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"Seventy-nine short essays on design" brings together the best of designer Michael Bierut's critical writing—serious or humorous, flattering or biting, but always on the mark. Bierut is widely considered the finest observer on design writing today. Covering topics as diverse as Twyla Tharp and ITC Garamond, Bierut's texts pull design culture into crisp focus. He touches(...)
Seventy-nine short essays on design
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"Seventy-nine short essays on design" brings together the best of designer Michael Bierut's critical writing—serious or humorous, flattering or biting, but always on the mark. Bierut is widely considered the finest observer on design writing today. Covering topics as diverse as Twyla Tharp and ITC Garamond, Bierut's texts pull design culture into crisp focus. He touches on classics, like Massimo Vignelli and the cover of The Catcher in the Rye, as well as newcomers, like McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and color-coded terrorism alert levels. Along the way Nabakov's Pale Fire; Eero Saarinen; the paper clip; Celebration, Florida; the planet Saturn; the ClearRx pill bottle; and paper architecture all fall under his pen. His experience as a design practitioner informs his writing and gives it truth. In "Seventy-nine short essays on design", designers and nondesigners alike can share and revel in his insights.
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Cet ouvrage explore toutes les utilisations classiques et originales de ce motif, à partir d'exemples tirés de domaines divers tels que le graphisme, la décoration d'intérieur (papier peint et tissu d’ameublement), la mode (les fameuses rayures marines), le design (les célèbres colonnes du club de l’Haçienda inventées par Ben Kelly en Grande-Bretagne) ou encore(...)
Les rayures : communication et motifs
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Cet ouvrage explore toutes les utilisations classiques et originales de ce motif, à partir d'exemples tirés de domaines divers tels que le graphisme, la décoration d'intérieur (papier peint et tissu d’ameublement), la mode (les fameuses rayures marines), le design (les célèbres colonnes du club de l’Haçienda inventées par Ben Kelly en Grande-Bretagne) ou encore l'architecture. Panneaux de signalisation, drapeaux, paysages naturels, logo de marque de sport, packaging, etc. Les rayures font partie de notre quotidien sans que nous y prêtions réellement attention. Relayé par une iconographie riche et détaillée, ce livre propose de faire une synthèse limpide et pertinente qui permettra au lecteur de poser un regard différent sur cet élément a priori familier et d’apprendre à élaborer une combinaison graphique équilibrée et captivante.
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Designed to be a companion to the classic title "1000 Chairs", this edition contains a selection of over 1000 lights. Presented chronologically by decade are history’s most interesting electric lights, from Edison's first light to Tiffany's beautiful leaded glass shades to completely outrageous designs from the late 1960s and 1970s to the latest high-tech LED lamps. All(...)
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September 2006, Cologne
1000 Lights. 1000 Leuchten. 1000 Luminaires
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Designed to be a companion to the classic title "1000 Chairs", this edition contains a selection of over 1000 lights. Presented chronologically by decade are history’s most interesting electric lights, from Edison's first light to Tiffany's beautiful leaded glass shades to completely outrageous designs from the late 1960s and 1970s to the latest high-tech LED lamps. All major styles are represented here - Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Modern Movement, De Stijl, Postwar, Pop, Radical, Post-Modern, and Contemporary. / La design des luminaires depuis l'invention de l'ampoule électrique. Découvrez plus de 1000 exemplaires de l'histoire des luminaires les plus intéressants : de la première ampoule d'Edison aux superbes abat-jours en vitrail de Tiffany et aux modèles les plus audacieux de la fin des années 1960 et des années 1970 jusqu'aux dernières créations à base de LEDs. Vous les trouverez dans cet ouvrage, présentés chronologiquement par décennie. Tous les grands styles sont présents dans 704 pages de créations lumineuses.
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This book contains hightlights from Russian artist Vladimir Arkhipov's collection of unique artifacts. Objects made by ordinary Russians inspired by a lack of immediate access to manufactured goods during the collapse of the Soviet Union. The archive includes hundreds of objects created with often idiosyncratic functional qualities made for both inside and outside the(...)
