Hidden forms: seeing and understanding things

The book Hidden Forms uses examples from Franco Clivio’s collection of objects to reveal clearly and yet poetically the hidden qualities that require a practiced gaze. Working with ordinary, everyday, practical, seemingly design(er)less objects has been Franco Clivio’s obsession both as a university lecturer and as a practicing designer. Each object in the collection stands for an unconventional, unconstrained, and sometimes unique solution to a problem that is often simple but always fundamental; fundamental in the sense of a design that places less emphasis on good form than on perfect function. A fruitful collaboration between Franco Clivio, the photographer Hans Hansen, and the graphic designer Pierre Mendell has produced a work that uses photographs, drawings, andtexts to reveal the hidden qualities of objects for everyday use.

• ISBN: 978-3-7643-8966-6
• Editorial: Birkhaüser
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 239
• Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés