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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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septembre 2006
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(...)
juin 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.
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.
mai 2006, London
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.
juin 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(...)
février 2008, New York
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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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(...)
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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octobre 2007, London
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In the 1920s and �30s, Paul Schuitema was one of the pioneers of New Typography and New Photography in the Netherlands, along with Piet Zwart and Gerard Kiljan. They distinguished themselves by conveying the message in a clear, concise and forceful manner. Schuitema himself referred to it as �right ahead�. In an international context, this typography and photography(...)
Peter Schuitema : Visual organizer
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In the 1920s and �30s, Paul Schuitema was one of the pioneers of New Typography and New Photography in the Netherlands, along with Piet Zwart and Gerard Kiljan. They distinguished themselves by conveying the message in a clear, concise and forceful manner. Schuitema himself referred to it as �right ahead�. In an international context, this typography and photography matched the work of El Lissitzky and Alexander Rodchenko in Russia, Karel Teige and Nadislav Sutnar in the erstwhile Czechoslovakia, and Herbert Bayer, Joost Schmidt and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy in Germany. This book, the first monograph on Paul Schuitema, not only deals with his graphic work, but also with his activities as a photographer, film-maker, and furniture designer.
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Les membres de Via Grafik ont créé le collectif en 1998 et ont choisi leur nom comme un slogan. Construction, déconstruction et provocation sont des thématiques récurrentes de leurs travaux. Il existe une interaction très forte entre leur approche du graphisme et celle du graffiti, ces deux disciplines s'enrichissant mutuellement. Ils entrelacent les techniques et les(...)
octobre 2006, Paris
Via grafik : choose your weapon !
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Les membres de Via Grafik ont créé le collectif en 1998 et ont choisi leur nom comme un slogan. Construction, déconstruction et provocation sont des thématiques récurrentes de leurs travaux. Il existe une interaction très forte entre leur approche du graphisme et celle du graffiti, ces deux disciplines s'enrichissant mutuellement. Ils entrelacent les techniques et les pratiques artistiques, fidèles à leur devise : " From wall to screen to everything. "
Trbdsgn
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Les trois membres du collectif TRBDSGN ont mis en commun leur culture de la rue et leurs différentes expériences pour se forger leur propre univers. Ils mêlent graphisme, graffiti et design dans une même logique et avec une grande cohérence. Leur capacité à tirer parti des différents milieux dans lesquels ils évoluent leur permet de consolider un savoir au bénéfice de(...)
octobre 2006, Paris
Trbdsgn
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Les trois membres du collectif TRBDSGN ont mis en commun leur culture de la rue et leurs différentes expériences pour se forger leur propre univers. Ils mêlent graphisme, graffiti et design dans une même logique et avec une grande cohérence. Leur capacité à tirer parti des différents milieux dans lesquels ils évoluent leur permet de consolider un savoir au bénéfice de leur talent. En 2005, ils ont exposé à la galerie Kitchen93.