At the moment it sometimes seems that we can’t keep up at all. We are in turbulent times. Many things are no longer as we knew them, many things demand completely new qualities from us. Every day we receive information that makes us think – sometimes, …

AUTUMN & WINTER 2021/22 The astonishing poet, novelist and essayist OCEAN VUONG on the cover, photographed in New York by COLLIER SCHORR with styling by JULIE RAGOLIA. He fronts an issue themed ON WRITING – a volume that completely and wholehearted …

In 1991, the first issue of Dazed & Confused was released as a single A2 fold out newsprint by a then twenty-year-old Jefferson Hack and the photographer Rankin. Now, thirty years later, what began as a print magazine has gone on to provoke a chang …

Seit ihrer Gründung 1957 ist die form das maßgebliche Fachmagazin für Designer und gestaltungsinteressierte Leser. Bis heute sind über 250 Ausgaben des Magazins erschienen. Nach dem inhaltlichen und gestalterischen Relaunch im Jahr 2013 beschäftigt sich die form in drei klar strukturierten Rubriken mit aktuellen Trends in verschiedenen Bereichen des Designs und bietet außerdem einen Überblick über relevante Veranstaltungen und Events.

What if humanity’s primary inven­tions were not the Hero’s spear but rather a basket of wild oats, a medicine bundle, a story. Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction presents a feminist story of technology that centres on the collective sustenance of life, and reimagines the carrier bag as a tool for telling strangely realistic fictions. New writings and images respond to Le Guin’s narrative practice of world­making through gathering and holding.

Bench Players is a series of failed, rejected, or unused animals from Rop van Mierlo’s archive; the reserve bench animals.
 Rop van Mierlo works with various mediums but starts his process mostly with drawings or paintings. Control – or the absence of …

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, bekannt als Le Corbusier (1887–1965), beeinflusste die Gestaltung, Funktion und Bauweise von Gebäuden und Wohnhäusern ebenso wie die Kunst und das Design des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eine ausführliche, präzise Betrachtung seiner Rol …

Acht Jahre Das Wetter. Und: Das Wetter #25.

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 …

Trotz Egoismus und Empathielosigkeit ist und bleibt der Mensch ein soziales Wesen. Vielleicht braucht es einfach neue Ideen für unser Miteinander. Die könnten ja in einem Umfeld entstehen, das im Englischen „solitude” genannt wird. Ein Zustand, der nic …

The publication ‘Buildings, Dingbats’ presents two series of ceramic works by the Berlin-based artist Sebastian Haslauer. Known for his paintings and collage work, the two-part publication for the first time showcases Haslauer’s unseen sculptural ceram …

Natural phenomenons are a well used tool to illustrate and explain financial circumstances. The economy could face tsunamis and earthquakes, it could end up in deep valleys and reach high peaks, and it could be standing in front of the fiscal cliff. The fiscal cliff illustrates an abrupt and uncontrolled economic collapse, and the imagery of state leaders falling down cliffs is one of satire drawings’ best known archetypes. The metaphor is strengthened by the cliff’s many cultural appearances, and it has become a cultural icon itself due to films as Thelma & Louise, Looney Tunes and the Youtube fossil Tha Cliff from 2006. In the publication Fiscal Cliff, the topographic metaphor is used as a starting point for a visual game with symbols and characters that somehow has to deal with the fiscal fall. There might be multiple reasons why the fiscal cliff occurs, but once it’s here it will affect us all. Erlend Peder Kvam (1994) is an artist and illustrator based in Oslo. As an illustrator he has been working with clients as Bloomberg Businessweek, Medium Editorial, BENEE and Pom Poko. He was formerly associated with the performative design collective Narves1biblioteket, and in 2020 he co-founded the zine label Foot Books.

Vehiculo. What was supposed to be a triptych on artistic views on mobility now gets a fourth chapter due to the overall positive responses we’ve received. This issue once again is filled with the output of forward-thinking individuals that much more pr …

Private Views: A High-Rise Panorama of Manhattan is a book by Andi Schmied, showcasing the views of twenty-five of Manhattan’s most luxurious private residential skyscrapers, which she documented while posing as an apartment-hunting Hungarian billionai …

Diese September-Ausgabe von Texte zur Kunst versteht Neid als Betriebssystem einer Kunstwelt, die in hohem Maße auf Vernetzung, Wettbewerb und Abhängigkeiten basiert. Neid entsteht dadurch, dass Menschen sich aneinander orientieren und miteinander verg …