Design and llustration Books
BIS Publishers B.V. Inspired by Method: Creative tools for the design
Book SynopsisWhat is inspiration? Can there be a method for finding inspiration? Inspired by Method is both a guide to and a source of inspiration.Designing involves individuality and a systematic approach, which we may apply consciously or subconsciously, depending on the project. The 5D-method for inspiration, created by Alexandra Martini, is an incisive little tool that you can use in any design process. It takes away the fear of starting a new project. This method uses the following five dimensions: Formal-Aesthetic Dimension, Haptic Dimension, Production Dimension, Cultural Dimension and Interactive Dimension. It will help you analyse, experiment with and realise your ideas. The first phase of the book will get you started. The second phase encourages you to experiment and explore some unusual paths.For all budding creatives who are involved with design, in any way, that want to deepen their knowledge and intellectual portfolio professionally and develop their design skills further. The book provides orientation, guidance and methodology.
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APE As Real As it Gets
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Hans van der Laans Instruments of Thought
Book SynopsisThe work of the Dutch Benedictine monk and architect Hans van der Laan (19041991) offers important insights into the ways in which artifacts address the complexity of human physical, cognitive, and social needs. Van der Laan developed a number of powerful lines of thought, three of which are introduced here: the search for a theory of architecture; the establishment of a three-dimensional system of proportions named Plastic Number; and analogy as the mainspring of human thinking. This triad of deeply interconnected intellectual strategies represents his most important instruments of thought' and is rooted in the careful observation of phenomena as they are presented to us rather than relying on conventional beliefs. Van der Laan''s instruments of thought lead us to reconsider the origins of human creation, urging a deeper examination of our perceptual and cognitive response to the limitlessness of the surrounding environment. On this basis, Van der Laan develops a unique
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MIT Press Designed for Success
Book SynopsisA charmingly illustrated history of midcentury instructional records and their untold contribution to the American narrative of self-improvement, aspiration, and success.For the midcentury Americans who wished to better their golf game through hypnosis, teach their parakeet to talk, or achieve sexual harmony in their marriage, the answers lay no further than the record player. In Designed for Success, Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder shed light on these endearingly earnest albums that contributed to a powerful American vision of personal success. Rescued from charity shops, record store cast-off bins, or forgotten boxes in attics and basements, these educational records reveal the American consumers’ rich but sometimes surprising relationship to advertising, self-help, identity construction, and even aspects of transcendentalist thought.Relegated to obscurity and novelty, instructional records such as Secrets of Successful Varmint Calling, Y
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MIT Press Ltd Adhocism The Case for Improvisation The MIT Press
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Dover Publications Inc. Muchas Figures Dcoratives Dover Fine Art History
Book SynopsisComprised of 40 full-page, two-color plates of finished drawings in several media, this new volume reproduces Mucha's extraordinary 1905 style book, Figures DÃcoratives, a summation of Art Nouveau art and design. New introduction.
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Dover Publications Inc. Art Nouveau Vector Designs Dover Pictura
Book SynopsisAt the turn of the 20th century, Art Nouveau design blossomed with undulating patterns of luxurious swirls, curves, and highly stylized images. This collection of 203 Vector-based illustrations beautifully captures the period.
£47.87
Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd CII India Design Year Book 2014 Book
Book SynopsisThe CII India Design Yearbook showcases top Indian designs across various disciplines, serving as a global design reference. It features 200+ projects highlighting agile design approaches for client success. Valued by professionals worldwide, it's a collector's item and design archive.
