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With this book, author Henry Petroski delves into the ongoing physical interaction between people and things that enables them to stay put or causes them to move. He explores the range of daily human experience whereby we feel the sensations of push and pull, resistance and assistance. The book is also about metaphorical force, which manifests itself as pressure and(...)
Force: What it means to push and pull, slip and grip, start and stop
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With this book, author Henry Petroski delves into the ongoing physical interaction between people and things that enables them to stay put or causes them to move. He explores the range of daily human experience whereby we feel the sensations of push and pull, resistance and assistance. The book is also about metaphorical force, which manifests itself as pressure and relief, achievement and defeat. Petroski draws from a variety of disciplines to make the case that force—represented especially by our sense of touch—is a unifying principle that pervades our lives. In the wake of a prolonged global pandemic that increasingly cautioned us about contact with the physical world, Petroski offers a new perspective on the importance of the sensation and power of touch.
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Communication, espace, image
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La communication visuelle constitue aujourd'hui une partie fondamentale de notre expérience quotidienne. Les affiches dans la rue, les campagnes publicitaires, les images qui circulent entre nouveaux médias et médias traditionnels alimentent nos imaginaires, nos valeurs et nos actions. La sémiologue Giorgia Aiello nous propose une lecture engagée des images dans(...)
Communication, espace, image
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La communication visuelle constitue aujourd'hui une partie fondamentale de notre expérience quotidienne. Les affiches dans la rue, les campagnes publicitaires, les images qui circulent entre nouveaux médias et médias traditionnels alimentent nos imaginaires, nos valeurs et nos actions. La sémiologue Giorgia Aiello nous propose une lecture engagée des images dans lesquelles nous sommes immergées au jour le jour. Les textes qui sont réunis dans cet ouvrage visent à complexifier nos visions et compréhensions des paysages sémiotiques qui peuplent nos espaces urbains. A travers l'analyse de différents exemples, de Starbucks à Getty Images, de Magnum Photo à Manifattura Tabacchi à Bologne, l'autrice nous propose une approche critique de l'esthétique mondialiste contemporaine.
Design Theory
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Scandinavia is famous for its design culture, and for its pioneering efforts toward a sustainable future. In this volume, Kjetil Fallan shows how these two forces came together in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Scandinavian designers began to question the endless cycle in which designed objects are produced, consumed, discarded, and replaced in quick succession. The(...)
Ecological by design: A history from Scandinavia
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Scandinavia is famous for its design culture, and for its pioneering efforts toward a sustainable future. In this volume, Kjetil Fallan shows how these two forces came together in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Scandinavian designers began to question the endless cycle in which designed objects are produced, consumed, discarded, and replaced in quick succession. The emergence of ecological design in Scandinavia at the height of the popular environmental movement, Fallan suggests, illuminates a little-known reciprocity between environmentalism and design: not only did design play a role in the rise of modern environmentalism, but ecological thinking influenced the transformation in design culture in Scandinavia and beyond that began as the modernist faith in progress and prosperity waned.
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Renowned philosopher Susan Buck-Morss collaborates with Kevin McCaughey of Boot Boyz Biz and Adam Michaels of Inventory Press on this experimental image-text renewal of McLuhan, Berger and Benjamin. "Seeing <—> Making: Room for thought" both studies and presents the creative process of constructing ideas with images. By activating the techniques of montage and analogy,(...)
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Seeing <—> Making: Room for thought
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Renowned philosopher Susan Buck-Morss collaborates with Kevin McCaughey of Boot Boyz Biz and Adam Michaels of Inventory Press on this experimental image-text renewal of McLuhan, Berger and Benjamin. "Seeing <—> Making: Room for thought" both studies and presents the creative process of constructing ideas with images. By activating the techniques of montage and analogy, the book reveals a wide field of view and a space to engage new critical connections between a multiplicity of objects from the past and present. Realized through an intergenerational collaboration of three cultural producers committed to making theory visible, a transformative anthology of critical essays by Susan Buck-Morss anchors this kaleidoscopic project. Images and ideas sync with Buck-Morss’ perceptive texts on visual culture, history, politics and aesthetics, fusing criticism with visual play and linking collective imagination and social action. In both design and content, "Seeing <—> Making: Room for thought" builds upon the dynamic sensorium of Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore's book "The medium is the massage", Walter Benjamin's "Arcades" Project and John Berger's "Ways of seeing". This innovative volume brings Buck-Morss’ more experimental, visually engaged work to the fore in a way that has not been available in the usual contexts within which her writing has appeared.
Design Theory
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How do contemporary design practices engage with political and societal issues? Can design realize ideas that lead to significant change? Where would the change happen: in the design studio, on the factory floor, in exhibition settings or on the street? Some of the design world’s greatest practitioners, including architects, came together for a multi-faceted, three-year(...)
Design act: socially and politically engaged design today
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How do contemporary design practices engage with political and societal issues? Can design realize ideas that lead to significant change? Where would the change happen: in the design studio, on the factory floor, in exhibition settings or on the street? Some of the design world’s greatest practitioners, including architects, came together for a multi-faceted, three-year project sponsored by Iaspis. This book, the project’s culmination, comprises texts, interviews, drawings and other artwork in three sections: WHAT brings together contemporary and historical writings; HOW analyzes common issues and emerging tactics within socially and politically engaged design; and WHERE offers a broad perspective on new forms of design practice. Featuring facsimiles of 36 projects from the Design Act archive, this rich book is a must-have for designers who care about their role in the wider world.
