Synopses & Reviews
If there is a new language of contemporary design, surely it is pattern. Evocative, hypnotizing, sensual, calming, jarring, soothing patterns cover, conceal, and reveal an astonishing range of emotions and are at home on a chair or lamp as they are on the facades of enormous buildings. Patterns in Design examines this new trend, illustrating it with work by design luminaries like Hella Jongerius, Tord Moontje, Michael Lin, Olaf Nicolai, and Sauebruch and Hutton. Along the journey, the reader will experience an astonishing diversity of colors, shapes, and applications, as well as new technologies like laser engraving and digital milling that promise an even bolder future for patterns.
An indispensable guide for anyone interested in contemporary trends in design, art and architecture. Published in conjunction with Form.
Synopsis
Von wegen, weniger ist mehr. Endlich haben Designer, Knstler und Architekten die suggestive Wirkung von Mustern wiederentdeckt. Sie huldigen nun dem einst zum berflssigen degradierten Dekor, indem sie Lampen, Sthle oder ganze Rume mit Streifen, Punkten oder Tarnmustern berziehen. Viele interpretieren, wie die in Rotterdam ansssigen Gestalter Jurgen Bey und Hella Jongerius, traditionsreiche Motive neu. Das Buch stellt gattungsbergreifend verschiedene Zugriffe auf Muster vor und zeigt, welche Funktionen Dekore bernehmen knnen. Anhand von aktuellen Beispielen werden die vielfltigen Farben, Formen und Anwendungen vor den Augen der Leser ausgebreitet. Dabei wird sichtbar, dass das Muster den gegenwrtigen technischen Mglichkeiten entspricht und den heutigen Wahrnehmungsbedingungen entgegenkommt. Die Arbeiten von international renommierten Gestaltern wie Tord Boontje, Michael Lin, Olaf Nicolai und Sauerbruch & Hutton werden in alphabethischer Reihenfolge vorgestellt.
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Is less really more? In reaction to the reign of Minimalism, designers, artists, and architects are rediscovering the power of patterns and embracing decors once rejected as superfluous, by covering lamps, chairs, rooms or entire facades with stripes, polka dots and ornamental designs.
This definitive overview is the book that launched the new trend in publications about patterns. Using examples of contemporary work by internationally renowned designers such as Fabio Novembre, Claesson Koivisto Rune and Karim Rashid, by architects such as Herzog & de Meuron, Steven Holl and Sauerbruch Hutton, and artists such as Bridget Riley and Gerhard Richter, it lays out a kaleidoscope of colours and forms before the reader. Multidisciplinary approaches and applications, and new interpretations of traditional motifs are illustrated, as well as the impact and influence of technical innovations such as laser engraving and digital milling on the creation and realization of patterns today.