Tools 06: To Blow is an issue of the bilingual annual magazine devoted to craft, design and industrial technique, this time organised around a single gesture: blowing.
About This Book
Each issue of Tools takes an everyday action and follows it through workshops, factories and cultures. Here the subject is air in motion—breath, wind and lungs, but also pneumatics, musical instruments, birds, balloons, glassblowing and inflatable structures. The editors play on the many meanings of the English verb to open the theme out from the technical to the playful and the cultural.
Running through the issue is a quieter argument about air itself: as a working material for makers, as a medium for play and as something increasingly fragile in an age of pollution and climate change.
Key Features
- Themed issue examining blowing as a technique, a material practice and a cultural force
- Contributions from writers, researchers and makers including Célia Houdart, Lilian Froger and Camille Azaïs
- Generously illustrated large-format edition
- Parallel English and French texts
- Graphic design by Malou Messien
What You'll Discover
- How breath and compressed air shape crafts such as glassblowing and instrument making
- The engineering and poetics of inflatable structures
- Pneumatic technologies and their place in industrial design
- Air as a medium for play, from balloons to birds in flight
- Reflections on breathing in a polluted and warming world
About the Editor
Clémentine Berry edits this issue of Tools, gathering writers, researchers and makers around the single gesture of blowing.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Dimensions: 210 × 300 mm
- Pages: 248
- Language: English and French
- ISBN: 9791098485909
- Publisher: Les presses du réel
Perfect For: Designers, makers and craft practitioners, readers of independent design magazines and anyone curious about the hidden technical life of everyday gestures.