Pretense design

Pretense design: surface over substance

by Mollerup, Per

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Pretense design : surface over substance / Per Mollerup

Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2019

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):The MIT Press
  • Place of Publication:Cambridge, MA
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2019

The Physical Object

  • Description:213 s.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780262039482 (hardcover : alk. paper), 0262039486 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • oclc:on1103334642
  • LC Classification:NK1520
  • Dewey Decimal:745.4

Table of Contents

Appearance first -- Object language -- Objects talk -- Objects deceit -- Bending the truth -- Product semantics -- Design rhetoric -- Objectives -- Modes -- Perceptibility -- Set-up -- Meanings -- A theory of deception -- Summing up -- Beautification -- Self-presentation -- Mother of deception -- A personal matter -- Body paint -- Tanning -- High heels -- Amusement -- Irrational otherness -- Architecture -- Columns -- Visual distoriction -- Façadism -- Ha-ha -- Funcationalism -- Tromp-l'oeil -- Simulacrascapes -- Furniture reclaimed -- Intrepid chic -- Skeuomorphism -- Fauxthenticity -- Steampunk -- New patina -- Eloquent packaging -- Trophies -- Adventurous clothing -- Travels in time, space, and fantasy -- Substitution -- Second choice -- Surface surrogates -- Who cartes? -- Placeholders -- Deception -- The truth suspended -- Masks -- Cartopgraphy -- Trojan horse -- Potemkin village -- Camouflage -- Emulation

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