Often dissident, sometimes adherent, Nothing About is, in essence, indefinable because it is adaptive and fluid. Speculative or hands-on, this discipline – if we can call it that – displays all the ambivalences of our contemporary lifestyles: superficial and profound, profane and divine, present everywhere and nowhere, and often regarded as futile, even though it could nonetheless destroy the most beautiful of insides. This book brings together a variety of intellectual tools and insights – polysemic and ambiguous, bespoke and improvised, ornamental and criminal, spanning media, technology, the arts and other, often undefined fields – that analyze the impact of the discipline on contemporary design. In the end, what makes Nothing About charming is that this inside – insofar as it is still defined as such – has only the humble ambition of accompanying beings, both animate and inanimate, within their environment, like a friend who is never far away. Introduction by Javier Fernández Contreras. Text contributions by Daniel Zamarbide, Line Fontana & David Fagart, Valentin Dubois & Bertrand Van Dorp, Camille Bagnoud & Ahmed Belkhodja, Javier F. Contreras & Roberto Zancan, Paule Perron, Philippe Rahm, Youri Kravtchenko, Leonid Slonimskiy, Simon Husslein, Vera Sacchetti, Jan Dominik Geipel, Valentina De Luigi, Jean-Pierre Greff. Type: softcover, Swiss bound Squared spine, Coloured threads, 130 mm flapsDimensions: 180 x 260 / 7.08 x 10.23 inchPages: 448ISBN: 978-90-835325-3-0Language: EnglishRelease date: 20260126Paper: Munken Print White 15 in 100 g, Foglia E20 Denim, Fedrigoni, 290g, FSC, PEFCEdition: 1.500Color: 5+5, PMS: 1 (PANTONE Warm Gray 1 U)Printer: BALTO print, UAB, Vilnius (LV)Font: Hal TimezoneImage specs: 286 full color imagesDetails: debossing front cover
