{"product_id":"tools-06-to-blow","title":"Tools 06: To Blow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTools 06: To Blow\u003c\/strong\u003e is an issue of the bilingual annual magazine devoted to craft, design and industrial technique, this time organised around a single gesture: blowing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eAbout This Book\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRunning 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eKey Features\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThemed issue examining blowing as a technique, a material practice and a cultural force\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContributions from writers, researchers and makers including Célia Houdart, Lilian Froger and Camille Azaïs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenerously illustrated large-format edition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eParallel English and French texts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGraphic design by Malou Messien\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWhat You'll Discover\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow breath and compressed air shape crafts such as glassblowing and instrument making\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe engineering and poetics of inflatable structures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePneumatic technologies and their place in industrial design\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAir as a medium for play, from balloons to birds in flight\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReflections on breathing in a polluted and warming world\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Editor\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eClémentine Berry edits this issue of Tools, gathering writers, researchers and makers around the single gesture of blowing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Softcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: 210 × 300 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 248\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: English and French\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eISBN: 9791098485909\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: Les presses du réel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect For:\u003c\/strong\u003e Designers, makers and craft practitioners, readers of independent design magazines and anyone curious about the hidden technical life of everyday gestures.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Les presses du réel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51022838202593,"sku":"9791098485909","price":64.9,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1116\/0464\/files\/Tools_06_To_Blow_cover_9791098485909.jpg?v=1792041409","url":"https:\/\/bookshopbyuro.com\/products\/tools-06-to-blow","provider":"Bookshop by Uro","version":"1.0","type":"link"}