60: Innovators Shaping Our Creative Future - Hardcover

Dietrich, Lucas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500514925 ISBN 13: 9780500514924

Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 2009

Synopsis

A celebration of sixty innovators in art, design, fashion and other creative fields.

Artists, photographers, architects, fashion designers, product designers, street artists, graphic designers: all are helping to redefine our aesthetics, values, and ideas about the future.

Here, a group of international experts from twelve contemporary fields of creative practice―from fine art and photography to graphic design, architecture, and ecology―have each selected five people who are making significant contributions to the way we experience everyday life and visual culture. The resulting compendium contains hundreds of the most exciting projects and concepts being produced today.

Each section features an introduction by the editor and richly illustrated profiles of the five innovators. The featured artists and designers include Jonathan Harris and Ben Fry (Graphic Design); Swoon and Space Invader (Street Art); Taryn Simon and Christopher Williams (Photography); Miuccia Prada and Tom Ford (Fashion); and Wendy Seltzer and Natalie Jeremijenko (New Media).

The editors include

• Paola Antonelli
• Cecil Balmond
• Charlotte Cotton
• Alastair Fuad-Luke
• Masoud Golsorski
• Tom Himpe
• Laura Houseley
• Jon Ippolito
• Julie Lasky
• Tristan Manco
• Jérôme Sans
• Alice Twemlow

500+ color illustrations

About this title

About the Author:

Paola Antonelli is an Italian author, editor, and curator. She is of Lombard ancestry. She is currently the Senior Curator of the Department of Architecture & Design as well as the Director of R&D at The Museum of Modern Art, New York City.

Charlotte Cotton (born 1970) is an independent curator of and writer about photography.

Cecil Balmond is a Sri Lankan – British designer, artist, architect, and writer.

Alastair Fuad-Luke is a sustainable design consultant, facilitator, lecturer, & writer. He is author of "The Eco-Design Handbook" (2002, 2004) and "The Eco-Travel Handbook" (Sept 2008).

Review:

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Bold colors, stylish type sizes and faces, arresting full-page photographs, and sophisticated layout and design work together to make perusing this handsome compendium on currents in contemporary art one of the most exhilarating, page-turning experiences of the year.... Fascinating insights.... Highly recommended.

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- Library Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0500514925
• ISBN 13: 9780500514924
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 408