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Martin Elsaesser – Bridging the Ages
€59.00*
For a long time, the large market hall Großmarkthalle (1928)
by Martin Elsaesser stood emblematically for the New
Frankfurt. Now, with a comprehensive and richly illustrated
monograph, the architecture historian and Elsaesser researcher
Jörg Schilling is presenting a differentiated view of
the exceptionally productive and versatile building artist
who was marginalised by the Nazi regimen.The Martin-Elsaesser foundation, founded in 2009 by Elsaesser’s
descendants after a settlement with the European
Central Bank and the city of Frankfurt, enabled the opulently
presented publication after extensive research.
New
Sustainable Architecture & Design 2025 / 2026
€59.00*
50 international projects present the most innovative and forward-
looking solutions, whose contribution to building culture
development is clearly evident. The focus is on all the relevant
themes of transformation development: use of resources, circular
processes, biodiversity etc. The editors take a comprehensive
look at current developments in the building sector and inspire
novelty. With InteriorPark., they have been driving sustainable
developments in the building sector forwards since 2010.
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German Football Museum – The Exhibitions 2015-2025
€39.00*
The German Football Museum in Dortmund offers a unique
exhibition experience of over 140 years of German football
history and a special brand of national memorial culture. With its
ultra-modern forms of presentation, it forms a new medium that
builds a bridge between people, football, society and contemporary
history.Manuel Neukirchner, born in 1967, has been heading up the
museum since 2015 as the Director and Chairman of the Board of
the DFB-Stiftung Deutsches Fußballmuseum Gmbh. The former
print and radio journalist studied general literary science, history
and German philology and is the author of numerous book
publications.
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Experience & Event Design 2025/2026
€69.00*
Especially at the current time, shared experiences are of immeasurable
value. They forge a sense of community, strengthen
trust and foster optimism. They open up opportunities for new
perspectives, moments of inspiration and a temporary escape
from everyday life. New technologies play a key role in this. With
aesthetic spatial experiences, events that bring people together
and immersive, interactive worlds, this edition addresses precisely
this: the essential value of live communication.Search inside (PDF)
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Neo-Narratives – Building Brands for the next Decades
€36.00*
In an era of over-communication, brands have to face radical
new realities and shape their identities in multipolar manors.
Spontaneously forming and iterative narrations can take on
this task. This is the idea behind neo-narratives. On a search for
virtuoso forms of articulation of brands, the basic idea of the narrative
is recast and a journey into new radical narrative structures
is undertaken in essayistic form.Wolf-Eike Galle is a creative and cultural scientist. As creative director
he accompanies international and national brands in their
transformation processes since 2006.
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FOCUS OPEN 2025
€49.00*
Future-orientated and exceptional design performances are
at the centre of the International Design Award Baden-Württemberg
FOCUS OPEN 2025, one of the most renowned German
design competitions with an international orientation. This yearbook
presents all the award-winning products. The winners
come from fields including capital goods, healthcare. bathroom,
kitchen, interiors, lifestyle, lighting, consumer electronics, leisure,
building technology, public design, mobility, service design,
immersive media, communication design and circular design.
New
jehs+laub – projects
€69.00*
The designer duo jehs+laub designs intercultural sofas, cosy
crustaceans or graphic conference chairs. Their method is to combine
a feel for nature with purposeful design and a decisive infusion
of nonchalance, thereby creating products that are essentially
timeless. Markus Jehs (*1965) and Jürgen Laub (*1964) got to know
each other while studying industrial design at Schwäbisch Gmünd
University. After completing their diploma, they opened their own
office in Stuttgart in 1994. They design for the who’s who of the
industry: Brunner, Cassina, Cor, Davis, Fritz Hansen, Herman Miller, Nemo,
Stelton, Thonet or Wilkhahn.Editor Ralph Jahns is curator for international
renowned brands.
New
Designing Design Education Vol. 2 – 30 Impulses
€59.00*
How can design studies be made more practical? How can e.g.
innovation, creativity, sustainability or resilience become an everyday
part of training events? In 2021, the iF Design Foundation
published its white book on the future of design education on
the basis of international research. The key conclusion was: design
studies must change radically in order to master the challenges
of the future. This was followed by a three-year cooperation with
Neue Sammlung Munich that provided concrete impulses.
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Yoyo – A Spin Through Creativity
€30.00*
At the heart of this book lies a unique tradition. A ritual that is more than a creative exercise; it is a transfer of momentum — that breaks paradigms, encourages risk-taking, and sparks transformation through play. A Yoyo is a simple object, yes, but one that invites bold questions, material experiments, and conceptual freedom.
