Design

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.

Swiss-based artist Raffael Waldner is obsessed by car culture: its gloss, glamour and erotic undertones. In Salon, he focuses on motor shows, photographing—with superficial coolness––the hundreds of female models who act as car company ambassadors.

This publication, conceived as an extension of the eponymous exhibition and its design, gathers scientific contributions from leading researchers and art and dance historians alongside in situ installation views, paying tribute to Léon Bakst, the greatest set designer of the modern era (new edition).

The current fascination with fiction across art, design, and architecture (including one of Umberto Eco's final interview).

A collection of misprinted sheets originating from books designed by graphic designer Manuel Raeder: a “behind the scene” project, which documents the early stage of book production and its conventions.

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...

Photographic essay featuring pictures of inactive TV sets: a powerful semiotic reflection on the medium and its design.

An analysis of new collaborative artistic practices interconnecting artists, designers, graphic designers, architects and researchers with different social and economic backgrounds, outside the strict boundaries of the art world.

6th issue of the art and research magazine is dedicated to Nathalie du Pasquier.

A pocket, non illustrated mid-career catalogue raisonné of a practice now spanning over two decades.

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…).

This publication chronicles the aspirations, methods, and projects of the first four years of Public Design Support—a joint venture between Goethe Institute's Urban Incubator and Hamburg University of Fine Arts established to offer free practical support to urban residents. It includes key project materials, scholarly essays, and significant historical texts.

Carlo Mollino's photographs of a Japan in between tradition and modernity during the 1970 Universal Exposition.

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

The ambition of design and its limits

The first issue the new experimental design review focuses on new types of design practice, be it a happening, performance, installation or game. Seven international designers have been invited to expand on the themes and questions at the heart of their explorations, through essays and interviews.

All posters produced by M/M (Paris) for CDDB-Théâtre de Lorient since 1996, with comments by Eric Vigner, Bénédicte Vigner, and Mathias Augustyniak (edition completed with a photographic booklet and the theater's 20th anniversary programming).

German photographer Heinz Peter Knes offers a new photographic perspective on the furnishing of the CAPC museum of contemporary art in Bordeaux, one of the famous interior designer Andrée Putman's most accomplished projects and a milestone in the history of design.

Taking as a starting point the description of an exhibition project, the British artist reflects on the creative process, serendipity, and writing as an exploratory tool in conceiving and creating a work.

Mottled sausages, icy landscapes with worms that seem to have died trying to make it over hurdles, portals to impossible lands: welcome to the accidental world of ceramist and drawer Anne Brugni.

This unique publication, filled with annotated images, presents an inventory of design, furniture, and textiles produced for Fogo Island Inn. Each piece is a collaborative effort between artisans and craftspeople living on the island and designers from various parts of the world who were invited to engage with the history and communities of Fogo Island and Change Islands in Newfoundland, Canada.

A celebration of nearly a quarter century collaboration between the family-run, specialty fashion store Weinberg and the design and architect duo of Trix + Robert Haussmann.

Artist's book.

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

Doris Maninger's drawings (artist's book).

The never-before-published selection of Carlo Scarpa's writings and illustrations (photographs, architectural plans, sketches, etc.): an invaluable tool to understanding exhibition history and the importance of the architectural conception of exhibitions.

New design monograph: the studio's 10th anniversary publication "Out of the Ordinary," lavishly illustrated, elucidates the design philosophy of Studio Wieki Somers.

A book about a fictional architecture office in a modernist social housing complex in Brussels, where real architects and locals worked together to make scale models: a reflection on scale models as spaces of negotiation, on maquettes as places where the desire of the architect is visible without the compromises of reality.

A collective work conducted by students and teachers from the Design & Space Master at ESAAA art school that aims to highlight the atypical forms that young designers produce and address to our contemporary societies.

Mendini's writings 1972-2011.

A graphic short-story: a trip to Afghanistan, organised by the British government, in which Anish Kapoor and Anthony Gormley are charged with building a gigantic sculpture to subdue the insurgent population...

The genesis and establishment of digital tools for design conceptualization, visualization, and production at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s.

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

An exhibition of textiles by women artists and designers who explore the social ramifications of couture and industrial/manual fabric production.

A tribute to Gianni Piacentino's art and to his sense of independence with works spanning 1966 to the present.

Ten discussions based on the opening picnic scene of Charles and Ray Eames's film Powers of Ten used as score.

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.

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.

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

The facsimile of HR Giger's Alien Diaries, with unpublished material, including drawings, Polaroids, and still shots.

Reference monograph.

Manuel Raeder's 2013 Wall Calendar.

The role and place of women in French design today

Photography by M/M (Paris) from the FIAC posters and advertising 2005-2012.

A 528 pages reference monograph with more than 1000 illustrations gathering twenty years of works by M/M (Paris), one of the most emblematic design duo of the 21st century.

Seven seminal works by Simon Starling and Superflex in a dialogical setting.