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Five years after the success of the groundbreaking SPOON (2002) from Phaidon Press comes the follow up collection AND FORK. The book is a comprehensive global overview of new industrial design, featuring 1,000 color illustrations of hundreds of innovative products created by the most forward-thinking young designers working today. This generously illustrated volume presents 100 of the world's most exceptional product designers that have recently emerged on the international scene, as chosen by 10 of the world's top design critics. A wide range of objects (including chairs, lighting, footwear, kitchen accessories and electronics) provide an up-to-date snapshot of the newest developments in the design world.
AND FORK is an indispensable reference for students, designers, architects and the general public interested in learning about contemporary design in everyday life. The 100 designers selected come from an impressive 24 countries including Brazil, Japan, Finland, the UK, Denmark, Israel, Australia, South Korea and the United States. Recent trends in design are revealed, such as more concern for social responsibility and the ethics of design, new product design that caters to our increasing dependence on portable and personal technology, and a rise in collaboration between young designers.
Some highlights from AND FORK include: D-Bros the Japan-based design group best known for their charming Hope Forever Blossoming Vase, a simple flat plastic bag that expands with water to take on both the look and behavior of a glass flower vase; Jennifer Carpenter, the New York-based designer of an infant bed that easily converts into toddler furniture; and Simon Heijdens, designer ofceramic bowls and plates that are immaculate and white when new, but over time develop delicate cracks in the glazing that slowly spread as a means of an organic, ever-changing and unique decoration.
Arranged in alphabetical order, AND FORK displays each designer on four pages that include photographs, technical drawings, and text written by the curators on why the designer's work has been chosen and details on future design plans. Each curator has also chosen one piece of design, such as the Radio Ts2 or the Schwinn Stingray bicycle, for the 'Good Design' chapter of the book. These are classics that have made a significant impact on the design world, and still influence young designers today. The pages of AND FORK illustrate superlative cutting-edge work from designers whose products display subversive manufacturing techniques, exciting displays of materials or refreshing twists.
Curators include Chieko Yoshiie of Casa Brutus in Japan, Francesca Picchi of Domus, Tom Dixon from Habitat UK and Sang-kyu Kim, a Korea-based design curator. No designer's table is set without both Spoon, And Fork.
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Marc Belanger
reviewed And Fork: 100 Designers, 10 Curators, 10 Good Designs on February 03, 2015
And Fork: 100 Designers, 10 Curators, 10 Good Designs
Dan Saffer's book is a thorough yet high-level look at the emerging and evolving practice of Interaction Design. Although each chapter could easily be its own book ' and in most cases, such books exist ' the shallow-yet-broad scope of Designing For Interaction was appealing. Each chapter is sprinkled with interesting interviews with top-notch designers and educators: Hugh Dubberly, Shelley Evenson, Larry Tesler, and more.
With that said, I have two criticisms of this book:
First, in easily 50% of the cases the photos used in the book were completely unnecessary, and only distracted from the content. For example, in the section talking about conducting stakeholder interviews, there's a stock photo of some suit-wearing people interviewing some other suit-wearing people ' a helpful visual cue for people unfamiliar with the word "interview."
Second, I found myself gagging when Saffer described "The Four Approaches to Design" which Saffer believes are:
1) User-centered design
2) Activity-centered design
3) Systems design
4) Genius design
He goes on to describe these at length and I read the entire section with my mouth wide open, shocked at how idiotic and frankly wrong dividing these up into "approaches" actually is. The reality is:
- There is always someone/something using the designed product or service.
- There are always some kind of activities a person does with the designed product or service.
- The product or service always fits within some kind of larger systems, and is composed of smaller systems, no matter how insignificant each may be.
- Some need to design based on intuition ("genius" in Saffer's words) will be a part of any product, even in cases where there is time or money to do extensive research.
ALL of these "approaches to design" are present in EVERY project whether a designer chooses to ignore them or not, and dividing them out into distinct approaches caught me very off guard, and seemed out of step with the rest of Dan Saffer's otherwise excellent book.
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