£22.49
Rizzoli International Publications United Arrows
Book SynopsisFounded in 1989 and based in Tokyo, United Arrows is one of the leading fashion and retail companies to ever come out of Japan. Their first book offers a fresh and comprehensive look at the brand and its evolution into one of the most influential figures for style, while their iconic shops quickly became must-visit places for all visitors to Japan.Since the opening of their first shop in Shibuya, United Arrows has redefined the concept of the select, multi-brand store and gained a loyal following thanks to their high-standard customer service. Celebrating their 30th anniversary, this book will document United Arrows' distinctive identity and unique collaborations: from sportwear brands like Converse and Vans, to streetwear pioneers like A Bathing Ape and Stussy; from legendary craftsmen like Charvet and Chrome Hearts; to high fashion names like Comme des Garçons and Maison Martin Margiela. A must-have for fashion lovers all over the world, thisTrade Review"As any fashion obsessive will tell you, there are few Japanese brands more influential than United Arrows. This book charts the brand’s rise to success since its found in the late 1980s, documenting its varying collaborations along the way with pretty much every significant name in streetwear." —HYPEBEAST.COM"This is a monograph that informs, educates, and possibly makes you shake your head in disbelief because it is very possible that what began in Tokyo and grew into to a retail empire as well as a brand didn’t start in Europe or the United Sates. United Arrows is also overflowing with amazing photographs and interviews that testify to the juggernaut that it has become in 30 years." —NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS"Rizzoli New York has another hit on their hands. This time, it showcases the legendary multi-brand store United Arrows. If you’ve ever seen BEAMS Beyond Tokyo, Hiroshi Fujiwara or Undercover, then you already know what to expect. The 350+ page book is thorough and covers everything dealing with United Arrows — historic interviews, archival photography, the store’s beginnings, their collaborations and more. The influence they’ve brought over the years is unlike anything else you’ve probably seen in the world of retail and streetwear, so get ready for a ride with this book." —NICKSAYSGO.COM
£45.12
Rizzoli International Publications Tord Boontje Enchanted World
Book SynopsisThis highly anticipated follow-up volume presents the exquisite designs of Tord Boontje, one of the most creative and romantic industrial designers working today. Tord Boontje: Enchanted World is a comprehensive visual document of the designer’s most recent work. As an artist and a craftsman, Boontje incorporates an artisanal sensibility into contemporary industrial design, drawing upon a rich graphic tradition to create objects of exceptional beauty and delicacy. Featured here are some of his latest works, many undertaken after Boontje stepped down as Head of Design Products at the Royal College of Art in 2013 (a position he assumed after Ron Arad in 2009). Now, solely focused on his own design studio in London, Boontje showcases many of his designs, including the wispy Icarus Lamp, an armoire constructed entirely of pressed-metal fig “leaves” for Meta, a portable Bluetooth speaker for Yamaha hidden under a curtain of horse
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Designing Designing Radical Thinking in Design
Book SynopsisJohn Chris Jones was born in 1927, in Aberystwyth, Wales. Jones studied engineering at the University of Cambridge, and went on to work for AEI in Manchester, England. In 1962 he instigated an influential conference on design methods, which led to the formation of the Design Research Society which he chaired from 1971-73. In 2004 he was presented with the Society's Lifetime Achievement Award and from 1970-74 Jones was the first Professor of Design at The Open University, UK.Trade ReviewDesigning Designing is a particularly redemptive text ... not only because of the immense self-awareness and epistemic humility Jones demonstrates, but also because it explores in both its content and its form what else design and designing could be. In stark contrast to the predictable and stolid reification of design methods, principles, and practices today, this open-ended flexibility and responsiveness in design practice reflects in the structure of the book itself: a diverse collection of essays, personal reflections, anecdotes, conversations, interviews, and poetry. * Design and Culture *Foregrounding the performing of designing as an ongoing experimental lived practice that is at once personal, social and institutional, this astonishingly prescient book offers fresh insights into how design expertise can be mobilized to address contemporary challenges. This re-issue should inspire a new generation of designers to think deeply and critically about designing, what makes it possible or constrains it, and its positive and negative unfolding consequences. -- Lucy Kimbell, Director, Social Design Institute and Professor of Contemporary