design&designer

Tabas, a graphic designer with urban culture in his blood, founded TabasTM, an all-round, one-man studio after starting out alongside the members of the tous des K collective. Its scope of activity covers photography, websites, posters and album covers. His highly colourful, playful and relevant designs are, by virtue of their simplicity, accessible to everyone.

In this second version, Ruedi Baur and his multi-disciplinary network of graphic and product designers discusses the status of signage which provides the link between space and visitor, the user of the place. A hybrid of graphic design and architecture, this book provides a unique perspective on places' identity, and on how information is transmitted via symbols.

Having a declared taste for simple and colourful shapes, Geneviève Gauckler is into everything and never ceases to marvel, handling and creating images and shapes with dexterity and innocence. For this brand new edition, Pyramyd has chosen to expose the graphic designer’s most recent projects, as she continues to create a surprising and happy world.

For this brand new edition, Pyramyd has chosen to expose the designer’s most recent projects through 120 pages, as she continues to question our living spaces and suggest alternative ways of living.

Labomatic is a versatile creative platform, carrying out commissions as well as its own, more personal and plastic designs. In this first monograph ever devoted to them, the collective reveals its singular approach, at the frontier between graphic design and contemporary art.

Patrick Jouin works for leading furniture brands such as Cassina, Xo and Fermob. His most recent projects (metamorphosing Lille-Flandres rail station as part of
the Lille 2004 festival, the interior design of the Plaza Athénée, the Spoon des Neiges restaurant and Be) have aroused considerable interest on the international scene. Jouin has also designed Alain Ducasse’s latest restaurant, Mix in New York, which was his first project in the United States.

First posthumous issue in the series, this book reveals the works of a major figure of contemporary graphic design. Funny, provocative, sometimes uncomfortable or disturbing, no one remains indifferent to Roman’s images.

Nous Travaillons Ensemble was founded in 1989 by graphic designers from the Grapus collective. The group comprises Valérie Debure, Isabelle Jégo, Alex Jordan and Ronit Meirovitz. Working mostly on commission, they also initiate projects and images linked to their political preoccupations. Their posters, designs and websites have received several awards.

Does Andrée Putman need any introduction? Andrée Putman began her career as an interior designer in 1978. Her prestigious private clients include Karl Lagerfeld, Azzedine Alaia, Thierry Mugler, Yves Saint Laurent and Cartier. She also designs museums, public spaces and hotels around the world, and even created the interior of the Air France Concorde.

Jean-Marie Massaud has a contextual approach to the various facets of design, centred on the individual and a quest for the essential. His approach is a quest for meaning and that vital emotion that he extended to architecture, when he opened the Studio Massaud in 2000.