This Is Television addresses the increasingly obsolete medium of television by way of the medium of the book—by extension commenting on media’s continuous changes of form and format. Through an interplay of theory and artistic research material, the bo …

With contributions by Christine Checinska, Christine Delhaye, Burcu Dogramaci, Sonja Eismann, Elke Gaugele, Gabriele Genge, Birgit Haehnel, Sabrina Henry, Helen Jennings, Alexandra Karentzos, Hana Knížová, Christian Kravagna, Gabriele Mentges, Birgit M …

Der Band wirft einen neuen Blick auf Hannes Meyer – dem zweiten Bauhausdirektor in Dessau, der 1930 politisch aus dem Amt gedrängt wurde. Das Buch dokumentiert anhand von Faksimiles programmatischer Schriften, wie der engagierte Architekt und Sozialist …

Parallel Cities examines the history of the multilevel city with a focus on elevated pedestrian systems as a recurrent concept in urban planning and design. The book chronicles the evolution and migration of this concept from 19th-century French social …

Many designs that appear in today’s society will circulate and encounter audiences of many different cultures and languages. The Politics of Design enhances your visual literacy for communication beyond borders and cultures. “It’s the kind of literatur …

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The Average as Norm is a polyphonic critical analysis of upgrading processes in Zurich, a city that has few options at its disposal for countering the pressure of rising property prices, and other European metropolises that are feeling the effects of n …

Dieser Band versammelt die lange vergriffenen Einzelwerke Am Nullpunkt der Literatur, Literatur oder Geschichte und Kritik und Wahrheit aus der frühen Periode des Barthesschen Werkes und macht sie wieder zugänglich. Hier wird der zentrale Begriff der » …

Roland Barthes gehört zu den Klassikern der Photographietheorie. Insbesondere sein spätes Meisterwerk Die helle Kammer hat die Debatten der letzten Jahrzehnte bestimmt und ihre Grundfragen formuliert. Weniger bekannt ist, dass Barthes zeit seines Leben …

Im Zentrum der hier versammelten Essays stehen die für Roland Barthes zentralen Problematiken der Sprache und des Schreibens.

Protest. presents and reflects on present and past forms of protest and looks at marginalized communities’ practices of resistance from a wide variety of perspectives. The publication shows how protest draws on irony, subversion, and provocation from a …

50 Jahre „1968“. Die Studentenproteste aus der Bild-Perspektive der Berliner Schutzpolizei Arwed Messmer arbeitet seit zehn Jahren mit gebrauchsfotografischen Bilddokumenten aus Archiven der öffentlichen Hand, die visuelle Grundlage seiner künstlerisch …

Nachdem 2005 die “Gesammelten Gespräche und Interviews” von Franz West erschienen werden nun erstmals die von West so genannten “Schriebe” in englischer Übersetzung zugänglich. Seit 1975 schreibt Franz West Texte, Notizen, Anmerkungen und Aphorismen. S …

A project on visual literacy for which Onomatopee invited graphic designers/typographers to visualise their position in relation to visual literacy. These visions resulted in the publication of vis à vue, a visual manual for visual culture. As people i …

Protest. presents and reflects on present and past forms of protest and looks at marginalized communities’ practices of resistance from a wide variety of perspectives. The publication shows how protest draws on irony, subversion, and provocation from a …

Paradis Magazine publishes Potential Museums, edited by Donatien Grau. Featuring six different covers, this book-size issue brings together over fifty contributions from some of the world’s cultural luminaries, across design, art, film, history, litera …

Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose a kind of design that is used as a tool to create not only things but ideas. For them, design is a means …

FRIEDRICH VON BORRIES: POLITICS OF DESIGN. DESIGN OF POLITICS – MÜNCHEN, PINAKOTHEK DER MODERNE – Katalog hrsg. von Angelika Nollert. München 2018/19. Beitr. von Moritz Ahlert, Frieder Bohaumilitzky, Friedrich von Borries, Elke Buhr, Clemens Finkelstei …

We Are The Market! claims a liberal ALL-INCLUSIVITY to push the stretch of our cultural offer in the eye of the final commonplace; the capitalist commons of the high street. Anticipating to a hegemonic culture encroaching on the city centre, one that’s …

Contributions by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Haig Aivazian, Mounira Al Solh, Doa Aly, Andeel, Mirene Arsanios, Malak Helmy, Iman Issa, Mahmoud Khaled, Maurice Louca, Jasmina Metwaly, Joe Namy, Nile Sunset Annex, November Paynter, Roy Samaha, Sharif Sehnaoui, …

Hrsg. von Annette Kelm, Hendrik Schwantes. Anlässlich der gleichnamigen Ausstellung, Camera Austria, Graz, 18.3.–4.6.2017. Mit einem Vorwort von Annette Kelm und Hendrik Schwantes sowie mit Textbeiträgen von Reinhard Braun und Anna Voswinckel (ger.). E …

American author Ben Lerner and German film-maker and writer Alexander Kluge come from two different generations but share a single passion: an interest in the long-term effects of things. A line from Lerner’s poem “The sky stops painting and turns to c …

Extra-curricular is a reader of texts on and around the topic of self-organized learning, curriculum, experiments, and alternatives in graphic design education. Occurring both within and separate from existing institutions, these other forms of learnin …

