Design

A history of design that is often overlooked—until we need it

Have you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used an ergonomic kitchen tool? Have you ever used curb cuts to roll a stroller across an intersection? If you have, then you’ve benefited from accessible design—design for people with physical, sensory, and cognitive disabilities. These ubiquitous touchstones of modern life were once anything but. Disability advocates fought tirelessly to ensure that the needs of people with disabilities became a standard part of public design thinking. That fight took many forms worldwide, but in the United States it became a civil rights issue; activists used design to make an argument about the place of people with disabilities in public life.

In the aftermath of World War II, with injured veterans returning home and the polio epidemic reaching the Oval Office, the needs of people with disabilities came forcibly into the public eye as they never had before. The US became the first country to enact federal accessibility laws, beginning with the Architectural Barriers Act in 1968 and continuing through the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, bringing about a wholesale rethinking of our built environment. This progression wasn’t straightforward or easy. Early legislation and design efforts were often haphazard or poorly implemented, with decidedly mixed results. Political resistance to accommodating the needs of people with disabilities was strong; so, too, was resistance among architectural and industrial designers, for whom accessible design wasn’t “real” design.

Bess Williamson provides an extraordinary look at everyday design, marrying accessibility with aesthetic, to provide an insight into a world in which we are all active participants, but often passive onlookers. Richly detailed, with stories of politics and innovation, Williamson’s Accessible America takes us through this important history, showing how American ideas of individualism and rights came to shape the material world, often with unexpected consequences.

Unique Features

• Inside tips and tricks from a CNC professional with a broad background of art, engineering, architecture, and teaching.
• In-depth discussions of using Fusion, the design environment and basic drawing tools, and CAD, the manufacturing environment, as well as creating programs for running on CNC machines.
• An affiliated website, www.cncbeginner.com, is perfect for visual learners, with helpful online video tutorials, color photographs, and graphs seen in the book with more detailed explanation.

What we make, makes us. This is the central tenet of Artful Design, a photorealistic comic book that examines the nature, purpose, and meaning of design. A call to action and a meditation on art, authenticity, and social connection in a world disrupted by technological change, this book articulates a fundamental principle for design: that we should design not just from practical needs but from the values that underlie those needs.

Artful Design takes readers on a journey through the aesthetic dimensions of technology. Using music as a universal phenomenon that has evolved alongside technology, this book breaks down concrete case studies in computer-mediated toys, tools, games, and instruments, including the best-selling app Ocarina. Every chapter elaborates a set of general design principles and strategies that illuminate the essential relationship between aesthetics and engineering, art and design.

Ge Wang implores us to both embrace and confront technology, not purely as a means to an end, but in its potential to enrich life. Technology is never a neutral agent, but through what we do with it—through what we design with it—it provides a mirror to our human endeavors and values. Artful Design delivers an aesthetic manifesto of technology, accessible yet uncompromising.

A lavishly illustrated cultural history of print advertising in Egypt

At the tail end of the nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution was shifting economies and redrawing global power maps. In this changing world, advertising became more than just a way to sell products—it was a powerful tool that shaped ideas about what to buy, why to buy it, and what it means to be modern. In colonized societies, these changes came swiftly and dramatically. Drawing on over 350 images of magazine and newspaper ads, Bahia Shehab reveals how consumer culture intertwined with political, social, and economic change during the period between 1880 and 1980 in Egypt. She shows how the Egyptian market navigated the influx of European and American luxury goods, from fine fabrics and jewelry to agricultural machinery, and how these items became symbols of aspiration and, at times, ignited a wave of national resistance. At once a visual feast and a compelling history of commerce and industry in Egypt, A Trade in Dreams sheds light on a time when ads did more than sell—they mirrored dreams, ambitions, and the realities of a nation in transition.

Women’s Type: Shaping Letters, Shaping History

Frutiger, Garamond, Renner – these are the names of typographers renowned in the industry for their iconic typefaces. But where are female typographers? Despite significant contributions, the field remains dominated by men, both in perception and recognition. 

The author delves into this phenomenon of underrepresentation, aiming to enhance the visibility of female typographers and their typefaces while amplifying their creative voices within the industry. Alongside her exploration of the topic, the book showcases an inspiring collection of typefaces by talented women, each accompanied by a short biography. It is an invaluable resource for discovering typefaces when searching for fonts and highlights how female typographers continue to reshape and redefine the art of type design.

A rare 1947 catalogue of modern furniture making use of a revolutionary cast aluminum process reveals the splendid art of a designer who worked anonymously in the same factory for 50 years — the world class nature of his work revealed in this book and accompanying exhibition for the first time.

A rich, complex story of conflict between design and industry, John Leonard's Project X successfully launched a flood of striking chairs and desks into British and American schools, but his most beautiful design, the X202 "Armchair" remains unknown. By contrast, the paired "Student Chair," the X200, sold over a million copies, the most successful chair in British history. The central mystery of the chairs’ contrasting fates involves his boss's dismissal as 'unfit' at the peak of success, the revolutionary WWII Mosquito fighter/bomber, obsession with a winning racecar, mysterious double lives, a financial scandal, and the eternal battle between art and business. As Wyeth details Leonard's double life and the unprecedented achievement of Project X, he reveals James Leonard to be a singularly talented designer.

The enduring influence of Saint Laurent’s designs in modern fashion is undeniable. Concepts introduced by Saint Laurent, like the tuxedo jacket for women and the sheer blouse and dress, have become staples in contemporary fashion, transcending their origins to become symbols of power, elegance and sexuality. His ability to anticipate and articulate the needs and desires of the modern woman has left a lasting blueprint for how fashion interacts with social change and individual identity. Moreover, even after his death at 71 in 2008, Saint Laurent’s integration of art and fashion continues to inspire current designers, seen in the ongoing collaborations between high fashion and contemporary artists.
Saint Laurent was above all an artist of synthesis, of agglomeration and reshaping, of conglomeration and adaptation. His work is a fusion of the tactile and aesthetic with fancy and supposition – for his interiors are not what were but could have been, a projection of imagination and personality. It is a straddling of two separate worlds, which is crucial to fashion. His significance is in making this explicit.

In a little over twenty years, New York–-based fashion designer Thome Browne has decisively and permanently changed the fashion industry. Through his clothes that are rooted in America’s distinctive preppie style, he has challenged age-old conventions of tailoring by altering proportions and blurring gender boundaries. The cropped trouser, which has become a staple of people’s wardrobes around the world, owes much to Browne’s pioneering reinterpretation of the suit. Through highly choreographed catwalk shows, he has enlivened the presentation of fashion, creating soulful spectacles that variously critique and cherish common themes in human lives.
Browne’s influence within the fashion industry has been recognised through various awards. The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) has named him ‘Menswear Designer of the Year’ on three occasions, in 2006, 2013, and 2016. Since 2023, Browne has served as the CFDA’s Chair. In May 2023, Browne dressed nine celebrities to honour Karl Lagerfeld at the annual gala hosted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
This book considers Browne’s position as a fashion auteur by focusing on four collections that enable detailed consideration of his innovative clothing designs and catwalk presentations, situating them within their historical and social context and drawing out what makes them distinctive and influential.

All you need to learn the art of creating iconic, fun and memorable characters!

Character design is the art and process of defining a new character and their physical, mental, psychological and social attributes.

