Design

This book is dedicated to the work of Marcin Rusak, as part of a series of monographs on the thought and work of young contemporary designers.

Thinking design with philosophy (a teaching manual).

The fourth issue of Typologie, a collection of design books about ordinary objects, is dedicated to the wooden crate.

Artist's book.

A collective reflection on reciprocal relations between design and the ethics of care, in the areas of health, social innovation, objects, or the environmental issue.

A landscape of Japanese playgrounds, at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, design, pedagogy and contemporary art.

Typologie is a collection of design books about ordinary objects. This issue dedicated to the wine bottle features a photographic section with 60 silhouettes of rare or common bottles; a geography of forms, from Bordeaux to Alsace; a photographic report in the glassworks of Albi; a conversation between a botte-maker, a winemaker and a collector of ancient bottles.

Typologie is a collection of design books about ordinary objects. This issue dedicated to the wine bottle features a photographic section with 60 silhouettes of rare or common bottles; a geography of forms, from Bordeaux to Alsace; a photographic report in the glassworks of Albi; a conversation between a botte-maker, a winemaker and a collector of ancient bottles.

The drawings in 101 are made with a software application conceived by Erwan Bouroullec which extracts lines and colors out of photographs.

A small selection of Ronan Bouroullec's recent drawings.

A reflection on the genealogy of objects (artist's book).

This publication presents a comic strip made by a 20-year old Nathalie Du Pasquier in remembrance of a six months journey in Gabon. Inspired by a clipping from a Gabonese daily, the cartoon tells the colorful story of a clumsy Don Giovanni. This edition features an introductory text by the artist, the translated strip, and a facsimile of the comic book in original French version.

In this lecture, creative director Virgil Abloh takes us behind the scenes of his design process, sharing the essentials of editing, problem-solving, and storytelling.

A compilation of Lina Bo Bardi's tenure as director of Habitat, a publication self-dubbed “the magazine of the arts in Brazil”. Between 1950 and 1954, Habitat documented Bo Bardi's early thoughts on Brazilian culture, as well as reflecting her very personal take on modernism. Edited and designed by Julia, with contributions by Tamar Guimarães, Claudia Leisinger, Tony de Marco, Lara Viana and Tuca Vieira.

This catalogue surveys the work of object design creator Ineke Hans.

A multidisciplinary approach of ecosocial design.

Juillet features a small selection of Ronan Bouroullec's recent drawings.

This artist's book is based on an Adirondack furniture book donated to Philippe Weisbecker 20 years ago by a New York friend who worked in a hardware store.

In this publication, various authors reflect on the history of dematerialization and deskilling, the manifold meanings of materials in art and design, and the challenges for education when the innovative power of the artistic process is celebrated.

This collection of more than thirty texts, which were originally published between 1790 and the present day, explores man's rich relationship with material things. Devised largely in response to the gradual breakdown of the divide between art and design that began over a century ago, this book sheds light on the ways that the concept of the thing as idea has been considered over time.

Halfway between the catalogue and the artist's book, From Some Paintings gathers a selection of still life paintings made between 2000 and 2010. Translated into black and white images, these works represents small everyday objects, alternating full size reproductions and details.

This two-volume publication consists of an artist's book by Nathalie Du Pasquier with drawings, photographs, and reproductions of her paintings and a publication with photographic portraits of her works from the past decades by Delfino Sisto Legnani.

A collection of unpublished or rare texts by architect and theoretician Frederick Kiesler written between 1927 and 1957.

A history of critical design in four episodes: the Italian radical design of the late 1970s; the Dutch conceptual design of the 1990s; the English critical design of the 2000s, and the contemporary scene (with contributions by Bless, Didier Faustino, Alessandro Mendini, Gianni Pettena…).

ECAL – University of Art and Design Lausanne is recognized as a world reference in terms of graphic design. This success is largely based on a strategy of workshops that allow students to learn from the best Swiss and international designers on the school premises. This book retraces projects conducted in the Bachelor's Graphic Design and Master's programs between 2010 to 2015.

Manuel Raeder's 2016 Wall Calendar (with Armando Andrade Tudela, Mariana Castillo Deball, Heinz Peter Knes, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tris Vonna-Michell...).

The present portfolio is a sampler of some various structural beam combinations from 20th Century edifices. It can be viewed as a book, spread by spread, or pinned on the wall, according to taste, the way a kid might stack up building blocks.

Mario Bellini and his “Kar-a-sutra” space-mobile take a wild photographic ride in America during the seventies.

An unpublished manuscript, La Ferme radieuse et le centre coopératif (“The Radiant Farm and cooperative center”) describes the country planning project conceived by Le Corbusier and Norbert Bézard in the 1930's.

Collection Clémence and Didier Krzentowski (new, revised, and expanded edition in softcover.).

Twenty-five years of design.

A sprawling series of buildings designed by the artist in the northern Yucatán in Mexico: a pivotal work by Jorge Pardo, his most recent and expansive Gesamtkunstwerk to date.

A selection of Nathalie du Pasquier's oil paintings made between 2001 and 2012.

Bouroullecs' drawing practice.

Mick Rock, Etienne Russo, Syd Mead, Claude Parent, Mas Yendo, Ricardo Bofill, Ferran Adrià, Aitor Ortiz, Geert Goiris, Etienne-Louis Boullée, Carlo Scarpa...

New perspectives on design and its possible critical dimension.

A study of transdisciplinary studio models of artists (Olafur Eliasson and Jorge Pardo), product designers (Konstantin Grcic), and graphic designers (Åbäke).

Artist's book (a tribute to the beauty of the greenhouse).

A project that presents and discusses contemporary design practices that engage with political and societal issues.

A broad selection of Bastien Aubry and Dimitri Broquard's ceramic works.

Collection Clémence and Didier Krzentowski.

Art and design in the expanded field: artists, designers, and theorists discuss the consequences of design as a self-referential practice, and the aesthetics of life-world in the art context with a special focus on furniture.

Artists' book.

Artists' book.

The Earth, its surface, the transformation of matter, through time and cultures (with Pierre Gonnord, Šarūnas Bartas, Michael Nyman, Naoya Hatakeyama, Theo Angelopoulos, Eleni Karaindrou, Rick Owens, Mona Hatoum, Steve McCurry, Lawrence Durrell, Kenro Izu, Juliaan Lampens, Max Richter...)

A limited edition containing twelve selected Bless lookbook-magazines ('SUP MAGAZINE, Capricious Magazine, mono.kultur, Paris-La, Purple Magazine, Textfield, etc.) held together by a Bless n° 43 Handle.

This book brings together visual and written documentation of BLESS's last twelve collections (N° 30–N° 41), continually prompting and challenging the question of where a product begins and ends.