INDUSTRIAL DESIGN YESTERDAY AND TODAY/ INDUSTRIDESIGN IGÅR OG IDAG.

Author: Storm Bjerke, Øivind, ed
Country: Norway
Code: 4822
Language: Norwegian/ English
Year Published: 1998
No. of pages: 155
Illustrations: 38 Color Illustrations. 131 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 8 1/2” sq
Weight: 2.00

Price: 45.00

This exhibition of 60 products, from various countries, is divided into three sections: an international historical collection from the 1930’s, 1950- 60’s and 1980-90’s; a selection of international contemporary products; and a selection of Norwegian contemporary products. An insightful exploration that illustrates the criteria each country uses in their selection of product quality and increases the understanding of the entire process of industrial design.

INDUSTRIELLE IKONER, DE: DESIGN DANMARK (The Industrial Icons: Design Denmark).

Author: Dybdahl, Lars, ed
Country: Denmark
Code: 5857
Language: Danish/ English Summary
Year Published: 2004
No. of pages: 170
Illustrations: 65 Color Illustrations. 5 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 11”x 9 1/2”
Weight: 3.00

Price: 125.00

This exhibition provides a thematic cross-section, the first major retrospective of the overall trends and points of high concentration in Danish industrial design from its rudimentary beginnings to the present day. Included are a wide-ranging selection of products: industrial product design in metal, plastic, etc., industrial furniture design, graphic communication, ceramic production, glass production and industrial textiles. Also design for the domestic spectrum of objects for the kitchen and the table, radio, and TV design, industrial chairs, office design, etc. At the same time, the exhibition goes well behind contemporary trends to reveal comparability and historical traces back to the early serial and duplicated designs of the 18th and 19th centuries.

JENSEN, JACOB.

Author: Olesen, Christian Holmsted
Country: Denmark
Code: 5532
Language: Danish
Year Published: 2003
No. of pages: 84
Illustrations: 103 Color Illustrations. 35 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 9”x 8 1/2”
Weight: 1.00

Price: 75.00

Born in 1926 in Copenhagen, Jensen is a product designer with the greatest number of honours and awards in the world. His works are timeless and many of them are on permanent display in museums across the globe. He has created more than 500 industrial products for Danish and foreign companies. His best known works include product design for Bang & Olufsen A/S, where he functioned as advisor on matters of design and strategy from 1985-1989. Altogether he has designed more than one hundred pieces for the hi-fi and video company, among them music systems, amplifiers, record players, tape recorders, CD-players, remote controls and loudspeakers. He has shown us that the music systems in our homes, the telephones in our offices, the watches we wear, the kitchen equipment we use, along with numerous other products, can contain a quiet beauty. A great book for designers.

KONTRAPUNKT: THE CROWNING TOUCH/ KRONEN PÅ MÆRKET.

Author: Andersen, Kim Meyer
Country: Denmark
Code: 4245
Language: English/ Danish
Year Published: 2000
No. of pages: 120
Illustrations: 98 Color Illustrations. 28 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 9”x 9 1/2”
Weight: 2.00

Price: 79.50

A catalog exploring the philosophy of Kontrapunkt, a Danish design firm, that has designed the use of the Danish royal logo for a number of institutions. In the design process, Kontrapunkt works across existing design disciplines in order to create coherence between intent, function and experience. They granted a number of state institutions a contemporary expression combining openness with natural authority by using powerful expressiveness and the idiom of heraldry in a new way thereby giving the crown a new content. The crown that used to signal unrestricted power and, later, stuffy departments, but now signals a dialogue-seeking, democratic state. A beautiful guide highlighting the design programs that have reinvigorated this weighty historical symbol.

NEW GRAPHICAL SYMBOLS FOR MANY MORE/ NYA BILDSYMBOLER FÖR MÅNGA FLER.

Author: Nordegren, Annica and Arvinius, Marie
Country: Sweden
Code: 6615
Language: Swedish/English
Year Published: 2008
No. of pages: 167
Illustrations: 113 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 8”sq
Weight: 2.00

Price: 55.00

Some international symbols - like the male and female figures on restrooms - are so ubiquitous it's easy to forget that they were actually new at one time, and that someone actually designed them. In fact, it's possible that no designers' products ever touch more people than these ingenious pictograms, which could be called the ultimate clip art. Even with the most extreme reduction to essentials, their drawings are capable of conveying sensuality, surprise and precise information, wrote the seminar Swiss typographer Hans-Rudolf Lutz - I have come to admire these unsung designers. This delightful book - a sure source of wonder and inspiration for professional designers - details a Swedish national competition aimed at creating standards for making public symbols more uniform and useful, in keeping with the concept of Design for All. Making important information clearly available to everyone is more than a matter of design - it's a matter of democracy and human rights. Competition entries are presented by category such as medical center, library, playground, travel center, evacuation meeting point and internet café. The winning entry, the nominated entries and the honorable mentions are presented in their entirety. All wonderful ideas coming soon to a wall near you. Register of Competition Participants included