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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.
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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.
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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, Fritz Hansen, Herman Miller, Nemo,
Stelton, Thonet or Wilkhahn.Editor Ralph Jahns is curator for international
renowned brands.
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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.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”.
FOCUS OPEN 2018
€49.00*
Product innovations and design trendsPioneering and exceptional design trends are at the heart of FOCUS OPEN 2018. Companies and professional designers from around the world were invited to participate. The publication presents all the award-winning products that persuaded the jury with their exceptional design quality. Award-winners from the fields of e.g. production, medicine, bathrooms, kitchens, interiors, ambience, lifestyle, lighting, media, sport, outdoor, public design, architecture, transport and sustainability are presented and described.It also publishes the results of the "Mia Seeger Award": the prize is awarded to up-and-coming designers who have developed products that "serve more than one purpose".Search inside on ISSUU.comThis book is no longer available.
Trade Fair Design Annual 2018/19
€19.90*
The standard reference work in the trade fair design world Change and transformation are currently characteristic not only of our society and our socio-cultural structures, but also of our economic structures and therefore the exhibition industry: traditional approaches to brand communication no longer appear to take full effect, although the core of the longstanding trade fair business perhaps holds the key to the future of the traditional platform: in real encounters and individual exchanges.In accordance with this, over the forthcoming years it will increasingly be about shaping this discussion, creating spaces for it, enabling especially personal contacts amidst a communication guided by bots, thereby shaping change. Of course, this edition of the Trade Fair Design Yearbook is not oblivious to this either: since October 2018, the publication has been issued in a new, even higher quality design, extending increasingly into digital as well as real space.Search inside on ISSUU.com
Event Design Yearbook 2018 / 2019
€15.90*
The best events, the latest trendsThe current edition of the Event Design Yearbook presents the best and most interesting events of the last year informatively, with a wealth of pictures.What is new, however, is the author: with the Yearbook 2018 / 2019, Katharina Stein – specialist journalist, scene insider and founder of eveosblog for event marketing – is looking for small and large, private and public, cultural and corporate, exceptional and fascinating events, which all distinguish themselves through the idea behind it and its realisation.Search inside on ISSUU.com
Designkritik
€24.00*
Theorie, Geschichte, Lehre
Wie kaum eine andere kreative Praxis ist Design mit Alltag, Politik und Wirtschaft einer Gesellschaft verbunden. Technologischer Wandel, soziale Umwälzungen und globale Krisen fordern die gestalterische Profession zu Neubestimmungen heraus.
„Designkritik“ reflektiert das Spannungsfeld einer erweiterten Designpraxis innerhalb einer komplexen Medienlandschaft. Vor dem Hintergrund ökonomischer und politischer Umbrüche werden neue Ansätze zur Designkritik diskutiert, andererseits historische Bezüge im Kontext von Design, Medien und Gesellschaft untersucht. Es stellt sich die Frage, in welchem Maße Designjournalismus und Designkritik diesen veränderten, erweiterten, manchmal auch widersprüchlichen Designbegriff reflektieren und vermitteln können. Die Beiträge des Bandes beleuchten das unübersichtliche Terrain aus verschiedenen Perspektiven.
Zu den Herausgebern: Prof. Dr. Siegfried Gronert ist Vorsitzender der Gesellschaft für Designgeschichte (GfDg) und Honorarprofessor an Universitäten in China. Von 1993 bis 2011 lehrte er Geschichte und Theorie des Design an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Dr. Thilo Schwer ist Produktgestalter und Designwissenschaftler. Seit 2011 lehrt er Designtheorie, Designmethodologie und Theorien der Produktsprache.
Storytelling für Designer
€18.00*
Im Zeitalter von Medienkonvergenz, interaktiver Kulturtechnik und digitalem Entwerfen ist die Gestaltung von Produkten, Formen und Funktionen nicht mehr ohne erzählerische Impulse, Konzepte und Strukturen denkbar. Dieser Band gibt eine überblicksartige Einführung in sowohl erzähltheoretische wie erzählpraktische Grundlagen. Er skizziert unterschiedliche Felder von Design und Gestaltung im Hinblick auf das damit zu realisierende Storytelling. Im Ergebnis sollen Designer nicht allein als Gestalter, sondern vor allem auch als Erzähler dargestellt und ausgebildet werden.
Prof. Dr. Oliver Ruf ist Professor für Medien- und Gestaltungswissenschaft an der Fakultät Digitale Medien der Hochschule Furtwangen. Seine Lehr- und Forschungsgebiete umfassen Ästhetik, Anwendung und gestalterische Praxis erzählerischer Erscheinungen, insbesondere in (neuen) medialen Umgebungen.