Home-Made: contemporary russian folk atifacts
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This book contains hightlights from Russian artist Vladimir Arkhipov's collection of unique artifacts. Objects made by ordinary Russians inspired by a lack of immediate access to manufactured goods during the collapse of the Soviet Union. The archive includes hundreds of objects created with often idiosyncratic functional qualities made for both inside and outside the home, such as a tiny bathtub plug carefully fashioned from a boot heel; a back massager made from an old wooden abacus; a road sign used as a street cleaner's shovel; and a doormat made from beer bottle tops. Featuring over 220 individuals artifeacts of Soviet culture, each accompanied by a photograph of the creator, their story of how the object came about, its function and the materials used to create it.
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The modern interior
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Today’s home is filled with pieces from Pottery Barn, IKEA, and Crate & Barrel, and we pore over glossy catalogs in hopes of achieving the “modern interior.” This idealized aesthetic is the subject of Penny Sparke’s study, as she explores the style in both its absolute form and the diverse decorating approaches seen in the contemporary home. The shift from(...)
The modern interior
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Today’s home is filled with pieces from Pottery Barn, IKEA, and Crate & Barrel, and we pore over glossy catalogs in hopes of achieving the “modern interior.” This idealized aesthetic is the subject of Penny Sparke’s study, as she explores the style in both its absolute form and the diverse decorating approaches seen in the contemporary home. The shift from Victorian to modern style, The Modern Interior reveals, was not as simple and smooth as it is often perceived and the book probes the complicated history behind that transition. Sparke examines the work of such designers as Marcel Breuer, Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles and Ray Eames, and Mies van der Rohe, and draws upon design examples from the United States and Europe to reveal that, unlike the designed exteriors of buildings and institutions, the idea of the “interior” has been a largely abstract conception promoted through exhibitions, retail stores, and mass media. A comprehensive and in-depth investigation of the design environments we live and play in, The Modern Interior will be essential reading for all scholars and interested observers of architecture and modern design culture.
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This handsome book explores the recent use of figurative characteristics in the design arts. Through digital literacy and enhanced fabrication techniques, this avant-garde movement has reintroduced hybrids of methods and ideologies that were once considered too ornamental in character or too handcrafted for the 20th-century minimalist design lexicon. Both large(...)
Figuration in contemporary design: A+D Institute of Chicago Yale University Press
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This handsome book explores the recent use of figurative characteristics in the design arts. Through digital literacy and enhanced fabrication techniques, this avant-garde movement has reintroduced hybrids of methods and ideologies that were once considered too ornamental in character or too handcrafted for the 20th-century minimalist design lexicon. Both large urban-scale architecture and the small domestic realm of design are employing this avant-garde vocabulary formally and figuratively in the terms of shapes and surfaces that evoke trees, tornadoes, parasols, photography, death, illness, food, music, and sensuality.
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Danish chairs
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This book presents over two hundred examples of 20th century Danish chairs, and includes the work of designers such as Arne Jacobsen, Hans Wegner, and Finn Juhl.
Danish chairs
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This book presents over two hundred examples of 20th century Danish chairs, and includes the work of designers such as Arne Jacobsen, Hans Wegner, and Finn Juhl.
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February 1999, San Francisco
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Shaker built
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Shaker Built is an historical photographic survey highlighting the simplicity and function of Shaker architecture. With photographs by Paul Rocheleau.
Shaker built
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Shaker Built is an historical photographic survey highlighting the simplicity and function of Shaker architecture. With photographs by Paul Rocheleau.
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October 1994, New York
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The elements of style
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The Elements of Style is a comprehensive visual reference guide to American and British architectural styles from 1485 to the present. This newly revised edition includes over eighty short biographies of important architects and designers.
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March 1997, New York
The elements of style
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The Elements of Style is a comprehensive visual reference guide to American and British architectural styles from 1485 to the present. This newly revised edition includes over eighty short biographies of important architects and designers.
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March 1997, New York
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This book presents over two dozen recent major renovations throughout North America with over 400 colour photographs offering before and after comparisons for each project.
Hotel renovation, planning & design
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This book presents over two dozen recent major renovations throughout North America with over 400 colour photographs offering before and after comparisons for each project.
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September 1995, New York
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