Design

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.

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's daily drawings.

A photographic essay on the spiritual and architectural dimensions of the candle.

The reference book in French on the Global Tools design movement linked to the Italian radical architects of the 1970s.

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.

A plunge into the colorful world of designer Laureline Galliot.

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.

This book uses the production of some twenty international creators to discuss methods of transforming metal in contemporary design.

The BOM DIA weekly planner for 2023, offering a different font designed by Studio Manuel Raeder for each month.

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.

A series of drawings by the iconic Italian designer.

The widest and most complete overview of Cinzia Ruggeri's career to date.

The engaged spatial protocols of the collaborative studio for research and design Forty five degrees.

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.

The second issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to weaving.

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.

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.

A philosophical manifesto for a "minor thought of design", as a vector of intensification and problematization of our relationship to the world.

The 11th issue of the annual 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...

A reflection on asceticism in architecture.

The new meaning of craft.

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

The connections between design, skateboarding and graffiti in the practice of the American industrial designer.

The manufacture of contemporary art objects.

A book to approach differently what is taught and learned in art and design college.

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.

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).

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.

A portrait of the Swiss architect-designer couple that reveals their intimate universe and their relationship to art.

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.

A singular history of cultural encounters between Italy and Denmark.

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.

Collective and individual artistic practices from a gender perspective.

Ronan Bouroullec's ceramic bas-reliefs.

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.

The BOM DIA weekly planner for 2022.

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.

45 low tables imagined by as many architects / designers from personal objects of fascination.

The Italian edition of Flaubert's account of his trip to Egypt, illustrated by Nathalie du Pasquier.

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.

The first issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to molding.

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).

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.

The facsimile edition of the visionary sketches and notes of the surrealist master for Brian Gibson's horror film Poltergeist II.

The history of Arabic calligraphy.

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.