Background
On February 6, 1852, C. Lloyd Morgan was born in London.
( World's Fairs and International Exhibitions have always...)
World's Fairs and International Exhibitions have always had a political as well as a commercial and cultural context. This was particularly true during the Cold War between America and the Soviet Union. Jack Masey served with the United States Information Agency from 1951 to 1979, for many years as Director of Design. He commissioned numerous American architects and designers including R. Buckminster Fuller, Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Peter Blake, Ivan Chermayeff and Thomas Geismar to design the US presence at major world Expos including Expo '67 in Montreal and Expo '70 in Osaka. This important new book draws on Masey's recollections, recently declassified documents, unpublished memoirs and photographs, interviews with surviving members of U.S. design teams, and others, to detail the significant role played by architects and designers in shaping America's image during the cultural Cold War.
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(The selection for this edition of the International Trade...)
The selection for this edition of the International Trade Fair Stand Annual mirrors some of the trends of global business, with the inclusion of stands from Japan, China and Thailand, marking the growing importance of the Eastern market. The USA and Europe, as always, are also well re-presented. The paradox remains that while technological change is devising increasing numbers of virtual modes of communication, the exhibition stand remains a core element in the business, branding and marketing strategy of so many companies. Conway Lloyd Morgan is Programme Leader in New Media Publishing at the University of Wales, Newport, and the author of numerous books and monographs on design and architecture.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ... most part through the intervention of the automatic mechanism. It is also well known that the functional activity of any part is enhanced, within normal and natural limits, by increased blood supply. And though as a rule, in most people, the regulation of the calibre of the blood capillaries is not in the least degree subject to conscious control, it is at least physiologically conceivable that there are in the cerebral cortex control centres for the vascular supply of the sensory centres within the hemispheres, and that through them the activity of the centres may be increased, and the ideas therein rendered more vivid and lasting. There is at present no definite evidence that this is the case. Is there, then, any control of the cerebral hemispheres over the activity of their own sensory centres? We shall do well, perhaps, to regard the matter from the psychical side, and in doing so we must bear in mind how states of consciousness are determined. Let us represent the states of consciousness in three successive moments, thus:--Then, supposing that A b ( &c. represents the total psychical content of the wave of consciousness in the first moment, this represents also the me of empirical psychology in that moment. But A b ( &c. of moment i determines (subject to the qualifications given in a previous chapter, p. 82) C b d &c. of moment 2, which constitutes the empirical me of that moment. Similarly, C b d &c. of moment 2 determines D c m &c. of moment 3; and so on throughout any given series of moments of consciousness. In other words, it is the empirical / which constantly determines the sequence of ideas. That same psychical /, which takes effect through the control centres on the motor activities of the body, takes effect also through ...
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(This new volume, which draws on an international selectio...)
This new volume, which draws on an international selection of entries from a great number of countries, testifies to innovation in the planning and management of events, as well as offering professional designers, event managers and the fair-going public a range of visual delights and exhibited inspirations. To research this work, design journalist and insider Conway Lloyd Morgan visited the most significant trade fairs, examining small and large trade fair stands in Detroit, Bologna, Paris, Amsterdam, Basel, Berlin, Munich, Hanover, Frankfurt, Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles, Tokyo, among others.
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Werner Sobek is an engineer. An intelligent and gifted engineer, a specialist in lightweight structures, in using fabric where others would pour concrete, in letting glass float where others would frame it in steel. He is an architect as well. And he has worked with some of the most important architects around - Helmut Jahn, Christoph Ingenhoven, Dominique Perrault, Hans Hollein, to name but a few.
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From New York's famous Paramount Hotel to the official apartments of former French president Francios Mitterand, Philippe Starck's designs are as popular and as well-known as they are ubiquitous. You can stay in a Starck hotel in New York, Miami or London; you can mail-order a Starck design for a rural cottage; and you can buy a Starck motorcycle, a Starck lamp, or a Starck toothbrush. Filled with photographs, descriptions, and Starck's own commentary, this book features his recent and current work in architectural and industrial design, including the forthcoming Covent Garden Hotel in London.
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Since his stunning Institut du Monde Arabe opened in Paris in 1987, French architect Jean Nouvel has designed widely published buildings throughout Europe. This superbly illustrated volume--the first book to be published on Nouvel since the establishment of his new firm, Architectures Jean Nouvel--features approximately twenty-five built and forthcoming projects, including his most important commission to date: his Concert Hall in Lucerne, Switzerland, scheduled to open in August 1998.
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International Design Yearbook 12 presents an international collection of the five major areas of domestic design -- furniture, lighting, tableware, textiles, and products -- created over the past year by both well-known designers and new talent. Internationally acclaimed designer Philippe Starck made this year's selection. Starck's interest in confronting established ideas as much as solving design problems leads him to an innovative and original view of the best design around the world. The challenges of new technology, recycling, and designing for the mass media are just some of the themes highlighted by this year's designs.Starck's selection emphasizes the need to reinvent design -- to reduce the design problem to a solution rather than a form. In addition to focusing on artists with an individual vision, those interested in recycling and reuse, technologists, and others. Starck highlights another category that he terms les anonymes plus -- designs that have minimal forms and decoration and are often meant for the mass market. Their anonymous character makes them appropriate for a wide variety of uses to meet the needs of society today.This volume includes full technical data for each object, designers' biographies, a list of suppliers and their addresses, and an update of design acquisitions at major international museums.
