Spoon: 100 designers, 10 curators, 10 design classics

Description

Spoon presents the work of 100 product designers, selected by 10 critics, educators, designers and entrepreneurs who are all involved in innovative developments in contemporary design. Essentially an exhibition in a book, it provides an overview of the product design world and presents the most forward-looking and ground-breaking designers of today. The different kinds of objects illustrated - from furniture to tools, from high-tech products to cars and motorcycles - make up a wide collection of what is today considered good design. Spoon is a comprehensive view of new product design, presenting the work of 100 exceptional international designers who have emerged on an international platform in the last five years, selected by 10 critics, designers and entrepreneurs who are highly respected for their informed opinion on the international contemporary design scene. It provides a unique opportunity to see a diverse collection of recent design projects that includes a whole range of objects: furniture, lighting, tools, utensils, high-tech products, machinery and so on. The designers are listed in alphabetical order featuring two double-page spreads for each, with recent, exemplary pro

Ron Arad is a designer and Professor of Design Products at the Royal College of Art, London Giulio Cappellini is the CEO of the furniture manufacturer Cappellini, Italy Ultan Guilfoyle is Director of Film & Video Production at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York and was the curator of the landmark travelling exhibition, 'The Art of the Motorcycle' (1998) Brooke Hodge is the Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Laura Houseley is Architecture and Design Editor at Wallpaper* magazine, London Hansjerg Maier-Aichen was the founder of Authentics plastic manufacturer and is Professor of Product Design at the Hochschule fur Gestaltung, Karlsruhe. Ryu Niimi is Professor of Arts Policy and Management at Musashino Art University Ramon Ubeda is a critic and a regular contributor to El Pais, Ardi and De Diseno, Barcelona Lisa White is Editor-in-Chief of Bloom, INview and View on Colour, and Director of the publishing company United Publishers, Paris Stefan Ytterborn is design manager of Ytterborn & Fuentes Corporate Design in Stockholm, a leading Scandinavian design consultancy

"'If you care about what's great in contemporary product design and you want a reason to buy Spoon, you've got exactly 100.' Blueprint magazine 'Definitely the book to have for anyone practicing, curious about, interested in or just plain infatuated with industrial design.' i-D magazine 'Where once "product design" incorporated little more than furniture and lighting, we now live in a designed world - a point clearly reflected in the diverse range of products included in Spoon.' Graphics International (now grafik)"