Design studies : a reader / edited by Hazel Clark and David Brody.

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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 seventy 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 concludes with a guide to further reading. In addition, a final section of specially commissioned essays analyzes ten seminal designs of the twentieth 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 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, and John Walker.

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• General Introduction
• Section I History Of Design
• Section Introduction I.1 Design Histories
• Part Introduction
• 1 Pioneers of Modern Design
• 2 Design, Designers and the Literature of Design
• 3 Early Modern Design in Hong Kong
• 4 Modernity and Postmodernity from Cuba
• I.2 Design History As A Discipline
• Part Introduction
• 5 Design History and Design Studies
• 6 Defining the Object of Study
• 7 FORM/female Follows Function/male
• 8 The State of Design History as a Discipline Annotated Guide to Further Reading
• Section II Design Thinking
• Section Introduction II.1 Design Philosophies And Theories
• Part Introduction
• 9 Speculative Prehistory of Humanity
• 10 JWhat is Designing?
• 11 Designing Engineers
• 12 Success and Failure in Design
• 13 Wicked Problems in Design Thinking
• II.2 Design Research
• Part Introduction
• 14 Understanding the Natural and Artificial Worlds
• 15 Designing Rules, Types and Worlds
• 16 Discovery Research
• II: 3 Design Communications
• Part Introduction
• 17 The Division of Pictorial Publicity in World War I
• 18 Globalizing Corporate Identity in Hong Kong
• 19 Kmartha Annotated Guide to Further Reading
• Section III Theorizing Design And Visuality
• Section Introduction III.1 Aesthetics
• Part Introduction
• 20 Aesthetics and the Work of Art
• 21 Design and Environment
• 22 Taking it with You
• III.2 Ethics
• Part Introduction
• 23 In the Beginning was Design
• 24 Ethical Design Education
• 25 First Things First 2000
• 26 Ethics in Design: 10 Questions
• III.3 Politics
• Part Introduction
• 27 The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof
• 28 The Aesthetic Sense and the Sense of Distinction
• 29 No Logo
• 30 Subculture and Style
• 31 Incendiary Devices
• 32 Design and Democracy
• III.4 Material Culture And Social Interactions
• Part Introduction
• 33 Mind in Matter
• 34 The Artefact as Manufactured Object
• 35 Panopticism
• 36 Walking in the City
• 37 The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Annotated Guide to Further Reading
• Section IV Identity And Consumption
• Section Introduction IV.1 Virtual Identity And Design
• Part Introduction
• 38 A Cyborg Manifesto
• 39 Introducing Cybernetic Systems
• 40 Get a Life
• 41 American Apparel
• IV.2 Gender And Design
• Part Introduction
• 42 Made in Patriarchy
• 43 Life on the Global Assembly Line
• 44 The Difference of Female Design
• IV.3 Consumption
• Part Introduction
• 45 Technology and Consumption
• 46 Quaintness
• 47 Do-It-Yourself Security
• 48 Critique of Commodity Aesthetics
• 49 Fashioning Uniqueness: Mass-Customization and Commodization of Identity Annotated Guide to Further Reading
• Section V Labor, Industrialization And New Technology
• Section Introduction V.1 Labor And The Production Of Design
• Part Introduction
• 50 Manufacturing Consumption and Design
• 51 Paul du Gay, et a

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