Tokujin Yoshioka Design

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The First Major Book on one of Japan's Most Radical Designers; Renowned Designer of the Honey-pop Chair.

"This ability to create something that moves us, using simple tools, is at the root of his talent; he is superbly gifted in capturing people's hearts in this way. . . . With his enthusiasm and vigor, it is impossible to predict just how far he may push himself in the future." Issey Miyake, from Tokujin Yoshioka Design

Tokujin Yoshioka (b.1967) is one of the most important young Japanese designers working today. Yoshioka's client list includes shop design for Issey Miyake; space design for Nissan, BMW, Shiseido; exhibition design for Issey Miyake, HermÃ¨s, Muji and Peugeot; and product design for Driade. His work ranges from constructing a chair solely out of honeycomb sheets of paper to transforming and re-locating a 150-year-old rice barn into his Tokyo studio. Experimenting with a sophisticated interplay of materials, shapes, freshness, and creativity, his approach continually astounds.

TOKUJIN YOSHIOKA DESIGN by Ryu Niimi, and with contributing essays by Paola Antonelli, Elisa Astori, Kozo Fujimoto, Ross Lovegrove, Ingo Maurer, Issey Miyake and Ryu Niimi, is the first book to present the designer's entire body of work. From his early projects and well-known designs for the Issey Miyake shop in Tokyo, and the iconic Honey-pop chair, to his products today for Driade, this lush monograph combines a major a survey of his career with essays by contemporary designers and critics. The book includes not only color photographs of the finished product, but sketches and snapshots of the manufacturing process, showing the processes at work behind Yoshioka's design from conception to culmination.

After graduating from Kuwasawa Design School in Tokyo, Yoshioka studied design under Shiro Kuramata and Issey Miyake. Yoshioka created the hats and other accessories worn in the Miyake's fashion shows as well as designed the boutiques' window displays. The motivation behind all of his work focuses on how the act of design is expressed and experienced. Technically excellent with a superb appreciation of light as a design material, his designs use fiber optics, stunning light installations, and reflective-transparent materials in a way that leaves the observer with the impression that the future has arrived.

In 2000 Yoshioka established his own design studio where he produced his most famous designs including the Honey-pop chair, a chair made completely out of paper. Flat-packed, until it is opened out into a 3-D form, the chair is custom molded by the weight and body shape of the user. Consistent with Yoshioka's design ethic, the interaction between human beings and materials is central. Materials grow, alter, sculpt, and even transform a chair into an intriguing living system. The Honey-pop chair is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Vitra Design Museum, Berlin, among others.

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Continuing to put great classic and contemporary design within everyone s grasp, Chronicle Books proudly delivers the next four installments of the popular Compact Design Portfolio. Written by top design critics, these books cover modern masters whose work ranges from the cozily domestic to the aggressively avant-garde: Eva Zeisel, whose elegantly democratic housewares span a 70-year career; Ingo Maurer, who raises lamp and lighting design to a high art form; Gaetano Pesce, whose rejection of traditional good taste brought about revolutionary furniture design; and George Nelson, the impresario behind the Marshmallow sofa and other Herman Miller classics. Follow-ing the introductory essay, a visual gallery exhibits selections of the designers best work in photographs and sketches. Presented in an irresistible small format, this series encapsulates the life, work, and influence of the great designers of our time.

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Ingo Maurer
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The first overview of the work of lighting designer Ingo Maurer, the "poet of light."

Ingo Maurer has been illuminating lives since 1966, when he designed his first light fixture for an installation at the Herman Miller showroom in Munich. His creation was entitled Bulb and featured a light bulb within a light bulb. The design was so successful that Maurer had to produce more to match the demand. Since then, his fascination with lighting, his pursuit of simplicity of form, and his talents as a graphic designer and typographer have brought him to the forefront of his field. His work has been exhibited in countless museums and it has brightened urban bridges, artistic exhibitions, retail and commercial spaces as well as numerous private homes. Arranged thematically, this dazzling retrospective brings together an extensive and representative selection of Maurer's lamps and lighting systems. Contributions by design experts, including Issey Miyake and Paola Antonelli, round out this portrait of a creative mind who continues to push the boundaries of lighting design.

