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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”.
Werner Sobek: Light Works
€38.00*
German - Russian Edition
Werner Sobek is one of the leading engineers and structural designers of our time. His works have been awarded numerous distinctions and enjoy worldwide the highest reputation. They all excel through their high level of sophistication and innovation, both with regard to materials and structural systems, thus demonstrating impressively Werner Sobek's biggest asset: the capacity to design filigree, nearly dematerialised structures with perfect details, structures that are in true harmony with their form and function. This book presents a sample of the most important projects in the fields of design, materials, skins and structures.
Werner Sobek: Light Works
€38.00*
Updated EditionWerner Sobek is one of the leading engineers and structural designers of our time. His works have been awarded numerous times and are of exquisite reputation worldwide. They all excel through their high level of sophistication and innovation, both with regard to materials and structural systems. They thus impressively demonstrate Werner Sobek's biggest asset: the capacity to design filigree, almost dematerialised structures of perfect detail, structures that are in true harmony with their form and function. This book presents a sample of his most important projects in the fields of design, materials, skins and structures.Search inside on ISSUU.com
Retail Design International Vol. 1 – Components, Spaces, Buildings
€69.00*
Current challenges in retail design, such as the increasing digitisation and the merging of online and offline platforms, have led to altogether new forms of retail and of their spatial expression. This is what this new yearbook takes a look at. It provides a current overview of innovations in multi-channel commerce, from pioneering in-store technology to new products, materials and lighting solutions at the point of sale. More than 50 current examples of best practice, from temporary pop-up stores and avant-garde brand worlds to hybrid retail centers, present an inspiring international cross section.Dr. Jons Messedat is an architect, designer and author. His expertise with regard to architectural corporate identity is in demand at companies, conferences and universities in Germany, Switzerland and the USA.
FOCUS OPEN 2016
€49.00*
Product innovations and design trendsProduct innovations and current design trends are the focal point of FOCUS OPEN 2016. The publication presents all the award-winning products that impressed the jury with their exceptional design. It shows and describes, amongst others, winners from the areas of production, medicine, bathrooms, kitchens, interiors, ambience, lifestyle, lighting, media, optics, sports, outdoors, public design, architecture, transport and infrastructure.The results of the
"Mia Seeger Prize" are also published. The prize is awarded to up-and-coming designers who have developed products that have more than just one use.
sushi 15
€19.00*
"There are easier ways to earn money, honestly."For 15 years, "sushi" has been showing the best projects by art and design schools from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, chosen by juries of the Art Directors Club for Germany (ADC). For 15 years, students of the Offenbach University of Art and Design (HfG) conceived and designed the "Magazine for young creativity".In their last edition the sushi editorial staff now summarizes: What are the ADC winners up to today? "sushi" gives an account of how they learnt, suffered, celebrated and especially of what they created. Furthermore, internationally renowned designers such as Christoph Niemann, Jianping He and Holm Friebe talk about breakthroughs and setbacks after university and how they get by today working as illustrators, authors or graphic designers.
MAR – A single family house in Luxembourg
€49.00*
On the occasion of their 10th anniversary, n-lab architects, a young and dynamic architecture firm from Luxemburg, give an insight into their work for the first time. Under the direction of Frédéric Nosbusch the team of around ten people mainly works on buildings in the residential and commercial sectors. MAR is their most recent and equally senior project: a one family house in Luxemburg city with an unusual aluminium facade.The first sketches were made before the firm was founded, the last details followed in 2014. It shows the characteristic style and the development of the architecture firm in the last ten years in an exemplary manner.
Aktivhaus B10 by Werner Sobek
€28.00*
One House. Energy for many.The Active House B10 is situated in the heart of the famous Weissenhof estate in Stuttgart. It is a research project exploring how innovative materials, constructions and technologies can sustainably improve our built environment. Owing to an ingenious energy concept and self-learning home automation, the building produces twice its energy requirement. The surplus thus gained powers two electric cars and an adjacent building designed by the architect Le Corbusier (since 2006 home to the Weissenhof museum).Prof. Werner Sobek is the founder of a globally active association of planning agencies for architecture, support structure planning, façade planning, sustainability consulting and design. Based on award-winning experimental buildings such as R128, H16, F87 and B10 he analyses how new materials, structures and technologies can radically change our built environment.
