BOOKS AND MAGAZINES – Foster + Svensson branding agency https://fostersvensson.com An award-winning European branding, communications and advertising agency specialized in design, digital and innovation. Fri, 07 Feb 2025 11:13:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 The classic and definitive monograph on iconic architect Mies van der Rohe book by Phaidon https://fostersvensson.com/2025/01/25/the-classic-and-definitive-monograph-on-iconic-architect-mies-van-der-rohe-book-by-phaidon/ Sat, 25 Jan 2025 10:31:51 +0000 https://fostersvensson.com/?p=18393

This is the most readable, comprehensive, and beautiful book ever published on one of the twentieth century’s most influential architects, now available with a stunning new cover. Known for the beauty and purity of his work, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe built remarkable houses, skyscrapers, museums, and multibuilding campuses.

“By providing a rich texture of details, Professor Mertins succeeds in making his book an enlightening and enjoyable journey for both serious students of architecture and design as well as those interested in learning more about the creative genius (Mies van der Rohe),” said Maurice D. Parrish, Executive Director of the Farnsworth House. 

Accompanied by more than 700 drawings, photographs, plans, and diagrams, Mertins’ rich and highly readable text traces the aesthetic and intellectual context for all of Mies van der Rohe’s work, with in-depth discussions of his most important buildings and projects. 

The clarity of Mies’s architecture belies the diversity of his interests, which included philosophy and science as well as design, and Mertin’s rigorous and accessible text gives the reader a clear description of all the most important of Mies’s buildings as well as the intellectual contexts for their design. 

Cover and pages inside the book “Mies. The classic and definitive monograph on iconic architect Mies van der Rohe”, published by Phaidon.

Mies book published by Phaidon includes buildings such as the Barcelona Pavilion in Spain; the Tugendhat House in the city of Brno, Czech Republic; S. R. Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, United States of America; and the New National Gallery in Berlin, Germany. 

Published by Phaidon.
Mies. The classic and definitive monograph on iconic architect Mies van der Rohe.

Author: Detlef Mertins

Designer: William Hall

Format: Hardback

Size: 305 x 238 mm

Binding: Casebound book

Pages: 544 pp

Illustrations: 750 illustrations

Publication: 2024
ISBN 9781838668174

Edition: English.
© Phaidon Press Limited

The author

The American architectural theorist Detlef Mertins made lasting contributions to the theory and history of modernism in architecture, art, philosophy, and urbanism. He taught widely, including professorships at the universities of Pennsylvania, Toronto, Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, and Rice. During his career, he published numerous books and articles to great acclaim. 

People culture at Foster + Svensson

At Foster + Svensson we nurture and foster creativity and work-life balance. We believe that people get most of ideas outside of work, while being inspired at any place. Most of the ideas are coming out during open discussions too, which are human, more appealing and have greater impact than the one imposed. Therefore we foster friendly environment at work, so we allow our employees to explore client brands and products more deeply, than just getting the brief from them. From point of being creatively amazed, to point of being punctual towards client. Free to wonder, yet disciplined in work. 

We also highlight the importance of constant informing and educating ourselves, either by upgrading formal education, or by workshops, trainings, conferences accessing and reading high quality literature, visiting museums, galleries, exhibitions, theatres, and events. That is why we encourage people at Foster + Svensson to read books, magazines and articles about art, design, architecture, history, people, photography, popular culture, lifestyle, travel, graphics, decorative arts, science, and technology, but also to educate and update ourselves on client industries, latest trends, reports, and news. Such information we collect, we use for upgrading ourselves in a process of constant exploration and learning, where we set future foundations in the industry we work. 

This is the very reason why we always recommend reading a good book, literature or a magazine, to get and be informed, to see and explore design, layouts, typography, which will all contribute in further education and development of ourselves. It can be either print or digital, but we rather place an accent on high quality informative and educational material. 

