Humble Masterpieces

Author : Paola Antonelli
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060838310
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humble Masterpieces written by Paola Antonelli and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-11-29 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From M & Ms to Post–It Notes, a charming and insightful collection of design marvels from everyday life, celebrated by the curator of the MoMA's department of architecture and design. Every day we use dozens of tiny objects, from Post–It notes to Band–Aids. If they work well, chances are we do not pay them much attention. But although modest in size and price, some of these objects are true masterpieces of the art of design. Paola Antonelli, curator of the Museum of Modern Art's Department of Design and Architecture, is a highly celebrated figure in the world of design (she was just ranked among the top 100 most powerful people in the world of art). Paola has long been passionate about the subject of everyday objects that are marvels of design. The response to her recent MoMA show, also called Humble Masterpieces, was electric. In addition to lively coverage in dozens of publications, the museum goers spread the word about the fun of learning about and nominating their own picks for humble masterpieces. Now, in this colorful visual feast, Antonelli chooses 100 fabulous objects, from Chupa Chup lollipops to Legos to Chopsticks and Scotch tape. Each object will be portrayed with a gorgeous close–up detail, a brisk and informative text on its origin and special design features, as well as a silhouette image of the object as we see it each day. Certain to appeal to a broad audience, and to lend itself to fun, creative promotional opportunities, Humble Masterpieces will celebrate the possibility of looking at our everyday lives in an all–new way.

Author : Shlomo Maital
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814759953
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Innovate Your Innovation Process written by Shlomo Maital and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Through a series of short stories and brief case studies about great innovators, this book will help managers and entrepreneurs rethink their innovation processes, using the tools outlined in the book. The eight chapters include narratives on: From Ideas to Action; Breaking the Rules; Learning Creativity from our Kids; Innovation as a Team Sport; and Innovating for Those with Less. The basic idea is that the best way to become a world-class innovator is to learn from other world-class innovators and to study what they did and how they did it."--

Author : Grace Lees-Maffei
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474241700
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iconic Designs written by Grace Lees-Maffei and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iconic Designs is a beautifully designed and illustrated guide to fifty classic 'things' – designs that we find in the city, in our homes and offices, on page and screen, and in our everyday lives. In her introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei explores the idea of iconicity and what makes a design 'iconic', and fifty essays by leading design and cultural critics address the development of each iconic 'thing', its innovative and unique qualities, and its journey to classic status. Subjects range from the late 19th century to the present day, and include the Sydney Opera House, the Post-It Note, Coco Chanel's classic suit, the Sony WalkmanTM, Hello KittyTM, Helvetica, the Ford Model T, Harry Beck's diagrammatic map of the London Underground and the Apple iMac G3. This handsome volume provides a treasure trove of 'stories' that will shed new light on the iconic designs that we use without thinking, aspire to possess, love or hate (or love to hate) and which form part of the fabric of our everyday lives.

Author : William H. Gerdts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Painters of the Humble Truth written by William H. Gerdts and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference work covers American still-life painting from the beginning of the 19th century, when it became a well-known medium of expression, to the mid-20th century. Among the artists Gerdts analyzes are those who worked with still life extensively and those who painted them only occasionally, including the Peales, Severin Roesen, Samuel Marsden Brooks, William Michael Harnett, and Georgia O'Keeffe. The effects on this form of such movements as realism, impressionism, tonalism, orphism, and modernism are discussed in detail. The study concludes with 1939, when American art began to be dominated by abstraction.

Author : Donald Richardson
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1528988361
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art, Design, Craft, Beauty and All Those Things... written by Donald Richardson and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to many recent calls for redress and restitution, Richardson summarises the historical and current situation and attributes its problematics to the fact that theorists and historians have taken the concept art as a generic that includes both design and craft – which are actually and validly distinguishable from art by application of the concept function/al – or else ignored the two entirely. Considering the concept function/al, he maintains, calls into question the view that the three may be sub-classes of the one class: whereas in a work of art, typically there is a resolution of the tension between form and content, in works of design and craft the resolution is between form and function. How this recognition can clarify the issue informs the entire book. The book’s other major thesis is the realisation that aesthetic values are inherently human and that, therefore, they apply not only to art but to life in general. Far from being frivolous or a mere ‘emotion’, the aesthetic is a sense of equivalent psychic status to sight and hearing and, like them, is employed at almost every moment of our daily lives – which fact grounds art, design and craft deeply in human life. This is reflected in the universal use of the human form (including the exhibition of sexual characteristics) in art. The eternal conflict between making art and making a living from making art is examined and contrasted to the rarely-recognised, but positive, role of design in planning and industry. Richardson also critiques common theories of representation and composition, including ‘creativity’, Albertian perspective and scientific and geometric theories of beauty and composition; also the relevance of the camera and the computer in the field.

Author : J.B.H. Peek
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402095538
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origins and Successors of the Compact Disc written by J.B.H. Peek and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 1979, a prototype of a ‘Compact Disc (CD) digital audio system’ was publicly presented and demonstrated to an audience of about 300 journalists at Philips in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. This milestone effectively marked the beginning of the digital entertainment era. In the years to follow, the CD-audio system became an astonishing worldwide success, and was followed by successful derivatives such as CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD, and recently Blu-ray Disc. Today, around the thirtieth anniversary of the milestone, it is taken for granted that media content is stored and distributed digitally, and the analog era seems long gone. This book retraces the origins of the CD system and the subsequent evolution of digital optical storage, with a focus on the contributions of Philips to this field. The book contains perspectives on the history and evolution of optical storage, along with reproductions of key technical contributions of Philips to the field.

Author : Harry Thurston Peck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World's Great Masterpieces written by Harry Thurston Peck and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World's Great Masterpieces written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harry Thurston Peck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.8Y/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masterpieces of Ancient and Modern Literature written by Harry Thurston Peck and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harry Thurston Peck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Library of Masterpieces, Literature, Art and Rare Manuscripts written by Harry Thurston Peck and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: