Available now as a softcover edition, Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design contains a new preface by Ellen Lupton describing new products and projects that have been produced since the book's initial publication. Skin presents products, furniture, fashion, architecture, and media that are expanding the limits of what we understand as surface. Skin features the work of such notable designers and architects as Greg Lynn, Petra Blaisse, Morphosis, Ross Lovegrove, and Marcel Wanders. It also contains essays on artificial skin and digital surfaces and a glossary of surface materials. 'As this book powerfully suggests, in an age of so many brilliant artificial skins, it is becoming increasingly hard and perhaps impossible to distinguish ourselves from the things that surround us.' ?Eye 'Lupton regards skin as a cultural metaphor, which is what makes this beautifully produced book, with its often-disturbing images, so provocative.' ?Architectural Record

Ellen Lupton, with essays by Jennifer Tobias, Alicia Imperiale, Grace Jeffers, Available now in a paperback edition, "Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design" contains a new preface by Ellen Lupton, describing products and projects that have been produced since the book's initial publication. "Skin" presents products, furniture, fashion, architecture, and media that expand the limits of what we understand as surface. Reflecting the convergence of natural and artificial life, this provocative and stimulating book shows how enhanced and simulated skins appear everywhere in our contemporary world.