Karl Gerstner

Swiss designer and artist Gerstner had a significant influence on typography and the history and development of postwar graphic design. This volume is one of his most important and influential works, in which Gerstner provides a basic introduction to his design methodology and suggests a model for design in the early days of the computer era.

Karl Gerstner: Designing Programmes

Karl Gerstnera (TM)s work is a milestone in the history of design. One of his most important works is Designing Programmes, which is presented here in a new edition of the original 1964 publication. In four essays, the author provides a basic introduction to his design methodology. Instead of set recipes, the method suggests a model for design in the early days of the computer era. The intellectual models it proposes, however, continue to be useful today. What it does not purvey is cut-and-dried, true-or-false solutions or absolutes of any kind - instead, it develops fundamental principles in an innovative and future-oriented way. The book is especially topical and exciting in the context of current developments in computational design, which seem to hold out the possibility of programmed design. With many examples from the worlds of graphic and product design, music, architecture, and art, it inspires the reader to seize on the material, develop it further, and integrate it into his or her own work.

Instead of Solutions for Problems Programmes for Solutions

Designing Programmes

The Art of Karl Gerstner

Spirit of Colors

Programm als Schrift, Typographie, Bild, Methode

Programme entwerfen

In The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism Michael Ing describes how early Confucians coped with situations where their rituals failed to achieve their intended aims. In contrast to most contemporary interpreters of Confucianism, Ing demonstrates that early Confucian texts can be read as arguments for ambiguity in ritual failure. If, as discussed in one text, Confucius builds a tomb for his parents unlike the tombs of antiquity, and rains fall causing the tomb to collapse, it is not immediately clear whether this failure was the result of random misfortune or the result of Confucius straying from the ritual script by building a tomb incongruent with those of antiquity. The Liji (Record of Ritual)--one of the most significant, yet least studied, texts of Confucianism--poses many of these situations and suggests that the line between preventable and unpreventable failures of ritual is not always clear. Ritual performance, in this view, is a performance of risk. It entails rendering oneself vulnerable to the agency of others; and resigning oneself to the need to vary from the successful rituals of past, thereby moving into untested and uncertain territory. Ing's book is the first monograph in English about the Liji--a text that purports to be the writings of Confucius's immediate disciples, and included in the earliest canon of Confucian texts called ''The Five Classics,'' several centuries before the Analects. It challenges some common assumptions of contemporary interpreters of Confucian ethics--in particular the idea that a cultivated ritual agent is able to recognize which failures are within his sphere of control to prevent and thereby render his happiness invulnerable to ritual failure.

Review of Seven Chapters of Constructive Pictures, Etc

直巳·朝倉

デザイニング・プログラム

The Swiss artist discusses his paintings and the historical, philosophical, and psychological aspects of color

The Art of Karl Gerstner : Nine Picture Chapters and Selected Essays

The Spirit of Colors

Galerie Suzanne Bollag (Zürich)

Marcel Wyss

Peter Friese

Patrycja de Bieberstein Ilgner

Muriel Gerstner

Janneke De Vries

Katerina Vatsella

Sammlung Karl Gerstner

Galerie Suzanne Bollag

Marcel Wyss, duo Konstellationen

Galerie Liatowitsch (Basel)

color sounds - und Chromorphosen

neun Kapitel Bilder und ausgewählte Texte

Karl Gerstner und seine Kunst

Galerie der Spiegel (Cologne, Germany)

Karl Gerstner, Spiegel Bilder

Galerie Beyeler

eine Systematik der Schrift

Kompendium für Alphabeten

Discusses the interaction of color and form, describes form systems, and looks at various kinds of geometry and color signs

The Interaction of Visual Elements

The Forms of Color

3 March - April 1999, Marlborough Fine Art (London) Ltd

Karl Gerstner--first London Exhibition

Dennis Quibell STEPHENSON

Programme Entwerfen. Designing Programmes. Four Essays and an Introduction ... English Version by D.Q. Stephenson. With Illustrations.

Karl Gerstner

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