Objectivity: A Designer's Book of Curious Tools
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This miscellany of mysterious objects celebrates the beauty of simple, useful things. If you have ever thatched a roof, measured a skull, stuffed a rabbit or walked on a whale, you may recognize some of these tools. Or, if you admire the work of Warhol, Duchamp and Cornell, you will understand the fascination of these accidental masterpieces of the everyday.
Some are the tools of vanished trades, other anonymous implements of simpler cultures, but all have been chosen for their intriguing functions and their elegant, suggestive forms.
Some are the tools of vanished trades, other anonymous implements of simpler cultures, but all have been chosen for their intriguing functions and their elegant, suggestive forms.
Extent: 192 pp
Format: plc (no jacket)
Illustrations: 388
Publication date: 2010-02-15
Size: 20.8 x 20.8 cm
ISBN: 9780500515013
Format: plc (no jacket)
Illustrations: 388
Publication date: 2010-02-15
Size: 20.8 x 20.8 cm
ISBN: 9780500515013
Foreword • Introduction • Hitting • Cutting • Gripping • Holding Rubbing • Shielding • Moulding • Spreading • Testing
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About the Author
David Usborne is a London-based architect.
Thomas Heatherwick, winner of countless international design awards, is Honorary Fellow, RIBA; Senior Fellow, Royal College of Art; and was the youngest practitioner to be appointed a Royal Designer for Industry (2006).