High Touch: Tactile Design and Visual Explorations - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3899554442 ISBN 13: 9783899554441

Publisher: gestalten, 2012

Synopsis

Today’s visual culture is shaped by a vast wealth of influences from diverse styles, cultures, and eras. Handcrafts including crochet, papercraft, and the design of costumes and masks are being melded with the techniques of more traditional art forms such as installation, sculpture, collage, photography, and illustration. A new visual language is currently being formed out of the skillful and unusual combination of creative styles, as well as the use of an expanded range of materials and techniques. One of the most striking aspects of today’s visual culture is its handcrafted quality. The recent work of many creatives is characterized by craftsmanship and an intensive, even laborious exploration of the featured techniques, materials, or styles. High touch is a term used in design theory to describe an accessible, human visuality. The book High Touch is a compilation of current work that is broadening and enriching this definition in a contemporary way. It presents a rich selection of innovative, often handmade design created with the full spectrum of materials and stylistic devices in existence today—all of which also strive to expand this palette of visual possibilities in a meaningful way.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Today's visual culture is shaped by a vast wealth of influences from diverse styles, cultures, and eras. Handcrafts including crochet, papercraft, and the design of costumes and masks are being melded with the techniques of more traditional art forms such as installation, sculpture, collage, photography, and illustration.

Edition details

• Publisher: gestalten
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3899554442
• ISBN 13: 9783899554441
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Klanten Robert, Hubner M.