Books published by Niggli Verlag

Drawing on photographs from his impressive archive, which he accompanies with short explanatory texts, Werner Blaser vividly demonstrates the basic foundations of architecture and perception.

When it comes to the development of a self-made furniture culture, this book project combines time design history research and consumerism theory with numerous historical and contemporary construction instructions and interior design recommendations.

There is a long tradition of comparing cities with organisms as they have similarities in their anatomy. In this book, through charts and maps generated from satelite images various city structures are compared across five different dimensions and their influence on the city's identity through the lived experience of the inhabitants is discussed.

Die Risographie, benannt nach der japanischen Firma Riso, ist ein Schablonendruckverfahren nach Art der Siebdrucktechnik, welches in der Übergangsphase vom mechanischen zum digitalen Drucken entwickelt wurde. Obwohl die Druckmaschine aussieht wie ein Kopiergerät, wird die Farbe ohne Anwendung von Hitze und Chemie auf das Papier gebracht, also energiesparend und ökologisch. Heute haben Grafiker und Designer aus der ganzen Welt den Risographen - und die entsprechenden Maschinen für ähnliche, schon fast vergessene Techniken wie die Mimeographie- für sich entdeckt und eine unerwartete Renaissance des analogen Druckens in Gang gesetzt. Auf eine sorgfältig recherchierte Einführung über Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft folgt ein Beitrag über wichtige Pioniere der aktuellen Risographie-Szene. Im Kapitel Risoworld werden besondere risographie-affine Verlage, Druckereien und Designstudios aus der ganzen Welt vorgestellt. Das Herzstück des Bandes sind wunderbare, ganz unterschiedliche Arbeiten wie Postkarten, Magazine, Poster, Flyer und experimentelle Druckerzeugnisse, die allesamt durch die Kraft der Farben der ganz eigenen Textur und vor allem der perfekt unperfekten Authentizität der Risographie begeistern.

The theoretical insights gained from this provide designers with a wealth of knowledge that facilitates analysis, idea generation, and argumentation along with a deeper understanding of the design process.

Following a first volume with 150 carefully selected exemplary buildings, this second volume features interviews, essays and arguments, as well as transcripts of contemporary publications from between 1949 and 1989.

Innovative and imaginative communications design from the highly respected Berlin firm Moniteurs.

Experiencing architecture means seeing architecture. Certain aspects and contexts of the perception of architecture can best be explained by means of images. This is the idea upon which this book is based.

During the nineteen sixties and seventies in particular Utopias served as a source of inspiration for many architects. In the following decades Utopias continued to be a relevant issue in the humanities, but now tended to be pushed aside in architectural discourse. Re-searching Utopia sets out on a journey of discovery to find the contemporary role and possibilities offered by Utopias.

One discovers Max Bill as the tireless creator of highly individual types and commercial logos as well as a designer with a sense of visual humour. This book offers a comprehensive view of an area of work from Bill: typography, advertising and book design.