Design

 
 
Tools - To Cut
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
forthcoming
The fourth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry.
Michel Guérin - Aménager l\'espace, orner les lieux
2024
French edition
Athom
forthcoming
Three texts by Michel Guérin on the notions of ornament and decoration, at the crossroads of theological, anthropological, aesthetic and philosophical considerations.
Anne-Marie Minella - Les artistes et le textile
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
forthcoming
An overview of the use of textile in contemporary visual arts around the world.
L’Art dans la vie - Le constructivisme et le productivisme russe dans les textes
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
forthcoming
An anthology of the constructivist movement, bringing together newly translated or previously unpublished writings by artists and theorists, accompanied by numerous illustrations and an extensive critical apparatus: this reference volume sheds new light on the multiplicity and diversity of the approaches of constructivism and productivism in the 1920s-30, and provides a major contribution to the studies of the Soviet avant-garde.
Enzo Mari - 25 façons de planter un clou
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
forthcoming
Azimuts - Dé-designer
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Azimuts
forthcoming
The "deconstruction" of design, between practice and reflection.
Ronan Bouroullec - Lausanne
2024
no text
Nieves
forthcoming
Ronan Bouroullec's daily drawings.
The Aquarium is a Listening Glass
2024
English edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
forthcoming
The glass as a listening device.
 Ganko - Glasraum
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
forthcoming
The result of a collaboration in the fields of architecture and photography, Glasraum explores the deliberate ambiguities embedded in a seemingly aloof approach to the construction of both space and image.
Objets à l\'état vif - Entre dynamiques sociales et pratiques artistiques
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
forthcoming
A collective reflection on the question of objects in artistic situations, at the crossroads of art history and theory, social sciences and artistic practices.
Jamie Allen - Infrastructures critiques
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
How do we perceive and think about the infrastructures that condition the ways in which we perceive, think and experience our world? Four essays by Jamie Allen, whose experiments as artist and researcher cross media, disciplines and borders, that invite us to make visible the backstage work of the digitized world, and to think (post)critically about the very notion of critique.
Strange Design
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
forthcoming
A history of critical design in four episodes: the Italian radical design of the late 1970s; the Dutch conceptual design of the 1990s; the English critical design of the 2000s, and the contemporary scene (with contributions by Bless, Didier Faustino, Alessandro Mendini, Gianni Pettena…).
Littérature et design - Visualités et visualisations du texte en régime numérique
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Figures
New visualities and visualizations of literature in the digital age: the possible contributions of design thinking to literary theory.
Massimiliano Locatelli - Editions
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An anthology that gathers a selection of furniture and lamps designed over the years by the Italian architect Massimiliano Locatelli.
Tools - To Fold
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
The third issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to folding.
 Bless - Celebrating 25 Years of Always Stress with BLESS N°42–N°74
2023
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Written and visual documentation of the German stylist-designer duo's projects from 2010 to 2022.
 Anni\'s - Repetition, repetition,
2023
no text
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A publication compiled, edited and designed by Danish graphic artist Anni's, based on research into the uses of the grid.
Manuel Raeder - Agenda 2024
2023
no text
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Bom Dia's new Agenda offers a different font designed by Studio Manuel Raeder for each month. It provides you with a fun way for new beginnings and to take notes and make sketches. This years Agenda can function on a daily basis as a notebook, or be used for hanging as a wall calendar.
Gae Aulenti - Cina 1974
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
A series of astonishing photographs by the Italian architect and designer, discovering China at the end of the Cultural Revolution, between millenary traditions, openness to the world and forced modernization.
Décor - Trans
2023
French edition
Décor
École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris
The third issue of the annual review of the École des arts décoratifs de Paris, placed under the complex and ambivalent sign of "TRANS", covering the various ways of transgressing (identity, textuality, coding, training, etc.).
 Dyvik Kahlen - Dyvik Kahlen In Practice - Villa Ruba
2023
English edition
MER. B&L
currently out of stock
For the fourth book in the In Practice series, Dyvik Kahlen architects explore the design process of the Villa Ruba, located near Utrecht.
Keep it Flat - A little history on flat earth
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
A design theorist (Alexandra Midal), a neuroscientist (Albert Moukheiber), two designers (Antoine Fœglé and Emma Pflieger) and two curators (Jolanthe Kugler and Scott Longfellow) take a look at the mechanisms behind the flat-Earth theory, and the ways in which "alternative" narratives are disseminated.
Objective: Earth - Designing our Planet
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object.
Keep it Flat - Petite histoire sur la Terre plate
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
A design theorist (Alexandra Midal), a neuroscientist (Albert Moukheiber), two designers (Antoine Fœglé and Emma Pflieger) and two curators (Jolanthe Kugler and Scott Longfellow) take a look at the mechanisms behind the flat-Earth theory, and the ways in which "alternative" narratives are disseminated (also available in English).
Objectif Terre - Le design de notre planète
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object.
Azimuts - Se permettre l\'écriture chez les designer·euse·s, artistes, chercheur·euse·s
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Azimuts
The 56th issue of the design research journal, devoted to the question of writing in design practices.
