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Simple, clear, intelligent: the demographic shift brought on by modernity called for and facilitated a new understanding of design. The most critical and social stratum with the most money to spend, the "50+" generation, expects new standards in design and architecture that merge aesthetics, ergonomics, comfort, and bold lines. This is no longer about specific solutions(...)
Universal design: solution for a barrier-free living
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Simple, clear, intelligent: the demographic shift brought on by modernity called for and facilitated a new understanding of design. The most critical and social stratum with the most money to spend, the "50+" generation, expects new standards in design and architecture that merge aesthetics, ergonomics, comfort, and bold lines. This is no longer about specific solutions for the few, but about making life comfortable for all: clear menus, spacious rooms and sizeable objects that are easy to use. Oliver Herwig’s book provides design-related and socially conscious answers for designers and architects, for decision-makers and companies, for everyone interested in addressing the needs of this discerning target group on a long-term basis. It examines the personal situation of an ever-aging generation from head to toe and introduces design strategies, product innovations, and architectural solutions for a barrier-free world, which would benefit everyone.
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Space for your future
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Space for your future is the catalogue of an exhibition about the possibilities of change in an age when the future is uncertain. A diverse collection of 35 participants, including; Sejima + Nishizawa, Tobias Rehberger, R(n)+D, Bless, Demakersvan, the Campana Brothers, Ernesto Neto, Barbara Visser, Carsten Nicolai and Michael Lin
January 2007, Tokyo
Space for your future
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Space for your future is the catalogue of an exhibition about the possibilities of change in an age when the future is uncertain. A diverse collection of 35 participants, including; Sejima + Nishizawa, Tobias Rehberger, R(n)+D, Bless, Demakersvan, the Campana Brothers, Ernesto Neto, Barbara Visser, Carsten Nicolai and Michael Lin
Project Vitra.
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Sites, Products, Authors, Museum, Collections, Signs; Chronology, Glossary. Features extensive unpublished material from the Vitra archives. Tells the stories behind the furniture icons. Demonstrates the firms successful balancing act between cultural ambitions and commercial success. The Vitra Campus attracts more than 80,000 international visitors every year, not(...)
Project Vitra.
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Sites, Products, Authors, Museum, Collections, Signs; Chronology, Glossary. Features extensive unpublished material from the Vitra archives. Tells the stories behind the furniture icons. Demonstrates the firms successful balancing act between cultural ambitions and commercial success. The Vitra Campus attracts more than 80,000 international visitors every year, not counting the many more who visit Vitra exhibitions world-wide. With photographs by Maurice Scheltens, Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Basilico, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Paola de Pietri and Bruns/Uebersch�r/Wootton. With texts by Deyan Sudjic, Luis Fernandez-Galiano, Deyan Sudjic, Alex Coles, Alexander von Vegesack, Mathias Remmele und Rolf Fehlbaum.
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DESIGNsuisse
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"DESIGNsuisse" propose un regard sur 25 créateurs dont les objets, logos et marques font partie de du quotidien. Accompagné de deux DVD présentant 25 courts métrages (25 portraits filmés), l'ouvrage présente en quatre langues un panorama original du design suisse. Chaque film montre la personnalité et la méthode de travail d’un créateur à travers ses réalisations et ses(...)
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March 2006, Zürich
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"DESIGNsuisse" propose un regard sur 25 créateurs dont les objets, logos et marques font partie de du quotidien. Accompagné de deux DVD présentant 25 courts métrages (25 portraits filmés), l'ouvrage présente en quatre langues un panorama original du design suisse. Chaque film montre la personnalité et la méthode de travail d’un créateur à travers ses réalisations et ses projets en cours. Quant au livre, il décline le résultat du travail de chaque artiste au fil de textes percutants et de nombreuses photographies. / This is an important book about contemporary design that provides essential information in this sphere of professional and general interest. Posters, furniture, typography, sneakers, textiles: Swiss design is rich, manifold and renowned. "DESIGNsuisse" includes reports specially written and illustrated by young photographers for this book on 25 representative designers. It looks at their way of working and most important works, and also catalogues their complete works. An essay on the history and the current role and importance of design in Switzerland places them in context, and the book also includes further important names, clients, producers, schools and artists active in several fields. The book includes an index and an annotated bibliography. Featured on the cover of the book are two DVDs of the designers discussed.
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March 2006, Zürich
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Founded in 1987, the design collection of the Museum of Design Zurich now has more than 15,000 exhibits, 20,000 examples of packaging and the Archive for Swiss Design and is the first and most comprehensive of its type in Switzerland. "Take away" is the first in a series of publications which presents treasures from the collection on a specific theme. Like the(...)
