Book

Design as art

by  Bruno Munari / Patrick Creagh

Description

Sets out the author's ideas about visual, graphic and industrial design and the role it plays in the objects we use everyday

Table Of Contents

  • Preface : The useless machines
  • Design as art
  • Designers and stylists : what is a designer? ; Pure and applied ; A living language ; A rose is a rose is a ; The stylists ; Mystery art
  • Visual design : Character building ; The shape of words ; Poems and telegrams ; Two in one ; A language of signs and symbols? ; 12,000 different colors
  • Graphic design : Poster with a central image ; Poster without end ; Children's books
  • Industrial design : Micro-art ; How one lives in a traditional Japanese house ; What is bamboo? ; A spontaneous form ; A prismatic lamp ; Wear and teat ; Orange, peas and rose ; A piece of travelling sculpture ; Luxuriously appointed gentlemen's apartments ; Knives, forks, and spoons ; And that's not all ; Fancy goods
  • Research design : Iris ; Growth and explosion ; Concave-convex forms ; The tetracone ; Yang-yin ; Moire? ; Direct projection ; Projections with polarized light ; The square ; The circle ; An arrow can lose its feathers but not its point ; Theoretical reconstruction of imaginary objects ; Exercises in topology, or rubber-sheet geometry ; Two fountains, nine spheres
  • Appendix : the machines of my childhood (1924)

Subject

Philosophy / Art objects, Italian / Art and design / Design / Decoration and ornament, Italian

Details

Part of Series Penguin modern classics
Published London : Penguin, 2008
Language English
Material 223 p.
ISBN 0141035811 / 9780141035819
Location
TCDC Bangkok - Closed Stack
TCDC Khon Kaen - General Collection

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