Popular understanding associates Nordic interiors and product designs with clean aesthetics, high craftsmanship, and empathy for human factors. Nordic designers both reinforces traditions and blasts stereotypes. In informal conversations with 59 of the best-known designers working in the Scandinavian region today – including llkka Suppanen, Claesson Koivisto Rune, and Monica Forster – author David Sokol examines current interpretations of democratic design and ecological conciousness, as well as new trends in conceptualization and form-making. Sokol’s engaging interviews also uncover these talents’ personal histories, motives, and aspirations. Nordic Designers paints a colorful picture of the contemporary creative scent, and makes a case for the increasing importance of sustainability, global awareness, and Nordic identity in the design disciplines.

In his numerous works, internationally acclaimed photographer Michael Eastman often focuses on the facades and interiors of the world's cities, such as Paris, Rome, and New Orleans. In this book he explores the houses and streets of Havana. Nearly one hundred photographs from the past two decades reveal a world where triumphant past and vanquished present collide. Painterly in quality, these richly coloured photographs are dramatically lit and exquisitely detailed. Though mostly devoid of people, they manage to capture contemporary Cuban life through suggestion: an empty chair, an ancient car, a decrepit hallway, a forgotten chandelier. The result is as eloquent as a love poem written to a city rich in history, culture, and feeling.

Celebrating the kind of childhood play that signals a search for identity, Who Am I, What Am I, Where Am I? is a series of 70 photographs by New York- and Berlin-based artist Aura Rosenberg. For each picture, a child and an artist were paired up to create an idiosyncratic portrait of the child-each of whom was given access to masks and costumes. Among the collaborating artists are John Baldessari, Coco Fusco, Skuta Helgason, Louise Lawler, Allan McCollum, John Miller, Vik Muniz, Tony Oursler, Jim Shaw, James Siena, Laurie Simmons, Kiki Smith and Haim Steinbach. Rosenberg's contribution to the collaboration is her technically playful style-the photographs are often digitally manipulated to create an array of surreal and humorous effects. This volume draws a compelling parallel between childhood play and the work of the adult artists. Also included are texts by artists Dan Graham, Mike Kelley and Nicolàs Guagnini.

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