new

Marcel Wanders
Behind the Ceiling
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title

Marcel Wanders
editors

by

R. Klanten, A. Mollard, S. Moreno

features

full colour, hardcover

pages size

Design

March 2009

320
price

25.1 31.9 cm

49.90 {D} 45 $ 70
isbn

sample cover

978-3-89955-234-8

The first monograph on Marcel Wanders, one of the most influential and stellar product, furniture and interior designers today.
Dutch designer Marcel Wanders is undeniably one of the most prolific and celebrated international designers today. Marcel Wanders: Behind the Ceiling is the highly anticipated first monograph on the star designer. It charts his provocative body of work and stellar career. Wanders has garnered fame through his ingenious talent, turning conceptual visions into stunning products and dazzling environments by fusing cuttingedge technology, artistry and a love of the bizarre. Wanders designs are characteristically buoyant and imbued with his signature irony and quirky dry wit that evoke imagination; nevertheless, his furniture, lighting, interior designs, tableware, decorative porcelain and ceramic vases are unpretentiously urbane. by his own studio. In addition, it presents textiles and furniture he has designed for an extensive client list including brands such as B&B Italia, Poliform, Moroso, Cappellini, Droog as well as Moooi, of which he is also Art Director and co-owner. An entertainer at heart, his theatrical performances and installations are also included, which prove his exceptional skill at amplifying experience with mesmerising environments. The book also introduces designs for interiors and architecture such as the extraordinary all over city hospitality-concept Lute Suites he established in Amsterdam as well as unpublished projects, including the new Mondrian South Beach hotel in Miami and the Villa Moda Flagship store in Bahrain, scheduled to open its doors in 2009.

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Lavishly printed, this book showcases Marcel Wanders work over the past decade. It features tableware for the renowned Dutch porcelain manufacturers Marcel Wanders: Behind the Ceiling includes beautiful photographs and Tichelaar Makkum and Royal Delft, as well as his personal art editions such as sketches, and an accompanying text offers a first-hand account of Wanders his acclaimed oversized ceramic bells, crochet seating and sculptures launched irresistible universe.

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Tangible
High Touch Visuals
category release subtitle editors

title

R. Klanten, M. Hbner
features

full colour, hardcover

pages size

Design

January 2009

208
price

24 28 cm

44 {D} 36 $ 65
isbn

978-3-89955-232-4

Tangible presents graphic-inspired design, objects and orchestrated spaces by exceptional young creatives that are producing striking visual and spatial work.
The borders between graphic design, illustration, art, interior design, architecture and craftsmanship are becoming increasingly blurred. More than ever before, graphic design is being used as the underlying medium together with multiple practices to manifest creative visions. Following in the footsteps of Hidden Track (2005) and Tactile (2007), Tangible presents further developments from the work of young designers and artists who are experimenting with this multidisciplinary approach and creating outstanding original tangible designs. These designers from different disciplines are choosing to no longer work exclusively in two dimensions, instead dealing intensively with space, materials and physical products. Each chapter in the book features different trends and styles demonstrating various approaches and solutions to this new area of graphic design. Graphics morph into spatial sculptures, the intangible is made visual through handmade craftsmanship, physical experiences, visual environments and staged spatial installations such as art installations, interiors and architecture as well as urban interventions. The striking visual work in Tangible indicates the rise of graphic-inspired interior designs as artists, graphic designers, typographers and illustrators transform their ideas into shops, restaurants, hotels and fair stand designs.

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Spacecraft 2
More Fleeting Architecture and Hideouts
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title

R. Klanten, L. Feireiss, B. Meyer

features

full colour, hardcover

pages size

Architecture

March 2009

280
price

24 30 cm

49.90 {D} 42.50 $ 75

isbn

978-3-89955-233-1

An inspiring survey of work by architects, artists and designers distinguished by a playful, unconventional use of space.
The design communitys preoccupation with space and building beyond the limits of classical architecture is more fascinating than ever before. Like its successful predecessor, Spacecraft 2 presents projects that meet the changing spatial needs of our modern lifestyles and that are simultaneously expanding our current understanding of architecture. This book showcases international projects by architects, artists and designers all distinguished by the unconventional use and creation of space. The dynamic range of work presented in this sumptuous volume stretches the existing concepts of temporary architecture, thus unhinging conventional definitions of spatial design. Spacecraft 2 features modular ephemeral structures that exist only for a limited time, such as pavilions, art projects and exhibition spaces. They exemplify innovative interventions often found in public spaces and urban environments. It also presents projects that deal with the transient use of space such as studios, mobile habitats and pop-up stores that either adapt to their surrounding environments or are strikingly conspicuous. This unprecedented compendium brings together an extraordinary collection of projects by young and little-yet-known talents and mirrors the exchange, communication and development that are engaging contemporary building practices today.