Design Practices at the University of Arts London, UKTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction to the revised edition by Clive Dilnot Foreword by C. Thomas Mitchell Author's Note Preface to the 1984 edition Acknowledgements Introductory Essay: The Future of Breathing 1. A Thought Revolved Love, hate and architecture How my thoughts about design methods have changed during the years Now we are numerous Beyond rationalism Principles in design 2. The World Without Imagination St Ives by chance Composing by chance Some reflection on chance Designing designing 3. It Must Give Pleasure Opus one, number two "... in the dimension of Time" Continuous design and redesign Things 4. Things of August Is designing a response to the whole of life? 35 wishes Voices at the conference conference The design of modern life Utopia and Numeroso Afterword by John Thackara Index
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Shambhala Publications Inc Polynesian Tattoos: 42 Modern Tribal Designs to
Book SynopsisEvocative and symbolic designs based on the ancient tradition of Polynesian tattoo art.The beauty of Polynesian art is perhaps most evident in the tradition of Polynesian tattooing, which has existed for more than two thousand years and is infused with rich symbolism and spiritual meaning. Roberto Gemori designs tattoos reflecting this tradition, drawing from each person’s own history of personal struggles, adversities, and triumphs. In his approach to tattoo art, Gemori takes the meaningful moments of a person’s life story and weaves them into a creative design, such that the tattoo itself becomes a form of personal empowerment, representing qualities a person is working to cultivate in their life and challenges they have overcome.The author presents here modern tattoo designs inspired by Polynesian art to color and contemplate for inspiration and transformation. In addition to a short introduction on Polynesian art and symbolism, the book features 42 designs for coloring, each accompanied by a description of the image’s unique meaning. Color these stunning designs and discover the depth of Polynesian art!
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University of Alberta Press Situating Design in Alberta
Book SynopsisSituating Design in Alberta makes the case that design has the potential to drive economic growth, improve quality of life, and promote sustainability in the province and across the country. Contributors bring both scholarly and practice-based perspectives and come from diverse disciplines including architecture, interior design, industrial design, and visual communications. The collection is organized around four main topics—history, education, business, and sustainability—within which the authors explore a wide range of issues. This synergy of different design approaches lends a sense of forward momentum to the field, stimulates reflection about opportunities and challenges for both practitioners and policy makers, and provides a model for future studies in other regions. Foreword by Douglas J. Cardinal. Contributors: Tim Antoniuk, Ken Bautista, Carlos Fiorentino, Maria Goncharova, Andrea Hirji, Mark Iantkow, Barry Johns, Lyubava Kroll, Courtenay McKay, Skye Oleson-Cormack, Isabel Prochner, Janice Rieger, Elizabeth Schowalter, Megan Strickfaden, Tyler Vreeling, Ron WickmanTrade Review"To situate design reveals a context of values. It's in discussing the Alberta context that [Situating Design in Alberta] opens other ways of measuring design, ones in which underrepresented voices are elevated and the designer has a role as an advocate and a listener." amery Calvelli, Alberta Views, November 2022Table of ContentsForeword | Douglas J. Cardinal Acknowledgements Illustration and Commentary | Maria Goncharova Introduction | Isabel Prochner & Tim Antoniuk I Past, Present, and Future Innovation in Alberta 1 Andrea Hirji, Illustration and Commentary 1 Reset 3 Changing the Built Environment in Alberta Barry Johns 2 Visualizing Industrial Design and Its History in Alberta 35 Isabel Prochner with Lyubava Kroll II Education Meets Culture and Community 63 Skye Oleson-Cormack, Illustration and Commentary 3 An Inside-Outside View into Design Education in Alberta 65 Megan Strickfaden 4 From the North 81 Perspective of an Outlier Tyler Vreeling III The Creative Economy and Design Work in Alberta 91 Courtenay McKay, Illustration and Commentary 5 Expanding the Creative Economy in Alberta 93 Creative Hybridity from Small Producers Tim Antoniuk 6 Designer Founders and the Start-Up Revolution 123 Ken Bautista IV Sustainable Design Practices in, for, and from Alberta 133 Elizabeth Schowalter, Illustration and Commentary 7 Sustainability in Alberta 135 Experiences and Impressions by Design Carlos Fiorentino 8 The Forgotten Sustainability 143 A Socially Conscious, Paradigmatic Shift in Design Janice Rieger & Mark Iantkow 9 It Is Just Good Design! 169 Ron Wickman Contributors 187 Index 193
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The Brand Identity The Tiny Book Volume One
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Collect Editions To Have To Hold Issue 5 Food Drink
