Anna-Lülja Praun - Möbel in Balance

The Potato Plan Collection: 40 Cities Through the Lens of Patrick Abercrombie

2018

This book celebrates Patrick Abercrombie’s famous 'Potato Plan' and reveals its potential as an analytical tool for contemporary urban territories. Originally drawn in 1943 as part of the County of London Plan, Abercrombie’s 'Social and Functional Analysis Map' poetically illustrates the city as an agglomeration of manifold neighbourhoods, character areas, and centralities. This book gathers together 40 specific ‘Potato Plans’ from various metropolises all over the globe that were drawn and interpreted by local architects, urban designers and schools of architecture. The aim is to investigate the nature of neighbourhoods and centralities and their role in cities.

Claus Porto - 130 Years

Aldo Bakker - Containing Content

Cyrus Highsmith - Products Of A Thinking Hand

Nasa - Graphic Design Guide

The binder containing NASA's visual identity guidelines is a strange object. This original visual communications system designed and augmented by Richard Danne and Bruce Blackburn from 1975 on, was rescinded in 1992. It has resurfaced on the internet these last years in blogs, and was made available to the public by NASA as a PDF document before being reprinted in an expanded deluxe edition by Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth in 2015. It is an exhaustive presentation of visual identity – from letterheads to the markings on the space shuttle Discovery—and thus allows the reader to apprehend the different formal, political and technical scales of the use of signs.

Faire - To Look At Things - Volume 02 (#5, 6, 7, 8)

IBM - Graphic Design Guide From 1969 To 1987

Alfredo Haberli - Explicity And Implicity Mvsc02

In 2015 The Maarten Van Severen Foundation and the Department of Design of KASK / School of Arts Ghent decided to establish a chair with the aim of conveying the relevance and significance of Maarten Van Severen’s work for today’s designers. Every year a leading designer, whose work has an affinity with the work of Maarten Van Severen, will give a lecture and a masterclass. In 2016, Swiss designer Alfredo Häberli gave two lectures and a three-day masterclass with 10 students from 5 different art schools. After the masterclass, the students kept uploading images of their process on the MVSC blog. The result is a collection of things, presented here as the second MVSC Cahier.

The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist

2017

The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist represents the most extensive collection of Mead’s visionary work ever printed, compiling hundreds of images, sketches and concept arts from a career spanning almost 40 years, many of which have never been seen in print before. Each entry provides a unique insight into the processes involved in Mead’s practice as well as illuminating the behind-the-scenes work involved in creating a fully realized, cinematic depiction of the future. With such a plethora of images from the many genre-defining films Mead has worked on, this is essential reading for film fans, artists and futurologists alike.

Usha Doshi - Creating With Shapes

2018

Produced by Usha Doshi, a member of COS design studio since 2007, this book explores the possibility of creating garments using seven basic shapes – square, rectangle, triangle, diamond, circle, oval, and octagon. According to Doshi, the conception of the method and techniques happened accidentally, as she observed her granddaughters experimenting with fabric cut-outs. She joined in, and soon discovered that these shapes could be used to form intricate folds, drapes, and pleats, without using excessive fabric or complex darts and seams. With clearly drawn diagrams and beautiful photography, the book is intended to inspire creativity across all disciplines.

Arkitekten Finn Juhl (Danish Edition)

Xavier Dupre - Typographical Itinerary / Itineraire Typographique

The Legend of Harajuku Goro's Vol. 3

On Honest Design: The Design Works Collection Of Keiji Ashizawa

Luis Sanchis

2017

Luis Sanchis was born and raised in Spain. He moved to NYC in 1994 where he started his career as a professional photographer. Luis’ analog images always had a feel of the experimental with a deep understanding of colour and lighting techniques. He was rapidly picked up by the iconic British magazine 'THE FACE', where he started working as a regular contributor from 1996 until its closing. Luis uses his camera as a means of self expression and exploration. His first monograph covers a wide spectrum of sectors from fashion to music, sports, celebrities, beauty, landscape and film.

Soundfair - Exhibiting Music

Rop Van Mierlo - Wild Animals (English Edition)

2017

Reprint 2017

Ruder Typography - Ruder Philosophy

Lars Müller Publisher, 2017

It brings together essays, discussions and appraisals from fellow designers, typographers and artists – yielding a comprehensive survey of Ruder’s accomplishments. It engages with the designer’s many years of work and teaching in Basel, his thirty years as publisher of the famous Typographische Monatsblätter as well as his posters, fonts and philosophy. The extraordinary and comprehensive presentation of the life and works of Swiss typographic legend Emil Ruder sold out shortly after coming off the press. Initially published in 2009 the issue is now available in its original version complemented by commentaries from Michael Renner and Lars Müller. languages: English, Japanese

Dieter Rams: Zehn Thesen für gutes Design

Prestel Verlag, 2017

Der vorliegende Band präsentiert das umfangreiche Werk von Dieter Rams. Basierend auf der Sammlung Jorrit Maan, herausgegeben von Cees W. de Jong, mit Beiträgen von Klaus und Erika Mattie, zeigt dieses Buch die Gestaltungsprinzipien des langjährigen Chefdesigners von Braun und Vitsoe auf, die die Grundlagen für die klaren, puristischen Entwürfe bilden, die unseren Alltag nachhaltig bereichert haben.