- Paperback: 194 pages
- Publisher: Reaktion Books; Reissue edition (Jun 1 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0948462655
- ISBN-13: 978-0948462658
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 15.7 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 249 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #885,984 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"A lively, passionate survey which suggests that commercial design not only mirrors what is wrong with society but is itself one of the wrongs." -- Design
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Although design has become eminently newsworthy among the general public in our society, there is very little understanding to be found of the values and implications that underlie it. Design generates much heat but little light: we live in a world that has much design consciousness, but little design awareness. Nigel Whiteley analyses design's role and status today, and discusses what our obsession with it tells us about our own culture.
Design for Society is not an anti-design book; rather, it is an anti-consumerist-design book, in that it reveals what most people would agree are the socially and ecologically unsound values and unsatisfactory implications on which the system of consumerist design is constructed. In so doing, it prepares the ground for a more responsible and just type of design.
Design for Society is not an anti-design book; rather, it is an anti-consumerist-design book, in that it reveals what most people would agree are the socially and ecologically unsound values and unsatisfactory implications on which the system of consumerist design is constructed. In so doing, it prepares the ground for a more responsible and just type of design.
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A guide to Eco-clean design,
By Vittorio Benedetti (vitorio@urbi.com.br) (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - See all my reviews
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This book opens your mind to present problems in designing and producting. The author comments these problems, giving their historical procedure and possible ways to stop them and avoid them in the future.
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Design For Society book,
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Great book in decent shape. Not new, but good deal for the price and prompt shipment.
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