Sustainable Fashion provides a unique and accessible overview of fashion ethics and sustainability issues of the past, present and future. This book is the first to situate today''s eco-fashion movement in its multifaceted historical context, investigating the relationship betwe…
"Sustainable Fashion provides a unique and accessible overview of fashion ethics and sustainability issues of the past, present and future. This book is the first to situate today's eco-fashion movement in its multifaceted historical context and explore the historical relationsh…
Design culture: objects and approaches
"Design culture foregrounds the relationships between the domains of design practice, design production and everyday life. Unlike design history and design studies, it is primarily concerned with contemporary design objects and the networks between the multiple actors engaged in…
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Bei der Komplexität der heutigen Gesellschaft ist auch das Design gefordert: wie kann es seinen Beitrag zur Orientierung, Klärung und nützlichen Gestaltung leisten? Im Teil I des Buches (Designgeschichte) schildert der Autor die Hauptepochen des Designs seit seinen Anfängen mit …
"From cars to cameras, design from Japan is ubiquitous. So are perceptions of Japanese design, from calming, carefully crafted minimalism to avant-garde fashion and street subcultures. But these portrayals overlook the creativity, generosity and sheer hard work that have gone in…
With this visually stunning primer, designers will develop the skills and vision to produce truly innovative, eye-catching type design. All of the basics about type design are covered and in-depth information is provided on more advanced topics such as the differences between ty…
Visioning Technologies: the Architectures of Sight
Visioning Technologies brings together a collection of texts from leading theorists to examine how architecture has been, and is, reframed and restructured by the visual and theoretical frameworks introduced by different 'technologies of sight' - understood to include orthograph…
This pioneering anthology focuses exclusively on the history of industrial design. Sixty full-length primary source essays detail the most crucial movements, issues and accomplishments of industrial design.
Using detailed diagrams and vellum overlays, explains how the science of measurement informs and creates beauty in nature and art and how we can use these techniques to create beauty in our own designs.
Design and Aesthetics: A Reader is a comprehensive student reader on design history and aesthetic theory. It includes contributions from many of the writers whose work has been foundational to these two fields, including classic articles by Raymond Williams and Roger Scruton, an…