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To understand why The Story of Eames Furniture is "a design geek's dream" (Alice Rawsthorn, The International Herald Tribune), how it portrays the Eames Office "as though we're eavesdropping on the staff at the watercooler" (Justin McGuirk, The Guardian), and how "this book has been put together with almost the same attention to detail as a piece of Eames furniture!" (Jasper Morrison), you need to get to know its authors. So let us introduce you to Marilyn Neuhart with her husband John Neuhart. They tell their tale at their Los Angeles home for Gestalten.tv's latest look behind the Eames.

To mark our three-year anniversary producing Gestalten.tv podcasts, we're proud to unveil the new and improved Gestalten.tv website! A channel devoted completely to our 80-plus beautifully shot films on the leaders, vanguards, innovators, players, and thinkers of our time, the new website is the sleekest, most-up-to-date platform to enrich your viewing experience.We've simplified things and boiled down the films to the essence of what it means to be creative. Check out the new site, and also our new Gestalten.tv trailer that highlights the best-of from the past three years!It's been a joy, and we look forward to the future.

Without dispute, Studio On Fire are masters of the design and letterpress world. Their impossibly detailed work, featured in Gestalten's Impressive: Printmaking, Letterpress & Graphic Design, is the product of love, driven by a true passion for paper and print. Now in their new Minneapolis workshop, SOF principal and design director Ben Levitz gives us insight into the obsessive design process and the beauty of their in-house modern printing capabilities, which include several legendary Heidelberg letterpresses. For Gestalten.tv's new podcast, we're nothing short of deeply impressed.

Illustrator and typographer Alex Trochut synthesizes illustration and lettering like no other. The expressive, richly ornamented typography he creates ooze of fluidity in which movement is practically palpable. One of the most sought after talents, he has created knockout work for the likes of Wired and The New York Times as well as clients including Adidas and Coca-Cola. We met the 29-year old, Barcelona-based whiz kid at his studio to talk about visuals, identities and the legitimacy of legibility.

Ever impossible to pigeonhole, the artist, curator, writer, film director, musician and self-declared beautiful loser Aaron Rose is one of the most dazzling characters portrayed and introduced in Gestalten's Beyond the Street book. Being involved and active in everything street and art and real for a looong time already, having a.o. introduced Shepard Fairey and Harmony Korine to a larger audience he just brought some suitcases of trouble back to Berlin. We met Aaron who would love to see one of his exhibitions vandalized - keep in mind! - and recently set up creative workshops for kids to have a chat about art, anarchy, kids and work for the latest Gestalten.tv video interview.

Established & Sons hosted a series of exciting installations and events during London Design Festival, including a pop-up Gestalten book shop. So while we were on location, Gestalten.tv also documented the design process and interviewed some of the designers and artists - among them Committee, Richard Woods, Gavin Turk and Tord Boontje - using their vision and energy as well as their own bare hands to design against the clock.

How do you call someone of Venezuelan origin with a fondness for French and Greek philosophy, Swiss design, Italian polymaths and Austrian painters, who has worked with British musicians, US-American Rappers, German TV-Executives, Catalan film companies and Spanish publishers and is based in Barcelona? Answer: Latino. Providing evidence of this claim is Martin Allais, one of the outstanding young creatives featured in Gestalten's latino-gráfico - Visual Culture from Latin America. Watch him chat in his flat alongside his cat!

The Catalan "cosmonaut" Alexis Rom and his creative Italian partner Claude Marzotto are a perfect team. Not only because she lets him listen to his music as loud as he likes while working but also because they both love to experiment in different fields of visual communication, mixing illustration, graphic design and printing techniques. Together they run Atelier Vostok - a "workshop for ideas" based in Barcelona and Milan - and were kind enough to let us share their inspired spirits when we met them in the Catalan capital.

