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Design Studies : A Reader - Hazel Clark

Design Studies

A Reader

By: Hazel Clark (Editor), David Brody (Editor)

Hardcover | 1 September 2010 | Edition Number 1

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Design Studies: A Reader is the ideal entry point for any student who wants to understand the many complex roles of design - as process, product, function, symbol, and use.
Reflecting the diverse range of perspectives on design, the reader brings together over seventy key texts. The essays are presented in themed sections covering history, methods, theory, visuality, identity, consumption, labor, industrialization, new technology, sustainability, and globalization. Each section is separately introduced and each concludes with a guide to further reading. In addition, a final section of specially commissioned essays analyzes ten seminal designs of the twentieth century, from Helvetica to the cell phone.
Bringing together the best classic and contemporary writing, Design Studies: A Reader will be invaluable to all students of Design as well as to students of Architecture, Art, Material Culture, and Sociology.
Authors include: Theodor Adorno, Arjun Appadurai, Reyner Banham, Jean Baudrillard, Zygmunt Bauman, Pierre Bourdieu, Cheryl Buckley, Michel de Certeau, Margaret Crawford, Arthur C Danto, Adrian Forty, Michel Foucault, Buckminster Fuller, Paul du Gay, Erving Goffman, Donna Haraway, Dick Hebdige, John Chris Jones, Guy Julier, Naomi Klein, Ezio Manzini, Victor Margolin, Karl Marx, Daniel Miller, Victor Papanek, Nikolaus Pevsner, John Styles, and John Walker.

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"Incredibly inclusive, this is essential reading for students and teachers of Design Studies in any context. A superlative collection of authoritative contributions from many of the most influential writers on design, past and present." Paul Atkinson, Sheffield Hallam University, UK "The Reader combines new interpretations with influential texts that have shaped Design thinking over the last thirty years. It shows how Design is becoming more complex and how the emerging discipline of Design Studies has risen to this challenge. It will be an essential resource for students." Suzette Worden, Curtin University of Technology, Australia "A critical snapshot of what's vital now in global comparative critical thinking on Design. The clearly structured and framed sets of key essays disclose the full reach and power of the myriad acts of designing that create our realities and, increasingly, narrow our future options." Lisa Norton, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA "The Reader will become a standard reference for the subject. It establishes the field for all those interested in Design and its impact on the contemporary world. The Reader offers an informed overview of ways of engaging with the central themes of Design such as ethics, globalization, identity and gender." Jeremy Aynsley, Royal College of Art, UK "An extraordinarily valuable resource for students in all areas of Design. It opens up endless fields of inquiry and also affirms 'Design Studies' as the only theoretical framework which encompasses all the richness and multiplicity of Design both conceptually and globally." Eduardo Corte-Real, IADE Design School, Portugal

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