DESIGN AND THE WONDROUS:
ON THE NATURE OF ORNAMENT

Published by
HYX Editions
184 pages
24 x 33 cm
English/French
Softcover
ISBN 978-2-37382-015-7

Price: 158 lei

This volume presents a new narrative of design, situated somewhere between plant life and ornament, nature and artifice. Through essays by several authors it explores the ornament’s role with respect to morphogenesis, by which the object is continually transformed through an evolving dynamic of forms. With the arrival of the digital age, the ornament’s role in design has been greatly modified. No longer a simple motif, it is used as an animated form. At the intersection of information sciences and biology, designers utilise 3D printing to create carefully calculated objects based on organic growth. With contributions by Spyros Papapetros, Marie-Ange Brayer, and others.

Artist-designers : Laure Albin Guillot, Alisa Andrasek, François Azambourg, Aurel Bauh, Mathias Bengtsson, Francis Bitonti, Tord Bontje, Ronan et Erwan Bouroullec, Aldo Bakker, Gijs Bakker, Andrea Branzi, François Brument, Louise Campbell, Fernando & Humberto Campana, Wendell Castel, Philippe Stark, Demarkesvan, André Dubreuil, Ammar Eloueini, EZCT ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN RESEARCH, Vincent Fournier, Benjamin Graindorge, Konstantin Grcic et David Trubridge, Frank Gehry, Michael Hansmeyer et Benjamin Dillenburger, Olivier van Herpt, Junya Ishigami, Pierre Jahan, Hella Jongerius, Patrick Jouin, Andrew Kudless, Shiro Kuramata, Joris Laarman, Matthieu Lehanneur, Ross Lovegrove, Nendo, Neri Oxman, Casey Reas, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Aleksandrina Rizova, Il Hoon Roh, Jenny Sabin, Franke Tepjkema, Thonet Frères, Marcel Wanders, Joseph Walsh, Eugen Wiskovsky.