Blobjects and Beyond: The New Fluidity in Design
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (866 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0811847659 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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magazine.Mara Holt Skov is an independent curator. Steven Skov Holt is the distinguished professor of industrial design at California College of the Arts and former editor of I.D. She and Steven live in San Francisco.Phil Patton is a design critic and journalist for the New York Times, contributing editor to Esquire, Wired, and I.D., and the author of several books.Bruce Ste
A unique, brilliant mind. Buy this book. Steven Skov Holt was one of the most brilliant minds and caring hearts looking at how design has the power to impact our lives. His recent, untimely passing means there will be no more books from him (though I hope some of his writing will be published posthumously). I cannot recommend strongly enough that peop. M. H. Smythe said Can the blob be boxed?. Have you experienced a `blobject moment'? It causes your heart to surrender to soft, sensuous stimuli and then lift at the liquidation of pomposity.My most memorable blobject moment was in 1991 and involved the new Mazda 1"Can the blob be boxed?" according to M. H. Smythe. Have you experienced a `blobject moment'? It causes your heart to surrender to soft, sensuous stimuli and then lift at the liquidation of pomposity.My most memorable blobject moment was in 1991 and involved the new Mazda 121. I smiled. I softened. I succumbed. Having made my emotional choice I rationalised that. 1. I smiled. I softened. I succumbed. Having made my emotional choice I rationalised that. Lovely. DaSom The book is* in mint condition. The cover, however, was sticky. I don't know what was over it, but it was just sticky. There was no problem cleaning it, the cover had a hologram plastic so I wiped it off (very lightly) with some acetone and finished it with a baby wipe. It's not 100% off, but it's still nonethe
About the Author Steven Skov Holt is the distinguished professor of industrial design at California College of the Arts and former editor of I.D. magazine.Mara Holt Skov is an independent curator. . She and Steven live in San Francisco.Phil Patton is a design critic and journalist for the New York Times, contributing editor to Esquire, Wired, and I.D., and the author of several books.Bruce Sterling is a celebrated science fiction novelist and technology writer, and a regular contributor to Wired magazine
Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art, Blobjects and Beyond is the first comprehensive survey of the new fluidity in contemporary design. Blobjects and Beyond is a celebration of the global explosion of amorphic, organic, and curvaceous design.. From the iconic iMac to Karim Rashid's evocative plastics to the ergonomic computer mouse, blobjects are the defining objects of our time, molding our visual vocabulary for years to come. Whether hard or soft, cheerful or sinister, practical or conceptual, blobjects represent a decisive turn away from the hard edges and angles of conventional modernism