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Beneath its inimitable skyline, Istanbul is a teeming, triumphant metropolis that is constantly being remade and reimagined — as our cinematic portrait explores.Published by Gestalten, INSTANBUL: THE MONOCLE TRAVEL GUIDE SERIES is available now at Gestalten Pavilion, Gestalten Space, and in our online shop.

Our new book OFF THE ROAD showcases globetrotters from around the world, as well as their trusted cars, campers, 4x4s, and other temporary homes. Explore the world through the photos and videos taken by the new generation of vagabonds who are choosing to leave behind the 9-to-5 workday in favor of a life on the go. View a short preview of OFF THE ROAD on Gestalten.tv and buy the book in our online shop.

Madrid has thrown off the shackles of tradition: what was once a buttoned-down bastion of conservatism has become Spain's unabashed centre of the avant-garde. Monocle Films visits the city to discover a melting pot of talent, taste and tenacity.

Michigan-based illustrator Lucy Engelman takes a highly emotional approach to cartography that balances geographic accuracy with her subjective experiences. Her intricate maps aren't instructional guides of where to go and what to see. Instead, they are embedded with a sense of how a place makes her feel. Meet Lucy Engelman in our latest video on Gestalten.tv and see more of her work in our recent release MIND THE MAP.

Artist Carsten Nicolai explores the complexity of math, science, and perception in his compelling art installations. Gestalten.tv visited Nicolai in his hometown of Chemnitz, Germany to learn how the rules of time and space have shaped his creative process.To celebrate Nicolai's 50th birthday, the Kunstsammlung Chemnitz is currently exhibiting his avant-garde artwork UNITAPE until November 8. To see more of his work, check out our new book PARALLEL LINES CROSS AT INFINITY, which showcases his most fascinating projects from the past decade.

In the first of two films to celebrate the publication of THE MONOCLE GUIDE TO COSY HOMES, we visit the residence of Knud Erik Hansen, managing director of Carl Hansen & Son and grandson of the company's iconic founder. Hansen has transformed an impressive Danish estate into a comfortable family home, filling it with beautiful furniture and preserving the property's charm.THE MONOCLE GUIDE TO COSY HOMES is now available at Gestalten Pavilion, Gestalten Space, and in our online shop.

Our recent release The Ride 2nd Gear presents motorcycles as motorcycles are meant to be: radical, stylish, subversive, raw. To celebrate our custom bike compendium, we invited builders from around the world—including Auto Fabrica, El Solitario, Wrenchmonkees, and many other workshops featured in The Ride 2nd Gear—to display their bikes in Gestalten Space. The show also included custom prints by Corpses From Hell and Death Spray Custom and Gestalten.tv was on the scene to catch all the excitement on camera. We would like to extend a warm thank you to everyone who joined us to celebrate the opening of our exhibition The Ride 2nd Gear last Friday. The show continues until November 9 at Gestalten Space in Berlin. A limited number of Collector's Editions—which come with a linen slipcase and an original embroidered patch at no added cost—are available exclusively in our online shop.

Our book FROM TIP TO TOE is for men who are still finding their style and for those who seek to continuously refine their personal look. It features a carefully curated collection of menswear brands and makers from around the world, as well as a selection of recommended shops. One of those makers is Frank Leder, the Berlin-based menswear specialist. Gestalten.tv spoke with him about how he integrates German cultural heritage into his avant-garde garments.

Bangkok is a city both liberal and traditional, where outsiders are always welcome but few can gain a true understanding of the capital's intricacies. Bangkok: The Monocle Travel Guide will steer you to our favorite hotels and retailers, lesser-known neighborhoods, tasty restaurants and street-side bars where Bangkok's bright young things party until the early hours. Bangkok: The Monocle Travel Guide is available now at Gestalten Pavilion, Gestalten Space, and in our online shop.

The Monocle Guide Cosy Homes tells us how to turn a house into a home in which lives can unfold, children grow up, and dogs run wild. Most architecture and interior books show houses polished to perfection, manicured to the extent that it is hard to imagine anybody actualize lives there: they seem to miss the point that homes are meant to be inhabited. Through striking photography, The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes also gives you a glimpse into the lives that unfold in these apartments, villas, and cottages, showing that these homes are alive and that is precisely what makes them special. The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes is available at Gestalten Pavillion, Gestalten Space, and the Gestalten online shop.

Our new release The Still Life showcases the evolution of this age-old genre in stunning product portraiture and editorial photography by some of today's most imaginative photographers, designers, and stylists—including Scheltens & Abbenes. Ranging from minimally understated to opulently glamorous, the featured work meticulously styles objects into elaborate compositions that skillfully meld elements of scenography and sculpture with the art of selling. The book is available now at Gestalten Pavilion, Gestalten Space, and in our online shop.Dutch design duo Scheltens & Abbenes captures quiet moments in their photographs with near scientific precision. The pair's Amsterdam studio acts as a laboratory for their beautiful experiments in conceptualizing composition in which they use products as building blocks to create photographic illusions of depth, light, and color. Join Gestalten.tv for a visit and hear from Maurice Scheltens and Liesbeth Abbenes about their work and approach to still life.

Hong Kong has been a city of many identities: a community of fishing villages, a refuge for immigrants, an international port, and a British colony. Today the city continues to question its personality as it finds its place as part of modern China.The Monocle Travel Guide to Hong Kong will show you where to head for rich shopping experiences and handmade shoes and shirts. Navigate the futuristic skyways connecting office towers and you'll pass over temples from which incense smoke trails towards the heavens. Then there are walks to take you away from the hustle and bustle of Central into plant-filled streets when the din of the city disappears. You will see works by top contemporary artists or get lost in characterful backstreets at your leisure. The mix of high and low will charm the most hardened urban travelers.

If Tokyo's reputation is that of an imposing, neon-lit, modern city, a visit will reveal a very different side: low-rise, leafy and welcoming. For The Monocle Travel Guide to Tokyo, the Monocle team has canvassed the metropolis for places that highlight this lesser-known side. They show a balance of the old and new, the monumental and artisanal. Many are their own favorite haunts: coffee shops, architectural gems, and neighborhoods where you can wander on foot or explore by bicycle and find something surprising around every corner.

Out of the Jar features the best and most unusual spirits from small manufacturers around the world. They are made by a new generation of distillers who are cultivating rare varieties of fruit, herbs, and spices; reviving and reinterpreting high-proof family recipes; or labeling each of their bottles by hand. Gestalten.tvâ's portrait introduces a hands-on whiskey maker from a prohibition-era distillery in Brooklyn, a passionate mezcalero who doesn't chicken out from an unusual recipe, and a Berlin-based artisan whose rum is taking the world's best cocktail bars by storm. Get insight from them and our guidebook for professionals, gourmets, and all enthusiasts looking to enjoy a distinctive drink. Cheers!

New York can easily live up to its movie-star good looks but it can be a city that surprises, too. Monocle has had a bureau in New York since its launch in 2007 and this has made them passionate about this city and its ambitions. Published by Gestalten, The Monocle Travel Guide to New York is a celebration of all that Monocle loves about the city.

Norwegian explorer, lawyer, and writer Erling Kagge illuminates the international art market in his book "A Poor Collector's Guide to Buying Great Art."Kagge's practical yet entertaining step-by-step guide shows readers how to get started in collecting art and how to find pieces that they will enjoy for many years, as well as how to identify and avoid pitfalls and deceptive temptations. Gestalten.tv met the first person to walk to the South Pole alone for an insightful interview at Gestalten Space. Come explore with us!

In cooperation with Bonhams, one of the world's premier auctioneers of classic cars, Jared Zaugg has assembled a selection of iconic sports and race cars that go far beyond mere technical stats and gleaming chrome. Every page of "Gentlemen, Start Your Engines!" gives the reader a sense of the intensity of true automobile culture and reveals the stories behind some of the world's most breathtaking models. Gestalten.tv met Zaugg at the Mercedes Museum in Stuttgart and also spoke with Bonhams' CEO Malcolm Barber about our continuing fascination for these cars and their iconic designs.

