The Idea of Design (Design Issues Reader) (The MIT Press)

Margolin, Victor

ISBN 10: 0262631660 / ISBN 13: 9780262631662

Published by MIT Press, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Idea of Design (Design Issues Reader) (The MIT Press)
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262631660
• ISBN 13: 9780262631662
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

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.

Contributors
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

About the Author

Victor Margolin is Associate Professor of Design History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Richard Buchanan is Professor of Design and head of the Department of Design at Carnegie-Mellon University.