• Ideal for all those involved in creating artwork for gaming, animation, advertising, social memes, cartoons, graphic novels and comic strips.
• Course structure provides tutorials on all the basics plus sections on story telling, rendering and developing expressions.
• Includes both pen and pencil techniques as well as Procreate screen grabs for both digital and analogue artists.
• Each chapter includes an introduction and brief refresher from the previous section to monitor and measure your progress as the course develops.

Take your artistic skills to the next level and develop characters that are memorable and bursting with personality.

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New social challenges and innovative forms of work influence the design of objects just as much as new production techniques, marketing opportunities and distribution channels. The catalog presents 100 selected objects – furniture, household appliances, tools, lighting, consumer electronics and accessories as well as designs for personal care, health and mobility – the diversity and innovative power of Austrian product design from 2000 to 2025. These objects are role models for the quality of design in terms of functionality, technological innovation, resource conservation and ergonomics. They also demonstrate wit, charisma and emotional appeal. Even in familiar objects, there are surprising and exciting things to discover.

• Austrian design of the 21st century
• Divided into 25 thematic categories such as health, work, living, entertainment and mobility
• Exhibition at the MAK Vienna, 18.9.2024-18.5.2025
  

Neue gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen und innovative Arbeitsformen beeinflussen das Design von Gegenständen ebenso wie neue Produktionstechniken, Marketingmöglichkeiten und Vertriebskanäle. Der Katalog präsentiert 100 ausgewählte Objekte – Möbel, Haushaltsgeräte, Werkzeuge, Beleuchtung, Unterhaltungselektronik und Accessoires sowie Designs für Körperpflege, Gesundheit und Mobilität – die Vielfalt und Innovationskraft des österreichischen Produktdesigns von 2000 bis 2025. Diese Objekte sind Vorbilder für die Qualität von Design in Bezug auf Funktionalität, technologische Innovation, Ressourcenschonung und Ergonomie. Sie zeigen auch Witz, Charisma und emotionale Anziehungskraft. Selbst in vertrauten Objekten gibt es Überraschendes und Spannendes zu entdecken.

• Große Ausstellung zum österreichischen Design des 21. Jahrhunderts
• Gegliedert in 25 thematische Kategorien wie Gesundheit, Arbeit, Wohnen, Unterhaltung und Mobilität
• Ausstellung im MAK Wien, 18.9.2024–18.5.2024

A beautiful pocket guide to 40 iconic objects manufactured in Switzerland

You'll be surprised by how many products and innovations originated in Switzerland! It’s not just the home of pocket knives, alphorns, chocolates and watches—Switzerland is also a leader in manufacturing and design for bicycles, pens and pencils, high-tech products, recycled goods, mountain trains, and much more. Marvel at the craftsmanship of simple items such as roof shingles, skates, sleds, and musical instruments. 

In this collection of 40 quintessential Swiss products, find out more about Swiss manufacturing know-how and the story behind cult items’ creation. And it's not just practical goods but also service-oriented innovations used on a global scale, such as avalanche research, preservation of livestock breeds, farm machinery and book binding. “Swiss Made” has become a synonym for quality and good design—and these are the products behind the reputation.

The Graphis Journal issue #384 is packed with top-tier creative talent that’s changing the game across design, advertising, photography, and beyond. These aren't just names—they're industry disruptors and trailblazers who push boundaries and redefine what’s possible in visual communication. This is more than just a magazine—it's a masterclass in creativity, with insights from award-winning talents who are shaping the future of design and advertising.

Why These Talents Matter:

- Stefan Sagmeister (USA): Last featured in issue #339 of The Graphis Journal, this Graphis Master has mastered the work/life balance; when he’s not creating exhibits and publishing books, he’s taking a sabbatical to discover his next big idea. 

- Paul Garbett (AU): Whether he’s working on signage and wayfinding projects or collaborating with art galleries and exhibitions, he believes that design is an act of optimism, which he uses to envision and realize a better future.

- Ariel Freaner (USA): The founder of Freaner Creative & Design, Ariel was inspired to enter the art field after seeing Star Wars and various Steven Spielberg films, and now makes attention-grabbing ads for the likes of Bill Melendez Productions, Fujitsu Ten, Calimax, and the Red Cross.

- Stan Musilek (USA) and Eric Melzer (USA): These photographers see what makes people beautiful. Stan is motivated by women and feminine beauty, as seen in his glamorous model shots and tasteful nudes, while Eric shoots a wide range of subjects yet always keeps people at the center of his work.

- Mark Braught (USA): The creator of the iconic images for the Harry Potter series, Mark runs his own design firm, UP-Ideas, with his work partner Roger Sawhill when he’s not bringing stories to life for books or editorials.

- Thomas McNulty (USA): When teaching students at the Academy of Art University, Tom gives out assignments based on various process and problem-solving methods that include conducting in-depth research, writing a design strategy plan, and more.

Why Your Clients Will Love It:

This Journal offers both incredible images and thoughtful interviews, where these visual art geniuses talk about their lives, what inspires them, and what it means to be successful. It’s an opportunity for customers to discover how these greats work, whether they’re creatives themselves or simply appreciate award-winning artistry.

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Your clients who cater to creative minds are constantly seeking inspiration and insight into what’s working in today’s competitive market. The Graphis Journal issue #384 delivers exactly that—exclusive access to the thoughts and methods of today’s industry leaders who are driving the biggest trends and innovations. It's not just a resource, it’s a competitive advantage.

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When you sell The Graphis Journal issue #384, you’re not just selling a quarterly magazine—you’re providing insights that can only come from the world’s top creative minds.

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Get excited about The Graphis Journal issue #384—because if you’re serious about the visual arts, this is the best resource available!

Art as a communicative practice

This publication presents and documents 16 years of artistic teaching and research at the Department of Art and Communicative Practice at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. It illustrates the specific approach to artistic teaching in different media fields, building on the artistic practice of individual teachers.

Drawing on best-practice examples and a variety of innovative projects, it becomes clear which spaces for action and reflection each individual artistic approach opens up in interaction. These essays explore the specific potential that teaching “from art” opens up for educational processes, self-awareness, world experience, critical reflection and ability to act, and the production of knowledge.

• Unusual insights into the diversity and interaction of different forms of artistic practice
• Contemporary examples of the social relevance of artistic research
• Elaborately designed volume; appears together with the publication Geografien des Textilen. Lehren als künstlerische Praxis

Worlds of textiles artistically conveyed

This publication presents and documents 26 years of artistic teaching and research at the Textiles Department of the University of Applied Arts Vienna. It provides insight into the diversity of cultural techniques and fields of textile production, into the spaces of reflection in the context of teaching art and into the diversity of practices that artists contribute as teachers.

The contributions show how artistic working methods in an educational context inspire and rethink didactic practices. The focus is on the following questions: How can teaching “from art” be understood, and what potential does teaching “from art” open up for educational processes? These potentials can be seen from best-practice examples.

• Surprising insights into the diversity, beauty, and importance of textiles
• Current and exceptional examples of artistic research on textiles
• Elaborately designed book; published alongside Heterotopien des Künstlerischen. Lehren als künstlerische Praxis

(English / German edition)
The iconic design classics that are still handcrafted today by the Auböck workshop, now in its fourth generation in Vienna, were ahead of their time from the very beginning and shaped Austrian design across generations.

