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Detail: Exceptional Japanese Product Design

Door Andrew Davey

Categorie
Reclame & Design
Boeknummer
#360905-AC27
Titel
Detail: Exceptional Japanese Product Design
Auteur
Davey, Andrew
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Laurence King Publishing
Jaar van uitgave
2003
ISBN10
185669318X
ISBN13
9781856693189
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, with 368 illustrations, 334 in color, 4to.
Samenvatting
Japan's expertise in technology, design and engineering is responsible for some of the most advanced and desirable consumer products. Names such as Sony, Sharp, Honda, Yamaha and Canon have acquired legendary status in our contemporary culture. This volume examines and celebrates the manufactured precision and technical virtuosity of mass-produced Japanese products that we use and see in everyday life but whose complexity of invention we may only partly understand and appreciate. After briefly outlining the story of how Japan came to dominate the world of high-quality mass-manufacturing, the book shows how Japanese manufacturers constantly strive to invent new forms and to perfect existing technologies. Andrew Davey also identifies the qualities found in traditional Japanese aesthetics - m... (Lees verder)inimalism, elegance, simplicity, symmetry, workmanship and clearly expressed function - and demonstrates how these values inform the modern products.
Pagina's
175
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 15,00

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