Editorial: The Power of Design
Text: Stephan Ott
Translation: Emily J. McGuffin
“We must learn more”, states Hartmut Esslinger in the interview we conducted with him on the occasion of frog design’s 50th anniversary. That seems like an innocent enough sentence, one likely to whoosh inconsequentially past those who are focused solely on the generation of interest on social media.
Filter: Posters in Motion
Text: Kim Kaborda
Translation: Emily J. McGuffin
Posters, a medium which had previously been conceived largely in static terms, are now being designed with movement in mind, above all in the university landscape and in the cultural sector.
Focus: #instagrammable
Text: Julia Mederus
Translation: Iain Reynolds
Objects are not inherently photogenic; instead they are rendered attractive via the process of being photographed. Thanks to Instagram, this process has become an everyday ritual and is changing the way we look at things, what we buy, and what we eat.
Files: Pose
Text: Anton Rahlwes
Translation: Emily J. McGuffin
In the shadow of a supposedly intact world of white New Yorkers, a queer community emerges that, even if it wanted to, does not fit into the bigoted picture.
2017 marked the 60th anniversary of form, a milestone that has prompted us to stop and take stock. In particular, we were revisiting a specific article, reader’s letter, image, cover, etc. from each of the magazine’s six decades to date.
Revisit historical starting points
All the issues of form published between 1957 and 2011 can be accessed in the archive free of charge.
Visit the form archive
Founded in 1957 as an international journal, form soon became a well-known fixture of design journalism, and with its 280 editions so far has written a piece of design history.
The history of form