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new

Beyond Architecture
Imaginative Buildings and Fictional Cities
category release subtitle editors

title

R. Klanten, L. Feireiss
features

full colour, hardcover

pages size

Architecture

February 2009

208
price

24 30 cm

44 {D} 36 $ 65
isbn

978-3-89955-235-5

Visionary propositions for architecture, urban landscapes and imaginative utopian worlds for tomorrows cities are outlined in this book.
Beyond Architecture is the first publication of its kind to document the creative exploration of architecture and urban propositions in the contemporary arts. Presenting experimental projects from an array of creative contexts, the book features a multitude of groundbreaking approaches. It demonstrates how not only architects and designers but also artists are taking architecture as a starting point for experimentation. The projects collected in this book range from performance, installation art and crafted sculptures to architectural models, alternative ideas for living spaces and furniture, as well as illustration, painting, collage and photography. Through stunning photographs and complementary texts, these visionary concepts reveal the hidden creative potential for architecture and urban environments in inventive ways. The interplay between architecture and visual culture will certainly pave the future aesthetic and shape the development of architectural practices and urban landscapes in the decades to come. Beyond Architecture is not only an essential and inspiring reference for architects, but for anyone interested in visual culture.

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crEATe.
Eating, Design and Future Food
category release subtitle

title

The Future Laboratory

editors

by

R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, S. Moreno, M. Raymond, C. Sanderson

features

full colour, hardcover Design available

pages size

216
price

24 28 cm

44 {D} 36 $ 65
isbn

978-3-89955-231-7

crEATe. investigates new visual developments and innovative trends within food, design, hospitality and packaging design.
Food is not just a hot topic in design and cutting edge creativity today, but also an enormous industry with changing standards and perceptions. crEATe. investigates recent trends and visual developments within food, design, hospitality and packaging design. This sourcebook documents and illustrates manifold examples and concepts that are the driving forces in contemporary food, both influencing and inspiring todays visionary chefs, designers, and consumers. Six extensive chapters shed new light on the central topics and various approaches relevant in contemporary food with incisive texts including profile features of visionary creatives accompanied by visuals. It starts by examining the treacherous landscape of food politics with environmental and production concerns in Food Activists. The return of Wholehearted home-style cooking is addressed as well as the sophisticated choices of nutritional Smart Food. Packaging confronts new challenges in delivering high impact aesthetic and brand experiences while being cost effective and sustainable. The concepts and interior design approaches of Food Spaces are also evolving into luxurious canteens, cooking laboratories and store designs. The various attitudes of how people are embracing food are defined in Typologies. Finally, crEATe. further explores Future Solutions by illuminating emerging trends that will follow, illustrating how food will look as well as how we will respond to it emotionally and aesthetically. Based upon research by trend analysts Chris Sanderson and Martin Raymond from the London firm The Future Laboratory, the multifaceted examples in this informative volume are diverse. Portrayed in striking ways, they range from product design, industrial design and the interiors of restaurants and hotels to branding and consumerism. crEATe. surely indicates how food is gaining new meaning in our lifestyle as well as in top-notch contemporary design.

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new

Play All Day

Design for Children
category release subtitle editors

title

R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, S. Moreno, F. Schulze

features

full colour, hardcover

pages size

Design

March 2009

240
price

24 30 cm

44 {D} 36 $ 65
isbn

978-3-89955-236-2

A collection of the best design products, furniture and architecture for children an indispensable reference for design-savvy parents.
Design for children is ubiquitous, but the vast number of products on the mar- ments, room decorations, wall coverings, furniture and kindergarten architecture. ket are commonplace. Play All Day documents a collection of the most vibrant, In addition to these products, it also presents illustration, photography as well stimulating and engaging design products and concepts for children. as new and original ideas offering playful solutions that talented designers and creative parents are designing for and with their kids. This book sets a new standard of design for children by presenting smart products and concepts for smart parents and their kids. Play All Day presents fascinat- Play All Day: Design for Children is an inspiring reference for design-savvy paring examples of innovative and well-designed toys, playgrounds, play environ- ents and other professionals.

