Non Intentional Design defies all standards, is subversivley and beautiful and part of all cultures. The book shows, how people can modify very banal things due to creative use. NID deals with norms which are "abnormally" transformed - every day, everywhere, by everyone. It is about the use and the exploitation of objects already designed. Amazing, funny and inspiring things arise, and a totally new point of view on well known workaday things evolves.
This dictionary provides a stimulating and categorical foundation for a serious international discourse on design. It is a handbook for everyone concerned with design in career or education, who is interested in it, enjoys it, and wishes to understand it.110 authors from Japan, Austria, England, Germany, Australia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the United States, and elsewhere have written original articles for this design dictionary. Their cultural differences provide perspectives for a shared understanding of central design categories and communicating about design. The volume includes both the terms in use in current discussions, some of which are still relatively new, as well as classics of design discourse. A practical book, both scholarly and ideal for browsing and reading at leisure.
This book introduces a carefully selected array of contemporary products that are distinguished by their attractive design and functionality in everyday life. Organized into various products groups – such as living and sleeping; leisure, hobbies and sports; and architecture and environments – the Design Brick is both a source of practical advice and a clear reference work. It is of equal interest to the design-oriented consumer and curious specialists in the field. More than 800 pages give readers an overview of the latest innovative solutions and products of exceptional creativity. These not only unite functional and aesthetic requirements, but also demonstrate the decisive roll that design plays in our modern society.
Mit ihren Projekten, Beobachtungen, Beschreibungen und Kommentaren erkunden die Autoren die Möglichkeiten und Chancen, die Notwendigkeit oder auch Unfähigkeit von Design im pulsierenden Lebensraum unseres Alltags.
"[The book] presents industrial design of the fifties, sixties and seventies, and experimental forms of the eighties in essays and illustrations. The foundations of modern design in the Bauhaus and Werkbund tradition are examined in an essay. Postwar design as a form of organization, and the teachings of the famous Ulm School, are both extensively documented. The most important currently active designers and design studios are introduced". -Dust jacket.
Michael Erlhoff (*1946), leitete 1987-91 den Rat für Formgebung, war 1991 Gründungsdekan der Köln International School ofDesign und ist dort Professor für Designgeschichte und –theorie, wirkt als Präsident der Raymond Loewy Stiftung und organisiert den jährlichen „St. Moritz Design Summit“. Erlhoff ist ein multidisziplinärer Autor, streitbarer Diskutierer und unverdrossener Kritiker kultureller und gesellschaftlicher Verkrustungen. DiesesLesebuch bringt eineAuswahlseiner besten und anregendsten Essays. Hinzu kommen visuelle Beiträge undTexte von über 80 Freunden: darunter etwa Volker Albus, Gerhart Baum, Mechtild Frisch, Mischa Kuball, Kasper König, Friederike Mayröcker, Alessandro Mendini, Gerhard Rühm, Stefan Sagmeister, Manfred Schneckenburger, Ettore Sottsass, Kurt Weidemann, Oswald Wiener, Jörg Zintzmeyer. Ein prismatisches Buch, das Vergnügliches mit Wissenschaftlichem, Kulturellem und Zeichenhaftem kaleidoskopartig verbindet, und das nicht nur Design- und Kulturfachleute fasziniert.
Ein informatives Buch über das Designstudium, die Vielfalt des Berufs, Chancen, Risiken sowie Anforderungen und deren Bewältigung. Es richtet sich an Designinteressierte, Studierende und Auftraggeber von Designern. Ein ehrliches und optimistisches Werk.
Die Komplexität der gestalteten Welt erfordert eine kritische Analyse gesellschaftlicher und wirtschaftlicher Zusammenhänge. Dringend notwendig, weil kaum existent, ist deshalb eine Designkritik, die ihren Namen verdient. Der Designtheoretiker Michael Erlhoff kritisiert radikal und nimmt deshalb verborgene Alltäglichkeiten, versteckte Grausamkeiten, verdunkelte Offensichtlichkeiten, verheimlichte Motive und andere verdrängte Verwicklungen von Gestaltung in den Blick. Konkret: die Gestaltung von Waffen, Design im Nationalsozialismus, das Design "elektrischer Stühle, die Brutalität von Branding, die Ambivalenz von Service-Design, die Gewalt von Zeichen oder die Ornamentalisierung von Menschen als Massen. Dieses Buch ist die nötige Selbstkritik, damit Design endlich selbstbewusst wird.
Design has long expressed and established itself as an independent research
competence - a fact that also companies, institutions and politicians have
come to acknowledge. What is still needed, however, is a stronger public
platform for design to confidently reflect upon this process and to establish
and communicate the specific innovative and experimental dimension of design
research. For this reason, BIRD, the Board of International Research in
Design, has developed the New Experimental Research in Design / NERD format.
The edited conference contributions of twelve young researchers from all over
the world provide an impressive and diverse and insightful range of
intelligent and inspiring approaches in design research, giving rise to
further debate and action in the rapidly evolving field.
