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Ellen Lupton is Adjunct Curator at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and Co-Chair of the Design Department of the Maryland Institute College of Art. She is a Chrysler Design Award winner, and the best-selling author of Design Culture Now, Mixing Messages, Mechanical Brides, and Letters from the Avant-Garde. She is also author of our best-selling Thinking with(...)
Skin : surface, substance + design with a new preface
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Ellen Lupton is Adjunct Curator at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and Co-Chair of the Design Department of the Maryland Institute College of Art. She is a Chrysler Design Award winner, and the best-selling author of Design Culture Now, Mixing Messages, Mechanical Brides, and Letters from the Avant-Garde. She is also author of our best-selling Thinking with Type Design Brief.
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Past tense, future sense
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Celebrating the 80th anniversary of design at Philips, Past Tense, Future Sense is a highly visual book presenting an analysis and history of design at Philips. Engaging topics like the rise of design, the role of visionary projects and what actually constitutes good design are discussed at length and vividly brought to life by numerous case studies.
Past tense, future sense
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Celebrating the 80th anniversary of design at Philips, Past Tense, Future Sense is a highly visual book presenting an analysis and history of design at Philips. Engaging topics like the rise of design, the role of visionary projects and what actually constitutes good design are discussed at length and vividly brought to life by numerous case studies.
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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 Features extensive unpublished material from the Vitra archives.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 Features extensive unpublished material from the Vitra archives.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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Thinking through craft
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This book is a timely and engaging introduction to the way that artists working in all media think about craft. Workmanship is key to today's visual arts, when high 'production values' are becoming increasingly commonplace. Yet craft's centrality to contemporary art has received little serious attention from critics and historians. Dispensing with clichéd arguments(...)
November 2007, Oxford, New York
Thinking through craft
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This book is a timely and engaging introduction to the way that artists working in all media think about craft. Workmanship is key to today's visual arts, when high 'production values' are becoming increasingly commonplace. Yet craft's centrality to contemporary art has received little serious attention from critics and historians. Dispensing with clichéd arguments that craft is art, Adamson persuasively makes a case for defining craft in a more nuanced fashion. The interesting thing about craft, he argues, is that it is perceived to be 'inferior' to art. The book consist of an overview of various aspects of this second-class identity, supplementarity, sensuality, skill, the pastoral, and the amateur. It also provides historical case studies analyzing craft's role in a variety of disciplines, including architecture, design, contemporary art, and the crafts themselves. Thinking through Craft will be essential reading for anyone interested in craft or broader visual art.
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"How they work" consists of portraits of Dutch designers, which offer readers a look behind the scenes. Each chapter focuses on one designer, and contains about a dozen images and some biographical information.
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March 2008, Rotterdam
How they work : the hidden world of Dutch design
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"How they work" consists of portraits of Dutch designers, which offer readers a look behind the scenes. Each chapter focuses on one designer, and contains about a dozen images and some biographical information.
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Dutch design is held in high esteem around the world. Its favourable international reputation is based on the work of many designers including Jurgen Bey, Hella Jongerius and Maarten Baas, who all have one thing in common: Design Academy Eindhoven. Design Academy Eindhoven is the Netherlands leading institution for developing design talent and it has produced a(...)
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February 2008, Amsterdam
House of concepts: Design Academy Eidhoven
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Dutch design is held in high esteem around the world. Its favourable international reputation is based on the work of many designers including Jurgen Bey, Hella Jongerius and Maarten Baas, who all have one thing in common: Design Academy Eindhoven. Design Academy Eindhoven is the Netherlands leading institution for developing design talent and it has produced a veritable who's who of the country's creative scene. The final projects of its graduates often attract international attention; their annual presentation has become a must-see for innovative companies, brands and designers from around the world. House of Concepts presents the legendary school that was founded as the Academy for Industrial Design Eindhoven sixty years ago. It contains outstanding original work created in a top-quality educational environment that emphasises practical skills rather than theory. The book not only features Design Academy Eindhoven graduates and their work, but also gives insight into the conceptual design for which the Netherlands is famous. House of Concepts also includes extensive interviews with renowned alumni such as Jurgen Bey, Richard Hutten, Joris Laarman and Judith de Grauw as well as Jeroen and Joep Verhoeven.
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Five Dutch architects were invited to design a ceramic container. The process took them to an unknown land, a "terra incognita", and the resulting designs represented the philosophical approach each architect or firm took to the problem of product design. The architects are Ben van Berkel & Caroline Bos, Erick van Egeraat, MVRDV, NL Architects, and Nox.
Terra incognita : architects as designers
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Five Dutch architects were invited to design a ceramic container. The process took them to an unknown land, a "terra incognita", and the resulting designs represented the philosophical approach each architect or firm took to the problem of product design. The architects are Ben van Berkel & Caroline Bos, Erick van Egeraat, MVRDV, NL Architects, and Nox.
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March 1999, 's-Hertogenbosch
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Taking Enzo Mari and his book as his influence, Erik Eje Almqvist unpacks the practical aspects of the Autoprogettazione theory, offering simple designs for handbuilt, beautiful furniture. Using just a hammer, nails and boards cut to standard dimensions, this book explores only a few techniques but arms the reader with skills and inspiration for life. With easy-to-follow(...)
Hammer & Nail: Making and assembling furniture designs inspired by Enzo Mari
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Taking Enzo Mari and his book as his influence, Erik Eje Almqvist unpacks the practical aspects of the Autoprogettazione theory, offering simple designs for handbuilt, beautiful furniture. Using just a hammer, nails and boards cut to standard dimensions, this book explores only a few techniques but arms the reader with skills and inspiration for life. With easy-to-follow instructions and diagrams, there are basic methods for making furniture joints, and includes tips on how to avoid cracking boards as you go, making clean cuts with a saw, and ideas on surface treatments.
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This small-format volume presents more than 200 furniture and objects made between 1981 and 1986 for the Memphis collection. Memphis was an Italian design and architecture collective founded by Ettore Sottsass, a leading exponent of 1980s postmodernism. It was the outcome of a long process that began at the Olivetti company in Ivrea, where Sottsass had been the design(...)
Memphis again: Triennale Milano
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This small-format volume presents more than 200 furniture and objects made between 1981 and 1986 for the Memphis collection. Memphis was an Italian design and architecture collective founded by Ettore Sottsass, a leading exponent of 1980s postmodernism. It was the outcome of a long process that began at the Olivetti company in Ivrea, where Sottsass had been the design coordinator since the late 1950s, and continued with the research of the radical architecture movements of the 1960s and 1970s, in Florence and Europe. The publication documents the eponymous 2022 Milan exhibition on the group, for which Memphis works were dynamically installed in chronological order in the style of a fashion show, with quotes by critics, architects and designers projected on the walls.
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Published in conjunction with the "metalworks – designing & making" exhibition in the Konschthal Esch, this book uses the production of some twenty international creators to discuss methods of transforming metal in contemporary design. Around forty objects have been classified into sixteen categories, illustrating how these creators have adopted and crafted metal. Some(...)
Metalworks: Designing and making
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Published in conjunction with the "metalworks – designing & making" exhibition in the Konschthal Esch, this book uses the production of some twenty international creators to discuss methods of transforming metal in contemporary design. Around forty objects have been classified into sixteen categories, illustrating how these creators have adopted and crafted metal. Some experiment with the material and its properties, others question the physical limits of existing techniques. Accompanied by a historical text recounting the uses of metal in furniture since the eighteenth century, and the history of the metallurgical industry in Luxembourg, this publication brings together some sixty biographies, explanatory texts, and a technical lexicon on methods of transformation and the selected objects.
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