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Thinking, objects : contemporary approaches to product design / Tim Parsons.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lausanne ; Worthing : AVA Academia, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 208 pages : colour illustrations ; 30 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 2940373744
  • 9782940373741
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 745.2 22
LOC classification:
  • TS171
Contents:
1. Perception -- 1.1 Design and politics -- 1.2 Value and the object -- 1.3 Reading form -- 2. Motivation -- 2.1 Conforming, reforming or contesting -- 2.2 Defining approaches -- 2.3 Aesthetic refinement -- 2.4 Collective memory and behaviour -- 2.5 Social inclusion -- 2.6 Materials and processes -- 2.7 Technological innovation -- 2.8 Ethics -- 2.9 Sustainability -- 2.10 Participation -- 2.11 Strategies and services -- 2.12 Design for debate -- 3. Process -- 3.1 The elusive design process -- 3.2 Design methodology -- 3.3 Thinking tools -- 3.4 Observation -- 3.5 Ideas generation -- 3.6 Drawing -- 3.7 Maquette and model-making -- 4. Context -- 4.1 Employment -- 4.2 Commission -- 4.3 Speculation -- 5. Sources.
Summary: "Thinking Objects: Contemporary Approaches to Product Design is an innovative, wide-ranging guide to great product design. This book reveals how designers can learn to read the signals an object sends, interpret meaning, discover historical context and use those messages in their own new product designs. