Marvel Dream Life

Marvel, Ik: Dream Life: a Fable of the Seasons, New York Charles Scribner 1851 ; fester Einband / hard cover; 1. Ed.
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Hardcover, 286pp. Several stamps to text. POS on front free ep. Binding generally sound. A little toning to spine. VG minus. First Edition No Jacket Hard Cover Very Good - 8vo; First Edition

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(Herausg.): Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design, Mit Pr, ISBN: 0262042320
leichte Lagerspuren Pressestimmen\nThis compact manifesto is essential reading for anyone who's ever used an electronic product. Hertzian Tales explores the complex chemistry whereby industry, design, use, misuse, and marketing all combine to form product. But while products are often boring, Dunne sees the potential for them to offer the sorts of 'complicated pleasures' we get from film or literature, and points to concrete ways that poetic products could be engineered. A theorist and practitioner, Dunne sees industrial design as a form of popular culture, and his analysis of that culture is accessible and profound. --Christopher Csikszentmihalyi, MIT Media Lab In refreshing contrast to the widespread, breathless adulation of new electronic gadgets, Dunne demonstrates that product design can and should be subject to a level of critical reflection that goes far deeper than packaging and superficial features and functionalities. And by daring to question some cherished myths of the design profession--such as the presumed merits of 'user-friendliness'--he opens up the possibility of a richer, more nuanced, but often disquieting discourse about designed objects and the social values and relationships they enable or suppress. --Janet Abrams, Director, University of Minnesota Design Institute, editor of If/Then: Play and coeditor of Else/Where: Mapping. Anthony Dunne's thoroughly researched book is a harbinger of the future--a future where invisible electromagnetic spaces with their surreal qualities become a major component of architectural ambition and aspiration. Marvel at the secret lives of dreaming electronic objects and enjoy this fantastic odyssey. And see the future fully for the first time. --Neil Spiller, Professor of Architecture and Digital Theory and Vice Dean, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London Design culture asks not just how sleek or usable some object is, but what it actually inclines us to do. As the world slowly realizes that electronic objects cannot be exceptions to this rule, it is worth remembering how early and how well Dunne & Raby showed us so. At last in an edition worthy of its role, Hertzian Tales offers provocations whose significance has only increased. --Malcolm McCullough, University of Michigan, author of Digital Ground \n\nKurzbeschreibung\nAs our everyday social and cultural experiences are increasingly mediated by electronic products--from intelligent toasters to iPods--it is the design of these products that shapes our experience of the electrosphere in which we live. Designers of electronic products, writes Anthony Dunne in Hertzian Tales, must begin to think more broadly about the aesthetic role of electronic products in everyday life. Industrial design has the potential to enrich our daily lives--to improve the quality of our relationship to the artificial environment of technology, and even, argues Dunne, to be subverted for socially beneficial ends. The cultural speculations and conceptual design proposals in Hertzian Tales are not utopian visions or blueprints; instead, they embody a critique of present-day practices, mixing criticism with optimism. Six essays explore design approaches for developing the aesthetic potential of electronic products outside a commercial context--considering such topics as the post-optimal object and the aesthetics of user-unfriendliness--and five proposals offer commentary in the form of objects, videos, and images. These include Electroclimates, animations on an LCD screen that register changes in radio frequency; When Objects Dream..., consumer products that dream in electromagnetic waves; Thief of Affection, which steals radio signals from cardiac pacemakers; Tuneable Cities, which uses the car as it drives through overlapping radio environments as an interface of hertzian and physical space; and the Faraday C , ISBN-13: 9780262042321

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Tzannis Tzannetakis Illustrator: NA: India, Another Way of Life, D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd., New Delhi 1998 ISBN: 9788124600832

New Hardcover 24 x 18 cm. The book relates the diverse experiences of Mr. Tzannis Tzannetakis, a former Greek Prime Minister, in India: he witnesses centuries-old marvels, landmarks of its long religious-cultural tradition; and his response is profound and genuine. A journey to India . . . is quite unlike a journey to any other land . . . this sentiment expresses the uniqueness of a visitor s experience of India. For, among other things, India is a perpetual mystery to him from the beginning; he wades through the mystique and out of it; and he is never free of it. For Mr. Tzannis Tzannetakis, a former Prime Minister of Greece, India is this and much more. His informal experiences presented here are diverse and steeped in the historic-cultural flavour special to India. He sees its centuries-old palaces, forts of ancient maharajas, of the glorious Mughals; the unparalleled cave monuments of Ajanta-Ellora with their exquisite carvings, the breathtaking sculptural decorations and the architectural dream of Khajuraho; the grandeur of the Taj, a wonder in white marble; the exotic deserts of Jaisalmer; the heart of holy India, Banaras, with the ever-flowing Ganga; the marvel of Delhi which amalgamates the old and the new. His response is, likewise, rich with a range of tones; he not only admires the material landmarks of ancient India but breathes in the spirit of the past the old delight, the royal romance, the dignity, valour in that chivalry . . . His is not simply a discovery of India but an analysis of India s time-tested values and its modern message in order to understand India in the real sense its unique past; the India of today, of the traditional and the modern; and the India of the future . . . its goals, aspirations. The author s tone is wonder-struck but, at the same time, genuine and realistic. He captures the essential India and not just its forms and colours to present a delightful, critical and sensitive picture. Printed Pages: 204. First edition

[SW: India, Another Way of LifeTzannis Tzannetakis9788124600832]

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Ik Marvel (pseudonym Donald G. Mitchell) Endpapers Where Paper is Applied Parts & Sections Missing Chips Tears, b/w Frontispiece, Dedicatory Note By Mitchell to Washington Irving: Dream Life A Fable of the Seasons, Hurst & Co,NY, ; fester Einband / hard cover

Full-Leather. No Jacket. HB NODJ ISSUED, Undated, Small Brown decorated LEATHER with Trees & red background to edge, with stain & darkening edges light Wear,324 pgs, Interior nice tight light Fox Wear, VG-/VG-, NODJ No Jacket Full-Leather

[SW: IK MARVEL (PSEUDONYM DONALD G. MITCHELL)]

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