With art history's notorious "isms" as its protagonists, the facsimile of this 1920s publication brings back a pioneering and original take on avant-garde art. Published as a trilingual English, French and German edition, the work is considered a sem...

Water interacts with light in different ways: absorbing, refl ecting, refracting and bending it. This book explores different water conditions through the lens of architecture to reveal the interrelationship between the natural phenomena and our spat...

Conceived on the eve of World War II, the facsimile edition of this important 1930s magazine offers a unique and multifaceted perspective on abstract art during the first decades of the twentieth century. Created by French-Swis artist Sophie Taeuber-...

"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...

On July 4, 2026, the United States of America celebrate their Semiquincentennial: 250 years of inde-pendence. To mark this milestone, this book highlights pivotal moments from this period, opposing ongoing attempts to rewrite the history of the Unite...

Over the past decade, Refik Anadol Studio has redefined the possibilities of media art at the intersection of aesthetics, data and machine intelligence. Since its founding in 2014, the studio has pioneered the use of custom artificial intelligence mo...

Through a series of essays, photographs, and archival content, this book highlights the diverse young and old diaspora communities of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) around the world. Drawing on topics from the ten-year archive of Brownbook m...

Switzerland is well-known as one of the safest countries on earth and as a prime example of efficiency and efficacy. One of the central reasons that such a country exists is the development of a culture based on protection, which is supported by the...