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new

Boutique Museums
Private Art Spaces and Personal Visions
category release subtitle

title

Peter Doroshenko
features

editor

full colour, hardcover

pages size

304
price

24 30 cm

Art

September 2009

50 {D} 40 $ 75
isbn

978-3-89955-237-9 sample cover

Boutique Museums presents over fifty of the most important private museums and their unique architecture, which houses the most significant collections of contemporary art around the world.
In the past fifteen years, many contemporary art collectors have chosen to part ways with traditional museums to create their own private spaces for their works of art. These individuals are now creating their own boutique museums, which are run more like businesses and are completely independent because their founders financially sustain them. Boutique Museums is the first book to document this global phenomenon that is fast becoming a new institutional paradigm for the 21st Century. Boutique Museums presents over fifty of the most important private museums housing the best contemporary art collections from around the world. Liberated from the public institutional model of showing a roster of rotating content, these boutique museums focus on and reflect the independent artistic interests of their collectors. These collections often include some of the most important masterpieces and challenging art. They are also housed in spectacular spaces, many of them designed and erected for the sole purpose of showcasing their unique collections, creating an ideal backdrop and environment for the artworks. Compiled and written by Peter Doroshenko, the book presents these boutique museums, their architecture and a glimpse of their extraordinary collections. In addition to lavish photographs of the structures and their interiors, this luxurious over-sized volume includes informative essays on this emerging phenomenon, texts about the collections and their architecture as well as interviews with prominent collectors such as Don and Mera Rubell, Francois Pinault and directors of museums. Peter Doroshenko is President and Artistic Director of the PinchukArtCentre in Kiev, one of the most prestigious centres for contemporary art in Eastern Europe. He was formerly the Director of the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England as well as the Museum of Contemporary Art S.M.A.K. in Ghent, Belgium. Doroshenko was the commissioner for the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale.

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Classique
Cover Art for Classical Music
category release subtitle

title

Horst Scherg
features

editor

full colour, hardcover

pages size

224
price

24 28 cm

Design

available

39.90 {D} 35 $ 60
isbn

978-3-89955-228-7

777 of the most inspiring and groundbreaking classical LP record covers from the 1950s to the 80s.
Classique introduces 777 of the most inspiring classical LP covers from its heyday, documenting groundbreaking art work and cover culture that is typical of its epoch. In the same way that an attractive cover lures you into buying a record, Classique entices readers taking them on a journey through the magnificent evolution of record cover art. Ranging from romantic motifs, naturalism, abstract art, psychedelic and surreal experimentation to supernatural artwork and pure unadulterated kitsch, the diverse examples of classical cover design assembled in the book are immense. Compiled by avid record collector Hort Scherg, the cover art featured in this book is taken from his substantial collection and presented in fifteen chapters. Each chapter is dedicated to the stylistic approaches significant to each decade from the 1950s to the 1980s, the variety and characteristic trends for countries such as the US, England and Russia, the different musical genres, the graphic mediums practiced from illustration, poster art and photography and the record companies of the times including Deutsche Grammophon, Decca and Capitol. Classique also gives an overview of record producers with information on their repertoires, even including those sought-after record labels for the audiophile classical collector. Because design for music has always served as fertile grounds for experimental work and developments in graphic art, this book is not only for aficionados and creatives, but also for everyone interested in visual culture.

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new

Grid Index
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title

Carsten Nicolai
features

by

Design

March 2009

full colour, hardcover incl. CD-ROM

pages size

320
price

18.5 23 cm

39.90 {D} 32.50 $ 60

isbn

978-3-89955-241-6

The first comprehensive visual lexicon of two-dimensional grids and patterns ever published, collected and indexed systematically, featuring an enclosed CD with digital vector data files.
Grid Index is the first comprehensive visual lexicon of visual structures and systems. It is an essential reference book for designers, visual artists, architects, researchers and mathematicians. From the simplest grids made up entirely of squares to the most complex irregular ones with infinitely unpredictable patterns of growth, the book itself is a work of art. All visual information and forms, whether illustration, graphic design, painting or architecture are compromised of two dimensional grids and patterns, much like the way that computer information is made up of zeroes and ones. Based upon years of research, artist and musician Carsten Nicolai has discovered and unlocked the visual code for all visual systems into a systematic equation of grids and patterns. A CD accompanies the book and contains all of the grids and patterns featured in the publication as editable vector graphic data files. This multifunctional and universal tool can be used effortlessly on virtually any platform, operating system and graphics software such as Autodesk and Adobe Illustrator, and applied to every field of visual culture. Grid Index can be used to map out the underlying grids of any single image or form and to create recurring geometrical grids in graphic design. One of the most renowned German contemporary artists, Carsten Nicolai has continued to work at the intersection of art and science. He has exhibited internationally at Documenta X, the Venice Biennale and New National Gallery, Berlin. He has also released albums and staged performances with Ryuichi Sakamoto at the Guggenheim, New York, San Francisco MoMA and Centre Pompidou, Paris. With Grid Index, he has unlocked our world by formulating a universal index of the foundations of visual language. Comparable to Ernst Haeckls Art Forms of Nature, this book is an indispensable tool for designers and scientists or anyone interested in the basic structure of the visual world.

