Design

Matali Crasset's wild houses.

The two books by Matali Crasset published by Shelter Press (special offer).

What roles and functions does type play in design? How does it relate to the meanings of type inherited from other knowledge disciplines?

This catalogue presents a series of vases produced by designer Matali Crasset during a residence at the national porcelain manufactory of Sèvres, in France. The publication gathers 3 notebooks, printed on 3 different papers, including Polaroids of vases photographed by Julien Carreyn, drawings by Crasset and miscellaneous documents.

The catalogue published on the occasion of Navas' first institutional exhibition continues her research on art and design, which deals with phenomena such as memory, translation, interpretation and authorship and documents a wide exchange of images and ideas. A collection of photographs the artist received from friends and acquaintances provides an insight into how her work is influenced and understood by others under the motto “I had to think of you”.

A detailed presentation of the main lines of research, workshops, major projects and invited designers of the Innovation & Savoir-Faire Chair created by the National School of Decorative Arts with the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation, whose aim is to develop innovation and research in art and design.

A French history of digital animation.

Making Sense reports on ten years of Research in Art and Design at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne. It features a synopsis of research projects and a selection of projects' descriptions, accompanied by conversations on design and artistic research between ECAL professors and leading scholars in these fields.

Crossing perspectives on the results of an educational project around textile design and architecture.

As a child in the 70's Daniela Comani travelled with her parents in their car where they used to past time jotting down the cars that drove by. 40 years later she found one of these old notebooks and researched photographs of the cars. The project now takes the form of this artist's book, which can be seen as an interesting social and historical study on style in the pre-globalized world and, above all, a kind of self-portrait.

The fourth issue of the annual research book-magazine at the intersection of architecture, art and economy, explores the figure of the living as the key to contemporary challenges. Contributions by experts in different fields of knowledge offers the opportunity to rethink our relationship to the ecosystem and the new technologies, and to bring forward the essential notion of cohabitation.

Published on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the foundation of The French National School for Decorative Arts, this catalogue documents and expands a unique project built around a workshop gathering former and actual students, and an extraordinary exhibition of 250 posters in the Paris metro.

In 1961, L'Illustrazione Italiana sends critic Giorgio Zampa and photographer Ugo Mulas to carry out a reportage in Denmark. Along their meetings with writer Karen Blixen or Nobel Prize Nils Bohr, the two correspondents also witness the new manifestations of the Scandinavian lifestyle, characterized by its design and its modern habitats.

Conceived as a "bio-monograph", this catalogue offers a unique insight into the life and work of the French artist, sculptor and ceramist Valentine Schlegel (1925-2021). It features a large iconography, archives, and texts by sculptor and Schlegel specialist Hélène Bertin (new expanded edition with English texts).

Postmodernism and gift culture: everyday objects in contemporary art since the 1960s.

The second volume of the design research journal devoted to work and its mutations.

This catalogue documents two exhibitions by Xavier Antin inspired by William Morris' anticipation novel News from Nowhere. The French artist draws from the thinking of The Arts & Crafts movement's inspirer to provide a reflection on the mutations of craftsmanship and design.

A collection of texts by artist and designer Olivier Peyricot, documenting his research and experiments since 1997. For twenty years, Peyricot has been questioning the political and social dimensions of design.The publication also features a rich iconographic documentation.

The first volume of the design research journal devoted to work and its mutations presents a collection of texts by the philosopher Pierre-Damien Huyghe.

Swiss-based artist Raffael Waldner is obsessed by car culture: its gloss, glamour and erotic undertones. In Salon, he focuses on motor shows, photographing—with superficial coolness––the hundreds of female models who act as car company ambassadors.

This publication, conceived as an extension of the eponymous exhibition and its design, gathers scientific contributions from leading researchers and art and dance historians alongside in situ installation views, paying tribute to Léon Bakst, the greatest set designer of the modern era (new edition).

The current fascination with fiction across art, design, and architecture (including one of Umberto Eco's final interview).

A collection of misprinted sheets originating from books designed by graphic designer Manuel Raeder: a “behind the scene” project, which documents the early stage of book production and its conventions.

