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The idea of design : a "Design issues" reader /

Contributor(s): Margolin, Victor, 1941- | Buchanan, Richard.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press, 1995Description: xxii, 285 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0262631660 (alk. paper); 9780262631662:.Subject(s): DesignDDC classification: 745.4
Contents:
Wicked problems in design thinking / Richard Buchanan -- Avatars of design : design before design / Yves Deforge -- Moholy-Nagy's design pedagogy in Chicago (1937-1946) / Alain Findeli -- Graphic design : fine art or social science? / Jorge Frascara -- The future isn't what it used to be / Victor Papanek -- Sketching and the psychology of design / Rudolf Arnheim -- Myth and maturity : toward a new order in the decade of design / Richard Buchanan -- Semiotics in architecture and industrial/product design / Martin Krampen -- Shaping belief : the role of audience in visual communication / Ann C. Tyler -- The power of punctuation / Martin Solomon -- Design and order in everyday life / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- Product symbolism of Gandhi and its connection with Indian mythology / S. Balaram -- The gift / Clive Dilnot -- On the essential contexts of artifacts or on the proposition that "design is making sense (of things)" / Klaus Krippendorf -- Design, development, culture, and cultural legacies in Asia / Rajeshwari Ghose -- A geography of power : design history and marginality / Tony Fry -- The development of modern Japanese design : a personal account / Takuo Hirano --Line / A. Cheng -- Untimely opinions (an attempt to reflect on design) / Gert Selle -- The idea of comfort / Tomás Maldonado -- The Design Museum : form follows funding / Barbara Usherwood -- Design and immateriality : what of it in a post industrial society? / Abraham A. Moles -- Expanding the boundaries of design : the product environment and the new user / Victor Margolin.
Summary: This anthology addresses the nature and practice of product design and graphic design in the contemporary world. The essays, selected from volumes 4-9 of "Design Issues", focus on three themes: reflection on the nature of design; the meaning of products; and the place of design in world culture.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-282).

Wicked problems in design thinking / Richard Buchanan -- Avatars of design : design before design / Yves Deforge -- Moholy-Nagy's design pedagogy in Chicago (1937-1946) / Alain Findeli -- Graphic design : fine art or social science? / Jorge Frascara -- The future isn't what it used to be / Victor Papanek -- Sketching and the psychology of design / Rudolf Arnheim -- Myth and maturity : toward a new order in the decade of design / Richard Buchanan -- Semiotics in architecture and industrial/product design / Martin Krampen -- Shaping belief : the role of audience in visual communication / Ann C. Tyler -- The power of punctuation / Martin Solomon -- Design and order in everyday life / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- Product symbolism of Gandhi and its connection with Indian mythology / S. Balaram -- The gift / Clive Dilnot -- On the essential contexts of artifacts or on the proposition that "design is making sense (of things)" / Klaus Krippendorf -- Design, development, culture, and cultural legacies in Asia / Rajeshwari Ghose -- A geography of power : design history and marginality / Tony Fry -- The development of modern Japanese design : a personal account / Takuo Hirano --Line / A. Cheng -- Untimely opinions (an attempt to reflect on design) / Gert Selle -- The idea of comfort / Tomás Maldonado -- The Design Museum : form follows funding / Barbara Usherwood -- Design and immateriality : what of it in a post industrial society? / Abraham A. Moles -- Expanding the boundaries of design : the product environment and the new user / Victor Margolin.

This anthology addresses the nature and practice of product design and graphic design in the contemporary world. The essays, selected from volumes 4-9 of "Design Issues", focus on three themes: reflection on the nature of design; the meaning of products; and the place of design in world culture.

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