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Du Sens dans l’Utile

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Du Sens dans l'Utile explores the innovative collaborations between designers and companies, revealing how utilitarian objects are now expected to carry meaningful identities. As society evolves, products must satisfy cultural needs and embody more than just functionality, prompting CEOs to embrace design as a strategic and cultural asset.

The book highlights eight case studies where companies partner creatively with architects and designers, emphasising the importance of design in shaping the objects that surround us and the environment we inhabit.
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This insightful volume is ideal for readers interested in design, business innovation, and cultural trends within the arts and manufacturing sectors. It will appeal to professionals and students seeking to understand the evolving role of creativity and meaning in the development of everyday utilitarian products.

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Du Sens dans l’Utile explores the pairing of designers with companies, bringing to light the innovative creation that emerges from this encounter.

It is now necessary for utilitarian objects to have meaning. Our society is undergoing profound transformations that are leading CEOs to take into account the need for products to have an identity.

Objects now have to play more than one role; they have to satisfy a cultural need. Today, economic success faces challenges and requires new attitudes.

Companies see themselves as taking on an educational and cultural role. They create the objects that make up our environment. It is vital for them to collaborate with architects and designers who are able to think of objects differently and to give them meaning.

Du Sens dans l’Utile sheds light on the relationship between eight companies and designers. Rather than elaborating a theory, it highlights a state of affairs and focuses on the key role of creativity in companies.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9782370740632

Publisher: Editions Skira Paris

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 October 2018

Country: France

Imprint: Editions Skira Paris

Illustration: Illustrated in colour and black and white with maps

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 230.0mm

Height: 310.0mm

Weight: 1320g

Pages: 228

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