Designs You Don't Know What To Do With - A Book about (the meanings of) Design and Its Alternatives
Concept & compilation by Siu King Chung & Phoebe Wong
ISBN 962-86132-7-8
240mm (H) x 210mm (W)
328 pages.
Full-color with two pull-out sticker sheets.
Cover with Spot UV; silkscreen florescent paint.
Bilingual (Chinese and English)
HK$320 (inclusive of delivery)
US$45 + postage fee (outside Hong Kong delivery)
Designs You Don't Know
What To Do With: A Book About (the meanings of) Design and Its Alternatives
is a local, no-nonsense, low fidelity, (non) functional design workbook. Can
be described as a hotchpotch of appropriated ideas, regenerated notions, and
casual creativity, this book allows the readers to see the processes through
which designs have fallen from their pedestals, like Humpty Dumpty from his
wall.
A profusely illustrated "information object", Designs You Don't Know
What To Do With is the result of three year's creative deliberation,
incessant designing, planning and organisation, based on the idea of 'design
you don't know what to do with'. It follows on from an exhibition series
held between 1999 and 2000 at Hong Kong Arts Centre that took the same idea
as its theme.
This "enlightened" book is produced as a "design object" in its own right,
intended to make you think about what to do with the designs you don't know
what to do with.
Packed with puzzles, anecdotes, commentary, images, visual quotient, and
visual psychological tests, Designs You Don't Know What To Do opens the door
to a world of fun and imagination for the young-at-heart.
WHO MUST OWN THIS DESIGN BOOK?
Professional designers looking for illuminating ideas and concepts
Design students find fun exercising with design objects
Design tutors searching for ideas to work with their students
Creative practitioners and marketers hungry for a creative tool book to
stretch their minds
View DYDKWTDW pages on web
site
www.dydk.com
The web site is run by Design You Don't Know What To Do With Association, a
new design community that challenges the normal set of design thinking, and
create an ongoing dialogue and research activity within the domain of
design, culture, education, and creativity
About the
Creator
Siu
King Chung - Assistant Professor and Course Leader of Art and Design
in Education Programme at the School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Phoebe Wong - Academically trained as a designer and an anthropologist, Phoebe finds joy in freelancing design research, editorial and writing assignments, as well as independent curatorial projects on Hong Kong visual culture.
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