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February 2006, Ludwigsburg, Zürich
Take away
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Founded in 1987, the design collection of the Museum of Design Zurich now has more than 15,000 exhibits, 20,000 examples of packaging and the Archive for Swiss Design and is the first and most comprehensive of its type in Switzerland. "Take away" is the first in a series of publications which presents treasures from the collection on a specific theme. Like the exhibition of the same name, the focus here is the contentious world of items used in mobile food culture: stacking plates, paper cups, pizza boxes, picnic baskets as well as things like mini toothbrushes, folding furniture and much more. This book shows just how much mobile eating shapes our lives, with all its advantages and disadvantages. Not only has it changed what we eat, but also how, where and what we use to eat. Whether fast food, take away, system gastronomy or convenience food.
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Shoes made from discarded rubber, a knife grinder made from a bicycle wheel, an organ made from water pipes, a lamp made from plastic bottle bottoms and a clock made from old flip-flops are a few of the ingenious recycled Kenyan products covered in this fascinating volume. Annelise Della Rosa is a teacher and a scholar, she lives and works in Italy and Kenya.She(...)
The art of recycling in Kenya
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Shoes made from discarded rubber, a knife grinder made from a bicycle wheel, an organ made from water pipes, a lamp made from plastic bottle bottoms and a clock made from old flip-flops are a few of the ingenious recycled Kenyan products covered in this fascinating volume. Annelise Della Rosa is a teacher and a scholar, she lives and works in Italy and Kenya.She received artistic training and also studied psychology and, in herresearch, she has linked her own experience in Africa to her study of theuse of artistic languages.
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Design in the 21st Century has liberated itself from industrial conditions and the associated physical demands. With new technology, expanded choice of materials and the practice of luxurious craftsmanship, designers are embracing design with scintillating attitude, challenging aesthetic boundaries and speculating new expressions in visual codes. "Desire" documents(...)
Desire : the shape of things to come
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Design in the 21st Century has liberated itself from industrial conditions and the associated physical demands. With new technology, expanded choice of materials and the practice of luxurious craftsmanship, designers are embracing design with scintillating attitude, challenging aesthetic boundaries and speculating new expressions in visual codes. "Desire" documents current developments in furniture and object design today, showcasing recent work by the most exciting and influential designers from around the globe categorized into four distinct trends and groups : Modernists, Taletellers, Inventors and Entertainers.
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This publication studies methods for creating flexible looks for public and cultural institutions. The classic logos normally used by companies are the result of a unique process of compression and abstraction. By contrast, flexible looks do not conceal their diverse components of identity in a logo, forming instead a complex family of symbols from them. In the(...)
Dynamic identities in cultural and public contexts
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This publication studies methods for creating flexible looks for public and cultural institutions. The classic logos normally used by companies are the result of a unique process of compression and abstraction. By contrast, flexible looks do not conceal their diverse components of identity in a logo, forming instead a complex family of symbols from them. In the combination of a basic logo and a family of symbols, the look is in a position to represent the fundamentals (the philosophy of the institution, its program) and the specifics (e.g., temporary exhibitions and events). The author describes the effect and potential of looks and offers the criteria that distinguish fully developed, dynamic looks. Case studies of famous designers such as Karl Gerstner and Ruedi Baur enhance the analysis.
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Through design prototypes, limited editions and design-as-art objects, this publication documents a new phenomenon in contemporary furniture design. This volume is illustrated with a selection of works that reflect the very best of this new area. As well as new and behind-the-scenes images from some of its leading protagonists, including Gaetano Pesce, Marc Newson,(...)
Limited edition : prototypes, one-offs and design art furniture
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Through design prototypes, limited editions and design-as-art objects, this publication documents a new phenomenon in contemporary furniture design. This volume is illustrated with a selection of works that reflect the very best of this new area. As well as new and behind-the-scenes images from some of its leading protagonists, including Gaetano Pesce, Marc Newson, Maarten Baas, Tom Dixon, Studio Job, Zaha Hadid and Johanna Grawunder, this book contains a collection of works by newcomers and comparative unknowns. From over 40 interviews with key designers, manufacturers, gallerists, auctioneers and critics, the author Sophie Lovell has catalogued and compiled an overview of one of the most exciting creative fields of our age.
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Ce livre s'ouvre sur une introduction au design : sa définition et son histoire depuis ses origines, mise en perspective avec les contextes politiques, économiques et artistiques qui l'on fait évoluer. Un répertoire référence les designers, les sociétés, et les mouvements (ou théories) artistiques qui ont marqué notre culture moderne, depuis le XVIIIe siècle jusqu'à nos jours.
Design : l'intelligence révélée
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Ce livre s'ouvre sur une introduction au design : sa définition et son histoire depuis ses origines, mise en perspective avec les contextes politiques, économiques et artistiques qui l'on fait évoluer. Un répertoire référence les designers, les sociétés, et les mouvements (ou théories) artistiques qui ont marqué notre culture moderne, depuis le XVIIIe siècle jusqu'à nos jours.
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