Cinquante portraits de designers africains accompagnés d'une rétrospective historique sur l'émergence du design en Afrique. L'ouvrage montre la manière dont ces artistes font dialoguer les codes du design occidental avec leurs cultures respectives et comment, par le biais d'artisans locaux, le design peut devenir un acte solidaire alliant création, industrie et artisanat. ©Electre 2025
Les Routes de l'Art
African Generation : The Power of Design is a reflection of the continent's creative force, and the first book to reveal such a broad spectrum of contemporary design practice in Africa. This discipline, which combines aesthetics and function, is one of today's most dynamic industries, and an unquestionable factor in the rapid and spectacular growth of the continent. Sketching a wide overview of design in its many forms, this book demonstrates the vitality of a particularly innovative sector that is rethinking traditional craftsmanship through the prism of contemporary vision, to better consider objects as well as architecture, notably with the use of new technologies.
The book's co-authors are two leading experts in the field of international design. Offering a selection of designers from different regions of the continent and its diaspora, Hicham Lahlou and Mugendi K. M'Rithaa challenge stereotypes about African creation, often reduced to its traditional aspects and/or the imperative of recycling materials. With each turn of page, designers throw open the door to their creative worlds, inviting the reader behind the scenes where sketches, studio shots, and sources of inspiration reveal the creative process. Highlighting the multiple facets of African design, this work celebrates richly diverse influences from across an entire continent. Proof that creation in this part of the world is an incubator of new forms and innovations, African Generation : The Power of Design places African designers at the forefront of international design.
Paru le : 12/04/2019
Thématique : Histoire et écrits sur le design
Auteur(s) : Auteur : Hicham Lahlou Auteur : Mugendi K. M'Rithaa
Éditeur(s) :
Langages du Sud
Collection(s) : Les routes de l'art
Contributeur(s) : Préfacier : Cher Potter
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : 978-9954-695-32-6
EAN13 : 9789954695326
Reliure : Relié
Pages : 213
Hauteur: 29.0 cm / Largeur 28.0 cm
Épaisseur: 2.4 cm
Poids: 1850 g
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