What emerges is a collection of ideas reflecting the Studio's spirit: reinvention, poetic, precise, and curious. As Europe's most awarded independent design studio, PHOENIX has been a place where innovation meets intention.
The Studio opens a door through this book for the first time, capturing a piece of that journey and celebrating design as a way of thinking, feeling, and reimagining the world.“Design a Yoyo!” - a task that has been given to each
and every intern since 1987. Except, it usually does
not stop there: Sven Feustel, Principal Designer and
Head of the PHOENIX Academy has been intensively
involved for years with current trends and future
fields that are changing the world. Influences
that are also reflected in the choice of theme for
the Yoyo task: Some examples are Yoyos made of
recycled plastic, assembled in the lightest possible
construction, or made of pasta.
innovation - as a recurring confrontation with the
familiar, the unknown, the complex or the simple.Search inside (PDF)
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Pushing Boundaries – Pioneers of Advanced Technologies
€29.00*
The international competition for additive manufacturing and
advanced technologies, the “3D Pioneers Challenge”, offers visionaries
a platform with a global network. Industry leaders and
experts shed light on the multi-layered fields of innovation from
their own perspectives. The initiators of the platform, Simone
and Christoph Völcker, thus provide an outlook and impulses for
future-makers in architecture and design, research and development,
as well as politics and industry – in the spirit of “pushing
boundaries”.
Media Architecture Compendium Vol. 2 – Concepts, Methods, Practice
€49.00*
Media architecture has evolved from illuminating iconic
building façades at night to characterising all life in cities. This compendium
draws on academic research and global studies to present an evolutionary
account of concepts that have defined the field and inspired practice,
alongside methods for bringing media architecture thinking into projects.
Thirty media architecture installations that were
nominated for the Media Architecture Awards in 2018 and 2020 illustrate the
breadth and trends in the field, including a shift towards more-than-human
futures. Through its three parts, capturing concepts, methods and practice, the
compendium offers an accessible guide to media architecture for designers,
architects, artists, scholars, educators and learners.Search inside on ISSUU.com
Provisorium / Stopgap
€28.00*
European Architectural Photography Prize 2023Architekturbild, the European Architectural Photography
Prize, has been awarded on a two-yearly basis since 1995.
Numerous synonyms are offered for the term "stopgap", such
as replacement, emergency solution, transitional or interim
solution. We all know such expedients from the private environment
as well as from public life. The 28 awarded series
of EAP 2023 show stopgaps that make us smile tolerantly or
thoughtful, they discover imaginative solutions, but they can
also point out to shortcomings.Search inside on ISSUU.com
Loewe. 100 Jahre Designgeschichte – 100 Years Design History
€32.00*
In the iF ranking, Loewe is among the top 10 German companies awarded
for exceptional design performances. This is a good reason to take a
close look at the design history of the company on the occasion of its
100-year anniversary. The design historian Kilian Steiner distinguishes
three historical phases: The first phase (1923 to 1945) marks the
build-up and destruction of the Loewe brand. In the second phase (1945
to 1985), the focus was on the rebuilding of Loewe and overcoming
numerous changes. The third period from 1985 onwards saw the rise of
Loewe to an internationally renowned design brand. For the first time,
the creative minds in product and communication design who contributed
to
the development of the brand are named and previously unknown details
of the Loewe corporate history are revealed.From
its foundation in 1923 to the invention of the electronic television in 1931, Loewe has evolved into a globally operating
design brand. A unique combination of German engineering, excellence,
exclusive design and sustainability have shaped the brand culture.Search inside on ISSUU.com
Design Education in Germany 2023 – Contribution to public value
€24.00*
Today, it seems more urgent than ever to focus more attention in design on the common good. This is because we are faced with the consequences of a design methodology that is geared towards the good of individuals wherever we look.
The concept of public value seesm ideal as a way of focusing design edu-cation more strongly on the common good: »Public value is what the public values.« It provides an alternative to one-sided orientations such as the shareholder value paradigm. The iF Design Foundation 2022 has carried out the present study in order to determine the public value of design study programs at German universities. This study provides a basis for encouraging and realizing a form of design education in Germany geared towards the common good.
