The style of the Stedelijk
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The recent reopening of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, saw the inauguration of a spectacular new edifice as well as a new style of museum. The Style of the Stedelijk is a fascinating account of the Museum’s unique relationship with graphic design and its search for a new visual identity.
The style of the Stedelijk
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The recent reopening of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, saw the inauguration of a spectacular new edifice as well as a new style of museum. The Style of the Stedelijk is a fascinating account of the Museum’s unique relationship with graphic design and its search for a new visual identity.
Industrial Design
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This volume features more than 40 recent international projects where the lighting is the defining design feature. Each project includes detailed plans, diagrams, sketches, and CAD visuals to demonstrate the lighting techniques involved. A CD includes technical drawings from the book.
Detail in contemporary lighting design
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This volume features more than 40 recent international projects where the lighting is the defining design feature. Each project includes detailed plans, diagrams, sketches, and CAD visuals to demonstrate the lighting techniques involved. A CD includes technical drawings from the book.
Materials and Lighting
Rietveld's chair
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In this book, art historian Marijke Kuper investigates the birth, reception and use of Gerrit Rietveld’s world-famous red-and-blue De Stijl chair, an icon of Dutch design and modernism. Kuper’s account – which includes copious new research – is richly illustrated and includes an overview of all known existing examples of the chair. In the accompanying documentary,(...)
Rietveld's chair
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In this book, art historian Marijke Kuper investigates the birth, reception and use of Gerrit Rietveld’s world-famous red-and-blue De Stijl chair, an icon of Dutch design and modernism. Kuper’s account – which includes copious new research – is richly illustrated and includes an overview of all known existing examples of the chair. In the accompanying documentary, directed by the book’s designer, Lex Reitsma, furniture restorer Jurjen Creman reconstructs the lost first version of the chair, and Professor Erik A. de Jong recalls how his grandparents used their Rietveld furniture in the 1920s.
Industrial Design
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This is not the end of the book : a conversation curated byJean-Philippe de Tonnac
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Critical Theory
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Collective commissions are not a new phenomenon in the Netherlands. While in the twentieth century these were mainly idealistic, small-scale initiatives like communes, today motivations are also economic. 'DASH' presents contemporary and historic examples of projects developed under collective commissions, in the Hetherlands and beyond.
Building together: the architecture of collective private commissions
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Collective commissions are not a new phenomenon in the Netherlands. While in the twentieth century these were mainly idealistic, small-scale initiatives like communes, today motivations are also economic. 'DASH' presents contemporary and historic examples of projects developed under collective commissions, in the Hetherlands and beyond.
Collective Housing
MVRDV buildings
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MVRDV is a Rotterdam-based architecture and urban design practice founded in 1993. In cooperation with Ilka and Andreas Ruby, MVRDV has assembled this overview of 20 years of architectural practice--a redefined monograph about their realized work to date that features user testimonies, journalistic articles, unpublished images and drawings.
MVRDV buildings
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MVRDV is a Rotterdam-based architecture and urban design practice founded in 1993. In cooperation with Ilka and Andreas Ruby, MVRDV has assembled this overview of 20 years of architectural practice--a redefined monograph about their realized work to date that features user testimonies, journalistic articles, unpublished images and drawings.
Architecture Monographs
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Dans ce dialogue pétillant, Claude Parent parle de sa carrière, de ses réalisations, des obstacles qu’il a rencontré, de l’incompréhension que ses positions esthétiques et intellectuelles engagées ont suscité. Mais surtout, il parle de ses rencontres, de ses amitiés déterminantes pour son cheminement. On découvre un homme en avance sur son temps qui s’est toujours(...)
Hans Ulrich Obrist / Claude Parent
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Dans ce dialogue pétillant, Claude Parent parle de sa carrière, de ses réalisations, des obstacles qu’il a rencontré, de l’incompréhension que ses positions esthétiques et intellectuelles engagées ont suscité. Mais surtout, il parle de ses rencontres, de ses amitiés déterminantes pour son cheminement. On découvre un homme en avance sur son temps qui s’est toujours rebellé contre l’ordre établi et la pensée pré-fabriquée. Un humaniste qui a voulu changer le monde et qui porte un message d’espoir pour les générations futures.
Architecture Monographs
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Brinkman & Van der Vlugt (1925-1936) is best known for the Van Nelle factory in Rotterdam and the standard Dutch telephone box, which was used for over 50 years. This publication offers a complete retrospective of the two architects, accompanied by commentary from Joris Molenaar, who has restored several of the firm's buildings.
Brinkman & Van Der Vlugt architects
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Brinkman & Van der Vlugt (1925-1936) is best known for the Van Nelle factory in Rotterdam and the standard Dutch telephone box, which was used for over 50 years. This publication offers a complete retrospective of the two architects, accompanied by commentary from Joris Molenaar, who has restored several of the firm's buildings.
Architecture Monographs
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Architect Hugh Maaskant (1907-1977) played a major role in modern Dutch architecture. He designed revolutionary, complex, large-scale buildings with metropolitan allure, like the Groothandelsgebouw and the Euromast in Rotterdam and the Scheveningen Pier. In Maaskant: Architect of Progress architecture historian and Maaskant expert Michelle Provoost places Maaskant in an(...)
Hugh Maaskant: architect of progress
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Architect Hugh Maaskant (1907-1977) played a major role in modern Dutch architecture. He designed revolutionary, complex, large-scale buildings with metropolitan allure, like the Groothandelsgebouw and the Euromast in Rotterdam and the Scheveningen Pier. In Maaskant: Architect of Progress architecture historian and Maaskant expert Michelle Provoost places Maaskant in an international and historical perspective. Hugh Maaskant is considered the godfather and forerunner of the generation of Winy Maas (MVRDV), Adriaan Geuze (West 8), Willem Jan Neutelings and Rem Koolhaas. Yet he was underappreciated for many years. Provoost describes Maaskant’s work as part of the optimistic, stimulating aspect of post-war reconstruction and the exciting world of the 1960s. She also places him in the context of Dutch architecture, both of his time and of later generations, particularly the ‘Super Dutch’.
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Sign painters
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There was a time, as recently as the 1980s, when storefronts, murals, banners, barn signs, billboards, and even street signs were all hand-lettered with brush and paint. But, like many skilled trades, the sign industry has been overrun by the techno-fueled promise of quicker and cheaper. The resulting proliferation of computer-designed, die-cut vinyl lettering and inkjet(...)
Sign painters
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There was a time, as recently as the 1980s, when storefronts, murals, banners, barn signs, billboards, and even street signs were all hand-lettered with brush and paint. But, like many skilled trades, the sign industry has been overrun by the techno-fueled promise of quicker and cheaper. The resulting proliferation of computer-designed, die-cut vinyl lettering and inkjet printers has ushered a creeping sameness into our visual landscape. Fortunately, there is a growing trend to seek out traditional sign painters and a renaissance in the trade. In 2010, Faythe Levine and Sam Macon began documenting these dedicated practitioners, their time-honored methods, and their appreciation for quality and craftsmanship. Sign Painters, the first anecdotal history of the craft, features stories and photographs of more than two dozen sign painters working in cities throughout the United States. With a foreword by legendary artist (and former sign painter) Ed Ruscha, this book profiles sign painters young and old, from the new vanguard working solo to collaborative shops such as San Francisco's New Bohemia Signs and New York's Colossal Media's Sky High Murals.
Graphic Design and Typography