With Their Own Eyes

Gerald Bast ed
Maria Lassnig taught the master class for experimental design at the University of Applied Art in Vienna. This survey of the work of her former students shows their diversity and individuality across a spectrum of disciplines including painting, sculpture, video installations, animated films and art for construction. Springer Verlag. ISBN 9783211778401. Paperback. $65.

the Velvet Hammer Burlesque

Michelle Carr
Headed by Michelle Carr, this world famous burlesque troupe started the era of Neo-Burlesque, reviving a genre of the American tradition and elevating classical performance. These photographs of the crew’s dancers show the performers in their savvy, witty on-stage acts as well as a glimpse behind the curtain. Die Gestalten Verlag. ISBN 9783899552027. Hardback. $110.

Urban Art Photography

Jurgen Grosse
Berlin is filled with the artwork of international street artists who are inventing new visual codes. But the impressions that these artists leave are inevitably fleeting as their art falls victim to the city’s unrelenting development. These photographs make up a time capsule of both the creation and evolution of the constantly changing images around Berlin. Die Gestalten Verlag. ISBN 9783899552058. Hardback. $135.

Sideways

Christoph Kamps, ed
One hundred top international creatives and leading trend magazines envision a new creative language for expressing green modes of mobility. The rich diversity of work in this anthology shows how greener modes of transportation can shape our future path in a positive way. Die Gestalten Verlag. ISBN 9783899552157. Hardback. $80.

Restart

Michele Calzavara
Why do we make new furniture when there are still plenty of very functional old pieces around? From luxury production to anonymous design objects, Restart looks at the reuse and reimagining of design and design objects. Michele Calzavara writes for Domus, Abitare and La Repubblica delle Donne. Edizioni Corraini. ISBN 9788875701697. Hardback. $95.

Piu e Meno

Giovanni Belgrano and Bruno Munari
A visual game consistsing of 72 cards, each having a different image. Many of these images have a transparent background and can thus be superimposed to compose other more complex images and stimulate the child’s creative capacities. Edizioni Corraini. ISBN 8033532910020. Box. $100.

Pirulin Without Words

Chiara Carrer and Davide Longo
Pirulin is eight years old, he doesn’t have much money and has two grandparents who are a little bit deaf. He sleeps and dreams the whole day, he is always silent while everybody around him speaks in an unknown language. But ... in order to speak with clouds and glow worms you don’t need any words: a sunbeam made of cream and a gossiping goose. Edizioni Corraini. ISBN 9788875701666. Paperback. $25.

the National Park Architecture Sourcebook

Harvey Kaiser
For more than a century, the National Park Service, private individuals, and small businesses have constructed a variety of structures on America’s national parklands. Organized by region, this unique and comprehensive guidebook covers America’s most significant historic park-based architectural treasures. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9781568987422. Paperback. $70.

Matrix

Sabine Mostegl
An examination of the relational category of gender in works of art of the last 40 years with discussion of central themes such as body, identity construction, self dramatisation, representation criticism and the writing of art history. Includes a reprint of the essential text Painted Ladies. Springer Verlag. ISBN 9783211783160. Paperback. $54.80.

Mario Cucinella Works at MCA

Mario Cucinella
A survey of the architectural and design work of Italian architect Mario Cucinella based around the themes of light, materials, tools, energy and landscape. His buildings include civic offices for the Bologna City Council and the head office for iGuzzini. The Plan. ISBN 8885980414. Hardback. $127.50.

Leisurama Now

Paul Sahre
In the early 1960s you could walk into Macy’s and leave with a fully furnished house, complete with furniture, appliances, dinner service, towels, napkins, beds, sheets, even toothbrushes. Paul Sahre uncovers the mystery of this legendary slice of architectural Americana and lovingly documents its 40 year history. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9781568987095. Hardback. $69.50.

I Keep Changing

Bob Gill and Alastair Reid
Originally published in 1971, I Keep Changing is a classic among children’s books: a series of little and big occurrences of everyday relativity, in which we are brave or afraid, slow or fast, gluttonous or full up with food. For the immediacy of its images and the freshness of its drawings, it is a definition of changing from a child’s point of view. Edizioni Corraini. ISBN 9788875701528. Paperback. $37.50.