Tamschick Media+Space
€29.00*
The art of creating multimedia spacesTwo decades of experimental multimedia scenography: illustrated by 30 international award-winning projects, the successful Berlin-based studio Tamschick Media+Space provides an insight into the art of converting contents and objects into a three-dimensional, accessible, holistic experience of space by means of multimedia projections and of creating a lasting dramaturgical experience.Elaborate development processes are presented by means of comprehensive series of images and drafts: e.g. for Treasure Mainshow (Expo Shanghai), The Ting (Oslo), Time Machine (Wuxi), Kingdom of the Shadows (Trier) and Experience Frontiers (Biel). Well-known international authors from the fields of scenography, architecture, museum and brands share their experience in guest contributions.
Design in Frankfurt 1920–1990
€19.00*
Modern Design in Frankfurt/Main – the other "Bauhaus""Less, but better": The motto of the Frankfurt designer Dieter Rams is still topical today – and very much so. In the face of rapid globalization and an increasing number of premium product consumers, the question on the resources and the longevity of products inevitably arises.The book outlines the prevalent design trends in Frankfurt and in the Rhine-Main-area from the 1920s to the 1980s. For furniture, interior and graphic design made in and around Frankfurt over seven decades, functionality, visuaö strength, austerity, aestethics in clear shapes and the visionary element always plays a major role. This first compact illustration of regional design also raises the question, to what extent German design in the 20th century defined itself through decentralized but intensively interlinked places and institutions.Catalogue of the exhibition in the Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt.Search inside on ISSUU.com
Retail Architecture S–XXL
€59.00*
Retail Architecture of the 21st centuryTrade is subject to rapid change at the Point of Sale: the massive growth rates of virtual trading platforms are changing buying patterns in an epochal manner. This is why in recent years significant sums were invested in sophisticated architecture for supermarkets and shopping centres. A trend going towards more urbanity and quality for cities and landscapes is becoming apparent. The book provides an expert overview of current developments in different dimensions of international retail architecture – from innovative supermarkets to new concepts in the trading sector from an urbanistic point of view. Expert contributions and interviews provide background knowledge about conception, planning, execution and operation. This book is a practical guide with excellent examples for investors, municipalities and project developers as well as architects, interior designers or suppliers in the store planning sector.Search inside on ISSUU.com
Arno Design
€48.00*
For many years, Arno Design (Mirka Nassiri, Claus Neuleib, Peter Haberlander) has stood for spectacular solutions for the design and realisation of trade fair stands, event architecture, showrooms and shops.On the occasion of their 20th anniversary, this publication shows the variety of their creative work for a broad spectrum of customers from the fields of fashion, sport, industry and communication. Many of these firms, such as Mercedes-Benz, Yves Saint Laurent, Lego, Porsche, Sto and Apple, have used Arno Design for many years. In these cases, the developments and design trends can be traced over a longer period of time.The versatility of the office is astounding: besides very clear-cut trade fair stands such as those for Loewe or Grundig, you will also find more opulent, decorative and baroque echoes, for instance as manifested in the booth of Alessandro. This look behind the scenes also includes unrealised competition entries and reveals more about the origins of the designer team.Search inside on ISSUU.com
Ludwigsburg Museum
€29.90*
City museums today: high-quality architecture and modern exhibition designThe Ludwigsburg Museum houses evidence of the art and cultural heritage of the city of Ludwigsburg and Württemberg. The modern conception and excellent exhibition graphics produce a convincing permanent exhibition that is regularly supplemented by special shows.Last year, the museum found a new home in a protected building from the era of the city founder, Eberhard Ludwig: In the historical building that was lovingly renovated by the architects Lederer+Ragnarsdóttir+Oei, who also added an extension, the borders between architecture and exhibition design (by HG Merz) blur. The result is a positive and highly attractive example of modern museum architecture.This illustrated book is a practical guide to the creation of buildings and exhibition with articles by Prof. Arno Lederer and Prof. HG Merz.
FOCUS OPEN 2015
€49.00*
Product innovations and design trendsProduct innovations and current design trends are the central focus of FOCUS OPEN 2015. The renowned competition is a well-established major event within the German competition scene and, owing to its non-profit character, it provides even the smallest of companies with the opportunity to present and compare themselves internationally.This publication presents all the award-winning products from fields including production, medicine, bathrooms, kitchens, interiors, ambience, lifestyle, lighting, communication, optics, sport, outdoors, public design, architecture and transport, which are presented and described.It also publishes the results of the "Mia Seeger Prize", which awards young designers who have developed products "that benefit more than one".