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Design Media Publishing (UK) Limited Sign of Street I Sign of Series 1 Dm Sign of
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Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art The Hidden Mod in Modern Art: London, 1957-1969
Book SynopsisAn investigation of the outsized influence of the Mod subculture on key figures of the 1960s London art scene Bonding over matters of taste and style, the ‘Mods’ of late 1950s London recognised in one another shared affinities for Italian-style suits, tidy haircuts, espresso bars, Vespa scooters and the latest American jazz. In this groundbreaking book, leading art historian Thomas Crow argues that the figure of the Mod exerted an influence beyond its assumed social boundaries by exemplifying the postwar metropolis in all of its excitement and complexity. Crow examines the works of key figures in the London art scene of the 1960s, including Robyn Denny, David Hockney, Pauline Boty, Bridget Riley and Bruce McLean, who shared and heightened aspects of this new and youthful urbanity. The triumphant arrival of the international counterculture forced both young Mods and established artists to reassess and regroup in novel, revealing formations. Understanding the London Mod brings with it a needed, up-to-date reckoning with the legacies of Situationism, Social Art History and Cultural Studies.Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British ArtTrade Review“[An] expert running commentary throughout...with many more references and pictures that explain and sequence their relevance in today’s modern culture”—Matt Mead, Gigslutz [Online Music Site]“In this groundbreaking book, leading art historian Thomas Crow argues that the figure of the Mod exerted an influence beyond its assumed social boundaries by exemplifying the postwar metropolis in all of its excitement and complexity.”—paulineboty.org“[An] elegantly counterintuitive account”—J. J. Charlesworth, ArtReview“A meticulous account of the imbrications between artmaking and stylemaking in postwar London...Crow recovers the figure of the mod...[and] forges a new canon, reimagining the art of the time in a fine-tuned, deeply aesthetic mise-en-scène...His prose is scrupulous, just so, and the many glossy full-color illustrations exalt his wide array of objects.”—Alex Kitnick, Artforum“[Crow] is wary of any Cultural Studies-style attempt to elevate ‘the model over the agency of its objects (that is, the Mods/Stylists themselves)’. This book is a testament— itself aptly crisp and understated — to that agency.”—James Cahill, The London Journal
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Monash University Publishing Intersections & Counterpoints: Proceedings of
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Vault Editions Ltd Flowers and Plants
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£15.29
Avenue House Press Pty Ltd Ornamental Design: An Image Archive and Drawing Reference Book for Artists, Designers and Craftsmen
£16.99
Vault Editions Ltd Tattoo Inspiration Compendium Volume 2
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£15.29
Vault Editions Ltd Brutal Weapons and Armour
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Pointed Leaf Press Keepsakes: A Design Memoir
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Bohlau Verlag The London Customs Accounts: 24 Henry VI
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Transcript Verlag Advertising and Design: Interdisciplinary
Book SynopsisThe cultural field of advertising is a much-debated topic with perspectives focusing on a range of concepts from harassment and the anxiety of influence to notions of desire and affirmation. The aim of this publication is not only to take into account the diversity of topics related to advertising, but more importantly, to develop a dialogue between these divergent viewpoints.With contributions by Barbara Aulinger, Bernadette Collenberg-Plotnikov, Beate Flath, Werner Jauk, Bernhard Kettemann, Eva Klein, Jörg Matthes, Manfred Prisching, Johanna Rolshoven, Nicolas Ruth, Holger Schramm, Charles Spence, Margit Stadlober and Friedrich Weltzien.Trade ReviewReviewed in: CHOICE, 52/5 (2015), S. Skaggs
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Transcript Verlag The Logic of Design Process – Invention and
Book SynopsisWhat is the logic of design process? Departing from this question, Tiago da Costa e Silva investigates the characteristic feature of every projective activity, for instance, in architecture, design, engineering design, and in the arts. In opposition to predominant views that understand design processes as mechanical and deterministic, this study, with the help of the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce, characterizes design activities as continuous and serendipitous interplays of esthetic and abductive processes that define rules and manifest forms. Tiago da Costa e Silva concludes that invention and discovery, manifested in the form of processes of abduction, actively pervade every development in any given context of design process.
