
Design Noir
The Secret Life of Electronic Objects
Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2001
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-3-7643-6566-0 (ISBN)
Description
Dunne and Raby investigate the real physical and cultural effects of the digital domain, demonstrating that mobile phones, computers and other electronic objects such as televisions profoundly influence people's experience of their environment. Their ideas have important implications for architecture and design. In this, their first major book, they introduce their extraordinary new way of thinking about objects, space and behaviour to a broad audience. The book is divided into three sections: 1. Manifesto, introducing the authors' ideas about electromagnetic space. 2. Conversations, in which Dunne and Raby talk to a variety of designers, architects and artists about the impact electronic technology has on their practice. 3. Placebo, presenting the intriguing results of a project involving Dunne and Raby's working furniture prototypes, including a chair that lets the sitter know when radiation is passing through his body.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
Switzerland
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Popular/general
Illustrations
42
40 s/w Abbildungen, 42 farbige Abbildungen
42 Illustrations, color; 40 Illustrations, black and white
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7643-6566-0 (9783764365660)
Schweitzer Classification