Digital by Design

Digital by Design

Digital by Design: Crafting Technology for Products and Environments by Troika has just been released in the UK (US in Feb 2009). Buy online.

Text description from Thames & Hudson..

Troika is a multi-disciplinary art and design practice founded by Conny Freyer, Sebastien Noel and Eva Rucki. In “Digital by Design”, Troika presents the most exciting smart objects and their designers who push the boundaries of interactive technology and intelligent design, creating new realms of experience, customization and beauty for consumers increasingly looking for products that are much more than mere tools. This inspired and illuminating survey presents a world of design in which the latest digital technologies are ultimately placed in the hands of users, to enrich our lifestyles and experiences in new and unanticipated ways. No design professional will be able to ignore this innovative book.

Full review soon, for now the contents looks like this…


1 / Design Nouveau – Digital forms and Electric Beauty

Fredrikson Stallard / Paul Cocksedge / Joris Laarman / Hussein Chalayan / Ron Arad / Sam Buxton / Stijn Ossevoort / Christopher Pearson / Takeshi Ishiguro / Geoffrey Mann / Front / Moritz Waldemeyer / Loop.pH / James Clar / Simon Heijdens / Usman Haque / United Visual Artists / realities:united / Troika

2 / Augmented Art – Narrative Technologies and Immersive
 Experiences
Conrad Shawcross / Daniel Rozin / Mark Hansen & Ben Rubin / Rafael Lozano-Hemmer / Jim Campbell / Jeppe Hein / Max Dean, Raffaello D’Andrea, Matt Donovan / Thomas McIntosh / Julian Opie / James Carrigan / Michael Cross / Julius Popp / Björn Schülke / Sachiko Kodama / Peter Vogel / minim++ / Greyworld / Tatsuo Miyajima / Paul DeMarinis / Troika

3 / Guerrilla Artfare –
 Disruption and Hardware Hacking
Institute for Applied Autonomy / Graffiti Research Lab / Karolina Sobecka / Mitch Altman / Limor Fried / HeHe / fur / Philip Worthington / rAndom International / Michael Golembewski / Jürg Lehni / Simon Blackmore / Zach DeBord, Kim Jackson DeBord / Brian Duffy / Roger Ibars / 
Schulze & Webb / Owl Project / Hulger / Science & Sons / Industrial Facility / Mark Hauenstein / Luckybite / Ryota Kuwakubo / Troika

4 / Twilight Technologies – Critical Design and Alternative Futures
Auger-Loizeau / Marie Sester / Noam Toran / Natalie Jeremijenko / Tim Stolzenburg / Tim Simpson / Dunne & Raby / Aparna Rao / Crispin Jones / Alice Wang / Fernando Orellana / Kok-Chian Leong / Onkar Kular / Maywa Denki / Troika /

5 / Interviews
Dunne & Raby / Ron Arad / Steven Sacks / Machiko Kusahara

Posted on December 2nd 2008 under Books
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