The book “Mies. The classic and definitive monograph on iconic architect Mies van der Rohe” published by Phaidon, is a true must-have book within any library, especially for people and companies working in creative industry, as this represents the foundation of contemporary creative knowledge and exploration. 

ABOUT FOSTER + SVENSSON

Foster + Svensson is an award-winning European branding, communications, and advertising agency with heritage back in 1860 and incorporated in 2013 in Serbia, who put forward well-considered contemporary design, digital and innovation. Operating worldwide as part of Fosterova grupa, Foster + Svensson is positioned as professional services company, providing broad range of services and solutions in area of marketing. Having bold experience and specialized skills in more than 20 industries, agency provides services to all company sizes. People at Foster + Svensson design brands, use digital technology, data, and strategy to create contemporary visual identities, services, and experiences to help corporate clients improve their performance and manage sustainable business value for stakeholders. Foster + Svensson design and drive innovation to improve the way world works and lives. Agency approach is to be precise, punctual, and reliable to its clients, where it ran more than 2000 projects while working for major companies to be found in Fortune Global 500 and top-tier companies, such as HVB Bank, UniCredit Bank, Telenor Group, Ericsson, Apple, Vodafone Group, A1 Telekom Austria Group, RTS, Samsung, Cheil, Huawei, Hisense, Ahold Delhaize, Procter & Gamble, Richter Gedeon, AstraZeneca, Banca Intesa, Raiffeisen Bank, Mastercard, Inditex, Zara, Renault Group. Work culture and ethics includes business excellence and delivery of outperforming results.

 

Foster + Svensson is one of the founders of MAI Marina Abramović Institute.

]]> Raphael. The Complete Works. Paintings, frescoes, tapestries, architecture https://fostersvensson.com/2023/12/20/raphael-the-complete-works-paintings-frescoes-tapestries-architecture/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 13:12:38 +0000 https://fostersvensson.com/?p=16007

Alongside Michelangelo and Leonardo, Raphael is acclaimed as one of the most important artists of the Italian Renaissance. For centuries no other artist achieved a similar level of popularity. This XXL-book edition presents all his paintings, frescoes, architectural projects, tapestries, and is the most comprehensive work on Raphael published to date.

“The search for powerful expressiveness is virtually unmatched in Raphael’s work” – The New York Times
Raphael (1483–1520) is considered the most important artist of the Italian High Renaissance alongside Michelangelo and Leonardo. In his short lifetime he created around one hundred paintings and numerous frescoes, including nine fresco cycles, on an unsurpassed variety of themes – from sensual female beauties, antique myths and portraits of wealthy Romans and church dignitaries to history cycles and biblical scenes. He produced altarpieces, as well as designing tapestries for the Sistine Chapel and directing the construction of St Peter’s Basilica. His Sistine Madonna is one of the most frequently reproduced religious paintings of all time.
Raphael was a tireless learner, for whom there could be no standing still, no repetition of tried and tested solutions, but only the constant forward thrust of an inexhaustible imagination. He transformed his central theme, the visionary experience of divine grace, into visible pictorial reality. It was his mature work in Rome, and above all the frescoes in the Vatican Palace, that secured him his place in art history. Admired even during his own lifetime as the most modern artist of his day, Raphael’s mastery would pave the way for Mannerism and the Baroque era.

Pages inside the book “Raphael. The Complete Works. Paintings, frescoes, tapestries, architecture”, published by Taschen.

This XXL edition is the most comprehensive work published on Raphael. The volume encompasses in total 112 paintings and all the frescoes, architectural projects and tapestries in many new photographs and numerous details, as well as the most extensive catalogue raisonné of the artist’s oeuvre. A team of Raphael experts introduces the reader also to the fascinating interplay of art and power in the High Renaissance.

The authors

Frank Zöllner wrote his doctoral thesis on motifs originating from Antiquity in the history of art and architecture of the Medieval and Renaissance periods (1987). He is also the author of a postdoctoral treatise on motion and expression in the art of Leonardo da Vinci, published in 2010. He has published numerous works on Renaissance art and art theory, and on 20th-century art. Since 1996 he has been Professor of Medieval and Modern Art at the University of Leipzig. For Taschen he has authored the XL monographs on Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.

