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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.
Nayla Romanos Iliya - The Phoenician Alphabet
2022
English edition
Kaph Books
Publication dedicated to Lebanese artist Nayla Romanos Iliya's "Small Characters" sculptures, inspired by and named after each of the 22 letters of the Phoenician Alphabet.
Metalworks - Designing and making
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press
currently out of stock
This book uses the production of some twenty international creators to discuss methods of transforming metal in contemporary design.
Manuel Raeder - Agenda 2023
2022
no text
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
The BOM DIA weekly planner for 2023, offering a different font designed by Studio Manuel Raeder for each month.
Matali Crasset - Matrices
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
Athom
Faced with the ecological peril, what can design and archarchitecture itecture do but encourage and accompany modes and ways of living that maintain a renewed relationship with nature? Based on realizations and projects, Matali Crasset and David Bihanic share the writing of this book, seeking together, between testimony and analysis, to characterize a design of matrices.
Ettore Sottsass - Architettura Attenuata
2022
no text
Nieves
A series of drawings by the iconic Italian designer.
Cinzia Ruggeri - Cinzia Says...
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The widest and most complete overview of Cinzia Ruggeri's career to date.
 Forty five degrees - Radical Ritual - An itinerant survey along the 45°N parallel
2022
English edition
Punch
The engaged spatial protocols of the collaborative studio for research and design Forty five degrees.
Alice Rawsthorn - Design as an Attitude
2022
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
Acclaimed author Alice Rawsthorn has revised her bestselling field guide to design in the wake of the pandemic, technological change, and the escalating climate emergency.
Tools - To Weave
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
The second issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to weaving.
 Destroyers/Builders - Rooted Flows
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
This book is dedicated to the work of Destroyers/Builders (Linde Freya Tangelder), as part of a series of monographs on the thought and work of young contemporary designers.
Kostas Lambridis - Rooted Flows
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
This book is dedicated to the spectacular and baroque work of Kostas Lambridis, as part of a series of monographs on the thought and work of young contemporary designers.
Vincent Beaubois - La zone obscure - Vers une pensée mineure du design
2022
French edition
it: editions
A philosophical manifesto for a "minor thought of design", as a vector of intensification and problematization of our relationship to the world.
Offline
2022
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), inaugurating its new formula, with NORM, Feng Li, Marco De Mutiis, Zachary Lieberman, Maïwenn, Lionel Baier, Abel Ferrara...
Pier Vittorio Aureli - Less is Enough - Sur l\'architecture et l\'ascétisme
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Opus
A reflection on asceticism in architecture.
Ahmed Bouanani - Enquête sur les bijoux Amazighs
2022
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
A series of drawings made during a field visit by the filmmaker, writer and artist Ahmed Bouanani. Here ethnographer and illustrator, Bouanani analyzes the construction of Berber jewelry by sketching a taxonomy and a geography of formal symbolism of Berber groups in Morocco.
EP Vol. 3 - Post-Craft
2022
English edition
Sternberg Press - EP
The new meaning of craft.
Jonathan Olivares - Seeing
2022
no text
Nieves
The connections between design, skateboarding and graffiti in the practice of the American industrial designer.
You can go anywhere - The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation at 50 (box set)
2022
English edition
various
A large series of essays, written by people from around the world who have contributed to the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation's work, revealing how the non-profit organization has carried on the Albers' legacy over the years. The heart of the book, lavishly illustrated, is devoted to the Foundation's many donations to international museums, including rarely shown works of art.
Object Notes - Just a Little Rest
2022
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
The manufacture of contemporary art objects.
Décor - Vulgaire
2022
French edition
Décor
École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris
The second issue of the annual review of the École des arts décoratifs de Paris, devoted to the question of the vulgar, explores through creations, portfolios, interviews, fictions and theoretical texts the polysemy of this word which embodies all the tensions of our time.
Comment devient-on créateur∙trice ?
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
ESAD Reims (Reims School of Art and Design)
A book to approach differently what is taught and learned in art and design college.
Nathalie du Pasquier - RO-SÉ - A Book as a Bridge
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A hybrid monograph/artist book of Nathalie Du Pasquier's work.
Azimuts - Learning from Saint-Étienne
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Azimuts
Azimuts #54 reports on a selection of design research surveys that were carried out in Saint-Étienne between 2015 and 2022 by various researchers and collectives in collaboration with artists and academics in relation to this territory, their terrain.
Beyrouth - Les temps du design
2022
French edition
Kaph Books
The first retrospective on design in Lebanon, from the 1920s until today, includes works by over 50 designers, uncovering this major design scene in the Middle-East.
Formes et couleurs - Les arts décoratifs dans le fonds de livres anciens de l\'isdaT - institut supérieur des arts et du design de Toulouse
2022
French edition
isdaT (Higher Institute of Arts and Design of Toulouse) - Formes Series
This picture book features decorative patterns with unusual shapes and colors, taken from the decorative arts collections of the Institut supérieur des arts et du design de Toulouse (isdaT).
