Product Description: Neue Grafik, the “International Review of graphic design and related subjects,” was initiated by designer Josef Müller-Brockmann and published in eighteen issues between 1958 and 1965 by an editorial collective consisting of him, Richard Paul Lohse, Hans Neuburg und Carlo Vivarelli ( LMNV )...read more

Product Description: In Brazil soccer is more than just a sport. It is hope for a better future, a distraction from everyday life, creator of identity and community. If there is no ball around, people kick fruit or cans; when there is no field, they make one...read more

Product Description: “Democracy is the worst form of government ― except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” Challenging Democracy tries to get to the bottom of the dilemma expressed in this world-famous quote from Winston Churchill...read more

Product Description: For Climate's Sake! sets itself the goal of conveying the knowledge revealed by current climate research in a manner that is both concise and appealing. It differs from other books on climate change principally in the way it is conceived as a visual reader that diliberately uses the effectiveness and power of the image to present the theme in a graphic way...read more

Product Description: The islands of Naoshima, Teshima, and Inujima in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea are places of pilgrimage for friends of contemporary art and architecture. Alongside works in public spaces as well as site-specific installations, the islands are also full of numerous museums and collections of contemporary art...read more

Product Description: Steven Holl has set up a documentation centre for the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) on Hamaroy, in northern Norway. This unconventional building reflects the author's no less unusual personality. The centre in the barren landscape of Hamaroy, where Hamsun lived and worked, the silence and solitude, challenge visitors to involve themselves with him and his work...read more

Product Description: Building Books gives insight into the process of creating a book. In seven thematic fields the author lays out the premises of his activity as a designer and publisher: vision, context, process, protest, object, duration, effect. The reference to the process of building and the parallels to architecture is in keeping with Lars Müller’s conviction that a book design emerges from an understanding of its content...read more

Product Description: The artist Felice Varini works right in the middle of the city. He distributes two-dimensional geometric figures in the three-dimensional urban landscape, figures that only come together into a complete picture when they are seen from a particular vantage point...read more

Product Description: L’artiste Felice Varini travaille au cœur de la ville. Dans l’espace urbain en trois dimensions, il dispose des figures géométriques en deux dimensions qui, considérées depuis un endroit précis, s’assemblent pour composer un tableau entier...read more

Product Description: The photographer's patient lens reveals pictures of overwhelming calm and beauty. Put together as a series of images, they reproduce the sensations of the ordinary that the photographic eye is able to identify in the most unassuming of places.

Product Description: Industrialization and population growth have brought about a global water crisis. Nature can no longer compensate the exploitation of our freshwater and our oceans. One billion people have no reliable access to clean drinking water; two billion live in precarious hygienic conditions...read more

Helvetica is a sans-serif typeface. It is simple and clean, and commonly seen in advertising, signage, and literature. The R has a curved leg, and the i and j have square dots. The Q has a straight angled tail, and the counterforms inside the O, Q, and C are oval. It is an all-purpose type design that can deliver practically any message clearly and efficiently. It is one of the most popular typefaces of all time. Helvetica: Homage to a Typeface presents 400 examples of Helvetica in action, selected from two diametrically opposed worlds. Superb applications by renowned designers are juxtaposed with an anonymous collection of ugly, ingenious, charming, and hair-raising samples of its use.Designed in 1957 by Max Miedinger for the Haas foundry in Switzerland, Haas Grotesk, as the type was originally called, was based on the grotesques of the late-19th century but given new refinements that put it in the sans serif sub-category of neo-grotesque. The 1960s saw the typeface renamed Helvetica (for Helvetia, is Switzerland's Latin name) and introduced to the United States. Today, Helvetica is popular again, used by young designers for posters and party flyers. The book is Lars Muller's hommage to this icon of modern design, an icon which he favors in his own work.

Product Description: "There is a remarkable paucity of pictorial material to draw on when discussing human rights and the way they are respected or infringed, yet we are deluged everyday in every medium with images that openly show violence. The result is a surfeit of cynicism...read more

Product Description: Switzerland has long had world-class photographers in Robert Frank, Werner Bischof, and Rene Burri. "Photosuisse takes a look at the next generation, the internationally renowned Thomas Flechtner, Annelies Strba, Balthasar Burkhard, Beat Streuli, Olaf Breuning, Luc Chessex, Georg Gerster, Urs Luthi, Jean Mohr, and others, bringing together "young meteors" as well as established photographers who have triggered developments over the past 30 years...read more

Product Description: Morphological investigation of the Poster Collection's stock has brought to light a surprising variety of approaches where the creative will to exploit the color of the paper and the black of the ink alone is the driving force behind the posters' succinct statement...read more

Product Description: Built as a diary, the 365 watercolors reproduced in Written in Water represent the creative process of famed American architect Steven Holl. Holl's highly individual method of capturing in watercolors his initial ideas and sketches for all major buildings and competition projects was developed over many years...read more

Product Description: This publication provides a long-needed survey of the working methods and results achieved by one of the most influential European product designers. Morrison's name is not associated with spectacular consumer design products. In fact he represents an approach that many designers return to: simple and durable form, functional and true to its materials...read more