Blobjects & beyond : the new fluidity in design / by Steven Skov Holt and Mara Holt Skov ; with essays by Phil Patton and Bruce Sterling.
"Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art, Blobjects and Beyond is the first comprehensive survey of the new fluidity in contemporary design. Whether hard or soft, cheerful or sinister, practical or conceptual, blobjects represent a decisive turn away from...
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San Francisco :
Chronicle Books,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A growing fascination with fluid form / Steven Skov Holt and Mara Holt Skov
- [Part 1] Proto-blobjects : Twentieth-century roots of organic form / Phil Patton
- The blobject begins to take shape / Steven Skov Holt and Mara Holt Skov
- [Part 2] Blobjects : The look and feel of optimism / Steven Skov Holt and Mara Holt Skov
- The kandy-kolored blobject / Bruce Sterling
- Fluid blobs in motion / Steven Skov Holt
- Beach rocks / Mara Holt Skov
- Trans/parent, trans/lucent, trans/formed / Mara Holt Skov
- Chromified blobjects / Bruce Sterling
- Tiny technoblobjects / Mara Holt Skov
- From the human form flows fluidity / Steven Skov Holt
- Design for the banal: toothbrushes / Mara Holt Skov
- Cutensils / Phil Patton
- [Part 3] Beyond the blobject : The new direction of the dark curve / Steven Skov Holt and Mara Holt Skov
- Don't fuck with me / Steven Skov Holt
- Bio/exo/derma / Phil Patton
- Meta-blobs / Mara Holt Skov
- The blob morphs and mutates out of control / Steven Skov Holt
- Introduction : a growing fascination with fluid form
- Twentieth-century roots of organic form
- The blobject begins to take shape
- The look and feel of optimism
- The Kandy-kolored blobject
- Fluid blobs in motion
- Beach rocks
- Trans/parent, trans/lucent, trans/formed
- Chromified blobjects
- Tiny technoblobjects
- From the human form flows fluidity
- Design for the banal : toothbrushes
- Cutensils
- The new direction of the dark curve
- Don't fuck with me
- Bio/exo/derma
- Meta-blobs
- The blob morphs and mutates out of control.