Collours
Collours

Author: Rem Koolhaas

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 9783764365691

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"The nature of colour should change -no longer just a thin layer of change, but something that genuinely alters perception" -this stipulation of Rem Koolhaas is echoes by the world famous architects and designers Alessandro Mendini and Norman Foster. In this volume, they present between them a total of 90 colours -each covering half a page -accompanied by comments on the background, the significance and the applications of the colours. Studies of colours from each office form the basis of this book, and were previously only available in extravagant individual editions. With this comprehensive and consistent presentation of the varying approaches to colour, we have a compendium which shows the wide use of colour in today's technologically advanced architecture with its modern, post-modern and deconstructive orientation. The range of examples of the colours in practice includes load-bearing structures, facades, interior design, furnishing and the entire specturm of product design.

Television at the Crossroads
Television at the Crossroads

Author: Alessandro Mendini

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 1995-05-15

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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Where is television going and what shall we, as viewers, be seeing in the future? These and other questions are addressed by the contributors to this book. Each author focuses on different aspects of television, approaching the topic from his or her own area of expertise. The book does not aim to find definitive answers, but presents what may perhaps be described as a collection of musings, meditations or brainstormings.

Alessandro Mendini
Alessandro Mendini

Author: Graziella Leyla Ciagà

Publisher: 24 Ore Cultura

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788866480280

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Alessandro Mendini, born in Milan in 1931, is a major theorist and a driving force behind avant-garde design in Italy. Considered to be one of the most important contemporary designers in Europe, Mendini's work places an emphasis on cultural diversity and radical expression.

Dan Friedman
Dan Friedman

Author: Dan Friedman

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 9780300058482

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Dan Friedman is internationally known as an artist, teacher, graphic designer, and furniture designer. His innovative and arresting work is in many public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and Seibu in Tokyo.

Karimspace
Karimspace

Author: Karim Rashid

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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Showcases forty projects in a dozen countries (many new or recently opened), showing how Karim applies his signature aesthetic to different environments.

1968: Radical Italian Design
1968: Radical Italian Design

Author: Maria Cristina Didero

Publisher: Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9786185039042

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1968, the newest project by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari's TOILETPAPER is an unorthodox and kaleidoscopic walk through the Dakis Joannou collection of Radical Design.A pivotal year for architecture, design and society, 1968 is a lavish collection of dreams and nightmares, a bold and inspiring compendium of colourful, ironic materials, objects, and bodies.TOILETPAPER's interpretation of the collection results in mind blowing photographs that trap us in a complex system of references, crossing layers, three dimensional and real time collages. 1968 is a rainbow, the memory of a storm and the positive projection of a newborn sun: the history plus the future, masterly shown in the drawings by one of the primary characters of the Radical Design movement, Alessandro Mendini, who adds a vital contribution to TOILETPAPER's visuals.Photographs by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, and drawings by Alessandro Mendini.

The Transdisciplinary Studio
The Transdisciplinary Studio

Author: Alex Coles

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781934105962

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We have entered a post-post-studio age, and find ourselves with a new studio model: the transdisciplinary. Artists and designers are now defined not by their discipline but by the fluidity with which their practices move between the fields of architecture, art, and design. This volume delves into four pioneering transdisciplinary studios--Jorge Pardo Sculpture, Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design, Studio Olafur Eliasson, and Åbäke--by observing and interviewing the practitioners and their assistants. A further series of interviews with curators, critics, anthropologists, designers, and artists serves to contextualize the transdisciplinary model now at the fore of creative practice. Including interviews with Jorge Pardo, Konstantin Grcic, Olafur Eliasson, and Åbäke; and Vito Acconci, Gui Bonsiepe, James Clifford, Dexter Sinister, Martino Gamper, Ryan Gander, Caroline Jones, Ronald Jones, Maria Lind, Alessandro Mendini, Rick Poynor, and Andrea Zittel. The Transdisciplinary Studio is the first volume of a series of books by Alex Coles on the expanded studio model and contemporary praxis.

Radical
Radical

Author: Cindi Strauss

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2020-02-25

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0300247494

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This essential survey of Italian Radical design, a movement that interrogated modern living against the turbulent political climate of the 1960s, is lavishly illustrated with new photography, including rarely seen prototypes and limited-production pieces.