Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #363185 in Books
• Published on: 2002-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 444 pages

Synopsis
This is a comprehensive view of product design, presenting the work of 100 exceptional international designers - who have emerged on an international platform since the late 1990s - selected by 10 critics, designers and entrepreneurs, highly respected for their informed opinion on the international contemporary design scene. It provides an opportunity to see a diverse collection of design projects that includes a whole range of objects: furniture, lightning, tools, utensils, high-tech products, machinery and so on. The designers' pages are listed in alphabetical order featuring two double-page spreads for each designer, of exemplary products accompanied with sketches, drawings, computer renderings, model and prototypes that help to explain, together with the extensive captions, the process behind each project. A short explanatory text by the curator explains the designers' work and the characteristics that make his/her projects forward-looking and ground breaking. The text also features, at the end of the book, 10 "classic", industrially manufactured product designs, chosen by the curators as best examples of the concept of "good design". These "classics" are accompanied by text written by the curators that explain their choice of designers and generally what they see to be the concept of "good design". "Spoon" takes its place in a series of surveys identifying 100 of the most interesting, cutting-edge practitioners of key art forms. Earlier surveys include "Cream" and "Fresh Cream", for contemporary art, "10x10" for architecture and "Blink" for photography.

Customer Reviews

Sexy Book - bad design for a book about design
If you are looking for a book that will look good on your coffee table and impress everyone who sees it then this is the book for you. Unfortunately the design of the book is purely aesthetic and it is uncomfortable to read (because of weight and shape) and often the print is too small and badly highlighted. Some of the products and case studies are interesting but by offering such a wide range of designers and products it would be impossible for every page to be interesting to everyone. I study product design and expected this to be a book I couldn't put down but to be honest I've hardly read it and although when I do pick it up I often find parts interesting it certainly doesn't force me to spend much time looking at it. That said externally the most impressive looking book I've ever seen.

A designers designbook
The enjoy of the book starts with the cover: made from steel, it is already an example of design.
Within the book, a wide variety of designer attributes is being discussed and presented. Exellent quality pictures, and overwhelming attributes. Some of them case study's, but some case study's show that almost everything can be made nowadays.
It really changes the view regarding applied materials, and shapes. Refreshing overview. A must have if you're interested in design.