The Happy Collector – A Card Game for Design Lovers
€19.00*
How many cubic metres does the little Michelin man actually take up? What insurance value does the potato peeler Rex have and how fragile is Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s Dr. Komplex? The designer pack of cards "The Happy Collector" shows 52 objects from the design and decorative arts collection at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, selected by the curators Renate Menzi and Sabine Flaschberger.
Playfully – as a classical card game or top trumps – it presents not only the favorite objects and collection highlights of the museum, but also conveys important aspects of the collection procedure: from purchase, storage and handling to insurance and documentation.
The Museum für Gestaltung Zürich is the leading museum for design and visual communication in Switzerland. The collection of international importance comprises around 500,000 objects from the areas of decorative arts, textiles, graphics, typography, as well as poster, furniture and product design.Search inside on ISSUU.com
Boutique Homes – Handpicked Vacation Rentals
€49.00*
The interactive book presents a curated collection of more than 60 uniquely designed boutique homes, brought by the founders and authors of the eponymous brand.
The composition of excellent architecture and design staged with stunning photography showcases an international "best of the best" selection, divided into the chapters: beach and cliff houses; architectural gems; chic and cheap; updated history; urban retreat; country living; emotional luxury; unplugged; cabins; and spaces for family and friends.
The book and complementary app is not only an exciting and glamorous source of inspiration. Each of the shown houses and apartments is also available for rent and can be experienced in all its glory.Search inside on ISSUU.com
Grenzen | Borders
€24.80*
European Architectural Photography Prize 2017 architekturbild, the European Architectural Photography Prize, has been awarded on a two-yearly basis since 1995. This time the subject is "Borders".Whether in the sense of opening or closing, of including or excluding or as definitions of geographical or (urban) spatial areas, borders are physically present and clearly recognizable or subtly noticeable, but always perceived as either protecting or deterring. In the context of the European Architectural Potography Prize 2017 we by no means focus on the negative interpretations of this term but rather on the photographic-aristic involvment with our built environment.
FOCUS OPEN 2017
€49.00*
Pioneering and exceptional design trends are at the heart of
FOCUS OPEN
2017. Companies and professional designers from around the world were invited to participate. The publication presents all the award-winning products that persuaded the jury with their exceptional design quality. Award-winners from the fields of e.g. production, medicine, bathrooms, kitchens, interiors, lifestyle, lighting, media, optics, sport, outdoor, public design, architecture and transport are presented and described.
It also publishes the results of the “Mia Seeger Award”: the prize is awarded to up-and-coming designers who have developed products that “serve more than one purpose”.
Trade Fair Design Annual 2017/18
€19.90*
20 years' Trade Fair Design Annual! This anniversary edition breaks all the records: more trade fair stands, more pages, more trends. Including an interview on the future of the trade fair.
Current brand communication is increasingly moving towards real-digital narratives. The storytelling trend plays a major role in this, as well as the type of communication, in times of complete digitisation. Particularly at trade fairs, personal discussion is still the key aspect of every presentation.
With this edition of the Trade Fair Design Annual, the authors present a series of successful examples of transmedia storytelling, attaching particular importance to the accomplished use of means of communication. What is decisive, however, is the exceptional design of the overall presentation, which can add communicative and therefore informative value for the exhibitor, as well as provide an emotional experience for the visitors.
Event Design Yearbook 2017 / 2018
€15.90*
We are living in a networked age and can no longer deny digitisation. Although the events sector is currently characterised primarily by live experiences, events are becoming increasingly hybrid: new forms of spatial communication are emerging, which blur the boundaries between real and virtual experience.
With this yearbook, the authors present, informatively and with a wealth of images, more than 50 successful examples where both digital innovation and personal encounters are the focus of the concept. Through numerous interviews with specialists in the sector, they venture a look into the future, in order to ask quite exclusively: "What is actually 'the next big thing'?"
Existenzgründung für Designer
€18.00*
Dieser Band ist eine praktische Hilfe bei vielen typischen Problemstellungen, die während des Übergangs in die Arbeitswelt entstehen. Schon vor dem Ende der Studienzeit müssen sich die meisten Gestalter mit Fragen zum Minijob oder ihrer Beschäftigung als Werkstudent auseinandersetzen. Sozialversicherungsrecht, Arbeitsrecht und Einkommensteuer spielen dabei eine wichtige Rolle. Wer dann als Freelancer arbeitet, muss beurteilen können, ob er wirklich unternehmerisches Risiko trägt oder doch scheinselbstständig ist. Und wofür taugt eigentlich ein Businessplan?
