Area_2is the second volume in the graphics version of Phaidon's award-winning series of curated compendiums, which includes Cream, Fresh Cream, Blink, 10x10, 10x10_2, and Spoon. Covering all manifestations of printed graphics created by the world's most visionary designers, Area_2 presents the posters, books, magazines, typography, packaging, and ephemera that has influenced visual culture over the past five years.

Constructions is a heavily illustrated overview of Swiss graphic designer Ruedi Baur's work over the last four years. Baur directs a Paris-based graphic design studio that specializes in creating complex identification and orientation programs for museums, parks, office buildings, and even cities.

The design, resulting from the architectural competition combines advanced urban-architectonic concepts with the corporate identity of adidas. The dynamics of the brand finds itself in the arrangement and rhythm of the single buildings. A curved yet compact ?Corporate Architecture? has been created.

Previously unpublished new projects are thematically integrated into the evolution of Baur's oeuvre. The book thus reveals a conceptual and design constant, or even fascination, in the work of Ruedi Baur. Thus the book reveals a conceptual and design constant, or even fascination, in the work of Ruedi Baur. Five years after the success of Ruedi Baur, Integral et associ s, the author takes stock and manifests the principles of his design work and attitude. Five years after the success of Ruedi Baur Integral et associ s, the author takes stock and manifests the principles of his design work and attitude.

Design ist eines der attraktivsten Studiengebiete geworden. Aus guten Gründen, denn man beginnt allerorten zu verstehen, wie sehr Gestaltung das Leben konturiert, Erfahrungen formiert und neue Erkenntnisse vermittelt. Ruedi Baurs und Michael Erlhoffs grundlegende Einführung in Vielfalt und Qualität des Design-Studiums bietet Informationen über Aktualität und Komplexität von Design, Studieninhalte, qualifikatorische Voraussetzungen, Studienorte und vieles mehr.

Sieben Begriffe hat Ruedi Baur gewAhlt um seine konzeptionelle Haltung zu umschreiben: Antizipieren, Hinterfragen, Identifizieren, Kontextualisieren, Irritieren, Einschreiben und Aoebersetzen. Sie dienen als Struktur des Buches und als Basis fA1/4r sieben Dialoge zwischen ihm und GesprAchspartnern aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen. Dazwischen wird die praktische Umsetzung der Begriffe anhand verschiedener Projekte aus seinem Atelier Integral in ZA1/4rich und Paris prAsentiert, die ihrerseits nach Begriffen wie adAquat, farblos oder transparent sortiert sind. Unpublizierte neue Projekte werden dadurch thematisch integriert in die Entwicklung des Werkes von Baur. Das Buch ermAglicht so eine konzeptuelle und gestalterische Konstante oder auch Faszination der Arbeit von Ruedi Baur festzustellen. FA1/4nf Jahre nach dem Erfolg von "Ruedi Baur, Integral et associA(c)s" zieht der Autor Bilanz und manifestiert die GrundsAtze seiner gestalterischen Arbeit und Haltung.

Designers, graphic artists, architects, and urban planners are now confronted with the tasks of signage, route management, and information and orientation systems. With this book they can profit from a broad view of phenomena related to disorientation - disorientation in scientific disciplines, in our environments. On the one hand, this should make it possible to benefit from attitudes to the topic derived from experience and to move from confusion to visual reflection. On the other hand, it will enable scholarly disciplines to explore the formation of categories that can move things forward. Text in English/German/French 300 illustrations

"The theme of this publication is networks seen from various points of view, from the rehabilitation of some apparently questionable practices to why professional networks are necessary".--Back cover.

"Scents of the City" is a collection of small samples and patterns from a wide range of the public spaces in a city; it is the result of an obsession to collect what visually denotes the flavour of a city which is so difficult to describe with words. 1500 illustrations