The Idea of Design: A Design Issues Reader
Language: English
Published by MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1995
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xxii, 285 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. *** "An anthology of essays addressing the nature and practice of contemporary product and graphic design, selected from volumes four through nine of the international journal Design Issues. Themes include reflections on the nature of design, the meaning of products, and the place of design in world culture. Includes b&w photos and illustrations." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Wicked problems in design thinking, by Richard Buchanan; Avatars of design: design before design, by Yves Deforge; Moholy-Nagy's design pedagogy in Chicago (1937-1946), by Alain Findeli; Graphic design: fine art or social science?, by Jorge Frascara; The future isn't what it used to be, by Victor Papanek; Sketching and the psychology of design, by Rudolf Arnheim; Myth and maturity: toward a new order in the decade of design, by Richard Buchanan; Semiotics in architecture and industrial/product design, by Martin Krampen; Shaping belief: the role of audience in visual communication, by Ann C. Tyler; The power of punctuation, by Martin Solomon; Design and order in everyday life, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi; Product symbolism of Gandhi and its connection with Indian mythology, by S. Balaram; The gift, by Clive Dilnot; On the essential contexts of artifacts or on the proposition that "design is making sense (of things)", by Klaus Krippendorf; Design, development, culture, and cultural legacies in Asia, by Rajeshwari Ghose; A geography of power: design history and marginality, by Tony Fry; The development of modern Japanese design: a personal account, by Takuo Hirano; Line, by A. Cheng; Untimely opinions (an attempt to reflect on design), by Gert Selle; The idea of comfort, by Tomas Maldonado; The Design Museum: form follows funding, by Barbara Usherwood; Design and immateriality: what of it in a post industrial society?, by Abraham A. Moles; Expanding the boundaries of design: the product environment and the new user, by Victor Margolin. Size: 8vo.…
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- Title
- The Idea of Design: A Design Issues Reader
- Author
- Margolin, Victor, and Buchanan, Richard (Edited by)
- Publisher
- MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
- Publication year
- 1995
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0262631660
- ISBN 13
- 9780262631662
- Seller catalogs
- Design::Advertising, Design::Fashion & Costume, Design::Furniture, Design::Graphic, Design::Industrial, Design::Packaging, USA::6. Late Modern, 1945-1999, XO::Standard, XXX::COLLECTIBLES
The essays, selected from volumes 4-9 of the international journal Design Issues, focus on three themes: reflection on the nature of design, the meaning of products, and the place of design in world culture.
The Idea of Design is an anthology of essays that addresses the nature and practice of product design and graphic design in the contemporary world. The essays, selected from volumes 4-9 of the international journal Design Issues, focus on three themes: reflection on the nature of design, the meaning of products, and the place of design in world culture. The authors are distinguished scholars, historians, designers, and design educators. The diversity of their work illustrates the pluralistic and interdisciplinary dimensions of the idea of design in contemporary culture.
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Rudolf Arnheim, S. Balaram, Richard Buchanan, A. Cheng, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Yves Deforge, Clive Dilnot, Alain Findeli, Jorge Frascara, Tony Fry, Rajeswari Ghose, Takuo Hirano, Martin Krampen, Laus Krippendorf, Tomas Maldonado, Victor Margolin, Abraham Moles, Victor Papanek, Gert Selle, Ann Tyler, Barbara Usherwood
A Design Issues Reader
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