 Trix + Robert Haussmann - A Life with Art and Artists / Ein Leben mit Kunst und Künstler:innen
2022
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
A portrait of the Swiss architect-designer couple that reveals their intimate universe and their relationship to art.
Global Tools - When Education Coincides with Life – 1973–1975
2022
English edition
Nero
Global Tools 1973–1975 documents and narrates the story of the eponymous experience of Radical Design and its multidisciplinary school program "without students or teachers."
Jungle Design - Le design à l\'École nationale supérieure d\'art et de design de Limoges
2022
French edition
Naima
Design creations made at the École nationale supérieure d'art et de design de Limoges, showing the area opened by ceramics to question the process of creation and the field of production of objects within an art and design school.
Marco Sammicheli - Danish Diaries
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
A singular history of cultural encounters between Italy and Denmark.
Bureau d\'investigation du sacré
2022
French edition
École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris
The restitution of a research and production program (Chair "Young Creation and the Sacred") conducted at the Ecole des Arts Déco by students, teachers and a number of invited artists and thinkers on the question of the sacred in contemporary creation.
Genre 2030 - isdaT 2020 – L.A.C. 2021, deux workshops, un display, et quelques autres agissements collaboratifs
2022
French edition
isdaT (Higher Institute of Arts and Design of Toulouse) - Research Series
Collective and individual artistic practices from a gender perspective.
Ronan Bouroullec - Bas-Reliefs
2022
no text
Nieves
Ronan Bouroullec's ceramic bas-reliefs.
Le Dictateur
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Le Dictateur
Le Dictateur Press - Le Dictateur
Le Dictateur releases his last big, immense, effort: 27 international curators from the world of art, design and fashion curate their ideal show, from past, present or even future or non existing artists but without using images—only words.
Manuel Raeder - Agenda 2022
2021
no text
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
The BOM DIA weekly planner for 2022.
(How) do we (want to) work (together) (as (socially engaged) designers (students and neighbors)) (in neoliberal times)? - Public Design Support, 2016–2021
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A critical examination of the Studio Experimentelles Design's politically and socially committed approach, questioning the social implications of design as well as the working conditions of designers today.
Objects of Fascination
2021
English edition
Accattone
45 low tables imagined by as many architects / designers from personal objects of fascination.
Stream - New Intelligences
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Stream
Architect Philippe Chiambaretta brings together thinkers, researchers and contemporary artists in the 5th edition of the exploration book-magazine Stream, which investigates the different forms of intelligence that must be considered, implemented and passed down to move beyond the Urbanocene.
Nathalie du Pasquier - Lettere dall\'Egitto
2021
Italian edition
Humboldt Books - Atlas
The Italian edition of Flaubert's account of his trip to Egypt, illustrated by Nathalie du Pasquier.
Hybrid Ecologies
2021
English edition
Diaphanes
A series of interdisciplinary contributions around the political and social dimensions of ecology and its implications in the humanities and social sciences, artistic practices and design.
 Buero Kofink Schels - Buero Kofink Schels In Practice - T.I.A. House 1+2
2021
English edition
MER. B&L
In this book, Matthie Wellner and Buero Kofink Schels (architects Simon Jüttner and Sebastian Kofin) unfold the design process of T.I.A. House 1+2, a project they developed and built in the city of Almeria on the southern Spanish coast.
Tools - To Mold
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
The first issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to molding.
Anni Albers - Du tissage
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art
Written by one of the pioneers of twentieth-century textile art, Anni Albers' 1965 seminal text offers a brilliant meditation on the art of weaving, its history, tools, and techniques, and its implications for modern design (new expanded edition, with three critical texts and color illustrations).
Victor Papanek - Design pour un monde réel
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
Critical re-edition in French of an absolutely precursory and fundamental work for the inclusion of social and environmental issues in the design process: the manifesto of a radical reconfiguration of the field of design, of its forms but above all of its mission.
Azimuts - Collecte
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Azimuts
currently out of stock
Issue celebrating the 30th anniversary of the design research journal, offering a selection of essential articles and free iconographic navigation in the Azimuts corpus.
H. R. Giger - 5 – Poltergeist II - Drawings 1983-1985
2021
bilingual (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
The facsimile edition of the visionary sketches and notes of the surrealist master for Brian Gibson's horror film Poltergeist II.
Scripts and Calligraphy - A Timeless Journey
2021
English edition
Kaph Books
The history of Arabic calligraphy.
Grégory Granados - Cahier du Cirva
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cirva
French designer Gregory Granados imagines the ideal shape of a vase/flower pot for a dancing plant. His discreet and subtle research questions the connection between the shaping of a given material and the sound it emits, investigating the acoustic properties of glass.
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