Gestalten
Gestalten specializes in developing content for aficionados of cutting-edge visual culture worldwide. By drawing from a variety of influences and combining them in unprecedented ways, the aim is to push creative expression to new frontiers and present contemporary trends with timeless substance.
For more recent and forthcoming design books from Gestalten visit the Designers & Books Online Book Fair.
Featured Books
Videos
Oliver Jeffers, author of Neither Here Nor There, talks about kids as critics, the art of storytelling, quantum physics.
Brazilian artist Stephan Doitschinoff, subject of a recently published second monograph, CRAS.
London’s Alex Binnie and Duncan X, featured in Forever: The New Tattoo, talk about tattoo as an art form.
Selected Backlist
Dennis Busch
Robert Klanten Hendrik Hellige 2013
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Andrew Losowsky
Sven Ehmann Robert Klanten 2013
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Robert Klanten
Lukas Feireiss 2009
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Olaf Hajek
Robert Klanten Editor Hendrik Hellige Editor 2012
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Sven Ehmann Editor
Sofia Borges Editor 2013
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Robert Klanten Editor
Sven Ehmann Editor Stephan Bohle Editor 2012
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Christoph Niemann
2013
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Sven Ehmann Editor
Robert Klanten Editor, et al. 2013
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Design Hotels Editor
2013
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Robert Klanten
Hendrik Hellige 2012
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Silke Krohn Editor
2012
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Robert Klanten Editor
Floyd Schulze Editor 2012
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Robert Klanten Editor
Matthias Hübner Editor Andrew Losowsky Editor 2013
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Robert Klanten
Sven Ehmann 2012
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Robert Klanten Editor
Sven Ehmann Editor Sofia Borges Editor Lukas Feireiss Editor 2012
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Jan Middendorp Editor
Hendrik Hellige Editor Robert Klanten Editor 2012
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Robert Klanten Editor
Matthias Hübner Editor 2012
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Arnd Friedrichs Editor
Kerstin Finger Editor Contributions by Alice Rawsthorn et al. 2010
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Robert Klanten Editor
Anna Sinofzik Editor Floyd Schulze Editor 2013
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Robert Klanten
Anna Sinofzik 2012
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Sebastian Errazuriz
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Robert Klanten Editor
Sven Ehmann Editor Sofia Borges Editor 2012
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Robert Klanten
Hendrik Hellige 2013
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Robert Klanten Editor
Hendrik Hellige Editor 2012
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Robert Klanten Editor
Hendrik Hertzberg Editor Adeline Mollard Editor Anna Sinofzik Editor 2012
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Robert Klanten Editor
Sven Ehmann Editor, et al. 2013
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Emma Fexeus Editor
Sven Ehmann Editor 2013
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Robert Klanten Editor
Sven Ehmann Editor 2012
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Salvator-John Liotta Editor
Matteo Belfiore Editor 2012
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
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Sven Ehmann Editor
Sofia Borges Editor 2013
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Robert Klanten
Sven Ehmann Sofia Borges 2012
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Marilyn Neuhart
John Neuhart 2010
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Robert Klanten
Sven Ehmann Anna Sinofzik 2012
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Robert Klanten Editor 2013
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
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Announcements
Louis Kahn: The Importance of a Drawing
Louis Kahn: The Importance of a Drawing
Edited by Michael Merrill
Publisher: Lars Müller Publishers
Published: October 2021
The first in-depth study of drawings as primary sources of insight into architect Louis Kahn’s architecture and creative imagination. Based on unprecedented archival research, with over 900 illustrations and written contributions by Michael Benedikt, Michael Cadwell, David Leatherbarrow, Louis Kahn, Nathaniel Kahn, Sue Ann Kahn, Michael J. Lewis, Robert McCarter, Michael Merrill, Marshall Meyers, Jane Murphy, Gina Pollara, Harriet Pattison, Colin Rowe, David Van Zanten, Richard Wesley, and William Whitaker.
Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People by Debbie Millman
Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World's Most Creative People
By Debbie Millman
Publisher: Harper Design
Forthcoming: February 22, 2022
Debbie Millman—author, educator, brand consultant, and host of the widely successful and award-winning podcast “Design Matters”—showcases dozens of her most exciting interviews, bringing together insights and reflections from today’s leading creative minds from across diverse fields.
Design Emergency: Building a Better Future by Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli
Design Emergency: Building a Better Future
By Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Forthcoming May 25, 2022
Rawsthorn and Antonelli tell the stories of the remarkable designers, architects, engineers, artists, scientists, and activists who are at the forefront of positive change worldwide. Focusing on four themes—Technology, Society, Communication, and Ecology—the authors present a unique portrait of how our great creative minds are developing new design solutions to the major challenges of our time, while helping us to benefit from advances in science and technology.
Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn by Harriet Pattison
Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn
By Harriet Pattison
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: October 2020
An intimate glimpse into the professional and romantic relationship between Harriet Pattison and the renowned architect Louis Kahn. Harriet Pattison, FASLA, is a distinguished landscape architect. She was Louis Kahn’s romantic partner from 1959 to 1974, and his collaborator on the landscapes of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, and the F.D.R. Memorial/Four Freedoms Park, New York. She is the mother of their son, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn.
Reading Graphic Design History: Image, Text, and Context by David Raizman
Reading Graphic Design History: Image, Text, and Context
By David Raizman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Published: December 2020
An innovative approach to graphic design that uses a series of key artifacts from the history of print culture in light of their specific historical contexts. It encourages the reader to look carefully and critically at print advertising, illustration, posters, magazine art direction, and typography, often addressing issues of class, race, and gender.
David King: Designer, Activist, Visual Historian by Rick Poynor
David King: Designer, Activist, Visual Historian
By Rick Poynor
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: September 2020
A comprehensive overview of the work and legacy of David King (1943–2016), whose fascinating career bridged journalism, graphic design, photography, and collecting. King launched his career at Britain’s Sunday Times Magazine in the 1960s, starting as a designer and later branching out into image-led journalism, blending political activism with his design work.
Popular NowWeekMonth
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- The Illustrated Book in Italy, 1918–1945
- Louis Kahn: A Memoir
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