Visualize and Awaken deals with the question of how to see the world with new eyes. It is a summary of design research conducted over ten years in a seminar at the art college Musashino where Kenya Hara teaches and serves as a continuation of his ear...

"The Walking Society: Now More Than Ever!" brings together visual material, archival documents and newly commissioned content to examine Camper's evolution since its founding in 1975. The book adopts a documentary approach, activating the archive as...

Conceived as an opera in four acts, the exhibition documented in this book brings to life the chair collection of Swiss entrepreneur Thierry Barbier-Mueller (1960-2023). Through the scenography of the renowned American director Robert Wilson (1941-20...

"Finding an Identity for Calder Gardens" traces the design process behind the visual identity of Calder Gardens, the new cultural campus of the Calder Foundation in Philadelphia. Developed by the renowned New York-based design studio Karlssonwilker i...

"Avantgarde" highlights the advent of the poster and the beginnings of graphic design as an indepen-dent design discipline: between the wars, photography, typography and visual abstraction were at the heart of the poster; based on the reform movement...

This historical account of the Unica typeface, legendary pinnacle of "Swiss Style" design, examines the complex interplay of design authorship, technological development and economic conditions at the dawn of the digital era. Commissioned by the inve...

In 1980 Josef Muller-Brockmann laid the cornerstone for a uniform visual identity for the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) with his legendary Visual Information System at Train Stations and Stops. In view of Switzerland's multilingualism, the manual prop...

In what he called his "illustrated guide to modern architecture", which starts off the Bauhausbucher series, Gropius gives an overview of the international architecture of the mid-1920s. A preface by the author explores, briefly but in detail, the gu...

Although Piet Mondrian was not an active member of the Bauhaus, his name is often mentioned in connection with the art school. Starting with a philosophical foray in which he describes art as a figurative expression of human existence, Mondrian embed...

Moholy-Nagy's efforts to have photography and filmmaking recognized as means of artistic design on the same level as painting are propounded and explained at length. The use of artistic instruments is thus radically reformed. The Hungarian artist mak...