Design Noir
The Secret Life of Electronic Objects
Anthony Dunne,Fiona Raby
- 176 pages
- English
- PDF
- Only available on web
Design Noir
The Secret Life of Electronic Objects
Anthony Dunne,Fiona Raby
About This Book
The first book to be published on the work of their partnership (in 2001), Design Noir is the essential primary source for understanding the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings for Dunne & Raby's work. Consisting of three elements - a 'manifesto' on the possibilities of designing with and for the 'secret life' of electronic objects; notes for an embryonic network of critical designers and, most famously, the presentation of the Placebo Project – a prototype for a critical design poetics enacted around electronic furniture-objects – Design Noir offers an in-depth exploration of one of the most seminal design projects of the last two decades, one that arguably initiated speculating through design in its contemporary forms. By detailing the logic and character of the objects that were constructed; the involvement of users with these objects over-time, and in the creation of a new kinds of spatially and temporally distributed moments of critique and engagement with things, Design Noir presents the case-study of the Placebo project as a far more complex and subtler project than is often thought. As a bold and in many ways unprecedented experiment in design writing and book designing, Design Noir is itself an instance of the speculative propositional design it expounds.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction to the Second Edition
- Section 01: DIY Realities
- Section 02: Hertzian Space
- Section 03: Design Noir
- Section 04: Designer as Author
- Section 05: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects
- Picture Credits