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Design Anthropology brings together leading international design theorists, consultants and anthropologists to explore the changing object culture of the 21st century.
Decades ago, product designers used basic market research to…
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Alison J. Clarke
A cultural geneaology of the influence of Victor Papanek on the world of transdisciplinary design –
An exploration of how the plastic storage containers known as Tupperware rose to prominence in 1950’s America. Alison J. Clarke interprets the unassuming food storage system as a bridge between…
Beyond the Bauhaus school: how international pedagogy influenced design as a career
This book explores the emergence of the artist and designer profession after the First World War and the…
This new volume addresses the lasting contribution made by Central European emigre designers to twentieth-century American design and architecture. The contributors examine how oppositional stances in debates concerning consumption and…
This innovative volume brings together international design scholars to address the history and present-day status of national and international design organizations, working across design disciplines and located in countries including…
Catalogue accompanying the 2nd Istanbul Design Biennial
In industrialized democracies, a broad consensus developed that children should not work, but rather learn and play in settings designed and built with these specific purposes in mind. Here, the…
This book takes advantage of new and often surprising biographical research on the Loder family as a whole and its four main figures, using them to illustrate aspects of music…
