"Modern Furniture presents an overview of the most important developments and highlights in furniture design. Beginning with the latest trends for 2009 the book covers the past 150 years. The spotlight focuses on several individual gems of design, from the most contemporary Heaven series of the Italian manufacturer Emu back to the famous cantilever chair, but also on creations such as laminate and chipboard. Materials that we no longer r ..."
"This dictionary provides a stimulating and categorical foundation for a serious international discourse on design. It is a handbook for everyone concerned with design in career or education, who is interested in it, enjoys it, and wishes to understand it. 110 authors from Japan, Austria, England, Germany, Australia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the United States, and elsewhere have written original articles for this design dictionary. ..."
Design & Democracy(1st Edition) Activist Thoughts and Examples for Political Empowerment (Board of International Research in Design) Hardcover by Maziar Rezai, MichaelErlhoff Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2021 by De Gruyter ISBN-13: 978-3-0356-2282-9, ISBN: 3-0356-2282-5
"Design affects all social contexts and is therefore intensively instrumentalized both by the politically powerful and their critics. Both functions of design, and their inevitable combination, are presented in this book in precise detail."
Wörterbuch Design(1st Edition) Begriffliche Perspektiven des Design (Board of International Research in Design) (German Edition) by MichaelErlhoff, Timothy Marshall Hardcover, 472 Pages, Published 2007 by Birkhäuser ISBN-13: 978-3-7643-7738-0, ISBN: 3-7643-7738-0
"Begriffliche Perspektiven des DesignGebundenes BuchThis dictionary provides a stimulating and categorical foundation for a serious international discourse on design. It is a handbook for everyone concerned with design in career or education, who is interested in it, enjoys it, and wishes to understand it. 110authors from Japan, Austria, England, Germany, Australia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the United States, and elsewhere have wri ..."
"Non Intentional Design defies all standards, is subversivley and beautiful and part of all cultures. The book shows, how people can modify very banal things due to creative use. NID deals with norms which are "abnormally" transformed - every day, everywhere, by everyone. It is about the use and the exploitation of objects already designed. Amazing, funny and inspiring things arise, and a totally new point of view on well known workaday ..."
My Desk is my Castle Exploring Personalization Cultures by Uta Brandes, MichaelErlhoff Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2011 by Birkhauser ISBN-13: 978-3-0346-0774-2, ISBN: 3-0346-0774-1
"Der Schreibtisch ist ein Ort der Arbeit und Aktion, aber er dient auch als Ausstellungsflache fur personliche Dinge und Vorlieben. Daher charakterisiert er immer in doppelter Weise eine materielle und symbolische Einheit. Der Schreibtisch ist nicht nur fur sich gesehen sehr aufschlussreich, er muss auch immer im Kontext seines kulturellen, geschlechtsspezifischen und branchenbezogenen Umfelds untersucht und verstanden werden. Im Zentrum ..."
"Design has long expressed and established itself as an independent research competence – a fact that also companies, institutions and politicians have come to acknowledge. What is still needed, however, is a stronger public platform for design to confidently reflect upon this process and to establish and communicate the specific innovative and experimental dimension of design research. For this reason, BIRD, the Board of International R ..."
"Alles, was im öffentlichen Raum herumsteht oder sich bewegt, ist mehr oder weniger gut gestaltet: Papierkörbe ebenso wie Verkehrsschilder, Straßen und Parkbänke, alle Informationen und Wegweisungen, sogar die Bäume und natürlich auch die Kleidung der Menschen. Und dennoch oder gerade deshalb entpuppt sich der öffentliche Raum immer auch als chaotisch. Das Empirische und das Gestaltete verwickeln sich und geraten durcheinander. Ebenso au ..."
"The reason and the importance of the St. Moritz Design Summit is evident: thirty designers, including a few others deeply concerned with design, represent an extraordinary competence not only with regard to design in its overall complexity, but they also incorporate a brilliant understanding of interpreting what is happening in this world and in our times Michael Erlhoff, from the foreword. After the successful debut in the year 2000, ..."
"This book introduces a carefully selected array of contemporary products that are distinguished by their attractive design and functionality in everyday life. Organized into various products groups – such as living and sleeping; leisure, hobbies and sports; and architecture and environments – the Design Brick is both a source of practical advice and a clear reference work. It is of equal interest to the design-oriented consumer and curi ..."
Design & Democracy Activist Thoughts and Examples for Political Empowerment by Maziar Rezai, MichaelErlhoff 160 Pages, Published 2021 by Birkhäuser ISBN-13: 978-3-0356-2283-6, ISBN: 3-0356-2283-3
"ERAY ÇAYLI, PhD (University College London, 2015), studies the material and spatial legacies of political violence ... Çaylı is Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow (2018–21) at the London School of Economics and Political Science where ..."
"According to Jürgen F. Schopp, the 'national' associations that a script can
provoke either rely on the fact that a whole group of fonts stands stereotypically
for a nation as a language and cultural community or that a nation often uses a
script as ..."
Theorie des Designs by MichaelErlhoff Hardcover, 225 Pages, Published 2013 by Fink Wilhelm Gmbh + Co.Kg ISBN-13: 978-3-7705-5285-6, ISBN: 3-7705-5285-7
"Da alles gestaltet ist, ist eben auch alles Thema einer Theorie des Designs."
new talents 2012(1st Edition) Nr. 2: Design (new talents cologne 2012) by MichaelErlhoff, Kasia Jezowska Hardcover, 34 Pages, Published 2012 by Die Neue Sachlichkeit ISBN-13: 978-3-942139-28-1, ISBN: 3-942139-28-6
"Dieses Worterbuch bietet die interessante und kategoriale Grundlage fur einen ernsthaften internationalen Diskurs uber Design. Es ist das Handbuch fur alle, die mit Design beruflich und in der Ausbildung zu tun haben, sich dafur interessieren, sich daran vergnugen und Design begreifen wollen."
Dada's best(1st Edition) Klassische und unbekannte Texte und Gedichte aus der literarischen und künstlerischen Bewegung des Dadaismus. Die Lieblingsstücke von Dada-Begeisterten. (Kleine Bücherei für Hand und Kopf) by Uta Brandes, MichaelErlhoff Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2009 by Edition Nautilus ISBN-13: 978-3-89401-601-2, ISBN: 3-89401-601-9