Last month art book publisher Taschen released Design Now!.
“Not only an in-depth exploration of contemporary design practice, this book is also a rallying call for a more sustainable approach to product design of every type, from lighting and furniture design to consumer electronic equipment, transportation, product architecture, and environmental design. Visually stunning and highly informative, Design Now! illustrates the latest work by 90 of the world’s leading designers and design-led manufacturing companies [Editor's Note: See appended for the complete list, an online exclusive], while also featuring in-their-own-words statements that give a unique insight into the nature of 3-dimensional design today. Additionally, the editors’ introductory essay authoritatively outlines the main issues facing designers, manufacturers and consumers, and offers a perceptive vision for a better way forward that focuses on the need to reduce, reuse, and recycle.”
A median of six pages are dedicated to each design practice, totaling five hundred and sixty pages in a hefty hardbound volume with text in English, German and French.
Featured Designers
Iro A. Ahokas
Airbus Design Team
Werner Aisslinger
Ron Arad
Dodo Arslan
Asko
Yves Béhar
Markus Benesch
Steven Blaess
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec
F. & H. Campana
Claesson Koivisto Rune
Kenneth Cobonpue
Continuum
matali crasset
deepdesign
Designapkin
Stefan Diez
Ding3000
Tom Dixon
James Dyson
Ecocats
Ecolean
Ecosistema Urbano Arquitectos
Ecotricity
Elegant Embellishments
Eliumstudio
Joseph Forakis
Naoto Fukasawa
Christian Ghion
Stefano Giovannoni
Emiliano Godoy
Konstantin Grcic
GRO Design
Alfredo Häberli
Zaha Hadid
Jaime Hayon
Sam Hecht
Indio da Costa
Intelligent Energy
James Irvine
Toyo Ito
Jonathan Ive & Apple Design Team
Patrick Jouin
Suntae Kim
Nikola Knezevic
Lavernia Cienfuegos y Asociados
Leading Edge Design
Mathieu Lehanneur
Lievore Altherr Molina
LOT-EK
Ross Lovegrove
Lunar Design
Marine Current Turbines
Marmol Radziner Prefab
Jean-Marie Massaud
Fredrik Mattson
Ingo Maurer
Alberto Meda
Jasper Morrison
Brodie Neill
Nendo/Oki Sato
Marc Newson
NICE Car Company
Patrick Norguet
Office of Mobile Design
Ora-Ïto
Giovanni Pagnotta
Satyendra Pakhalè
PearsonLloyd
Philips Design
Phoenix Design
POC
Porsche Design Studio
Karim Rashid
Seymourpowell
Fumie Shibata
Jens Martin Skibsted
SMART DESIGN
Sony Design Team
Philippe Starck
Swe Des
Teague
Tesla Motors
Danny Venlet
Clems Weisshar & Reed Kram
Hannes Wettstein
Tokujin Yoshioka
Youmeus
Michael Young
