"The designers Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa have compiled 204 everyday objects in search of ""super normal design"": alongside examples of anonymous design like the Swiss Rex vegetable peeler or a simple plastic bag, there are design classics like Marcel Breuer's tubular steel side table, Diet[...]
What feeds the inspiration of the designer? Observation. In Jasper Morrison's collection of pictures, the icons of design history meet up with the unassuming projects of everyday life, and curious findings with the archetypes of modernism. Every picture tells a story nad creates a new one in juxtap[...]
Just what is it that catches the eye, and why? What's the significance of a broken flowerpot, a pair of identical tables side by side, a garden hose wrapped around an old car wheel? In this collection of photo essays, the famous designer Jasper Morrison examines and imagines the life behind a series[...]
Jasper Morrison has the ability to bestow things with a distinctive style. Hissignature style is evident in many of the everyday objects that surround us.His repertoire of essential designs is characterized by simplicity yet complexity, as well as a sense of poetry and humor. Morrison works on a glo[...]
In systematischer Absicht verfolgen die Autoren die Geschichte des Holismus in der analytischen und der (post- )strukturalistischen Sprachphilosophie - von Hilbert und Saussure bis hin zu Derrida und Davidson. In der Konsequenz dieser Darlegung kommt es zu einer weitreichenden Revision sowohl des[...]
Features a detailed chronological summary of Jasper Johns' life and work and covers its cultural and historical importance.
Though his work is often categorized as Pop Art for its use of popular iconography and household objects, Jasper Johns can also be described as a Neo-Dadaist. Using[...]
"Phantom wolves don't exist "
Thea belongs to the Devotion Pack; a community now reduced to a mere decrepit village after its Alpha went missing centuries ago.
Dark stories of the Devotion pack's haunting from the terrifying undead Phantom Wolves have circulated for years but Thea [...]
Born in London, 1959, Jasper Morrison is a British designer renowned for injecting a quietly humorous style into his designs which range from chairs, tables and lamps to the more challenging tram that he designed for the city of Hanover. After graduating in Design at Kingston Polytechnic and the Roy[...]
Året är 1985, platsen är Storbritannien. Krimkriget pågår fortfarande, tidsresor är vardagsmat och klonade drontar finns i var mans hem. Här tar man litteratur på blodigt allvar: gatustrider utkämpas mellan militanta shakespearetolkare och att förfalska Byrons dikter är ett grovt brott. <[...]
Lågmäldhet, eftertanke, exakthet har ända sedan Per Helges debut 1974 varit återkommande ord i beskrivningar av hans poesi. I en lycklig förening av enkelhet och djup har Helge i en rad diktsamlingar pejlat sorgens, vemodets, vredens och den lågmälda livsglädjens landskap ur ett perspektiv d[...]
The book surveys the key metaphysical contributions of the Cambridge Platonist, Henry More (1614-1687). It deals with such interwoven topics as: the natures of body and spirit, and the question of whether or not there is a sharp ontological division between them; the nature of spatial extension in r[...]
"Treasure Island" must be the most enthralling adventure book ever written. As we listen to the voice of Jim Hawkins telling his extraordinary tale, and later that of his companion Dr Livesey, we are plunged into a world of pirates, buried treasure, mutiny and deceit. We meet Billy Bones, Blind Pew,[...]