Objectivity : a designer's book of curious tools /
By: Usborne, David.
Publisher: New York : Thames & Hudson, 2010Description: 191 p. : ill., col. plates ; 26 X 28 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780500515013 (hbk.); 9780500515013:; 0500515018 (hbk.); 9780500288719 (pbk.); 0500288712.Subject(s): Industrial design -- Catalogs | Industrial design | Tools -- Pictorial works | Implements, utensils, etc. -- Pictorial worksDDC classification: 745.2Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 745.2 USB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0060428 |
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745.2 POW Presentation techniques : a guide to drawing and presenting design ideas | 745.2 PUL Design meets disability / | 745.2 STE Shaping things / | 745.2 USB Objectivity : a designer's book of curious tools / | 745.2 VON Managing innovation, design and creativity / | 745.2 WAN Deep design : pathways to a livable future / | 745.201 COL Design and art / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]) and index.
Hitting -- Cutting -- Gripping -- Holding -- Rubbing -- Shielding -- Moulding -- Spreading -- Testing.
This miscellany of mysterious objects celebrates the beauty of simple, useful things. These are the tools of life, some developed according to our basic human needs, some for less obvious ends, still others from vanishing trades, yet all display a beauty and meaning beyond their function.