Georg Satzinger, Professor of Art History at the University of Bonn since 1997, wrote his doctoral thesis on the pilgrimage church of Madonna di San Biagio near Montepulciano, an important central-plan building of the High Renaissance. He qualified as a university lecturer with a thesis on Michelangelo’s projects for the façade of San Lorenzo in Florence. He has authored numerous publications on 15th- and 16th-century Italian architecture and sculpture, on the history of Michelangelo’s influence, as well as on Albrecht Dürer and Balthasar Neumann, among others.

Michael Rohlmann gained his doctorate with a thesis on the import of Early Netherlandish painting into Early Renaissance Florence. He qualified as a university lecturer with a thesis on the pictorial decoration of the Sistine Chapel. He is the author of numerous publications on Italian and French painting of the early modern period. He teaches art history at the University of Cologne and the University of Wuppertal.

Rudolf Hiller von Gaertringen has been studying the work of Raphael since his master’s degree. He compiled the scholarly catalogue of the holdings of early Tuscan and Umbrian paintings at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt and has also published numerous essays on Italian and German art. Since 2002 he has been head of the art collection of the University of Leipzig and since 2012 Associate Professor of Art History.

Book cover of “Raphael. The Complete Works. Paintings, frescoes, tapestries, architecture”, published by Taschen.

Book cover of “Raphael. The Complete Works. Paintings, frescoes, tapestries, architecture”, published by Taschen.

People culture at Foster + Svensson

At Foster + Svensson we nurture and foster creativity and work-life balance. We believe that people get most of ideas outside of work, while being inspired at any place. Most of the ideas are coming out during open discussions too, which are human, more appealing and have greater impact than the one imposed. Therefore we foster friendly environment at work, so we allow our employees to explore client brands and products more deeply, than just getting the brief from them. From point of being creatively amazed, to point of being punctual towards client. Free to wonder, yet disciplined in work. 

We also highlight the importance of constant informing and educating ourselves, either by upgrading formal education, or by workshops, trainings, conferences accessing and reading high quality literature, visiting museums, galleries, exhibitions, theatres, and events. That is why we encourage people at Foster + Svensson to read books, magazines and articles about art, design, architecture, history, people, photography, popular culture, lifestyle, travel, graphics, decorative arts, science, and technology, but also to educate and update ourselves on client industries, latest trends, reports, and news. Such information we collect, we use for upgrading ourselves in a process of constant exploration and learning, where we set future foundations in the industry we work. 

This is the very reason why we always recommend reading a good book, literature or a magazine, to get and be informed, to see and explore design, layouts, typography, which will all contribute in further education and development of ourselves. It can be either print or digital, but we rather place an accent on high quality informative and educational material. 

The book “Raphael. The complete works. Paintings, frescoes, tapestries, architecture” published by Taschen, is a must-have book within any library, especially for people and companies working in creative industry, as this represents the foundation of creative knowledge and exploration.

Published by Taschen.
Raphael. The complete works. Paintings, frescoes, tapestries, architecture.
Hardcover with fold-outs, 29 x 39.5 cm, 5.71 kg, 720 pages
ISBN 978-3-8365-5702-3
Edition: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish.
© Taschen GmbH.

