Graphic design discourse: evolving theories, ideologies and processes of visual communication
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Through a carefully selected collection of more than seventy-five seminal texts spanning centuries and bridging the disciplines of art, architecture, design history, philosophy, and cultural theory, "Graphic design discourse: Evolving theories, ideologies, and processes of visual communication" establishes a new paradigm for graphic design methodologies for the(...)
Graphic Design and Typography
October 2017
Graphic design discourse: evolving theories, ideologies and processes of visual communication
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Through a carefully selected collection of more than seventy-five seminal texts spanning centuries and bridging the disciplines of art, architecture, design history, philosophy, and cultural theory, "Graphic design discourse: Evolving theories, ideologies, and processes of visual communication" establishes a new paradigm for graphic design methodologies for the twenty-first century. This anthology is for practicing designers, educators, and students trying to understand how to design in a singular, expressive way without forgoing clear and concise visual communication.
Graphic Design and Typography
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'Architecture's Odd Couple', traces the historical threads connecting 20th century architects Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson, and offers readers a distinct perspective on the era they so enlivened with their designs. Featuring many of the structures that defined modern space--from Fallingwater to the Guggenheim, from the Glass House to the Seagram Building--this(...)
Architecture's odd couple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johhnson
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'Architecture's Odd Couple', traces the historical threads connecting 20th century architects Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson, and offers readers a distinct perspective on the era they so enlivened with their designs. Featuring many of the structures that defined modern space--from Fallingwater to the Guggenheim, from the Glass House to the Seagram Building--this book presents an arresting portrait of modern architecture's odd couple and how they shaped the American landscape by shaping each other.
Architectural Theory
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This issue of Harvard Design Magazine is about the design of work and the work of design. ''No Sweat'' challenges designers to speculate on the spaces of work in an accelerated future, and to imagine a world in which a novel ethics of labor can emerge. What scenarios and spaces can we imagine for the next generation of work? How can we anticipate and formulate work(...)
Harvard Design Magazine 46 : no sweat
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This issue of Harvard Design Magazine is about the design of work and the work of design. ''No Sweat'' challenges designers to speculate on the spaces of work in an accelerated future, and to imagine a world in which a novel ethics of labor can emerge. What scenarios and spaces can we imagine for the next generation of work? How can we anticipate and formulate work environments and experiences that are productive, humane, and ecologically responsible?
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How have artists, educators, curators, museums and galleries responded to climate change? What forms of art and its mediation are evolving along with our understanding of the crisis? What are the potentials and pitfalls of the art-science collaboration? Perhaps the overarching question is: what exactly do art and art education have to offer? Articles include the work of(...)
Engage 21: art and climate change
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How have artists, educators, curators, museums and galleries responded to climate change? What forms of art and its mediation are evolving along with our understanding of the crisis? What are the potentials and pitfalls of the art-science collaboration? Perhaps the overarching question is: what exactly do art and art education have to offer? Articles include the work of 'eco-artists', collaborative art projects, creating green exhibitions and the role of education in dealing with climate change.
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Adam Kalkin builds homes that mix performance, conceptual art, kinetic construction, and play. Here is the first monograph dedicated to the work of this controversial architectural designer and artist. Filled with Kalkin's drawings, as well as color photos, it presents more than 30 of his buildings, projects, and installations, including The Bunny Lane House and a(...)
Architecture and hygiene : Adam Kalkin
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Adam Kalkin builds homes that mix performance, conceptual art, kinetic construction, and play. Here is the first monograph dedicated to the work of this controversial architectural designer and artist. Filled with Kalkin's drawings, as well as color photos, it presents more than 30 of his buildings, projects, and installations, including The Bunny Lane House and a delightful installation with a mechanical parrot teaching a real one how to speak. Includes Kalkin's witty "100 Comments Regarding Architecture and Hygiene."
Architecture Monographs
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Marble and natural stone have poetically captured the evolution of Earth since the dawn of existence. For thousands of years, civilisations have borrowed these magical measures of time to narrate their own history, through sculpture, monoliths, sanctuaries, and more. ''Rocked'' captures how contemporary designers are revolutionising the use of marble and natural stone(...)
Rocked: Architects, designers & artists
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Marble and natural stone have poetically captured the evolution of Earth since the dawn of existence. For thousands of years, civilisations have borrowed these magical measures of time to narrate their own history, through sculpture, monoliths, sanctuaries, and more. ''Rocked'' captures how contemporary designers are revolutionising the use of marble and natural stone through innovative technology, history, and craftsmanship. By looking back, these designers have leaped ahead, and this book is a testament to their work.
Interior Design
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Surveying some 50 years of groundbreaking art related to digital technology and the screen, "I’ll be your mirror" examines how technologies such as home computers, smartphones and TV have affected art and life over the past five decades. It traces a trajectory stretching back to the late 1960s, a watershed moment in the rise of the screen in the home. Today, accelerated(...)
I'll be your mirror: Art and the digital screen
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Surveying some 50 years of groundbreaking art related to digital technology and the screen, "I’ll be your mirror" examines how technologies such as home computers, smartphones and TV have affected art and life over the past five decades. It traces a trajectory stretching back to the late 1960s, a watershed moment in the rise of the screen in the home. Today, accelerated by the pandemic, our daily life is mediated through screens for work, entertainment and sociality.
Art Theory
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On the initiative of the lighting company Zumtobel Group, architectural photographer Iwan Baan and architect Francis Kéré set out to capture how the sun’s natural light cycle shapes vernacular architecture in Burkina Faso. Baan’s pictures are accompanied by architectural sketches from Kéré, who grew up in this light environment and whose architecture is inspired by it.(...)
Iwan Baan & Francis Kéré: Momentum of light
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On the initiative of the lighting company Zumtobel Group, architectural photographer Iwan Baan and architect Francis Kéré set out to capture how the sun’s natural light cycle shapes vernacular architecture in Burkina Faso. Baan’s pictures are accompanied by architectural sketches from Kéré, who grew up in this light environment and whose architecture is inspired by it. The photographs are printed in a special technique to give a sense of being immersed in the very light conditions that are documented.
Photography monographs
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This volume is a beautifully illustrated and astute examination of women photographers in Canada as it took shape in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Throughout, the camera was both a witness to the colonialism, capitalism, and gendered and racialized social organization, and a protagonist. And women across the country, whether residents or visitors, captured(...)
Rare merit: Women in photography in Canada, 1840-1940
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This volume is a beautifully illustrated and astute examination of women photographers in Canada as it took shape in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Throughout, the camera was both a witness to the colonialism, capitalism, and gendered and racialized social organization, and a protagonist. And women across the country, whether residents or visitors, captured people and places that were entirely new to the lens. This book shows how they did so, and the meaning their work carries.
Theory of Photography
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While the overhaul of higher education linked to the Bologna process encouraged the development of design research in art schools, this interest pre-existed in design agencies which were quick to produce surveys in various forms. In this essay, Nicolas Nova synthesises the main specificities of this type of approach and demonstrates how it escapes the academic canon.(...)
Manifestes 2: Investigation/ Design
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While the overhaul of higher education linked to the Bologna process encouraged the development of design research in art schools, this interest pre-existed in design agencies which were quick to produce surveys in various forms. In this essay, Nicolas Nova synthesises the main specificities of this type of approach and demonstrates how it escapes the academic canon. Indeed, design research is an expanding field, which produces knowledge in a wide variety of forms: texts, drawings, prototypes, interfaces, etc.
Design Theory