Ital Thai Chinese and paint
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Ital Thai Chinese and Paint is a compilation of the first collaborative work by Zuni Halpern and Erik Steinbrecher. The booklet shows montages of photographs and paintings. All the photographed advertisings are collected in the streets. The paintings on paper are studio works. Both materials, views of fusion food and plates of abstract designs are melted. These "painted(...)
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Ital Thai Chinese and paint
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Ital Thai Chinese and Paint is a compilation of the first collaborative work by Zuni Halpern and Erik Steinbrecher. The booklet shows montages of photographs and paintings. All the photographed advertisings are collected in the streets. The paintings on paper are studio works. Both materials, views of fusion food and plates of abstract designs are melted. These "painted meals" can be considered as ornaments in the urban context of fast gastronomy and catering.
The future of the past
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A comprehensive argument for “new traditional” architecture that preserves the style and character of historic buildings. With contemporary design being redefined by architects and urbanists who are recovering the historic language associated with More...traditional architecture and the city, how might preservation change its focus or update its mission? Steven W. Semes(...)
The future of the past
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A comprehensive argument for “new traditional” architecture that preserves the style and character of historic buildings. With contemporary design being redefined by architects and urbanists who are recovering the historic language associated with More...traditional architecture and the city, how might preservation change its focus or update its mission? Steven W. Semes makes a case that context matters and that new buildings and additions to old buildings should be harmonious with their neighbors.
New modernist type
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Having surveyed handwritten, new vintage, and new ornamental tendencies in type and lettering, Steven Heller now turns his encyclopedic gaze on Modernism. New Modernist Type reveals how a graphic language of simplicity and economy has impacted contemporary design. Hundreds of examples by international designers are grouped into three thematic chapters: Old Modern, Playful(...)
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October 2012
New modernist type
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Having surveyed handwritten, new vintage, and new ornamental tendencies in type and lettering, Steven Heller now turns his encyclopedic gaze on Modernism. New Modernist Type reveals how a graphic language of simplicity and economy has impacted contemporary design. Hundreds of examples by international designers are grouped into three thematic chapters: Old Modern, Playful Modern, and Meta Modern. An historical introduction places today's tendencies in context, and the reference section features a list of designers' websites.
Graphic Design and Typography
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Lightopia investigates the development of light design, taking a novel perspective by placing the current paradigm shift in the larger context of cultural history. The starting point for the book is the Vitra Design Museum’s extensive, never before seen lighting collection, from which particularly rare and important pieces are reproduced here. Parallel to these works,(...)
Lightopia
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Lightopia investigates the development of light design, taking a novel perspective by placing the current paradigm shift in the larger context of cultural history. The starting point for the book is the Vitra Design Museum’s extensive, never before seen lighting collection, from which particularly rare and important pieces are reproduced here. Parallel to these works, contemporary examples from the fields of design and art explore the current developments and transitions in light design.
Materials and Lighting
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This book compares antiquarianism in a global context, examining its roots in the ancient Near East, its flourishing in early modern Europe and East Asia, and its manifestations in nonliterate societies of Melanesia and Polynesia. By establishing wide-reaching geographical and historical perspectives, the essays reveal the universality of antiquarianism as an embodiment(...)
World antiquarianism : comparative perspectives
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This book compares antiquarianism in a global context, examining its roots in the ancient Near East, its flourishing in early modern Europe and East Asia, and its manifestations in nonliterate societies of Melanesia and Polynesia. By establishing wide-reaching geographical and historical perspectives, the essays reveal the universality of antiquarianism as an embodiment of the human mind and open new avenues for understanding the representation of the past, from ancient societies to the present.
Book Design
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Throughout the 1980s and early ’90s, Kim Gordon—widely known as a founding member of the influential band Sonic Youth—produced a series of writings on art and music. Ranging from neo-Conceptual artworks to broader forms of cultural criticism, these rare texts are brought together in this volume for the first time, placing Gordon’s writing within the context of the(...)
Kim Gordon: is it my body? selected texts
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Throughout the 1980s and early ’90s, Kim Gordon—widely known as a founding member of the influential band Sonic Youth—produced a series of writings on art and music. Ranging from neo-Conceptual artworks to broader forms of cultural criticism, these rare texts are brought together in this volume for the first time, placing Gordon’s writing within the context of the artist-critics of her generation, including Mike Kelley, John Miller, and Dan Graham.
Art Theory
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A “good book” and whatever it is that makes a book beautiful are not easy to define – the details of a design may well suit one book to perfection, but be very much out of place with another publication. With this in mind the author and designer Bernd Kuchenbeiser launched his website “A good book”, where publications of many different genres are presented and discussed(...)
61 books with black type on white cover
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A “good book” and whatever it is that makes a book beautiful are not easy to define – the details of a design may well suit one book to perfection, but be very much out of place with another publication. With this in mind the author and designer Bernd Kuchenbeiser launched his website “A good book”, where publications of many different genres are presented and discussed especially in the context of their creative design.
Book Design
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Published to coincide with the exhibition at the AA in London in the spring of 1999, this book explores the relationship between photography and architecture in the works of contemporary German artists by combining essays considering the political, social, architectural and art historical context of the exhibited work with extended portfolios of(...)
Reconstructing space : architecture in recent German photography
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Published to coincide with the exhibition at the AA in London in the spring of 1999, this book explores the relationship between photography and architecture in the works of contemporary German artists by combining essays considering the political, social, architectural and art historical context of the exhibited work with extended portfolios of photographs. Includes the work of Bernd & Hilla Becher, Thomas Demand, Christine Erhard, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Thomas Ruff, and Heidi Specker.
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January 1900, London
Theory of Photography
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354 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 33 cm
Weil am Rhein : Vitra Design Museum, 2012.
Louis Kahn : the power of architecture / [editors, Mateo Kries, Jochen Eisenbrand, Stanislaus von Moos ; translations: Brian Currid, Barbara Hauss, Anna Stüler].
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354 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 33 cm
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Weil am Rhein : Vitra Design Museum, 2012.
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xiv, 301 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm.
Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2013], ©2013
Architecturalized Asia : mapping a continent through history / edited by Vimalin Rujivacharakul, H. Hazel Hahn, Ken Tadashi Oshima, and Peter Christensen.
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xiv, 301 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm.
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Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2013], ©2013