Essays about: "plasticks"

Found 1 essay containing the word plasticks.

  1. 1. Giving the Toaster Eyes : Applied Anthropomorphism and its Influences on User-Object Relations with Everyday Objects

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Marissa Frayer; [2010]
    Keywords : plasticks; inanimates; visual culture; design; anthropomorphism; care; ornament; attachment; user-object relationship; interaction; phenomenology; embodiment; Merleau-Ponty; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : Anthropomorphism, or the attribution of human characteristics and attributes to nonhuman objects, is evidenced in the design world, especially in product lines by companies such as Alessi and Koziol. As case studies, this thesis investigates Fred Flare’s Inanimates and Jenny Lundgren’s Plasticks, both of which are sheets of stickers that feature cartoonish facial features like eyes and mouths. READ MORE