As an in-house designer of Penguin Books, Coralie Bickford-Smith creates incredible designs for popular book series that have attracted worldwide attention. Working with sumptuous materials and Victorian binding, she has infused classic book covers with modern inspiration. Her works—introduced in Gestalten’s Fully Booked: Ink on Paper—recall the golden age of bookmakers’ craft.

Beyond the messenger and fixed-gear scenes, contemporary bicycle culture is more fashionable, diverse, and alive than ever before. According to Dustin Nordhus of Berlin’s Cicli Berlinetta, “people who live in a big city are becoming aware that it’s nicer to have a beautiful bicycle than a car.” Gestalten.tv talks to Dustin as well as bike enthusiast Anna Valtonen from Pelago Bicycles, who are featured in Velo–2nd Gear.

“With great power, comes great responsibility.” As the Creative Director of Advertising and Graphic Design at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Julia Hoffmann determines the art museum's brand

In a recent two-day Gestalten workshop, participants worked closely with Jessica Hische (a letterer, illustrator, and crazy cat lady known for her silly side projects and occasional foul mouth, as she jokingly describes herself) to develop a full vector alphabet and learn about drawing type in a short amount of time.

“Design is my conviction and my religion,” says Iranian designer Maral Pourkazemi.

Albio Nascimento and Kathi Stertzig are initiators of an unusual design studio: The Home Project.

“Impulsive people know no limits.” This translated lyric could be the slogan of Deichkind, a German band that manages to constantly and boundlessly reinvent itself.

Oliver Jeffers is a world-famous creator of picture books for children, such as the award-winning Lost and Found.

Despite, or because of, the ubiquity of televisions and computers, picture books have remained popular with kids and parents.

On October 6th, the second We Love Graphic Design symposium in Copenhagen made quite an impact.

The Visualized Conference, which just took place in New York last week, explored the new era of visual communication at the intersection of complex knowledge, visual storytelling and aesthetic design.

In today’s world where information is practically unlimited, we are faced with the fundamental challenge of how to extract, interpret, and create meaning out of the data and information overload.

The Brazilian artist Stephan Doitschinoff has developed a unique and deeply symbolic visual language comprising iconoclastic and folkloric elements.

The suggestion that “tattoos are not just for sailors any more” is a familiar one.

A new tattoo underground has emerged in recently years and their cutting-edge visuals go far beyond the tattoo mainstream.

In order to understand the cross-genre works of the New York-based artist Sebastian Errazuriz, take a glimpse into his Brooklyn studio.

Deutschland verstehen provides an in-depth exploration of Germany that is as entertaining as it is educational. Buy the book through our webshop and receive a complimentary A1-size poster by illustrator Frank Höhne.

Frank Höhne brought us into his home and studio space in Berlin to show how (and why) he works as an illustrator. Pen in hand, Höhne works quickly, intuitively, and spontaneously, rarely with a plan, and always with his quirky and easygoing sense of humor.

Information designers, editors, illustrators, animators, and journalists came together at Gestalten Space in Berlin on July 2nd and 3rd for a two-day “Infographic Thinking” workshop, the latest in a series of workshops hosted by Gestalten.

Although the way we read may change, our passion for the written word is left unaffected by format.

As KLUB7, Dani Daphne, Diskorobot, Mike Okay, Kid Cash, Lowskii, and Otto Baum have made a name for themselves with their street art as well as the murals, customizations, and illustrations which they create on various surfaces.

As founder of the legendary Silicon Valley-based design company IDEO and current director of the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in NYC, Bill Moggridge surely knows a thing or two about the value, function, and importance of design.

As the Henrik Vibskov book launch tour saw its finale in New York last week, we bring you a video recap of the starting leg in Berlin.

For Tehran-born and Amsterdam-based designer, Reza Abedini, graphic design is not merely a visual art form but "a value".

The artist Tessa Farmer creates magical worlds ruled by minuscule fairy skeletons, who are not just mischievous but downright evil.

To describe Henrik Vibskov as merely a fashion designer would be a vast understatement. 

Aram Bartholl’s work explores the power structures, the social systems, the cultural innovations, the inner dynamics, the languages, and the products that are shaping our age.

When former art publisher Christoph Keller stumbled upon sleepy Stählemühle, an old dormant mill turned schnapps distillery, he took upon the task of bringing it back to life.

Heavy metal is a cultural phenomenon that unites its fans across borders, generations, genders, religions, and social classes.

Under their group moniker Numen, Industrial designers Sven Jonke, Christoph Katzler and Nikola Radeljković focus on experimental architecture and spatial installations, meanwhile concentrating on designing objects as their second alias For Use.

Gestalten.tv met a true "Type Writer" and typography expert to find out more about the "GPS for fonts." Alongside Martin Lorenz and Lupi Ascensio of TwoPoints.Net

Francesco Franchi is the art director for IL-Intelligence in Lifestyle, the monthly magazine of Il Sole 24 ORE, Italy’s leading financial daily.

About the Contributor: Former musician and Art Director Hillman Curtis is an award-winning American director, filmmaker, media designer and author. Hillmancurtis Inc. is his New York City-based design and production company which he founded in 1997. Gestalten.tv is proud to present his film about Stefan Sagmeister which is part of Hillman Curtis' Artist Series.

Hillman is currently working with Sagmeister on The Happy Film, a feature-length documentary consisting of a series of self-experiments outlined by popular psychology to find out if it’s possible for a person to train their own happiness.

American artist Mark Jenkins's urban (and rural) interventions are street-smart—in the truest sense of the word.

It all began in 2007 when Nils Holger Moormann had the ludicrous idea of designing a reading chair, derived from the concept of a wheelbarrow called “The Bookinist”.

House Industries has been producing their premier league retro design and their true love… Fonts! Fonts! Fonts! since 1993.

Headed by Prem Krishnamurthy, Adam Michaels, and Rob Giampietro, Project Projects is one of the most interesting design studios in practice today.

When it comes to unorthodox, yet hugely successful ways of producing and distributing cutting-edge furniture and product designs, look no further than a former Philips ceramic factory in Eindhoven.