial ist Notgeld, das während der Inflation (1918 – 1923) parallel zur offiziellen Wäh …

The Journey of Things by Magdalene Odundo has been published alongside the exhibition of the same name presented at The Hepworth Wakefield in Spring 2019. The book features 44 of Odundo’s vessels alongside a large selection of museological and contempo …

In Sweden, the FACIT brand is as well-known as IBM or Olivetti. Based in Åtvidaberg, the company produced mechanical calculators, typewriters, and office furniture in the period between 1922 and 1998. By the 1970s the company had grown from a local fam …

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 …

leipzig, märz 2019 its a book, its a game played, its a role that you take

Module sind untereinander kombinierbare, genormte Elemente, die über bestimmte Schnittstellen kommunizieren und (austauschbare) Teile eines größeren Systems sind: Module entsprechen sich, ohne gleich zu sein, und sie sind zumeist standardisierte Formen …

Kolkata: City of Print is a literary essay by Mara Züst realized through research conducted during several stays in Kolkata and focused on different aspects of the print medium in this Indian city. Formerly known as Calcutta, the city was founded as a …

performed by Karolin pietrzyk, gilbert schneider and tobias wenig. printed in cairo, Egypt. 2019

Der Umgang mit dem Erbe des Bauhauses in der DDR ist widersprüchlich: Frühen Ansätzen einer Wiederbelebung in Architektur und Städtebau folgt eine heftige Anfeindung in der Formalismus-Debatte während der Hochphase des Kalten Krieges. Eine vorsichtige …

Platform 11 is the 2017–2018 installment of Platform, the annual compendium documenting select student work, events, lectures, and exhibitions at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Platform represents a year in the life of the Harvard Un …

annual art edition

Konrad Wachsmann played an exceptional role among modern architects in helping to industrialize architecture and fostering the potential this contained for an architectural turn. Wachsmann’s universal wedge connector, invented in the shadow of World Wa …

Fehler lesen. Korrektur als Textproduktion is an essay on textual errors and a personal quest to find them. Misprints demonstrate the vulnerability of a text. Here we catch a glimpse of the pre- and post-production phases, work that is to a large exten …

experimental image revue. collaboration with Paul d’Orlando. 16 pages, limited edition, 50 exemplaires, 4 to 8-colored silkscreenprint.

experimental image revue. collaboration with Paul d’Orlando. 16 pages, limited edition, 50 exemplaires, 4 to 8-colored silkscreenprint.