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International Design Yearbook 15 (International Design Yearbook)

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Now in its 15th year, this unique showcase remains the most authoritative guide to contemporary design.

Covering five major areas of domestic design, International Design Yearbook 15 devotes separate chapters to furniture, lighting, tableware, textiles, and products created over the past 18 months by both well-known designers and new names from around the world. This year's selection has been made by internationally acclaimed lighting designer Ingo Maurer.

As a special feature for this millennial edition, the previous editors have contributed their personal assessment of where design stands as we approach a new century. A who's who of domestic design, they include Robert A.M. Stern, Emilio Ambasz, Philippe Starck, Arata Isozaki, Oscar Tusquets Blanca, Mario Bellini, Andre Putman, Borek Spek, Ron Arad, Jean Nouvel, Alessandro Mendini, Richard Sapper, and Jasper Morrison.

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Of the many treatises written in Italy during the Counter-Reformation, none is more illustrative of the intellectual fermentation of the period than Comanini's work on the purpose of painting, Il Figino overo del fine della Pittura (1591). Although the importance of Il Figino has long been recognized, the text has remained largely inaccessible to many scholars throughout the world. This first complete English translation will make the work available to those readers for the first time.

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This digital document is an article from U.S. Catholic, published by Claretian Publications on January 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1080 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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From 1982's Pollywog Stew to 1998's Hello Nasty and their 2004 release, To The 5 Boroughs, Beastie Boys have pushed, bent, and molded the boundaries of music and pop culture worldwide. Starting out as a punk band from New York City, they mutated into the first hip hop act to hit number one on the pop charts, and went back to live instrumentation, while always drawing on a wide array of musical sources-from funk to hardcore, from hip hop to afro-cuban jazz. Compiled by the band, Beastie Boys Anthology: The Sounds of Science takes you through the lives of MCA, Ad-Rock, and Mike D as they chronicle the creation of Fight for Your Right, Shake Your Rump, Hey Ladies, Pass the Mic, Jimmy James, So What'cha Want, Sure Shot, Sabotage, Intergalactic, Body Movin' and more-all in their own words. The anthology also includes two CDs packed with their greatest hits and B-sides, making this the ultimate Beastie Boys collector's item. With photographs taken by Spike Jonze, Ari Marcopoulos, Ricky Powell, Glen E. Friedman, Danny Clinch, Nathanial Hörnblowér, and Sean Mortenson, to name a few, Beastie Boys Anthology provides the most insightful look to date into the trio that has defined cutting edge hip hop and alternative music and culture for more than two decades.

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Another Fresh Finding..........2006-07-01

Bonus: Tracklist on backside of dustcover has misprint: tracklist goes 1-16 fine, then 17, then 18, then 18, then 20, etc. on the disc 2 side. Rare collectable just got more rare.

If you don't by now know the awesomeness of The B-Boys, then my first suggestion for your ADhD needs would be to buy the new concert DVD "Awesome: I F'n Shot That!"

If you still aren't convinced of their greatness after viewing "Awesome" then the Sounds of Science is not for you.

My brother bought the two disc anthology for me on occasion of my birthday. Needless to say its classic and timeless, featuring the best and most popular songs of Beastie, including Brass Monkey, Sabotage, Girls, and a drunken redition of Benny & The Jets. Sadly, Disc 2 was damaged beyond repair the other day. My dad went on Amazon and found this, ordered it, and told me it cost nearly twice as much as I would've paid for it. To my surprise, there was a very good reason for this.

This particular Sounds of Science Anthology not only includes the musical adventures via two discs of greatest hits, but a full sized, glossy picture laced text based collectors edition novel detailing the journey from nobodys to somebodys. A must have for any enthusiast. Perfect for displaying and showing off, the Sounds of Science hardcover anthology is a must-own.

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