Hannes Wettstein was one of the most innovative and influential designers in Switzerland. His products, furniture, and interior designs not only influence our everyday life, but also the way we unders
The monograph provides a sharply focused insight into how Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer understand architecture. The various concepts as well as the different constructions, materials, forms and colors
Kitchen tools - pans, knives, ladles, can openers, garlic presses - are found in every household and are used daily. And yet they receive little attention. After use they vanish into cupboards and dra
As health becomes a central focus of political debate, are architects, urban designers, and landscape architects seeking a new moral and political agenda to address these concerns? Imperfect Health lo
From 2008 to 2010, Madrid-based architects Mansilla + Tunon taught at the Princeton University School of Architecture. The Mansilla + Tunon Studios 2008 - 2010: Between Rules and Constraints brings to
Back in 1993, graphic designer brothers Markus and Daniel Freitag were on the lookout for a messenger bag. Inspired by the cheerfully colored trucks rumbling along the highway that crossed the city of
"Democracy is the worst form of government - except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." Challenging Democracy tries to get to the bottom of the dilemma expressed in this
The Zurich architects Fuhrimann Hachler take on the most diverse building commissions. The present volume is devoted in particular to private residences, most of them realized for clients who are at h
Temporary Discomfort is artist Jules Spinatsch's documentation of three cities in a transitory state of emergency lock-down during two global economic summits (WEF and G8). It comines different photog
Helvetica is a sans-serif typeface. It is simple and clean, and commonly seen in advertising, signage, and literature. The R has a curved leg, and the i and j have square dots. The Q has a straight an
Challenging the dominance of the visual in the urban environment, the exhibition catalogue Sense of the City proposes a re-thinking and re-presenting of the city, and offers a more complex analysis of
Meet Le Corbusier--book designer. Coined the "Architect of the Twentieth Century," Le Corbusier's buildings have long been a part of the canon of modern architecture. He was a challenging figure who m
Founded in London in 1984 by Mark Holt, Simon Johnston, and Hamish Muir, 8vo was one of the most influential design studios in the 1980s and continues to be significant in the design world today. The
Silvia Bachli's art makes us feel unsure of ourselves. It sends viewers on a tightrope walk between banality and deliberate continuity. Her art always concentrates on the minimum. We see isolated arms
The history of posters is rich in variations on the hand. In consumer posters, a hand presents desirable products. But the hand can also take the form of a symbolically charged gesture in the politica
With texts by Peter Pfrunder, Gordon H. Orians, Deborah M. Gordon among others. Swarm is the new photographic project by Lukas Felzmann. It is an extensive series on the flock movements of migrating b
Polish-born photographer Jurek Wajdowicz's new art book luxuriates the view with both saturated and minimalist images that float between abstraction and reality of both the perceived and the imagined.
BIG-GAME is a Swiss design studio founded by three friends in 2004. This book presents their industrial design work on everyday objects. Through anecdotes, diagrams, and pictures made for the publicat
The metamorphic nature of Venice, a city in which most buildings underwent throughout the centuries substantial volumetric and formal transformations informed by political and cultural shifts, is reve
For most people locations that hold a particular importance for the development of our society and for the advancement of science and technology often remain hidden from view. They are separate and pr