The book and exhibition focus on the style-defining era of the interwar and post-war period and also refer to the experimental 1980s. The works are viewed through the lens of surrealism. For the first time, works by the sculptor and textile artist Mara Uckunowa-Auböck (1895-1987), who met Carl Auböck II (1900-1957) at the Bauhaus in Weimar, are also presented.

The book contains, among other things, newly produced photographs of the essential, original works shown in the exhibition, as well as a foreword by Lilli Hollein, texts by Kimberly Bradley on the workshop in the international design context, Nina Schedlmayer on the history of the workshop and Bärbel Vischer on the surrealist perspective on the comprehensive oeuvre of the Auböck workshop.

• The work of the celebrated workshop for mid-century home decor
• Furniture, cutlery, key rings, smoking utensils, and much more
• His pieces can be found in the permanent collection of MoMA
  

Die ikonischen, bis heute handgefertigten Designklassiker der in vierter Generation in Wien geführten Werkstätte Auböck waren von Anfang an ihrer Zeit voraus und prägten österreichisches Design generationenübergreifend.

Buch und Ausstellung konzentrieren sich auf die stilprägende Ära der Zwischen- und Nachkriegszeit und verweisen ebenso auf die experimentellen 1980er Jahre. Dabei werden die Werke durch die Linse des Surrealismus betrachtet. Erstmals werden auch Arbeiten der Bildhauerin und Textilkünstlerin Mara Uckunowa-Auböck (1895–1987) präsentiert, die Carl Auböck II (1900–1957) am Bauhaus in Weimar kennenlernte.

Das Buch enthält unter anderem neu angefertigte Fotos der wesentlichen, originalen Werke, die in der Ausstellung gezeigt werden, sowie ein Vorwort von Lilli Hollein, Texte von Kimberly Bradley über die Werkstätte im internationalen Design-Kontext, Nina Schedlmayer zur Geschichte der Werkstätte und Bärbel Vischer über die surrealistische Perspektive auf das umfassende Œuvre der Werkstätte Auböck.

• Das Werk der gefeierten Werkstätte für Mid-Century Wohnkultur
• Möbel, Besteck, Schlüsselanhänger, Raucherutensilien, u.v.m.
• Ausstellung im MAK, Wien, 15.5.2024–13.10.2024

Worlds of textiles artistically conveyed

This publication presents and documents 26 years of artistic teaching and research at the Textiles Department of the University of Applied Arts Vienna. It provides insight into the diversity of cultural techniques and fields of textile production, into the spaces of reflection in the context of teaching art and into the diversity of practices that artists contribute as teachers.

The contributions show how artistic working methods in an educational context inspire and rethink didactic practices. The focus is on the following questions: How can teaching “from art” be understood, and what potential does teaching “from art” open up for educational processes? These potentials can be seen from best-practice examples.

• Surprising insights into the diversity, beauty, and importance of textiles
• Current and exceptional examples of artistic research on textiles
• Elaborately designed book; published alongside Heterotopien des Künstlerischen. Lehren als künstlerische Praxis

A stunning full-color, multilingual exploration of the profound graphic and intellectual legacy of the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America (OSPAAAL) for internationalism, solidarity, communication, and art among movements today.

Armed by Design reflects on the intersection of graphic design and political solidarity work in revolutionary Cuba through the lens of the production of OSPAAAL, the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

OSPAAAL developed out of the 1966 Tricontinental Conference in Havana, a meeting of delegates representing national liberation movements and leftist political parties almost exclusively from the Global South. Based in Havana, OSPAAAL produced nearly five hundred posters, magazines, and books beginning in the late 1960s, with most of their work ceasing by the late 1980s. Until 2019, OSPAAAL was a political organization focused on fighting US imperialism and supporting liberation movements around the world through poster production, regularly produced publications, and a series of books featuring the writings of the intellectual leadership of these movements.

Armed By Design brings together artists and thinkers from around the world whose work has been impacted by the legacy of OSPAAAL. These contributions reflect on impacts of OSPAAAL’s work on regional movements, including in the Arab world and Korea, design iconography, the evolution of tricontinentalism, our present-day.

This full-color multilingual edition includes ten international contemporary political poster-makers, artists, and designers commissioned to produce OSPAAAL-inspired prints in solidarity with today’s movements: Friends of Ibn Firnas (USA), Yuko Tonohira (Japan/USA), Ganzeer (Egypt/USA), Un Mundo Feliz (Spain), Steven Rodriguez (USA), Dignidad Rebelde, Tomie Arai (USA), Sublevarte Colectivo (Mexico), Jamaa Al-Yad (Lebanon/Worldwide), and A3CB (Japan).

What do the questions of the modernist era mean to today's designers, artists and photographers? Since 2000, the International Marianne Brandt Contest in Chemnitz has been asking how the design debates that influenced the historical Bauhaus and the Bauhaus artist/designer Marianne Brandt can be made productive today. In 2016, the topic was "material effects," which posed the question: How does material inspire design? For this book (and the exhibition at the Chemnitz Industry Museum it accompanies), 60 works by young designers and artists were selected from over 400 submissions from more than 30 countries in the categories "Experiments", "Photography" and "Product Designs." Essays by Sophie Aigner, Chiara Isadora Artico, Patricio Farrell, Linda Pense, Steffen Reiter, Chiara Scarpitti and Andy Scholz incorporate the works into an extensive material discourse.

The field of poster studies is vast, but it is surprising how little work has been done till date on the fundamental structures – semiotic and semantic – that underpin the visual messages posters produce. Most studies of posters focus either on their history; on specific themes – politics, travel, sport, cinema; or on their status as collectable items. Though such approaches are valid, they hardly account for the specificity of the poster’s appeal or for the complex semiotic and cultural issues poster art raises. This book sets out to tackle these latter issues since they are fundamental both to the deeper significance and to the wider appeal of the poster as a cultural form. 

In doing so it focuses on the field of airline travel posters which developed precisely in the period of the twentieth century (1920–1970) that coincided with the onset of mass travel. The romance and excitement of fast travel to exotic destinations stimulated some memorable poster images that today have lost none of their magic. Since posters are cultural signs, to understand better how they work and the value attached to them even after their commercial or political message has been communicated, it is useful to analyse them in terms of both their sociocultural histories and their semiological structures. What this book sets out to do is to combine these approaches in such a way as to enhance the viewer/reader’s understanding of both the cultural and the semiological aspects of the poster and to show how the interaction of these aspects produces the specific quality of its messages.

Although posters are essentially word/image constructs, little attention has been paid to this fundamental aspect of their semiological structures. While Roland Barthes (1964) and other structuralist semioticians of the 1960s and 1970s –in France in particular – have made inroads into what is at stake in the poster’s word/ image structure, this book pursues the implications of this for the rhetoric of persuasion that is activated by the poster in fulfilling its dual function as provider of information and agent of seduction. For the poster, from the start of the twentieth century, has established a conventional repertory of textual/visual motifs that it has applied across a wide range of communicative functions – political, commercial and artistic. The aim of this book is to analyse the way these motifs are structured since they reveal much about the way cultural messages are produced and the way the poster is able to promote both a specific, product-centred message and aesthetic pleasure through a multiplicity of connotations.

