Max Bill considered himself primarily an architect, yet he was also an inventive and tireless creator of type fonts and commercial logos, as well as being a designer with wonderful sense of visual hum
Emil Ruder''s Typography is the timeless textbook from which generations of typographer and graphic designers have learned their fundamentals. Ruder, one of the great twentieth-century typographers wa
Any fan of mid-century cool will crave this impressive book on the works of East German engineer Ulrich Muther, a pioneer in concrete shell construction from the early 1960s. A beautifully photographe
In visual communication, contents are arranged, organized, and presented. Design laws and principles that are inherent to every medium ensure that a novel looks like a novel, an art catalog like an ar
Detached houses are considered primarily responsible for urban sprawl and land consumption. At the same time they represent the ideal residence for broad sections of society. From the different perspe
Suitable for those who work with automated text and image design, this work shows examples of working correctly on a conceptual level. It gives the user exact directions for using all of the grid syst
Michael A. Landes turned away from classical modernity at an early stage to instead focus on a new architectural pluralism. To this end, he developed a vocabulary that allows him to meet the design re
From the late 1940''s at the inception of the oil exporting industry, via political independence in 1961, through to the late 1980''s when Kuwait was invaded, the city-state experienced an etraordinar
The company Thonet was founded in 1819 and has since become a furniture manufacturer with the highest standards of design and quality. In this book, the graphic design behind the Thonet brand is explo
Anyone who prefers to view postmodernism – with reference to architecture – as an epoch, looks with enthusiasm to the western part of Berlin in the 1980s. The city and the time allowed for seemingly c
Inspired by a gift from his son, Arno Stolz developed the idea of a miniature gallery of typographic works. In 1980, he began writing letters to well-known designers from around the world, asking for
With his colorful residential buildings, Bruno Taut was a decisive influence on Berlin settlement construction in the modern age. The seizure of power by the National Socialists forced the archi -
This volume offers a professional yet compact introduction to industrial design, written by specialists in the field with years of experience as product designers and design educators at various unive
The capital of Georgia practically presents a new face every day. Ambitious building projects and large foreign investments are constantly changing the cityscape of Tbilisi. This relentless developmen
The human sense of smell is a very direct and powerful, but deeply over-looked sense. As messengers, smells can evoke feelings, associations and memories; they can provoke, attract or repel, influence
