Books about Industrial Design

Different industrial objects have been taken to trial during time, such as steel handles, plastic vessels, decorated chairs, packaging or neon lamps. They have been accused of perpetrating a crime against art and soul, against ecology and civilisation, against style and imagination. Through 12 keywords which contain the answer to the accusations towards industrial objects, this book explores a series of influential phenomena which characterise design today and it eventually uncovers the only real crime which design can make.

Design is no longer and will never be more like before. This book unequivocally tells you. Because Alessandro Biamonti knows perfectly well that in a world that has changed over the past twenty years more than in many previous centuries we can no longer plan and produce (and not even think, communicate, live) as we did just a short while ago. Alessandro here gives us a map of this change, gives us suggestions, provides us with paths and solutions. [from the introduction by Franco Bolelli]

Neighbourhoods of contemporary cities are ‘hypersensitive’ and ‘fragile’ areas where dismantling and transformation processes generate fragmentation and displacement. Reconstruction and re-occupation of urban spaces guided by residents are becoming increasingly frequent in these places. This book presents some reflections on the role of design discipline in this fertile and proactive context, proposing specific research methodologies and intervention strategies in close relation with the resident population, building new skills, creating original synergies, and new processes of inclusion and social innovation.

Questo testo si prefigge di analizzare e far conoscere ai progettisti un aspetto quasi sempre trascurato dei materiali: quello espressivo-sensoriale. Ogni materiale, infatti, è in grado di esprimersi, di influenzare emotivamente l’utente determinando di conseguenza delle reazioni. Il progettista deve conoscere le qualità espressive dei materiali perché soltanto così potrà prevedere le qualità sensoriali degli oggetti che con quei materiali verranno realizzati.