Author : Steven McCarthy
Publisher : BIS Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 27,49 MB
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789063692926
First consolidated textbook on design authorship to help designers assume new roles as they manage all aspects of a project.
Author : Sasha Costanza-Chock
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 38,95 MB
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Design
ISBN : 0262043459
An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological survival. What is the relationship between design, power, and social justice? “Design justice” is an approach to design that is led by marginalized communities and that aims expilcitly to challenge, rather than reproduce, structural inequalities. It has emerged from a growing community of designers in various fields who work closely with social movements and community-based organizations around the world. This book explores the theory and practice of design justice, demonstrates how universalist design principles and practices erase certain groups of people—specifically, those who are intersectionally disadvantaged or multiply burdened under the matrix of domination (white supremacist heteropatriarchy, ableism, capitalism, and settler colonialism)—and invites readers to “build a better world, a world where many worlds fit; linked worlds of collective liberation and ecological sustainability.” Along the way, the book documents a multitude of real-world community-led design practices, each grounded in a particular social movement. Design Justice goes beyond recent calls for design for good, user-centered design, and employment diversity in the technology and design professions; it connects design to larger struggles for collective liberation and ecological survival.
Author : E. H. Cornish
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,5 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780521385800
An invaluable reference for product designers to use in choosing the optimum material for an engineering design is provided through this comprehensive introduction to the methods of selection methodology.
Author : Douglas B. Caywood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 33,86 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0750657391
The Designer's Workspace presents an extensive resource of distinguished firms' responses to the design of their own offices. Featuring everything from technical detail to interior design, it illustrates what these designers see as the major considerations for modern workplace design. This book reveals design solutions, details, and concepts that have been explored and used by design firms from around the world. From the first impressions at the Reception area and Lobby, to the appeal and diverse uses of the meeting areas, to the functionality and sleekness of the Design Studio itself, it illustrates how the designer's office can be quite unique in style, function, and character whilst also varying from culture to culture. No two designers will produce the same atmosphere. With this objective, The Designer's Workspace showcases an array of designs from the traditional to the contemporary, from the historic renovation to the new office tower and serves as a portfolio of the varied responses and solutions found to the challenge of designing the modern office.
Author : Sally Augustin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,16 MB
Release : 2012-01-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0470601736
The Designer’s Guide to Doing Research An essential introduction to applying research for busy architects and designers The competitive design market and the need to create enduring value place high demands on architects and designers to expand their knowledge base to be able to digest and utilize multiple sources of information. Expected by their clients to be well versed on all aspects of a project, time-constrained architects and designers need quick responses in the face of daily challenges. As a result, these professionals must—more than ever—rely on, and apply, readily accessible information culled from sound research to gain a competitive advantage. The Designer’s Guide to Doing Research serves as an introductory guide on the general concepts and processes that define “good” research. Organized logically with the practical tools necessary to obtain research for all facets of the designer’s workflow, this book offers: Material written in an accessible format specifically for practitioners Reliable content by experienced authors—a noted environmental psychologist and an interior design educator who is also a practitioner and writer Tools for planning, executing, and utilizing research presented in an easy-to-follow format along with case studies, sources, and applications Written for all practices and people concerned with the built environment, from architects and interior designers to facility managers, landscape architects, and urban planners, this book serves as an invaluable starting point for gathering and implementing research effectively.
Author : Bruno Munari
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 26,58 MB
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Design
ISBN : 0141920807
How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by Picasso as ‘the new Leonardo’. Munari insisted that design be beautiful, functional and accessible, and this enlightening and highly entertaining book sets out his ideas about visual, graphic and industrial design and the role it plays in the objects we use everyday. Lamps, road signs, typography, posters, children’s books, advertising, cars and chairs – these are just some of the subjects to which he turns his illuminating gaze.
Author : Carl Disalvo
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 37,48 MB
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Design
ISBN : 026254346X
Through practices of collaborative imagination and making, or "doing design otherwise,” design experiments can contribute to keeping local democracies vibrant. In this counterpoint to the grand narratives of design punditry, Carl DiSalvo presents what he calls “doing design otherwise.” Arguing that democracy requires constant renewal and care, he shows how designers can supply novel contributions to local democracy by drawing together theory and practice, making and reflection. The relentless pursuit of innovation, uncritical embrace of the new and novel, and treatment of all things as design problems, says DiSalvo, can lead to cultural imperialism. In Design as Democratic Inquiry, he recounts a series of projects that exemplify engaged design in practice. These experiments in practice-based research are grounded in collaborations with communities and institutions. The projects DiSalvo describes took place from 2014 to 2019 in Atlanta. Rather than presume that government, industry—or academia—should determine the outcome, the designers began with the recognition that the residents and local organizations were already creative and resourceful. DiSalvo uses the projects to show how design might work as a mode of inquiry. Resisting heroic stories of design and innovation, he argues for embracing design as fragile, contingent, partial, and compromised. In particular, he explores how design might be leveraged to facilitate a more diverse civic imagination. A fundamental tenet of design is that the world is made, and therefore it could be made differently. A key concept is that democracy requires constant renewal and care. Thus, designing becomes a way to care, together, for our collective future.
Author : Ellen Lupton
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 35,79 MB
Release : 2003-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781568983950
Inside Design Now takes the pulse of American design in the new millennium, providing a fascinating tour of cutting-edge trends in architecture, interiors, landscape, fashion, graphics, and new media. Featuring eighty emerging and established designers including 2 x 4, Mike Mills, Peter Eisenman, Fuse Project, Tod Machover, Paula Scher, Jennifer Siegal, and Isaac Mizrahi Inside Design Now illustrates the most innovative and provocative thinking in design today. Each designers work is presented with a double-page spread and a series of full-color images. Essays explore the role of the designer in todays culture, contemporary ideas of beauty and functionality, and what the future holds in the realm of design. Sensuous materials, lush patterns, and exquisite details come together with new technologies, pop imagery, and fresh approaches to scale, color, and construction in the works reproduced in this volume. Inside Design Now accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the Cooper Hewitt Museum of National Design beginning in April 2003.
Author : Dr. Harrison Sachs
Publisher : The Epic Books Of Dr. Harrison Sachs
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 49,69 MB
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This essay sheds light on how to become a fashion designer, explicates how to be highly successful as a fashion designer, and elucidates how to earn revenue as a fashion designer. While becoming a fashion designer may seem be an eminently cumbersome, expensive, time-consuming, and daunting undertaking, it is viably possible to become a fashion designer. Much to the relief of prospective fashion designers, it is possible to become a fashion designer in a time span of less than half of a decade and the journey to become a fashion designer is not as lengthy as the journey to pursue certain other occupations, such as the occupations of a medical doctor or attorney. The pathway that a prospective fashion designer can follow to become a fashion designer is fraught with challenges that are not a cinch to surmount. It can be arduous to fulfill the duties of a fashion designer. Fashion design skills are highly desirable skills to possess. As of February of 2021, only an infinitesimal fraction of one percent of the global population are employed as fashion designers. in the U.S., for instance, less than 26,000 work as fashion designers even though the U.S. population is comprised of over 328,000,000 people as of February of 2021. As of February of 2021, less than .007926% of people in the U.S. work as fashion designers. This means that out of 12,616 random people in the U.S., about only one person at most would work as a fashion designer as of February of 2021. As of February of 2021, it was estimated that there were more medical doctors and attorneys as an aggregate in the U.S. than fashion designers in the U.S. even though it takes far more years to fulfill the ample mandatory requirements to become a medical doctor or attorney than it takes to fulfill the mandatory requirements to become a fashion designer. As of February of 2021, there are no mandatory requirements that need to be fulfilled for a person to become a fashion designer. As of February of 2021, the economy is unequivocally in dire need of more fashion designers, especially since they are able to help companies to design fashion products. Companies rely on fashion designers to bring their lofty visions for fashion products designs to fruition. Fashion designers play a pivotal role in helping companies to further expand their fashion product lines. People prefer to wear fashion products that are not only aesthetically appealing, but that are also that are comfortable to wear. People are often recalcitrant about donning fashion products that are aesthetically unappealing and that are uncomfortable to wear. Fashion designers are expected to fulfill an exorbitant amount of responsibilities. Fashion designers may be expected “to manage the design process from conception through to final styling when designing fashion products and may also be expected to conduct market research in order to identify new fashion trends and seek design inspiration for fashion products”. Furthermore, fashion designers may also “be expected to collaborate with team members in order to select seasonal themes for fashion products, make modifications to existing fashion lines, and develop new concepts for fashion products”. Fashion designers rely on utilizing their creative prowess to help companies to bring their grandiose visions for the fashion designs of their fashion products to fruition. The responsibilities that fashion designers are expected to fulfill are not limited to the aforementioned responsibilities. Fashion designers may also be expected to “select fabrics and trims for fashion products, create production sketches for development packages, collaborate with technical designers to ensure that development packages are accurate, and review fashion products for style and fit before presentations”. Moreover, fashion designers may also be expected “to present story, mood, color boards, and samples of fashion products to potential buyers”. The responsibilities that fashion designers are expected to fulfill extend beyond the aforementioned responsibilities. Fashion designers may also be expected to establish themes for their fashion lines, produce prototypes of their fashion products, oversee the production runs of the fashion products that are apart of their fashion lines, and market the fashion products that are apart of their fashion lines. Fashion designers may also be expected to attend fashion shows in order to glean insights about the latest fashion trends in the fashion industry.
Author : Paul Betts
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 2004-06-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0520420586
From the Werkbund to the Bauhaus to Braun, from furniture to automobiles to consumer appliances, twentieth-century industrial design is closely associated with Germany. In this pathbreaking study, Paul Betts brings to light the crucial role that design played in building a progressive West German industrial culture atop the charred remains of the past. The Authority of Everyday Objects details how the postwar period gave rise to a new design culture comprising a sprawling network of diverse interest groups—including the state and industry, architects and designers, consumer groups and museums, as well as publicists and women's organizations—who all identified industrial design as a vital means of economic recovery, social reform, and even moral regeneration. These cultural battles took on heightened importance precisely because the stakes were nothing less than the very shape and significance of West German domestic modernity. Betts tells the rich and far-reaching story of how and why commodity aesthetics became a focal point for fashioning a certain West German cultural identity. This book is situated at the very crossroads of German industry and aesthetics, Cold War politics and international modernism, institutional life and visual culture.
