Main entry:

Clivio, Franco, 1942-

Title & Author:

Hidden forms : seeing and understanding things / Franco Clivio ; with photographs by Hans Hansen ; designed by Pierre Mendell.

Publication:

Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, ©2009.

Description:

239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Series:

Writings on design

Notes:
The authors -- Foreword -- Introduction / Franco Clivio -- Zislaweng : That's how it's done! / Peter von Kornatzki -- "The things tell me stories" / Gerrit Terstiege -- Reflections on a collection of functional objects / Tomás Maldonado -- 29 Stories. Nature can do it best ; Molded in form ; Ur-storage system ; Ready to process ; Wire : a universal material ; All-around brilliant ; The measure of all things ; All clear ; Bringing parts together ; Folded open and pushed closed ; Sharp thinking ; Integrated intelligence ; Blow by blow ; Getting a handle on it ; Nearly everything wrong ; One-piece pieces ; Not the same but similar ; One plus one is more than two ; Multitalented ; Not new but better ; Properly added ; Simply comprehensible ; From small to large to small ; Everything in there ; Eye protection ; Seeing/looking better ; With built-in delete key ; Inkpot with integrated pen ; My favorites.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

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.--From the Publisher.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

9783764389666
3764389664

Subject:

Clivio, Franco, 1942- Art collections.
Clivio, Franco, 1942-
Industrial design Private collections.
Design Collections privées.
Industrial design Catalogs.
Art Private collections
Entwurf
Gebrauchsgegenstand
Industriedesign
Industriedesign Bildband.

Form/genre:

Bildband.

Added entries:

Hansen, Hans, 1940-
Mendell, Pierre, 1929-
Writings on design.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 261736
Call No.: BIB 192788
Status: Available