From the analysis of the formal components of objects, via an overview of the possibilities of developing and optimizing the creative process, to the development of one's own evaluation catalog.
What forms are there in general?
What shape-giving processes are available?
What are the evaluation criteria for existing objects and those yet to be developed?
These fundamental questions, which every creative professional poses again and again, are addressed, systematically explained, and answered in this volume. The publication also provides you with a set of basic tools for better communication when discussing and explaining your work and your projects.
The first part is a comprehensive compilation that identifies and describes all forms that exist for objects. The middle section offers a qualitative overview of the possibilities with which form elements, forms, or objects can be developed and optimized. In the third section the methodology for the development of your own evaluation system is presented.
The objective of this work is to offer an orientation on the basics of design, combining the aspects of shape, craft, content, and method into a holistic understanding of the art.

Erweiterte Gestaltung mit intelligenten Anwendungen

Maschinell intelligente Systeme und sind keine Science-Fiction mehr. Maschinelles Lernen ist weit verbreitet: So werden Designaufgaben von Algorithmen übernommen und das User:innenerlebnis durch intelligente Systeme modifiziert. Diesen Anwendungen für künstliche Intelligenz (KI) steht eine Lücke in der theoretischen Reflexion von intelligentem Design gegenüber.

Das Buch zeigt, wie sich Aufgabe, Rolle und Verständnis von Gestaltenden erweitern, wenn die Maschine Gestaltungsentscheidungen übernimmt, wenn der Begriff und die Praxis dessen, was man Kreativität nennt, grundlegend moduliert wird. Somit liefert es das Wissen darum, wie Gestalter:innen maschinelles Lernen produktiv nutzen können.

• Einschlägige Modelle und Verfahren von künstlicher Intelligenz im Design
• Systematische Betrachtung intelligenter Gestaltungswerkzeuge im Designprozess
• Prinzipien der guten und ethisch korrekten Gestaltung mit maschinellem Lernen
• Sechs Fallbeispiele mit speziellem Disziplinfokus und einem Kapitel für praktische Anwendungen

Designing with intelligent applications

Intelligent machines are no longer merely the stuff of science fiction; we are already surrounded by a multitude of intelligent applications. For example, the information feeds of large social media platforms are compiled and designed for individual users by means of algorithms. This often-unnoticed process in design practice contrasts conspicuously with a glaring gap in terms of the design-centered practice of application-oriented, AI-based design.

This book shows how designers’ tasks, roles, and understanding expand when machines take on design decisions and when the concept and practice of what we call creativity fundamentally shifts. Thus, this book adds to our knowledge of how designers can apply machine learning productively.

• Relevant models and current applications of artificial intelligence in design
• Principles of good and ethical practice in designing with machine learning
• Seven discipline-specific case studies plus a chapter on practical applications

What do the work processes of a neurosurgeon and a painter have in common? Applying the notions of Design, Gestaltung, and Formatività, this book sheds new light on processes of formation and transformation in the material world we live in.

Scholars from the fields of history, philosophy, psychology, media, and cultural studies question established processes of giving form, while artists, designers, engineers, and scientists describe their creative processes. This book provides its readers with an overview of the spectrum of "philosophies of making" and invites them to refl ect on their own creative process, its possibilities and associated responsibilities to the environment, and ultimately to express these in action. There has never been a more urgent need to develop a new relationship between matter and form.

• Discussing and expanding the definitions of Design, Gestaltung und Formatività
• Leading international theorists write about the relationship between matter and form
• A collection of new texts and first English translation of key texts

Vom Druckknopf bis zur Weltraumsonde: So weit erstreckt sich der Horizont von Produktdesign. Weil Design viel mehr ist als „Linienführung", geht diese Designgeschichte der Frage nach, wie sich die Ansprüche an die Gestaltung von Gebrauchsobjekten im Lauf der Zeit fortentwickelt haben.

Die Frage des Wozu (Gebrauchsfunktion) verbindet sich mit der des Woraus und Womit (Materialien und Produktionsmethode) und der nach dem Wie (der konstitutiven Beschaffenheit des Gegenstandes). Darunter zeigen sich die Schichten geschichtlich bedingter kultureller Mentalitäten, und darüber erhebt sich die Frage nach den Wirkungen von Design in Gesellschaft und Umwelt.

Die Schwerkraft von Ideen entfaltet diese vieldimensionale Matrix in zwei Bänden und schafft so Orientierung im Kosmos der Ideen und ihrer gestalterischen Umsetzung.

Die Komplexität der gestalteten Welt erfordert eine kritische Analyse gesellschaftlicher und wirtschaftlicher Zusammenhänge. Dringend notwendig, weil kaum existent, ist deshalb eine Designkritik, die ihren Namen verdient.

Der Designtheoretiker Michael Erlhoff kritisiert radikal und nimmt deshalb verborgene Alltäglichkeiten, versteckte Grausamkeiten, verdunkelte Offensichtlichkeiten, verheimlichte Motive und andere verdrängte Verwicklungen von Gestaltung in den Blick. Konkret: die Gestaltung von Waffen, Design im Nationalsozialismus, das Design „elektrischer Stühle", die Brutalität von Branding, die Ambivalenz von Service-Design, die Gewalt von Zeichen oder die Ornamentalisierung von Menschen als Massen. Dieses Buch ist die nötige Selbstkritik, damit Design endlich selbstbewusst wird.

Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897-2000) gilt weithin als erste Architektin Österreichs, als Pionierin der sozialen Architektur, als Erfinderin der Frankfurter Küche, als Aktivistin der Frauenbewegung und nicht zuletzt als Heldin des Widerstands gegen die Nazi-Diktatur.

Neueste Forschungen aus dem Feld der Kunst- und Zeitgeschichte, der Pädagogik und Gender Studies differenzieren in diesem Buch das Bild der Architektin, deren Nachlass sich an der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien befindet. Beleuchtet werden ihr reiches architektonisches Œuvre, ihre transnationalen Erfahrungen und beruflichen Netzwerke, ihr wenig beachteter politischer Werdegang als Kommunistin und nicht zuletzt ihre aktuelle Rezeption:

Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky – ein Mythos der Architekturgeschichte im spannenden Dialog.

Timber is one of the most elementary and oldest building materials used by mankind, and has still not lost any of its attractiveness and topicality. In many cultural spheres and climate zones, the primary construction methods of domestic architecture include both masonry construction and timber construction. However, this living, lightweight, and easy-to-work material has specific characteristics that impact on the way it is used in construction in different ways compared to other building materials. In order to develop high-quality designs that suit the material, architects need to be familiar with the specific characteristics of this building material and with the rules governing timber construction.

The new edition of the successful Basics Timber Construction volume lists the most common solid timber construction systems, including that using solid timber wall elements, as well as the rules, applications, and the relevant details.

• Important artist of the Wiener Werkstätte and beyond
• Fabric patterns, wallpapers, fashion and home accessories, commercial graphics and wall paintings
• Large exhibition MAK Vienna, 22.11.2023-21.4.2024

Here excellence  meets inspiration in a showcase of Platinum and Gold award-winning talents in the disciplines of Design, Advertising, Photography, Art/Illustration, Education, and more. Their exceptional work fills our Annuals and now comes alive through insightful interviews. Discover the inspirations, life stories, and diverse interests fueling these creative minds' remarkable achievements.

Design looks into the work of Jones Knowles Ritchie, celebrating the power of cultural trends in design, and Holger Matthies, known for his captivating opera and political posters. Steven Heller shares his extensive journey through graphic design, highlighting his contributions to preserving its history.