This publication also contains a list of all design courses of study at German universities.The iF Design Foundation is an educational foundation based in Hanover, Germany. It is committed to the common good and focuses on academic research and education in the context of design.Search inside on Issuu.com
Brand Experience & Trade Fair Design Annual 2022/23
€88.00*
It is definite: The trade fair is not dead, the trade fair is changing! And, going forward, this will not be the last time it has to adjust with agility to new circumstances. Designers will need to analyze the qualities of space again more closely – be it the physical space or the digital space: Space should be staged and designed so as to support communication, facilitate encounter and experience, create an immersive effect and, of course, provide content which adds value. But this also means that communication strategies need to be fixed beforehand, particularly if the focus is on positions and visions rather than products as in the past. It will be about connecting people with brands on many different levels in order to shape the future together. The standard reference work in the trade fair design world.Search inside in ISSUU.com
Bundle Event Design Yearbook 2018–2021
€45.00*
Now also available as a bundle: Event Design Yearbooks 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21. Three standard works of the event scene. A piece of contemporary history, as this bundle also documents the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic and shows how creatively the industry responded to the new situation.
Bundle Trade Fair Design Annual 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20
€55.00*
Now also available as a bundle: Trade fair design yearbooks 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21. Three standard works of the trade fair scene. A piece of contemporary history, as this bundle also documents the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic and shows how creatively the industry responded to the new situation.
Retail Design International Vol. 8 − Components, Spaces, Buildings
€69.00*
Through the connectivity of different cultures, technologies and living environments, the retail sector is increasingly varied and experimental. At the same time, the uncertainties of the last two years have shown that free international trade between nations and continents is a fragile asset. Retail chains have been severed and the availability of energy and raw materials is limited. Creative stopgaps, as well as analogue and digital elements that appeal to all our senses, give new impulses for urban retailing. On the way to a retail metaverse,
high-tech
meets high-touch
.Dr. Jons Messedat is an architect and industrial designer. After work with Sir Norman Foster in London and in Berlin, he completed his doctorate at the Bauhaus University Weimar on the subject of Corporate Architecture. He teaches the Construction and Space module at HAWK Hildesheim and is a jury member in architecture and design competitions.Search inside on ISSUU.com
FOCUS OPEN 2022
€49.00*
Pioneering and outstanding design achievements are at the
heart of FOCUS OPEN 2022, one of the most renowned German
design competitions with an international orientation. For many
years, it has been an exclusive platform for companies and
professional designers from around the world – from industrial
heavyweights to small enterprises. This yearbook presents all the award-winning products of 2022.
High-quality images and detailed product descriptions are
supplemented by the lively commentary of the jurors. The prize
winners come from fi elds such as investment goods, healthcare,
bathrooms, kitchens, interiors, lifestyle, lighting, consumer electronics,
leisure, building technology, public design, mobility,
service design and materials + surfaces.Search inside on ISSUU.com
FOCUS OPEN 2023
€49.00*
Pioneering and outstanding design achievements are at the
heart of FOCUS OPEN 2023, one of the most renowned German
design competitions with an international orientation. For many
years, it has been an exclusive platform for companies and
professional designers from around the world – from industrial
heavyweights to small enterprises. This yearbook presents all the award-winning products of 2023.
High-quality images and detailed product descriptions are
supplemented by the lively commentary of the jurors. The prize
winners come from fi elds such as investment goods, healthcare,
bathrooms, kitchens, interiors, lifestyle, lighting, consumer electronics,
leisure, building technology, public design, mobility,
service design and materials + surfaces.Search inside on ISSUU.com
Event Design Yearbook 2022 / 2023
€69.00*
After over two years of
COVID-19, there is now a bright light at the end of the tunnel: most events can
take place again. New formats and digital approaches have become established
and professionalised and the industry has gathered a wealth of valuable
experience.
But despite the waning
pandemic and the tangible delight about every event, the restart is not proving
easy due to a lack of personnel and war along with many still unanswered
questions surrounding digital and hybrid experiences.
