Some of the most beautiful and ingenious objects in the exhibition are the delicate bowls and boxes made from paper, wood and ceramics by Choi Jungyou, Kim Yikyung and other designers, who reinterpreted ancient techniques and materials to produce them.
Some of the quietly ingenious objects New Yorkers now snap up in Muji are Fukasawa's designs: the compact paper shredder that comes with its own trash can (rather than buying yet another hulking contraption) and that cute little pull-cord CD player.
In one public debate he became irritated at objections to his account of an optical effect, and with the slide on the screen he invited the audience to walk round the room to check that the ingenious object displayed would seem to point to them wherever they were.
Q. Wendy, your work has explored the neighborhoods of San Francisco, ingenious Japanese object design, chef tattoos and so many other curious subjects.
Crowther's "House of Inventions" — a revised edition of a book that first appeared in 2000 — is itself a kind of invention, an ingenious physical object in which each room of the house — kitchen, bathroom, living room, bedroom — is recreated, popped to life and filled with tags that date and explain dozens of household objects.
It will present the ingenious range of objects and strategies spawned by the movement, from the barricades and shelters made from everyday objects, to impromptu structures that exploited the multi-levelled walkways of the city's Central district.
These figures count only trade in objects (ingenious or mundane).
But you do not need a decoding guide to appreciate the ingenious ways these objects play with tensions between different orders of form, representation and material.
An avid collector, he spent much of his free time in the Netherlands scouring flea markets and yard sales for intriguing objects and ingenious mechanical contraptions.
...Millar situates the everyday as epic, positioning the studio-warehouse setting of the video as a microcosm where issues of creative potential, duration, humour, and temporality are explored through ingenious interactions of found objects.
I thought of Mr. Starck and his talent for designing ingenious and charming modern objects (from fly swatters to bowl-shaped sinks), as well as the innovations of Joe Colombo, the extraordinary Italian architect whose 1960's projects of multifunctional living have never been surpassed.
