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"Design Studies: A Reader" is the ideal entry point for any student who wants to understand the many complex roles of design - as process, product, function, symbol, and use. Reflecting the diverse range of perspectives on design, the reader brings together over 70 key texts. The essays are presented in themed sections covering history, methods, theory, visuality, identity, consumption, labor, industrialization, new technology, sustainability, and globalization. Each section is separately introduced and each concluded with a guide to further reading. In addition, a final section of specially commissioned essays analyzes 10 seminal designs of the 20th Century, from Helvetica to the cell phone. Bringing together the best classic and contemporary writing, "Design Studies: A Reader" will be invaluable to all students of Design as well as to students of Architecture, Art, Material Culture and Sociology. Authors of this title include: Theodor Adorno, Arjun Appadurai, Reyner Banham, Jean Baudrillard, Zygmunt Bauman, Pierre Bourdieu, Cheryl Buckley, Michel de Certeau, Margaret Crawford, Arthur C. Danto, Adrian Forty, Michel Foucault, Buckminster Fuller, Paul du Gay, Erving Goffman, Donna Haraway, Dick Hebdige, John Chris Jones, Guy Julier, Naomi Klein, Ezio Manzini, Victor Margolin, Karl Marx, Daniel Miller, Victor Papanek, Nikolaus Pevsner, John Styles, John Walker.
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'A book that works for students or anyone else with the slightest interest in design.'
--New York Daily News (January 2010)
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An extraordinarily valuable resource for students in all areas of Design.
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- PublisherBerg Publishers
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1847882366
- ISBN 13 9781847882363
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages608
- EditorHazel Clark, David Brody
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