a| 9783764389666

a| Howest

a| eng

a| 770.6 2| vsiso

a| Hidden forms : b| seeing and understanding things.

a| Basel : b| Birkhäuser, c| 2009.

a| 239 p. : b| ill.

a| Writings on design

a| 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.

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b| HWPNT c| PENTA j| PENTA.770.6 CLIV 09 p| 3013235

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