Monocle has launched a new series of travel guide books for people who want to get the most out of their stay in a given city and feel like locals rather than tourists. To celebrate the publication of the first edition—London—Monocle has produced a cinematic portrait of this exciting metropolis. From great examples of urban design and lofty gardens to culinary discoveries and the best music venues, this film journeys to Monocle's favorite places in the city they call home.Published by Gestalten, London: The Monocle Travel Guide Series is now available at Gestalten Pavilion, Gestalten Space, and in our online shop.

Monocle reports from around the globe in print, on radio, and online. As its editors and correspondents dart from city to city, they get to know the best places to rest their heads, stretch their limbs, and kick back with a contact in a hard-to-find cocktail bar. That information is now available in Monocle's Travel Guide Series: a line-up of titles that speaks to you in an informed but informal way about everything from architecture to art, late-night bars to early-morning markets. Published by Gestalten, these travel guides are for people who want to get the most out of their stay—however short—and feel like locals rather than tourists. That's why each book has a series of neighborhood walks to take you away from the throng and leave you with a sense of discovery even in cities that you have visited numerous times. The series kicks off with London and New York in May to be swiftly followed by Hong Kong and Tokyo this summer. Cities are fun. Let's explore.

Following today's intrepid adventurers, Gestalten's new book "The Great Wide Open" takes you on a visual journey to the most beautiful and breathtaking places in the world.Through the silent forests, infinite skies, and crystal waters, the photographs featured in the book capture the feeling of longing behind the growing search for a certain peacefulness that is lacking in our fast-paced lifestyles. Be part of this movement by joining a new generation of outsiders who have an unquenchable thirst for adventure. The book also includes a few stories from the people behind the lens-ordinary people who set out to do extra-ordinary things.

Founded in 2006, Behance.com is the world's largest creative network. Gestalten.tv met with its curatorial masterminds at its New York headquarters to find out why millions of people use Behance to showcase and discover inspiring work every day. We also took the opportunity to talk about the online phenomenon's very first book. Just released internationally by Gestalten, Super-Modified explores how classical approaches to art and design are being subverted, blurred, and reinvented by today's crop of emerging creatives Take a sneak peek at the publication and a look behind the scenes at Behance now!

As founder and creative director of 5W Infographics and former art director of National Geographic Magazine from 2008 to 2014, Juan Velasco is one of the biggest names in information design today.While in Berlin last fall to lead a two-day Gestalten workshop, the data visualization expert sat down with Gestalten.tv to share his views on the difference between visual journalism and text-based reporting. He also explains the process behind his own rich yet clear narratives and points out some areas for improvement within this popular and ever-evolving field.Gestalten is also very excited to join forces with Juan Velasco this month to bring our successful workshop The Power of Infographics to Singapore. This two-day workshop, hosted with partner Methodology on January 29-30, 2015, explains the role of infographics in visual storytelling and how to create your own.

Dutch graphic designer Joost Grootens is an expert at filtering and translating complex data into visually compelling atlases with a narrative. Gestalten.tv met Grootens, who is program leader of the Master of Information Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven, during his recent two-day workshop at Gestalten Space.In our interview he offers some insight on how books—and atlases in particular—let us reach a better understanding of the changing world we live in by stemming the flood of images and data. Very much rooted in design devoted to clarity yet not shy of taking an unconventional approach, Grootens and his team are dedicated to creating contemporary objects that offer their audience the ultimate in information experience. Watch the video.Map enthusiasts might also be interested in our recent book The Map Design Toolbox by Alexander Tibelius: http://shop.gestalten.com/map-design-toolbox.html

Gestalten.tv interviews the editor Gestalten's new publication, Original Man, to find out more about the inspiration and work behind the book. Very much an original man himself, the multitalented and charismatic menswear designer traces the fascination for stories of great men back to his early teens, explains how the sheer volume of reporting in the digital era has come to obscure the stories of the genuinely interesting, and stresses the value of the right photograph to accurately convey the essence of a man’s character.

