Mateo Kries

Amelie Klein

Christoph Thun-Hohenstein

"Only a few decades ago the robot was still just a figure of science fiction. Nowadays, however, robots and robotic systems seem to be taking over our lives. Design has a key role to play in this process, for it is designers who shape the interface between humans and machines. Hello, Robot. shows intelligent machines in industry and in the military, in children's rooms and retirement homes, in shopping and sex, in art, computers games and of course films an literature. Detailed essays and interviews examine how we respond to our increasingly digital, smart, and autnonmous environment. They illuminate our - often ambivalent - relationship with these new technologies and broaden our view of the ethical and political questions they raise. With contributions and works by Douglas Coupland, Dunne & Raby, Gesche Joost, robotlob, Bruce sterling, and many others."--Page 4 de la couverture.

Design Between Human and Machine

Hello, Robot

This updated edition of Vitra's 2017 publication presents recent developments in robotics and digitization This volume investigates how robotics has become an integral part of life: in industry, in the military and in everyday settings; at nurseries and retirement homes; in our bodies; when shopping and when having sex; in video games and in films and in literature. In a series of in-depth essays and interviews, experts including science-fiction author Bruce Sterling and the design duo Dunne & Raby explore what an increasingly digital environment means for us humans. They highlight our often-ambivalent relationship to new technologies and discuss the opportunities and challenges they pose for us as individuals and as a society. Hello, Robotbroadens the scope of debate to include the ethical and political questions arising from technological advances in robotics today, and confronts us with the contradictions that often underpin the answers to these questions.

Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel

This publication presents the wide-ranging holdings of the MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection (Vienna) in the field of graphic design--or ephemera--from the 18th century to the present day.This includes works of graphic design such as letter paper and decorated paper, dust jackets, invitations, admission tickets and labels, ex libris and bookmarks, greeting cards and menu cards, poster stamps, playing cards, dance cards and place cards, as well as visiting cards and promotional materials.Despite its ephemerality, this printed matter often exhibits exquisite designs and high technical quality; it reflects artistic developments as well as social rites, personal and commercial forms of representation, and advertising strategies.

The Graphic Design of the MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection

Ephemera

Rainald Franz

In 2018 the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory celebrates its 300th anniversary. Having obtained the charter to produce porcelain in 1718, it is considered the second oldest porcelain manufactory in Europe after Meissen. The volume accompanying the exhibition in the MAK ? Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art in Vienna will now reopen the history of the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory, which closed in 1864, where major works such as the porcelain chamber from the Palais Dubsky (Dubsky Room) and the Zwettl centrepiece are presented in light of new findings. With numerous illustrations of leading pieces from the MAK?s collection and international loans, the catalogue attests to the significance that Viennese porcelain has enjoyed as an outstanding cultural achievement of Austria since the Baroque era.00Exhibition: MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria (16.05. - 23.09.2018).

300 Jahre Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur

Christian Witt-Dörring

Elisabeth Schmuttermeier

Kolo Moser war einer der bedeutendsten Universalkünstler im Wien der Jahrhundertwende: er zählt zu den führenden Vertretern des Jugendstils. Sein Werk umfasst Malerei, Grafik und Kunsthandwerk sowie u. a. Mode- und Möbelentwürfe und Designs für Beleuchtungskörper, Bühnendekorationen, Glasfenster, Buchillustrationen und sogar Banknoten. Als Schrittmacher der Kunst seiner Zeit war er Gründungsmitglied der Wiener Secession und etablierte 1903 die Wiener Werkstätte, gemeinsam mit dem Architekten Josef Hoffmann und dem Industriellen Fritz Waerndorfer. Das Ziel dieser Produktionsgemeinschaft bildender Künstler war die Realisierung des Gesamtkunstwerks auf handwerklich höchstem Niveau. Rund 400 Objekte, systematisch präsentiert und durch Essays erläutert, eröffnen einen neuen Blick auf sein beeindruckendes Lebenswerk.

Christoph Thun-Hohenstein

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