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new

Oded Ezer
The Typographers Guide to the Galaxy
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title

by

Oded Ezer
foreword

Paola Antonelli (MoMA, New York)

features

full colour, hardcover

pages size

Design

April 2009

192
price

24 30 cm

39.90 {D} 32.50 $ 60

isbn

978-3-89955-242-3

The first publication on the outstanding experimental typography designer Oded Ezer.
Oded Ezer: The Typographers Guide to the Galaxy presents the typographic information implanted in their DNA with Typosperma, the latter of which has been experiments and experimental typography of visionary artist and designer Oded exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Further experiments such as his Ezer for the first time. A pioneer in the field, Ezer is one of the most influential Tortured Letters series and Typoplastic Surgeries are included. designers today, who is reinventing the art of typography. In addition to these projects, this monograph also documents elegant and conBased in Tel Aviv, Ezer has an almost scientific approach to type design in which cise logo designs Oded Ezer has created for international brands and institutions, he explores the anatomy of letters and alphabets. His Hebrew and Latin charac- as well as his collection of font designs. Oded Ezer: The Typographers Guide ters and alphabets are influenced by calligraphy and integrate elements that are to the Galaxy also highlights the designers current work including a collecnot typical for font design, such as ornamental and organic shapes that resemble tion of photographs of his lab experiments in the studio, exhibition installations, creatures. The book introduces his type art and hybrid typo creatures, including sketches and illustrations along with detailed texts about each of his projects. projects from his Biotypography series. Here, Ezer applies biological systems and With a foreword by Paola Antonelli, Curator of the Department of Architecture and organic livings to create and modify type into hybrid type insects and animals as Design at MoMA, New York, this publication showcases a remarkable portfolio of well as cloned sperm creatures that are half sperm, half human with typographic work and offers a rare insight into Ezers design process.

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3deluxe
Transdisciplinary approaches to design
category release subtitle

title

Frame Publishers
author

by

3deluxe
features

full colour, hardcover with dust jacket

pages size

Architecture

available

368
price

22 28 cm

49.90 {D} 40 $ 79
isbn

978-3-89955-306-2

A luxurious monograph on the architecture, interiors and visual graphics of German design collective 3deluxe.
3deluxe is a German interdisciplinary design collective of communication, interior and product designers and architects. This substantial book presents the groups most complex projects over the last five years, showing their skilful mastery of interplaying graphics, interior and architecture to create powerful spatial situations and graphics that resonate through all of their projects. events and exhibitions for the 2006 FIFA World Cup as well as the corporate architecture for the glass manufacturer Leonardo are only but a few of the multitude of projects featured in this luxurious volume.

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The non-linear principle of how they meld various design disciplines is also reflected in the layout of the book. With cross-references of chapters and Their outstanding projects for fashion, music and sports, exhibitions and fair projects, it vividly conveys 3deluxes visual and theoretical creative approach. stands, spatial productions and architecture illustrate a sensitive intellectual bal- Essays by renowned authors complement the descriptions of projects, sparking ance and sensual receptive approach. The multimedia theme world Cyberhelvetia, lively debate on current trends in design and architecture, making this expansive the interior design and corporate design for the infamous CocoonClub in Frankfurt, monograph far more than a conventional presentation of their work.

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Gepflegt: KRASS
BrandBody & Soul
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title

Richard Feurer, Jrg Huber, Matthias Michel

features

Style

available

full colour, softcover

pages size

476
price

24 30 cm

39.90 {D} 35 $ 60
isbn

978-3-89955-227-0

Gepflegt: KRASS investigates the multi-faceted dynamic between brands and youth culture.
Youth culture and brands have always had a convoluted relationship, both influencing and feeding off each other alike. The term gepflegt krass is German slang used mainly by youth culture for awesome or cool. Gepflegt: KRASS takes youth culture and the visual culture of brands as a starting point to investigate this complex correlation and incisively analyses the multifaceted dynamic of branding culture. This large format publication is critical, challenging and at the same time a theoretical expedition into the world of branding, penetrating a topic that is widely researched yet difficult to keep abreast of due to its ceaseless development. Presented in an exciting collage with manifold layers of text and photography pervading each page, Gepflegt: KRASS defines the visual identities of luxury brands and examines the attraction and fascination youth culture has with them. It presents real cultural studies with quotes from pop stars and celebrities as well as slogans and excerpts from literature. Questions are raised such as how to define, create and communicate value and how brands construct our self-perception they are then taken out of their context and put back into a new context providing ample analysis. This academic publication documents the unique research project Brands & Branding Topologies of Contemporary Brand Culture carried out by the respected Institut fr Theorie der Gestaltung und Kunst Zrich which explores the multi-faceted layers and interrelationships between youth culture, subcultures and brands.

