Book, Design
Phaidon announces the new Phaidon Design Classics iPad Edition
“Phaidon recently announced the launch of a groundbreaking new application for the Apple iPad. The Phaidon Design Classics iPad Edition is an astonishingly ambitious resource, offering everything you need to know about 1,000 of the world’s best mass-produced objects designed from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to today. The application is now available on the App Store for download at a special introductory price of $19.99.”
“This authoritative and meticulously researched collection charts the story of product design over the past 200 years. It was years in the making and was compiled via rigorous selection process by an international panel of design-world insiders, including architects, critics, curators, product designers, auctioneers, and historians.”
Book
Washington Ballet / Wonderland
Washington DC-based design firm Design Army and photographer Cade Martin team up with the artists of The washington Ballet to create Wonderland, a book that re-envisions TwB’s landmark productions in mystical places throughout Washington, DC. Jake from Design Army tells us, “We only printed 2000 copies for sale to the public and look to raise over $100,000 for the ballet.”
Book, Design
Design and Design
Marc Praquin informed us about a nice book he has actively been working on with his design team. The 730 designs awarded each year are published for free in the design and design book of the year released every January. He says, “Our goal has not changed (despite the pressure of a few brands…): to give the worldwide community of designers a powerfull tool to promote themselves!”
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-a non-profit project unsponsored and totally independent,
-all year round, free subscriptions and free submissions, no dead lines,
-each day an homepage entirely dedicated to two new designers,
-two separate communities of designers reunified for the first time,
-a unique platform of expression, a great tool for inspiration,
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Book, Installation
Kim Young-Hee
Korea’s famous visual artist Kim Young-Hee has recently just had a new book published. In addition, a limited to 100 pieces Collector’s Edition is being released too, and it looks like it could be a real good addition to my design book collection.
This is part of the official press release.. “Sculpture 2D – Very Korean. Very European. Very Universal. Kim Young-Hee combines her works of the most recent period, from both the Western and Eastern areas of culture, together in an enlightening dialog for the very first time: The result illustrates enigmatic, vivid sculptural compositions in the form of pictures, as well as a playful and humorous light heartedness, which sometimes manages to turn our Western way of thinking completely upside down. Her latest works of art are filigree, often illustrations of only a few centimetres in size, which are eternalised in a state of changelessness with the aid of photography.
Book, Design
Thomas Kalak
Thomas Kalak has sent us some bits from a project he’s been working on, more specifically a photo-journal/book about Thailand. He says, “It´s about curious, funny and puzzling objects in the streets of Thailand. It´s the first Thai - book of it´s kind and the first without the usual cliche-pics of monks and chedis.” There’s a video to go with the book too, so make sure you check it out.
Thailand - Same same, but different!
Bamboo scaffolding, knotted aerial lines, hand painted signs or converted plastic bags: The objects photographed in Thailand by Thomas Kalak, are sometimes unusual, both funny and peculiar, and often mind-boggling. Far from the world of clichés, Kalak finds motifs that complement and enhance the famous image of the country and simultaneously document the unshakable cheer of the Thai people as true masters of improvisation.
Ready-mades
Individually portrayed and objectively documentary photographed, the strange yet commonplace, at least in Thailand, objects and arrangements remind us of the famous “ready-mades” from the beginning of the 20th century. This book is a “must have” for all Thailand enthusiasts, because everyone has seen the collection of items at some time or other, but often not really consciously.
Publisher: Rupa Publishing München
Author: Thomas Kalak
Format: 15,3 cm x 21 cm
Hardcover
160 Pages
24,90 € 43,70 sFr 19,65 £ 35,80 $
ISBN: 978-3-940393-04-3
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