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In September 2015 the world lost Phil Patton – prolific design writer, teacher and tantalizing wordsmith. Patton’s insatiable curiosity, sense of humour and keen eye made for the most compelling reads. Whether he was chronicling design minutiae, quirky anecdotes or bizarre tales, Phil’s hundreds of books, columns, articles and posts always delivered a new account. As his editor at i-D magazine, Chee Pearlman, said, ‘His insight takes the reader beyond the object to an understanding of its broade...

Just as the term design has been going through change, growth and expansion of meaning, and interpretation in practice and education – the same can be said for design research. The traditional boundaries of design are dissolving and connections are being established with other fields at an exponential rate. Based on the proceedings from the IASDR 2017 Conference, Re:Research is an edited collection that showcases a curated selection of 83 papers – just over half of the works presented at the con...

Graphics have a way of living that is often awkward and unplanned. We see it when they are ripped from walls, littered on streets and faded in shop windows. We wouldn’t say they are that way by design, however this everyday difference between graphics and their designs is underimagined in critical discourses. Graphic Events intensifies this difference in a montage of original essays and interviews that coax graphics into unfamiliar dialogues. Edited by James Dyer and Nick Deakin. Foreword...

Seit 2001 produziert die checkpointmedia AG multimediale Gesamtkunstwerke fur Ausstellungen, Museen, Besucherzentren und Organisationen. Zum 10-jahrigen Jubilaum hat das Unternehmen fuhrende Experten eingeladen, zum Diskurs in den Bereichen Medien, Erlebniswelten und Kommunikation beizutragen. In ihren Aufsatzen illustriert von checkpointmedia sprechen sie uber ihre Arbeit: von Research, kunstlerischer Auseinandersetzung, Storytelling, Design, Architektur, neue Technologien bis zu Identitat, Kul...

"Form" has been one of Europe's leading design journals since 1957. Together with its special issues and the website, the magazine offers product designers in-depth coverage of new design trends, materials, and production techniques, with special attention to design processes ('the making of' ). Graphic, corporate, and web designers appreciate "Form" for its articles on current trends in type design, color, and illustration. The "Form Poster Edition" and its many high quality reproductions have...

Reality isn't what is used to be. As the world moves increasingly from the real to the virtual, the question emerges, who do we want to be as humans? The amount of time spent on devices is taking more of our time from the real world as we 'fast forward' to the virtual future. As we transform our work, play, living, education, and retail lifestyle, so too must architecture react and redefine the very nature of our public and private spaces. The challenge of our time is to learn to navigate INBetw...

Here is a definitive, expansive observational, and knowledge-infused treatise that is expected to be particularly engaging for students and educators as well as for design practitioners. About Design offers an enlightening and opinionated, albeit concise, excursion concerning many facets of the field of design. It emphasizes the discipline of graphic design, while incorporating a taste of the author’s makeup. The content will tempt any readers who may be marginally inquisitive concerning visual...

Design is a widely-misunderstood discipline. This misunderstanding is not just simple ignorance and indifference in the layman. It is the design profession itself that accepts and promotes a vague and ultimately damaging definition of design. This lack of clarity is nurtured to thwart the scrutiny that would reveal designers' incompetence--as well as to advance more insidious agendas. While there is no lack of criticism, it too misses the point. Critics and designers are content to argue about s...

Undesign brings together leading artists, designers and theorists working at the intersection of art and design. The text focuses on design practices, and conceptual approaches, which challenge the traditional notion that design should emphasise its utility over aesthetic or other non-functional considerations. This publication brings to light emerging practices that consider the social, political and aesthetic potential of "undesigning" our complex designed world. In documenting these new devel...

Otto Neurath’s famous Modern Man in the Making, first published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1939, captures and describes the state of the world in the 1930s by using text and figurative illustrations. From 1925 onwards, Neurath and his team had worked on a new visual language termed “Isotype” (International System of Typographic Picture Education). At a time that saw the rise of new mass media making hitherto unthinkable amounts of information available, Neurath felt the need for a systematic visualiz...

Based on the idea that creativity and curiosity are fundamental to both art and science, PARS presents their third work in their "Findings on..." series. It presents works centered around the topic of "Light." Every living organism needs light to live and survive-the body's circadian rhythms, neurological and biochemical processes, they all need light to function. A collection of fascinating, and sometimes unbelievable, research, this book joins the series after "Ice" and "Elasticity."