Terrific Design

·An illustrated volume dedicated to the most disturbing, curious or ironically repellent pieces of modern and contemporary design ·A brand new perspective on the creativity of the great masters of design, analyzed for its most visionary and imaginative elements ·A critical analysis with popular appeal and lively illustrations that sets out in search of objects straight out of the most unbelievable fairy-tale world There has been a shift in contemporary design, something hazy like a summer rainbow and hard to label. It is not kitsch, something that has always taken a side swipe at beauty, because it does not have popular connotations. Rather, it appears to be a high and virtuous manifestation of creativity applied to objects of everyday use. It feeds off a variety of different abilities - woodwork, sculpture, carving, assemblage, collage, recycling, transformation, embroidery, knitting - and crosses a variety of trends, from Surrealism to Dadaism, from Zoomorphism to Anthropomorphism. It uses the most disparate of materials, with a focus on recovery. Functionality becomes optional; the objective is wonder, and perhaps disgust: that healthy jolt that strikes the stomach before it strikes the mind. Terrific Design celebrates some of the most bizarre objects to be found in the design world today.