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Transcript Verlag Subjectivity and Synchrony in Artistic Research –
Book SynopsisArtistic research has become an established mode of inquiry and knowledge production in many fields. Johanna Schindler examines the collaborative practices of two artistic research projects in the fields of digital musical instrument design and responsive environments. How are individual research modes organized? Which forms of knowledge are at stake? And what sort of influence do institutional settings, spatial arrangements, and boundary objects have on the emerging research dynamics? Schindler's ethnographic study explores these questions and suggests concrete measurements that can be utilized to adapt the research environments, funding structures, and evaluation criteria of artistic research projects to the specific needs of this emerging field.Trade Review"Schindlers ethnography of artistic research infrastructures offers a welcome critical distance from the commonplace celebrations of the potentials of artistic research, pointing to a promising discussion on the politics of its infrastructures." Manuel Angel-Macia, Journal of Artistic Research, 23.06.2019
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Transcript Verlag Design Dispersed – Forms of Migration and Flight
Book SynopsisDesign Dispersed pursues the complex and heterogeneous connections between migration and design in the 20th and 21st centuries. The edited volume gathers contributions by international researchers and curators on the question of how design practices and (historical) objects articulate, respond to and critically reflect on migration, flight and displacement: Besides a collage which highlights the aesthetic effects resulting from the networking, overlapping and mixing of forms, another strand of the book looks at the political and social dimensions of design. How are design objects material modes of a critical inquiry on movements of people and things? What role do object trajectories play in the émigré movements of the 1930s and 1940s? Other texts follow the question of how migrants and refugees form their experience and political fight for acceptance into design and architectural productions. A final essay contributes to wordings and projections - what vocabulary do we need in order to adequately think and write about a design dispersed?
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Transcript Verlag Building Blocks – A Cultural History of Codes,
Book SynopsisBuilding blocks are practical materials for playing, learning and working at kindergartens, schools, universities and companies. How did building blocks, which were primarily established as toys for children, come to be practical materials used in professional and educational settings?This study explores the historical implications of particular sets of building blocks in the interdisciplinary consolidation and transformation of techniques, materials, discourses and subjects. By mapping the genealogy of building blocks from Fröbel's "gifts" to their current systematization as interlocked blocks, this study proposes that building blocks should be understood not exclusively as concrete objects, but as the materiality of a combinatorial program, which delineates a modular system characterized by a code of composition, a context-neutrality and a semantic component.
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Transcript Verlag Practicing Sovereignty – Digital Involvement in
Book SynopsisDigital sovereignty has become a hotly debated concept. The current convergence of multiple crises adds fuel to this debate, as it contextualizes the concept in a foundational discussion of democratic principles, civil rights, and national identities: is (technological) self-determination an option for every individual to cope with the digital sphere effectively? Can disruptive events provide chances to rethink our ideas of society - including the design of the objects and processes which constitute our techno-social realities? The positions assembled in this volume analyze opportunities for participation and policy-making, and describe alternative technological practices before and after the pandemic.
