Product Description: Did you know that around half of the world's extant highrise structures were erected only within the past ten years? Highrise: Idea and Reality offers a comprehensive examination of the highrise phenomenon and its surprisingly recent international ubiquity...read more

Product Description: Whatever became of the myth of Switzerland? Is Switzerland really a beatific island,or does this paradise on Earth betray fault lines? What is connoted by the nameSwitzerland ? As displayed in tourism posters, chocolate wrappers, milk cartons,wristwatches, and banknotes, the Swiss image-world reflects the Zeitgeist, disclosingprojections and yearnings found throughout society...read more

Product Description: This volume surveys the ways in which our globalized world has manifested itself in design since ca 1970, and the ways in which design has evolved to serve a globalized world. The point of departure is a conception of design which encompasses architecture, graphics, the media, fashion, product and industrial design, as well as the shaping of the manmade environment and of production processes...read more

Product Description: The design studio of J. R. Geigy AG was the launching pad for one of the great periods of Swiss graphic design, in the 1950s and 1960s. The open-minded corporate culture of the chemical company in Basel combined product and company advertising in an exemplary way...read more

Product Description: Politicians are omnipresent in our society. How they present themselves depends on historical context as well as on the prevailing form of government and cultural environment. Vital components of political work are image building, political advertising, election campaigns, and self-representation, but also the tearing down of one’s opponent...read more

Product Description: Politicians are omnipresent in our society. How they present themselves depends on historical context as well as on the prevailing form of government and cultural environment. Vital components of political work are image building, political advertising, election campaigns, and self-representation, but also the tearing down of one’s opponent...read more

Product Description: Otto Baumberger (1889 -1961) wurde als einer der ersten Schweizer der Berufsbezeichnung "Plakatgestalter" gerecht. Sein Wunsch, auch als Künstler zu Ehren zu kommen, blieb hingegen unerfüllt. Früh eignete er sich als Angestellter der Wolfensberger AG in Zürich fundierte Kenntnisse der lithografischen Technik an...read more

Product Description: Mit seiner Position zwischen Kunst und Populärkultur und der Verbindung prägnant verknappter Text- und Bildbotschaften bietet der Comic ideale Voraussetzungen für seine Aneignung im Plakat. Anhand von zeitgenössischen Beispielen geht die Ausstellung den Wurzeln des Comics in der Plakatgestaltung nach...read more

Product Description: Nature has always been a source of inspiration for the design of the human environment, but in recent years this relationship has grown even more intense. "Nature as model" has influenced the most diverse possible concepts and developmental processes and is revealed in a large spectrum of forms and functions...read more

Product Description: "Bucky" was one of the most revolutionary technological visionaries of this century. As an architect, engineer, entrepreneur, poet, he was a quintessentially American, self-made man. But he was also an out-sider: a technologist with a poet's imagination who already developed theories of environmental control in the thirties ("more with less") and anticipated the globalization of our planet ("think global - act local")...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Raised by wolves Kurzinfo: Goldbergs now famous book about Runaways in the US. Portraits, bed stuff, objects, letters (all that in pictures) plus interviews and facsimile writing by youngsters who do not write much. It's not Weegee and not Larry Clark