Hybrid

Publication Details Cardboard slip case with paperback inserts, 21 x 30 cm. ISBN: 978-1-86317-220-2

Author and/or Editor name/s Edited by design writer and editor Stephen Todd

Author and/or Editor bio/s Stephen Todd began his writing career in Paris in the early 1990s where his immersion in the worlds of fashion, architecture and design saw him contribute essays to journals of record including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Australian and Le Monde, and magazines including Wallpaper*, Blueprint and American Vogue. In 1998 he launched Numéro magazine, a culture and fashion title which remains an industry benchmark to this day. Returning to Australia in 2010, today he is the Design Editor of the Australian Financial Review, the Creative Director of Sydney Design Week, and consults on communication and branding to architects, designers and institutions.

Year of Publication 2021

Publisher Powerhouse Publishing, Sydney

Abstract Hybrid is a visually compelling, intelligently written compendium investigating hybridity in contemporary design.

The publication showcases nine Hybrid projects, commissioned by the Powerhouse Museum, in which design studios were asked to team up with creatives from disciplines outside their own to devise ‘furniture and objects for future homes’. The selected designers have created objects exploring the rapidly changing global landscape and the pressing issues of our time.

Around this core, essays, interviews, reportage imagery and other documents flesh out the theme of ‘Hybrid’. These include an overview by Powerhouse curator Keinton Butler; essays by Caroline Roux on organic architecture and Dan Thawley on urban farming; and interviews with designers by Guy Keulemans on new materials and Felix Burrichter on hybridity in craft and design.

The Hybrid publication is edited by design writer and editor Stephen Todd, art directed by m/m (paris) using a custom typeface and iconographic family. Striking photographs of the commissions by Zan Wimberley are featured alongside images of the process and drawings of the works.

Hand numbered edition of 500.