ABOUT FOSTER + SVENSSON

Foster + Svensson is an award-winning European branding, communications, and advertising agency with heritage back in 1860 and incorporated in 2013 in Serbia, who put forward well-considered contemporary design, digital and innovation. Operating worldwide as part of Fosterova grupa, Foster + Svensson is positioned as professional services company, providing broad range of services and solutions in area of marketing. Having bold experience and specialized skills in more than 20 industries, agency provides services to all company sizes. People at Foster + Svensson design brands, use digital technology, data, and strategy to create contemporary visual identities, services, and experiences to help corporate clients improve their performance and manage sustainable business value for stakeholders. Foster + Svensson design and drive innovation to improve the way world works and lives. Agency approach is to be precise, punctual, and reliable to its clients, where it ran more than 2000 projects while working for major companies to be found in Fortune Global 500 and top-tier companies, such as HVB Bank, UniCredit Bank, Telenor Group, Ericsson, Apple, Vodafone Group, A1 Telekom Austria Group, RTS, Samsung, Cheil, Huawei, Hisense, Ahold Delhaize, Procter & Gamble, Richter Gedeon, AstraZeneca, Banca Intesa, Raiffeisen Bank, Mastercard, Inditex, Zara, Renault Group. Work culture and ethics includes business excellence and delivery of outperforming results.

 

Foster + Svensson is one of the founders of MAI Marina Abramović Institute.

]]> Marina Abramović and Hans Ulrich Obrist in Conversation https://fostersvensson.com/2023/09/13/marina-abramovic-and-hans-ulrich-obrist-in-conversation/ Wed, 13 Sep 2023 08:56:35 +0000 https://new.fostersvensson.com/?p=12877

Ahead of her show at London’s Royal Academy, Marina Abramović speaks with friend, curator and critic, Hans Ulrich Obrist about her teaching methods, the threat of technology, and her close brush with death.

This is my 18th conversation with Marina Abramović. It’s a conversation about some big themes of art – death, hope, life, fear. And these themes are, of course, at the core of her practice. Our first recorded conversation took place on a bullet train from Tokyo to Osaka in the 1990s. We travelled together through Japan for a conference at the Center for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu. Since then there have been conversations on trains, in train stations, in cars, hotel rooms, over games of dominoes, in opera houses and so on.

The next instalment of our conversation will take place while she crosses the sea by boat to come to Europe for her show at London’s Royal Academy, opening in September. As we discuss here, she cannot currently travel by plane. This will be my first boat conversation – a conversation on the slow-move.

Marina never works on just one thing – it’s like in quantum physics: there are always multiple parallel realities, many dimensions to her work at one time. While she is focusing on the Royal Academy show, her institute’s curated group show at the Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and her opera, 7 Deaths of Maria Callas, at English National Opera will also open in London this autumn. Then there are several artist books and publications, even her own line of beauty products incoming – her own brand, in a way.

It was, of course, very magical to sit down with her for this Zoom, to add another chapter to our ever-growing collection of conversations.

AnOther Magazine cover page
Photography: Jordan Hemingway
Styling: Ellie Grace Cumming
Text: Hans Ulrich Obrist
Lead image: Marina Abramović is wearing Comme des Garçons

“We should always look at the ideas that are in the rubbish, because they’re the ones we’re afraid of, they’re the ones we don’t have the guts to make” – Marina Abramović

This article is taken from the Autumn/Winter 2023 issue of AnOther Magazine
Jumpsuit with bows and tutu (worn underneath) in polyester by COMME DES GARÇONS

Photography by: Jordan Hemingway

Styling by: Ellie Grace Cumming

Read the full article at AnOther Magazine
]]> Andy Warhol. Polaroids 1958-1987 Taschen book recommendation https://fostersvensson.com/2023/07/14/andy-warhol-polaroids-1958-1987-taschen-book-recommendation/ Fri, 14 Jul 2023 09:00:21 +0000 https://leroux.qodeinteractive.com/?p=5422

Created in collaboration with the Andy Warhol Foundation, this book reveals hundreds of instant pictures by the artist. From self-portraits to still lives, anonymous nudes to New York high society, from Cabbage Patch dolls to Dolly Parton, Keith Haring to Audrey Hepburn, these impromptu images offer a unique record of the Pop Art maestro’s world.

“Before there was Instagram, there was Warhol.”

