Hidden Forms: Seeing and Understanding Things (Writings on Design) - Hardcover

Clivio, Franco; Hansen, Hans; Mendell, Pierre

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3764389664 ISBN 13: 9783764389666

Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag AG, 2009

Synopsis

The book Hidden Forms uses examples from Franco Clivio’s collection of objects to reveal clearly and yet poetically the hidden qualities that require a practiced gaze. Working with ordinary, everyday, practical, seemingly design(er)less objects has been Franco Clivio’s obsession both as a university lecturer and as a practicing designer. Each object in the collection stands for an unconventional, unconstrained, and sometimes unique solution to a problem that is often simple but always fundamental; fundamental in the sense of a design that places less emphasis on good form than on perfect function. A fruitful collaboration between Franco Clivio, the photographer Hans Hansen, and the graphic designer Pierre Mendell has produced a work that uses photographs, drawings, and texts to reveal the hidden qualities of objects for everyday use.

About this title

About the Author

Franco Clivio is a designer and lecturer at the Schule fur Gestaltung, the school of design in Zurich."

Edition details

• Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag AG
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3764389664
• ISBN 13: 9783764389666
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 239