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Bright minds, beautiful ideas : parallel thoughts in different times : Bruno Munari, Charles & Ray Eames, Marti Guixé and Jurgen Bey
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ISBN: 9063690622 Year: 2003 Publisher: Amsterdam BIS publishers

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The world of design is in confusion. The market suffers from a surplus of products, designers and companies, the majority of which are imitations and epigones that constantly supplant each other. Distinctions between separate disciplines are becoming increasingly blurred, labels merge with one another and design studios go bankrupt. Old and new values clash. The world economy has been plunged into recession while interest for local aspects is on the rise. High time for a rethink on the role of the designer and the meaning of design. What is an actual and true contemporary attitude to design - what is contemporary design? These are questions posed by 'Bright Minds, Beautiful Ideas', an inspiring and brainstorming book that through the imagination and handiwork of four innovative and influential designers, sketches a perspective for today (and possibly the future). Despite differences in background and the date of their oeuvre, Bruno Munari (Italy 1907-1998), Charles and Ray Eames (USA 1907-1978 and 1912-1988), Martí Guixé (Spain 1964) and Jurgen Bey (the Netherlands 1965), share a number of characteristics that are of fundamental importance for design. They question everything and are capable of coupling fantasy, playfulness and investigation with vision. They link culture to economy and science and match curiosity and openness with social commitment and action. Their work and vision are timeless and yet contemporary. 'Bright Minds, Beautiful Ideas' is a vital book that gives a sparkling singular perspective of roles, values and functions of designers and design.

Strangely Familiar : Design and Everyday Life
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ISBN: 0935640754 9780935640755 Year: 2003 Publisher: Minneapolis Walker Art Center

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In the past decade, designers have become increasingly engaged with the quotidian. This shift away from more strictly formal and functional concerns has allowed them to freely explore design's contexts and effects. A light that responds to silence, a table that knows where it is, a pig farm the size of a skyscraper, a coat that becomes a tent, a house that fits in your pocket - these projects by innovators in the field of design question the habitual, transform the commonplace, alter our notions of dwelling and blur the boundaries between form and function. Strangely Familiar : Design and Everyday Life explores the paradox of design in our daily lives. Anonymous and conspicuous, familiar and strange, design surrounds us while fading from view, becoming second nature to us and yet remaining still somehow elusive. This exhibition catalogue includes more than 40 innovative projects drawn internationally from the fields of architecture, product, furniture, fashion and graphic design. Among the designers and architects featured are Shigeru Ban, MVRDV, LOT-EK, Atelier Bow-Wow, Dunne & Raby, Marcel Wanders, Michael Anastassiades, Constantin and Laurene Leon Boym, and Allan Wexler. This richly illustrated volume includes essays on the tactics of formlessness and its impact on everyday consumption, the potential of an endlessly transformable environment to extend product lifecycles, and ruminations on the strange and familiar worlds of design.

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residing --- pig houses --- environments [object groupings] --- Iconography --- design [discipline] --- dwellings --- furniture making --- furnishings [artifacts] --- Architecture --- maquettes [sculptures] --- telephones --- architecture [discipline] --- disasters --- Ban, Shigeru --- Boym, Constantin --- Bernstrand, Thomas --- Siegal, Jennifer --- Anastassiades, Michael --- Dot, Blu --- Bey, Jurgen --- Boxenbaum, Julian Lion --- van Bennekom, Jop --- Wanders, Marcel --- Boym, Laurene Leon --- Whiteread, Rachel --- Andrew Blauvelt --- kunst --- design --- productdesign --- productontwikkeling --- interieurvormgeving --- architectuur --- meubelkunst --- mode --- twintigste eeuw --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- grafische vormgeving --- Dunne Anthony --- Raby Fiona --- Anastassiades Michael --- Walczak Marek --- McAllister Michael --- Segen Jakub --- Kennard Peter --- Blu Dot --- Tjepkema Frank --- Van der Jagt Peter --- van der Poll Marijn --- Bernstrand Thomas --- Ulian Paolo --- elephant design --- Hedman Markku --- LOT-EK --- Siegal Jennifer --- Stöberl Alejandro --- Uchida Shigeru --- Wexler Allan --- Ruiz de Azúa Martín --- Ferrari Moreno --- Boxenbaum Julian Lion --- Koers, Zeinstra, van Gelderen --- Atelier Bow-Wow --- Bey Jurgen --- Garofalo Doug --- Whiteread Rachel --- Nucleo --- Wanders Marcel --- Boym Constantin --- Boym Laurene Leon --- van Bennekom Jop --- MVRDV --- 745.01 --- Design --- Design industriel --- Objet usuel --- Objet design --- Design graphique --- Boym, Constantine --- Dunne, Anthony --- Atelier bow-wow --- Lot-ek --- MvRdV --- furnishings [works] --- Industrial design --- Design, Industrial --- History --- Mechanical drawing --- New products

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