Skin:
Surface, Substance, and Design
Every object has a skin. Thick
or thin, smooth or rough, porous or impermeable, the skin is the line between
the hidden inside and the outside we experience. Skin: Surface, Substance,
and Design presents products, furniture, fashion, architecture, and media
that are expanding the limits of what we understand as surface. Reflecting
the convergence of natural and artificial life, this provocative and stimulating
book shows how enhanced and simulated skins appear everywhere in our contemporary
world. Designers today manipulate the relationship between the inside and
outside of objects, garments, and buildings, creating skins that both reveal
and conceal, skins that have depth and complexity as well as their own behaviors
and identities.
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