Design meets disability /
By: Pullin, Graham.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009Description: xix, 341 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780262162555 (hc : alk. paper); 9780262162555:; 0262162555.Subject(s): Design -- Human factors | Industrial design | Design, Industrial | Engineering design | Design | Self-help devices for people with disabilitiesDDC classification: 745.2Item 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 | 745.2 PUL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0060209 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-321) and index.
Meetings with designers: Tomoko Azumi meets step stools -- if Philippe Starck met bottom wipers -- if Jasper Morrison met wheelchairs -- Michael Marriot meets wheelchairs -- if Hussein Chalayan met robot arms -- Martin Bone meets prosthetic legs -- if Jonathan Ive met hearing aids -- if Paul Smith met hearing aids -- if Cutler and Gross met hearing aids -- Graphic thought facility meets braille -- if Tord Boontje met braille -- Crispin Jones meets watches for visually impaired people -- if Durrell Bishop met communications aids -- if Julius Popp met communication aids -- Andrew Cook meets communication aids -- if Dunne & Raby met memory aids -- if Stefan Sagmeister met accessibility signage -- Vexed meets wheelchair capes.
Offering examples of how design can meet disability today, Graham Pullin explains how the diversity of complementary - and even contradictory - approaches can enrich each field.