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1000 New Designs and Where to Find Them: A 21st-Century Sourcebook
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Jennifer Hudson (Author)
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Laurence King Publishers (Editor)
Bringing together the best of contemporary design for the home, this is a comprehensive roundup of 1,000 striking and innovative objects produced in the last five years. It covers furniture, storage, lighting, textiles, carpets and rugs, bathrooms, table- and kitchenware, and electronic products. Web addresses of designers and manufacturers are given for every object, along with full captions and color illustrations, making every design easy to source. Captions provide details of materials and dimensions, numerous commentaries give an insight into currently developments in design, and there is also a listing of all the best design stores around the world. Work by the likes of Philippe Starck, Jasper Morrison, Ron Arad, Marcel Wanders, the Campana brothers, Karim Rashid, Ross Lovegrove, Tom Dixon, Michele de Lucchi, and Constantin Boym are featured as well as revealing interviews with thirty top designers.
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Century of Design, A: Design Pioneers of the 20th Century
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Penny Sparke (Author)
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Barron's Educational Series (Editor)
The 20th century has been unique in the history of art and design, uniting creative imaginations with hi-tech and mass-production methods. The result has been well designed products available to an unprecedented number of people. Many of these objecs have found their way into the world's finest museums, but even more beneficial has been their presence and common use in households around the world. This volume tells this fascinating story, combining the history of modern design movements with a chronological review of 80 top designers, from Otto Wagner at the end of the 19th century to Jasper Morrison, a young designer making an impact today. In between you'll find profiles of some of the most influential creative minds of the 20th century, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Eero Saarinen, and many others. The book is as beautiful to look at as it is exciting to read. It contains more than 580 full-color photos covering a wide range of objects that include furniture, glass, ceramics, metalware, industrial products, and household appliances.
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A History of Modern Design
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David Raizman (Author)
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Laurence King Publishing (Editor)
The first book of its kind, Raizman?s History of Modern Design offers a gorgeously illustrated survey of the applied arts and industrial design from the eighteenth century to present day, covering furniture, metal, glass, ceramics, fashion, appliances, transportation, and advertising.
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A Life's Design: The Life And Work of Industrial Designer Charles Harrison
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Charles Harrison (Author)
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And Fork: 100 Designers, 10 Curators, 10 Good Designs
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Tom Dixon (Author)
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Maria Helena Estrada (Author)
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Pierre Keller (Author)
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Didier Krzentowski (Author)
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Sang-Kyu Kim (Author)
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Julie Lasky (Author)
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Guta Moura Guedes (Author)
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Brian Parkes (Author)
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Francesca Picchi (Author)
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Chieko Yoshiie (Author)
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Phaidon Press (Editor)
100 of the World's Most Exceptional Young Product DesignersSelected by 10 Design Critics,Including Tom Dixon"Designers have a responsibility to show the future as they want it tobe--or at least as it can be--not just the way an industry wants it tobe..."-Yves B+har, designer Five years after the success of the groundbreaking SPOON (2002), whichfeatured a steel-covered spoon shaped book cover, Phaidon announces thepublication of a follow up collection.AND FORK is a comprehensive globaloverview of new industrial design today.This generously illustratedvolume presents 100 of the most exceptional product designers that haverecently emerged on the international scene, selected by 10 of the world'stop design critics including Chieko Yoshiie of Casa Brutus in Japan,Francesca Picchi of Domus, Tom Dixon from Habitat UK and Sang-kyu Kim, aKorea-based design curator. AND FORK features 1,000 color illustrations of hundreds of innovativeproducts created by the most forward-thinking young designers workingtoday.A wide range of objects (including chairs, lighting, footwear,kitchen accessories and electronics) provide an up-to-date snapshot of thenewest developments in the design world.The book will be an indispensablereference for students, designers, architects and the general publicinterested in learning about contemporary design in everyday life.With the expertise of a highly knowledgeable group of design stars, ANDFORK is set on the same table as Spoon.The 100 designers selected comefrom an impressive 24 countries including Brazil, Japan, Finland, UK,Denmark, Israel, Australia, South Korea and USA. Recent trends in designare revealed, such as a new generation of designers more concerned withsocial responsibility and the ethics of design, new product design thatcaters to our increasing dependence on portable and personal technology,and a rise in collaboration between young designers.Some highlights from AND FORK include: *D-Bros: The Japan-based design group is best known for their charmingHope Forever Blossoming Vase. It's a simple flat plastic bag, but when youpour water into it, it expands to take on both the look and behavior of aglass flower vase.*Piet Hein Eek: Much of the Dutch designer's furniture is made fromreclaimed scrap wood. He is an example of many of the young designersfeatured in AND FORK that are using environmentally-friendly or recycledmaterials and innovative manufacturing techniques. Eek says, "I like usingmaterials that are worthless and acting as though they are precious."*Jennifer Carpenter: The New York-based designer has made her mostdistinctive mark on children's products, designing an infant bed thateasily converts into toddler furniture. She has said, "Let's face it, babyproducts are not the sexiest arena, some designers would rather be workingon the next iPod...but the breast pump is what really needs the help."*Simon Heijdens: Heijdens is fascinated with the way things evolveover time which inspired the Broken White project (2004). He designed a setof ceramic bowls and plates that are immaculate and white when new, but asthey are used, delicate cracks appear in the glazing and with time slowlyspread to form a decoration. In result, the most used, favorite items standout portraying the intimate relationship between user and object. Arranged in alphabetical order, AND FORK displays each designer on fourpages that include photographs, technical drawings and text written by thecurators on why the designer's work has been chosen and details on futuredesign plans.Each curator has also chosen one piece of design, such asthe Radio Ts2 or the Schwinn Stingray bicycle, for the 'Good Design'chapter of the book. These are classics that have made a significant impacton the design world, and still influence young designers today. The pages of AND FORK illustrate superlative cutting-edge work fromdesigners whose products often display subversive manufacturing techniques,exciting displays of materials or refreshing twists
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Antiques of the Future
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Lisa S. Roberts (Author)
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Michael Graves (Foreword)
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"Stewart, Tabori and Chang" (Editor)
Early in the 1980s, some of the world?s most famous architects and industrial designers began to design a wide variety of everyday objects for the home. From tea kettles and toasters to desk lamps and dustpans, these highly designed, often whimsical products blurred the lines between form, function, and fun. Lisa Roberts, an architect and home furnishings designer, became so enamored of these objects that she set out to collect her favorites, amassing more than 300 exemplary pieces over the past 25 years.
