An Introduction To Design And Culture

Author : Penny Sparke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351023284
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Design and Culture written by Penny Sparke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Design and Culture provides a comprehensive guide to the changing relationships between design and culture from 1900 to the present day with an emphasis on five main themes: Design and consumption Design and technology The design profession Design theory Design and identities. This fourth edition extends the traditional definition of design as covering product design, furniture design, interior design, fashion design and graphic design to embrace its more recent manifestations, which include service design, user-interface design, co-design, and sustainable design, among others. It also discusses the relationship between design and the new media and the effect of globalisation on design. Taking a broadly chronological approach, Professor Sparke employs historical methods to show how these themes developed through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century and played a role within modernism, postmodernism and beyond. Over a hundred illustrations are used throughout to demonstrate the breadth of design and examples – among them design in Modern China, the work of Apple Computers Ltd., and design thinking – are used to elaborate key ideas. The new edition remains essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of design studies, cultural studies and visual arts.

Author : Penny Sparke
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction To Design And Culture written by Penny Sparke and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1987-06-23 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Penny Sparke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136474099
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Design and Culture written by Penny Sparke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition of An Introduction to Design and Culture has been revised and updated throughout to include issues of globalization, sustainability and digital/interactive design. New for this edition is a chapter which covers key changes in design culture. Design culture has changed dramatically in the 21st century, the designer-hero is now much less in evidence and design has become much more interdisciplinary. Drawing on a wealth of mass-produced artefacts, images and environments including sewing machines, cars, televisions, clothes, electronic and branded goods and exhibitions, author Penny Sparke shows how design has helped to shape and reflect our social and cultural development. This introduction to the development of modern (and postmodern) design is ideal for undergraduate students.

Author : Malcolm Barnard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349269174
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art, Design and Visual Culture written by Malcolm Barnard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1998-09-23 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of our expereince is visual. We obtain most of our information and knowledge through sight, whether from reading books and newspapers, from watching television or from quickly glimpsing road signs. Many of our judgements and decisions, concerning where we live, what we shall drive and sit on and what we wear, are based on what places, cars, furniture and clothes look like. Much of our entertainment and recreation is visual, whether we visit art galleries, cinemas or read comics. This book concerns that visual experience. Why do we have the visual experiences we have? Why do the buildings, cars, products and advertisements we see look the way they do? How are we to explain the existence of different styles of paintings, different types of cars and different genres of film? How are we to explain the existence of different visual cultures? This book begins to answer these questions by explaining visual experience in terms of visual culture. The strengths and weaknesses of traditional means of analysing and explaining visual culture are examined and assessed. Using a wide range of historical and contemporary examples, it is argued that the groups which artists and designers form, the audiences and markets which they sell to, and the different social classes which are produced and reproduced by art and design are all part of the successful explanation and critical evaluation of visual culture.

Author : Ezio Manzini
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026232864X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design, When Everybody Designs written by Ezio Manzini and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of design, both expert and nonexpert, in the ongoing wave of social innovation toward sustainability. In a changing world everyone designs: each individual person and each collective subject, from enterprises to institutions, from communities to cities and regions, must define and enhance a life project. Sometimes these projects generate unprecedented solutions; sometimes they converge on common goals and realize larger transformations. As Ezio Manzini describes in this book, we are witnessing a wave of social innovations as these changes unfold—an expansive open co-design process in which new solutions are suggested and new meanings are created. Manzini distinguishes between diffuse design (performed by everybody) and expert design (performed by those who have been trained as designers) and describes how they interact. He maps what design experts can do to trigger and support meaningful social changes, focusing on emerging forms of collaboration. These range from community-supported agriculture in China to digital platforms for medical care in Canada; from interactive storytelling in India to collaborative housing in Milan. These cases illustrate how expert designers can support these collaborations—making their existence more probable, their practice easier, their diffusion and their convergence in larger projects more effective. Manzini draws the first comprehensive picture of design for social innovation: the most dynamic field of action for both expert and nonexpert designers in the coming decades.

Author : Daniel Christian Wahl
Publisher : Triarchy Press
ISBN 13 : 1909470791
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designing Regenerative Cultures written by Daniel Christian Wahl and published by Triarchy Press. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a ‘Whole Earth Catalog’ for the 21st century: an impressive and wide-ranging analysis of what’s wrong with our societies, organizations, ideologies, worldviews and cultures – and how to put them right. The book covers the finance system, agriculture, design, ecology, economy, sustainability, organizations and society at large.

Author : Penny Sparke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An introduction to design and culture in the twentieth century written by Penny Sparke and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Prasad Boradkar
Publisher : Berg Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781845204266
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designing Things written by Prasad Boradkar and published by Berg Publishers. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When and why did the turntable morph from playback device to musical instrument? Why have mobile phones evolved changeable skins? How many meanings can one attach to such mundane things as tennis balls? The answers to such questions illustrate this provocative book, which examines the cultural meanings of things and the role of designers in their design and production. Designing Things provides the reader with a map of the rapidly changing field of design studies, a subject which now draws on a diverse range of theories and methodologies - from philosophy and visual culture, to anthropology and material culture, to media and cultural studies. With clear explanations of key concepts - such as form language, planned obsolescence, object fetishism, product semantics, consumer value and user needs - overviews of theoretical foundations and case studies of historical and contemporary objects, Designing Things looks behind-the-scenes and beneath-the-surface at some of our most familiar and iconic objects. Click here to visit the companion website!

Author : Antoine Picon
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 9783034602594
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Culture in Architecture written by Antoine Picon and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s explosive developments in digital technology have also affected architecture and the urban landscape. The new possibilities opened up by digital simulation have led to an increasingly strategic approach to planning, an approach based on generating scenarios, which thus represents a radical departure from traditional planning. From the preliminary sketch all the way to the production of individual building components, digital tools offer new possibilities that were still inconceivable just a few years ago. This volume provides a profound introduction to the important role of digital technologies in design and execution. In four chapters, the author systematically examines the influence of digital culture on architecture but also on the urban landscape as well as product design. The relationship of digital architecture to the city is also an important focus.

Author : Guy Julier
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Design written by Guy Julier and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at students of design studies, design history, cultural studies and sociology, this book offers an overview of design practice in contemporary culture and society. It investigates the interactions of design producers and consumers. It includes a series of illustrative case studies.