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New Book Release (U.S.), June 30, 2014: BMW Art Cars
Traces the development of the BMW Art Cars, the so-called “rolling sculptures” designed by artists including Alexander Calder, David Hockney, and Andy Warhol over the last 40 years.
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Thomas Girst, editor
Texts by Carl Magnusson, Phil Patton, et al.
Published by Hatje Cantz
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New Book Release: Platform 6, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Platform 6 presents a sampling of the work produced at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) during the past academic year. This work is indicative of the School’s commitment, as a global leader in the field, to exploring and articulating transformative ideas through the power of design.
Rosetta S. Elkin, Editor
Published by Actar
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New Book Release, March 31, 2014: Manuals 1: Design & Identity Guidelines
The first comprehensive study of corporate identity design manuals, featuring examples from the 1960s to early 1980s—the golden era of identity design.
Texts by Adrian Shaughnessy, et al.
Published by Unit Editions
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New Book Release, April 21, 2014: Drawing and Reinventing Landscape, AD Primer
Explores notions of representation in the discipline of landscape architecture at large and across time.
Diana Balmori
Published by John Wiley & Sons
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New Book Release (U.S.), May 20, 2014: The Duchamp Dictionary
More than 200 alphabetical illustrated entries on the most interesting and important artworks, relationships, people, and ideas in influential artist Marcel Duchamp’s life, including chess puns, the fourth dimension, love, genius, ready-mades such as Bicycle Wheel and Fountain, Peggy Guggenheim, Max Ernst, Man Ray, and Arturo Schwarz.
Thomas Girst
Published by Thames & Hudson (distributed in the U.S., by W. W. Norton)
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New Book Release (U.S.), May 1, 2014: Shape of Sound
Architect Victoria Meyers analyzes the shape of sound; architecture and sound; form; materiality; windows; the urban soundscape, its politics, aesthetics and social character; reflection; virtuality; sound art; and silence.
Victoria Meyers
Published by Artifice Books on Architecture
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Susan S. Szenasy
In 1986 I was named chief editor of Metropolis, a magazine that held out a great deal of fascination for me because of its broad, multidisciplinary nature. I felt then, as I feel today, that our world is richer when designers work together, when they understand each other.
I am not a trained designer, though I took courses in textile design, drafting, and painting. Because of this, I have always considered myself an outsider to design—which I consider a good thing for a journalist seeking to understand her subject.
I have written several books on design, many articles, organized many conferences and panel discussions; when Parsons asked me to teach a course on Design History, I jumped at the chance. This was an opportunity to bring together my two loves, history (I hold an M.A. in Modern European History from Rutgers) and design. Then, when I was asked to develop a senior seminar on Design Ethics, I was truly challenged. How do you teach ethics? I decided that history could help me; understanding the professional activities of key design figures might be instructive for young designers looking to find their own way.
I was jolted into another phase of my work by 9/11. Shortly after the tragedy, I met with architect Beverly Willis and we formed a civic group, which we subsequently called R.Dot (Rebuild Downtown Our Town), for the purpose of providing solid research and information for those charged with the difficult task of rebuilding New York City. Design has given me an incredibly rich life.