
Design Noir
The Secret Life of Electronic Objects
By: Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby
Hardcover | 26 August 2021
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The first book to be published on the work of their partnership (in 2001), Design Noir is the essential primary source for understanding the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings for Dunne & Raby's work.
Consisting of three elements - a 'manifesto' on the possibilities of designing with and for the 'secret life' of electronic objects; notes for an embryonic network of critical designers and, most famously, the presentation of the Placebo Project – a prototype for a critical design poetics enacted around electronic furniture-objects – Design Noir offers an in-depth exploration of one of the most seminal design projects of the last two decades, one that arguably initiated speculating through design in its contemporary forms.
By detailing the logic and character of the objects that were constructed; the involvement of users with these objects over-time, and in the creation of a new kinds of spatially and temporally distributed moments of critique and engagement with things, Design Noir presents the case-study of the Placebo projectas a far more complex and subtler project than is often thought.
As a bold and in many ways unprecedented experiment in design writing and book designing, Design Noir is itself an instance of the speculative propositional design it expounds.
About the Authors
Anthony Dunne is a Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art, London. He trained as an industrial designer. He lived in Japan during the 1980s & worked for Sony.
Fiona Raby is a Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art, London. She trained as an architect, & lived in Japan during the 1980s, where she worked for Toyo Ito.
Industry Reviews
Jamer Hunt, Vice Provost for Transdisciplinary Initiatives at The New School, USA and Associate Professor of Transdisciplinary Design, Parsons, USA
“Only now that speculation through design has come into its own can we see the full legacy of this mischievous and engaging book. Its welcome reappearance shows it remains both a crucial study in material critique and a lesson in how to document the thoughts of your participants.”
Ann Light, Professor of Design and Creative Technology at the University of Sussex and Professor of Interaction Design, Social Change and Sustainability at Malmo University, Sweden
ISBN: 9781350070639
ISBN-10: 1350070637
Series: Radical Thinkers in Design
Published: 26th August 2021
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 176
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (AUS)
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 1.6 x 17.4 x 25.1
Weight (kg): 0.63
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