Gestalten's new book “The Map Design Toolbox” by Alexander Tibelius takes care of the hard work in map making. The book provides inspiration and a DVD with 640 ready-to-go vector files of not only continents, countries, and cities, but also compass roses, landmark buildings, place names, rivers, trees, and much more. This lets users concentrate on the fun part of maps, i.e. style and content, and worry less about technical execution.From Argentina to Zimbabwe, romantic Bretagne to Munich's Oktoberfest, landmarks to delicacies: the essential tools in the book will help you create your own illustrative maps and are also available as digital files on the included DVD.

In an interview with Gestalten.tv, editors of Berlin Wonderland: Wild Years Revisited 1990-1996, Anke Fesel and Chris Keller, set the scene and share some of the stories behind the rare images of a city that no longer exists in this form. Berlin then was a place of total freedom, but also of lawlessness and hooligans. A time when MiG 21 jets were re-appropriated for artistic purposes and squatted buildings secured with welded barricades. The video also provides a preview of the material from the book and exhibition: firsthand accounts and pictures that will be new to the public eye.

With “Captain America”, the custom Harley Davidson from Easy Rider, up for auction on October 18th, the renaissance of the iconic chopper is well and truly here. Gestalten.tv meets with vintage motorcycle expert Paul d’Orléans aka the Vintagent, author of The Chopper: The True Story released by Gestalten this week, to provide foretaste of what to expect from this bound showcase of the quintessentially American invention. Providing insight into the origins of the chopper and the start of the custom movement, he gives a shout-out to legendary builders and dispels a few myths surrounding this icon of counterculture on the way. Lean back and take a short ride into the American Dream.

“Brew it yourself” is more than a trend; individual breweries are going back to basics and using meticulous craftsmanship to create beers with rich taste. These beers represent a new authenticity and way of life.Gestalten.tv met with beer sommelier and founder of the Berlin Beer Academy Sylvia Kopp, who authored the texts in our new book Barley & Hops (also published in German as Das Craft-Bier Buch), and paid a visit to Berlin-based American craft beer brewery Vagabund Brauerei to offer you the most authentic insight and visual taste into this international craft beer movement. Here’s to you, cheers!

The Monocle Guide to Good Business is a book for would-be business leaders, start-ups and established companies that feel it’s time for some new ideas. It’s a book to be used—write in the margins and turn over the corners of the pages.But don’t expect management speak, nor miracles for untold riches. It’s not a book about staging a revolution. It’s a book about doing things well (from how you run the show to the pens you buy). And even taking your dog to work. The 300-page book features original photography and illustrations printed on a selection of the highest-quality papers; it’s a handbook for those who want to make a company that will last.To be released in September 2014, The Monocle Guide to Good Business is an ultimate reference for doing a job you love. Available to pre-order now at shop.gestalten.com/monocle-business.html

Erik Spiekermann is one of the best-known typographers and graphic designers in the world. Not only does he represent German typeface and corporate design like no other, but his work and companies he founded—MetaDesign, FontShop, and EdenSpiekermann—have also had an unparalleled influence on contemporary graphic design around the globe.At his newly opened workshop P98A Gallery, Gestalten.tv meets with this master, who has been “suffering from typomania” all his life. We learn about the beauty of constraints, the heritage of letterpress printing, and his unusual entrepreneurship principles. This video also gives you a sneak peak into his upcoming Gestalten book “Hello, I am Erik,” the first-ever visual biography of Erik Spiekermann's life and work.

Riding back from Biarritz, Gestalten.tv is thrilled to serve you the first visual appetizer from this year’s Wheels & Waves festival. We just experienced an exclusive weekend full of speed, adrenaline, style, and freedom at the racetracks and amid the roaring waves.As a feast for your eyes, we are gearing up to present an extensive video on the customized machines and classic choppers showcased there. This video will also include some exhilarating rides and interviews with bikers and surfers who are featured in The Ride and The Outsiders. So stay tuned for more!