Previous developments
and many of the 45 projects in this edition show new approaches, but in some
respects still no overall ideal answers. And that is quite alright – because we
are in the middle of a learning process!Katharina Stein is a specialist journalist and a connoisseur of the event design scene. In 2009 she founded eveosblog together with Henning Stein, one of the best-known and most widely read event blogs in Germany.Search inside on ISSUU.com
Design Engineering – sustainable and holistic
€44.00*
The book describes the potential of both design objects and concepts, as well as design as a process, with a specially strong focus on the process of design engineering in the past, present and future. The book makes a stance by referring to historic and current design parameters in industry in relation to certain training methods. It compares these within Europe, explicitly the approach taken by Germany, Great Britain and Scandinavia – and highlights best-practice examples. The range of design disciplines, especially an in-depth look at classic product and textile design, leads to new “blueprint” possibilities and interactive design methods. As industrial designer and master tailor, Marina-Elena Wachs has been a professor for design theory at Hochschule Niederrhein since 2010 and graduated 2007 from Braunschweig University of Art with work on the topic “Material mind – new materials in design, art and architecture”. Since 2008 she has been cooperating with European universities.Search inside on ISSUU.com
Retail Design International Vol. 7 − Components, Spaces, Buildings
€69.00*
What’s next? The question of whether future retail design will be analogue, digital or hybrid has long since been answered. Especially the mature inner cities are facing enormous innovation pressure. Smart alliances are being formed and daring retail concepts are being tried out that add value in the urban space. The new yearbook shows solutions that accompany us worldwide into the "new normal".Dr. Jons Messedat studied architecture and industrial design in Aachen, Stuttgart and London. He has been teaching the building and space module at the HAWK in Hildesheim with a focus on corporate interior. In 2018, he was appointed onto the jury of the state prize for architecture by the chamber of architects for the federal state of Lower Saxony.Search inside on ISSUU.com
Trade Fair Design Annual 2021/22 Special Edition
€19.90*
“We need new concepts for trade fairs as places of chance encounters. This might also be showrooms and brand worlds in places where people and ideas converge. What we need are open forums for critical and competent dialogue.” You will find lots of demands like this one expressed by Ranger Design in this special edition: The industry has given us an outlook of the near future and shows what they have achieved in the last few months, where they had to find alternatives, what new concepts evolved and how the trade fair format has changed in recent months (centuries).Sabine Marinescu and Janina Poesch are both architects, journalists and founders of PLOT – the network in the field of spatial staging. Since 2008 they have been publishing their own print and online magazines and reference books about scenography.The standard reference work in the trade fair design world.Search inside on ISSUU.com
Münchner Volkstheater – Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei
€39.00*
How do you actually build a popular theatre? It should be as simple as necessary to prevent any threshold fears among the public, and as chic as possible because at the theatre the spotlight is cast not only on the stage. This is the answer given by the architecture firm Lederer, Ragnarsdóttir, Oei (Stuttgart) and the construction firm Resch (Bad Saulgau). Their Münchner Volkstheater presents itself as a powerfully poetic brick building, which gives the quarter an important cultural impulse in a dialogue with the old buildings of the former Munich stockyard.LRO Lederer, Ragnarsdóttir, Oei Architekten was founded in 1979 and currently has around 50 employees. Jürgen Tietz is a freelance architecture critic and publicist.Search inside on ISSUU.com
Gerd A. Müller – Der unbekannte Designer. The Designer who got forgotten
€34.00*
The LAMY 2000 fountain pen and the KM 3 food processor are well known even beyond design circles. Nevertheless, their designer, Gerd A. Müller, has faded into obscurity. His designs can be considered pioneering for the development of a new, pared-back design language among well-known companies. Together with Dieter Rams, he was one of the first form designers at Braun. Now, for the very first time, the highly diverse body of work created by this industrial, graphic, ecological and exhibition designer from Frankfurt has been compiled in a publication. Here, the focus is firmly on Gerd A. Müller’s product designs, which have helped shape German industrial design to this day.Lucia Hornfischer is working as an industrial designer. She studied design at the Offenbach University of Arts and Design and at Tongji University in Shanghai and worked at the Dieter Rams Archiv at the Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt/Main.Search inside on ISSUU.com
Event Design Yearbook 2021 / 2022
€15.90*
Special EditionFor over a year, the coronavirus has been holding us in its grip. Live events and brand experiences are either not possible at all or only with significant restrictions. The consequences and problems for the industry are enormous. But alongside this, it enabled us to learn a lot, surprise us and fascinate us with new ideas. Digital and hybrid experiences have developed dynamically, initiating new and creative approaches that are to perfected over the forthcoming years.An exceptional year that is summarised with a Special Edition. This edition builds bridges between events before and since the coronavirus, between analogue, hybrid and digital events.Katharina Stein is a specialist journalist and a connoisseur of the event design scene. In 2009 she founded eveosblog together with Henning Stein, one of the best-known and most widely read event blogs in Germany.
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Licht Kunst Licht 5
€88.00*
Lighting Design for ArchitectureLicht Kunst Licht is an international lighting design office with locations in Bonn, Berlin, Barcelona and Bangalore. More than 30 employees work on a diverse portfolio of projects, including mixed-use, office buildings, museums, governmental buildings, traffic and transportation projects, retail and hospitality projects as well as exterior and landscape masterplans. With over 800 completed projects, many of which have been honoured with the most prestigious awards and appreciations, Licht Kunst Licht is one of the world's most successful specialists in lighting design.The publication is a display of their expertise through a select compilation of projects such as the Oscar Niemeyer Sphere in Leipzig, the National Museum of Qatar, or the Baden-Württemberg State Parliament in Stuttgart.