Advertising features Robert Talarczyk, a pioneer in pharmaceutical advertising, sharing the secrets behind his success and creative direction.

Photography presents Takahiro Igarashi's minimalist approach, Cameron Davidson's breathtaking aerial photography, and Felix Holzer's journey to international acclaim, offering unique perspectives on their craft.

Products introduce innovations in transportation, from the customizable Piper Aircraft Inc. M600/SLS and the accessible Jetson One eVTOL to luxury on water with the AI-equipped No Stress sports yacht and the wave-independent RÄVIK electric surfboards.

Architecture highlights vacation homes designed to integrate with nature, from Studio Saxe's floating villa in Costa Rica to Croxatto Y Opazo Arquitectos' wind-and-wave-inspired Chilean cabins.

Education focuses on Josh Ege of Texas A&M University-Commerce, who shares his collaborative learning approach and the promise of his award-winning students.

Embrace this journey into creative excellence with the latest Graphis Journal. Each page is filled with stories of inspiration, making it a must-have for anyone passionate about the art and science of creativity. Discover the interviews that bring these extraordinary talents closer to you, offering valuable insights into their creative processes and careers.

Discover the celebrated world of design, advertising, photography, and illustration art in the latest edition of the quarterly Graphis Journal magazine, featuring Q&As and the incredible talents of renowned creatives and visionaries. Get ready to be inspired as you dive inside the stories and visuals within this limited-edition publication.

Inside take a journey into uncharted territory as PepsiCo Design & Innovation, led by Jason Woodside, reveals their groundbreaking design philosophy, introducing a paradigm-shifting wave of creativity. Brace yourself for a narrative that places people at the forefront, crafting extraordinary and transformative experiences for their world-renowned food and beverage offerings.

Prepare to be awestruck by the extraordinary works of Marlena Buczek Smith, whose mastery of posters transcends mere communication to create a complete cultural experience. Join Jessica Walsh of &Walsh as she showcases the power of intersectional feminism in design, paving the way for a new wave of creative expression.

Immerse yourself in advertising, where the iconic agency Fallon effortlessly bridges the gap between nostalgia and modernity. Drawing inspiration from beloved films, art, and music, Kelsey _____'s work resonates deeply with audiences, evoking a sense of yesteryear with a fresh twist. Witness the magic of Michael Winokur's photography as he skillfully captures light and form to produce images that are nothing short of perfection. From flawless compositions to a delightful sense of humor, Michael brings joy and professionalism to every shoot. Then, experience the mastery of Darnell McCown, who flawlessly showcases fine timepieces in the best possible light. With 15 years of expertise and an unwavering commitment to perfection, Darnell is a true artist in his craft.

The publication also pays tribute to the extraordinary talents of The Balbusso Twins, an Italian duo whose artistry knows no bounds. With originality and impeccable craftsmanship, their work will leave you in awe. Next up join Richard Wilde, former Dean of the School of Visual Arts, on a journey of education, where the joy of nurturing student creativity and achievements is celebrated. Richard's boundless enthusiasm and infectious passion have transformed countless students into some of the greatest creatives in the industry.

With each turn of the page, Graphis Journal opens a window into a world of inspiration, innovation, and creativity. This extraordinary edition will leave you mesmerized and fuel your own artistic journey.

From the rise of the Fashion Café to the phenomenon of the supermodel, from "House of Style" to "Unzipped," the world of fashion has taken center stage in contemporary culture, for better or for worse. In turn, although the idea of fashion has been in circulation since time immemorial, not until recently has its profound and variegated effects–on economic activity, on social and sexual mores, and on aesthetic and psychological formulations–been fully considered.
With delicacy and wit, Fashion: An Introduction investigates the different sides of recent debates over the production, marketing, and consumption of fashion. Drawing on economics, art, psychology, commerce, history, and the everyday, Joanne Finkelstein considers fashion in its various guises–as body decoration and costume, as a language and a form of display, as an expression of sexuality and as part of the urban experience. In so doing, she has given us the perfect introduction to fashion's social, economic, and aesthetic impact on the way we think and act.

Learn how to couple inspired design with flawless execution to create your own striking, original furniture.

In his latest book, The Artisan Furnituremaker, long-time furnituremaker Darrell Peart—author of Greene & Greene: Design Elements for the Workshop and In the Greene & Greene Style—brings all of his experience to bear in providing a masterclass on the three fundamental requirements for success in the field of custom furniture design: creativity, design, and workmanship. The book offers a detailed examination of the design and production methods of the Greene brothers, legendary furnituremakers and architects of the Arts and Crafts Movement, and illuminates how the brothers achieved such brilliance in their designs, and how they collaborated so successfully with the craftsmen who brought their designs to life.

The Artisan Furnituremaker demonstrates how you can combine all three elements— creativity, design, and workmanship—in your own workshop and produce high quality, distinctively original pieces of your own. Peart covers how creativity is essential for fulfilling the desires of your customers, and how superb design translates creativity into an implementable schematic.

Peart goes on to show that in order to create art that is infused with emotion and original in nature, one has to have intuition and inspiration. The book demonstrates this by exploring methods the author has used during his long career to forge a very successful custom furniture business that has produced art of lasting value.

Peart draws upon William Varnum’s book, Industrial Arts Design. However, he stresses that this is just a starting point, and that equations and rules cannot create original art. For that, intellect, intuition, and inspiration are required, all of which are discussed in relation to art and craft. From there Peart moves on to demonstrate how you can enhance your own design and craftsmanship abilities by a process he calls “Design DNA.” Design DNA is a framework for asking the right questions, a procedure he examines at length.

This book is the ultimate resource for creators looking to take their craft to the next level and produce striking, original work.

How can you turn dry statistics into attractive and informative graphs? How can you present complex data sets in an easily understandable way? How can you create narrative diagrams from unstructured data? This handbook of information design answers these questions.

Nicole Lachenmeier and Darjan Hil condense their extensive professional experience into an illustrated guide that offers a modular design system comprised of 80 elements. Their systematic design methodology makes it possible for anyone to visualize complex data attractively and using different perspectives.

At the intersection of design, journalism, communication and data science, Visualizing Complexity opens up new ways of working with abstract data and invites readers to try their hands at information design

The Handbook Research Video is an introduction to a new type of software and publication based on annotated videos. Practitioners and researchers who work with motion data, for example in the fields of performative art, film, behavioral research or sports science, are supported in their work process and have the opportunity to publish content via video that a printed book cannot convey.

The handbook not only presents the findings of the Research Video project at Zurich University of the Arts, but also offers a manual for using the software tool. Low-threshold "hands-on" access and the absence of a theoretical superstructure allow users to quickly become familiar with and use the software tool.

Computer and video games are leaving the PC and conquering the arena of everyday life in the form of mobile applications (such as GPS cell phones, etc.) – the result is new types of cities and architecture. How do these games alter our perception of real and virtual space? What can the designers of physical and digital worlds learn from one another? Space Time Play presents the following themes: the superimposition of computer games on real spaces and convergences of real and imaginary playspaces; computer and video games as practical planning instruments. With articles by Espen Aarseth, Ernest Adams, Richard A. Bartle, Ian Bogost, Gerhard M. Buurman, Edward Castranova, Kees Christiaanse, Drew Davidson, James Der Derian, Noah Falstein, Stephen Graham, Ludger Hovestadt, Henry Jenkins, Heather Kelley, James Korris, Julian Kücklich, Frank Lantz, Lev Manovich, Jane McGonigal, William J. Mitchell, Kas Oosterhuis, Katie Salen, Mark Wigley, and others.

