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Original Essays | April 29, 2013

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A detour from the stylistic discourse of mainstream "western" and "modern" design, Lesser Designs focuses on issues of space-saving strategies, information and experience design, classifying and forwarding local and vernacular community concepts, and regenerative design examples. This title explores the unexplained concepts behind commonplace artifacts in our everyday urban environment.

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Lesser Designs explores the unexplained concepts behind commonplace design artifacts in our everyday city environment.
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About the Author

Siu King-chung is an art and design commentator, an installation artist, an independent curator and is actively involved in arts policy and art / design curriculum development in Hong Kong. He co-founded the Designs You Dont Know What to Do With Association and the Community Museum Project in 2002 and 2003 respectively.

King is currently assistant professor in the School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

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ISBN:
9789889984373
Author:
Siu, King-chung
Publisher:
MCCM Creations
Subject:
General Art
Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Publication Date:
20130108
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
Chinese
Illustrations:
250 color photographs
Pages:
148
Dimensions:
8.25 x 6.13 x 0.25 in
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