The standard work on the Swiss type designer: all typefaces - from design to marketing - were visually documented and analyzed with reference to the technology and to related typefaces.
This publication explores a very special kind of design-the phenomenon, as normal as it is wonderful, in which people with no formal training in design take things that have already been designed and reuse them, convert them to new uses.
Englich and Remmers provide a comprehensive, analytical, and programmatic introduction to face-to-face communication in the work world. Against the backdrop of globalization, with its dynamic transformations of office environments and worldwide digital networks, they analyze the…
Architectures of Sound
Julia Meer stellt die bisherige Rezeptionsgeschichte des "Mythos Neue Typographie" in Frage und arbeitet zugleich die frühe Professionalisierung des Grafik-Designs auf. Durch eine systematische Auswertung von Fachzeitschriften der Jahre 1900-1933 zeigt sie, dass die Neue Typogra…
Comprehensive guide to the designing and planning of libraries. Ein Grundlagenwerk zum Entwurf und zur Planung von Bibliotheken - eine besonders prestigeträchtige Bauaufgabe, die sich in den letzten Jahren sehr gewandelt hat. Umfangreiche Fachbeiträge von Experten aus Architekt…
Wicked!: Design on the Edge of Bad Taste
A blood stained shower curtain, a lighter that shows an airplane aboutto collide with the Twin Towers, plush slippers shaped like penises: the world of commodities today is marked by stylistic diversity, irony, and trash - there are no limits on so-called bad taste. This book at…
Wonder Wood presents this timeless material as it is being used today and how it can be used in the future. It also documents a selection of current international projects and processes, making-ofs, and experiments by 120 internationally renowned designers, architects, and artis…