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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Book SynopsisAn invitation to question the presumed certainties in design, art, and technology.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Book SynopsisMOYI 1983-89 is a photobook accompanying the exhibitions Eighties Part 1: Fathers and Old Landscapes (2015) and Eighties Part 2 MOYI: 1987-1989 by Chinese photographer Mo Yi at Zen Foto Gallery. The book features photographs by Mo Yi from the 1980s, including his earliest works Old Landscapes and the Fathers series, as well as representative works of Riot/Disturbance, 1m, The Scenery Behind Me and Swing Bus. This edition includes texts by Mo Yi, photographer Kazuo Kitai, and publisher Mark Pearson in Japanese, English and Chinese language.

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Book SynopsisThis is the third in a series of photographic books from Union Publishing Limited. This book features a collection of portraits of new face models, taken by London-based photographer Piczo over a period of more than a decade. With over 120 models in total, it represents a fresh approach to contemporary portrait photography.

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Book SynopsisDesignA" is not only skill oriented but based on concept development and the correct thought process. This book explains the true perspective of Design, its meaning and what it demands, and how Design is placed in our Everyday Life, Society and Industry.

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Book SynopsisEssential thinking and doing for design students. How do you do design for the first time? Design was originally taught as an apprenticeship, because there is no one solution for, how to approach a design challenge. It is situated. It depends on the expertise of those tackling it. It depends on their circumstances and loads of other factors. DESIGNERLY LOOPS is an apprenticeship notebook with roadmaps, worksheets, short explainer videos and reflections: The roadmaps will guide you in your design journey. It is kind of a map for navigating an unknown territory for the first time. We tried to lay this out to support you in moving forward; The worksheets will suggest relevant actions and support you in more doing; The short explainer videos will answer most of your practical and theoretical questions and also show concrete examples of different tools and techniques typically used in the design process. These videos are only produced in Danish (as a start); The reflections will help you reflect, to become reflective in your practice and move up the ladder of expertise. It will help you to do and think in a focused and reflective manner. The content in the book stands on the shoulders of design thinking and designerly research, as well as our own research on how to build a design expertise. We have written it because we found that there is missing a book that teaches design students to move forward, not only in their project, but in their enhancement of their skills within design.

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Book SynopsisThis book pushes designers to accelerate actions, get real skin in the game and let customers evaluate with their wallets to drive fast, focused, and valid product development. The challenge presented in the book requires an equal balance and integration of the designerly and entrepreneurial aspects. When partaking this challenge, we promise you beyond the design task will have real skin in every other aspect of the game. You will: Feel 100% ownership for the business, by becoming the investor and business owner; Experience all production considerations and issues, by becoming the producer; Consider the real market fit and user need, by becoming the marketing and salesperson. This book pushes designers to design for the real-world, with a 100% ownership and full consideration of the design, the business and the production aspects from the start and throughout the entire process.

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Book SynopsisObjects in Dialog is a visual archive by Swedish-American industrial designer Shane Schneck. The 224 page book documents projects developed over the last decade by his studio Office for Design in Stockholm, Sweden. Collaborating with some of the worlds most innovative companies, Nike and Huawei and HAY. The book is organised around primitive models and production prototypes. Documenting everyday objects from smartphones to kitchen tools, scenography to interior architecture and furniture. Contributes include Herman Miller archivist - Amy Auscherman, and design critic John Kazior. With photography by Omar Sarto, Delfino Legnani, and Rasmus Norlander.

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Book SynopsisThe design and style of Auto I-D is inspired by Kippenberger's Psychobuildings as is having the price listed on the cover. The images are all found and were used in real law enforcement manuals. Each book comes with a sheet of translucent color sticker dots you can put on your favorite images. Or just let your kid do it for fun.

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