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Transcript Verlag Dimensions: Journal of Architectural Knowledge:
Book Synopsis"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge" is an academic journal in, on and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution and transmission of architectural knowledge. It explores methods genuine to the discipline and architectural modes of interdisciplinary methodological adaptions. Processes, procedures and results of knowledge creation and practice are esteemed coequally, with particular attentiveness to the architectural design and epistemologies of aesthetic practice and research. Dimensions Issue 02/2021, edited by Katharina Voigt and Virginie Roy, investigates lived experience as source for the constitution of knowledge. This edition is concerned with the movements of exploration and the inner sensations of being moved by experience. Addressing situational experience allows bringing implicit dimensions of perception to attention, enabling a tangible understanding to emerge - for the actual encounter, as well as connected to memory and imagination. Practitioners and scholars from various disciplines open the realm for theoretical, applied and practice-related forms of research, whilst all contributions are aligned to enrich the discourse of architecture and its versatile dimensions.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Layered Landscape; Terrain; Principles of Somatic Movement Education for Architectural Design; Lived Experience as a Basis for Design: A Design Studio Kindergarten Project; Traces; Designing Movement, Modulating Mood; Assemblage; Extension; Reclaiming the City: A Collective Endeavor; Rewriting the Journey of the Mantua-Peschiera Railway: A Moving Experience; Contributors; Biographies.
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Transcript Verlag Critical by Design?: Genealogies, Practices,
Book SynopsisIn its constructive and speculative nature, design has the critical potential to reshape prevalent socio-material realities. At the same time, design is inevitably normative, if not often violent, as it stabilises the past, normalises the present, and precludes just and sustainable futures. The contributions rethink concepts of critique that influence the field of design, question inherent blind spots of the discipline, and expand understandings of what critical design practices could be. With contributions from design theory, practice and education, art theory, philosophy, and informatics, "Critical by Design?" aims to question and unpack the ambivalent tensions between design and critique.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Critical by design? An introduction; Genealogies: What is a critical object? Design as «desubjugation» (after Foucault); The vitality of the negative: critical design between social philosophy and conceptual art; Ask what can be! Modal critique and design as drivers of accidence; What are the politics of ontological design? A critical reflection on the mutual becoming of «the human» and «the world»; Engaging in epistemic disobedience: on the decolonialization of design discourses; Unsettling individualized design practice through collaboration; «Ci concimiamo a vicenda»: building support structures as part of design practice; Re-visioning pelvic care through design; Trojan horses: ambiguity as a critical design strategy; Grey design: critical practices of design at the peripheries of the discipline; The ineliminable aesthetic dimension of art; Design culture as critical practice; What might be the speculative social?; Biased design, or the misery of neutrality; Undesign and understanding; Epilogue: The life and death of critical and speculative design: post-disciplinarity, post-truth, post-self and post-capital; Appendix: Critical by design? The book's design as SF figures; List of Figures & Tables; Biographies; Imprint.
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transcript Verlag Digital Transformation in Design
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transcript Verlag The Prize of Success
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Transcript Verlag The Unknown in Design Art and Technology
Book SynopsisAn invitation to question the presumed certainties in design, art, and technology.
