Overlooking the visual : demystifying the art of design /
By: Moore, Kathryn.
Publisher: Abingdon : Routledge, 2010Description: xiii, 254 p. : ill. (some col.), maps. ; 23 cm.Content type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415308694; 9780415308694:; 0415308690; 9780415308700; 0415308704; 9780203167656; 0203167651.Subject(s): Design | Design -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 745.401 Summary: Connecting the theory of design to its practice, this book encourages rigorous debate about the artistic, conceptual, and cultural significance of the way things look. It challenges the traditional foundations of design theory making it interesting reading for professionals and students in the architecture and design fields.Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 745.401 MOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Lost Checked out | 31/08/2021 | 0075375 |
Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-243) and indexes. - Introduction -- The sensory interface and other myths and legends -- Teaching the unknowable -- Aesthetics: the truth, the whole truth and universal truth -- Objectivity without neutrality -- Studied ignorance -- Seeing is believing -- Theory into practice.
Connecting the theory of design to its practice, this book encourages rigorous debate about the artistic, conceptual, and cultural significance of the way things look. It challenges the traditional foundations of design theory making it interesting reading for professionals and students in the architecture and design fields.