Writing design : words and objects /
Contributor(s): Lees-Maffei, Grace.
Publisher: London ; New York : Berg Publishers, 2012Edition: English ed.Description: xiv, 259 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781847889553 (pbk.); 9781847889553:; 1847889557 (pbk.); 9781847889560 (hardback); 1847889565 (hardback).Subject(s): Communication in design | Design -- Philosophy | Design -- Terminology | Graphic design -- Philosophy | Design -- AuthorshipDDC classification: 741.6Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1. Righting design: on the reforming role of design criticism : Writing about stuff: the peril and promise of design history and ciriticism / Jeffrey L. Meikle-- Design criticism and social responsibility: the Flemish design critic K.-N. Elno (1920-1993) / Fredie Floré -- The metamorphosis of a Norwegian design magazine: nye bonytt, 1968-1971 / Kjetil Fallan -- Writing contemporary design into history / Stephen Hayward -- Part 2. Mediations: between design and consumption : Thinking in metaphor: figurative conceptualizing in John Evelyn's Diary and John Ruskin's Stones of Venice / Anne Hultzch -- Regulating the body in army manuals and trade guides: the design of the First World War khaki service dress / Jane Tynan -- 'Vita' glass and the discourse of modern culture / John Stanislav Sadar -- Lewis Mumford's Lever House: writing a 'house of glass' / Ann Sobiech Munson -- Part 3. Designing with and through language : Judging a book by its cover: or does modernist form follow function? / Polly Cantlon and Alice Lo -- Reading details: Caruso St. John and the poetic intent of construction documents / Mhairi McVicar -- Applying oral sources: design historian, practitioner and participant / Chae Ho Lee -- Fluid typography: construction, metamorphosis and revelation / Barbara Brownie -- Part 4. Showing as telling: on design beyond text : Showing architecture through exhibitions: a taxonomical analysis of the first Venice Architecture Biennale (1980) / Léa-Catherine Szacka -- Design as a language without words: A.G. Fronzoni / Gabriele Oropallo -- On the legal protection of design: things and words about them / Stina Teilmann-Lock -- Text-led and object-led research paradigms: doing without words / Michael Biggs and Daniela Büchler.
Bringing together a wide range of scholars and practitioners, 'Writing Design' reveals the difficulties, ethics and politics of writing about design.