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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Robert Klanten
Hendrik Hellige |
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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
2012
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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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Sven Ehmann Editor
Robert Klanten Editor 2013
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
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Sven Ehmann Floyd Schulze 2011
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Announcements
Now is Better by Stefan Sagmeister
Now is Better
By Stefan Sagmeister
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: October 2023
Combining art, design, history, and quantitative analysis, transforms data sets into stunning artworks that underscore his positive view of human progress, inspiring us to think about the future with much-needed hope.
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
Published: May 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.
Love Letter to a Garden by Debbie Millman
Love Letter to a Garden
By Debbie Millman
Contributions by Roxane Gay
Publisher: Timber Press
Published: April 15, 2025
From the award-winning artist, designer, and the host of the podcast Design Matters, Debbie Millman, this book tells the visual story of falling in love with gardening—and the philosophies that work conjures. Spread throughout are simple recipes using the garden’s ingredients from Millman’s wife, best-selling author Roxane Gay.
Milton Glaser: POP by Steven Heller, Mirko Ilić, and Beth Kleber
Milton Glaser: POP
By Steven Heller, Mirko Ilić, and Beth Kleber
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
Published: March 2023
This collection of work from graphci design legend Milton Glaser’s Pop period features hundreds of examples of the designer’s work that have not been seen since their original publication, demonstrating the graphic revolution that transformed design and popular culture.
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall by Alexandra Lange
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
By Alexandra Lange
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: June 2022
Chronicles postwar architects’ and merchants’ invention of the shopping mall, revealing how the design of these marketplaces played an integral role in their cultural ascent. Publishers Weekly writes, “Contending that malls answer ‘the basic human need’ of bringing people together, influential design critic Lange advocates for retrofitting abandoned shopping centers into college campuses, senior housing, and ‘ethnocentric marketplaces’ catering to immigrant communities. Lucid and well researched, this is an insightful study of an overlooked and undervalued architectural form.”
Die Fläche: Design and Lettering of the Vienna Secession, 1902–1911 (Facsimile Edition) by Diane V. Silverthorne, Dan Reynolds, and Megan Brandow-Faller
Die Fläche: Design and Lettering of the Vienna Secession, 1902–1911 (Facsimile Edition)
By Diane V. Silverthorne, Dan Reynolds, and Megan Brandow-Faller
Publisher: Letterform Archives Books
Published: October 2023
This facsimile edition of Die Fläche, recreates every page of the formative design periodical in full color and at original size, accompanied by essays that contextualize the work, highlighting contributions by pathbreaking women, innovative lettering artists, and key practitioners of the new “surface art,” including Rudolf von Larisch, Alfred Roller, and Wiener Werkstätte founders Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann.
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