Smart Works - Design and the Handmade

Looks at the work of over forty designers from Australia and New Zealand who are exploring the industrial production of their work while maintaining the integrity of the 'handmade', often combining traditional skills with new designing and manufacturing technologies. Three essays by Grace Cochrane, Ewan McEoin and Douglas Lloyd Jenkins provide historical, conceptual, regional and economic frameworks to understand this shift in the making process for individual designers. Beautifully illustrated, Smart Works will appeal to anyone who is interested in contemporary design....