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An edition of Design for society (1993)

Design for society

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Design was the boom industry of the last decade, and it has helped to create the superficially more 'caring' image that currently exists in our society. Yet the newsworthiness of design conceals a disturbing ignorance of the profession's values and ambitions - even among designers themselves. Design generates much heat but little light: we live in a world that has much design consciousness but appallingly little design awareness.

Nigel Whiteley analyses design's role within the consumer society, and discusses what our obsession with it tells us about the present state of our own culture.

Design for Society is not an anti-design book; rather, it is an anti-consumerist-design book, in that it exposes what most people would agree are the socially and ecologically unsound values on which the system of consumerist design is constructed. The author reviews the implications for design of the Green movement, the growing impact of feminism, and the ideas of 'socially responsible' designers. In so doing, he prepares the ground for a more self-aware and just development of design.

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Publisher
Reaktion Books
Language
English
Pages
182

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Cover of: Design for Society
Design for Society
June 1, 1997, Reaktion Books
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Design for society
1993, Reaktion Books
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-180) and index.

Published in
London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
745.2/09/04
Library of Congress
TS171 .W47 1993

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 182 p. :
Number of pages
182

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1161161M
Internet Archive
designforsociety0000whit
ISBN 10
0948462477
LCCN
94139870, gb94016675
OCLC/WorldCat
29047567
Goodreads
3816222

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