House of Concepts

Frame, eds
House of Concepts presents the legendary Design Academy Eindhoven, the Netherlands’ leading institution for developing design talent, which has produced a veritable who’s who of the country’s creative scene. The book not only features the school’s graduates and their work, but also gives insight into the conceptual design for which the Netherlands is famous. Die Gestalten Verlag. ISBN 9783899553031. Hardback. $135.

Hijacked

Mark McPherson, ed
Brings together for the first time an uncompromising movement of international cultural exchange, presenting the most diverse and provocative new photography from Australia and America, erasing traditional boundaries between artists, professionals and emerging talent in order to point towards the future of contemporary photography. Big City Press. ISBN 9789889959135. Hardback. $100.

Green Designed Future Cars

Ulrich Bethscheider-Keiser
From eco-niche to mega-trend: the new Green Designed series presents the most exciting examples of eco-design the creative world has to offer. The first volume introduces more than 40 car designs that will change the world: cars that are already in mass production as well as those soon to be produced as well as concepts for the future. AVedition. ISBN 9783899860986. Hardback. $70.

Frank Lloyd Wright (2nd expanded edition)

Daniel Treiber
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) exercised a shaping influence on architectural history throughout the world as only very few other architects beside him have done. Daniel Treiber has produced a well-researched and thorough presentation that highlights the fundamental aspects of the architect's work that are relevant from a contemporary perspective. Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 9783764386979. Hardback. $93.50.

Form 219

form eds
This issue of form magazine takes a close look at sports clothing and the almost total lack of innovation from the major brands. Also articles on green car design, the poetry of cycling, Esquire magazine’s iconic cover featuring Muhammad Ali as St Sebastian and much more. Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 9783764386153. Paperback. $36.

Exit Architecture

Stephan Truby
An entertaining and stimulating manifesto on the subject of the relationship of architecture to politics, war and religion. From Roman temples and Washington’s corridors of power to the anti-panic architecture of Mecca, it becomes clear that architecture is capable of altering cultures, empires and even religions. Springer Verlag. ISBN 9783211779699. Paperback. $46.50.

Design Hotels Yearbook 2008

Design Hotels eds
The 668-page yearbook contains detailed information about the architecture, design and location of 162 Design Hotel as well as the distinctive features that make each of them so special. Not only an essential reference for architects and interior designers, but is also an inspiring source of new and attractive destinations for unconventional, style-conscious travellers. Die Gestalten Verlag. ISBN 9783899552041. Hardback. $105.

Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany 2008

Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany, eds
Widely regarded as the design award of all design awards the Design Award is Germany’s highest distinction in the field of design. This year the newly appointed jury singled out 25 especially outstanding products from a total of more than 1000 submissions to receive the five gold and 20 silver awards. Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 9783764386184. Hardback. $98.50.

Cityscape

Arne Quinze
Cityscape is a colossal wooden sculpture in Brussels’ Quartier Louise. With it, the artist and designer Arne Quinze has shown how creative visions at the intersection of architecture, art, design and urban planning can make a social and structural impact on their surroundings. Die Gestalten Verlag. ISBN 9783899552034. Hardback. $95.

Bruno Munari Il Disegno, Il Design

CSAC eds
In 1979 Munari donated part of his personal archive to the CSAC: a sort of encyclopedic collection of solutions for possible answers. This book includes more than 500 colour images from the Bruno Munari Fund in the archive with the corresponding index cards and a bibliography of the most important publications about Bruno Munari’s works. Edizioni Corraini. ISBN 9788875701604. Paperback. $100.

Arabesque

Ben Wittner, et al
Arabesque investigates the current creative potential of the Arab world and Persia with examples of recent innovative and groundbreaking design work that is inspired by the richness of the region’s visual culture. In addition to a wide range of Arabic fonts and typefaces, it presents graphic design, modern calligraphy, logos and illustration. Die Gestalten Verlag. ISBN 9783899552065. Hardback and CD-ROM. $115.

ABC with Imagination

Bruno Munari
Made for Danese in 1960, this game merges Munari’s interest in the world of children with his research about multiples. 26 linear and circular elements can make up any letter of the alphabet, or whatever the imagination suggests. These elements are also flexible and modular, so that they can be moved closer to each other or superimposed. Edizioni Corraini. ISBN 80335232910013. Box. $75.