Visual Editions: book in a box

Visual Editions (VE), also known for their books "Tree of Codes" and "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman", have a new book coming.

Composition No. 1 is the first ever “book in a box”. The book was written in 1961 by Marc Saporta, Universal Everything designed it, introduction is by Tom Uglow of Google and it features diagrams by Salvador Plascencia .

London Underground by Mark Noad

London designer Mark Noad redesigned Harry Beck’s famous London Underground topological map.

London underground map by Harry Beck

London underground map by Mark Noad

Cosmic 140 by iA, still available

The 140 most influential people on twitter, sorted by #name #handle #category #influence #activity. Plus: When they started tweeting and what they first said. It took quite some time until we had it in the shape we envisioned.
A0-Poster, super high quality paper, the parts that appear in grey on the file are PP-Varnish.

More Pictures, Info and a Video after the Jump!

Takenobu Igarashi: Bookends

Takenobu Igarashi designed this bookends for a group show of bookends at the Ao Gallery in Tokyo, 1982. Size A: 98mm * 88mm * 88mm, B: 96mm * 72mm * 72mm, chrome and gold plating on brass.

Design Miami: Jean Prouvé

For the first time in public, the Galerie Patrick Seguin will present live, every day, the set up of a Jean Prouvé 6 × 6 meter demountable bungalow, created for the war victims in Lorraine.

6x6 Dismountable house
Jean Prouvé
Metal and wood
6x6m
Courtesy of: Galerie Patrick Seguin

A very nice book about Jean Prouvés teaching at CNAM: "Prouve : Cours du CNAM, 1957-1970"

For more Info visit Galerie Patrick Seguin here.

Hartz IV Möbel

Der Berliner Architekt Le van Bo designt Möbel im Bauhaus-Stil. Aber er verkauft sie nicht für teures Geld, sondern motiviert Leute mit wenig Geld (aber viel Zeit) und gutem Geschmack, sich die Möbel selber zu bauen.

24 Euro Sessel (24 Euro Chair)

Bauanleitung: http://www.hartzivmoebel.de/

Vormerken: Lufthansa and Graphic Design

From September 2011 A5/05 Lufthansa and Graphic Design

Visual History of an Airline

Lars Müller Publishers
14.8 × 21 cm, 5 ¾ × 8 ¼ in, 128 pages, approx. 300 illustrations, paperback (2011)
ISBN 978-3-03778-267-5, German/English

Vorankündigung:

Dieter Rams: As little Design as possible. Book Design by Kobi Benezri

Es gab in letzter Zeit ja viele Bücher über die Arbeit von Dieter Rams, aber dieses hier werde ich kaufen!

Typotron-Hefte

Typotron publications, an exquisitely designed series of booklets...

Wobei designed fast schon eine Beleidigung ist, bei all dem, was heute diesen Namen trägt. Diese Hefte sind nicht designed, diese Hefte sind mit Liebe und Können gemacht.

Hefte 1 bis 17 wurden von Jost Hochuli, die Hefte 18 bis 21 von KAspar Mühlemann, die Hefte 22 bis 24 von der Designgruppe merkwürdig und die Hefte 26 bis 28 von TGG HAfen Senn Steiger gestaltet. 

Prints are never out of fashion


Vertrieben durch die Typotron AG, St. Gallen

Similarity between Mental Disorder and Off Beat Percussion?

 

Mental disorder by adapt 

 
“Off Beat Percussion” Starring Don Lamond and his Orchestra. Command Records. Stereo.

Neu entdeckt:

Yakov Georgievich Chernikhov
Russischer Architekt und Konstruktivist

Und da gibts auch ein wunderschönes Buch über ihn:






ISBN: 3938666617