lars müller publishers zürich apr 2012 (2 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - n 2009, Ruedi Baur, Design2context, and the renowned Elisava School of Design in Barcelona launched a call for 'Questions on Design' in order to create a typographical wall in the entrance area of Elisava. About a hundred persons from all over the world, designers as well as students, took part in the exercise. As of today, more than 700 questions have been gathered and put onto the wall. Among them, Vera and Ruedi Baur have selected the wittiest questions for this publication. They scrutinize different facets of design which are currently relevant in diverse fields, such as the natural sciences and society as a whole. The book documents the typographical wall with various photographs. All selected questions are reproduced in their original language. A text explains the idea and the realization of the project.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Klaus Merkel has been photographing stones, rocky landscapes and trees for over thirty years, which he pairs up in double pictures. He portrays the astounding harmony between the animate and the inanimate, between natural and designed manifestations. His previous Album of Stones had already featured fascinating affinities, placing the forest of figures and pinnacles of Milan Cathedral next to the sandstone columns of Bryce Canyon, among others. Trees as well as Stones also presents exciting connections between natural form and artwork, such as the millenia-old bristlecone pines in Great Basin National Park and the decaying stupa temples in Birma. The book thus invites the reader to examine and compare the multiple similarities of diverse structures, be it between a petrified wandering dune and a gaping log of an olive tree in Agrigent, be it between a mushroom rock in the Libyan desert and a Namibian quiver tree.