"Pattern-Thinking" reassesses the work of Buckminster Fuller – unique hybrid between theoretician, architect, designer, educator, inventor, and author – as advancing contemporary models of design-research, practice, and pedagogy. Drawing extensively...

BIG-GAME is a Swiss design studio founded by three friends in 2004. This book presents their industrial design work on everyday objects. Through anecdotes, diagrams, and pictures made for the publication, the book gives an overview of fifteen years o...

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...

The medium of the poster is distinguished by displaying messages combining images and text on a static, two-dimensional surface. Designers have, however, always toyed with extending the plane by adding a third dimension, whether spatial or temporal,...

One hundred years after the founding of Bauhaus, it's time to revisit bauhaus journal as significant written testimony of this iconic movement of modern art. In this journal, published periodically from 1926 to 1931, the most important voices of the...

Everybody is a designer! But why? Why do we color, organize and form the world around us – and why do we call that a profession? In this book, thonik, the Amsterdam-based studio led by lauded designers Nikki Gonnissen and Thomas Widdershoven, resear...

Self-Promotion, the 30th edition of the Poster Collection series, features a compilation of posters the Museum fur Gestaltung in Zurich has commissioned over the years to promote their own exhibitions. Most of them were designed by Swiss designers, t...

"How Life Unfolds" provides an insight into the approach, methods and processes of the popular design studio atelier oi based in La Neuveville, Switzerland. atelier oi pushes the boundaries of architecture, product design and scenography and experime...

"Handbook of Tyranny" portrays the routine cruelties of the twenty-first century through a series of detailed non-fictional graphic illustrations. None of these cruelties represent extraordinary violence – they reflect day-to-day implementation of la...

The celebrated and much sought-after issue of the magazine idea focusing on a towering figure in Swiss graphic design, Emil Ruder, is now in print again. idea is a renowned Japanese magazine on international graphic art and typography. Its 333th edit...