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Virgil Abloh. Nike. ICONS

80Edizione: IngleseDisponibilità: Disponibile
Dalle Air Jordan 1 alle Air Presto, Nike e Virgil Abloh hanno reinventato la cultura delle sneakers con il progetto The Ten. Sperimenta l’ingegno e lo stile progettuale di Abloh: ogni scarpa è un pezzo di design industriale e una scultura pronta all'uso. La rilegatura di ICONS presenta un dorso aperto, che riflette la filosofia di design di Abloh.
Hardcover, Swiss binding with open spine10.0 x 11.7 in.4.60 lb352 pagine
Virgil Abloh. Nike. ICONS

Virgil Abloh. Nike. ICONS

80

The Sneaker as (Hyper)Object

Nike and Virgil Abloh reinvigorated 10 icons of sneaker history

In 2016, sportswear manufacturer Nike and fashion designer Virgil Abloh joined forces to create a sneaker collection celebrating 10 of the Oregon-based company’s most iconic shoes. With their project The Ten—which reimagined icons like Air Jordan 1, Air Max 90, Air Force 1, and Air Presto, among others—they reinvigorated sneaker culture.

Virgil Abloh’s designs offer deep insights into engineering ingenuity and burst with cultural cachet. Drawing on the genius of the original shoe using lettering, ironic labels, collage, and sculpting techniques, Abloh played with language and sculptural elements to construct new meaning. Inspired by the wit of Dadaism, architectural theory, and avant-garde happenings, he analyzed what makes each shoe iconic and deconstructed it into an artistic assemblage, making each shoe into a piece of industrial design, a readymade sculpture, and a wearable all at once.

ICONS traces Abloh’s investigative, creative process through documentation of the prototypes, original text messages from Abloh to Nike designers, and treasures from the Nike archives. We find Swooshes sliced away from Air Jordans and reapplied with tape or thread, Abloh’s typical text fragments in quotation marks on Air Force 1, and All Stars cut into pieces. We take a look behind the scenes and witness Abloh’s DIY approach, which gave each model in the Off-WhiteTM c/o Nike collection its own unique touch. His deconstructive vocabulary is reflected in the Swiss binding, which showcases an open spine and discloses the production of the book.

The book documents Abloh’s cooperative way of working and reaffirms the power of print. For its design Nike and Abloh partnered with the acclaimed London-based design studio Zak Group. Together they conceived a two-part compendium, equal parts catalog and conceptual toolbox. The first part of the book presents a visual culture of sneakers while a lexicon in the second part defines the key people, places, objects, ideas, materials, and scenes from which the project grew. Texts by Nike’s Nicholas Schonberger, writer Troy Patterson, curator and historian Glenn Adamson, and Virgil Abloh himself frame the collaborative work within fashion and design history. A foreword by Hiroshi Fujiwara places the project within the historical continuum of Nike collaborators.
L'autore

Virgil Abloh (1980–2021) was a multi-hyphenate creative that often rejected classification on creativity. He operated in the realms of Art, Design, and Culture in conjunction with advocacy, mentoring, and philanthropy in the spaces he occupied. After earning a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he completed a master’s degree in Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago. At IIT, while studying a Bauhaus design curriculum devised by Mies van der Rohe, Abloh began to craft the principles of his broader art practice. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presented a major traveling survey of Abloh’s work in summer 2019—one of the highest attended exhibitions in the museum’s history. Abloh was the Chief Creative Director and founder of Off-White™️ and from 2018 to 2021 Men’s Artistic Director at Louis Vuitton.

Virgil Abloh. Nike. ICONS
Hardcover, Swiss binding with open spine25.5 x 29.7 cm2.09 kg352 pagine

ISBN 978-3-8365-8509-5

Edizione: Inglese
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36 Valutazioni

Una garanzia. Bellissimo libro

Giancarlo,28 ottobre 2021
Bellissimo libro. l'ho regalato ma non ho potuto resistere a dargli una veloce lettura.

Erik H.,18 settembre 2023
Fast delivery and very well packed.

Perfect customer service

Anonymous,10 gennaio 2022
My fault, not TASCHEN: I'm not sure if this will get posted, but a few days ago I left a bad review, not because of the content, but because of what I perceived as a flaw in the binding. I was completely wrong and ignorant on different binding methods. So I would like to apologize and let everyone know, it was totally my fault, not Taschen's. In fact, their reply was quick and non judgmental, considering they were replying to an idiot.

Excelente libro sobre la historia de cada modelo

David,22 dicembre 2021
Un libro muy completo, con un análisis de cada uno de los modelos que incluye. Buenas descripciones y bocetos de cada modelo. Muy recomendable si eres un apasionado de las zapatillas.

Schönes Buch, tolle Gestaltung

Christian,10 dicembre 2021
Das Bucht besticht durch die hochwertige Verarbeitung und grafische Gestaltung. Die Fotografien sind ebenfalls toll, jedoch hätte ich mir etwas mehr Informationsgehalt zu den einzelnen Abbildungen und Sneaker gewünscht.

Must have ..

Andreas,30 ottobre 2021
..für Sneaker Fans