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Edition Axel Menges Car Design: From the Carriage to the Electric Car
Book SynopsisText in English & German. If laziness is the mother of all inventions, then the car is its masterpiece. The earliest means of locomotion was walking, followed by riding on horses or camels; finally, with the invention of the wheel, came the ability to use carriages, which not only made locomotion far more comfortable but also brought the transportation of goods to a whole new level. However, it then took millennia for carriages to go from being propelled by horses or oxen to engines, initially steam-driven, then propelled by internal combustion engines and early experiments with electric propulsion. Cars were initially the result of pure craftsmanship, and as passenger cars were based on the concept of the carriage. The assembly line had not entirely abandoned the carriage look, but already showed a typical automobile profile: equal-sized wheels, engine bonnet, passenger compartment. The predominant body colour of cars manufactured between 1910 and 1930 was black, while all makes of car had an almost uniform appearance. As manufacturers moved away from metal-panelled wooden frames to an all-steel design, they hesitantly ventured to adopt new forms. Improved undercarriages and higher engine performance were initially limited by air resistance, which above a speed of 60 kilometres per hour is the strongest of all driving resistances. This led to the development of new body shapes that offer less resistance to the airstream. Engineers still determined the form of the car, sometimes even achieving formal elegance. It was only rarely that members of other professions, such as the architects Le Corbusier or Walter Gropius, were commissioned to design a car. Between the two World Wars North America had the worlds largest fleet of cars; this also meant that their design became an increasingly important sales factor. Professsional automobile design was established. As they continued to develop technically, cars in the 1950s moved further and further away from the physically logical form of a moving body. One of the last and most outstanding examples of a form with optimum resistance to the airstream is the Citroën ID/DS of 1955. Others, indeed almost all, opted for the pure symbolism of speed and power, whose most important ingredients were tail fins and chrome. Today, with a global annual production of close to 100 million passenger cars, automotive style has come to be represented by a wide range of almost every imaginable form. Architect Hans-Ulrich von Mende has worked with partners in an independent practice since 1990. For 50 years his writings and drawings on automotive design have appeared in books, trade journals (mot, autobild) and the daily press (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung).
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Transcript Verlag Interface Cultures – Artistic Aspects of
Book SynopsisFrom media art archeology to contemporary interaction design - the term interface culture is based on a vivid and ongoing discourse in the fields of interactive art, interaction design, game design, tangible interfaces, auditory interfaces, fashionable technologies, wearable devices, intelligent ambiences, sensor technologies, telecommunication and new experimental forms of human-machine, human-human and machine-machine interactions and the cultural discourse surrounding them. This book's aim is to give an overview of the current state of interactive art and interface technology as well as an outlook on new forms of hybridization in art, media, scientific research and every-day media applications.
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Simonett & Baer Dino Magazine â Issue 1 Summer 2024
Book SynopsisFour decades after creating and publishing thirteen issues of the cult magazine QUER(R), Dino Simonett wants to know it again. Dino(R)Magazine will bepublished annually. Worldwide Spirit. Unseen Interiors, Houses, Arts, Crafts, People, Clothes, Places, Landscapes. All in Style and Sophistication. Older, Harder, Better. All First Hand: Real Stuff, Real People, Real Places. Empathy, Friendship, Charm, Humor, Love. Kein Affentheater, No Monkey Business. In Print Only. Offset Printed, Thread-Bound, Cold Glue Binding. The Smell of Fresh Printed Ink With Color Pigments From India. The Smooth and Silky Touch of Uncoated Paper. The Soft Sound of the Paper Pages. And The Endless Views of Still Images. De-Digitalisation. It's A Wrap!
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Edition Patrick Frey Pretenzione Intenzione Objects of Beauty and
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Edition Axel Menges Androgynos--The Male-Female in Art and
Book SynopsisThis book deals with elemental basic architectural questions: the age-old subject of antithesis and thesis, unity and duality, contrast and harmony.
