Category: Book

Your House

Berlin-based artist Olafur Eliasson, a Minimalissimo favourite, conceptualised Your House. The book, designed in 2006 by Michael Heimann and Claudia Baulesch, is a limited-edition artist’s book with a laser-cut negative impression of Eliasson’s house in Copenhagen. Each of the 454 pages are individually cut and corresponds to 2.2 cm of the actual house.

Commissioned by the Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Your House is a remarkable arrangement of cutouts and imagery presented in a minimalist yet technical format. Readers gradually build a physical and mental narrative, whilst also examining the perceptual and spatial experience of domestic architecture of the house.

Although I haven’t had the pleasure of reading one of the 225 printed copies (perhaps one day), I love of the combination of sculpture and architecture and the illusion of being inside the house.

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Simple Guide to a Minimalist Life

Leo Babauta of Zen Habits is one of my favorite writers and bloggers. He is also a recognized expert in the field of personal productivity. You may already be familiar with his work, especially his first published physical book, The Power of Less.

His latest ebook is called The Simple Guide to a Minimalist Life, with the ambition to help people live a simpler, happier life!

What will this ebook help you with:

- Clearing clutter and reducing your possessions
- Figuring out what’s necessary, and how to be content with less
- Simplifying your schedule, your work, and living a less stressful life
- Creating a minimalist workspace, home, computer, financial life
- How to go paperless and digitize your life

A Minimalist values quality, not quantity in all forms. It is not life of nothing, it is a life of richness, in less…

 

Less and More


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This is not our first post about Dieter Rams, and probably also not the last. He is a true minimalist god, and in the more than 40 years that he spent working at Braun, he established himself as one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century. His elegantly clear visual language not only defined product design for decades, but also our fundamental understanding of what design is and what it can and should do.

Book Less and More elucidates the design philosophy of Dieter Rams

. The book contains images of hundreds of Rams’s products as well as his sketches and models. In addition to the rich visual presentation of his designs, the book contains new texts by international design experts that explain how the work was created, describe its timeless quality, and put it into current context.

Less and More is edited by Professor Klaus Klemp and Keiko Ueki-Polet. One of the world’s leading experts in the field of product design, Klemp has been acquainted with Dieter Rams for many years and is an authority on his work. Ueki-Polet is one of Japan’s most renowned design curators. She is well acquainted with design developments in both Asia and the Western world and works at the Suntory Museum in Osaka.

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