Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #478604 in Books
• Published on: 2002-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 444 pages

About the Author
Ron Arad is a designer and Professor of Industrial and Furniture Design at the Royal College of Art, London Giulio Cappellini is the CEO of the furniture manufacturer Cappellini S.p.A., Italy Ultan Guilfoyle is Director of the New York Guggenheim Video and Film department and was the curator of the Art of the Motorcycles exhibition (1998) currently on tour. Brooke Hodge is the Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Laura Housley is Architecture and Design Editor at Wallpaper* magazine, London Hansjerg Maier-Aichen was the founder of Authentics plastic manufacturer and is Professor of Product Design at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Gestaltung, Karlsruhe. Ryu Niimi is Professor of Arts Policy at the Musashino University of Art and a contributor to 'Axis' and 'Mainichi', Tokyo. Ramon Ubeda is a critic and a regular contributor to 'El Pais', 'Ardi', 'De Diseno', Barcelona Stefan Ytterborn is Managing Director of Ytterborn and Fuentes in Stockholm, a leading Scandinavian corporate design consultancy. Lisa White is Editor-in-Chief of 'Bloom', 'Interior View', 'View on Colour' and Director of the publishing company United Publishers, Paris

Customer Reviews

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.

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.