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The Design Hotels Book

Edition 2009
category release subtitle editor

title

Design Hotels
features

full colour, hardcover

pages size

Design

January 2009

488
price

24 32 cm

44 {D} 36 $ 65
isbn

978-3-89955-238-6

The 2009 edition of The Design Hotels Book presents a comprehensive overview of the most attractive Design Hotels worldwide and provides insight into trends and developments in the fields of design and hospitality.
The Design Hotels Book: Edition 2009 is the most comprehensive encyclopedia mation about its distinguished concept. The book also features extensive profiles to date featuring the most attractive international design hotels the world over. of visionary individuals designers and hoteliers who are the driving creative The book presents 170 luxurious, original and distinctive properties that are set- forces behind the hotels. ting new standards in high-end hospitality. The Design Hotels Book: Edition 2009 is not only an inspiring reference for This rich compendium contains portraits of each member hotel through stunning architects and designers, but is also an indispensable directory of impressive photographs of its architecture and interior design in addition to detailed infor- hotels and destinations for those who like to travel in style.

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Spooky
Biweekly Calendar 2010
category release subtitle editors

title

R. Klanten, M. Hbner
features

calendar

September 2009

full colour with special glow ink, linen covered spine, tear-off perforation
pages size

28
price

24 28 cm

sample cover

19.90 {D} 14.99 $ 29

isbn

978-3-89955-239-3

about the book

Twenty-six new ghouls, ghosts and fiends have sprung from the wild imaginations elements at night that reveal their scary side. Every two weeks a new large-format of designers from around the world to inhabit our Spooky Calendar for 2010. page will send delightful shivers down the spines of children of all ages. Misleadingly sweet by day, these spirits are transformed by glow-in-the-dark

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Crackpot
Weekly Calendar 2010
category release subtitle editors

title

R. Klanten, M. Hbner
features

calendar

September 2009

full colour, linen covered spine, tear-off perforation

pages size

54
price

14.8 21 cm

14.90 {D} 9.99 $ 20

isbn

sample cover

978-3-89955-240-9

about the book

Our Crackpot Calendar for 2010 features a fresh selection of attention-grab- contemporary images. Whether hung on the wall of a childs room or propped bing characters and illustrations from around the world. Each new calendar on an office desk, the Crackpot Calendar is sure to provide fun and inspiration page provides a new companion one per week for a total of fifty-two diverse throughout the year.

Los Logos 4
category editors

title

Design

R. Klanten, H. Hellige, H. Balzer, A. Mollard

features

full colour, special linen hardcover, bilingual: English/German

pages size

568
price

24 x 19 cm

44 {D} 35 $ 69
isbn

978-3-89955-222-5

Gestaltens best-selling Logos series has documented and indicated design styles and trends in contemporary logo design worldwide. The largest volume to date at over 550 pages, this authoritative book presents an unparalleled selection of over 5,000 examples of cutting-edge logo designs from designers around the globe.
Los Logos 4 is the latest addition to Gestaltens line of books on contemporary logo design. This compendium provides an authoritative overview of current developments and advances in logo design, one of the most prestigious of creative disciplines which represent the essential visual identity of brands, companies and their philosophies. visual encyclopedia provides a quality selection of over 5,000 examples of stylistic approaches by designers from around the globe. Fully indexed and structured thematically, the book draws connections between the applications and the fields for which they were intended.

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Los Logos 4 is the perfect companion to the Logos series and an unparalleled At over 550 pages, Los Logos 4 is the largest volume to date, showcasing a col- publication on contemporary logo design. The series has proved to be a precursor lection of contemporary logo design by bourgeoning design talent and once to styles and trends in logo design and highlighted the increased relevance and again offering an essential resource for all designers. This state-of-the-art importance of the logo in the 21st Century.

