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):MIT Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge (MA)
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019.

The Physical Object

Description:213 str. : : ilustr. ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780262039482, 0262039486
oclc:on1117726048
Dewey Decimal:745.4

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.