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Title:
Offjects. Concepts and designs for a change of century

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This book presents objects from the 21st Century by Spanish designers of the 21st century. This publication is motivated by the conviction that the concept of the object, as such, has been left behind. The universe of objects, or perhaps we would have to say of "offjects," put forward here is that of the work of those generation that graduated after the Barcelona Olympics: from 1992 into these first few years of the 21st century. What seems clear is that the classic definition of "design" has been rendered obsolete. In the first place because an object's conceptual and narrative charge largely determines its material and physical configuration, and in second place, because many present-day pieces are not produced industrially - some because their designers chose not to, others because they seem not to fit into excessively conservative industrial set-ups. What does seem to be the case is that we are dealing with a new typology of designer, more open, more multidisciplinary and more remote from the traditional commercial circuit, which is not to say remote from the market.

Title:
Hidden graphics

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Aimed at rediscovering the most experimental and least-known graphic designs created in Catalonia between 1965 and 2002, "Hidden graphics" digs deep and deliberately at the fringes of what might be called the "official" history of design. On the lookout for graphic and sociological innovation, this volume plumbs work within the following limits: minimal distribution, intended for a small audience, and emblematic of a time and reflecting a will to experiment, critique or innovate. Categories include: graphic transgressions (stating a clear transgressive will in both content and form), technographics (where employed technology marks meaning), metadesign (intended for communication between designers, done without commission or by self-commission), and graphic interlopers (created by non-designers).

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Claret Serrahima : from head to feet

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The book gathers more than one hundred works by the Catalan graphic designer Claret Serrahima. It is divided in four books-chapters that are focused on different aspects from its own trajectory, from his conceptual and strategic design to his more free and irreverent works. The compilation is a glance to this hyperactive creator in his most active period with the Studio Clase bcn. One of the main features of Serrahima's creative energy is that he likes to have younger people working in the studio and not to entrench himself in old postulates and positions like most of his contemporaries. What you will find are excerpts from his career, work, obsessions and achievements. The viewpoint will be that of a graphic artist, an activist of the city and culture and we will therefore take the graphic image as a narrative line that will draw for us (never better said) the designer, the communicator, the visual chronicler, vocational artist, the draughtsman photographer, the cultural activist-in short, the storyteller.