Designing with Waste Materials: Craft, Process and Beauty
Autor David Bramstonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 apr 2027
Designing with Waste Materials showcases how discarded, redundant, and surplus materials can transform into a new global design language.
Renowned designer and educator Dave Bramston outlines the art of understanding different materials and unlocking their untapped potential. He challenges the conventional notion of waste, suggesting that rejected materials are often misunderstood rather than inherently inappropriate.
Through engaging global case studies, striking images, and insightful examples, this book offers practical wisdom and inspiration. Experienced practitioners share their knowledge, demonstrating how waste materials can drive creativity and beauty. Designers are empowered to explore diverse material, and learn how experimental play and hands-on exploration can redefine design processes, allowing for unexpected and stunning results.
An essential companion to unleashing creativity, fostering responsibility, and breaking free from the ordinary by embracing the opportunities found by incorporating waste materials into design practice.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1350467960
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: 108 colour figures
Dimensiuni: 189 x 246 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
- Unseen potential: The advantage of a seemingly useless material
- Sourcing the unwanted: Where to find waste materials
- Creative advantages: Hidden opportunities within random materials
- Creative collisions: Combining abstract materials to find originality
- Unlimited selection: The diversity of materials available
- Steering the language: An alternative visual language
- Respecting the unfamiliar: Aligning curiosity with alternative practice
2: Low Carbon Practices: Tools and Time
- An alternative process: Understanding work practices with waste materials
- Low carbon tools: Simplistic tools for creativity
- Lost inspiration: Applying forgotten making traditions
- Keeping it local: A change of perception
- Less rush. More care: Individual connection
- Recognising lateral solutions: Something different
- Eradicating difficulties: Common denominators
3: Experimental Play: Getting Hands Dirty
- Making mistakes: Originality searching
- Material transformation: Revealing beauty
- Question everything: Changing contexts
- Unseen fabrics: Deconstruction assembly
- Hidden details: Shrouded features
- Unexpected: Identifying uniqueness
- Encouraging fantastical: Beyond boundaries
4: Craftsmanship: Care and Attention
- Inspiration in everything: Understanding creative suggestions
- Improbable: Developing the unbelievable
- Creating collections: Multiple uniqueness
- Beauty without resource: Simplicity works
- Continual deconstruction: Rework, rework, rework.
- Surprise and amaze: Unexpected outcomes
- Alternative working practice: Work differently.
5: Summary
Embrace waste materials: Don't waste materials
- Summary
- Summary overview
6: Twenty projects
- Acknowledgments
Recenzii
Notă biografică
Dave Bramston is a British designer and Associate Professor of Design, at the School of Architecture and Design, China University of Mining and Technology. A former leader of undergraduate and postgraduate design programmes in the UK, Bramston engages in idea generation practice at CUMT, and at the associated Muse Atelier Xuzhou studio, with a particular focus on creative curiosity and the exploration of abandoned or rejected materials.
Bramston has created multiple collections using unexpected materials through a process of play, experimentation and adopting an alternative mindset. Works have included knitted clothing collections using factory surplus facemask string, in addition to old Chinese school uniforms becoming lighting solutions. Factory surplus ceramics have been utilised to generate the sounds of traditional musical instruments and Chinese street stools have been transformed to amplify sound. Bramston considers that all materials have endless possibilities and that the materials that are often overlooked in society have so much to offer at all levels.
The outputs generated in the Xuzhou studios are multidisciplinary including fashion, ceramics, industrial, interactive and print. The cross-pollination of disciplines is fundamental to the creative approach and the challenging of conventional boundaries.
Bramston graduated from Wolverhampton Polytechnic and Manchester Polytechnic in the UK prior to working in London based design studios designing for companies such as Christian Dior, Reebok, Swatch and Motorola. Previous books for AVA Bloomsbury have included Idea Generation, Material Thoughts, Visual Conversations, and Idea Searching for Design which are all published in multiple languages