Books published by Lars Muller Publishers

This second volume in the Future Cities Laboratory Indicia series focuses on the tools, methods, and approaches needed for urban research.

Switzerland is well-known as one of the safest countries on earth and as a prime example of efficiency and efficacy. One of the central reasons that such a country exists is the development of a culture based on protection, which is supported by the presence and production of national security.

Call Ampersand Response is a collaborative artwork made through an exchange of images via email. Between 2011 and 2017 Michael Dumontier and Micah Lexier conceived this activity as a way to share with each other their mutual interest in found images, line drawings and used books.

The medium of the poster is distinguished by displaying messages combining images and text on a static, two-dimensional surface. Designers have, however, always toyed with extending the plane by adding a third dimension, whether spatial or temporal, in order to fool the eye. Stop Motion examines the myriad creative approaches to suggesting movement, recession into depth, dynamics, and rhythm. Perspectival narrowing and plastically rendered motifs are among the traditional stylistic means used in painterly and illustrative posters. Borrowings from Op Art or psychedelic art perplex the eye. In photographic posters, techniques such as blurring or time exposure are used to cause an image to vibrate. But sophisticated printing techniques can also broaden the possibilities of visual expression. In contemporary posters, it is the strictly graphic means of writing, abstract pictograms, or geometric forms that stretch out nested spaces, through which the gaze wanders restlessly.Stop Motion reveals that poster designers have in fact traditionally sought to incorporate the aspect of movement. Moreover, the works assembled in the publication show thatΓÇöwith the exception of the current animated poster trendΓÇöthe simulation of movement and three dimensions is always the result of a conscious design decision motivated by the respective content.

Moholy-NagyΓÇÖs efforts to have photography and filmmaking recognized as means of artistic design on the same level as painting are propounded and explained at length. The use of artistic instruments is thus radically reformed. The Hungarian artist makes the case for a functional transformation within the visual arts and for the further development of photographic design options.Alongside theoretical and technical approaches as well as detailed forays into the broad field of the medium of photography, Moholy-Nagy uses an extensive appendix of illustrations to provide a thorough survey of the numerous possibilities that photographic and cinematic work had in store as early as 1925.This English edition appears in original design and with separate commentary.

- Standard work on historical and contemporary Swiss photography - Reader-friendly introduction to the history and culture of photographic books - Accessible orientation guide for people interested in photography and design - The book is published in parallel to an exhibition at the Fotostiftung Schweiz in Winterthur

- Series as a creative design concept - Published on the occasion of the exhibition in the Museum fur Gestaltung Zurich, November 10-27, 2011

A genealogy of self-reliant environments

Of cities and humanity-a photographic itinerary

Innovative solutions to overcome social challenges

A manifesto of a modernist housing ideology

From chairs to paper installations and perfume bottles-atelier oi's unlimited world of design

A contemporary view of Marcel Breuer's radical architecture.

A key work of architectural theory and the analysis of form

The Netherlands at the forefront of design!

60 years of drawing between architecture and art

Is there a place for architecture beyond neoliberal paradigms?

Reprint of the beloved book first published in 1997

Die Wurst ist eines der ersten vom Menschen aktiv gestalteten Lebensmittel: Sie wurde vor über 5000 Jahren entwickelt, um in Zeiten des Mangels das Maximum aus tierischen Proteinen herauszuholen. Bist heute ist sie ein wichtiger Bestandteil unserer Esskultur. Allein in England gibt es über 470 verschiedene Arten von Würsten, die zum Frühstück serviert werden! Und in Deutschland definieren Gesetze die Machart von Würsten.Gemäss der Ernährungs- und Landwirtschaftsorganisation der Vereinten Nationen droht der Menschheit zurzeit ein akuter Mangel an proteinreicher Nahrung. Insbesondere Fleisch wird immer knapper. Ein Grund dafür ist der übermässige Verzehr von tierischen Produkten. Kann die Wurst eine Lösung bieten, um den globalen Fleischkonsum zu reduzieren? Zum Beispiel, indem das Fleisch in der Wurst durch andere, ebenso proteinreiche Nahrungsmittel ersetzt wird?Um diese Fragen zu beantworten, haben ein Molekularkoch, ein Metzger und eine Designerin die Produktionsweise von Würsten sowie mögliche neue Zutaten - wie Insekten, Nüsse und Hülsenfrüchte - unter die Lupe genommen und eine «Wurst der Zukunft» entwickelt. In diesem Buch nehmen sie uns mit auf eine Reise durch die einzelnen Bausteine der Wurst. Sie untersuchen Aspekte wie Konsistenz und Geschmack, katalogisieren verschiedene Wurstarten und untersuchen neue Bestandteile auf ihre Wursttauglichkeit.

Figures explain the world: The visual decoding of our complex world