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This book presents all the materials donated by Bruno Munari to the Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione. Thirty years after the first exhibition, the whole fund is being published with new classifications and studies along with two 'historical' essays testifying to the enduring ties between Bruno Munari and the CSAC.
Bruno Munari: Il disegno, il design
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This book presents all the materials donated by Bruno Munari to the Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione. Thirty years after the first exhibition, the whole fund is being published with new classifications and studies along with two 'historical' essays testifying to the enduring ties between Bruno Munari and the CSAC.
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This book presents the typographic experiments and experimental typography of visionary artist and designer Oded Ezer for the first time. A pioneer in the field, Ezer is one of the most influential designers today, who is reinventing the art of typography.Based in Tel Aviv, Ezer has an almost scientific approach to type design in which he explores the anatomy of(...)
The typographer's guide to the galaxy
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This book presents the typographic experiments and experimental typography of visionary artist and designer Oded Ezer for the first time. A pioneer in the field, Ezer is one of the most influential designers today, who is reinventing the art of typography.Based in Tel Aviv, Ezer has an almost scientific approach to type design in which he explores the anatomy of letters and alphabets. His Hebrew and Latin characters and alphabets are influenced by calligraphy and integrate elements that are not typical for font design, such as ornamental and organic shapes that resemble creatures. The book introduces his type art and hybrid typo creatures, including projects from his Biotypography series.
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Mike Mills: graphics films
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Graphics Films is a painstakingly produced document of Mills' career to date, including many never-before-seen examples of his works in graphic design, installation, publications and film projects. Past projects by Mills include music videos for Air ("Sexy Boy"), Blonde Redhead ("Top Ranking"), Yoko Ono ("Walking on Thin Ice") and Bran Van 3000 ("Afrodiziak") and album(...)
Graphic Designers, Monographs
January 2009, New York, Bologna
Mike Mills: graphics films
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Graphics Films is a painstakingly produced document of Mills' career to date, including many never-before-seen examples of his works in graphic design, installation, publications and film projects. Past projects by Mills include music videos for Air ("Sexy Boy"), Blonde Redhead ("Top Ranking"), Yoko Ono ("Walking on Thin Ice") and Bran Van 3000 ("Afrodiziak") and album cover designs for the Beastie Boys (the Root Down EP), Sonic Youth (Washing Machine), Air (Moon Safari and Kelly Watch the Stars) and others.
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The new typography
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First published in 1928 in Germany and out of print for many years, this text has been recognized as one of the most important statements of modern typographical design.
The new typography
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First published in 1928 in Germany and out of print for many years, this text has been recognized as one of the most important statements of modern typographical design.
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September 2006
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Words fail me
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This book was originally inspired by the author’s Italian mother and her struggles with the vagaries of the English language. Over the years the author has tried to correct her attempts and explain why the word she has chosen is incorrect, only to be baffled herself by the lack of logic within those explanations. English is full of contradictions and peculiarities (not(...)
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June 2006, London, New York
Words fail me
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This book was originally inspired by the author’s Italian mother and her struggles with the vagaries of the English language. Over the years the author has tried to correct her attempts and explain why the word she has chosen is incorrect, only to be baffled herself by the lack of logic within those explanations. English is full of contradictions and peculiarities (not counting such dull grammatical inconsistencies as ‘i before e except after c’, which are really no fun at all) and hoodwinks us into believing one thing while meaning something quite different. In English, all is not what it seems and with this book the author has brought these illogical oddities to the fore. Questions of spelling, pronunciation or the blatantly nonsensical are illustrated through clever visual representations that are created entirely through artfully manipulated typography. This playful and sometimes hilarious text sorts the homonyms from the heteronyms and introduces the ‘antigram’ (demonstrating how the swift shuffle of certain letters can create words that entirely contradict the first: honestly becomes on the sly, earliest becomes rise late and, fabulously, Elvis = lives!). Monachino goes on to demand an explanation from all those tricky little words that are spelt the same and pronounced the same, but yet have utterly different meanings, while highlighting a few of life`s petty pleonasms and showing off some quite excellent tautologies. A gaggle of one-word oxymorons shines the spotlight on words that harbour contradictory words within them and the final section provides a note on inadvisable hyphenation, which is a useful disco-very, but perhaps not the best place to beg-in.
