Design as Art: Bruno Munari (Penguin Modern Classics)

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But it is this pensive quality of his work that merit his presence in the mind of every design thinker--a mind that seeks to ponder the thoughts on design across time. From what I understand, this book was written in the 70s, so many design principles hold relevance even today, some do not, so in that sense, some of it is slightly dated.

Póki co, wystarczyć mi musi ( i nie tylko mnie) angielskie tłumaczenie, którym w 1971 roku zajął się Patrick Creagh na zlecenie wydawnictwa Penguin Books. I haven’t done a proper book review in the past few months, but since Scupp seems to be keeping up, I suppose I’m OBLIGATED to. I'm not sure if this was intended for a Western audience, but some of the cultural issues he has with bamboo just aren't that relevant or generalizable to other aspects of design.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Japoński dom ma jednak jedną, straszliwą wadę – jest delikatny jak ważka, wymaga więc stosownego zachowywania się. The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing’Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by Picasso as ‘the new Leonardo’. Roses: 'These are objects that have come into being for no good reason, useful only on the most banal level: that of decoration. Po bliższym przyjrzeniu się okazuje się, że jej spektrum jest bogate – obejmuje różne odcienie zieleni, brązów i żółci.

Some chapters were less interestinh than others, as it usually happens, but I found it a book full of curiosity, appreciation and enlightenment. The designer of course does not operate in nature, but within the orbit of industrial production, and therefore his projects will aim at a different kind of spontaneity, an industrial spontaneity based on simplicity and economy in construction. Munari nie omieszkał podkreślić, jak bardzo jesteśmy szczęśliwi w porównaniu do Japończyków, żyjących w swoich kruchych mieszkaniach.Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. The book was a great read and provided insight into the views of someone who worked with children and has hence developed a simple yet accurate way of seeing what good and conscious design is and behaves. Like listening to a wise elder ramble on an on about varying topics only to find that at the end of all of it, the specifics of the monologue have all melted together.