Mit vielen Beispielen, Mustertexten und Checklisten schafft die „Existenzgründung“ auch zu komplexen Themen einen verständlichen Zugang: verschiedene Rechtsformen für das kleine Startup oder die erste Beteiligung; rechtliche Fragen zur Finanzierung, zur Unternehmensbesteuerung, zur Gewinn- und Verlustrechnung und zu Bilanzierung.
David Herzog ist Fachanwalt für Steuerrecht sowie Handels- und Gesellschaftsrecht und seit 2013 Lehrbeauftragter für Recht an der Hochschule Mannheim, Fakultät Gestaltung.Leseprobe auf ISSUU.com
Retail Design International Vol. 3 – Components, Spaces, Buildings
€69.00*
The increasing trend towards digitisation seems to be spurring on bricks-and-mortar retailers. Hybrid spaces communicate with the customers as a matter of course on all levels: online, offline and on-site. Beyond conventional retail formats, this has spawned surprising concepts which combine aspects from different areas of life with each other. Clever hospitality offerings, curated showrooms as well as flexible co-working and event spaces complement established retail locations. At the same time, many malls and shopping centres have seen better days and have been completely refurbished.The new standard work about the sector presents the most recent developments in worldwide retail design with articles from experts working in interdisciplinary teams and innovative reference projects.Editor Dr. Jons Messedat is architect, designer and author. His expertise in the field of built Corporate Identity is in demand from global operations, as panel member in architecture and design competitions as well as at universities in Germany, Switzerland and the USA.Search inside on ISSUU.com
Retail Design International Vol. 2 – Components, Spaces, Buildings
€69.00*
Present-day retail worlds must keep up with digitisation through
online retailing, augmented or virtual reality. However, human components and analog-real spaces have never quite lost their appeal. This new standard work about the retail sector shows what new retail formats and new forms of spatial expression can be created to appeal to all the senses.
It provides a current overview of innovations in multi-channel and omni-channel commerce, from pioneering in-store technology to new products. Around 50 current best-practice examples, from temporary pop-up stores to avant-garde brand worlds and hybrid retail centers offer an inspiring cross section from around the world.
Dr. Jons Messedat is an architect, designer and author. His expertise
regarding architectural corporate identity is in demand at companies, conferences and universities in Germany. Switzerland and the USA.
Seoul Living Lab
€34.00*
A change of paradigm is taking place in Korea. The previous system of area rehabilitation, which involved the demolition of entire urban districts, is no longer considered appropriate. New concepts for careful urban regeneration are being developed.The book documents the results of Seoul Living Lab, which was held in the Sangdo-Sa-Dong district in Seoul. It was set up as a cooperation between KIT (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie), Seoul
National University (SNU), bw-i Baden-Württemberg International and ISA Internationales Stadtbauatelier, as part of the research project URBAN VOIDS.The editors directed the project: Philipp Dechow (partner in the office ISA), Kerstin Gothe (Professor at KIT), Seogjeong Lee (Professor at SNU).Search inside on ISSUU.com
Stuttgart Architecture Guide
€22.00*
Around 100 buildings are presented that were erected between 1917 and 2017 and are already considered as part of architectural history. With informative texts, many photos, plans, archive material and the
most important facts (planners, construction period, addresses, access).
With buildings by: Theodor Fischer, Martin Elsaesser, Paul Bonatz,
Paul Schmitthenner, Rolf Gutbrod, Paul Stohrer, Günther Behnisch,
Hans Kammerer, Fritz Leonhardt, Frei Otto, Hans Scharoun, James
Stirling, Schlaich und Partner, LRO, UN Studio, Auer und Weber,
Atelier 5, Hascher Jehle, Wulf und Partner etc.
Prof. Dr. Klaus Jan Philipp directs the Institute for Architectural History
at Stuttgart University, where Christiane Fülscher works as an academic associate. They both teach, research and publish on the subject of architecture and urban planning.Search inside on ISSUU.com
Trade Fair Design Annual 2016/17
€19.90*
The reference work in the trade fair design world The fully connected "Industry 4.0" has also found its way into the corporate presentations at trade fairs: real worlds are digitally extended by augmented reality or merged with virtual spaces to create new, all-engulfing brand experiences. And yet trade fairs remain places where personal contacts are made, networks enlarged and innovations brought to market – in some cases without any digital add-ons ...This standard work once again documuents the best trade fair stands of recent years and uses powerful visuals and informative texts to identify future trends.
Thinking Tools.
