Skin by Ellen Lupton
Every object has a skin. Thick or thin, rough or smooth, porous or impermeable, the skin is the line between the hidden inside and the outside we experience. This volume presents products, furniture, fashion, architecture and media that are expanding the limits of what we understand as surface. Reflecting the convergence of natural and artificial life, the work shows how enhanced and simulated skins appear everywhere in our contemporary world. Designers manipulate the relationship between the inside and outside of objects, garments and buildings, creating skins that both reveal and conceal, skins that have depth and complexity as well as their own behaviours and identities. The volume features the work of designers and architects such as Greg Lynn, Petra Blaisse, SPEEDO, Morphosis, Ross Lovegrove, Marcel Wanders, and others. It also contains essays on artificial skin and digital surfaces, and a glossary of surface materials.
Ellen Lupton is curator of contemporary design at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City and director of the Graphic Design MFA program at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. An author of numerous books and articles on design, she is a public-minded critic, frequent lecturer, and AIGA Gold Medalist. Jennifer Tobias is a scholar and illustrator. She holds a PhD in art history from the City University of New York, an MLS from Rutgers University, and a BFA from Cooper Union. She served as a librarian at the Museum of Modern Art and Parsons School of Design.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781568983189 |
| ISBN 10 | 1568983182 |
| Title | Skin |
| Author | Ellen Lupton |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Princeton Architectural Press |
| Year published | 2002-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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