Let's face it—the golden age of 3D printing has now begun. In all likelihood, this development represents the largest technical upheaval in manufacturing since the invention of the lathe. Sharing a love of technology and experimentation, young designers like Claire Warnier and Dries Verbruggen of Belgian design studio Unfold continue to expand the possibilities of 3D printing and digital production. Recently, the duo transferred their ideas into “Printing Things”, a new book by Gestalten that presents the newest technologies and outstanding projects, testifying the paradigm-shifting topic of 3D printing.Gestalten.tv meet with Warnier and Verbruggen to catch a glimpse into the 3D printing world and its background of what some have hailed as the third industrial revolution.

From Bitcoin Dreams and a surprisingly sophisticated Twitter bird to a hedge fund boner, we were always fascinated by Richard Turley’s radical cover designs for Bloomberg Businessweek over the past four years. In April 2014, In April 2014, news broke that he was bidding farewell to the magazine’s newsroom and moving on to MTV.When Richard Turley joined the magazine in 2010, his mission was nothing less than to reinvent it. In this video, possibly his last interview as Creative Director of Bloomberg Businessweek, Gestalten.tv captures some of his greatest work and the thinking behind the design of the publication. He talks about how he and his team translate the complex, button-down, data-driven world of business, politics, and economics into an endlessly surprising visual package of bold provocative designs—spurring the imagination and mood of the nation every week. We give our heartfelt thanks to Turley for having made business matters so visually interesting.Read Richard Turley’s “The Blessing of Deadlines” essay and learn more about Bloomberg Businessweek in Gestalten’s book Designing News: Changing the World of Editorial Design and Infographics by Francesco Franchi.

Paula Scher, the principal of international consultancy Pentagram, has been at the forefront of graphic design for four decades. Iconic, smart, and accessible, her images have entered into the American vernacular. Scher has developed visual identities and branding systems for well-known clients including Microsoft, Coca-Cola, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Public Theater, just to name a few.Here Gestalten.tv sits down with Paula Scher for a far-reaching discussion as she shares wisdom on strategic thinking, creative process and visions of branding and identity design.The work of Pentagram has been featured in Gestalten books including Introducing: Culture Identities, Los Logo 6, Left, Right, Up, Down, and Boxed & Labelled Two.

Whether hiking through the mountains, paddling on a silent lake, or simply spending a night in a tent far away from civilization, more and more of us are turning to the great outdoors for a touch of adventure. Our new book The Outsiders captures the refreshing ethos of today’s smartly successful and design-literate outdoor entrepreneurs. Better, hipper, lighter, and sturdier—the products and projects in this book are more radical than ever before! Watch our trailer to get a preview of the refreshingly modern images of globetrotters and adventurers captured in The Outsiders.

Hailing from the East-meets-West melting pot Istanbul, Autoban’s Seyhan Özdemir and Sefer Çağlar have established themselves as stars on the global design scene. The duo create spectacular furniture pieces and interiors at the nexus between Asia and Europe, wholeheartedly melding respect for tradition with modern straightforwardness.Gestalten.tv gladly accepted an invitation by Özdemir and Çağlar to Istanbul to experience some of their stunning “spatialities” on location. From passion and dreams to hustle and bustle—everything that happens in the city becomes their design inspiration and functions to form a distinctive visual experience. Stroll with us here in this mesmerizing city. Çok teşekkür ederim!Gestalten’s new book Autoban presents a rich selection of the studio’s breathtaking projects that are documented in striking photographs and plans. Browse the book: http://shop.gestalten.com/autoban.html

Jonathan Corum, the graphics editor for science at the New York Times, designs print and interactive graphics with a decisive focus on clarity, translating detailed data into something widely understood.Last fall, we hosted a two-day workshop with this true master where we learned more about the fundamentals of information design. In this video, Corum explains how he integrates “art and annotation” to create a unified visual story and tells us how the NYT developed a serious comic to answer the question: “What is the Higgs?”For greater insight into Corum’s work, pick up a copy of A Life in Illustration, in which he’s extensively profiled, as well as our books on information design including Data Flow 2 and Visual Storytelling.

