Posts Tagged ‘field guides’

N64 Controller

26Sep08

Continuing with the IKEA theme, artist Jason Savalon created a full-size, 374-page reproduction of the entire 2007 IKEA catalogue, reduced & abstracted to only averaged color & lay-out structure, “varied pure color arrangements”.
With an estimated 175 million copies distributed in 2006, the IKEA catalogue is thought to have surpassed the Bible as the most published printed [...]


IKEA’s furniture products were shipped in disassembled form for economy of manufacture and transportation, resulting in price advantage in the marketplace. Economy and efficiency in manufacture was also extended to product assembly, with an added benefit. Not a word was included in these instructions, eliminating the cost and potential confusion in translation. 
- The Universal Design File (1998)
(Molly Follette Story, James L. Mueller, Ronald [...]


- Field Guide to the North American Bird (2004)
(Adam Blank,Lauren Blank, illustrated by Michael H. Moore)


- A field guide is a book designed to help the reader identify wildlife or other objects of natural occurrence. However, in this brief, our field guide will be based upon an object with a user interface.
- Field guides will typically include a description of the objects covered, together with paintings or photographs and an index. More serious and scientific field identification [...]