Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects by Dunne, Anthony

Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects

The first book to be published on the work of their partnership (in 2001), Design Noir is...
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Author: Anthony Dunne
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Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects by Dunne, Anthony

Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects

$79.28

Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects

$79.28
Author: Anthony Dunne
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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 projectas 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.

Author: Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Published: 07/15/2021
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.70h x 6.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781350070639

About the Author

Anthony Dunne is University Professor of Design and Social Inquiry and a Fellow of the Graduate Institute for Design Ethnography and Social Thought at The New School, USA.

Fiona Raby is University Professor of Design and Social Inquiry and a Fellow of the Graduate Institute for Design Ethnography and Social Thought at The New School, USA.

Their work has been exhibited at MoMA, NYC, the Pompidou Centre, Paris, and the Design Museum in London, and is in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Frac Ile-de-France, Fnac and the MAK as well as several private collections.

In 2015 Dunne & Raby received the inaugural MIT Media Lab Award and were nominated for the Prince Philip Designers Prize in 2016.


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