Cité du design / ESADSE

An overview of the multifaceted work of designer and set designer David Dubois, with a text by critic Jeanne Quéheillard.

A vast research project to explore the connections and mutual enrichment between cinema and design, both considered as reservoirs of fiction: an illustrated inventory of impossible and unthinkable objects, with some thirty contributions by design researchers and designers.

Designers and researchers question the notion of resources (being material, human or intellectual) and our everyday habits to explore the ways in which design can respond to contemporary issues by rethinking production, consumption and innovation (the catalogue of the 13th Saint-Étienne International Design Biennial).

The design research journal devotes its 59th issue to contemporary forms of graphic design transmission.

How contemporary painting embraces the possibilities offered by digital technology.

How AI can be used in the creative process in art and design.

"Labo d'objet", a research laboratory run by UR Design & Création at the Saint-Étienne Higher School of Art and Design, proposes a visual reflection by creating images that associate concrete with vehicles such as cars, motor homes, tractors and caravans, at the crossroads of industrial culture and creative experimentation.

All television images seem to be the same image. An artist and researcher at the Saint-Étienne Higher School of Art and Design, Lorenza Mannaioni, attempts to prove this with this book of felt-tip pen images.

How AI can be used in the creative process in art and design.

The "deconstruction" of design, between practice and reflection.

A selection of images from the workshop on artificial intelligence organized at the Saint-Étienne Higher School of Art and Design.

An insight into the exhibition designed by designer Guillaume Bloget for the Cité du design, and his entire approach.

Through a selection of commented images and previously unpublished archives, this book devoted to the dach&zephir designers highlights the questions they ask about forgotten, neglected or erased knowledge and history.

The 56th issue of the design research journal, devoted to the question of writing in design practices.

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.

A plunge into the colorful world of designer Laureline Galliot.

A biography of the automobile object, in 7 thematical fanzines.

The catalogue of the 12th Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne.

A history of industrial design in France: through portraits of the personalities who helped shape design practices and culture in France from the 1950s onwards, as well as emblematic design projects and flagship everyday objects, this book tells the story of the genesis of the profession of designer, which is accompanying a society that is witnessing the emergence of new lifestyles.

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.

Issue celebrating the 30th anniversary of the design research journal, offering a selection of essential articles and free iconographic navigation in the Azimuts corpus.

Azimuts #52 invites researchers to talk about their work and thinking, within and outside of their usual frameworks and fields of investigation, documenting a sensitive and critical perception of a reality on hold due to the pandemic.

Edited collectively by the students of the 2019 graduating and incoming classes of the Design Research Cycle at ESAD Saint-Étienne, issue 51 of the magazine Azimuts looks at pedagogy in higher education in design through testimonies and feedback from past and present experiences that challenge the traditional modalities and frameworks of school and university.

A complete archive of contents from the 11th Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne.

In conjunction with the exhibition "La table des négociations" [The negotiation table] proposed by the ESAD Saint-Étienne Design Research Cycle as part of the 11th International Design Biennial, Azimuts #50 devotes its thematic dossier to the negotiation of futures.

What roles and functions does type play in design? How does it relate to the meanings of type inherited from other knowledge disciplines?

Timothy Morton stretches a thread between philosophy and ecology, using the concept of hyperobjects to rethink our approach to global warming.

The second volume of the design research journal devoted to work and its mutations.

The catalogue for the Saint-Étienne 2017 International Design Biennial, focusing on the changing world of labor.

A bold manifesto for life after capitalism.

The first volume of the design research journal devoted to work and its mutations presents a collection of texts by the philosopher Pierre-Damien Huyghe.

Interviews with the artist Alain Bublex and the architect-designer-researcher Joseph Grima, a text by the designer and typographer François Chastanet on the graffiti of Los Angeles gangs...

In a singular and engaging essay, playing with words and jargon, Madeleine Aktypi examines the new ways of working, and in particular the work we do equipped with the "intellectual technologies" at stake in the so-called new economy.

An issue all about the end (with a sociological investigation by Bertrand Vidal into survivalism).

The ambition of design and its limits

The catalogue for the Saint-Étienne 2015 International Design Biennial.

The 39th issue of the design research journal is dedicated to the animal.

The catalogue of the 2013 Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne.

Six texts exploring the mutations of contemporary housing and objects.

Design meets the world of services.

A graphic design project carried out by students at the school for the Bellevue University Hospital in Saint-Étienne.

An update on the history and current state of research into homelessness, in its various links with public action and in a context of fragile urbanity.

The role and place of women in French design today

The catalogue for the Saint-Étienne 2010 International Design Biennial.

How do individuals shape their daily lives in the technological context of flows?

The catalogue for the Saint-Étienne 2008 International Design Biennial.