Excellent survey covering all aspects of the influential British Rail design initiated in the 1960s. The author was Director of Industrial Design, British Railways Board, 1966 to 1986
Published by Danish Design Council, 1986. Square 8vo hardcover with jacket (20x21cm). 120 pp. + XII pages, illustrated richly with construction drawings, plus 6 plates with designs on opaque paper. Around 200 photos and reproductions, the majority in colour. Text in both English and Danish. Light edgewear to dustwrapper else clean and fine copy. Enclosed with this copy a Christmas Card from Danish Design Counsil 1986
This publication documents Bill’s initiative in reproductions of the original display panels and layout plans for the venues visited by the exhibition, and places Die gute Form in a theoretical context that considers its reception and impact within the history of design. The international touring exhibition Die gute Form was conceived by Max Bill on behalf of the Swiss Werkbund and was shown for the first time in 1949 at the Basel Mustermesse trade fair. The exhibition consisted of 80 display panels, designed by Bill presenting a selection of consumer goods from all over the world chosen by Bill as examples of good design
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The first extensive monograph on the most important book and magazine designer Willy Fleckhaus: known especially for TWEN Magazine and Suhrkamp. Texts by Hans-Michael Koetzle and Carsten Wolff in both German and English. 240 pages w 660 illustrations. New copy.
Beatriz Colomina & Mark Wigley: Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design. Lars Müller Publishers, 2019. 288 pages. New copy.
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No Beginning, No End situates Max Bill within the context of his cultural moment. With more than two hundred illustrations of works by Bill and his contemporaries,
