Superflex: Tools (2003)

“Tools is a publication conceived as a workbook with examples and instructions as to how the SUPERFLEX tools might be used. The first section – primarily image based with brief texts – examines some of SUPERFLEX’s projects. The second part is a collection of essays presenting various reflections on tools and their users written by Doris Berger, Charles Esche, Mika Hannula, Andreas Spiegl and Barbara Steiner. The third section focus’s on SUPERFLEX’s activities and the people involved.”

Edited by Babara Steiner in collaboration with Superdesign
Designed by Rasmus Koch
Publisher Verlag Der Büchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2003
ISBN 3822877433, 9783822877432
290 pages
via Superflex

Publisher
WorldCat

PDF (10 MB)

Martin Conrads, Franziska Morlok (eds.): War postdigital besser? (2014) [German/English]

“The book War postdigital besser? [Was post-digital better?] originates from a course at the Berlin University of the Arts’ Visual Communication department entitled Postdigital ist besser which was composed around the relationship between the physical and the digital in book making. War postdigital besser? documents the respective works by the around 20 students but also takes a step further by posing this exact question to five selected authors from the fields of media studies and design: Manuel Bürger, Jan Distelmeyer, Nina Franz, Clemens Jahn and Verena Kuni.

The book also contains a foreword by the editors and a transcription of a podium discussion (with Danny Aldred, Kristoffer Gansing, and Siegfried Zielinski) which took place at the opening of an exhibition with the students’ works at the Berlin University of the Arts’ designtransfer gallery in April 2013.

Printed versions of the book contain a used 3,5-inch disk with unknown content. Those disks are also the main (and only) cover design of the book.”

Publisher Revolver Publishing, Berlin, 2014
ISBN 3957630045, 9783957630049
144 pages
Out of print

Interview with editors (Silvio Lorusso, P-DPA, 2014)

Publisher
WorldCat

PDF (11 MB)

Paul Klee’s class notes (1921-1931)

A collection of notes made by Klee while teaching at Bauhaus, now kept in and recently digitised by the Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern. Included is the 192-page book of lectures and exercises titled Beiträge zur bildnerischen Formlehre, created between November 1921 and December 1922, and another ca. 3900 loose manuscript pages from 1923-31, collected under the title Bildnerische Gestaltungslehre.

Introduction (in German)
JPG, PDFs
Selection (JPGs)

See also the printed editions Pedagogical Sketchbook (DE, EN, GR, RU) and Notebooks (EN).