Victor Papanek. The Politics of Design

A Final Companion To Books From The Simpsons (Updated Version)

2018

French graphic designer Olivier Lebrun follows on his previous publications documenting the books that appear in the popular cartoon television series with this anthology of more than 330 images and titles. All have been captured with a black-and-white animation screenshot and catalogued in alphabetical order. Ostensibly the final instalment of this highly personal project by Lebrun, this new, updated edition reflects countless painstaking hours spent scanning episodes, plus the contributions of a large community of fans and readers who provided tips over the years.

Issey Miyake: Exhibition

This impressive volume is part of an exhibition at the National Art Center, Tokyo, in 2016, the first full-scale retrospective to showcase the myriad ideas that have emerged over the course of the designer’s career, from his earliest activities to current projects. Widely recognised for his technology-driven clothing designs, exhibitions, and fragrances, Miyake Issey has been stimulating the world of culture and fashion for almost half a century with his organic and skilfully articulated repertoire, fuelled by boundless curiosity and love of experimentation. The catalogue explores the main themes of his innovative drive, complemented by Hiroshi Iwasaki’s expert photography.

Where Did Issey Come From? The Work Of Issey Miyake

Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake was born in Hiroshima and studied graphic design at the Tama Art University in Tokyo, graduating in 1964. Following that, he spent time in Paris and New York City before returning to Tokyo in 1970, where he founded the Miyake Design Studio, a high-end producer of women’s fashion. Today he has become the kind of person who makes one wonder, “What kind of place could he possibly come from?” His creative energy seems like something from science fiction, perhaps even extraterrestrial. Part biography, part monograph, this volume dives into Miyake’s extraordinary world of design, tracing his roots through the years.

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.

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.

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.

Arkitekten Finn Juhl (Danish Edition)

Danish Editon Finn Juhl (1912-1989) var én af dansk møbelkunsts mest originale designere. Han vandt verdensry med sine indretninger for FN's hovedkvarter og gennem sine internationale udstillinger. På Triennalerne i Milano i 1950'erne fik han intet mindre end fem guldmedaljer og det var i disse år han vandt international berømmelse for sine møbler. Finn Juhl opnåede som rumkunstner verdensry med sine indretninger for FN's hovedkvarter i New York, og som udstillingsarkitekt var han manden bag de store udstillinger af dansk brugskunst i udlandet, der skabte begrebet "Danish Design". Denne klassiske Finn Juhl bog er skrevet af forfatteren Esbjørn Hiort, som havde et nært venskab med Finn Juhl. Bogen tegner således et fuldstændigt portræt af denne møbelkunstner, der var blandt de ledende figurer bag udviklingen af begrebet "Danish Design".

Xavier Dupre - Typographical Itinerary / Itineraire Typographique

Almost 40, Xavier Dupré is one of the most prolific French type designers, whose work is widely distributed. His typefaces, featured in eminent foundries’ catalogues (Emigre, FontBureau, FontFont, Typofonderie) demonstrate a personal quest for type design, fueled with calligraphic and humanistic influences, but also with a sensitivity permeable to various locations where he settled his activity. This book contains an interview by Julien Gineste and is filled with mostly unpublished material.

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