Interviews with the artist Alain Bublex and the architect-designer-researcher Joseph Grima, a text by the designer and typographer François Chastanet on the graffiti of Los Angeles gangs...

Photographic essay featuring pictures of inactive TV sets: a powerful semiotic reflection on the medium and its design.

An analysis of new collaborative artistic practices interconnecting artists, designers, graphic designers, architects and researchers with different social and economic backgrounds, outside the strict boundaries of the art world.

6th issue of the art and research magazine is dedicated to Nathalie du Pasquier.

A pocket, non illustrated mid-career catalogue raisonné of a practice now spanning over two decades.

An issue all about the end (with a sociological investigation by Bertrand Vidal into survivalism).

The ambition of design and its limits

Paris céramique is the result of a four-day ceramic workshop that took place in Paris in 2013 with Bastien Aubry, Dimitri Broquard, and Adrien Horni, following an invitation by Thomas Mailaender.

This publication chronicles the aspirations, methods, and projects of the first four years of Public Design Support—a joint venture between Goethe Institute's Urban Incubator and Hamburg University of Fine Arts established to offer free practical support to urban residents. It includes key project materials, scholarly essays, and significant historical texts.

Carlo Mollino's photographs of a Japan in between tradition and modernity during the 1970 Universal Exposition.

The first issue the new experimental design review focuses on new types of design practice, be it a happening, performance, installation or game. Seven international designers have been invited to expand on the themes and questions at the heart of their explorations, through essays and interviews.

All posters produced by M/M (Paris) for CDDB-Théâtre de Lorient since 1996, with comments by Eric Vigner, Bénédicte Vigner, and Mathias Augustyniak (edition completed with a photographic booklet and the theater's 20th anniversary programming).

German photographer Heinz Peter Knes offers a new photographic perspective on the furnishing of the CAPC museum of contemporary art in Bordeaux, one of the famous interior designer Andrée Putman's most accomplished projects and a milestone in the history of design.

Taking as a starting point the description of an exhibition project, the British artist reflects on the creative process, serendipity, and writing as an exploratory tool in conceiving and creating a work.

Mottled sausages, icy landscapes with worms that seem to have died trying to make it over hurdles, portals to impossible lands: welcome to the accidental world of ceramist and drawer Anne Brugni.

This unique publication, filled with annotated images, presents an inventory of design, furniture, and textiles produced for Fogo Island Inn. Each piece is a collaborative effort between artisans and craftspeople living on the island and designers from various parts of the world who were invited to engage with the history and communities of Fogo Island and Change Islands in Newfoundland, Canada.

A celebration of nearly a quarter century collaboration between the family-run, specialty fashion store Weinberg and the design and architect duo of Trix + Robert Haussmann.

Artist's book.

Doris Maninger's drawings (artist's book).

The never-before-published selection of Carlo Scarpa's writings and illustrations (photographs, architectural plans, sketches, etc.): an invaluable tool to understanding exhibition history and the importance of the architectural conception of exhibitions.

New design monograph: the studio's 10th anniversary publication "Out of the Ordinary," lavishly illustrated, elucidates the design philosophy of Studio Wieki Somers.

A book about a fictional architecture office in a modernist social housing complex in Brussels, where real architects and locals worked together to make scale models: a reflection on scale models as spaces of negotiation, on maquettes as places where the desire of the architect is visible without the compromises of reality.

The third issue of the annual research book-magazine at the intersection of architecture, art and economy, addresses our urban condition at the age of Anthropocene, with contributions by about forty renowned international contributors (Nicolas Bourriaud, Pierre Huyghe, Yann Moulier-Boutang, Pierre Musso, Neri Oxman, Christian de Portzamparc, Saskia Sassen, Richard Sennett, Jean Viard...), in long and elaborate interviews.

The third issue of the annual research book-magazine at the intersection of architecture, art and economy, addresses our urban condition at the age of Anthropocene (available in English edition).

A collective work conducted by students and teachers from the Design & Space Master at ESAAA art school that aims to highlight the atypical forms that young designers produce and address to our contemporary societies.

Mendini's writings 1972-2011.

A graphic short-story: a trip to Afghanistan, organised by the British government, in which Anish Kapoor and Anthony Gormley are charged with building a gigantic sculpture to subdue the insurgent population...