TY - BOOK

T1 - Verner Panton

T2 - Environments, Colors, Systems, Patterns

AU - Engholm, Ida

AU - Michelsen, Anders Ib

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - The overall approach of this book is a broad historical framing ofVerner Panton’s work, which takes its point of departure in theoreticaland historical ways of articulating various issues – condensed, in thepresent book, into the themes of environments, colours, systems andpatterns. The treatment of Panton’s work reflects a desire not only totrace his wide-ranging output, with its distinctive historical andwork-characteristic features but also to arrive at a structural understandingof problems in his work to enable a contemporary and relevantinterpretation, in part by involving aspects such as Panton’screativity.We regard this book as a contribution to the continuous self-criticalreflection that has been characteristic of practitioners and theorists ofmodern design since the late 1800s, and which plays an importantrole today in so-called design thinking. To paraphrase the French philosopherGilles Deleuze, this book essentially aims at “creating a problem”that renders Panton relevant to contemporary design. The basisof this problem is design after the Second World War.A central point in this book is that Panton’s work over time is engagedin close dialogue with crucial cultural and philosophical insights in theyears following the Second World War, and also that he was a “trailblazer”,not only within the field of professional design but also in abroader historical sense. It seems clear to us that his work – under theconditions for creative expression that characterised the time from the1950s to the 1990s – continues to offer relevant inspiration for currentdaythemes within design research as well as for the professional andcreative contexts that form the settings for young contemporarydesigners.

AB - The overall approach of this book is a broad historical framing ofVerner Panton’s work, which takes its point of departure in theoreticaland historical ways of articulating various issues – condensed, in thepresent book, into the themes of environments, colours, systems andpatterns. The treatment of Panton’s work reflects a desire not only totrace his wide-ranging output, with its distinctive historical andwork-characteristic features but also to arrive at a structural understandingof problems in his work to enable a contemporary and relevantinterpretation, in part by involving aspects such as Panton’screativity.We regard this book as a contribution to the continuous self-criticalreflection that has been characteristic of practitioners and theorists ofmodern design since the late 1800s, and which plays an importantrole today in so-called design thinking. To paraphrase the French philosopherGilles Deleuze, this book essentially aims at “creating a problem”that renders Panton relevant to contemporary design. The basisof this problem is design after the Second World War.A central point in this book is that Panton’s work over time is engagedin close dialogue with crucial cultural and philosophical insights in theyears following the Second World War, and also that he was a “trailblazer”,not only within the field of professional design but also in abroader historical sense. It seems clear to us that his work – under theconditions for creative expression that characterised the time from the1950s to the 1990s – continues to offer relevant inspiration for currentdaythemes within design research as well as for the professional andcreative contexts that form the settings for young contemporarydesigners.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - Verner Panton, design, artificial environments, colors, systems, patterns, phenomenology, poststructuralism, experience society

M3 - Book

BT - Verner Panton

PB - Strandberg Publishing

CY - Copenhagen

ER -