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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 regime.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.Search inside (PDF)
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Sustainable Architecture & Design 2025 / 2026
€69.00*
Around 60 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.Search inside (PDF)
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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.Search inside (PDF)
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.Search inside (PDF)
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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.Search inside (PDF)
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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 and Jürgen Laub 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.Search inside (PDF)
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Designing Design Education Vol. 2 – 75 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.Search inside (PDF)
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) Watch the YOYO Video here
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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, 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”.Search inside (PDF)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
See the Light – Licht sehen. Candela Lichtplanung
€29.90*
Taking account of the natural feeling for light and the reaction to certain light moods, lighting designer Michele A. Rami places people and their well-being at the centre of his planning approach: "Architecture is made for people. It must give them a place where they feel comfortable, where they can be who they are. And many factors play a role in this, some of which cannot be physically measured." The book "See the Light" showcases this approach and all its facets. The projects presented include, among others, several projects of the Stuttgart architects Bottega + Ehrhardt for whom Candela developed the lighting planning, the single-family house Dupli.Casa planned by Jürgen Mayer H. and, last but not least, the guest and holiday home "berge" by the design company Nils Holger Moormann in Aschau. Michele A. Rami founded the Candela lighting design studio in 1995. Today, around 15 employees work on a whole range of different lighting assignments at the offices in Stuttgart and Ulm. Administration buildings, public buildings, doctors offices, agencies, shops and exhibitions are among the projects for which Rami and his team develop lighting concepts alongside restaurants, bars and private homes.
häfelinger + wagner design
€48.00*
häfelinger + wagner design is an integrated design agency for communication, design, interactivity and architecture. For decades, the Munich-based agency of Annette Häfelinger-Wagner and Frank Wagner has been working with great success for national and international customers, including the BMW group, the paper specialist Munksjö Decor, the photographer Erik Chmil, the new Dornier Museum, Fresenius Medical Care or the technology group ThyssenKrupp. The book investigates the nature of the special passion and originality behind the precision applied by this agency to their projects, whether they are developing annual reports, designing trade fair stands or communicating new technologies. The results of their work are regularly awarded the most important international design prizes.Editor Conway Lloyd Morgan is a renowned author for design and architecture living in London.
Licht Kunst Licht 3
€59.90*
Outstanding lighting designs and concepts
Third monograph of the successful lighting design office
Collaboration with worldwide renowned architects: Serra, Maki, Krischanitz, Hopkins
Licht Kunst Licht was founded in 1991 by Andreas Schulz in Bonn and Berlin, Germany. Currently 25 employees with various backgrounds such as architecture, design, scenography and electrical engineering are working on various projects of renowned architects worldwide. Having been decorated with numerous international awards, the office features a portfolio spanning the architectural gamut from museums to administration buildings. The book series, launched in 2005, will be continued by the monograph "Licht Kunst Licht 3". Selected recent projects which have been carried out with internationally renowned architects show the office’s spectrum. The emerging building projects on the Novartis Campus Basle of Maki, Krischanitz and Serra are presented as well as the Shin Marunouchi Building in Tokyo or the Zollverein Park in Essen.
Werner Aisslinger. Fast Forward
€15.90*
Aisslingers works can be found in the permanent collections of MoMA and Metropolitan Museum New York, Fonds National d’Art contemporain, Vitra Design Museum and Pinakothek der Moderneover 30 outstanding product designs and architectures
When in the not too distant future, the first publications look back at the design of the late 20th century and the early 21st century, the work of Werner Aisslinger will certainly represent a constant. Not only because of the huge success of his products. But above all due to the material and technical, the typological and conventional potential of his furniture and lights, his system developments, his small-scale architecture and interiors, in short due to the whole catalogue of his interventions in contemporary design. With reference to more than 30 projects, the book shows the step change so typical of Aisslinger between self-defined experiment and precisely coordinated contract work. It is the first documentation of the studio founded in Berlin in 1993. Before that, Aisslinger worked as a freelancer for Jasper Morrison and Ron Arad in London and with Michele de Lucchi in Milan. The author Volker Albus is a renowned design journalist and professor for product design at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe.
best designed outdoor living
€14.90*
Outdoor living is "in". More and more people see gardens, patios or balconies as attractive, additional living space. As a result, demand for high quality, attractive and functional outdoor design is on the rise. Appealing, weatherproof garden furniture and decorative, functional accessories and materials are becoming increasingly popular.The present book shows individually designed open spaces from all over the world – spaces whose use of plants, unusual seating arrangements, exotic materials and the play of light and shade turn living outdoors into an unforgettable experience.
