Tord Boontje: Enchanted World
Tord Boontje: Enchanted World

Author: Tord Boontje

Publisher: Rizzoli Publications

Published: 2023-09-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0789341654

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This highly anticipated follow-up volume presents the exquisite designs of Tord Boontje, one of the most creative and romantic industrial designers working today. Tord Boontje: Enchanted World is a comprehensive visual document of the designer’s most recent work. As an artist and a craftsman, Boontje incorporates an artisanal sensibility into contemporary industrial design, drawing upon a rich graphic tradition to create objects of exceptional beauty and delicacy. Featured here are some of his latest works, many undertaken after Boontje stepped down as Head of Design Products at the Royal College of Art in 2013 (a position he assumed after Ron Arad in 2009). Now, solely focused on his own design studio in London, Boontje showcases many of his designs, including the wispy Icarus Lamp, an armoire constructed entirely of pressed-metal fig “leaves” for Meta, a portable Bluetooth speaker for Yamaha hidden under a curtain of horsehair, and many other romantic explorations that have made Boontje’s output stand out in the world of design. Combining developing technologies and traditional approaches, his pieces are prized for their originality, delicacy, and intricate detail. This book is a must for design lovers, providing readers with a window into how Boontje crafts his unique objects, from studio prototype to retail. Indeed, the book is conceived as a work of total design, using special printing effects and beautiful marginalia on almost every page in the form of Boontje’s sensitive and romantic detailed hand-drawn illustrations that have served as the inspiration for many of the objects featured here.

Tord Boontje: Enchanted World
Tord Boontje: Enchanted World

Author: Tord Boontje

Publisher: Rizzoli Publications

Published: 2021-10-19

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0847870057

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This highly anticipated follow-up volume presents the exquisite designs of Tord Boontje, one of the most creative and romantic industrial designers working today. Tord Boontje: Enchanted World is a comprehensive visual document of the designer’s most recent work. As an artist and a craftsman, Boontje incorporates an artisanal sensibility into contemporary industrial design, drawing upon a rich graphic tradition to create objects of exceptional beauty and delicacy. Featured here are some of his latest works, many undertaken after Boontje stepped down as Head of Design Products at the Royal College of Art in 2013 (a position he assumed after Ron Arad in 2009). Now, solely focused on his own design studio in London, Boontje showcases many of his designs, including the wispy Icarus Lamp, an armoire constructed entirely of pressed-metal fig “leaves” for Meta, a portable Bluetooth speaker for Yamaha hidden under a curtain of horsehair, and many other romantic explorations that have made Boontje’s output stand out in the world of design. Combining developing technologies and traditional approaches, his pieces are prized for their originality, delicacy, and intricate detail. This book is a must for design lovers, providing readers with a window into how Boontje crafts his unique objects, from studio prototype to retail. Indeed, the book is conceived as a work of total design, using special printing effects and beautiful marginalia on almost every page in the form of Boontje’s sensitive and romantic detailed hand-drawn illustrations that have served as the inspiration for many of the objects featured here.

Product Sketchbook
Product Sketchbook

Author: Dopress Books

Publisher: Cypi Press

Published: 2015-08

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781908175687

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Following product designers from beginning sketches through computer modeling, Product Sketchbook - Idea, Process and Refinement is a thorough creative resource for anyone involved in the field of product design. Divided into sections covering electrical appliances, articles for daily use, wearable items, and vehicles, the projects within range from solidly practical to whimsical concepts designed for a better future; futuristic combine harvesters and luxury sports cars to concepts for Adidas and Nike footwear, or simply a more ergonomic screwdriver handle or more efficient electric teakettle. The book also includes descriptions from featured designers detailing their creative processes as well as the backgrounds of their projects, making it an indispensable source of practical inspiration for any designer or creative interested in the broad topic of product design.

Telling Tales
Telling Tales

Author: Gareth Williams

Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum

Published: 2009-06-01

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781851775606

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"...Brings together around 50 objects that share common themes such as fantasy, parody and a concern with mortality. The show will explore the recent trend amongst European designers for limited edition pieces of furniture, ceramics, lighting and large scale installations that pushes the boundaries between art and design. Designers include Tord Boontje, Maarten Baas, Jurgen Bey and Studio Job..."

