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The idea of design

Author: Victor Margolin; Richard Buchanan
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press, [1995]
Series: Design issues reader.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Victor Margolin; Richard Buchanan
ISBN: 0262631660 9780262631662
OCLC Number: 32859904
Description: xxii, 285 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Wicked problems in design thinking / Richard Buchanan --
Avatars of design : design before design / Yves Deforge --
Moholy-Nagy's design pedagogy in Chicago (1937-1946) / Alain Findeli --
Graphic design : fine art or social science? / Jorge Frascara --
The future isn't what it used to be / Victor Papanek --
Sketching and the psychology of design / Rudolf Arnheim --
Myth and maturity : toward a new order in the decade of design / Richard Buchanan --
Semiotics in architecture and industrial/product design / Martin Krampen --
Shaping belief : the role of audience in visual communication / Ann C. Tyler --
The power of punctuation / Martin Solomon --
Design and order in everyday life / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi --
Product symbolism of Gandhi and its connection with Indian mythology / S. Balaram --
The gift / Clive Dilnot --
On the essential contexts of artifacts or on the proposition that "design is making sense (of things)" / Klaus Krippendorf --
Design, development, culture, and cultural legacies in Asia / Rajeshwari Ghose --
A geography of power : design history and marginality / Tony Fry --
The development of modern Japanese design : a personal account / Takuo Hirano --Line / A. Cheng --
Untimely opinions (an attempt to reflect on design) / Gert Selle --
The idea of comfort / Tomás Maldonado --
The Design Museum : form follows funding / Barbara Usherwood --
Design and immateriality : what of it in a post industrial society? / Abraham A. Moles --
Expanding the boundaries of design : the product environment and the new user / Victor Margolin.
Series Title: Design issues reader.
Responsibility: edited by Victor Margolin and Richard Buchanan.

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