Data Flow
Visualising Information in Graphic Design
category subtitle editors

title

R. Klanten, N. Bourquin, S. Ehmann, F. van Heerden, T. Tissot

features

full colour, hardcover Design

pages size

256
price

24 30 cm

49.90 {D} 40 $ 78
isbn

978-3-89955-217-1

The application of diagrams extends beyond its classical field of use today. Data Flow charts this development, introduces the expansive scope of innovatively designed diagrams and presents an abundant range of possibilities in visualising data and information.
More and more information is being visualised. Diagrams, data and information graphics are utilised wherever increasingly complex elements are present, whether it is in magazines, non-fiction books or business reports, packages or exhibition designs. The more concrete the variables, the more aesthetically elaborate the graphics sometimes reaching the point of art the more abstract, the simpler the readability. The abundant examples in Data Flow showcase the various methodologies behind information design with solutions concerning complexity, simplification, readability and the (over)production of information. In addition to the examples shown, the book features explanatory text.

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Data Flow presents an abundant range of possibilities in visualising data and information. Today, diagrams are being applied beyond their classical fields of use. In addition to archetypical diagrams such as pie charts and histograms, On 256 pages, Data Flow introduces a comprehensive selection of innovatively there are manifold types of diagrams developed for use in distinct cases and designed diagrams. This up-to-date survey provides inspiration and concrete categories. These range from chart-like diagrams such as bar, plot, line diagrams solutions for designers, and at the same time unlocks a new field of visual codes. and spider charts, graph-based diagrams including line, matrix, process flow, and molecular diagrams to extremely complex three-dimensional diagrams.

The Upset
Young Contemporary Art
category subtitle editors

title

R. Klanten, H. Hellige, S. Ehmann, P. Alonzo

features

Art

full colour, hardcover

pages size

288
price

24 30 cm

44 {D} 35 $ 69
isbn

978-3-89955-221-8

A survey that documents a new generation of burgeoning artists who are breaking new ground. Newly recognised by an international audience, they are employing techniques of a master and creating works largely influenced by visual subcultures.
A new breed of contemporary artists is celebrating newfound international recognition for their style and approach to creating art that is sprouting from and largely influenced by visual subcultures. These young artists, many of whom are associated with the widespread movements of Lowbrow Art and Neo-Surrealism, share similarities with the popular art movements of the 1960s and 70s as well as urban art. The term Lowbrow may sound self-deprecating; rather it represents a distinctive artistic composition and technical approach in which art is produced. The Upset documents this movement and the artists associated with it. Feeding off an array of popular subcultures, they often draw influences from anime, comic books, graffiti and street art as well as character design. The often figurative and narrative artworks featured here employ classical techniques with great skills to create sculpture, illustration, design and painting with the use of spray cans, sharpies and elaborate colour palettes on canvas. With the evolution of new media, artists are also blending these elements with various disciplines in contemporary visual art. In addition to striking visual work, it features portraits of artists as well as in-depth interviews with selected artists who are creating outstanding cutting-edge contemporary fine art. Many of the artists in The Upset enjoy international fame and are represented in prestigious galleries and museums worldwide. The book also introduces a selection of promising talent who are breaking new ground, making it the perfect sourcebook for those interested in fine art and discovering young artists.

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Desire
The Shape of Things to Come
category subtitle editors

title

R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, A. Kupetz, S. Moreno, A. Mollard

features

full colour, hardcover Design

pages size

288
price

24 30 cm

44 {D} 35 $ 69
isbn

978-3-89955-218-8

Desire presents the latest developments, products, furniture and concepts from the best designers today. Both established designers and promising young talent are embracing design which challenges aesthetic boundaries, attitude and visual codes.
Design in the 21st Century has liberated itself from industrial conditions and the associated physical demands. The clean and simplified designs of Minimalism, where less is more and form follows function, is widely practiced today but with new vigor and context. There is also an explosion of vibrant design today that breaks free from the minimal style of approach, prevailing in current design trends. With new technology, expanded choice of materials and a return to luxurious craftsmanship, designers are embracing design with scintillating attitude, challenging aesthetic boundaries and speculating new expressions in visual codes. Desire is an up-to-date comprehensive survey on furniture and object design today, showcasing the crme de la crme of designers culled from around worldwide. It presents celebrated designers who represent the Modernists, creating sophisticated designs that are redefining the formal language of Modernism, blending the restraint of form with the refined use of materials. They are featured along with the inventors; visionary designers who continue to challenge our perception of design with futuristic shapes, and the experimental, innovative and often unprecedented use of materials. Furthermore, Desire documents a wave of designers who are practicing a more playful approach to design and producing products that are tale-telling. It introduces designers that are merging various design disciplines to produce a new, expressive language. They show references to historical events and times, follow conceptual and material processes and are decorative in nature with visually striking shapes and graphic motifs. The book also explores the growing area of design as art, exhibiting recent work by designers who are creating provocative one-off pieces and limited editions. Produced with experimental freedom and intended for a niche market, they are entertaining in nature and exhibited at prestigious design galleries and sold at international auction houses. With a foreword and chapter introduction texts written by Andrej Kupetz, Managing Director of the German Design Council, as well as designer profiles, this indispensable reference provides valuable insight into the current state of furniture design practice. The pioneering examples in Desire will shape the future aesthetic of product, furniture and object design and pave the way we will live in the 21st Century.