Friedrich von Borries (b. 1974) is an architect. He has taught at the College of Fine Arts in Nürnberg and elsewhere.

Matthias Böttger (b. 1974) is an architect. He is codirector with Friedrich von Borries of space tactics, Agency for Spatial Enlightenment and Intervention in Berlin.

Steffen P. Walz (b. 1973) works at the ETH Zürich in the Department of Computer Aided Architectural Design. At the School of Art and Design Zurich Walz is cofounder of the BA program in Game Design.

Mit ihren Projekten, Beobachtungen, Beschreibungen und Kommentaren erkunden die Autoren die Möglichkeiten und Chancen, die Notwendigkeit oder auch Unfähigkeit von Design im pulsierenden Lebensraum unseres Alltags.

Jan Tschichold (1902–1974 ) was one of the most outstanding and influential graphic artists and typographers of the 20^th century. Throughout his life he stood in the service of print and writing, first as a talented young calligrapher and designer of some 70 posters and then, later on, as a self-critical typographer and typeface designer. In his posters, he expresses the avant-garde ideas of the Neue Typografie, or New Typography, which were strongly influenced by the Bauhaus. Tschichold received many prizes for his work. For example, the Société Typographique de France appointed him an honorary member in 1960, and he was named an honorary Royal Designer of Industry by the Royal Society of Arts in 1965.

This book is an analytical examination of Tschichold’s posters. It contains his own collection of posters, with works by Hans Arp, El Lissitzky, László Moholy-Nagy, Oskar Schlemmer, and others, as well as the approximately 70 posters he designed himself.

A comprehensive guide to successful multimedia communication concepts today.

Jan Tschichold (1902-1974) kann als einer der herausragendsten und einflussreichsten Grafiker und Typografen des 20. Jahrhunderts bezeichnet werden. Zeit seines Lebens stand er im Dienst der Schrift, sowohl als junger talentierter Kalligraph und Gestalter von rund 70 Plakaten, als auch später als selbstkritischer Typograf und Entwerfer von Druckschriften. In seinen Plakaten setzte er die stark durch das Bauhaus geprägten avantgardistischen Ideen der Neuen Typografie um. Tschichold erhielt für sein Wirken zahlreiche Preise, so ernannte ihn die Société Typographique de France 1960 zum Ehrenmitglied und die Royal Society of Arts 1965 ehrenhalber zum Royal Designer of Industry.

Das vorliegende Buch setzt sich analytisch mit dem Plakat-Werk Tschicholds auseinander. Dabei werden sowohl seine eigene Plakat-Sammlung, die u.a. Werke von Hans Arp, El Lissitzky, László Moholy-Nagy und Oskar Schlemmer beinhaltet, als auch die ca. 70 von ihm gestalteten Plakate in Farbe gezeigt.

This extensive work dedicated to the unique textile art of Bhutan is an impressive illustration of how closely art, spirituality, and life are interwoven in the last of the Buddhist kingdoms in the Himalayas. It gives new insight into Bhutanese cosmology, worldview, culture, and society, which is associated with a variety of historical, philosophical, religious, social, and artistic perspectives.

The remote mountain location, low-key foreign policy, and basic principles of Buddhism has made it possible for Bhutan, the last of the Buddhist kingdoms in the Himalayas, to preserve a remarkable form of textile art that is interwoven with all aspects of life.

Karin Altmann shows us Bhutan textiles in their diversity: they are clothes and everyday objects, currency and commodity, mark important events as gifts during life, and are testament to the social status of a person. But they are also an integral aspect of religious festivals, dances, and rituals that provide insight into the mystical and religious beliefs of the Bhutanese people, and reflect the concept of gender in Bhutanese society. The book also tells the story of a country that is searching for a sensitive balance between tradition and progress in a globalized world.

Ein konziser Überblick, nun in zweiter, korrigierter Auflage, der ebenso anschaulich wie kritisch alle wichtigen Aspekte des Produkt- und Grafikdesigns auf den Nenner bringt.

Bei der Komplexität der heutigen Gesellschaft ist auch das Design gefordert: wie kann es seinen Beitrag zur Orientierung, Klärung und nützlichen Gestaltung leisten? Im Teil I des Buches (Designgeschichte) schildert der Autor die Hauptepochen des Designs seit seinen Anfängen mit der Industrialisierung bis heute. Dabei wird der ästhetische Selbstanspruch der jeweiligen Designgeneration kritisch hinterfragt, und die sozialen, kulturellen und wirtschaftlichen Bedingungen werden aufgezeigt. Der Teil II (Designdebatte) greift in die aktuelle Diskussion ein: Die grundlegenden Begriffe werden definiert, die Stellung des Designs in Bezug auf Kunst, Geschmack, Dritte Welt, Gender, Theorie sowie Wissenschaft und Forschung wird geklärt. Im Anhang finden sich nützliche Hinweise auf Organisationen, Museen und wichtige Zeitschriften.

Beat Schneider ist emeritierter Professor für Kultur- und Designgeschichte und Designtheorie an der Hochschule der Künste Bern HKB sowie Gründungspräsident des Swiss Design Network (Nationales Forschungsnetz der Designhochschulen der Schweiz). Von ihm stammt "Penthesilea. Die andere Kultur- und Kunstgeschichte. Sozialgeschichtlich und patriarchatskritisch."

Jimmy Schmid ist Professor für Kommunikationsdesign und Leiter des Kompetenzzentrums für Visualisierungen im Bereich Wissensmanagement an der Hochschule der Künste Bern HKB und führt eine Agentur für visuelle Kommunikation in Luzern.

Ein Fachbuch der eigenen Art: Die Verbindung von Inspirationsquelle, Handbuch und Notizheft. Thematisiert werden grundlegende Aspekte der Innenraumgestaltung (Decken, Fußböden, Wänden, Türen, Treppen etc.) und die einschlägig dort verwendeten Materialien (Teppichen, Wandanstriche, Glas, Holzwerkstoffe, Stein, Beton usw.). Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt ist dem Entwerfen, Aufzeichnen und Kommunizieren gewidmet; mit Darstellungsmethoden, praktischen Tabellen, Faustformeln und Ratschlägen aus der Praxis. In dieser aktualisierten 2. Auflage werden weitere Themen aus dem Gestaltungsalltag aufgegriffen: Begrünungsvarianten von Fassaden, raumbildende Gehölze, Inszenierungspotenziale von Licht, eine mehrsprachige Tabelle von Schlüsselbegriffen u.v.a.. Mit Statements äußern sich renommierte Architekten, Innenarchitekten und Designer (Manuel Schupp, Uwe Fischer, Axel Kufus, Ruedi Baur u.a.) zu entwurfsrelevanten Aspekten. Für persönliche Ergänzungen und Beobachtungen liegt separat ein Notizheft bei.

Der Katalog zur Ausstellung bietet einen Querschnitt durch Reinhold Lugers grafisches Werk und kulturelles Engagement von den 1970er-Jahren bis heute.

