Aalto ARTS Books in the Frankfurt Book Fair
Enchanting ceramics
Solid ground
Nathalie Lautenbacher (Ed.)
What is the secret behind the thousand-year-old attraction of ceramics? What does it say about us human beings?
Solid Ground introduces contemporary ceramics and reflects upon the world around it. Essays by leading writers and researchers build bridges between art, scienc, and life. Images show how versatile Earth's modest materials can be in capable hands. The book inspires us to see the beauty of the material world and its profound meanings.
Recipes for the future
The ChemArts Cookbook
Pirjo Kääriäinen, Liisa Tervinen, Tapani Vuorinen, Nina Riutta (Eds.)
In the coming years, our material world is changing dramatically. Our need for materials will not disappear, but it will change. Could the innovative use of renewable cellulosic materials change our material world? What kinds of materials can we derive from trees, while still respecting the preciousness of nature.
The ChemArts Cookbook gives both simple and more advanced ideas and recipes for hands-on experiments with wood-based materials. The authors are professors and staff members of Aalto University, Finland.
Fascinating world of bioart
Art as We Don't Know It
Erich Berger, Kasperi Mäki-Reinikka, Kira O`Reilly, Helena Sederholm (Eds.)
Bioart invites us to explore artistic practices at the intersection of art, science and society. This rapidly evolving field utilises the tools of life sciences to examine the materiality of life. It challenges the ways in which we observe the world. The book features peer-reviewed articles, interviews and artistic contributions which illustrate the dicersity of bioart. It offers a stimulating and provocative exploration into worlds emerging, seen through art as we don't know it – yet.
Simplifying a complicated world
Data Visualization Handbook
Juuso Koponen & Jonatan Hildén
Data Visualization Handbook is a practical guide to creating compelling graphics to explain or explore data. It is primarily aimed for designers, journalists, researchers, analysts, and other professionals who want to learn the basics of visualization, but also includes plenty of material for people with intermediate level visualization skills.
Everything you need to know about colours
Colours in the Visual World
Harald Arnkil
Colours in the Visual World inspires the reader tdiscover and creatively use colour by tapping artistic knowledge and recent findings on perceptual science. The book is a resource of colour facts an phenomena.
Expand your creative toolkit
The Patterned Mind. Creative Methods in Surface Design
Laura Isoniemi
The Patterned Mind offers new perspectives on surface design and introduces a range of innovative design methods. Understanding with your hands and the presence of play lie at the core of this book. It introduces creative patterning methods and examines inspiring working methods from a variety of different fields within art and design. It also discusses the latest technical applications that can be used as surface design tools. The book is for anyone who wishes to get in touch with their own creative side. Inspiring pictures encourage us to venture out and start creating something new.