In the fine arts the 1990s are associated with conceptual sharpness and formal aesthetic reduction. But also with freedom of formats and expansion of curatorial action. During this time, the busy couple Axel and Barbara Haubrok began to build up a cons …

Rudy VanderLans has been documenting California’s landscape for years. For his latest monograph, This Vehicle Makes Frequent Stops, he’s selected more than 100 photographs spanning a decade and thousands of miles of California highways.

This book offers a visually unique approach to Frank’s films: only new stills taken from videotapes have been used and they add up to a visual essay on Frank’s cinema that establishes an engaging dialogue with his photographic work. Each film is introd …

Publications such as Rouge Fashion Book are looking to create something edgy and arty for the expanding Chinese niche market, bypassing China’s tight media controls with a Chinese and an American version

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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– …

oy Division fans, pop culture fanatics, and wannabe hipsters, take note. Forty years after the release of ‘Unknown Pleasures’, the band’s debut studio album, design studio Vieceli & Cremers presents ‘Division of Pleasures’. The album’s cover artwork wa …

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 …

Wie steht es um deine Soft Skills, Darling? Während sich die Fronten gesellschaftlicher und politischer Realitäten verhärten, schaut die Epilog Nr. 9 auf die soften Nischen der Gegenwart und entdeckt Zärtlichkeit nicht als Rückzug, sondern als politisc …

This book focuses on Hans Haacke’s 2010 site-specific work, Once Upon a Time… in the desacralised church of San Francesco in Como, Italy, alongside the work Hans Haacke completed with students during his course as a visiting professor at the Fondazione …

Ein Heft zum Thema Algorithmus in Zeiten der Pandemie zu realisieren, gleicht einem performativen Akt. Je unsicherer die Eindämmung des Virus ist, desto berechenbarer und steuerbarer muss unser Verhalten sein, um diese Eindämmung zu garantieren. Allerd …

Almost 700 snapshot-like portraits and an evocative music soundtrack constitute Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. A deeply personal photographic narrative formed in Boston, New York, Berlin, in the late 1970s, 1980s, and beyond. Titled afte …

Carte blanche, no theme: For this issue we gave our contributors an unbridled invitation to tell us what’s in their heads, right now. Under the pressure of an outside world both turbulent and uncertain, inside, the mind keeps churning, it is a device w …