Gemeinsam mit anderen kritischen Geistern war er Teil der 1968er-(Gegen-)Bewegung in Vorarlberg, die sich den internationalen studentischen Protesten anschloss. Seine Haltung prägte seinen grafischen Stil, der in seinen zahlreichen Plakaten sichtbar und deren provokativer Gestus über die Grenzen hinweg wahrgenommen wurde.

1983 engagierte ihn Alfred Wopmann für die Bregenzer Festspiele, für die er bis 2003 tätig war. 1991 entwarf er das Design für den Stadtbus Dornbirn, das später auch in anderen Städten angewandt wurde. Luger engagierte sich auch für den Erhalt traditioneller Vorarlberger Holzarchitektur.

Die spekulative Erzählung AFTER ABUNDANCE imaginiert eine durch den Klimawandel veränderte Alpingesellschaft, in der menschlicher Erfindungsgeist und Solidarität der Schlüssel zum Überleben sind. Das Werk zeigt, wie lokale Gemeinschaften diesen neuen Herausforderungen mit Traditionen und Technologien unter Einsatz von handwerklichem Geschick und Einfallsreichtum begegnen, um sich in der veränderten Umgebung weiterhin zu entfalten. In der Begegnung mit Experimenten, rechtlichen Kunstgriffen, Protesten und Performances werden die LeserInnen eingeladen, sich in das Leben von Menschen einer möglichen Zukunft hineinzuversetzen.

Der österreichische Beitrag zur 2. London Design Biennale gibt auch Einblick in die Arbeit von Studio Design Investigations unter der Leitung von Anab Jain, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien.

ARACHNE is an almanac of clothing, fashion, lifestyle, popular culture, music and art in Vienna. It explores happenings in the city – including the work of the fashion design class at the University of Applied Arts – and beyond, offering a unique mix of fashion editorials, illustrations, essays, art, short stories, reviews and interviews.

The publication owes its name to the ancient Greek myth of Arachne, a weaver so talented that she challenged Athena, the goddess of wisdom and crafts, to a weaving contest. Athena punished Arachne for her hubris by turning her into a spider.

Diese Einführung vermittelt in gut verständlicher Weise die theoretischen Grundlagen der drei Bereiche Syntaktik, Semantik und Pragmatik und erläutert dann in exemplarischen, didaktisch aufgebauten Bildanalysen die unterschiedlichen Strategien visuellen Gestaltens.
Die wichtigsten Grundbegriffe und die produktivsten Analysemethoden werden nachvollziehbar und anregend dargestellt, ohne dass dabei ihre Komplexität über Gebühr reduziert würde. In ausführlichen Beispielanalysen, insbesondere aus dem Bereich der Werbung, verdeutlichen die Autoren die Anwendung von Grundlagen und Methoden der Bildsemiotik.
Die zweite, korrigierte Auflage dieses in Text und Bild konzisen Lehrbuchs ist um zwei aktuelle Modellanalysen erweitert.

In der Zeit, als der Wiener Glasverlag J. & L. Lobmeyr 1823 gegründet wurde, avancierte Glas zum beliebten Material für Architekten und Gestalter. In Kooperation mit Architekten wie Josef Hoffmann, Oswald Haerdtl und Adolf Loos entstanden später Designklassiker, von denen manche noch heute unverändert hergestellt werden.

Seit dem Jahr 2000, nun in sechster Generation geführt, knüpft Lobmeyr wieder an die große Zeit der Wiener Glasgestaltung zu Beginn des vergangenen Jahrhunderts an. In Zusammenarbeit mit Wiener und internationalen Designern entwickelt Lobmeyr neue Designstrategien, die durch Vielfalt, Experimentierlust und Qualitätsbewusstsein beeindrucken.

Das Buch ist ein bibliophiles Zeugnis dieses außergewöhnlichen Produktportfolios und gibt Einblick in die aktuellen Entwicklungen.

Anlässlich der Graz UNESCO City of Design gestaltet die FH Joanneum jährlich eine hochkarätig besetzte Vortragsreihe. Sie beleuchtet unterschiedliche Aspekte des internationalen Designdiskurses. Erstmals in diesem Rahmen wurde auch ein Symposium organisiert. Die Präsentationen bilden die Basis des Buches Sozio-Design.
Während die funkelnde Warenästhetik sich zur Bildung eines modernen „Ego-Images" aufdrängt, gibt es eine Design-Entwicklung abseits des Konsumzwangs, welche die soziale Relevanz der Gestaltung von kulturellen Objekten in den Blick nimmt: Sozio-Design erhält in Zeiten sozialer Umbrüche vermehrt Aufmerksamkeit. Das Buch zeigt sechs realisierte Design-Beiträge, die durch eine Neuordnung sozialer Interaktionen stabilisierend und ausgleichend wirken.

Der reich illustrierte Band präsentiert eine Auswahl der rund 8.000 Objekte umfassenden Kostüm- und Modersammlung der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien. Aufbauend auf der historisch gewachsenen Sammlung, der Fachbibliothek und Lehre, hat sich die Sammlung zu einem hochqualifizierten „University Museum" für Bekleidung entwickelt.

Der Bogen spannt sich von der Alltagskleidung bis zu exklusiver Haute Couture. Die ältesten Stücke stammen aus dem 18. Jhdt., die neuesten Erwerbungen reichen bis in die Gegenwart, unter ihnen Objekte u.a von Fred Adlmüller, Gertrud Höchsmann, Karl Lagerfeld, Helmut Lang, Adele List, Raf Simons und Bernhard Willhelm. Anhand von Textbeiträgen und rund 200 großartigen Fotografien von Christin Losta wird die Sammlung umfassend präsentiert.

Fueled by an increasingly interconnected world, the desire for engaging experiences plays a more important role in interiors than ever before. There is a tendency in the design of products, furniture, and environments toward enhanced interaction that employs psychosocial principles. This publication presents both high and low-tech applications ranging from a light fixture to art installations and fully realized buildings.

The book illustrates human-centered design strategies through a series of six chapters, each including examples that introduce one of following approaches: communicating, stimulating, synomorphic, transactional, transformative, and challenging.

Das Buch Design Unplugged macht anschaulich, dass die analoge Handskizze als Darstellungsform im digitalen Zeitalter längst nicht ausgedient, sondern eine neue Qualität gefunden hat. Thomas Feichtner, ein international etablierter Designer mit Sitz in Wien, hat das Skizzieren als zentrales Element seines Designprozesses wiederentdeckt. Skizzen wie Gedankennotizen: vage, unverfälscht und ungefiltert. Über Jahre hinweg entstanden Entwürfe, die durch die Bleistiftskizze als visuelle Klammer miteinander verbunden sind.

Sein Buch enthält keine Abbildungen fertiger Arbeiten im Bereich des Möbel- und Produktdesign, sondern zeigt ausschließlich Bleistiftskizzen, zum Teil unveröffentlichte, die den Produkten vorangegangen sind. Sie geben einen authentischen Einblick in die tägliche Arbeit des erfolgreichen Produktdesigners. Design, nicht mit der vollen Orchestrierung aller digitalen Möglichkeiten, sondern „unplugged" – reduziert auf Bleistift und Papier. Design Unplugged zeigt einen persönlichen Designzugang, den die Produkte alleine so nicht preisgeben.

