{"id":6783,"date":"2015-03-12T16:35:11","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T16:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dessol.com\/blog\/?p=6783"},"modified":"2015-03-12T16:35:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T16:35:11","slug":"design-books-imagination-come-shapes-sizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dessol.com\/blog\/design-books-imagination-come-shapes-sizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Books About Imagination Come In All Shapes and Sizes"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve noted many times, that design is really design for life. Everything is designed.<\/em><\/p>\n

OK, so it\u2019s way past Christmas present time (or early for 2015), but you may want to treat someone (or yourself) to an unusual book or three about design. Often quite quirky, off-the-wall design at that.<\/p>\n

This list is from one published by Wired<\/em><\/a> at 2014\u2019s year end.<\/p>\n

Some are coffee table books, others are more usable, but what they share is a sense of the quirky, the application of design solutions to problems and some are from the realms of interesting trivia.<\/em><\/p>\n

Goofy Ideas<\/strong><\/p>\n

Try often logical design conundrums<\/a> in Variations on Normal by Dominic Wilcox<\/em> and the report 8 Goofy Ideas That Solve Problems You Didn\u2019t Know You Had<\/em> which include spirit level scissors for \u2018perfectly horizontal haircuts\u2019, a yo-yo bungee and two ended toothpaste tube.<\/p>\n

Influential Architects and Photos<\/strong><\/p>\n

For design photos read 17 of the Most Influential Architecture Photos of All Time<\/em><\/a> captured in Shooting Space: Architecture in Contemporary Photography<\/em> by Elias Redstone about Bas Princen.<\/p>\n

Imagine Architecture: Artistic Visions of the Urban Realm<\/em> is \u2018filled with upside down apartment flats, levitating houses and skyscrapers made of clouds.\u2019 It is an imaginative work of dreamed up landscapes and horizons, described<\/a> as \u2018mind-bending buildings that were never meant to be built.\u2019<\/p>\n

Toy Cameras Before Instagram<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the 1960s there was a dirt cheap ($1 in the USA) camera from Hong Kong called the Diana producing soft-focus shots scarred by light leaks. They started off the idea of affordable, spontaneous photography we are familiar with today.<\/p>\n

In Camera Crazy<\/em> toy cameras after the Diana are catalogued and fully described by Wired.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Some Other Quirks<\/strong><\/p>\n

Can you imagine travelling around the world to photo the shooting targets used by militaries? Well, Herlinde Koelbi did that and produced Targets.<\/em><\/a> Imagine the thoughtful design that went into human targets!<\/em><\/p>\n

As designers enter a golden age of design that elaborates packaging and highlights different media and design skills for music and book retailing, check out Collector\u2019s Edition<\/em><\/a> by graphic designer Stuart Tolley.<\/p>\n

Other recent Dessol\/MBF design and photography blogs:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Past, Present and Future Design is the Key to Life<\/em><\/a>, 16 December 2014<\/p>\n

In Conversation with Tom Mackie, Landscape Photographer Extraordinaire,<\/em><\/a> 11 December 2014<\/p>\n

At Last the Selfie Is Designed Into Oblivion By Clever Design Work,<\/em><\/a> 25 November 2014<\/p>\n

Something of the Importance of Design for Words and Messages,<\/em><\/a> 10 November 2014<\/p>\n

Image: NatalieMaynor<\/em><\/p>\n

keyword: design<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve noted many times, that design is really design for life. Everything is designed. OK, so it\u2019s way past Christmas present time (or early for 2015), but you may want to treat someone (or yourself) to an unusual book or three about design. Often quite quirky, off-the-wall design at that. This list is from one…<\/p>\n

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