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Josef Muller-Brockmann studied architecture, design and history of art in Zurich and worked as a graphic designer and teacher. His work is recognized for its simple designs and his clean use of fonts, shapes and colors, which still inspires many g...

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Dieses erstmals 1965 erschienene Werk liegt in einer revidierten Fassung vor. Bild- und Formelemente werden analysiert und auf ihre Gesetzmässigkeiten untersucht. Die aus der logischen Stoffdurchdringung gewonnenen Erkenntnis- se lassen sich erler...

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As a result of globalization and in- creased interaction across countries and cultures, multilingualism is becom- ing increasingly important all around the world. Script, as the most impor- tant conveyor of confirmation, plays a major role in this...

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Welche Formen gibt es?Welche gestaltgebende Maßnahmen stehen zur Verfügung?Welche Bewertungsmaßstäbe gelten für existierende oder zu entwicklende Objekte?Drei grundlegende Fragen, die sich jeder Architekt, Designer und Künstler immer wieder stellt...

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Im Zuge der digitalen Revolution machen FabLabs (kurz für Fabrication Laboratory) Hightech-Produktionstechnologien für kleine Arbeitsgruppen oder Privatpersonen verfügbar, die dort "fast alles" selber machen können. F...

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This book is the legacy of Emil Ruder, one of the originator of Swiss Style, famous throughout the world for the use of asymmetric layouts, use of a grid, sans-serif typefaces and flush left, ragged right text. His holistic approach is still recog...

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The typograhic grid is a child of constructive art. This book offers a collection of about two dozen typographic works of the author including books, brochures and art catalogues. The works, documented in schematic drawings and many individual ill...

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Graphic artists and designers from around the world have now rediscovered the risograph for themselves - along with other machines for similar almost forgotten techniques such as mimeography -and sparked an unexpected renaissance of analog printin...

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Max Bill (1908-1994) is primarily associated with the terms "Concrete Art" and "Environmental Design". He was active in nearly every area of art and design, which were universal concepts for him. Furthermore, his theoretical pu...

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Flughäfen sind Mega-Orte, in denen sich Millionen von Menschen bewegen und Kulturen aufeinandertreffen. Sie sind Orte, deren Identität vielschichtig ist: Einerseits ist die Geschichte und die Gestaltungsauffassung des jeweiligen Landes ablesbar, f...

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The subject of this book is drawing as the catalyst of design processes. The electronic creation and production of images in all the design professions has led today to fundamental changes in the design processes. Hence, drawing has gained a new i...

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Jost Hochuli has been working as a freelance graphic designer since 1959. Although book design forms only a small part of his activity, he has become well-known particularly through this work. Besides his book designs, several of his commercial ar...

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Muller-Brockmann's book aimed to solve the graphic designer's problem of finding the appropriate contemporary form. It became a standard work that still serves as a historic practical guide well beyond the boundaries of Switzerland. This edition i...

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Typographic design begins with a set of information and a concept. The designer, facing a blank sheet of paper or a computer screen, is anxious about the first step to take in developing a design. The elements of typography are an obvious starting...

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This book explores a wide area, tracing the history of design from its roots, providing an outlook for the future, and describing comprehensive product functions, complex design processes and fundamental theories with illustrative case studies. No...

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"Pictowords", with a foreword by Shutaro Mukai, presents a project Baumann & Baumann carried out together with eighty students over the course of eighty hours at the Musashino Art University, Tokyo. Countless word-pictures and pictor...

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This artfully designed volume sets in on a large scale, the proportions in outer space, and ends with the smallest of typographic scales, with typefaces. Skilfully, the authors introduce the reader to the world of visual design and typography, aro...

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Werner Blaser, architect and author of more than one hundred books, introduces the reader to the world of Tadao Ando's sunken architectures. In fascinating photographs, a method of construction is presented that has its roots in the traditional &q...

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Warum sieht eine Zeitung anders aus als eine Zeitschrift oder ein Buch?Welche Auswirkungen hat die Verwendung einer bestimmten Schrift, welche die eines bestimmten Rasters? Warum erscheint uns das eine Layout allzu vertraut und das andere eindeuti...

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Isfahan is a heavenly city of gardens, mosques and palaces for an open-minded architect. In addition to the artful dome constructions over the prayer halls of the larger mosques, the highpoint of Persian architecture is the multitude of garden com...

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The architectonic possibilities of the pitched roof seem almost unlimited and are all the more interesting for today's architects, in that the subject has been neglected for such a long time. By thematic plates this publication shows the whole spe...

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All design work uses and interconnects the principles of visual communication in different combinations and emphases. This results in a building set of almost infinite resources, which can be used to generate a wide variety of solutions. The exemp...

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Many traditional products have established reputations for quality and utility far beyond the national borders. Swissness presents 43 design accomplishments of Swiss origin, including the Swiss Army knife, the Landi chair, Le Corbusier's chaise lo...

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The Toms collections boasts one of the most important groupings of tapestries privately assembled during the second half of the 20th century. It's more than 100 examples, woven between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries in workshops of Flander...

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The East German engineer Ulrich Muther contributed an important chapter to the European history of shell construction. From 1963 on he realized pioneering shell constructions that rank among the classics of modernism and inspired architects from a...

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"Architecture in all its dimensions can only be experienced with our senses through an actual being-in-space. We orient ourselves visually and acoustically in space, get our first spatial impression via our senses of sight and hearing, and at...

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Colour and light belong together. But there are hardly any colour theories which address the complex interdependence of colour and light with a direct and sensuous approach. This is the point of departure for the multimedia publication Colour and ...

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"What constitutes good architecture?" is a question Werner Blaser was always asked by friends, readers, companions and students. In this comprehensive work the author sets out on a search for the answer to that question. This volume is n...

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For decades, Swiss architecture has enjoyed international acclaim. Yet how are Helvetic architects positioning themselves in Switzerland's drastically changing working environment? What impact are they having at present? In "Architecture Dial...

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The cooperation of Trix and Robert Haussmann with the Roethlisberger carpenters, which started in 1979, yielded numerous successful experiments in artistic and handcrafted furniture. Not comparable to furniture from the retail store, these exclusi...

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