Recognized recently for giving Parisians a place to sit in unlikely locations, Arno Piroud crafts together urban art works meant to bring a smile to your face. In fact, the Paris-based contemporary artist has been applying this spirited sense of humor to his sculptural work and street installations for more than decade. For Gestalten.tv's latest podcast, we grabbed Piroud at the book launch of Urban Interventions at London's Andipa Gallery and put him in a hot seat of our own.

They've won countless awards for their graphic work, but now it's time to dive behind what makes America's most venerated general interest newspaper stand a world apart. Graphics director Steven Duenes and his team of 30-some journalists at The New York Times turn around images at a breakneck daily, if not an hourly, pace, sorting and sifting through reportage to provide the clearest visualization of data possible.How the information is manifested – through diagrams, charts, or interactive media – is up to them, though we've grown to trust their authority on all stories, from the sensitive (9/11) to the scientific (a perfect triple axel at the Olympics). In Gestalten.tv's latest podcast, we speak with Duenes and graphics editor Archie Tse on location in their New York headquarters to learn a few tricks of the trade.

You never know what original trickster Slinkachu has got up his sleeve, but chances are that it's microscopic in a big way. The London-based artist uses the street as his stage, setting up teensy tiny figurines and installations that cleverly interact with their real-size environments: a surfer gliding on spilled milk, a pack of deer grazing on discarded cigarette stubs. The results, snapped and uploaded onto the artist's website, are as entertaining as they are astute commentaries on the world around us.Watch our Gestalten.tv podcast with the Beyond the Street: 100 Leading Figures in Urban Art contributor to find out just how he turns such little things into big ideas.

In his oeuvre Michael Schirner treats the visual worlds of mass culture and high culture as well as the perception of images communicated via media.He does not create new images. His images are images about images. Magazines, newspapers, films, television, the internet, advertising, and art are his image archives. Schirner works and reworks that which is stored in our collective memory.His book Bye Bye shows his latest series, 32 coarse halftone reproductions of images that appear vexingly familiar to us, even though we have never seen them in this form. We spoke with the visionary and former "pope of advertising" in his studio in Berlin about the advertising of art, the art of advertising and his ability to be apparently invisible.

Namedropping where namedropping is due: Shepard Fairey, Swoon, Faile, Blu, WK Interact, Os Gemeos, Jeffrey Deitch, Jonathan LeVine, Martha Cooper, Wooster Collective, Brad Downey, Futura, Dzine and Blek le Rat – these are just some of the key 100 players of street and urban art from around the world featured in Gestalten's Beyond the Street with extensive and richly illustrated interviews. We met with Patrick Nguyen, insider, art collector, ex-lawyer and editor of the book, to talk about street and urban art – and the fine art of persuading normally arcane artists to do interviews.

When Laura Keeble refers to herself as "someone who does stuff," she means a hella lot of cool stuff: spectacular urban interventions, thought-provoking public installations, and cheeky sculptures. The London-based artist recently made headlines with a mock-up of Damien Hirst's For the Love of God, bejazzling an anatomical model of a skull with 6,522 Swarovski crystals and showcasing it in a glass box, a satire of the notorious diamond-encrusted skull. Here, Keeble chats with us on location at Andipa Gallery in London for the book launch of Gestalten's Urban Interventions.

Chris Rubino wears many hats, but perhaps the biggest project the New York City-based designer tackled was Manhattan's Distrikt Hotel, which opened in February 2010. Sourcing from more than 10,000 photographs, the artist created bold digital collages – 31 of them, one for each elevator lobby – that also revealed a conceptual brilliance. Guests can whiz 30 floors "uptown" in a lift that springs from the Financial District to Harlem in a matter of seconds; from the Wall Street Bull to the Apollo Theater. It's one project of many for the 2006 ADC Young Gun winner, whose enviable list of clients includes The New York Times, Banana Republic and Urban Outfitters. We swing by Rubino's Brooklyn studio for a chat about digital layering, comic books and how screen-printing is just an approximation of life.