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...

Contrary to the common "Don't Touch – Just Look" approach, the exhibition "Phenotypes / Limited Forms" encourages visitors to pick their favorite subjects out of a total of several hundreds of displayed photographs, rearrange them, name their sequenc...

This publication is the first monograph on the Japanese-born, constructive-concrete artist Shizuko Yoshikawa. Her work combines the rational concepts of European modern art with the poetry and ease of the intuitional Japanese Zen tradition. As a memb...

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...

The beloved children's book "Click", said the camera., first published in 1997, is available again. It features animal portraits by photographer Balthasar Burkhard, who started the series in 1995. The twenty animals meet for the photographer's beaut...

"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...