The third volume of Modes of Criticism focuses on graphic design’s struggle in dealing with political issues in recent years. From the bankruptcy of subvertising, to the rise of the ‘post-truth’ after Trump’s election and Brexit, and a permanent state …

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Richard Niessen founded The Palace of Typographic Masonry as a new institute dedicated to the wealth and diversity of graphic languages. In this project he brings together his experiments, research, and connections with research into other disciplines …

With this publication, Fabian Reimann embarks on a journey into the Warburg universe and explores the concepts of the world put forward by the ever-popular science-fiction writer H. G. Wells (1866 – 1946). His novel The World Set Free, which was publis …

The 100th issue of OASE takes the journal’s long-standing collaboration with its graphic designer Karel Martens as a starting point to explore the relationship between architecture journals and graphic design. In doing so, it challenges the conventiona …

Today the architecture museum is one of the most significant instruments in architecture’s disciplinary apparatus. By collecting archives, producing exhibitions, funding publications, organising discussions, and commissioning work, these museums contin …

Textiles that crossed the world long before today’s globalization can also tell tales of the multiple forms and consequences of colonialist policies. Loomshuttles, Warpaths is an extensive study of textiles and their global history, which is characteri …

Preservation is Overtaking Us brings together two lectures given by Rem Koolhaas at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, along with a response (framed as a supplement to the original lectures) by Jorge Otero …

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Three interconnected palimpsest essays recount (1) the backstory of a “meta” font recently updated by Dexter Sinister and used to typeset the Contemporary Condition book series, (2) a broad history of the rationalization of letterforms that considers t …

The second Issue of THIS IS BADLAND serves up a series of feasts, kicking off on the Balkans’ ritual of consuming food and drinks in copious amounts. We begin to liberate collective ways of eating the world before it eats us through a series of unrestr …

MICHAEL SCHMIDT: WAFFENRUHE. Hrsg. von der Stiftung für Fotografie und Medienkunst mit Archiv Michael Schmidt. Beitr. von Janos Frecot, Einar Schleef, Karin Schmidt & Thomas Weski. Neuaufl. Köln 2018. 26,5 x 30 cm. 82 S. mit 39 ganz- bzw. doppelseit. s …

Edited by Jennifer Sigler and Leah Whitman-Salkin When Yoshi Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima of the Tokyo-based firm Atelier Bow-Wow arrived at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design as guest professors, in the winter of 2016, they challenged st …

Edited by Jennifer Sigler and Leah Whitman-Salkin In 1987, Peter G. Rowe published his pioneering book Design Thinking. In it, he interrogated conceptual approaches to design in terms of both process and form. Thirty years later, in a lecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Rowe offered a reappraisal of his earlier work, describing ways in which the capacities of the digital age have changed the way we perceive and understand creative problem-solving in architectural design. In this new account of “design thinking” based on that memorable talk, Rowe charges that ideas about the “precision” and “incompleteness” of information have become exaggerated and made more manifest. He dives into the crucial role of schema theory and the heuristics that flow from it, but concedes that the “ineffable characteristics of design problems and of design thinking also appear to have remained.” The Incidents is a book series based on uncommon events at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design from 1936 to tomorrow. Copublished with the Harvard University Graduate School of Design Book series designed by Åbäke

Edited by Jennifer Sigler and Leah Whitman-Salkin “What’s my DNA?” Virgil Abloh asks to an overflowing auditorium at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Abloh goes on to provide his audience with a “cheat code”—advice he wishes he had rec …

White Paper: On Land, Law and the Imaginary is een experimenteel handboek gerelateerd aan White Paper (2013-16), een project ontwikkeld door kunstenaar Adelita Husni-Bey in samenwerking met verschillende organisaties. Het onderzoekt de relatie tussen w …

The subject of this book is the natural world in Vietnam and how it has been affected by human influences: it has been subject to wars, the exploitation of large stretches of land, the socialist revival, and protection schemes; it also includes the tra …

Novosibirsk is the third biggest city in Russia after Moscow and St Petersburg. The young metropolis in Western Siberia is regarded as one of the most important cultural, industrial, and scientific centres in the country. Using the example of specific …

Between January 1957 and autumn 1984, 334 issues of the monthly journal Filmkritik were published. In its final decade (1974-1984) Filmkritik no longer accompanied current cinema releases; many issues were monographic studies of neglected or forgotten …

2018

Zeichen, Texte und Bilder werden von Terrorgruppen als Waffen genutzt. Wie aus Bildern und Buchstaben Waffen werden fragt die Ausstellung “Zeichen als Waffen. Zum Beispiel das Emblem der Roten Armee Fraktion”. Sie wird am 21. Juni eröffnet und ist bis …

Moscow’s first independent galleries and the 1990s art scene. In 1986, the Soviet government created a statute enabling citizens to form associations and clubs for the first time since the 1920s. This gave rise to the first official organizations creat …

A collection of articles on Russian art from Moscow Art Magazine, selected by founder and editor Viktor Misiano. With the launch of Moscow Art Magazine in 1993, curator and critic Viktor Misiano gave readers access to a rich variety of theory, criticis …