Andy Warhol was a relentless chronicler of life and its encounters. Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in 1987, he amassed a huge collection of instant pictures of friends, lovers, patrons, the famous, the obscure, the scenic, the fashionable, and himself. Created in collaboration with the Andy Warhol Foundation, this book features hundreds of these instant photos.

Portraits of celebrities such as Mick Jagger, Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Nicholson, Yves Saint Laurent, Pelé, Debbie Harry are included alongside images of Warhol’s entourage and high life, landscapes, and still lifes from Cabbage Patch dolls to the iconic soup cans. Often raw and impromptu, the Polaroids document Warhol’s era like Instagram captures our own, offering a unique record of the life, world, and vision behind the Pop Art maestro and modernist giant.

Pages inside book Andy Warhol. Polaroids 1958-1987 published by Taschen.

 

The author Richard B. Woodward is a New York based arts critic who contributes regularly to the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. His journalism has appeared in numerous publications, from The Atlantic, Bookforum, Film Comment, The American Scholar, and The New Yorker to Vanity Fair, Interview, and Vogue. His essays on art and photography have been featured in more than 20 monographs and museum catalogs.

The Editor

Reuel Golden is the former editor of the British Journal of Photography and the Photography editor at TASCHEN. His TASCHEN titles include: Mick Rock: The Rise of David Bowie, both London and New York Portrait of a City books, The Rolling Stones, Her Majesty, Football in the 1970s, the National Geographic editions, the David Bailey SUMO and Andy Warhol. Polaroids.

Book cover of Andy Warhol. Polaroids 1958-1987.

 

 

Book Andy Warhol. Polaroids 1958-1987 published by Taschen.

People culture at Foster + Svensson

At Foster + Svensson we nurture and foster creativity and work-life balance. We believe that people get most of ideas outside of work, while being inspired at any place. Most of the ideas are coming out during open discussions too, which are human, more appealing and have greater impact than the one imposed. Therefore we foster friendly environment at work, so we allow our employees to explore client brands and products more deeply, than just getting the brief from them. From point of being creatively amazed, to point of being punctual towards client. Free to wonder, yet disciplined in work.

We also highlight the importance of informing and educating itself, either by workshops, trainings, conferences or maybe even better by accessing and reading high quality books. That is why we have rich library at Foster + Svensson, where our colleagues can access books and literature about art, design, architecture, history, people, photography, popular culture, lifestyle, travel, graphics, decorative arts, science and technology.

That is why we have book “Andy Warhol. Polaroids 1958-1987” in our library and can recommend it.

 

Published by Taschen.
Andy Warhol. Polaroids 1958-1987.
Hardcover, 22.9 x 28.9 cm, 2.31 kg, 408 pages.
ISBN 978-3-8365-6938-5
Edition: English, French, German.
© Taschen GmbH. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

ABOUT FOSTER + SVENSSON

Foster + Svensson is an award-winning European communications and advertising agency with heritage back in 1860 and founded in 2013 in Serbia, who put forward well-considered design, digital and innovation. Operating worldwide as part of Fosterova grupa, Foster + Svensson is positioned as professional services company, providing broad range of services and solutions in areas of data research and analytics, design consultancy, digital, operations, strategy and technology. Having bold experience and specialized skills in more than 14 industries, agency provides services to all company sizes. People at Foster + Svensson connect data, creativity and technology to help clients improve their performance and manage sustainable business value for stakeholders. Foster + Svensson design and drive innovation to improve the way world works and lives. Agency approach is to be precise, punctual, affordable and reliable to its clients. Work culture and ethics includes business excellence and delivery of outperforming results.


Foster + Svensson is one of the founders of MAI Marina Abramović Institute.

]]> Bionic architecture by Santiago Calatrava, Complete Works 1979–Today Taschen book recommendation https://fostersvensson.com/2021/05/25/bionic-architecture-by-santiago-calatrava-complete-works-1979-today-taschen-book-recommendation/ Tue, 25 May 2021 08:51:20 +0000 https://new.fostersvensson.com/?p=11865

This updated monograph includes all of Calatrava’s original collaborative input as well as his latest projects. From the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in Manhattan to the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro, discover Calatrava’s organic forms through detailed entries, photography, and the original watercolor sketches that set him aside as a unique creative master.

