bauhaus N°2 ISRAEL

After 80 years it’s back! BAUHAUS—the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation’s magazine, anyway. Everything from the Bauhaus world: essays, interviews and more. The first issue of bauhaus magazine was published in December 1926 to coincide with the opening of Walter Gropius’s classic Bauhaus building in Dessau. For five years, it reported on the most important modern trends, with Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy, Ernst Kallai and Hannes Meyer contributing as editors and texts from iconic figures such as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Hilberseimer. The current Bauhaus Dessau Foundation is now publishing a new magazine under the old name—to cultivate the legacy of the historic Bauhaus and, given the ideas and approaches of the historic Bauhaus, to address issues of design in the present-day environment. The biannual magazine aims to focus not only on activities in Dessau, but also on those of an international network exploring issues of design. The magazine itself provides a platform for contemporary design, choosing a new graphic designer each year to produce two issues and making it extra-covetable for lovers of the printed word.

In this issue: The architecture of Jerusalem, called the “White City,” has long been associated (rightly or wrongly) with Bauhaus émigrés. In the homes of German-speakers, one can still find material vestiges of European modernism and sometimes even the Bauhaus itself.

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bauhaus N°1 ARTIST

After 80 years it’s back! BAUHAUS—the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation’s magazine, anyway. Everything from the Bauhaus world: essays, interviews and more. The first issue of bauhaus magazine was published in December 1926 to coincide with the opening of Walter Gropius’s classic Bauhaus building in Dessau. For five years, it reported on the most important modern trends, with Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy, Ernst Kallai and Hannes Meyer contributing as editors and texts from iconic figures such as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Hilberseimer. The current Bauhaus Dessau Foundation is now publishing a new magazine under the old name—to cultivate the legacy of the historic Bauhaus and, given the ideas and approaches of the historic Bauhaus, to address issues of design in the present-day environment. The biannual magazine aims to focus not only on activities in Dessau, but also on those of an international network exploring issues of design. The magazine itself provides a platform for contemporary design, choosing a new graphic designer each year to produce two issues and making it extra-covetable for lovers of the printed word.

In this issue: This inaugural issue focuses on different figurations of “the artist” figure—as generalist, programmer, researcher, pedagogue, teacher, curator and aesthetician.

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BAUHAUS N°6: SCHLEMMER!

Philipp Oswalt (Ed.)

Some 70 years after the death of Oskar Schlemmer, bauhaus magazine casts a light on the achievements of the Bauhaus theater and dance legend. The new issue is published in conjunction with Human-Space-Machine, an exhibition at Bauhaus Dessau of products, designs and concepts examining the Bauhaus stage and its major protagonists—Schlemmer, Walter Gropius and László Moholy-Nagy—whose inventiveness led to the symbols and images of a new, modern subjectivity. It provocatively delves into questions about the relationship between human and machine, the industrialization of human beings and the humanization of the machine, among other topics, considering progress in the fields of genetics, neurobiology and communications technology and bringing forward Schlemmer’s innovations and experiments to the present moment. Designed by cyan, Berlin.

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BLESS

Retrospective Home Nº30 – Nº41

Heralded as one of fashion’s most innovative designers, the Paris and Berlin-based duo BLESS (Désirée Heiss and Ines Kaag) refuse to capitalize on any one milieu, and instead explore the differences between and the mixing of the systems of art, fashion, and design. This book brings together visual and written documentation of BLESS’s last twelve collections (N° 30-N° 41), continually prompting and challenging the question of where a product begins and ends. Their latest project, N° 41 Retroperspective Home, culminates in an exhibition / intervention of the same title at the Kunsthaus.” The hybrid nature of [BLESS’s] output cries out to be tackled by an institution like ours,” state the curators of the exhibition,” but at the same time makes it very difficult to do so … This is precisely where the challenge of our exhibition lies, seeing art as design and fashion as architecture.”

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BOLTED DOORGESCHOTEN

Maarten Kolk

People eat vegetables every day, but how many actually look at them? Arising from Dutch designer Maartin Kolk’s fascination with vegetable gardens and his belief that everyday objects are too often taken for granted, Bolted is a sun-drenched collection of color photos detailing the extraordinary colors and shapes of bolted vegetable plants - that is, plants that have gone past ripeness to an overgrown state that is useless in the garden but beautiful to the eye. For this stunning, small format book, Kolk observed a vegetable garden and highlighted its hidden splendor, from carrot to zucchini.

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BOOKS ON JAPAN 1931–1972

Japanese Propaganda Books

Yoshiyuki Morioka

How did the Japanese see themselves from 1931 to 1972? Even more importantly, how did the Japanese want the rest of the world to see them during those four pivotal decades? This controversial, unprecedented book, selected from a massive private collection of magazines and newspapers, takes an in-depth look at the information, news, photos and advertisements used in Japanese propaganda books, illustrating the radical sociopolitical evolution of the nation and culture throughout that period of the 20th century. “Propaganda” is defined here as publications promoting political, military and cultural ideas, ranging from national magazines such as Nippon and Front (with a feature on Japan’s “crack airborne paratroop units”) to corporate documents that include a beautifully designed brochure on the facilities for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. The Japanese have been notably slow to acknowledge the excesses and atrocities of the militaristic regime that led the nation into World War II; this elegantly designed book combats that resistance and opens a door to show what the government and corporate communicators were feeding to the public at the time. It also reveals the roots of Japan’s unique modern design aesthetic in the work of some of the nation’s finest graphic artists.

Iconic Japanese graphic designers and photograpers featured include Takashi Kono, Fumio Yamana, Yusaku Kamekura, Goro Kumada, Shihachi Fujimoto and Hiromu Hara in graphic design and Ihei Kimura, Yonosuke Natori Yoshio Watanabe, Ken Domon and Hiroshi Hamaya in photography.

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Francine Broos

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Butterfly

100 royalty free jpeg files

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Camouflage Patterns

100 royalty free jpeg files

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LIBIA CASTRO & ÓLAFUR ÓLAFSSON

Under Deconstruction
Icelandic Pavilion – 54th Venice Biennale, 2011

Ellen Blumenstein

The internationally renowned Spanish-Icelandic duo of Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson bring their uniquely attentive, analytical gaze to the Icelandic Pavilion at 2011 Venice Biennale. This book, like the Venice installation, is conceived as a first comprehensive overview and in-depth analysis of more than ten years of their artistic practice, leading up to their most current works. Ólafsson and Castro are known for working in situ, tailoring their media and approach to environments ranging from museums and galleries to radio, newspapers, television and public spaces. Their collaborators can be CEOs, fortune tellers or the homeless; their sites, the streets of Istanbul or the catacombs of Naples.

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