This stunning exploration of Chinese and Central Asian textiles draws from one of the world's major collections. In private hands, it features objects never before published and of a caliber customarily only seen in museums. A captivating journey th...

The master of screen-printing guards the secrets surrounding his recipes and processes like the tinkerers and inventors of old. The Swiss Lorenz Boegli developed this printing technique in a quality that is unattainable for other printing processes....

A graphic reference work by best-selling author Wang Shaoqiang for both design students and professionals, this book about colour gradient usage will help readers learn how to harness the potential of different colour combinations and acquire the ess...

Muji's art director shares his own personal creative process. Kenya Hara inspires the world with his impeccable design, from the subtle atmospheres and environments he creates as the art director of Muji and his ethereal exhibition designs to his si...

The bestselling volume on the multifaceted career of one of the leading figures in Italian Modernism, now in English. Gio Ponti (1891-1979) was a giant of Italian Modernism, contributing to a multitude of fields: architecture, industrial design, fur...

This book is a tool kit to create new forms. It deals with grid-based design and gives the reader techniques to develop new forms, fonts, logos, and patterns. The concept represents a design process in which individual decisions follow much larger an...

"Call Ampersand Response" is a collaborative artwork made through an exchange of images via email. Between 2011 and 2017 Michael Dumontier and Micah Lexier conceived this activity as a way to share with each other their mutual interest in found image...

In what he called his "illustrated guide to modern architecture", which starts off the Bauhausbucher series, Gropius gives an overview of the international architecture of the mid-1920s. A preface by the author explores, briefly but in detail, the gu...

Although Piet Mondrian was not an active member of the Bauhaus, his name is often mentioned in connection with the art school. Starting with a philosophical foray in which he describes art as a figurative expression of human existence, Mondrian embed...

Moholy-Nagy's efforts to have photography and filmmaking recognized as means of artistic design on the same level as painting are propounded and explained at length. The use of artistic instruments is thus radically reformed. The Hungarian artist mak...