Klaus Klemp

The ultimate reference on one of the most influential product designers of all time For more than sixty years Dieter Rams has defined the look, feel, and function of some of the world's best-loved consumer items. Using his 'ten principles for good design' as a philosophy and practice for improving the industry in a more holistic, responsible way, Rams has built a reputation with global resonance. Here, for the first time, is a catalogue raisonnÃ(c) of every product that he has designed in his lifetime -- a true celebration of his seminal contribution to the field of industrial and product design.

Dieter Rams: The Complete Works

Keiko Ueki-Polet

Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Design Museum, London, November 18, 2009 - March 7, 2010 and at the Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, May 22 - September 5, 2010, before moving on to the Delim Contemporary Art Museum in Seoul from December 17, 2010 - March 27,2011 and to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from August 27, 2011 - February 20, 2012.

The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams

Less and More

The definitive history of Braun - the pioneering German electronics brand that changed the face of modern design Since 1921, Braun has been shaping the way we live through timeless designs that are simple, useful, beautiful, and designed to keep. Unlike many brands before it, and many more that followed, Braun created a culture of design - underpinned by a set of functional and aesthetic principles - that went on to have worldwide impact. Across 3 sections and more than 500 images, the book charts the company's defining moments, core identities, and key characters, together presenting the most comprehensive history of Braun ever published. Featuring brand-new photography of Braun's most iconic products alongside never-before-published archival images, drawings, advertisements, internal documents, and correspondence, in-depth narrative texts interweave the Braun story with the cultural and political history of Germany, providing new context and insight into one of the most famous product design brands in the world. With profiles on key members of the creative and leadership teams that reinforce Braun's design legacy and the importance of the people behind the process, Braun: Designed to Keep unpacks the brand's core values - such as simplicity, usefulness, and longevity - that changed the way household products are perceived, designed, and used.

Designed to Keep

Braun

Dieter Rams

Matthias K. Wagner

Less, but better: The motto of the Frankfurt designer Dieter Rams is still topical today and very much so. In the face of rapid globalization and an increasing number of premium product consumers, the question on the resources and the longevity of products inevitably arises. The book outlines the prevalent design trends in Frankfurt and in the Rhine-Main-area from the 1920s to the 1980s. For furniture, interior and graphic design made in and around Frankfurt over seven decades, functionality, visual strength, austerity, aesthetics in clear shapes and the visionary element always played a major role. This first compact illustration of regional design also raises the question, to what extent German design in the 20th century defined itself through decentralized but intensively interlinked places and institutions."

Design in Frankfurt 1920-1990

Stahlrohrmöbel

Matthias Wagner K

Julia Koch

Alexandre Wollner, born in 1928 in São Paulo, is one of the most important and successful graphic designers of the second half of the 20th Century. He played a prominent role in the artistic, cultural and economic foundation of the modern Brazilian design and still has an enormous impact on the design scene in Brazil. In South America Wollner enjoys high popularity, but his work has still to be discovered outside this continent. The present publication provides around 120 works of the designer. The overview focuses on the strong influence of the Ulm School of Design (HfG. Hochschule für Gestaltung), where Wollner was staying 1954-1958, and of European culture on the Brazilian Wollner.

Alex Wollner: Brasil Design Visual

Manfred Sack

An unusual compilation of sumptuous color photographs detailing striking underground constructions of all types: subways, sewers, crypts, cellars, vaults, bars, mines, and prisons, to name a few. Long a favorite with art directors, this book will also appeal to architects, artists, and anyone else interested in a unique view of the world below us.

Sites of Concealment

Underworld

Peter Weiermair

Inge Dick

Texte: Klaus Klemp, Peter Weiermair, Kreuzgang Karmeliterkloster, Ausstellungshalle der Stadt Frankfurt am Main, 1995, in Zusammenarbeit mit Galerie Rupert Walser, München

Inge Dick, Werknummer 1995/8

Werkverzeichnis

Peter Cook

Hans Zippert

Gerd de Bruyn

Ulf Erdmann Ziegler

Christian Holl

Arno Lederer

Franziska Nori

s + s 30

Ulrich Mattner

Stephan Morgenstern

Fotografien aus der Arbeitswelt der Frankfurter Finanzwirtschaft.

Frankfurt inside

Olaf Leu

Hans-Christoph von Oertzen

The World of Graphic Design at the Galerie Von Oertzen

Klaus Schneider

Roland Meyer

Heiner Boehncke

Sandra Danicke

Renate Flagmeier

Cosima Schneider

Visitors were forewarned, a hand-written sign announcing: "The museum testifies to the thousand year history, work and labour of our ancestors. The exhibition extends for over 5000 m2." From the outset, it was a utopian undertaking. Not without reason does the lama monastery Shangri-La from James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon serve as namesake to this museum. Pietro Benzi (1931 - 2014) maintained the project from 1965 onwards. He collected what they no longer wanted, what had become antiquated or gone out of fashion: 2.7 million everyday objects, many of which were household effects, religious kitsch, knick-knacks, shoes and plastic toys. This photographic essay takes the viewer on a journey inside his unsystematic collection.

The Museum Beyond the Bridge

Shangri-La

Peter Seidel

Sites of concealment

The USM Haller Furniture System

Volker Albus

Volker Albus's photographs reveal the common functionality that defines modern hotel culture.

Zum Stand Der Heimat Auf Zeit/On the State of the Short-Stay Home

Dear Gast/Dear Guest

A review and prospect of the work of the Frankfurt-based architectural office on the occasion of its thirtieth anniversary. schneider + schumacher covers issues and values which have determined their work over the course of the thirty years since the founding of the architectural office and will continue to do so. Renowned authors shed light on the respective concepts and their significance for the history of schneider + schumacher, while the office's works are presented in large-format illustrations--including the extension to the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, the Siegerland motorway church, and the new pavilion of the Frankfurt Book Fair. In architectural practice, it becomes clear how Till Schneider, Michael Schumacher, and their team implement their thematic and theoretical orientation into their working methods, design approach, and understanding of architecture.

Schneider + Schumacher

Form Design Classics Series

USM Haller Furniture System

Many objects are beautiful; and many creations are functional. But only few achieve enduring status. The "Design Classics" series presents such select products that have set standards in form, function and brand communication. Each monograph is a richly illustrated essay and product portrait, from conception to production, from prototype to collectors' item.

The USM Furniture System

Sketches, models and prototypes from the Lamy Archive in Heidelberg explain the design process of the LAMY fountain pen and other writing tools.

50 YEARS OF LAMY DESIGN

THINKING TOOLS

Klaus Klemp

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