Félix Beltrán, born 1938 in Havana, Cuba, is one of the most important Latin American graphic designers. He studied at the famous School of Visual Arts in New York in the 1950s and was influenced by mid-century modernism. For more than six decades, he …

Please Come: Shameless/Limitless Selected Posters & Texts 2008–2020 is a 536-page brick of a book. It charts the history of Shameless/Limitless, a Berlin promoter whose trajectory has paralleled (is responsible for?) the establishment of the most r …

Erforschung typografischer Potentiale von Alltagsobjekten Diese Publikation gibt Einblick in das Schriftschaffen der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar im Sommersemester 2020 zum Thema »Type & Object«. Seit ihren Anfängen werden unsere lateinischen Buchsta …

Die jährliche Wettbewerbsdokumentation der Stiftung Buchkunst: “Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher” und der “Förderpreis für junge Buchgestaltung” in Wort und Bild.

Die jährliche Wettbewerbsdokumentation der Stiftung Buchkunst: “Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher” und der “Förderpreis für junge Buchgestaltung” in Wort und Bild.

The history of architecture is often read in terms of periods that each have their own zeitgeist and movements that each have their own architectural language. What happens if we depart from this zeitgeist concept and use a cyclical history model inste …

This book aims to shine light on work of women in type. The first part of the book offers research on the gender issue in type design field. It includes statistics, data and an overview of some works that address this issue. Further it contains some bi …

VIER5, MONOGRAPH – RETROSPECTIVE ISBN: 978-3-00-069925-2 23cm x 14cm, 160 Pages, B/W Published on the occasion of the exhibition VIER5 “WIN A NEW CAR“, at MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome. November 3, 2021 – February 6, 2022   CONTRIBUTORS: D …

‘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 …

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 …

Five decades of iconic and incisive art from Barbara Kruger Since the mid-1970s, Barbara Kruger (born 1945) has been interrogating the hierarchies of power and control in works that often combine visual and written language. In her singular graphic sty …

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 …

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 …

Das Printmagazin für Kreative. Jetzt neu. Wir präsentieren herausragende Arbeiten aus den Bereichen Grafikdesign, Illustration, Corporate Design, Typografie, Druck & Papier. Alle zwei Monate.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 year’s edition is published in tandem with a long-term installation of The Serving Library’s collection of (mostly) framed objects at 019, an artist-run space in Ghent, Belgium. Apparently, the sole common denominator of these objects – which rang …

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Aus Worten werden Bilder – Schrift, Zeichnung, gestaltete Flächen. Stefan Marx beschäftigt sich seit rund zwanzig Jahren mit Schriftbildern. Es sind Songzeilen, Aussprüche, Sätze, Zitate, die er mit seiner eigenen Skripture, seiner grafischen Schrift, …

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 …

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 …

Somewhere in the borderlands between academia and journalism, Robin Kinross has made a case for typography as a matter of fine detail and subtle judgement, whose products concern all of us, every day. This selection of his shorter writings from the pas …

Typographer Will Holder was commissioned by Our Polite Society to produce an ‘addendum’ to their book, The Facit Model, Globalism, Localism & Identity. From the point of view of typewriters & typewriters correcting mistakes, and how time-consuming it i …

“Fingers Crossed” is a publication that showcases the result of research, design, and workshop processes during the ECAL/HKDI teaching residency program between September and December 2018 in Hong Kong. Published by Präsens Editionen, Luzern (CH) and w …

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 …

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 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 …

This bilingual volume (English & Chinese) of three booklets is collectively titled Collection of Research on Chinese Typography. Titled Shanghai Type: a slice of modern Chinese type history, the first booklet provides a historic overview of state-spons …

»Ich persönlich bin der einzige TYPOGRAPHISCHE KONSTRUKTIVISTISCHE in Leipzig.« Tschichold, 1902 in Leipzig geboren, studiert an der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst bei Walter Tiemann und Hermann Delitzsch und erlebt in der Stadt den Beginn der typ …

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While researching in the university archive of Burg Giebichenstein (Halle, Saale, DE) for his master studies, the designer Markus Lange came across the typo- graphic poster artwork of Karl- Heinz Drescher, a graphic artist, who studied from 1955 to 196 …

Karl Gerstner’s work is a milestone in the history of design. Designing Programmes is one of his most important works: in four essays, the author provides a basic introduction to his design methodology and suggests a model for design in the early days …

Four years after ‘Statement and Counter-Statement’ (2015), Experimental Jetset returns with their second paperback for Roma Publications. Whereas the previous publication had a more overall monographic scope, ‘Full Scale False Scale’ focuses on a singl …

The International Poster competition launched in 2014 and has received 22,000+ poster entries from 100+ Countries (x5 competitions 2014-2018). Over 37,000 people have attended International Poster Exhibitions (x5 exhibitions 2014-2018). 5x Internationa …