Research Catalog

Title

Thonik : why we design / Aaron Betsky, Adrian Shaughnessy, Gert Staal.

Author

Betsky, Aaron

Publication

Zürich, Switzerland, Lars Müller Publishers, [2019]

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Additional Authors

• Shaughnessy, Adrian
• Staal, Gert

Description

351 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Everybody is a designer! But why? Why do we color, organize, and form the world around us - and why do we call that a profession? In this book, Thonik, an Amsterdam-based studio led by lauded designers Nikki Gonnissen and Thomas Widdershoven, researches eleven personal reasons why they design - from the need to create impact to a constant search for independence; from the benefits of systems to the urgency of play. 'Why We Design' looks back on twenty-five years of design practice and speculates on the future of graphic design.

Subjects

• Design
• 21.82 industrial design
• Netherlands
• Gestaltung
• Gebrauchsgrafik
• Design > Netherlands > History > 21st century
• Design > Netherlands > History > 20th century
• Graphic artists > Netherlands
• Graphic arts > Netherlands
• Gonnissen, Nikki > Themes, motives
• Widdershoven, Thomas > Themes, motives
• Thonik (Firm)

Contents

Preface -- A studio portrait -- Radical : Centraal Museum ; The best of Wim T. Schippers ; Over the Edges ; Mirror taxi for Seoul -- Concept : 010 publishers ; Mentalitäten. Niederländisches Design ; Eternally Yours ; Droog Design books ; Minding the Digital -- Democracy : Gemeente Amsterdam ; Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam ; Zwart-Wit Black-White -- Us & them : Raad voor Cultuur ; Spiral Art Center ; Manifesta 9 ; Nanjing Youth Festival -- System : Marta Herford ; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen ; De Appel Arts Centre -- Independence : De Zingende Zaag ; Exhibitions ; Alphabet Blankets ; VPRO -- Expose : Venice Biennale of Architecture ; Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture ; Moving posters -- Public : Amsterdam University of the Arts ; Museumnacht Amsterdam ; NRC ; Dekmantel -- Impact : Proton ICA ; Hyundai City and Premium Outlets ; Holland Festival -- Empower : Socialistische Partij ; SP Home Care commercial ; Weaving Stories ; JÀ! Flags -- Change : Yoni ; Power Station of Art ; Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain ; Four exhibitions at Van Abbemuseum.

ISBN

• 303778556X
• 9783037785560

OCLC

• on1007083554
• SCSB-9281256

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library