{"product_id":"design-noir-the-secret-life-of-electronic-objects-9781350070639","title":"Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first book to be published on the work of their partnership (in 2001), \u003ci\u003eDesign Noir\u003c\/i\u003e is the essential primary source for understanding the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings for Dunne \u0026amp; Raby's work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eConsisting 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 - \u003ci\u003eDesign Noir\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy 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, \u003ci\u003eDesign Noir\u003c\/i\u003e presents the case-study of the Placebo projectas a far more complex and subtler project than is often thought. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a bold and in many ways unprecedented experiment in design writing and book designing, \u003ci\u003eDesign Noir \u003c\/i\u003eis itself an instance of the speculative propositional design it expounds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Visual Arts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350070639\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176","brand":"Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40240341385397,"sku":"9781350070639","price":35.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_18180aba-5b2c-4838-a6e5-cf95440ac4ab.jpg?v=1623729366","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/design-noir-the-secret-life-of-electronic-objects-9781350070639","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}