Trade Fair Design Annual 2014/15
€19.90*
The reference work in the trade fair design world To this day, trade fairs are considered to be settings for important inventions and many a time bold predictions for the future were made on the basis of innovations. "The future needs the past" – the previous Trade Fair Design Annual's motto is also incorporated in the 15th edition of the successful reference work.As usual, the jubilee edition 2014/15 documents the best trade fair stands of the past year and presents current trends and tendencies for the future by means of large illustrations and descriptive texts. The book is rounded off by interviews with experienced trade fair experts.
Event Design Yearbook 2013 / 2014
€15.90*
This year’s Event Design Yearbook presents a collection of innovative event concepts by both national and international agencies – even looking as far as China. More than 30 projects visualise current trends in the industry and demonstrate the range of technical and conceptual possibilities available in terms of both conceptualisation and execution.Each of the individual categories – Corporate, Employee, Public, Exhibition, Consumer, Charity, Social and Cultural Events – exhibits outstanding projects that set themselves apart with the highest-quality results as regards effect, technical aspects, aesthetics and staging. Texts, numerous illustrations, plans and sketches ensure a vivid depiction of all events featured.
A new addition is a section focusing on artistic and theatrical events – such as the celebrations that accompanied the 800th anniversary of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. Such events are not only interesting owing to their unique approaches to planning and implementation, but also by dint of their reception, since they often enjoy a great deal of resonance in social media and other online outlets.
Trade Fair Design Annual 2013/14
€19.90*
The reference work in the trade fair design world For quite some time now, the architecture of the stand alone no longer decides about the success of a brand presentation at trade fairs. More subtle elements such as light, materials, audiovisual media or even a skilful perspective and perfect infrastructure are what now trigger a wow effect from visitors and customers. And this is demonstrated by the most recent edition of the Trade Fair Design Annual: once again, the editors Sabine Marinescu and Janina Poesch have compiled and analysed more than 50 presentations of international top brands. Large illustrations, detailed plans and interviews with designers explain the standards for trade fair design of the future.
Trade Fair Design Annual 2012/13
€19.90*
Trade fairs and weekly markets have a number of things in common. They are by no means just points of sale. Both market hawkers and exhibitors want to make contact with old and new business associates, nurture customer relationships, inform about new products, groom their image and above all to be seen and heard in order to create publicity. With these goals in mind, effective stand architecture can create the initial basis for successful dialogue.The outstanding examples contained in the Trade Fair Design Annual 1012/13 have been selected to show how unique brand appearances can be created by blending architectural and communicative elements and what role audiovisual media, convincing graphics, light productions or different materials play in this.Rainer Häupl, Sabine Marinescu and Janina Poesch offer an insight into state-of-the-art trade fair staging and take a special look this time at the phenomenon of curated trade fairs. Another first: the designers themselves have a say in a number of interviews.
LAVA
€19.90*
LAVA Architects (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture) was founded in 2007 by Chris Bosse, Alexander Rieck and Tobias Wallisser in Stuttgart (Germany) and Sydney (Australia). True to the motto "Green is the new black", the internationally active office designs resource-saving, sustainable architecture and is involved in innovative projects such as the Masdar eco-city (near Abu Dhabi).This book accompanies an exhibition at the Wechselraum Gallery in Stuttgart, Germany. Richly illustrated with colour images and plans, it offers an insight into a variety of current projects by LAVA.
Urban Media Cultures
€39.90*
Whether high-resolution displays, computer-animated light installations or mechanical media screens: urban screens and media architecture shape our modern lives and change the face of our cities."Urban Media Cultures" discusses the risks and potentials of this development in its spatial and social context. International experts in architecture, marketing, technology and culture, such as Nina Colosi from the Streaming Museum in New York, M. Hank Häusler from the University of Technology Sydney, Marc Tamschick from Tamschick Media+ pace, Geraldine McCullagh from BBC Big Screens, and many more, allow us to take part in their experiences with urban media and venture a glimpse into the future.With numerous examples from the areas of urban development, technology and marketing, this book illustrates current trends in interactive media structures.
