Design

Weaving fruitful links between the worlds of science and design, this catalog unveils the work of designers who have, in conceptual, technical or poetic ways, questioned the architecture of the Universe and the hidden laws of physics that govern it, bringing to the fore the fundamental questions that drive artists and scientists alike (with a contribution of cosmologist Thomas Hertog).

A design theorist (Alexandra Midal), a neuroscientist (Albert Moukheiber), two designers (Antoine Fœglé and Emma Pflieger) and two curators (Jolanthe Kugler and Scott Longfellow) take a look at the mechanisms behind the flat-Earth theory, and the ways in which "alternative" narratives are disseminated.

Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object (also available in English).

A design theorist (Alexandra Midal), a neuroscientist (Albert Moukheiber), two designers (Antoine Fœglé and Emma Pflieger) and two curators (Jolanthe Kugler and Scott Longfellow) take a look at the mechanisms behind the flat-Earth theory, and the ways in which "alternative" narratives are disseminated (also available in English).

Weaving fruitful links between the worlds of science and design, this catalog unveils the work of designers who have questioned the architecture of the Universe and the hidden laws of physics that govern it (also available in English).

New monograph.

The simultaneous emergence of the serial killer and the assembly line as expressions of the rationality of modern production methods.

The volume "Spaziale. Everyone belongs to everyone else" brings together the voices of all the protagonists involved in the Italian Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

The 12th issue of the biannual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design), with Atlas Studio, Eurostandard, Nathalie Herschdorfer, Elisa Medde, Jonathan Olivares, Samuel Spreyz, Manon Wertenbroek.

The collaborative project conceived in New York by the world's most celebrated French interior designer Jacques Grange and gallerist Kamel Mennour.

An exploration of emerging Italian design, revealing a great variety of approaches to the discipline.

An artist's guide to copyright, written for makers.

The central theme of the 55th issue of the design research journal are the objects created by and for the organization and mobilization of communities.

An overview of the Canadian designer's creative process.

The first collection of writings and speeches in French by Adriano Olivetti (1901-1960), an Italian entrepreneur and publisher who transformed his writing and calculating machine factory into a laboratory for experimenting with a new model of social, political, and cultural life: a model of "concrete utopia" based on the idea of community and centered on the individual, whose instruments of realization are architecture, urbanism, and design.

Ronan Bouroullec's daily drawings.

A photographic essay on the spiritual and architectural dimensions of the candle.

The reference book in French on the Global Tools design movement linked to the Italian radical architects of the 1970s.

Costumes, the second book of images produced from the plates in isdaT's old books collection, focuses on the representation of clothing and ornaments. With a 21st century perspective, the edition explores an exceptional public heritage.

Publication dedicated to Lebanese artist Nayla Romanos Iliya's "Small Characters" sculptures, inspired by and named after each of the 22 letters of the Phoenician Alphabet.

This book uses the production of some twenty international creators to discuss methods of transforming metal in contemporary design.

The BOM DIA weekly planner for 2023, offering a different font designed by Studio Manuel Raeder for each month.

Faced with the ecological peril, what can design and archarchitecture itecture do but encourage and accompany modes and ways of living that maintain a renewed relationship with nature? Based on realizations and projects, Matali Crasset and David Bihanic share the writing of this book, seeking together, between testimony and analysis, to characterize a design of matrices.

A series of drawings by the iconic Italian designer.

The widest and most complete overview of Cinzia Ruggeri's career to date.

The engaged spatial protocols of the collaborative studio for research and design Forty five degrees.

Acclaimed author Alice Rawsthorn has revised her bestselling field guide to design in the wake of the pandemic, technological change, and the escalating climate emergency.

The second issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to weaving.

This book is dedicated to the work of Destroyers/Builders (Linde Freya Tangelder), as part of a series of monographs on the thought and work of young contemporary designers.

This book is dedicated to the spectacular and baroque work of Kostas Lambridis, as part of a series of monographs on the thought and work of young contemporary designers.

A philosophical manifesto for a "minor thought of design", as a vector of intensification and problematization of our relationship to the world.

The 11th issue of the biannual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design), inaugurating its new formula, with NORM, Feng Li, Marco De Mutiis, Zachary Lieberman, Maïwenn, Lionel Baier, Abel Ferrara...

A reflection on asceticism in architecture.

A series of drawings made during a field visit by the filmmaker, writer and artist Ahmed Bouanani. Here ethnographer and illustrator, Bouanani analyzes the construction of Berber jewelry by sketching a taxonomy and a geography of formal symbolism of Berber groups in Morocco.

The new meaning of craft.

The connections between design, skateboarding and graffiti in the practice of the American industrial designer.

The manufacture of contemporary art objects.

The second issue of the annual review of the École des arts décoratifs de Paris, devoted to the question of the vulgar, explores through creations, portfolios, interviews, fictions and theoretical texts the polysemy of this word which embodies all the tensions of our time.

A large series of essays, written by people from around the world who have contributed to the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation's work, revealing how the non-profit organization has carried on the Albers' legacy over the years. The heart of the book, lavishly illustrated, is devoted to the Foundation's many donations to international museums, including rarely shown works of art.

A book to approach differently what is taught and learned in art and design college.

A hybrid monograph/artist book of Nathalie Du Pasquier's work.

Azimuts #54 reports on a selection of design research surveys that were carried out in Saint-Étienne between 2015 and 2022 by various researchers and collectives in collaboration with artists and academics in relation to this territory, their terrain.

The first retrospective on design in Lebanon, from the 1920s until today, includes works by over 50 designers, uncovering this major design scene in the Middle-East.

This picture book features decorative patterns with unusual shapes and colors, taken from the decorative arts collections of the Institut supérieur des arts et du design de Toulouse (isdaT).

A portrait of the Swiss architect-designer couple that reveals their intimate universe and their relationship to art.

Design creations made at the École nationale supérieure d'art et de design de Limoges, showing the area opened by ceramics to question the process of creation and the field of production of objects within an art and design school.

A singular history of cultural encounters between Italy and Denmark.

The restitution of a research and production program (Chair "Young Creation and the Sacred") conducted at the Ecole des Arts Déco by students, teachers and a number of invited artists and thinkers on the question of the sacred in contemporary creation.

Collective and individual artistic practices from a gender perspective.