Sketchbook: The Industrial Design of Oscar Tusquets Blanca assembles five decades of product sketches from one of Spain's most singular creative figures, tracing a design intelligence that moves from Barcelona's Gauche Divine movement through post-modernism and into the present.
About This Book
Produced in the format of the actual sketchbooks Tusquets has long favoured, this publication is at once an archive and an intimate portrait of a working method. The product sketches gathered here — spanning the 1970s to the present day — reveal a designer whose practice has never separated craft from wit, or rigour from personality. Tusquets draws from classical sources and post-modern sensibility in equal measure, filtering both through a figurative, often humorous sensibility that distinguishes his industrial design from the anonymity that characterises so much of the field. For students of Spanish design history in particular, this is primary material: a first-hand account of a creative process that shaped an era.
Key Features
- 220 pages of product sketches spanning five decades of industrial design practice
- Published by Apartamento, ISBN 9788409182688
What You'll Discover
- How Tusquets's design thinking evolved from the cultural milieu of Barcelona's Gauche Divine movement through to contemporary practice
- The role of the hand-drawn sketch as a tool for working through both formal and conceptual problems in industrial design
- The intersection of classical reference and post-modern sensibility in Tusquets's product vocabulary
- A historical record of Spanish design across a half-century, as seen through the working drawings of one of its central figures
About the Author
Oscar Tusquets Blanca is a Barcelona-based architect, industrial designer, painter, sculptor, and writer whose career has spanned multiple creative disciplines. In 1964 he co-founded Studio Per, a practice that became influential in shaping Spanish architecture and design. His work is distinguished by a commitment to the figurative and an irreverent wit that runs across all disciplines.
Specifications
- Format: Spiral bound softcover
- Pages: 220
- Dimensions: 297 x 210mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9788409182688
- Publisher: Apartamento
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Industrial designers, architects, and design historians interested in Spanish design history, the post-modern movement, and the creative process as revealed through original working sketches.