With its almost 900 pages, German Design Award 2011 is an opulent collection of outstanding state-of-the-art solutions in product and communication design. In addition to documenting this year's competition and winners, it contains an evaluation of the current influences on design by the German Design Council, one of the world’s leading competence centers for communication and know-how transfer in the design field. This detailed report, with a rich selection of images, puts recent design developments into context. It explains how the various design currents are related to each other and how they are expected to evolve over the next few years. The book not only provides insight into the work of current leaders in the field, but through its selection of winning design ideas, it also anticipates which challenges design will face in the future.

While Street Art was defining itself through stencil graffiti and wildly put up posters and stickers at the beginning of the millennium, those techniques are not quite a sensation ten years later – it rapidly and effective emerged from its self-imposed bonds. To put down a definition, about what Street Art actually is, seems not as easy as someone might think. One thing joins all works in similarity: It evolves out of public space – willingly unasked. In honour to this progress, we are more than happy to present the third, originally not planned part of the series. As being an active artist in this scene by himself and having close contact to it, it was a point of honour for Christian to document the evolution of Street Art in an adequate way.

The Street Art Stencil Book is a pure celebration of the art of the stencil. It is a book of stencils that can be used and treasured or just simply be an inspiration to others to create. The 20 stencils featured, printed on perforated card stock so that they can be torn out and used, have been created by a list of international artists encompassing the contemporary street art scene, from the masters to the new kids on the block.
Each artist has created an in-situ photograph to accompany their stencil, showing how they would use it, along with other imagery. There is also a short biography for each artist.
The book opens with an interview with one of the founders of stencil art, the Paris-based artist Blek Le Rat, who has also created a stencil for the book.