Ruedi Baur

Régis Marodon

Rémy Rioux

Odyssée Khorsandian

In the Time of COVID-19

Financing Our Common Future

Troisième titre d'une collection dédiée au design et au graphisme contemporains, Emergence 3 présente les travaux de 25 créatifs européens sélectionnés par un jury de professionnels (Ruedi Baur, Geneviève Gauckler, Marie-Anne Couvreu, Étienne Hervy et Michel Maidenberg). À travers leurs projets et réalisations se dessinent les tendances actuelles en matière de graphisme, de typographie, d'illustration, de vidéo, d'identité visuelle, de design objet et mobilier... Une carte blanche leur a été offerte autour du thème " la création, du brief à la réalisation " une occasion de découvrir les univers de ces 25 talents à suivre.

Contemporary graphic and product design

Vera Baur

Attac

Civic City

To explain the desperate state of our world, its functioning and malfunctioning, is the ambitious goal of this book by Ruedi and Vera Baur. To achieve this goal they have joined forces with the globalization- critical organization Attac, which has provided them with the data. The publication is a formal homage to the sociologist Otto Neurath and the graphic designer Gerd Arntz, who created the Isotype (International Education System by Typographical Images) in the 1920s. Ruedi and Vera Baur also recycled a figurine system originally developed for Manifesta 11, the European Biennial for Contemporary Art in Zurich. Our World to Change! not only explains figures related to economics, finance, ecology, nutrition, and immigration, but also presents suggestions and alternatives from specialists in these fields and from Attac. Visually deciphering the functions of our world system helps to show that another world is possible and necessary.

Our World to Change!

Eva Lüdi Kong

In a globalized world, Asian, Latin and Arabic characters and visual cultures appear side by side and woven together. The coexistence of different visual cultures is now part of our daily lives and a given feature of our communication systems. But how do we best present information, structures and designs from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds? Visual communication has classically been guided by principles of uniformity and simplification, values that seem unable to adequately cope with the coexistence of different systems of representation. How can we set up equitable systems for cross-cultural communication that honor the diversity of writing systems? What new design values are needed for an age of global communications? In Visual Coexistence, graphic designer Ruedi Baur leads a research team in investigating and analyzing visual graphics from different cultures, with a focus on Chinese and Latin writing systems, in order to identify their specific principles of depiction and the ways in which they visually communicate. From this interdisciplinary, intercultural investigation, the designers recommend appropriate, differentiated design solutions for global communication. Exploring the problems and possibilities of multilingual typography and visual representation, Visual Coexistence advocates for design as a tool of global understanding.

Ruedi Baur

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