A tie-in to major exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art offers a comprehensive survey of the new fluidity of modern design, a style that emphasizes a turn away from hard edges and angles to celebrate an amorphic, organic, and curvaceous design.

Product Description: In the past decade, designers have become increasingly engaged with the quotidian. This shift away from more strictly formal and functional concerns has allowed them to freely explore design's contexts and effects. A light that responds to silence, a table that knows where it is, a pig farm the size of a skyscraper, a coat that becomes a tent, a house that fits in your pocket--these projects by innovators in the field of design question the habitual, transform the commonplace, alter our notions of dwelling and blur the boundaries between form and function...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Try this shoe on for size! Over two hundred elegant, one-of-a-kind creations that put the foot to conventional concepts of footwear.