In 1957, Swiss typographer Max Miedinger came up with "Haas Grotesk". Renamed Helvetica after 1960, this typeface went on to become one of the world's most used typefaces ever. It embodies the myth of Sachlichkeit, propagated at the time by Swiss Typ...

Designed in 1957, the Helvetica font is an icon of swiss graphic design, which was a model of sober, functional communication throughout the world in the 1950s and 60s. The balanced and neutral appearance of Helvetica forgoes a high degree of express...

The development of modern communication and information technologies like the Internet and globalization have not only changed access and spread of the available knowledge but also the speed of collecting. The author examines collections of knowledge...

Anonymous snapshots are the ideal projection screen: they inspire the imagination to invent stories. The photographer and artist Luciano Rigolini demonstrates, however, that these images, freed from their context, can also convey a visual experience....

Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa have compiled 204 everyday objects in search of super normal design: alongside examples of anonymous design, there are design classics like by Jacobsen, Rams, Bill or Noguchi. With products by Newson, Grcic, the Azu...

On the outside surveys 8vo's work from 1984-2001, including Octavo, the international journal of typography and its influence in the emergent typographically-led design movement in the UK and internationally during the late 1980s and through the 1990...

Le Corbusier's buildings have long been part of the inalienable canon of twentieth-century architecture. But Le Corbusier's work as a book designer and author is scarcely known. He planned and realized over 40 books in his lifetime. Architect of Book...

Silvia Bنchli (1956) has become one of the most successful Swiss artists of her generation. This publication was developed with the artist, and is the first comprehensive survey of her output. Silvia Bنchli's art makes us feel unsure of ourselves. It...

"Typotecture" takes a look at posters from various countries and periods, which share a special feature of typography: the tendency to break out of the two-dimensional space of lettering and establish hybrid links with architecture. Letters, words, o...

A cross-section of a year chosen at random, the poster collection casts its net in its own archive and presents posters from Paris, London, Moscow, New York, Zurich or Milan. They all have only one thing in common: the year in which they were produce...