More than design
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Featuring more than 1,100 collection objects selected by the curatorial staff, Smithsonian Design Library, and designer Irma Boom, Making Design is organized entirely by Boom’s visual sequencing of images; her design and the curators’ essays weave parallel narratives throughout the book.
More than design
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Featuring more than 1,100 collection objects selected by the curatorial staff, Smithsonian Design Library, and designer Irma Boom, Making Design is organized entirely by Boom’s visual sequencing of images; her design and the curators’ essays weave parallel narratives throughout the book.
Industrial Design
Cabinet 55: love
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Love was classically thought to come in four distinct varieties--agape (spiritual love), eros (physical passion), philia (friendship) and storge (familial affection). It might be argued that with modernity, one of these--eros--has come to dominate our landscape, where romance and its obstacles inform so many of our cultural narratives and consumer fantasies. Nonetheless,(...)
Cabinet 55: love
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Love was classically thought to come in four distinct varieties--agape (spiritual love), eros (physical passion), philia (friendship) and storge (familial affection). It might be argued that with modernity, one of these--eros--has come to dominate our landscape, where romance and its obstacles inform so many of our cultural narratives and consumer fantasies. Nonetheless, all of these modalities of love continue to structure the relationships that govern human societies. Cabinet issue 55, with a special section on "Love," features Christopher Turner on the "celestial bed" of eighteenth-century proto-sexologist James Graham; Margaret Gordon on epistolary friendships; and Olga Lemerova on the love between humans and their pets. Elsewhere in the issue: Sasha Archibald on the decorative fabric or leather patches worn in the seventeenth century to conceal facial blemishes; D. Graham Burnett on watermarks; and Babak Sadr on how zoos perform annual inventories of their animals, both countable and uncountable.
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Catalogue: Amie Siegel
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Catalogue suggests an artist’s exhibition catalogue, but is rather a chronological compilation of auction catalogues presenting the sales of the mid-century furniture designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret for Chandigarh, India, featured in Amie Siegel’s multi-element film installation Provenance (2013). An aside, an addendum, an index, the publication ends with(...)
Catalogue: Amie Siegel
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Catalogue suggests an artist’s exhibition catalogue, but is rather a chronological compilation of auction catalogues presenting the sales of the mid-century furniture designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret for Chandigarh, India, featured in Amie Siegel’s multi-element film installation Provenance (2013). An aside, an addendum, an index, the publication ends with the Christie's London catalogue page from the 2013 auction of Provenance itself in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Sale, which completes the economic circuit of the project.
Design Monographs
Pineapple, issue 1
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This is a printed magazine where stories are told by unexpected characters of our community. It is a crossroad of travel and anthropology; a document of community, belonging and shared space. Pineapple is a platform for the stories from Airbnb’s extended family to be shared; it is somewhere for readers to see how people live and create connections in cities today. With(...)
Pineapple, issue 1
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This is a printed magazine where stories are told by unexpected characters of our community. It is a crossroad of travel and anthropology; a document of community, belonging and shared space. Pineapple is a platform for the stories from Airbnb’s extended family to be shared; it is somewhere for readers to see how people live and create connections in cities today. With stories collected from London, Seoul and San Francisco.
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Over the course of a 40-year career, Conceptual artist and photographer Sarah Charlesworth deconstructed the conventions of photography and gave emphasis to the medium's importance in mediating our perception of the world. Part of a group of artists working in New York in the 1980s that included Jack Goldstein, Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman and Laurie(...)
Sarah Charlesworth: doubleworld
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Over the course of a 40-year career, Conceptual artist and photographer Sarah Charlesworth deconstructed the conventions of photography and gave emphasis to the medium's importance in mediating our perception of the world. Part of a group of artists working in New York in the 1980s that included Jack Goldstein, Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman and Laurie Simmons, Charlesworth straddled 1970s Conceptual art and the Pictures Generation, creating work that probed the visual language of mass media and illuminated the impact of ubiquitous imagery on our everyday lives.
Photography monographs
Josef Müller-Brockmann
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In his illustrated essay, Lars Müller traces the history of “Swiss Graphic Design” from the 1930s to the 1960s. Müller-Brockmann’s posters have become world famous for their ability to convey information with great visual tension, a sense of drama, and an extreme economy of means. Müller-Brockmann created a body of work in which timeless principles of visual communication(...)
Josef Müller-Brockmann
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In his illustrated essay, Lars Müller traces the history of “Swiss Graphic Design” from the 1930s to the 1960s. Müller-Brockmann’s posters have become world famous for their ability to convey information with great visual tension, a sense of drama, and an extreme economy of means. Müller-Brockmann created a body of work in which timeless principles of visual communication are inscribed.
Graphic Designers, Monographs
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The humble box has come a long way from its origins as nondescript packaging. Box It Up demonstrates the multitude of ways cardboard, wood, and other boxes and crates have flourished in mediums beyond simple wrapping and storage.
Box It Up
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The humble box has come a long way from its origins as nondescript packaging. Box It Up demonstrates the multitude of ways cardboard, wood, and other boxes and crates have flourished in mediums beyond simple wrapping and storage.
Graphic Design and Typography
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According to Frédéric Migayrou, the history of Japanese architecture has seen a permanent tension between the impossible reconstruction of tradition and the unceasing assimilation of modernity. Although having one of the most active international architecture scenes since World War II, a comprehensive overview of Japanese architectural creation from the post-war years has(...)
Shinkenchiku 2014:11 extra edition. Japan architects, 1945-2010
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According to Frédéric Migayrou, the history of Japanese architecture has seen a permanent tension between the impossible reconstruction of tradition and the unceasing assimilation of modernity. Although having one of the most active international architecture scenes since World War II, a comprehensive overview of Japanese architectural creation from the post-war years has been lacking until now. This catalogue, brimming with archive materials like sketches and models, is published with the eponymous exhibition at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, which intends to stimulate a broader appreciation for these masterful works, ensuring their preservation.
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October 2015
Le mythe de Pierre
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« Le Mythe de Pierre » est avant tout une histoire. Ce premier numéro de Classeur va raconter cette histoire. Pour cela il va en traquer les traces : rassembler, décrire, dessiner, narrer, photographier ; puis les faire se rencontrer, s’embrasser, s’affronter.
Le mythe de Pierre
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« Le Mythe de Pierre » est avant tout une histoire. Ce premier numéro de Classeur va raconter cette histoire. Pour cela il va en traquer les traces : rassembler, décrire, dessiner, narrer, photographier ; puis les faire se rencontrer, s’embrasser, s’affronter.
Architectural Theory
L'opéra de la Bastille
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Pour saisir l’identité de cet Opéra, cet ouvrage revient sur la genèse d’un grand projet public au croisement d’une décision politique et de deux histoires, celle de l’architecture et celle des arts de la scène. En explorant les coulisses de cette ruche, Christine Desmoulins nous explique comment ses créateurs se sont efforcés d’en faire un défi d’ingénierie et d’acoustique.
L'opéra de la Bastille
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Pour saisir l’identité de cet Opéra, cet ouvrage revient sur la genèse d’un grand projet public au croisement d’une décision politique et de deux histoires, celle de l’architecture et celle des arts de la scène. En explorant les coulisses de cette ruche, Christine Desmoulins nous explique comment ses créateurs se sont efforcés d’en faire un défi d’ingénierie et d’acoustique.
Commercial interiors, Building types