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Josef Müller-Brockmann
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Illustrated with images of the final designs, sketches, production drawings, and unused design drafts from Müller-Brockmann’s archive - and with long captions explaining in detail the design structure and the brief given by the client - this monograph provides a complete visual understanding of Müller-Brockmann’s growth as a graphic designer.
Josef Müller-Brockmann
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Illustrated with images of the final designs, sketches, production drawings, and unused design drafts from Müller-Brockmann’s archive - and with long captions explaining in detail the design structure and the brief given by the client - this monograph provides a complete visual understanding of Müller-Brockmann’s growth as a graphic designer.
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"Josef Albers: to Open Eyes" takes the reader through Albers’s life in teaching – from his first years at the Bauhaus, to his 1933 emigration to the United States, where he and his wife Anni became founding members and teachers at the experimental start-up Black Mountain College, and again to his 1950 appointment to head up Yale University’s newly restructured Department of Design.
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June 2006, London / New York
Josef Albers : to open eyes, the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale
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"Josef Albers: to Open Eyes" takes the reader through Albers’s life in teaching – from his first years at the Bauhaus, to his 1933 emigration to the United States, where he and his wife Anni became founding members and teachers at the experimental start-up Black Mountain College, and again to his 1950 appointment to head up Yale University’s newly restructured Department of Design.
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Although Samuel Abraham Marx was born at the end of the 19th century, he had the eye of a modernist - as an architect, furniture designer, connoisseur and collector. His vision was neither ostentatious or grandiose, but subtle and quietly magnificent. Ultra-Modern, Samuel Marx, Architect, Furniture Designer, Connoisseur is the first monograph on this lesser-known but(...)
Ultramodern : Samuel Marx, architect, designer, art collector
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Although Samuel Abraham Marx was born at the end of the 19th century, he had the eye of a modernist - as an architect, furniture designer, connoisseur and collector. His vision was neither ostentatious or grandiose, but subtle and quietly magnificent. Ultra-Modern, Samuel Marx, Architect, Furniture Designer, Connoisseur is the first monograph on this lesser-known but increasingly influential American designer. In more than 200 photographs, Marx expert and decorative arts dealer, Liz O Brien, reveals many of his undiscovered projects including houses that have been raised despite preservationist protests and his range of furniture designs. Marx was also sought after for his ability to integrate art in well-heeled interiors. The private art collections of many of his wealthy clients have, in the last 40 years, been dispersed to major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as the Chicago Art Institute, in Chicago.
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«Design is the manipulation of form and content... Content is the idea, or subjects matter. Form is what you do with this idea. How do I deal with it? Do I use color? Do I use black and white? Do I make it big? Do I make it small? Do I make it three-dimensional or two-dimensional? Do I use trendy stuff, or do I use Bodoni or do I use Baskerville? These are all the(...)
Paul Rand Conversations with students
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«Design is the manipulation of form and content... Content is the idea, or subjects matter. Form is what you do with this idea. How do I deal with it? Do I use color? Do I use black and white? Do I make it big? Do I make it small? Do I make it three-dimensional or two-dimensional? Do I use trendy stuff, or do I use Bodoni or do I use Baskerville? These are all the questions you ask. This is part of the manipulative aspect of design.»
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Robert Massin (b. 1925) is a highly influential French graphic designer and writer. He has worked with many famous authors and playwrights, including Eugène Ionesco, Blaise Cendrars, and Raymond Queneau, and for twenty years has been the art director for the pre-eminent French publisher Gallimard. This is the first monograph published in English on the work of Massin, one(...)
Massin
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Robert Massin (b. 1925) is a highly influential French graphic designer and writer. He has worked with many famous authors and playwrights, including Eugène Ionesco, Blaise Cendrars, and Raymond Queneau, and for twenty years has been the art director for the pre-eminent French publisher Gallimard. This is the first monograph published in English on the work of Massin, one of the key exponents in the development of post-war graphic design. Wolff charts Massin's wide-ranging career with detailed discussion of some of his most inventive and exciting projects, including the award-winning THE BALD PRIMA DONNA (1964) and LETTER AND IMAGE (1970). Wolff carried out her research in close collaboration with Massin, gaining unrivaled access to the Massin collection in Chartres as well as the designer's personal archives. MASSIN includes preparatory sketches, letters, and finished works, photographed especially for this book.
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October 2007, London
Graphic Designers, Monographs