Seventy of these award-winning household objects?created by such design superstars as Michael Graves, Philippe Starck, and Karim Rashid?are presented in Antiques of the Future, a book as clever, energetic, and eye-popping as the products themselves. Each is captured in vibrant, humorous photographs, accompanied by details about the product, designer, and manufacturer and a concise explanation of why it deserves a place in the collection. Whether it?s a paperweight, a salad spinner, or a blow dryer, these ordinary objects have extraordinary style. Accessible and entertaining, Antiques of the Future not only helps readers to develop an eye for distinctive design but also explains how they can start their own ?museum-quality? collections.
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Design 2007 Calendar
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Taschen (Author)
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Taschen (Editor)
DesignAddict review:
Cheap Laffs plunders pop culture's sub-basement to chronicle the aesthetic and cultural achievements of the novelty item. Sharply designed and written with a touch of irony, this book celebrates a thriving, if marginal, industry devoted to the creation of a modest product of questionable quality, taste, originality, and necessity. Unearthing the best, oddest, and most intriguing novelties of the past century, this entertaining, nostalgia-filled book will appeal to consumers of kitsch and visual culture. - A. Rasmussen -
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Cheap Laffs: The Art of the Novelty Item
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Mark Newgarden (Author)
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Picturebox Inc. (Author)
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Harry N. Abrams (Editor)
Remember when you zapped your friend with a joy buzzer? Planted fake vomit on the dining room table for your unsuspecting mother to find? Who could resist the hours of entertainment promised by the artificial ink spot? Cheap Laffs plunders pop culture's sub-basement to chronicle the aesthetic and cultural achievements of the novelty item.
Sharply designed, jam-packed with illustrations, and written with a touch of irony, this book celebrates a thriving, if marginal, industry devoted to the creation of a modest product of questionable quality, taste, originality, and necessity. The Whoopee Cushion, The Smoking Monkey, fake worms, chickens, eggs, butter, nails, and pencils-we can only marvel at the outlandish ingenuity of these objects seemingly concocted in a frenzied atmosphere of pop cultural temperature-taking and reckless dementia. How else can we even begin to explain the mouse-shaped eraser, the enormous vibrating eye, or the miniature baby in a celluloid peanut? Unearthing the best, oddest, and most intriguing novelties of the past century, this highly entertaining, nostalgia-filled book is sure to appeal to all consumers of kitsch and visual culture. AUTHOR BIO: Mark Newgarden, creator of the 1980s Garbage Pail Kids for the Topps Company, is a visual artist whose work has appeared in publications ranging from RAW to The New York Times Op-Ed page. He has conceived, scripted, and designed programming for Nickelodeon and the Cartoon Network. PictureBox, Inc., a visual content studio and publishing house composed of Peter Buchanan-Smith and Dan Nadel, produces the annual book of pictures and prose The Ganzfeld.
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Cocktail Shakers, Lava Lamps, and Tupperware: A Celebration of Lifestyle Design from the Last Half of the 20th Century
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Wayne Hemingway (Author)
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Keith Stephenson (Illustrator)
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Rockport Publishers (Editor)
Mass Market Classics is a supremely cool and consumer-driven showcase of everyday interior design of the 1950s, '60s, '70s and '80s. From toasted sandwich makers and Tupperware containers to mass-produced polypropylene or tubular steel chairs, from porch swings to cocktail shakers, Mass Market Classics delves into the various living areas of the suburban home (and the catalogues from where the artefacts were ordered) to find the best of popular design. The book combines hip graphic treatments with a level of ironic kitschness that reflects the products featured. Internationally acclaimed pop-cultural design aficionado Wayne Hemingway adds his uniquely witty commentary, as a collector and champion of mass-produced interior design.
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