Following the exhibition Tendenzen—Neuere Architektur im Tessin in Zurich in 1975, contemporaneous architecture in Ticino became the subject of fervent coverage in Swiss and international publications. This extended essay argues that the critical atten …

Hassan Fathy is Egypt’s best-known 20th-century architect. He embraced traditional, vernacular forms, techniques and materials and throughout his career promoted their use as part of a campaign to improve the conditions of Egypt’s rural poor. Earth …

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

From 2021 to 2024, OK-RM assembled a group of artists, designers, architects, researchers, musicians, and dancers to create new propositions for collective working and making. Commissioned by Goldwin 0 as a means to influence and inspire through new fo …

A book of images originally presented as a slideshow lecture.

The story of a stool, from its origin as a necessary furniture to repopulate a disused park in East London to becoming an ubiquitous sight in international art centres and people’s homes in New Zealand or Korea. Martino Gamper’s Arnold Circus Stool acc …

We draw diagrams to help us think, communicate, and put forth what we think is important or what we want to be true. While some diagrams are seen as statements of fact, they can also further agendas by discounting other realities beneath a cloak of per …

In 1961, Belgian architect René Heyvaert conceived ‘Denver Mosaic’ for a building on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado. Due to its scale, permanence, and site specificity, the mosaic has a spatial operation that is closely linked to architecture and em …

_Kulturgeschichter Abriss und Einordnung _Mit zahlreichen Praxisbeispielen _Zusammenstellung der besten Monospace-Schriften _Handbuch, Nachschlagewerk und Inspirationsquelle in einem Monospaced-Schriften gehen auf die Schreibmaschine zurück und sind ch …

Originally introduced by French biologist Pierre-Paul Grassé in 1959 to describe a coordination mechanism used by insects, the term “stigmergy” describes the principle that the work of a single agent-whether natural, animal or human-always leaves a tra …

Architecture and urbanism were traditionally based on climate and health, as we can read in the treatises of Vitruvius, Palladio or Alberti, where exposure to wind and sun, variations in temperature and humidity influenced the forms of cities and build …

Mit über 800 Werken beherbergt das Museum Ludwig eine der weltweit umfangreichsten Sammlungen zur Russischen Avantgarde. Über 70 Künstler aus dieser Zeit, darunter Persönlichkeiten wie Alexandra Exter, Natalja Gontscharowa, Alexei von Jawlensky, Wassil …

Mit über 800 Werken beherbergt das Museum Ludwig eine der weltweit umfangreichsten Sammlungen zur Russischen Avantgarde. Über 70 Künstler aus dieser Zeit, darunter Persönlichkeiten wie Alexandra Exter, Natalja Gontscharowa, Alexei von Jawlensky, Wassil …

Eine architektonische Auseinandersetzung mit dem NS

An enticing collection of before-and-after scenarios, created by master artist and acclaimed author of “This Is Not A Book” Graphic artist Jean Jullien insightfully and comically depicts a set of clever and surprising before-and-after two-frame narrati …

Guide to Concrete and Brutalist Architecture in New York City

design spasky fischer, new tendency, 2024    

From the iconic 1964 Olympics poster by Yusaku Kamekura to the psychedelic posters of Tadanori Yokoo, Japan has made its way to the forefront of impactful and effective graphic and poster design since its post-war days. Fast forwarding to the Reiwa era …

In der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts haben Designerinnen Pionierleistungen hervorgebracht. Ihr Mut und ihr Talent werden vor dem Hintergrund gesellschaftlicher Widerstände in Ausbildung oder weiblicher Selbstständigkeit sichtbar gemacht. Zu ihrer …

Today, design occupies an increasingly expansive field. Promoters argue that almost anything can be design. But by expanding its definition, design is no longer just about solutions and innovation, but often the root cause of problems and conflict. For …

Can design cater to a diverse society? How does it respond to the disparate demands of the people using it? Debates about inclusion and participation have been an important part of the design discourse since at least the 1980s. Contemporary design appr …

Welcome to the third issue of Sociotype Journal, the type specimen for designers who like to read. Our theme this time round is Home. What makes a home? And how does power (or the lack of it) change the concept and the reality of what ‘home’ means? Joi …

X/100 — Expect Nothing — Appreciate Everything The motto of this year’s 100 Beste Plakate is enticing and delivers on its promise: Every year, the association 100 Beste Plakate e. V. honors the most outstanding and creative poster designs from Germany, …

Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa have compiled 204 everyday objects in search of super normal design: alongside examples of anonymous design, there are design classics like by Jacobsen, Rams, Bill or Noguchi. With products by Newson, Grcic, the Azumi …

Als Metabolisten bezeichnet sich eine Gruppe von Architekten, Designer und Stadtplanern, die ihren ersten gemeinsamen Auftritt 1960 auf der World Design Conference in Tokio hatten. Dieser eindrückliche Bildband stellt die Architektur der Metabolisten v …

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 …

Visual Identity Design X Type Design & Typography We’ve done it a little differently this time around. To help inject even more value for you, we’ve partnered up with The Brand Identity as our guest Editor! TBI and its team of talented writers expl …

The third issue of ‘Spectre’ invites various artists to deliver their interpretation of contemporary ruins. Ruins are necessary because they question our historical records, making us fleetingly aware of a distance between a past meaning, which has bee …