Design and Designing: A Critical Introduction - Softcover

Bloomsbury

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847885764 ISBN 13: 9781847885760

Publisher: Berg Publishers, 2012

Synopsis

Design and Designing provides a broad and critical understanding of what is essentially a practical subject. Designing today is less a craft and more a part of the knowledge economy. It's all about knowing how to acquire knowledge and how to apply it creatively. Design and Designing covers the design process, modelling and drawing, working with clients, production and consumption, sustainability, professional practice and design futures. Chapters are written by expert teachers and practitioners from around the globe, each presenting an accessible and engaging overview of their field of design. Every chapter is highly illustrated with a combination of images and information boxes, which extend or highlight key material. Each section concludes with a design project, a hands-on activity for the reader. Design and Designing covers the full spectrum of design types, from graphic communication to product design, from fashion to games design, setting every type in its aesthetic, ethical and social contexts. With this essential book, readers will learn from today's best practice and best thinking in design, they will develop a critical sense, and become the designers of tomorrow.

About this title

About the Author

Steve Garner has led some of the UK's most innovative and popular design courses, most recently as Professor of Design at The Open University, UK. Chris Evans has 20 years' design and management experience with major companies and leads the teaching of Design at Aston University, Birmingham, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847885764
• ISBN 13: 9781847885760
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512
• Editor: Steve Garner, Chris Evans