Warja Honegger-Lavater - Pictograms
2023
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Nieves
A previously unpublished collection of 60 ink pictograms by the early progenitor of the artist's book genre (new edition).
Enzo Mari - Singing Enzo Mari The Function of Esthetic Research (vinyl LP)
2023
various
A musical version of legendary Italian designer and artist Enzo Mari's rare book The Function of Esthetic Research (1970), singed by a computer-aided software.
Écodesign et Création - S\'attacher
2023
French edition
Écodesign et Création
École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris
An exploration of the various paths of ecodesign, from material environments to our imaginations, from concern for uses to new narratives.
Claudia Mareis - Théories du design - Une introduction
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
By introducing the main design theories of the twentieth century, Claudia Mareis outlines approaches and models that postulate an expanded notion of design, in connection with the human and technical sciences, as well as with the challenges of a changing society.
Cosmos - Design from here and beyond
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
Weaving fruitful links between the worlds of science and design, this catalog unveils the work of designers who have, in conceptual, technical or poetic ways, questioned the architecture of the Universe and the hidden laws of physics that govern it, bringing to the fore the fundamental questions that drive artists and scientists alike (with a contribution of cosmologist Thomas Hertog).
Keep it Flat - A little history on flat earth
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
A design theorist (Alexandra Midal), a neuroscientist (Albert Moukheiber), two designers (Antoine Fœglé and Emma Pflieger) and two curators (Jolanthe Kugler and Scott Longfellow) take a look at the mechanisms behind the flat-Earth theory, and the ways in which "alternative" narratives are disseminated.
Objectif Terre - Le design de notre planète
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object (also available in English).
Keep it Flat - Petite histoire sur la Terre plate
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
A design theorist (Alexandra Midal), a neuroscientist (Albert Moukheiber), two designers (Antoine Fœglé and Emma Pflieger) and two curators (Jolanthe Kugler and Scott Longfellow) take a look at the mechanisms behind the flat-Earth theory, and the ways in which "alternative" narratives are disseminated (also available in English).
Cosmos - Design d\'ici et au-delà
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
Weaving fruitful links between the worlds of science and design, this catalog unveils the work of designers who have questioned the architecture of the Universe and the hidden laws of physics that govern it (also available in English).
Marion Baruch - Tzimtzum
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New monograph.
Alexandra Midal - The Murder Factory - Life and Work of H. H. Holmes, First American Serial Killer
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The simultaneous emergence of the serial killer and the assembly line as expressions of the rationality of modern production methods.
 Fosbury Architecture - Spaziale - Everyone belongs to everyone else / Ognuno appartiene a tutti gli altri
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
The volume "Spaziale. Everyone belongs to everyone else" brings together the voices of all the protagonists involved in the Italian Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
Offline
2023
French edition (texts in English)
Offline
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
The 11th issue of the biannual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design), with Atlas Studio, Eurostandard, Nathalie Herschdorfer, Elisa Medde, Jonathan Olivares, Samuel Spreyz, Manon Wertenbroek.
Jacques Grange - Un goût parisien
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
The collaborative project conceived in New York by the world's most celebrated French interior designer Jacques Grange and gallerist Kamel Mennour.
Italy - A New Collective Landscape
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An exploration of emerging Italian design, revealing a great variety of approaches to the discipline.
Eric Schrijver - Copiez ce livre - Un manuel sur le droit d\'auteur et les communs culturels, par et pour les artistes
2023
French edition
Les commissaires anonymes - Stimuli
An artist's guide to copyright, written for makers.
Azimuts - Bale-bale
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Azimuts
The central theme of the 55th issue of the design research journal are the objects created by and for the organization and mobilization of communities.
Philippe Malouin - Steel Works
2023
English edition
Nero
An overview of the Canadian designer's creative process.
Adriano Olivetti - Écrits et discours
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Fondamenta
The first collection of writings and speeches in French by Adriano Olivetti (1901-1960), an Italian entrepreneur and publisher who transformed his writing and calculating machine factory into a laboratory for experimenting with a new model of social, political, and cultural life: a model of "concrete utopia" based on the idea of community and centered on the individual, whose instruments of realization are architecture, urbanism, and design.
Ronan Bouroullec - Fièvre
2023
no text
Nieves
Ronan Bouroullec's daily drawings.
Tim Onderbeke - Candles - A Photographic Novel
2023
English edition
MER. B&L
A photographic essay on the spiritual and architectural dimensions of the candle.
Global Tools (1973-1975) - Éco-Design : Dé-projet & Low-Tech
2023
French edition
isdaT (Higher Institute of Arts and Design of Toulouse) - Research Series
The reference book in French on the Global Tools design movement linked to the Italian radical architects of the 1970s.
Costumes - Enquête sur le vêtement, l\'habit, la parure dans le fonds de livres anciens de l\'isdaT
2023
French edition
isdaT (Higher Institute of Arts and Design of Toulouse) - Formes Series
Costumes, the second book of images produced from the plates in isdaT's old books collection, focuses on the representation of clothing and ornaments. With a 21st century perspective, the edition explores an exceptional public heritage.
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