The art of impossible
Subtitle: the Bang & Olufsen design story
By: Alastair Philip Wiper
Contributors: Bang & Olufsen
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780500518359
Subjects: Bang & Olufsen; Product design; Catalogs
Other titles: Bang & Olufsen design story
Description: Founded in 1925 by Danish innovators Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen, Bang & Olufsen is one of the worlds foremost consumer electronics companies. For nearly a century, their audio products, television sets and telephones have continually broken the rules and conventions of product design, dictating visual trends and altering irrevocably the appearance of our homes in the process. This book takes you behind the company logo and delves into the stories behind each of the breakthrough, iconic Bang & Olufsen designs. There is information on both the materials and manufacturing processes used for each Bang & Olufsen model, as well as profiles on the designers behind each innovative creation. The underlying philosophy, though, remains unwavering: that design must always serve a purpose. Featuring an extensive archive of sketches and prototypes, specially commissioned photographs of individual products in various interior settings, as well as an exclusive insight into the models that never found their way onto the market, this is the definitive publication on a company whose design inventions are in a league of their own.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The creative process : Introduction ; Inside the design studio ; Prototyping and design models ; Designer profiles and interviews ; Primary and secondary functions ; Sliders and wheels ; Remote controls ; Strange and unreleased products; title: The history : Introduction ; Bang & Olufsen and Struer ; The logo ; BeoNists ; The collector; title: Discovering and making : Introduction ; Acoustics R&D ; Product cutaways ; TV R&D ; Torture chamber ; Aluminium and Factory 5 ; The Czech factory; title: Eleven designs that shaped B&O : Introduction ; Beogram 4000 ; Beosystem 5000 ; Beosystem 2500 ; BeoSound 9000 ; BeoCom 6000 ; BeoPlay A9 ; BeoLab 8000 and BeoLab 18 ; BeoPlay A2 ; BeoRemote One ; BeoVision Avant ; BeoLab 90; title: Appendix : Designers ; A naming strategy ; The wall of fame.