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Sifting the Trash : A History of Design Criticism /

Product design criticism operates at the very brink of the landfill site, salvaging some products with praise but consigning others to its depths through condemnation or indifference. When a designed product's usefulness is past, the public happily discards it to make room for the next new thin...

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Autor principal: Twemlow, Alice (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, England : The MIT Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Half Title; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: "A Throw'Away Esthetic": New Measures and Metaphors in Product Design Criticism, 1955-1961; Chapter 2: "Conflicting Definitions of Key Terms": An Ecological Protest at the International Design Conference in Aspen, 1970-1971; Chapter 3: Designer Celebrities and "Monstrous, Brindled, Hybrid" Consumers: The Polarizing Effects of Style in the British Design Media, 1983-1989; Chapter 4: Please Touch the Criticism: Design Exhibitions and Critical Design in the UK, 1998-2001.
  • Chapter 5: The Death of the Editor: Design Criticism Goes Open Source, 2003-2007Notes; Notes.