NEW BOOK: Design and The Elastic Mind

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DESIGN AND THE ELASTIC MIND

Book designed by: Award Winning Designer: Irma Boom
Edited by Paola Antonelli.
Text by Paola Antonelli, Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Peter Hall, Ted Sargent.

Exhibited at MoMA New York
February 24–May 12, 2008

PUBLISHED BY: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
FORMAT: Paperback 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 192 pgs / 250 color.
ISBN: 9780870707322 ISBN10: 0870707329
PUBLICATION DATE: 03/01/2008
AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop.

REVIEW:
”Everything that might just only dream before now is coming true through this book and the exhibit.”
Henricus Kusbiantoro – DGI Contributor, Adjunct Professor Graduate Studies Academy of Art University, San Francisco.

Over the past few decades, we have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter and individuality. Today our minds must be able to synthesize such transformations, whether they are working across several time zones, traveling between satellite maps and nanoscale images, gleefully drowning in information or acting fast in order to preserve a bit of down-time. Organized by Paola Antonelli, Museum of Modern Art Curator of Architecture and Design, Design and the Elastic Mind focuses on the ability of designers to grasp momentous advances in technology, science and social mores, and to convert them into useful objects and systems. Included projects range from nanodevices to vehicles, appliances to interfaces and building facades, pragmatic solutions for everyday use to provocative ideas meant to influence our future choices. Designed by award-winning book designer Irma Boom, this volume features essays exploring the promising relationship between design and science by Antonelli, design critic and historian Hugh Aldersey-Williams, visualization design expert Peter Hall and nanophysicist Ted Sargent.

posted by Henricus Kusbiantoro, March 2008


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