#design books

[galina]

Menu Design in Europe and America. These were gifts from our wedding earlier this year. I couldn't believe it when I opened the Europe edition and our favourite menu ever was right there in front of me: from Salts Diner, at Salts Mill, where we went on one of our first dates. The menu was designed in 1993 by David Hockney.

[fashionbooksmilano]

Cini Boeri architetto e designer

a cura di Cecilia Avogadro

SivanaEditoriale, Cinisello Balsamo 2004, 168 pagine,168 ill., 16,8x24cm, Brossura con alette, ISBN 9788882156404

euro 90,00

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Il volume è la prima monografia esaustiva dell’opera dell’architetto e designer Cini Boeri. Pubblicazione non convenzionale, il libro ospita un’ampia intervista, nella quale l’architetto racconta la sua vita in modo asciutto, generoso e autoironico, dall’infanzia nella Milano degli anni venti, ricordando la guerra, gli studi e le prime esperienze di lavoro fino alla libera professione, passando per il ‘68, e senza mai dimenticare la famiglia, la politica, la poesia e l’arte. Segue, nel volume, un apparato scientifico composto da un saggio di Cecilia Avogadro, una raccolta di testi di e su Cini Boeri, il regesto delle opere e la bibliografia. I progetti di Cini Boeri hanno sempre convinto per la loro geometria familiare e per i materiali raffinati. Uniti a una forma dettata dalla funzione, essi rappresentano una sintesi tra sensualità ed efficienza.

19/04/24

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[drawdownbooks]

New at Draw Down! All the way from Scotland... and just landing stateside in time for the holidays:

The International Poster Book 2022

A limited edition 256 page full color, perfect-bound book including all posters selected for the 2022 International Poster Exhibition/Competition (formerly known as the Graphic Design Festival Scotland). The volume includes 164 posters by 130 designers, 10 interviews, a compilation of comments by jury members, and a discussion: "Poster, Artwork, or both?" The catalog provides a snapshot of contemporary poster design from around the world.

Designed by Warriors Studio

Published by INTL, 2022

Softcover, 258 pages, full color, 8.25 × 11.5 inches

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[alessandro55]

The Design Heritage of Noren

Traditional Japanese Store-Front Art 

Tadashi Masuda

Graphic-sha, Tokyo 1988, 188 pages, 23x30,3cm, ISBN 4-7661-0456-0

euro 35,00

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Tohoku District, Kanto District, Hokuriku District, Chubu District, Kinki District, Chugoku District, Shikoku District, Kyushu District

25/09/23

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[designbooksmilano]

House & Gardens New Complete Guide to

Interior Decoration

By the Editors of House & Garden

Simon and Schuster, New York 1953, Fifth Edition, 319 pages,  159 full color photographs,   33 x 23,5 cm.,

euro 80,00

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Fascinating Mid Century Book, this House &, Garden's New Complete Guide to Interior Decoration by the Editors of House & Garden is a delightful look at the past from a designer's and collector's vantage point. This large coffee table volume is a "practical and authoritative encyclopedia of ideas for decorating rooms of all sizes, types, and periods". Generously filled with color photographic engravings, black and white photos and detailed layouts with easy to follow examples of period furniture pieces and styles.

Valuable reference too for movie or live theatre sets featuring interiors in the 50's, whether traditional or modern.

14/10/22

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[godfatherofsol]

8 Impactful Books for my Design Process in '22 As I update my website with all the new work I've been up to lately, I've been blogging about some of the books I've been reading for various projects in the past year. Both parts 1&2 covering the 8 books on my list are up now on: https://www.sollos.co/blog I'd love to hear your feedback. What other books would you recommend I check out this year?

[tengosueno]

[galleryyuhself]

Galleryyuhself - Ready for Change.

[fashionbooksmilano]

Chairs

1,000 Masterpieces of Modern Design

The new and updated selection from Charlotte & Peter Fiell

Welbeck Publ., London 2023, 784 pages, 17,5 x 22,7 cm, ISBN 9781802791006

euro 39,00

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This updated edition features designs from 1800 up to present day, and features the biggest names in furniture design, art, architecture and craft. Each entry is illustrated with full colour photography and accompanied by text detailing the materials and background of the chair.

From Alvar Aalto to Marco Zanuso, Chairs introduces over 1,000 groundbreaking innovations by the world's greatest designers. Tracing the history of the modern chair from 1800 to the present day, revered experts Charlotte and Peter Fiell comprehensively guide you through the fascinating world of seating design - from the functional office chair to the limited edition art piece. With more than 1,000 exquisite images alongside fascinating insights into the conception, design and production of these masterpieces, this definitive collection includes design classics such as Josef Hoffmann's Sitzmaschine, Robin Day's Polyprop and computer-generated masterworks by Zhang Zhoujie, amongst many more.

28/06/23

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[drawdownbooks]

After a very long wait, copies have arrived from Europe! Immutable: Designing History by Chris Lee Available at Draw Down Books

Immutable: Designing History explores the banal genre of the document and its entanglement with statecraft and colonial(ism/ity). This is framed as a ~5,000 year chronology, imbricating the developments of money and writing—from Mesopotamian clay tablets to distributed ledgers, like the blockchain.

Immutability figures as a design imperative and hermeneutic for considering a variety of techniques (material, technological, administrative, etc.) of securitization against the entropy of a document’s movement through space/time, and the political. This project is driven by a contrast: design educators tend to teach forms like logos, books, websites, etc., but not passports, money, property deeds, etc., in spite of these being design’s most profoundly consequential forms.

As an alternative historiography, Immutable gestures both towards anthropologist Laura Nader’s call to “study up” (on those in power), and the radical educator Paolo Freire’s recognition of the “limit situation” as a generative condition for emancipatory praxis. The volume’s aim is to orient graphic design towards the vocation of imagining, naming, and remembering beyond the horizons of its role as a managerial, administrative, and colonial instrument that imposes a rationality of vision and accountability upon what is knowable, thinkable and sayable.

Designed by Chris Lee

Published by Onomatopee and Library Stack, 2023

Softcover, 192 pages, 50 duotone images, 5 × 7.75 inches

ISBN: 978-9-49-314842-0

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