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With an interactive cover, 17 pop-ups and hands-on activities throughout, Alphabet in Motion is an immersive introduction unlike any other to the history of typography and letter shapes.

Ever wonder how we ended up with so many different styles of letters? Open any text editor, email client or design app and you will immediately be bombarded with a buffet of typographic choices. Serif or sans serif? Display or text? Classical or contemporary? Formal or casual?

Featuring 17 stunning interactive pop-ups, this ABC pop-up book explains--as well as demonstrates--the technologies and philosophies that have shaped letterforms through the ages. Readers will learn about '60s psychedelic type by projecting light through a phototypesetting pop-up; how screen technology shaped letterforms by turning on and off anti-aliasing; or the aesthetics of typographic modularity by reconfiguring the puzzle pieces of Josef Albers' Kombinations-Schrift.

This book focuses solely on the Shonandai cultural centre, the first major public project of Itsuko Hasegawa. It is the unlikely successor to the previous books we made on the works of Aldo and Hannie Van Eyck and Giancarlo de Carlo. Shonandai belongs to a different time -1980s- and a...

"One cannot create happiness with beautiful objects, but one can spoil quite a lot of happiness with bad ones." --Finn Juhl

"Art is art, and a chair is a chair"--for the architect and furniture designer Finn Juhl, there were no gray areas. Yet Juhl's designs often strike a delicate balance...

A survey of fifteen years of urban research by Hong Kong-based Swiss architect Géraldine Borio in Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Seoul.

In Looking for the Voids, Hong Kong-based Swiss architect Géraldine Borio presents findings from fifteen years of experimental urban research in Asia, proposing new ways to interpret and design urban...

An exclusive look into Tuscan interiors that have the hallmarks of Cabana magazine’s coverage of remarkable, eclectic, and dramatic spaces.

Tuscany’s historical residences tell stories that no mere guidebook can capture. The houses that dot the landscape—from the stately Medici villas to the more humble yet charming farmhouses—are not just structures...

The Klanghaus Toggenburg, located in the northeast of Switzerland and host to musical rehearsals, courses and concerts alike, is a place that enables visitors to experience a unique interplay of architecture, sound and nature. The Klanghaus in the Swiss Canton St. Gallen is the result of an impressive twenty-year development process: based on a concept by the late Marcel Meili, which won the 2010 thesis competition for the building, it was then realized by architect Astrid Staufer with the office Staufer & Hasler and opens its doors to the public in May of 2025. It is at its core a fundamentally social project, comprised of the work of all those involved in this process.

In Bangladesh, climate change causes frequent flooding, forcing countless people to find new homes. In response, Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum (born 1968) and her team have developed the Khudi Bari (small house): a low-cost structure that can be assembled, disassembled, transported and reassembled in another location by the inhabitants themselves.

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The Shakers: A World in the Making aims to both examine the lasting impact of the Shaker legacy as well as the more unexpected facets of their production, ideology and way of life from a contemporary perspective.

Established in the 18th century, the Shakers were a free church that embraced principles...

This publication is the legacy of The Land Remembers, the Lebanese Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. The pavilion is a fictional ministry - The Ministry of Land Intelligens - dedicated to healing the land from ecocide and to building a dynamic archive of...

Editeur : "From Le Corbusier to MVRDV and from Diller+Scofidio to Peter Eisenman: architects have been setting their sights on film ever since the late 1920s, exploring how this medium can improve the representation and communication of architecture and urban design. The makers of the films in Spots in Shots...

A surreptitious approach to the intrinsic principles of design, upending the teachings we take for granted.

What if data was not a statement of fact, but an argument, and data visualizations mere representations of these arguments? After all, the goal of information designers is to synthesize a particular vision of...

Common Sensing brings together practitioners and thinkers whose work engages with the relationships between different modes of sensing environmental conditions and the role of sense-making in producing collective claims and forms of resistance. Contributions move across a diverse set of contexts: from managing forest fires in China Muerta, Chile, replanting...

The shifting meanings, from practical to tragic, associated with the structure of a barrack.

The Barrack, 1572-1914 tells the little-known history of a building type that many people used to register as an alien interloper in conventionally built-up areas. The barrack is a mostly lightweight construction, a hybrid between a...

From essays and fiction to situated case studies, Ecotones narrates sound as a medium and the act of listening as a political tool

As a counterproject to the hegemony of images, Ecotones showcases investigations on the relevance of sound in territorial studies. It is developed as a curated collection of...

Urbanisation is one of the most decisive - yet often overlooked - global challenges of our time. While only 10% of the world’s population lived in cities in 1900, that figure is now nearly two-thirds. This rapid shift has reshaped how we live. 'Megalopolis' explores the future of cities and...

From a local tradition coming out of a small historical world to a tradition involved in a vast queer-worlding of making,The Last Basket Makers from Risa refers to a lineage of artisans producing the enigmatic Hedared basket—from Lennart, the basket’s first ‘last maker’—to Lennart’s great-grandson, Fadhel Mourali. This is his...

Offering a combination of place-writing, memoir, and cultural study, Peter Davidson examines the motif of the lighted window.

Homecoming, haunting, nostalgia, desire. These are some of the themes evoked by the beguiling image of the lighted window. In this innovative book, Peter Davidson is our guide, taking us on atmospheric walks...

Three psychological perspectives on the constantly shifting social construct of loneliness
Deep feelings of loneliness can be caused by several internal and external factors, both tangible and intangible. Rather than examining physical structures that have the potential to isolate individuals, The Architecture of Loneliness takes a psychological and sociological approach to...

Switzerland is well-known as one of the safest countries on earth and as a prime example of efficiency and efficacy. One of the central reasons that such a country exists is the development of a culture based on protection, which is supported by the presence and production of national security....

Gérard Ifert was a Swiss designer whose discreet yet remarkable career spanned graphic design, scenography, furniture design, and photography. Trained at the School of Arts and Crafts in Basel in the late 1940s, he embraced an eclectic, collaborative approach shaped by early work on the Marshall Plan exhibitions in Paris....

The fifth issue of Typologie, a collection of design books about ordinary objects, is dedicated to the camping tent. A common motif in both rural and urban landscapes, the tent is a ubiquitous typology whose apparent simplicity is deceptive. Halfway between the architecture we manipulate and the furniture we live...

The fifth issue of Tools explores the theme of spinning - both literal and metaphorical. From the Earth's rotation to the cycles of time, spinning is at the core of life, movement, and creation. Craftspeople have long harnessed rotational forces with tools like potter’s wheels, lathes, and spindles. Glassblowers, dancers,...

Ruud Kuijer's pairing of his own work alongside Gerrit Rietveld's highlights the sculptural quality of the Dutch designer's iconic chairs.

For this conceptual project, Dutch sculptor Ruud Kuijer (born 1959) curated 11 combinations of his own work alongside chairs by Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964). The focus is not on Rietveld as...

Over the course of its 240 pages, Auto Erotica covers the gamut of motoring in Britain during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s through rare ephemeral booklets full of unusual graphic ideas and concepts. Their fabulous photography, dazzling color charts, daring typography, strange foldouts and inspiring styles symbolize the automobile aspirations...

"Tara", Lithuanian for container or packaging, was a nickname given by artists working in the graphic design field for their place of employment, the Experimental Package Design Bureau, which was established in the early 1960s in Soviet-occupied Lithuania. It was related to the modernization processes, the growth of production, the...

An expert analysis and history of the past, present and future of analog and digital publishing.

The mutation of music and film into bits and bytes, downloads and streams is now taken for granted. For the world of book and magazine publishing, however, this transformation has only just begun. For...