Worüber Stefan Sagmeister im Wiener Kaffeehaus spricht, was Mangalica-Schweine mit guter Gestaltung zu tun haben und was früher alles besser war oder zumindest nicht schlechter. In zehn Gesprächen mit Auftraggebern berichten u.a. Carlos Toledo, Eva Dertschei, Tino Erben, Martha Stutteregger, Stefan Sagmeister und Anita Kern von ihren persönlichen Erfahrungen mit Aufträgen und Auftraggebern  und geben Einblicke in ihre individuellen Arbeitsprozesse.

Im "Dialogbuch" kommen drei Generationen von Grafik-Designern zu Wort, die alle an der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien ausgebildet wurden. Mit ergänzenden Textbeiträgen von Erik Spiekermann, Erwin K. Bauer und Christian Reder u.a.

Die Stankowski-Stiftung in Stuttgart hat den Münchner Designer und Hochschullehrer Kilian Stauss zum Stankowski-Preiträger Kunst + Design 2014 ausgewählt. Ziel dieser Stiftung ist es, die Einheit von Kunst und Design herauszustellen und die strenge Trennung von freier und angewandter Kunst und Gestaltung zu überwinden.
Das Werk von Kilian Stauss, der interdisziplinär in den Gebieten product design, graphic design und interior design arbeitet sowie in den Schnittfeldern interface design, signage design, furniture design und in der Lehre tätig ist, wird diesem Anspruch voll und ganz gerecht. Das zu den im Jahr 2015 stattfindenden Ausstellungen herausgegebene Buch prozesse formen zeigt eine breite Auswahl seiner Projekte aus annähernd 20 Jahren in Bildern, Zeichnungen und erläuternden Texten und ist für jeden am Thema Design Interessierten ein Gewinn. Sein Titel kann aktiv wie passiv verstanden werden: Einerseits formt Stauss Gestaltungsprozesse und andererseits führen die von ihm initiierten Prozesse selbst zu Formen mit einer inneren Logik. Das Buch macht beide anschaulich.

Gestaltung denken macht 40 Grundlagentexte der Architektur- und Designtheorie zugänglich. Der erste Teil versammelt Texte von Praktikern: Architekten und Designer, der zweite Teil Texte von Theoretikern: Kulturwissenschaftler, Philosophen, Soziologen, Architektur- und Designhistoriker. Die Beiträge markieren Meilensteine in der Geschichte der Gestaltung und ihrer Reflexion und zeigen die Entwicklung von der frühen Moderne bis zu aktuellen Debatte auf.
Jeder dieser Primärtexte wird von einem renommierten Fachautor eingeführt und kommentiert. Die Kommentare inormieren über Autor, Entstehungszeit und publizistischen Kontext.
Viele der ausgewählten Texte lagen nur verstreut vor oder waren längst vergriffen. Der Reader macht diese Texte, Basis jeder theoretischen Auseinandersetzung über Architektur und Design, zugänglich. Er ist bestens geeignet zur Vermittlung der Geschichte und Entwicklung der Gestaltungsdisziplinen an Architektur- und Designhochschulen, bietet aber auch praktisch arbeitenden Architekten und Designern eine Grundlage, die eigene Arbeit vor dem Hintergrund historischer Debatten zu reflektieren.

Das Handbuch Research Video ist die Einführung in eine neuartige Software und Publikationsform, die auf annotierten Videos basiert. Praktizierende und Forschende, die mit Bewegungsdaten arbeiten, wie etwa in Sparten performative Kunst, Film, Verhaltensforschung oder Sportwissenschaft, werden in ihrem Arbeitsprozess unterstützt und bekommen die Möglichkeit, Inhalte verfügbar zu machen, die ein gedrucktes Buch nicht vermitteln kann.

Not at Your Service: Manifestos for Design brings together the broad spectrum of beliefs, subjects and practices of designers at Zurich University of the Arts. It offers different approaches and insights on the present-day role and impact of design. It is not conceived as a finished project, but as a fluid document of its time.

Collaborative design, interaction within complex systems, attention economics, the ecological shift, visual literacy, gender-neutral design, "quick and dirty" design ethnography, social responsibility, the value of ugliness, death futures, immersive technologies, identity and crises, design as a transformative discipline – all of these topics are presented for debate with passion, conviction and professional expertise.

From consumer products to architecture to advertising to digital technology, design is an undeniably global phenomenon. Yet despite their professed transnational perspective, historical studies of design have all too often succumbed to a bias toward Western, industrialized nations. This diverse but rigorously curated collection recalibrates our understanding of design history, reassessing regional and national cultures while situating them within an international context. Here, contributors from five continents offer nuanced studies that range from South Africa to the Czech Republic, all the while sensitive to the complexities of local variation and the role of nation-states in identity construction.

Find the beauty and meaning of over 850 family crests found in Japanese tradition.

Bold, iconic designs have been used to symbolize family names in Japan from the time of the court nobles in the twelfth century. The sense of “family” has changed in modern Japan, but the crests’ high-contrast motifs and simple geometries are right at home in our logo-emblazoned age, even as the designs express old cultural interests and ideals: cherry blossoms, well buckets, floating clouds. This book contains over 850 family crests (kamon) with descriptions, cultural backgrounds, and a selection of photographs showing how crests are used on banners, signs, and buildings. Of special interest to graphic designers, quilt-makers, and illustrators.

Japanese characters served up with histories and cultural clues to help you decorate your skin/body/life with just the right word!

Bold, visual, profound, symbolic: Japanese kanji characters communicate powerful graphic messages that look great on skin, walls, stationery, T-shirts, and more Here are dozens of edgy, targeted characters hand-picked to help you find the inner you and express yourself in a distinctive stylish way. With cultural clues, readings, font varieties, and ideas for proper use. Don't embarrass yourself with bad ink!

This fascinating collection provides a chronologically arranged set of case studies looking at how interior design has constantly redefined itself as a manifestation of culture, from the eighteenth-century to the present day.

The book looks at the amateur activities of female ‘home makers’ in search of creative outlets and married couples seeking to modernise their homes as well as the contributions of early professional (female) ‘interior decorators’, and later, (male) ‘interior designers’. It also considers the more anonymous role of commercial enterprises, such as hairdressing salons, ocean-going liners or modern offices as well as public institutions, such as hospitals or naval training establishments.

Interior design and identity examines interior design in relation to the changing identities of its practitioners, its inhabitants and of the furnishings, focussing on the ways in which cultural values came to be embedded in the spaces which people inhabited and made their own. Issues relating to interiority, gender, and the relationship of the public sphere are also considered opening up a new level of design historical enquiry.

Fashion studies is a burgeoning field that often highlights the contributions of genius designers and high-profile brands with little reference to what goes on behind the scenes in the supply chain. This book pulls back the curtain on the global fashion system of the past 200 years to examine the relationship between the textile mills of Yorkshire – the firms that provided the entire Western world with warm wool fabrics – and their customers. It is a microhistory of a single firm, Abraham Moon and Sons Ltd, that sheds light on important macro questions about British industry, government policies on international trade, the role of multi-generational family firms and the place of design and innovation in business strategy. It is the first book to connect Yorkshire tweeds to the fashion system.

Written in lively, accessible prose, this book will appeal to anyone who works in fashion or who wears fashion. There is nothing like it – and it will raise the bar for historical studies of global fashion. Here you’ll find intriguing stories about a tweed theft from the Leeds Coloured Cloth Hall, debates on tariffs and global trade, the battle against synthetic fibres and the reinvention of British tweeds around heritage marketing. You won’t be bored.