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Strike a Pose
Eccentric Architecture and Spectacular Spaces
category subtitle editors

title

20

R. Klanten, L. Feireiss
features

full colour, hardcover

pages size

Architecture

320
price

24 30 cm

59.90 {D} 45 $ 89
isbn

978-3-89955-225-6

Strike a Pose documents a new extroverted architectural language. The iconographically charged scenes and futuristic spaces featured are playful and experimental and range from private residences to schools and operas, museums and interior design.
Strike a Pose documents a new extroverted architectural language. Manifested in spectacular structures, eccentric forms and vivid colours, this expressive approach goes way beyond conventional stylistic and geographic boundaries. Strike a Pose leads the reader around the globe to iconographically charged scenes and futuristic spaces, with examples of architectural playfulness and experimental wanderlust, ranging from private residences to schools and operas, museums and interior design. Conceived and edited by Lukas Feireiss, the editor of Spacecraft, this publication inspires beyond the traditional borders of genre, further indicating architectures pop appeal and its contagious and entertaining effect.

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Playful Type
Ephemeral Lettering and Illustrative Fonts
category subtitle editors

title

R. Klanten, H. Hellige
features

full colour, hardcover

pages size

Typography

240
price

24 28 cm

44 {D} 35 $ 69
isbn

978-3-89955-220-1

Graphic designers are approaching type design in a refreshingly new manner and creating typography beyond the classical typeset. Playful Type demonstrates how these designers are using an array of techniques to create illustrative fonts and hand-made typography.
Graphic designers have always developed and designed new fonts for application in individual projects. Playful Type discovers a new and young generation of designers who are applying typography beyond the classical typeset and creating a dynamic range of playful and illustrative fonts and ephemeral lettering. Playful Type examines how designers today are creating typography with the aid of a multitude of different techniques. From manual lettering, calligraphy and collage to manipulative time exposure of photographs, designers are developing fonts for the moment which are irregular and often accidental. Blocks of ice are even being staged as real characters and paper cut forms and shadows metamorphose into letters and spatial installations. This book shows such cuttingedge examples of elusive scripts that are being translated into serially employable alphabets to be used digitally with the computer. Playful Type presents an inspiring collection of illustrative fonts and hand-made typography created from a variety of cutting-edge approaches and indicates current development in font design.

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Grand Stand 2
Design for Trade Fair Stands
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title

Frame Publishers
editors

by

Clare Lowther, Marlous Willems

features

full colour, hardcover, two volumes in slipcase

pages size

Design

568
price

24 32 cm

99 {D} 80 $ 159
isbn

978-3-89955-305-5

This double-volume publication is the definitive resource for contemporary stand design worldwide. Grand Stand 2 presents nearly 200 show-stopping brand and corporate fair presentations, scales ranging from small to large, with stunning photography and insightful text.
The scenographic design of space and atmosphere is a fundamental element for stimulating personal experiences. Fair stand design has become increasingly important and designers are playing an essential role in visualising the identity of brands into captivating corporate presentations. with amazing temporary structures crafted to highlight the products and services of internationally renowned brands and companies.

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Every stand design is accompanied by stunning images, in-depth descriptions, company profiles, and information that include names, locations, materials and Grand Stand 2 presents current developments in fair stand design in a double- other relevant details. They are also categorised according to theme: interior volume publication. The nearly 200 show-stopping presentations featured in this and architectural products, automotive, electronics, services, food, fashion and book are strikingly successful examples that range from stands occupying cosy beauty and retail. corners to those spanning supersized spaces, all designed and built within the past three years. Packaged in a luxurious hard slipcase, Grand Stand 2 is the definitive publication on contemporary stand design worldwide, deserving a permanent place in the Volume 1 concentrates on small-scale stands less than 500 m2 and presents bookcase of every designer, builder, brand manager or individual with an interest examples of remarkable atmospheric design solutions created within challeng- in the elusive environments of trade fair stands. ing spatial limitations. Volume 2 focuses on show-stopping large-scale stands