Roots and Wings
Roots and Wings

Author: gestalten

Publisher: Gestalten

Published: 2021-10

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9783967040333

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Steering one of the world's largest carmakers into the future, one man is taking an artistic and audacious approach to mobility. This is his story.

Discovering Design
Discovering Design

Author: Richard Buchanan

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1995-04-15

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0226078159

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Discovering Design reflects the growing recognition that the design of the everyday world deserves attention not only as a professional practice but as a subject of social, cultural, and philosophic investigation. Victor Margolin, cofounder and an editor of the journal Design Issues, and Richard Buchanan, also an editor of the journal, bring together eleven essays by scholars in fields ranging from psychology, sociology, and political theory to technology studies, rhetoric, and philosophy. The essayists share the editors' concern, first made clear in Margolin's Design Discourse: History, Theory, Criticism, with the the development of design studies as a field of interdisciplinary research. The contributors (Gianfranco Zaccai, Albert Borgmann, Richard Buchanan, Augusto Morello, Tufan Orel, Nigel Cross, Victor Margolin, Langdon Winner, Carl Mitcham, Tony Fry, and Ezio Manzini) focus on three broad themes that form a sequence of fundamental issues: how to shape design as a subject matter, how to distinguish the activity of designing in the complex world of action, and how to address the basic questions of value and responsibility that persistently arise in the discussion and practice of design. The editors' introduction provides a useful overview of these questions and offers a multidisciplinary framework for design studies. The essays discuss such topics as the relation of aesthetics to technology, the place of design in social action, the role of the consumer in design decisions, and the need for ethical practice in contemporary design. Manzini's concluding essay shows how the issue of ethics should connect responsible behavior to decisions made every day in the manufacture of objects.

Textiles, Identity and Innovation: Design the Future
Textiles, Identity and Innovation: Design the Future

Author: Gianni Montagna

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-10-03

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 1351585436

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D_TEX presents itself as a starting point at a crossroads of ideas and debates around the complex universe of Textile Design in all its forms, manifestations and dimensions. The textile universe, allied to mankind since its beginnings, is increasingly far from being an area of exhausted possibilities, each moment proposing important innovations that need a presentation, discussion and maturation space that is comprehensive and above all inter- and transdisciplinary. Presently, the disciplinary areas where the textile area is present are increasing and important, such as fashion, home textiles, technical clothing and accessories, but also construction and health, among others, and can provide new possibilities and different disciplinary areas and allowing the production of new knowledge. D_TEX proposes to join the thinking of design, with technologies, tradition, techniques, and related areas, in a single space where ideas are combined with the technique and with the projectual and research capacity, thus providing for the creation of concepts, opinions, associations of ideas, links and connections that allow the conception of ideas, products and services. The interdisciplinary nature of design is a reality that fully reaches the textile material in its essence and its practical application, through the synergy and contamination by the different interventions that make up the multidisciplinary teams of research. The generic theme of D_TEX Textile Design Conference 2017, held at Lisbon School of Architecture of the University of Lisbon, Portugal on November 2-4, 2017, is Design the Future, starting from the crossroads of ideas and debates, a new starting point for the exploration of textile materials, their identities and innovations in all their dimensions.

Blossom Street Brides
Blossom Street Brides

Author: Debbie Macomber

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2014-03-13

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1448149312

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Does a perfect wedding make a happily-ever-after? As three very different women meet in their local knitting store, they find strength in friendship to help them through their problems. Lydia is blissfully happy in her marriage, but worrying about her adoptive daughter and the future of her business. Bethanne is still madly in love with her husband, but their long-distance relationship is becoming difficult to deal with, and her ex-husband is determined to win her back. Lauren has always yearned for marriage and a family of her own, but her long-term boyfriend just won’t commit. Could a whirlwind romance with an unlikely stranger lead to the happily-ever-after she’s always dreamed of? As the three women's lives intersect in unexpected ways, they realise that the best surprises in life and love still lie ahead.