The New Designer: Design as a Profession (Paperback)

Regina Bittner

ISBN 10: 3959057482 / ISBN 13: 9783959057486

Published by Spector Books, Leipzig, 2023

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Paperback. Beyond the Bauhaus school: how international pedagogy influenced design as a careerThis book explores the emergence of the artist and designer profession after the First World War and the further development of this career in close proximity to capitalist industrial production. The book features articles on teaching models pioneered by schools like the Design Laboratory, New York (the first comprehensive school of modernist design in the United States that was open to general enrollment); the School of Arts and Crafts (Skola umeleckych remesiel), Bratislava; the Ulm School of Design (Hochschule fuer Gestaltung Ulm), Germany; and Industrial Design College (Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial), Rio de Janeiro.These texts are accompanied by essays and conversations on design pedagogy's politics, practices and self-understanding. This book is part of the Schools of Departure series, jointly published with a digital atlas that aggregates research on the global interconnections of Bauhaus pedagogy with reform projects in art and design education in the 20th century. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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• Title: The New Designer: Design as a Profession (Paperback)
• Publisher: Spector Books, Leipzig
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3959057482
• ISBN 13: 9783959057486
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Beyond the Bauhaus school: how international pedagogy influenced design as a career

This book explores the emergence of the artist and designer profession after the First World War and the further development of this career in close proximity to capitalist industrial production. The book features articles on teaching models pioneered by schools like the Design Laboratory, New York (the first comprehensive school of modernist design in the United States that was open to general enrollment); the School of Arts and Crafts (Škola umeleckıch remesiel), Bratislava; the Ulm School of Design (Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm), Germany; and Industrial Design College (Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial), Rio de Janeiro.
These texts are accompanied by essays and conversations on design pedagogy’s politics, practices and self-understanding. This book is part of the Schools of Departure series, jointly published with a digital atlas that aggregates research on the global interconnections of Bauhaus pedagogy with reform projects in art and design education in the 20th century.