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Edition Axel Menges The i-Cosmos: Might, Myth and Magic of a Brand
Book SynopsisText in English & German. Apple Inc, the Californian computer company, has been marked by unparalleled success over the past three and a half decades. Like no other company, it has succeeded in shifting the focus of use from utility to coveted possessions when it comes to computers and electronic entertainment devices such as the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. In addition, each of the products in the i-family have changed their product genres technologically and ergonomically to such an extent that not only have all competitors adopted these new 'user guidances', but hundreds of complementary products have been created around these products as well, from a wide range of accessories to docking stations (ie: veritable radios with external speakers for the iPods and iPhones) that allow users to experience the stored music without headphones. The iPhone has compelled all manufacturers of mobile phones to add smart phones with touch sensitive screens, the touch phones, to their programs. And the iPad will fundamentally transform the handling of video and news as well. Since the introduction of the iPhone, over 200,000 special application programs, the so-called apps, have been made available for these i-devices. In their product genres, these devices have each caused a paradigm shift: they are both leading and cult products, and they represent a development that has leveraged the mobile Internet and delocalised the act of surfing from the home to almost anywhere. The book comments upon this process of 'disruptive technologies', which has taken place only very rarely in the history of technology and design. They leaf through the preconditions and position these innovative devices in product-historical, social, and psychological contexts.Table of ContentsThe internationally known architecture and design historian Volker Fischer was deputy director of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt am Main for over ten years. Since 1995 he has built up a new design department in the Museum for Applied Arts in Frankfurt; in addition to his museum work he teaches history of architecture and design at the Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Offenbach. Volker Fischer is already represented in Edition Axel Menges by books on Stefan Wewerka, Richard Meier, the Commerzbank in Frankfurt by Norman Foster and Hall 3 of Messe Frankfurt am Main by Nicholas Grimshaw.
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Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite Carlos Bunga
Book SynopsisThis publication documents the special commission made by Portuguese artist Carlos Bunga for the Sonae/Serralves Project in 2012: a very large structure for the entrance hall of the Serralves Museum emphasizing the space's verticality and functionality, in dialogue with Álvaro Siza's architecture. Richly illustrated with Bunga's projects in other artistic contexts ? as the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles or the Miami Art Museum, among others ? the book features texts by João Fernandes and Ricardo Nicolau, Adam Budak, Marta Jecu and an interview conducted by María Inez Rodríguez offering comprehensive insights into Bunga's work.
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EI Publishing Co., Ltd Lightning Vol. 178 All About The United Kingdom
Book SynopsisCharacterised by playful, sassy doodles is the wonderful work of London-based artist Hattie Stewart who features in our 37th issue of Posterzine. Having worked for a number of established clients including Apple, Stewart''s illustrations are exciting, sexy and have found their way into a number of creative mediums such as Fashion, Contemporary Art and Print. Posterzine is People of Print''s monthly publishing project taking the form of a mini-magazine which folds out into a gorgeous A1 format poster (594x841mm). Printed by Pressision Ltd using (usually) two special spot colours onto high quality GFSmith Naturalis paper.
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Libro Arte Burn After Seeing
Book SynopsisAt dusk, small fire sparks drew a soft line on the azure-blue sky, and they were so close they seemed like fireflies. And the flames only sounded during the moments when they were blown by a strong wind, scattering sparks all around. These sparks then disappeared as if they were being drawn into the sky, which was deepening into a blue-black. Following these with my eyes, I pondered where the lights were going, The colour of the sky further deepened, and I strained my eyes carefully to the tiny sparks emerging. They were blown away, stirred up, and put out by the wind. - Murakoshi ToshiyaPublished by Libro Arte in collaboration with Spooky CoCoon Factory, Toshiya Murakoshi''s sentimental documentation of his hometown Tokyo sees Murakoshi tracing the memory of his hometown through a collection of photographs of his parents house and the surrounding landscape. The works featured in the book were created afterthe death of his grandmotherin 2009 prompting him to rediscovera relationshi
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Libro Arte for tomorrow
Book SynopsisSceneries change depending on what you feel in the moment. I'm trying to capture sceneries and views through such filters of emotion. These photos are different to those you would take if you were to leave your house with the intent of taking photographs. Sometimes, I become very sensitive to smell. Not smells that you sense with your nose but smells that you sense with your feelings. In those moments, I am drawn towards the smell of the city, the smell of people, the smell of life. Sometimes I traverse towns I don't know following only my sense of smell. You may not have a particular place to go to, but if you get over yourself and leave the house, you'll find yourself finding things you never imagined. When my feelings align with the scenery unfolding in front of me and I happen to have a camera on me, I'll press the shutter button. (I almost always have a camera on me. )Does this filter of feelings really exist? Does it become visible in photographs? Or is it just my imaginati
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