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I'm the urban spaceman, baby, I could fly, I'm a supersonic guy I'm the urban spaceman, baby, I'm making out, I'm all about I wake up every morning with a smile upon my face My natural exuberance spills out all over the place I'm the urban spaceman, I'm intelligent and clean, Know what I mean? These words (from Neil Innes's hit lyric for the Bonzo Dog Doodah Band in 1968) could be describing the designer Marc Newson. Born in Sydney in 1964, and now with offices in Paris and London, Newson has flown supersonically (in a Mig 29 fighter aircraft) and has built a sky-high reputation for cool and original design, whether in furniture, interiors or products. His 021C concept car for Ford wowed the Tokyo Motor Show, Madonna shimmied around his Lockheed Lounge couch in her video Rain, and his restaurant in New York's famous Lever building opened in spring 2002. In moving from Sydney to London, via Paris and Tokyo, Marc Newson has brought with him the vivid excitement of Australian popular and beach culture, and refined and developed it through a passionate interest in materials and technology. The result is a body of work shot through with intelligence and wit, urbanity and color which has been delighting the design world for a decade, and is set to charm the rest of the world in the future. For Newson has made the magic transition from a craft designer working in the important but small world of specialist furniture and lighting such as Flos and Alessi, to working for major international industrial clients, such as Ford and Nike. And so unlike Innes's urban spaceman ('here comes the twist-- I don't exist') Marc Newson is here to stay.
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Atelier Br ckner brings the language of the theatre to their design vocabulary. Based in Stuttgart, their recent work features the CycleBowl event at Hanover 2000, the Titanic exhibition and stands for Kodak and Panasonic. Current projects include the new Archaeological Museum in Herne and the Borders project for EXPO 2002. Their inclusive approach to design is based on the concept of "form follows content."
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On February 6, 1852, C. Lloyd Morgan was born in London.
He attended the Royal School of Mines in London, the Royal College of Science, and the University of Bristol, receiving doctorates in science and in law.
He taught for five years at the Diocesan College in Rondesbosch, South Africa. On his return to England in 1884 he joined the University of Bristol as professor of geology and zoology, and three years later he became principal. In 1910 he assumed the chair of psychology and ethics. One of the major problems raised by Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was that of animal psychology. There was need for a continuity based on similarities between different animal forms, including similarities between man and the animals. At that time workers dealing with animal behavior ascribed complex and complicated humanlike motivations to the behavior of the nonhuman animals they observed, tending to "read" animal behavior motivations that were in the workers' minds but not necessarily in the minds of the animals they observed. This was called the anthropomorphic or anthropopsychic interpretation of animal behavior. These early workers also relied on reports of animal behavior from untrained and uncritical observers. Imagination and superstition distorted their accounts. This careless way of collecting information, relying on stories instead of establishing criteria to distinguish fact from fancy, was called the anecdotal method. It was to these two offenses against scientific accuracy and integrity that Morgan addressed himself. Somewhat unjustly he singled out George John Romanes, a friend of Darwin, as a primary target. Romanes, who coined the phrase "comparative psychology, " attributed to animals as much intelligence as their acts would justify. His Animal Intelligence (1882) was the first comparative psychology ever written. Morgan reacted against Romanes in Animal Life and Intelligence (1890 - 1891), later revised and retitled Animal Behavior (1900); he held that "one should, in such a situation, attribute as little intelligence as their acts would justify. " In his best-known work, Introduction to Comparative Psychology (1894), Morgan sought to counteract the errors inherent in the anecdotal method, particularly the error of anthropopsychic interpretation. He derived this "law of parsimony" from William of Ockham's razor. Considered by some to be of little value as a scientific tool, Morgan's canon had some validity in offsetting a bias of interpretation. He used it as a corrective to the inaccuracies resulting from the twin evils of anthropopsychic interpretation and the anecdotal method, as exemplified in Romanes's works. In his Gifford Lectures he expounded his philosophy of emergent evolution, basing the books Emergent Evolution (1923) and Life, Mind and Spirit (1926) on them. Mind at the Crossroads (1929) and The Emergence of Novelty (1933) followed.
On March 6, 1936, Morgan died at Hastings, England.
Conwy Lloyd Morgan was one of the first to consistently apply the experimental method in observing animal behavior. To interpret animal behavior he formulated his "law of parsimony. " In 1920 Morgan became emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Bristol. He was the first person honored by the Royal Society for scientific work in psychology.
( I'm the urban spaceman, baby, I could fly, I'm a supers...)
(This new volume, which draws on an international selectio...)
(International Design Yearbook 12 presents an internationa...)
(The selection for this edition of the International Trade...)
( From New York's famous Paramount Hotel to the official ...)
( Since his stunning Institut du Monde Arabe opened in Pa...)
( World's Fairs and International Exhibitions have always...)
(Atelier Br ckner brings the language of the theatre to th...)
(This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)
(Werner Sobek is an engineer. An intelligent and gifted en...)
As a philosopher or social evolutionist, Morgan was interested in the relation of science to philosophic issues. He felt that it was essential to create a metaphysical system within which the naturalistic demonstration of evolution might be placed. He believed that there was one continuous process called evolution, which at irregular intervals was interrupted by discontinuities or critical turning points. These points are distinguished by the abrupt appearance of "emergents. " Successive emergents progress evolutionarily as a "pyramidal scheme. " This evolution is jumpy rather than uniformly continuous. The emergence of consciousness, he believed, came about not by design or plan but by chance.
Quotations:
"In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale. "
"In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal] as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale. "
"The primary aim, object, and purpose of consciousness is control. Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary epiphenomenon. "
