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Plastic - Remaking Our World (Paperback): Mateo Kries, Jochen Eisenbrand, Mea Hoffmann Plastic - Remaking Our World (Paperback)
Mateo Kries, Jochen Eisenbrand, Mea Hoffmann; Assisted by Johanna Agerman Ross, Corinna Gardner, …
R1,476 R1,149 Discovery Miles 11 490 Save R327 (22%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Plastic has shaped our daily lives like no other material. Originally associated with convenience, progress, even revolution, today plastic seems to have lost its utopian appeal. Plastic is everywhere, yet most conspicuous as waste and as a key factor in the global environmental crisis. This book examines the success story of plastic in the twentieth century and at the same time presents the different discourses on how we should manage the waste the material produces and also find solutions that take into account its entire life cycle in the future. Mark Miodownik, Susan Freinkel, and Nanjala Nyabola each contribute an essay that sheds light on the history of plastics from 1850 to today. A material-rich visual chronology illustrates how consumers' perception of plastics has changed over the decades. Brief descriptions of a selection of 50 objects examine the importance of plastics for material culture. Reprints of fundamental texts about the history of plastics-for example by Alexander Parkes and Roland Barthes-provide a context from the history of ideas. The book reflects the current discourse and state of research on plastic with numerous individual interviews and panel discussions that were held with designers, representatives from industry, researchers, and environmental activists. Underpinning these conversations are comprehensive data visualizations on plastic production and consumption, recycling.

Vitamin Green (Hardcover): Johanna Agerman Ross Vitamin Green (Hardcover)
Johanna Agerman Ross; Joshua Bolchover; Contributions by FXFOWLE
R1,812 R1,149 Discovery Miles 11 490 Save R663 (37%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Vitamin Green" provides an up-to-the-minute look at the single most important topic in contemporary design: sustainability. This new attention to the life of the things we make is changing the way design is practiced on every level and will be at the center of discussions about architecture, landscape architecture, and product design in the twenty-first century.
Projects nominated by an international collection of designers, curators, critics and thinkers were selected to create the best possible sourcebook of the most exciting and original green designs at all scales, from eyeglasses to landscapes and from motorcycles to skyscrapers. The result is an inspirational survey of the enormous amount of innovative work being done in this field, as well as a directory of products, ideas and techniques for both designers and consumers.
Filled with projects that are built and in production, "Vitamin Green" provides a lively and inspiring visual definition of the term 'sustainable design', showing people what really can be achieved today.

Baranger Motion Displays - 55 Moving Scenes of Love, Courtship and Surrender (Hardcover): Rolf Fehlbaum, Fifo Stricker Baranger Motion Displays - 55 Moving Scenes of Love, Courtship and Surrender (Hardcover)
Rolf Fehlbaum, Fifo Stricker; Jochen Eisenbrand, Mea Hoffmann, Johanna Agerman Ross, …
R1,219 Discovery Miles 12 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This new publication is dedicated to the Baranger Motion Displays of the R. F. Collection housed at the Vitra Design Museum. Motion Displays were conceived as eye-catching and novel moving objects, which - primarily in the US - were used in jewellers' shop-window displays to attract customers. The Baranger Motion Displays were produced by Baranger Studios in Pasadena, CA between 1937 and 1957 and were lent to thousands of jewellers' shops over the years. Primarily during the 1990s, Rolf Fehlbaum, Vitra Chairman Emeritus and founder of the Vitra Design Museum, worked to assemble a carefully selected a comprehensive collection of these objects in Weil am Rhein. With large-scale illustrations of the different Motion Displays and an atmospheric photo essay featuring black-and-white details of the objects, the book provides an unprecedented and in-depth view into this collection. In an accompanying essay, Bill Shaffer traces the success story of the displays and sheds light on the significance of the red cases in which they were delivered to the jewellers. Along with Robots 1:1 and Space Fantasies 1:1, Baranger Motion Displays is the third publication to focus on the R. F. Collection. Visitors can view the collection of Motion Displays at the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein as part of the "Wunderkammer" (cabinet of curiosities), which also presents other parts of Rolf Fehlbaum's wide-ranging collection. In order for readers to be able to experience the wonders of these moving objects for themselves, each Motion Display has been given a QR Code in the book which links to an entertaining video clip of the display in action.

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