From whom should we learn how to design elegant patterns if not from a Swede? Gestalten proudly presents Lotta Kühlhorn’s practical handbook Designing Patterns, explaining the ins & outs of how to design patterns—for everything from wallpaper to tea services, and comes with a complete CD with templates for your experimentation. With an impressive thoroughness, Kühlhorn shows us how to use everyday situations as a source of inspiration for creating stunning patterns and explores colors, forms, and the best ways to combine them. And you, sometimes without knowing it, have probably already come across Kühlhorn’s design.More videos on Gestalten.tv: https://vimeo.com/gestalten/Special thanks to Museum Der Dinge http://www.museumderdinge.de

In an image-saturated world, British collage artist John Stezaker rather creates more with less. Cutting up yesterday photographs, subtracting pieces, and juxtaposing faces, he transforms found photographs and forgotten postcards into symbolic portraiture of modernism. Stezaker’s artistic interests in examining hidden relations between images have bestowed international success and recognition upon him. We had a precious opportunity to speak with John Stezaker at his exhibition in Berlin’s Capitain Petzel Gallery.Featured in the celebrated group exhibition The Age of Collage, his topical work is now on display at Gestalten Space in Berlin until January 12, 2014. The accompanying book “The Age of Collage: Contemporary Collage in Modern Art,” takes an even more insightful behind-the-scenes look at those working with this interdisciplinary and cross-media approach.

Award-winning illustrator Christoph Niemann’s interactive hand-drawn animations gained his Petting Zoo App an international sensation. Now, 36 of the charmingly funny animal characters are found on the colorful cards of his new Petting Zoo Memo Game from Gestalten. Also a fan of Christoph Niemann’s work, the Gestalten.tv team met with the world-acclaimed artist for a chat, talking about the lasting joy of game playing and his motif to stretch your brain muscles with these adorable, made-to-stick animals.

Celebrity wedding planner and stylist Fiona Leahy brings a relaxed and freshly unconventional perspective to wedding planning. In her London home, Leahy talks about the newly released Just Married book which reveals her hands-on tips and tricks for creating a relaxed and freshly original celebration—from a bohemian open-air rhapsody to a punk-rock karaoke extravaganza. Follow Leahy’s universally applicable inspirations for not only putting together an incomparable ceremony best-suited to your wants and needs, but to throw one hell of a party that everyone will enjoy.

The world is an amazing place, filled with complexity and contradiction. Today, we swim in floods of data and ideas, numbers and phrases that appear on our screens and in our media. Fortunately, we have storytellers and visual interpreters who explain, graphically, how something happened and what went on. Individually, they help us understand a single issue. Together, they explain a slice of the world.Our recent book “Around The World” is filled with some of the most remarkable stories and and helpful infographics collected from countries spanning the globe. This is the world that we live in, beautiful and complicated, drawn out and explained. Learn a bit more about it in this video.Video production by Jan Schöttler: janschoettler.com

In a world of uniformity and globalized styles, only some cultivated gentlemen retain their independence over the way they dress and live. Gestalten's new book "I am Dandy" by photographer Rose Callahan and writer Nathaniel “Natty” Adams was recently launched at the bespoke gentleman's tailor Gieves & Hawkes, No. 1 Savile Row London. The book documents the well-kept lives of 57 protagonists of contemporary dandyism with a keen, yet empathic eye. Gestalten.tv flew to Brighton, London, and New York to meet with Natty and Rose as well as a few of these extraordinary characters to learn all about their styles, attitudes and philosophies, and discover how dandyism today is a rebellious attitude and obsessive calling that can be cultivated on any budget.

Staged in Berlin’s Kupferstichkabinett, the new exhibition Women, Bulls, Old Masters is a must-see for anyone who think to know the Spanish master: Pablo Picasso. In this video, contemporary artist Jonas Burgert and curator Anita Beloubek-Hammer share their personal views on Picasso with us to celebrate this benchmark event: “There’s one time when every artist looks at Picasso again.”As a visual dialogue about one of the most powerful and fearless pioneers of creative expression, we highly recommend this short film to all artists and non-artists alike.Gestalten is also honored to release the book Women, Bullfights, Old Masters to accompany this major exhibition. Ranging from black and white to colorful, the artwork represents his various styles from classic to cubistic to surrealistic. The publication not only examines Picasso’s work in a historical context, but also reevaluates it from a contemporary point of view.

