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Blobjects and Beyond

The New Fluidity in Design By Steven Skov Holt
and Mara Holt Skov
With essays by Phil Patton
and Bruce Sterling

7-1/2 x 9-1/2 in; 248 pp ; 160 color images
Hardcover
Published in June, 2005
ISBN 0811847659
ISBN13 9780811847650
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$35.00  

Blobjects and Beyond -- 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 the hard edges and angles of conventional modernism. From the iconic iMac to Karim Rashid's evocative plastics to the ergonomic computer mouse, blobjects are the defining objects of our time, molding our visual vocabulary for years to come. Blobjects and Beyond is a celebration of the global explosion of amorphic, organic, and curvaceous design.

Steven Skov Holt is the distinguished professor of industrial design at California College of the Arts and former editor of I.D. magazine.

Mara Holt Skov is an independent curator. She and Steven live in San Francisco.

Phil Patton is a design critic and journalist for the New York Times, contributing editor to Esquire, Wired, and I.D., and the author of several books.

Bruce Sterling is a celebrated science fiction novelist and technology writer, and a regular contributor to Wired magazine.