Author : Jane Forsey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 24,79 MB
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 019060042X
The Aesthetics of Design offers the first full treatment of design in the field of philosophical aesthetics, challenging the discipline to broaden its scope to include the quotidian objects and experiences of our everyday lives and concerns. In doing so, it contributes to the growing field of Everyday Aesthetics.
Author : David Pye
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,28 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780964399907
The author, who died in 1993, was an architect, industrial designer and craftsman. In this book, he explores the meaning of skill and its relationship to design and manufacture. He proposes a new theory of making based on the concepts of "workmanship of risk" and "workmanship of certainty" and shows how good workmanship imparts diversity to the visual environment. Includes photographs of the author's own turned and carved vessels of wood.
Author : David Pye
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 30,46 MB
Release : 2000-01-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780713652864
This is David Pye's classic book on the theory of design. In it, he explores the many facets of good design, including the relationship of aesthetics with function.
Author : Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 12,98 MB
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 026201999X
As synthetic biology transforms living matter into a medium for making, what is the role of design and its associated values?
Author : M. Scott Lockard
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,48 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781939621429
Design is a widely-misunderstood discipline. This misunderstanding is not just simple ignorance and indifference in the layman. It is the design profession itself that accepts and promotes a vague and ultimately damaging definition of design. This lack of clarity is nurtured to thwart the scrutiny that would reveal designers' incompetence--as well as to advance more insidious agendas. While there is no lack of criticism, it too misses the point. Critics and designers are content to argue about superficial distinctions but not to understand the true criteria for evaluation, nor the process that would accomplish it. These willful misunderstandings are highly detrimental both to the client and to the development of capable designers.
Author : John T. Carpenter
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 36,36 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Art, Japanese
ISBN : 1588394719
Exhibition of paintings, lacquerwork, ceramics, textiles, calligraphy, and other media all in the Rinpa style from 1600 to the present day.
Author : Glenn Parsons
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 47,16 MB
Release : 2008-11-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0826496768
Part of the Continuum Aesthetics series, this book addresses all the central issues in the aesthetics of nature.
Author : Lance Hosey
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 19,60 MB
Release : 2012-06-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1610912144
Does going green change the face of design or only its content? The first book to outline principles for the aesthetics of sustainable design, The Shape of Green argues that beauty is inherent to sustainability, for how things look and feel is as important as how they’re made. In addition to examining what makes something attractive or emotionally pleasing, Hosey connects these questions with practical design challenges. Can the shape of a car make it more aerodynamic and more attractive at the same time? Could buildings be constructed of porous materials that simultaneously clean the air and soothe the skin? Can cities become verdant, productive landscapes instead of wastelands of concrete? Drawing from a wealth of scientific research, Hosey demonstrates that form and image can enhance conservation, comfort, and community at every scale of design, from products to buildings to cities. Fully embracing the principles of ecology could revolutionize every aspect of design, in substance and in style. Aesthetic attraction isn’t a superficial concern — it’s an environmental imperative. Beauty could save the planet.
Author : Alva Noë
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 15,88 MB
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1429945257
A philosopher makes the case for thinking of works of art as tools for investigating ourselves In his new book, Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, the philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva Noë raises a number of profound questions: What is art? Why do we value art as we do? What does art reveal about our nature? Drawing on philosophy, art history, and cognitive science, and making provocative use of examples from all three of these fields, Noë offers new answers to such questions. He also shows why recent efforts to frame questions about art in terms of neuroscience and evolutionary biology alone have been and will continue to be unsuccessful.
Author : David Pye
Publisher : Airlife
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN :
In this brilliant exposition of the many facets of good design, David Pye investigates the scientific nature of function and its tenuous relationship to form. He explores the priority of economy, physical components, and manufacturing technique; and he clarifies the relative utilitarian and aesthetic roles of design. It establishes a basic theory of design where none existed before. Written in a lucid style and in jargon-free language, it is a healthy correction to critiques of the past century. This is a penetrating, provocative and utterly stimulating book that everyone should read--for design is everywhere.
