Hidden forms : seeing and understanding things / Franco Clivio ; with photographs by Hans Hansen ; designed by Pierre Mendell.

By: Clivio, Franco, 1942- [author]
Contributor(s): Hansen, Hans | Mndell, Pierre
Series: Writings on designPublisher: Basel : Birkhause, 2009Description: 240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783764389666Subject(s): Clivio, Franco 1942 -- Art collections | Industrial design -- History | Industrial design -- Catalogs | Surrealism and design | Art -- Private collections | Art and designDDC classification: 709.05
Contents:
The authors Foreword Introduction / Franco Clivio Zislaweng : That's how it's done! / Peter von Kornatzki "The things tell me stories" / Gerrit Terstiege Reflections on a collection of functional objects / Tomás Maldonado 29 Stories. Nature can do it best ; Molded in form ; Ur-storage system ; Ready to process ; Wire : a universal material ; All-around brilliant ; The measure of all things ; All clear ; Bringing parts together ; Folded open and pushed closed ; Sharp thinking ; Integrated intelligence ; Blow by blow ; Getting a handle on it ; Nearly everything wrong ; One-piece pieces ; Not the same but similar ; One plus one is more than two ; Multitalented ; Not new but better ; Properly added ; Simply comprehensible ; From small to large to small ; Everything in there ; Eye protection ; Seeing/looking better ; With built-in delete key ; Inkpot with integrated pen ; My favorites.
Summary: The book Hidden Forms uses examples from Franco Clivio's collection of objects to reveal clearly and yet poetically the hidden qualities that require a practiced gaze. Working with ordinary, everyday, practical, seemingly design(er)less objects has been Franco Clivio's obsession both as a university lecturer and as a practicing designer. Each object in the collection stands for an unconventional, unconstrained, and sometimes unique solution to a problem that is often simple but always fundamental; fundamental in the sense of a design that places less emphasis on good form than on perfect function. A fruitful collaboration between Franco Clivio, the photographer Hans Hansen, and the graphic designer Pierre Mendell has produced a work that uses photographs, drawings, and texts to reveal the hidden qualities of objects for everyday use.--From the Publisher.
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The authors
Foreword
Introduction / Franco Clivio
Zislaweng : That's how it's done! / Peter von Kornatzki
"The things tell me stories" / Gerrit Terstiege
Reflections on a collection of functional objects / Tomás Maldonado
29 Stories. Nature can do it best ; Molded in form ; Ur-storage system ; Ready to process ; Wire : a universal material ; All-around brilliant ; The measure of all things ; All clear ; Bringing parts together ; Folded open and pushed closed ; Sharp thinking ; Integrated intelligence ; Blow by blow ; Getting a handle on it ; Nearly everything wrong ; One-piece pieces ; Not the same but similar ; One plus one is more than two ; Multitalented ; Not new but better ; Properly added ; Simply comprehensible ; From small to large to small ; Everything in there ; Eye protection ; Seeing/looking better ; With built-in delete key ; Inkpot with integrated pen ; My favorites.

The book Hidden Forms uses examples from Franco Clivio's collection of objects to reveal clearly and yet poetically the hidden qualities that require a practiced gaze. Working with ordinary, everyday, practical, seemingly design(er)less objects has been Franco Clivio's obsession both as a university lecturer and as a practicing designer. Each object in the collection stands for an unconventional, unconstrained, and sometimes unique solution to a problem that is often simple but always fundamental; fundamental in the sense of a design that places less emphasis on good form than on perfect function. A fruitful collaboration between Franco Clivio, the photographer Hans Hansen, and the graphic designer Pierre Mendell has produced a work that uses photographs, drawings, and texts to reveal the hidden qualities of objects for everyday use.--From the Publisher.

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