Hidden forms
Subtitle: seeing and understanding things
By: Franco Clivio ; with photographs by Hans Hansen ; designed by Pierre Mendell
Contributors: Hansen, Hans
Series: Writings on design; Writings on design
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Basel; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9783764389666
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Industrial design; Catalogs; Industriedesign; Bildband
Table of contents: title: Zislaweng: That's how it's done! / Peter van Kornatzki; title: "The things tell me stories" / Gerrit Terstiege; title: Reflections on a collection of functional objects / Tomás Maldonado; title: Stories : Nature can do it best ; Molded in form ; Ur-storage system ; Ready to process ; Wire: a universal material ; All-around brilliant ; The measure of all things ; All clear ; Bringing parts together ; Folded open and pushed closed ; Sharp thinking ; Integrated intelligence ; Blow by blow ; Getting a handle on it ; Nearly everything wrong ; One-piece pieces ; Not the same but similar ; One plus one is more than two ; Multitalented ; Not new but better ; Properly added ; Simply comprehensible ; From small to large to small ; Everything in there ; Eye protection ; Seeing / looking better ; With built-in delete key ; Inkpot with integrated pen ; My favorites.