TY  - BOOK
AU  - Munari,Bruno
AU  - Creagh,Patrick
TI  - Design as art
T2  - Penguin modern classics
SN  - 9780141035819 (pbk.) :
AV  - NK1505 .M8513 2008
PY  - 2008///, c1971
CY  - London
PB  - Penguin
KW  - Design
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Art and design
KW  - blmlsh
N1  - Originally published (in Italian) by Editori Laterza, 1966; Originally published in translation by Pelican Books, c1971; Preface : The useless machines -- Design as art -- Designers and stylists : what is a designer? ; Pure and applied ; A living language ; A rose is a rose is a ; The stylists ; Mystery art -- Visual design : Character building ; The shape of words ; Poems and telegrams ; Two in one ; A language of signs and symbols? ; 12,000 different colors -- Graphic design : Poster with a central image ; Poster without end ; Children's books -- Industrial design : Micro-art ; How one lives in a traditional Japanese house ; What is bamboo? ; A spontaneous form ; A prismatic lamp ; Wear and teat ; Orange, peas and rose ; A piece of travelling sculpture ; Luxuriously appointed gentlemen's apartments ; Knives, forks, and spoons ; And that's not all ; Fancy goods -- Research design : Iris ; Growth and explosion ; Concave-convex forms ; The tetracone ; Yang-yin ; Moiré ; Direct projection ; Projections with polarized light ; The square ; The circle ; An arrow can lose its feathers but not its point ; Theoretical reconstruction of imaginary objects ; Exercises in topology, or rubber-sheet geometry ; Two fountains, nine spheres -- Appendix : the machines of my childhood (1924)
ER  -