€24.00*
Design as Process – On the Creation of Writing UtensilsHow are products and everyday items created which their owners like to use, value greatly and identify with? Things with a high practical value and that are functional, durable and beautiful?Based on the writing utensils by Lamy, the catalogue shows an example of the complex design process behind creating a product, including models and sketches by Phoenix Design, Wolfgang Fabian, Sieger Design, Naoto Fukasawa, Richard Sapper or Franco Clivio.Search inside on ISSUU.com
Licht Kunst Licht 4
€78.00*
Lighting Design for ArchitectureThe office Licht Kunst Licht was founded in 1991 by Andreas Schulz at two locations simultaneously, Bonn and Berlin. Today 26 employees work in the fields of office and administrative buildings, museums and cultural buildings, representative buildings, government projects, transport infrastructure, shopping centres, hotels and gastronomy, outdoor projects and private construction projects.17 selected projects show the scope of this office presented with more than 60 international awards. They include the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main, the ThyssenKrupp Quarter in Essen and the New Gallery in Kassel.Search inside on ISSUU.com
HVB-Tower
€34.00*
Revitalisation of a landmarkFor three years, the architecture photographer HG Esch with impressive images documented the energetic renovation of the HVB-Tower in Munich, which has been the head office of the HypoVereinsbank since 2016. The characteristic exterior of the building, mirroring the sky in accordance with the design idea of the original architects Walther and Bea Betz and whose color is constantly changing with the intensity and incidence of sunlight, was replaced by a technologically pioneering façade construction. It contributes significantly to the new sustainability concept for one of Munich’s landmarks, achieving a significant reduction in energy consumption.A particular challenge for Henn Architekten, HVB Immobilien AG and all others involved in the construction was the visual reconstruction of the distinctive outer appearance of the heritage-protected HVBTower's façade, alongside all the technical innovation.
Media Architecture Compendium – Digital Placemaking
€49.00*
New frontiers for media architecture: This compendium explores how digital media is shaping cities today and in the years to come. It illustrates groundbreaking use of light and media in urban environments through 36 winning or shortlisted entries from the Media architecture Biennale awards in 2014 and 2016 in five categories: animated architecture, Money architecture, Participatory architecture & Urban Interaction, Spatial Media art, Future Trends & Prototypes.All four authors are board members of the Media architecture Institute, a non-profit organisation with offices in Vienna, Sydney, Beijing and Toronto.Search inside on ISSUU.com
Philosophie für Designer
€18.00*
In zehn übersichtlichen Kapiteln bietet der Band eine Einführung in und einen Überblick über Philosophie und ihre Geschichte. Ausgehend von den wichtigsten Meisterdenkern der Philosophietradition werden die konkurrierenden Stile, Schulen oder Programme verschiedenster Epochen gezeigt und in Bezug zu Gestaltung gesetzt:Kynismus (DIY-Design), Hedonismus (Luxus-Design), Skeptizismus (Anti-Design), Transzendentalphilosophie (Übergang von Handwerk zu Industrie), logischer Positivismus vs. Fundamentalontologie (Bauhaus), existenzieller Rationalismus vs. kritische Theorie (HfG Ulm), Poststrukturalismus (postmodernes Design) u.v.mFlorian Arnold studierte Philosophie und Germanistik in Heidelberg und Paris. Nach einer philosophischen Promotion an der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg absolviert er derzeit eine zweite Promotion im Fachbereich Design der Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach. Er leitet die Redaktion der Philosophischen Rundschau.
Medien: Theorie und Geschichte für Designer
€18.00*
Der erste Teil des Bandes stellt die Historie einzelner Medien wie Schrift, Buch, Fotografie, Film, Fernsehen oder Internet vor und fragt, was sie leisten. Der zweite Teil erläutert die wichtigsten Definitionen, Ansätze und Bausteine der Medientheorie und vermittelt verständlich, welche relevanten Bestimmungen des Begriffs »Medium« Gestalterinnen und Gestalter kennen sollten. Abgerundet wird der Band durch eine »kleine Typologie der Medientheorie«.Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schweppenhäuser ist Professor für Design-, Kommunikations- und Medientheorie an der Fakultät Gestaltung der Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften in Würzburg. Er lehrte Ästhetik und Philosophie an zahlreichen Hochschulen im In- und Ausland.
Residentials by Werner Sobek
€28.00*
Single-family houses that set benchmarksWerner Sobek is a researcher, designer and the founder of an internationally active group of planning offices. As an architect and consulting engineer, he has spent many years creating prize-winning experimental buildings to examine how new materials, structures and technologies can radically change our built environment. The single-family houses he has designed (such as R128, H16, Y1 and B10) have set new benchmarks with regard to both technology and aesthetics. This book presents the most important examples of his work from the last two decades.
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