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Category Archive: book reviews
Natural Architecture, by Alessandro Rocca (Amazon USA and UK). Publisher Princeton Architectural Press says: Natural Architecture presents sixty-six […]
SHD Super Holland Design, edited by Tomoko Sakamoto and Ramon Prat. (Amazon USA). Publisher Actar says: The anxiously […]
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Making Things Talk: Practical Methods for Connecting Physical Objects, by Tom Igoe (whom i interviewed over a year […]
Kitchen Budapest is a brand new media lab for researchers who are not only interested in the convergence […]
Hand Job: A Catalog of Type, curated by Michael Perry. Amazon USA and UK. Publisher Princeton Architectural Press […]
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Spacecraft Fleeting Architecture and Hideouts, edited by Robert Klanten and Lukas Feireiss (Amazon USA and UK.) Publisher Die […]
Warriors of Art: A Guide to Contemporary Japanese Artists, by Yumi Yamaguchi (Amazon UK and USA.) Publisher Kodansha […]
Consuming Bodies: Sex and Contemporary Japanese Art, edited by Fran Lloyd (Amazon USA and UK) Editor Reaktion Books […]
4dsocial: Interactive Design Environments (Architectural Design), by Guest Editor Lucy Bullivant (Amazon UK and USA.) Editors‘ blurb: A […]
and USA) Editor Stewart, Tabori & Chang says: Five years ago, Sabrina Gschwandtner founded a ’zine to tackle […]
The Fundamentals of Sonic Art and Sound Design, by Tony Gibbs, leader of the BA Sonic Arts programme […]
Domesticity at War (Amazon USA and UK), by Princeton professor and theorist Beatriz Colomina. Editor Actar‘s blurb: In […]
Burning Book: A Visual History of Burning Man (Amazon USA and UK), by Jessica Bruder. What it says […]
Just received the latest issue of aminima::. Focusing on contemporary art and in particular new media art, the […]
Flexible, Architecture that Responds to Change, by Robert Kronenburg. (Amazon USA and UK.) Editor (Laurence King Publishing)’s blurb: […]
), edited by: Albert Ferré, Irene Hwang, Tomoko Sakamoto, Ramon Prat, Michael Kubo, Mario Ballesteros and Anna Tetas. […]
JPG 2: Japan Graphics, edited by Tomoko Sakamoto. (Amazon USAand UK.) Editor Actar says: Volume two of ‘JPG, […]
Superuse – Constructing new architecture by shortcutting material flows, by Ed van Hinte, Jan Jongert and Césare Peeren. […]
Plastic Culture – How Japanese Toys Conquered the World (Amazon USAUK) written by London-based designer and illustrator Woodrow […]
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Loving The Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots, by Timothy N.Hornyak (Amazon USA and UK.) Publisher’s […]
Mark Tribe has just informed me that New Media Art, the book he wrote together with Reena Jana, […]
As Innovationsforum Interaktionsdesign was trying to reflect the whole spectrum of interaction design and innovation, they needed the […]
Hidden Track: How Visual Culture Is Going Places (amazon USA – UK). Editors‘ blurb: “Hidden Track” shows how […]
I’ve recently realized that while my pile of books about design, art and architecture is growing and growing, […]
Gamescenes – Art in the Age of Videogames. Edited by Berkeley researcher Matteo Bittanti and curator and art […]
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The new Neural issue is out. As usual there are interviews of some of the most interesting personalities […]
Audio-Visual Art and VJ Culture, edited by Michael Faulkner/ D-Fuse. Editors’ blurb: A major change has taken place […]
Worldchanging: A Users Guide for the 21st Century is a compendium of innovative ideas and inventions emerging today […]
Yeay! This morning the postman brought my copy of Worldchanging: A Users Guide for the 21st Century and […]
As a (very absent) contributor of World Changing, i should have done a better job at promoting one […]
Fashioning the Future. Tomorrow’s Wardrobe, by Suzanne Lee, a Senior Research Fellow in Fashion at Central Saint Martins, […]
I came back from Ci’Num yesterday. The event, held in Margaux (very very small French town too far […]
Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects by Fiona Raby and Anthony Dunne (UK – USA) Editors’ […]
Responsive Environments: Architecture, Art and Design (USA – UK) by Lucy Bullivant, an architectural critic, author and curator […]
I received yesterday a copy of the new aminima:: issue. So i’m not going to talk about a […]
Robots by Daniel Ichbiah (UK). Promo blurb: This book seeks to be the first “written and photo reportage” […]
Techno Textiles: Revolutionary Fabrics for Fashion and Design No. 2, by Sarah E. Braddock Clarke and Marie O’Mahony […]