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Is less really more? At long last, designers, artists, and architects have rediscovered theevocative effect of patterns, and are paying homage to décors once rejected as superfluous,by covering lamps, chairs, or entire rooms with stripes, polka dots or camouflage designs.Many such as the Rotterdam based designer Jurgen Bey are interpreting traditionalmotives anew.This book presents for the first time various multidisciplinary approachesto patterns, showing the many functions décors can fulfil. Using examples of contemporarywork by internationally renowned designers such as Tord Boontje, Michael Lin, Olaf Nicolai and Sauerbruch&Hutton, the diversity of colours, shapes and applications are laid out before the reader, illustrating the impact and influence of technical innovations such as laser engraving and digital milling on patterns and our perception of them.
About the author
Petra Schmidt ist freie Autorin und Beraterin in Frankfurt am Main. Sie lehrt Design-Theorie an der Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe und schreibt für Kunst- und Design-Magazine wie 'art' und 'Frame'. Nach ihrem Studium der Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft in Frankfurt arbeitete sie für diverse Design-Unternehmen und war von 1999 bis 2007 Chefredakteurin der Design-Zeitschrift 'form'.