“The Masterful Forms of Santiago Calatrava. Balance meets movement in this revised and updated edition.”

Santiago Calatrava is a world-renowned architect, structural engineer, sculptor, and artist. From the Athens 2004 Olympic Sports Complex to the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in Manhattan, he exhibits a remarkable aesthetic and engineering prowess with a simultaneous sensitivity for both the appearance and the anatomy of a structure.

With influences ranging from NASA space design to da Vinci’s nature studies, Calatrava’s creations are at once aerodynamic and organic in their associations. Natural forms and human movements inform a number of his projects, with a particular interest in the meeting point of equilibrium and dynamism.

Pages inside book Calatrava. Complete Works 1979–Today published by Taschen.

This updated monograph gathers detailed entries, photography, and the original watercolor sketches that set Calatrava aside as a unique creative master. It includes all of Calatrava’s original collaborative input, as well as new projects including the Mediopadana Station in Reggio Emilia, Italy, the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro, and ongoing works like the UAE Pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai.

The artist

Santiago Calatrava (born in 1951) studied art and architecture at the ETSA of Valencia and engineering at the ETH in Zürich. His best-known works include the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Opera House in his native Valencia, and the Turning Torso in Malmö, Sweden. Calatrava has received the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 2005 Gold Medal. He is based in New York and Zürich.

 

The author

Philip Jodidio studied art history and economics at Harvard and edited Connaissance des Arts for over 20 years. His TASCHEN books include the Architecture Now! series and monographs on numerous major architects, including Norman Foster, Tadao Ando, Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel, and Zaha Hadid.

Book cover of Calatrava. Complete Works 1979–Today.

 

 

 

 

 

 

People culture at Foster + Svensson

At Foster + Svensson we nurture and foster creativity and work-life balance. We believe that people get most of ideas outside of work, while being inspired at any place. Most of the ideas are coming out during open discussions too, which are human, more appealing and have greater impact than the one imposed. Therefore we foster friendly environment at work, so we allow our employees to explore client brands and products more deeply, than just getting the brief from them. From point of being creatively amazed, to point of being punctual towards client. Free to wonder, yet disciplined in work.

We also highlight the importance of informing and educating itself, either by workshops, trainings, conferences or maybe even better by accessing and reading high quality books. That is why we have rich library at Foster + Svensson, where our colleagues can access books and literature about art, design, architecture, history, people, photography, popular culture, lifestyle, travel, graphics, decorative arts, science and technology.

That is why we have book “Calatrava. Complete Works 1979–Today” in our library and can recommend it.

Published by Taschen.
Calatrava. Complete Works 1979–Today
Hardcover, 22.8 x 28.9 cm, 2.99 kg, 612 pages
ISBN 978-3-8365-7241-5
Edition: English, French, German
ISBN 978-3-8365-7242-2
Edition: Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
© Taschen GmbH.

ABOUT FOSTER + SVENSSON

Foster + Svensson is an award-winning European communications and advertising agency with heritage back in 1860 and founded in 2013 in Serbia, who put forward well-considered design, digital and innovation. Operating worldwide as part of Fosterova grupa, Foster + Svensson is positioned as professional services company, providing broad range of services and solutions in areas of data research and analytics, design consultancy, digital, operations, strategy and technology. Having bold experience and specialized skills in more than 14 industries, agency provides services to all company sizes. People at Foster + Svensson connect data, creativity and technology to help clients improve their performance and manage sustainable business value for stakeholders. Foster + Svensson design and drive innovation to improve the way world works and lives. Agency approach is to be precise, punctual, affordable and reliable to its clients. Work culture and ethics includes business excellence and delivery of outperforming results.


Foster + Svensson is one of the founders of MAI Marina Abramović Institute.

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