Arne Quinze Works

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title

Arne Quinze
editors

by

Design

R. Klanten, L. Feireiss
features

full colour, hardcover, coloured edging

pages size

320
price

25.1 31.5 cm

69.90 {D} 55 $ 100

isbn

978-3-89955-219-5

Arne Quinze is a creative phenomenon. This is the first monograph to present his full creative universe from the past, present and future with invigorating design projects crossing over from furniture, interiors and architecture to urban planning and car design.
The trailblazing, self-made Belgian designer and artist, Arne Quinze, is a creative phenomenon. Effortlessly crossing over between the most diverse disciplines from art, design and architecture, he has established a new invigorating design language that has taken the design world by storm and has instantly become an icon. Quinzes genius lies in his ability to fuse polar extremes passion and chaos with controlled elegance. He masterfully creates immaculate, urbane and polished designs that are balanced with a certain contradicting tension, giving them a refined yet exuberant appearance. He realises his ideas with extraordinary verve and is able to apply them to projects of any scale, whether it be architecture, interior design, urban planning, furniture design, car design or footwear. This publication is the first monograph to document Arne Quinzes full creative universe from the past, present and future. The book showcases celebrated projects including furniture collections he has created for Quinze & Milan, where he is the creative director, Moroso and concept cars for Lamborghini, colossal wooden Uchronia sculpture at the Burning Man Festival in the Nevada desert, his monumental Cityscape sculpture project in Brussels Quartier Louise and more. Over 40 projects are presented with lavish photographs, personal sketches and accompanied by incisive texts giving insight into Quinzes cosmos. Dazzling but never flamboyant, Quinze is undeniably one of the most ambitious and influential individuals in the creative scene today.

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Calma
The Art of Stephan Doitschinoff
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title

Stephan Doitschinoff
editors

by

R. Klanten, H. Hellige
texts

Tristan Manco, Carlo McCormick

features

Art

full colour, linen hardcover

pages size

160
price

24 28 cm

39.90 {D} 35 $ 65
isbn

978-3-89955-224-9

Stephan Doitschinoffs street alias is Calma. This book with the same name documents the emblematic and spiritual paintings and murals that the Brazilian painter has emblazoned on houses, churches and walls in rural villages in his South American homeland.
Calma introduces the visual language of Brazilian painter and illustrator Stephan Doitschinoff, who finds his creative cadence in the realm between authentic urban art and rural spirituality. The title Calma is not only Stephan Doitschinoffs alias as a graffiti writer, but also the abbreviation of con alma (calma) in Latin, meaning with soul. His emblematic metaphoric imagery feeds off Afro-Brazilian folklore, pagan and alchemistic symbolism and contemporary pop culture. Doitschinoff composes spectacular murals and applies his extraordinary talent to emblazon houses, churches and walls in rural cities in his South American homeland. For the first time, Calma documents his artistic journey through these rustic areas and presents the complete visual pandemonium of a young urban artist who creates powerful figurative worlds. His colourful murals and black and white drawings are a sensation internationally and have been shown in galleries and museums around the world.

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Vania
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title

Vania
editors

by

Art

R. Klanten, H. Hellige
features

full colour, hardcover

pages size

160
price

24 32 cm

39.90 {D} 35 $ 65
isbn

978-3-89955-223-2

The Russian-born artist Vania Zouravliov creates surreally haunting illustrations. The works featured in his first monograph depict beautiful women in painstakingly drawn detail that capture a mixture of innocence, brutality, beauty and decay.
Russian-born Vania Zouravliovs surreally haunting illustrations capture a mixture of innocence, brutality, beauty and decay. Inspired by a diverse range of influences, Vania draws inspiration from sources as seemingly opposite as Russian romantic folklore, Japanese illustration and pop culture. His resulting drawings are elaborately composed and demonstrate the technical brilliance of an old master. In artworks that often depict beautiful women involved in macabre or erotic scenes, Vanias intense emotional style evokes a nostalgia rooted in the artists Russian background and attributed to the imagery of Russian silent and art house movies. His dark motifs are intricately layered and full of powerful symbolism, often with sadomasochistic references, that are both provocative and sensitive and which represent the vulnerable relationship between innocence and affliction. As the first monograph on the artists work, this publication presents the expansive scope of an exceptional talent. As a prodigy in his homeland, Vania has exhibited internationally since the age of thirteen, and has continued to produce a vast range of work for both commercial clients and as an independent artist.

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