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The Urban in the Periphery
€28.00*
European Architectural Photography Prize 2021architekturbild, the European Architectural Photography Prize, has been awarded on a two-yearly basis since 1995. The theme for 2021 is "The Urban in the Periphery".Migration between conurbations and rural areas, their respective attractiveness and independence, but also dependence and interdependence with one another: What would be more predestined to trace the subtle or even obvious effects of the urban-rural movement than architectural photography?Search inside on ISSUU.com
FOCUS OPEN 2021
€49.00*
Pioneering and outstanding design achievements are at the heart of FOCUS OPEN 2021, one of the most renowned German design competitions with an international orientation. For many years, it has been an exclusive platform for companies and professional designers from around the world – from industrial heavyweights to small enterprises.
This yearbook presents all the award-winning products of 2021. High-quality images and detailed product descriptions are supplemented by the lively commentary of the jurors. The prize winners come from fields such as investment goods, healthcare, kitchens, interiors, lifestyle, lighting, leisure, public design, mobility, service design and materials & surfaces.Search inside on ISSUU.com
Plants at Work – An inspirational guide to greenterior design
€39.00*
Plants change working environments, adding a touch of nature and style and improving the indoor climate. Through their form, colour and type of growth, they represent a living design material. Whether it is in an open-plan office, co-working space or employee lounge, their positive effect on people is visible and tangible.This book is targeted towards all those who want to integrate plants into their spatial concepts. With current examples of biophilic design, artistic plant constellations and insights into the design of plant pots, along with background knowledge from exemplary projects and interior architecture with botany.The qualified carpenter and certified product designer Miriam Köpf is specialised in spatial installations. She has worked at various design agencies in Stuttgart and in 2015 founded the botanical design studio Phyllis. Her focus is on the integration of indoor plant installations, especially in working environments. She has coined the term greenterior design and conveys her approach through conceptual plant pop-up shops, constructive cooperations with architects and inspiring workshops for students.#designbooks: Miriam Köpf about her book on YouTube (German only)Search inside on ISSUU.com
Mayhaus – The Model House of the Neues Frankfurt
€24.00*
The mayhaus in Frankfurt's Römerstadt is the only residential building in the style of the Neues Frankfurt of the 1920s that has been completely restored. The book explains the functions of the model house using current photographs and historical plans. Via the text level, which zooms from the city via the housing estate and then the street into the building, the mayhaus, including the famous Frankfurt kitchen, is classified in terms of architectural history and socio-cultural aspects. Philipp Sturm and Christina Treutlein are the managing
directors of ernst-may-gesellschaft e.V. Sturm is a political scientist and since 2008 a freelance curator and author at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt/Main. Treutlein is an art historian and is currently working on her dissertation on Carl-Hermann Rudloff, an architect of the Neues Frankfurt, who was responsible for the Römerstadt and especially for the mayhaus.Search inside on ISSUU.com
experimenta – A science center in a new dimension
€39.00*
The book explains the development history of experimenta in the context of the educational institutions Science Center, Planetarium and Schülerlabore (Educational Laboratories). In addition, the contentual and methodological-didactic concept is conveyed clearly. The volume is rounded off with further information about the architectural design concepts of the two experimenta buildings: the repurposed historical Hagenbucher warehouse and the spectacular glass and steel new building by Sauerbruch Hutton.Wolfgang Hansch, Dr. rer. nat. habil., studied geology, was responsible from 2005 for the concept and structure of experimenta that opened in 2009 in Heilbronn, and has been its Managing Director since 2007. He is the author and editor of numerous publications about earth history and cultural history topics. He has a seat on various educational committees and chairmanship of the Regional Association for Natural Science-Technical Youth Education in Baden-Württemberg.Search inside on ISSUU.com
Retail Design International Vol. 6 − Components, Spaces, Buildings
€69.00*
The processes of change throughout the retail sector have rapidly gained dynamism through the COVID-19 pandemic. In an unprecedented situation, social distancing has fuelled the integration of digital shopping functions and at the same time the yearning for real places of encounter. "Retail Design International" addresses these shifts and presents over 40 brave concepts that drive the retail shift forwards.The editor Dr. Jons Messedat is an architect, designer and author. His expertise in the building of corporate identity is in demand among global companies, as a jury member in architecture and design competitions, as well as at universities in Germany, Switzerland and the USA.Search inside on ISSUU.com
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