Monocle is one of the most successful magazines to be developed in the past decade. Armed with an unmistakable sense of aesthetics and journalistic tenacity, its team—led by editor-in-chief Tyler Brûlé—has created an intelligent publication that continually inspires a global readership who is interested in everything from diplomacy to design. For its first-ever book, The Monocle Guide to Better Living, the editorial team looks at one of their core themes: how to live well. In this extended video, Tyler Brûlé and Andrew Tuck of Monocle, as well as Gestalten’s Robert Klanten, talk about their shared vision in bringing together this indispensable ultimate reference for inspirational ways to improve your life. This book is now available at shop.gestalten.com/monocle-guide.html

The motorcycle is back! Similar to the fresh contemporary scene that has established itself around bicycles in the last few years, the motorcycle is currently undergoing an aesthetic resurrection. Gestalten.tv takes you on a visual ride with engines revved-up and roaring. This video features footage and commentary by celebrated bike builders including Roland Sands, Vincent Prat, Ola Stenegard, El Solitario’s David Borras, as well as The Ride’s co-editor Chris Hunter of Bike EXIF. Get an insider’s view of the high-spirited young motorcycle scene, which is extensively documented in our latest release The Ride: New Custom Motorcycles and their Builders.

Inspired by the Dada movement and simply fed up with the society of North England in 1976, the Liverpool-born artist Linder Sterling—featured in The Age of Collage—is known as a true master of collage.For more than three decades, Linder Sterling has addressed identity, sexuality, fashion, and society through her stunning pieces of art, music, and performance without submitting to the Zeitgeist of any given era. Gestalten.tv met Linder Sterling at her solo exhibition frau/objekt in Hanover to chronicle the blossoming of her collage art, talk about “spreading butter” on performance, and let her remind us of what a true glue means.

Infographic guru Nicholas Felton sets the pace for today’s data-based visual narratives through his ultra-detailed Personal Annual Reports and a substantial contribution to the Facebook timeline redesign. In the recent Gestalten workshop, participants were able to pick his brain and explore the fundamental methods of data gathering along with visual storytelling techniques. Here with Gestalten.tv, Felton shares his wisdom on data visualization, articulates the history and catalyst effect of his “Feltron” reports, and of course, reveals the appeal of working at Facebook.

In his current exhibition SPLITTER at Gestalten Space, the young Berlin-based artist Clemens Behr creates site-specific works that are delightfully disorienting with their complex layers and improvised compositions. By laying with both construction and destruction, Behr raises questions about ephemerality and permanency, and in the same way, his installations facilitate a dialog between our perceptions in the second and third dimensions. In this Gestalten.tv interview, the artist reflects on his visions in spatial design, his own visual vocabulary, and his free-spirited, performance-like design process. Don't miss SPLITTER at Gestalten Space, until August 4th.

Monocle is one of the most successful magazines to be developed in the past decade. Armed with an unmistakable sense of aesthetics and journalistic tenacity, its team—led by editor in chief Tyler Brûlé—has created an intelligent publication that continually inspires a global readership who are interested in everything from diplomacy to design. For its first-ever book, The Monocle Guide to Better Living, the editorial team looks at one of their core themes: how to live well. An indispensable guidebook to contemporary life, it surveys locations, products, and ideas to create the ultimate reference for inspirational ways to improve your life.To be released in September 2013. Available to pre-order now at http://shop.gestalten.com/monocle-guide.html

Blank Slate provides graphic designers and advertisers with 1,000 photographic templates of everyday objects for the true-to-life and convincing presentation of their designs—from shopping bags and bottles to brochures and a variety of other products. Because all of the templates shown in the book are also available as digital files on a free included DVD, any creative can easily use them to present his or her work in the way that gives clients the most concrete grasp of how their corporate designs will function in the real world. Gestalten.tv demonstrates how this could look like.