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A new edition of one of the most widely read books on modern design Nikolaus Pevsner's landmark work was first published in 1936. Pevsner saw Modernism as a synthesis of three main sources: William Morris and his followers; the work of the 19th-century engineers; and Art Nouveau. All these form the essential background to the work of the early Modernists, with their(...)
Pioneers of modern design: from William Morris to Walter Gropius
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A new edition of one of the most widely read books on modern design Nikolaus Pevsner's landmark work was first published in 1936. Pevsner saw Modernism as a synthesis of three main sources: William Morris and his followers; the work of the 19th-century engineers; and Art Nouveau. All these form the essential background to the work of the early Modernists, with their rejection of ornament, their use of new materials and their commitment to "utility" and the machine age. Pevsner looks at the early masters of the movement, such as Voysey and Rennie Mackintosh in Britain; Sullivan and Lloyd Wright in America; and Loos and Wagner in Vienna, ending in 1914, with Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus movement representing design's most radical break with the past.
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Comment le logo du Centre Pompidou a-t-il été créé ? Une théorie urbaine peut-elle s'exprimer dans la conception matérielle d'un livre ? Le design graphique a-t-il servi la cause des femmes ? En quoi consistent les archives spécialisées ? Les textes réunis ici racontent des histoires de signes et d'objets : identités visuelles, affiches et imprimés divers, livres,(...)
Pour une critique du design graphique : dix huit essais
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Comment le logo du Centre Pompidou a-t-il été créé ? Une théorie urbaine peut-elle s'exprimer dans la conception matérielle d'un livre ? Le design graphique a-t-il servi la cause des femmes ? En quoi consistent les archives spécialisées ? Les textes réunis ici racontent des histoires de signes et d'objets : identités visuelles, affiches et imprimés divers, livres, pochettes de disque ou caractères typographiques. La production de nombreux graphistes est examinée à travers des champs variés, de l'architecture au jazz, de l'art contemporain à la littérature et à l'édition pour la jeunesse. Composant majeur de la culture visuelle contemporaine, le design graphique façonne notre environnement : il requiert donc la plus grande attention
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Qu'est-ce qu'un designer s'adresse aux étudiants et aux professionnels de l'architecture de tous les domaines du design et de l'architecture. Loin de se contenter d'un questionnement (ou d'une réponse) bien formulé, Norman Potter énonce les conditions dans lesquelles l'activité de design constitue en elle-même une question ouverte. Il affirme que les décisions du(...)
Qu'est-ce qu'un designer : objets, lieux, messages
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Qu'est-ce qu'un designer s'adresse aux étudiants et aux professionnels de l'architecture de tous les domaines du design et de l'architecture. Loin de se contenter d'un questionnement (ou d'une réponse) bien formulé, Norman Potter énonce les conditions dans lesquelles l'activité de design constitue en elle-même une question ouverte. Il affirme que les décisions du designer - et les artefacts qu'elles produisnet - sont tenues de proposer une réponse sur le plan social. Potter décrit également les procédures et la méthodologie indispensable à toute solution de design.
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Les lunettes permettent à ceux qui ne voyaient plus, ou mal, de recouvrer la vue. C'est un fait. Et l'on pourrait pensera priori que c'est un bienfait. Mais il n'en est rien. Car on oublie de dire que, dans bien des cas, le remède peut s'avérer pire que le mal... Partant de ce constat médical qui se développe particulièrement dans les années 1930, cet ouvrage(...)
Prothèse lunatique: les lunettes, de la science aux fantasmes
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Les lunettes permettent à ceux qui ne voyaient plus, ou mal, de recouvrer la vue. C'est un fait. Et l'on pourrait pensera priori que c'est un bienfait. Mais il n'en est rien. Car on oublie de dire que, dans bien des cas, le remède peut s'avérer pire que le mal... Partant de ce constat médical qui se développe particulièrement dans les années 1930, cet ouvrage d'archéologie visuelle creuse une logique de pensée, simple, mais oubliée ou occultée, selon laquelle les techniques compensatoires se retournent en fait contre ce qu'elles sont censées suppléer. Une telle façon de penser est largement soumise aux fantasmes : Breughel, Callot, Rowlandson, Degas, Hoffmann, Poe, Huxley ou même le Dr Bates ont développé, chacun à leur manière, une méfiance à l'égard des lunettes. Mais ces fantasmes, à l'égal de la caricature ou du lieu commun, nous rappellent à tous, en définitive, que ces " précieuses béquilles " ne constituent pas toujours une seconde nature. À travers l'histoire des lunettes et de leur représentation, c'est donc à une véritable réflexion sur la notion de prothèse que nous convie cet ouvrage. Et, à travers la science, la sociologie, l'histoire, la littérature et l'art, ces lentilles philosophiques nous révèlent donc quelque chose de notre rapport au monde.
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And now the ensemble!!!
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And Now the Ensemble!!! is intended as a challenge to architects, their clients, and commissioning authorities to understand and create urban development as a dynamic and collective work of art and to make dialogue central to design. Design, atmosphere, and usage can make every new building relate to its local surroundings. As a design process, this contextual expansion(...)
And now the ensemble!!!
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And Now the Ensemble!!! is intended as a challenge to architects, their clients, and commissioning authorities to understand and create urban development as a dynamic and collective work of art and to make dialogue central to design. Design, atmosphere, and usage can make every new building relate to its local surroundings. As a design process, this contextual expansion does not simply imitate the urban pattern, but also interprets what is already there, to some extent modernizes it, makes the familiar alien by employing unusual atmospheric imagery, and ultimately transforms the accumulated chaos of soloists into an orchestrated whole.
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