Design
PIERRE CHARPIN - AVEC LE DESSIN (FRENCH & ENGLISH)
Written by Pierre Charpin
Premier ouvrage consacré au travail de dessin du designer Pierre Charpin, ce livre réunit une sélection de près de 120 œuvres tirées de différentes séries réalisées entre 2005 et 2022. Si le dessin est une discipline artistique, il constitue également une étape majeure dans la pratique du design.
NEW MATERIAL AWARD 2009-2018
Written by G. Staal
Over the past ten years, material development and innovation has evolved by leaps and bounds. From a relatively minor subject within design research, it has become an increasingly fundamental aspect of technological innovation, sustainability, and more.
OBJECTS OF FASCINATION
Written by Sophie Dars
During the pandemic, 45 people were invited to take part in a "serious game" : each participant selected the image of a personal object of fascination, out of which a shape was extracted, redrawn, scaled and sent to a CNC machine to be cut out of a 5 mm thick aluminium sheet and become a low table.
SUBJECTIVE ATLAS OF KAUNAS
Written by Hugo Herrera Tobón
Between 1919 and 1940, Kaunas served as Lithuania?s temporary capital, triggering a massive boom in construction that greatly increased its urban area.
DES-HABITAT (REVISED SECOND EDITION)
Written by Paulo Tavares
"With this publication, Paulo Tavares intervenes in Habitat--the arts and design magazine edited by Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi in the 1950s. At the time, the magazine propagated images of modern art and architecture, but also images of popular and Indigenous crafts and artifacts.
NEW HISTORICAL ATLAS OF AMSTERDAM
Written by Jaap Evert Abrahamse
This atlas presents the spatial development of Amsterdam through a series of historical and newly drawn maps, from the city's humble beginnings to the present day, and in an international context. Comparisons are made between Amsterdam and cities like Venice, London, Paris, and Vienna. Amsterdam originated around the year 1200 as a small port town at the mouth of the river Amstel.
RAGHDA MOATAZ - ABSOLUTE EGYPT
Raghda Moataz is a young Egyptian graphic designer. Her final thesis was about the visual culture of Egypt as seen through the eyes of a graphic design student. Two years later, she transformed her thesis into an impressive overview and thorough analysis of almost any aspect of the publicly visible visual culture in Egypt.
DAAN WUBBEN - PEACEKEEPERS
Written by Daan Wubben
The world of toy guns is an imaginative world of brightly colored water pistols and oddly shaped laser weapons. Yet it is also a world of eerily realistic guns that can easily be mistaken for the real deal. These toys are so well designed that they could scare you to death, or, at least, look like nothing to play with. Peacekeepers is a selection of one hundred EU-approved toy guns.
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