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Language: English
Published by Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 2003
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- Hardcover
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Cloth, 344 pages, colour illustrations; 22 cm. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, June 8 to September. 7, 2003, and other venues. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Gently browsed. Fine DJ/band-wrapper. *** "This book features over forty innovative proejcts from the fields of architectural, product, furniture, fashion and graphic design. It includes essays on the tactics of formlessness and its impact on everyday consumption." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Strangely familiar: design and everyday life, by Andrew Blauvelt; The strangeness of the familiar in design, by Aaron Betsky; Just re-do it: tactical formlessness and everyday consumption, by Jamer Hunt; Ruins, recycling, smart buildings, and the endlessly transformable environment, by Jonathan Bell; Projects; Biographies. Size: 8vo.
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- Title
- Strangely Familiar: Design and Everyday Life
- Author
- Blauvelt, Andrew (Curated by)
- Publisher
- Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Book Type
- Collectible
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0935640754
- ISBN 13
- 9780935640755
- Edition
- 1st.
- Seller catalogs
- Architecture::Criticism, Design::Fashion & Costume, Design::Furniture, Design::Graphic, Design::Industrial, Design::Packaging, USA::7. Contemporary, 2000-, XL: Extra Large, XXX::COLLECTIBLES
Exploring the paradox of design in our daily lives
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."Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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