PAOLA ANTONELLI

This book is the first monograph on the product designer Ross Lovegrove. Written by the designer himself, with a forward by Paola Antonelli, it presents a complete overview of the designer`s career, featuring realized and unrealized project.While the main texts explains Ross Lovegroves philosophy and way of working, the products descriptions reveal the main feature and characteristic of every project. Lovegrove`s work includes a wide range of products from furniture to high-tech products, from water bottles to airplane seats and explores the possibility of realizing sculptural and organic shapes through modern technology and material.In recent years Ross Lovegrove has worked on a design concept that he likes to define as organic essentialism, inspired by elements and aesthetics taken from the natural world and reshaped in futuristic forms. His interest in this sort of new naturalism, which he terms supernatural, is accompanied by research into new materials, new applications and new methods of production. This combination of archetypal inspiration and up to date technology makes him one of the most interesting and unusual figures in the design world.

Design Emergency trata sobre cómo las mentes más creativas de nuestros días están trabajando para entender e intentar solucionar los problemas de hoy, usando el diseño como principal agente de cambio. Centrandose en 4 temas Tecnologia, Sociedad, Comunicacion y Ecologia Paola Antoneli y Alice Rawsthorn nos muestran diversos y convincentes proyectos dirigidos a encontrar soluciones de pioneros estudios de diseño a lo largo del mundo (Irma Boom, Isle Crawford, Kunle Adeyemi, Formafantasma o Forensic Architecture) Este libro es una celebracion de la capacidad del ser humano de adaptacion en tiempos de crisis y una herramienta vital para demostrar como el diseño puede actuar mas alla de su entorno mas inmediato. Contiene entrevistas, imagenes comisionadas para el libro y textos inspiracionales.

This book is the first monograph on the product designer Ross Lovegrove. Written by the designer himself, with a forward by Paola Antonelli, it presents a complete overview of the designer's career, featuring realized and unrealized projects.