New Exhibition Design 1900-2000
€39.00*
"New Exhibition Design 1900–2000" examines the beginnings of exhibiting and outlines the new exhibition design of the 20th century. The book presents the most important exhibitions and exhibition designers from Europe and the USA. 100 brief portraits and a series of in-depth articles by experts look at trends and new design ideas from one hundred years of exhibiting. With articles by: Kai-Uwe Hemken, Simon Großpietsch, Ines Katenhusen, Renate Flagmeier, Anke te Heesen und Elisabeth Schweeger.Anna M. Müller and Frauke Möhlmann, both qualified communication designers, researched for more than two years at the edi – Exhibition Design Institute into the history of exhibitions. Their research results have been confirmed by experts from the whole of Europe and have triggered a new discussion on the historical development of exhibitions.Search inside on ISSUU.com
Designline
€19.80*
The Designline is 4.5 metres of design history which can either be used as a booklet, or unfolded as a large poster. It shows the history of design with examples from important eras and exemplary forms – whether in the shape of a kidney-shaped table designed by Isamu Noguchi as an example for organic design or the ground plan of Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum in Berlin, representative of deconstructionism. Numerous photos and information on historical developments, outstanding works and designers from each era accompany the historical outline, making the Designline relevant both as an example and in terms of product language. It is interdisciplinary and synoptic, covering industrial as well as graphic design and architecture. The period depicted starts with the industrial revolution. Sara Hausmann, communication design student at Folkwang University, and Achim Böhmer, qualified communication designer, live and work in Dortmund. Bernhard E. Bürdek, professor for design theory and design methodology, author of numerous books on product design, teaches at the Offenbach am Main Design College.
40 Rooms Berlin
€9.90*
Berlin is a city which also sets standards in the field of architecture. In recent years, impressive lofts, shops, showrooms, clubs, restaurants and museums have sprung up amidst the city's historical buildings. The fascinating mixture of old and new has a different face in every "Kiez" (district) and works its magic on visitors and locals alike."40 Rooms Berlin“ shows a cross-section of these architectural and interior design gems. Divided into three chapters Intimate – Active – Urban it presents private, commercial and public spaces that were designed by 20 designers and architects.The impulse for this book came from the location agency Platzverweis based in Stuttgart and Berlin. Over a period of many months, the architects Julia Stoffregen and Kirsten Alda sought out the most attractive spaces in Berlin. Renowned photographers from Berlin captured them with the camera.
Models
€19.90*
Design pays off – design matters, but design also tells a story. All three aspects are combined in the corporate stories of selected, standard-setting companies. They tell a tale of something very special and personal. They report of historical moments, momentous events and extraordinary characters. In a series of portraits, case studies or demonstrations of specific details, the reader is given an exciting behind-the-scenes glimpse of the creative-innovative core of companies. The new exhibition and book project of the Design Center Stuttgart and the Deutsche Werkbund Baden- Württemberg presents successful companies that boast special design achievements which have not only buoyed their economic success. They are also exemplary or even trailblazing for the industry, for entrepreneurial action, for the attitude towards society and the employees: design as an expression of an individual corporate culture.
Exhibition Planning
€39.00*
The first guide for improved communication between the museum as client and designer as service provider"Without you it would be easier," comments editor Jan-Christian Warnecke from Landesmuseum Württemberg in Stuttgart with a twinkle in his eye when talking about the collaboration between client (museum) and contractor (designer) on exhibition projects. Together with guest authors experienced in exhibition he investigates this relationship, giving both sides the chance to have their say. That way experienced museum people find out how designers think, and designers gain an insight into the organisational structures of museums and the objectives they pursue. Practice-related texts about teaming, conflict potential, project management through to the disagreeable subject of money identify the problems which those involved in planning an exhibition will face, but also the opportunities. The practical and entertaining publication is intended to help the two sides understand each other better - because at the end of the day they both need each other! With articles by: Edwin Becker, Anja Dauschek, Hans-Peter Hüsch, Christine Kappei, Katja Lembke, Carolyn Marsden-Smith, Dennis Müller, Tobias Neumann, Moritz Schneider, Matthias Ohm, Renate Schliekmann, Ulrich Schwarz.Search inside on ISSUU.com
best designed affordable hotels
€14.90*
For a long time, a stay in a well-designed hotel was a costly business. Architectural treats tended to be restricted to the luxury category. In recent years, however, some of these hotels have adjusted to meet the needs of a younger generation of travelers. The rooms are no longer ridiculously expensive, but still by no means cheap.The book "best designed affordable hotels" has been published in response to the frequent request for an overview of reasonably priced design hotels. Illustrated with brilliant colour photos, the team of authors has put together the first global collection of first-class hotel architecture and fantastic residences with affordable room rates.
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