Event Design Yearbook 2012 / 2013
€15.90*
This edition of the Event Design Yearbook presents over 30 innovative international projects by agencies from Germany, Austria and Switzerland – subdivided into the categories of Corporate, Employee, Public and Exhibition, Consumer, Social Event. Current sector trends are vividly illustrated: alongside countless images there are plans and capsule texts describing the dramaturgy and design.In addition, Jörg Beier interviews Johannes Milla of Milla & Partner on a special kind of event: online events. Will the future belong to them, or will they at the end of the day not even count as part of the genre? FAMAB (Verband Direkte Wirtschaftskommunikation e. V.) as the association for direct business communication analyses the growing importance of live communication for marketing by large corporations and explains how social changes have brought a shift in focal themes and target groups.The wide range of projects presented in this volume again offers experts in the creative industries and their clients a great deal of inspiration, and the in-depth information also shows what the event industry achieves and the main direction in which it is moving.
Trade Fair Design Annual 2011/12
€19.90*
The authors again have selected more than 50 trade fair stands from German speaking countries for this annual. Prime criteria for inclusion are the overall idea and the quality of the design, but of course also a functioning infrastructure, the presentation of the exhibits or services as well as materials, lighting, colour concept, graphics and the realisation of the brand philosophy.Exceptional trade fair design for adidas, Création Baumann, Gaggenau, Kaldewei, Vodafone, Vorwerk, etc.Karin Schulte, interior designer, works at the Weißenhof-Institut of the Arts Academy in Stuttgart. Tobias Glaser works as a freelance interior designer. Furthermore, he teaches, curates and consults in the field of design.
New Media Facades
€49.90*
With this book, the in-depth reference work "Media Facades – History, Technology and Content" is sequelled by a stock take: what developments have there been in the last three years? Which kind of media façade has established itself? How can media façades be integrated into today's often "curvaceous" architecture and urban landscape? These are just some of the questions which are examined by looking at around 35 current examples, supplemented by interviews with early protagonists from this field, scientists, journalists, product developers, and many more.New trends, directions and technologies are discussed and the important topic sustainability is not forgotten either. With projects, amongst others, by Asymptote, Big, realities:united, and UNStudio.
Media Facades
€49.90*
Fundamental introduction to a topic of current interest
Overview about the varied media facades that exist, their technology and future development
More than 30 breathtaking media facades by ag4, realities:united, UNStudio, Urbanscreen, among others
The book introduces a canon of media architectural terminology and shows the history of media façades through early examples of embedding media in architecture, like Times Square, New York, and Centre Pompidou, Paris.State-of-the-art developments are presented with approx. 30 international projects of contemporary media architecture separated and classified in 7 different technical categories: projection facades, rear projection facades, window raster animation, display facades, illuminated facades, mechanical facades and voxel facades. Each of these 7 categories gets introduced via explaining the technology and through the means of built examples. In each example project data are presented with a brief description about the project and the used technology. An analysis of the representational characteristics of media façades lead to an introduction of possible forms of media content and completes the book.M. Hank Haeusler, Dr. Ing., studied architecture in Japan, the Netherlands, Germany and finished his Ph.D. at the RMIT School of Architecture in Melbourne, Australia in 2007. His media consulting office City Lights Architecture Store/CLAStore combines his research interests with application in praxis.
New Exhibition Design 02
€29.00*
• New volume in the successful series “New Exhibition Design”
• More than 100 outstanding exhibitions worldwide
• Project descriptions, photos, plans and data
• Gives an outlook on the “Museum 3.0”
The book offers an up-to-date and comprehensive insight into state-of-the-art design and planning of exhibitions by presenting more than 100 project examples of renowned international designers from Germany to Korea, from Japan to the USA and Canada, from Norway to Italy. The many photos, plans and project data provide in-depth information about these projects, all of them extraordinary in terms of design and content and on the cutting edge of technological and social innovation. The selected projects are grouped in the following areas: exhibition (temporary), museum (permanent exhibitions), Expo, brand museums and centres, showrooms and shops, experiments, art and public space. The book also presents particularly innovative student projects. Philipp Teufel and Uwe J. Reinhardt are professors of Communication Design and of Text/Verbal Communication at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf, with the main focus on museums and exhibitions.
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