Andersen Hans ChristianMareMagnum
Manzini, Ezio; Cau, Pasquale; Fiore, Leonardo; Gianotti, Giuseppe; Meda, Alberto; Santachiara, DenisABAA
The Material of Invention: Materials and Design
1989réf. 2325711Cambridge Massachusetts: The MIT Press 1989. First American Edition. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8x0x12. First American edition. Sticker on rear jacket panel lightly toned. 1989 Large Hardcover. 255 pp. New materials have radically altered the options available to industrial designers. The Material of Invention examines these new options and suggests what they might portend for the future. A different sort of design history it focuses almost exclusively on the materials that form the basis of innovative design. The text and nearly 400 illustrations are the product of a large scale collaboration embodying the philosophical and aesthetic responses of Italian designers to the possibilities limits and design implications of this challenging new world of materials. The book is in five parts The first Matter and Ideas is theoretical. The second Portraits of Families in Motion is historical. The third Playing with the Possible is analytical and forms the core of the book; it examines the new possibilities for products that are lightweight heat resistant elastic transparent and with diverse surface qualities. A fourth part Exercises in Invention offers a portfolio of design experiments; while the last part consists of a technical appendix glossary and bibliography. The MIT Press hardcover books
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