Design Collection: Take Away Design of Mobile Food Culture - Softcover

Eds, Museum Fur Gestaltung Zurich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3899860640 ISBN 13: 9783899860641

Publisher: AVEdition, 2005

Synopsis

As a catering concept the takeaway is based on speed, order and efficiency. Now a widespread form of eating with a constantly expanding culinary range - a far remove from its earlier hamburger-dominated definition - the takeaway also makes considerable demands on the equipment designed for its consumption.
The publication "Take away" documents a century of design-related developments associated with eating on the move. Some 200 illustrations provide access to an apparently familiar yet often overlooked design world, full of aesthetic appeal, technological secrets and situational charm.
"Take away" is a book about design, but one which views the appreciation of aesthetic properties in the context of their historical, economic, technological, sociocultural and ecological backgrounds. The thematic focus on eating on the move puts design issues just where they belong: at the heart of our day-to-day existence.

About this title

Synopsis

The collection has more than 15,000 objects, 20,000 examples of packaging and the "Archive of Swiss Design". Each year an exhibition and catalogue on a specific theme will be presented. The focus here is the contentious world of items used in mobile food culture: stacking plates, paper cups, pizza boxes, picnic baskets as well as things like mini toothbrushes, folding furniture and much more. This book shows just how much mobile eating shapes our lives, with all its advantages and disadvantages. Not only has it changed what we eat, but also how, where and what we use to eat, whether it is fast food, take away, system gastronomy or convenience food.

Edition details

• Publisher: AVEdition
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3899860640
• ISBN 13: 9783899860641
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96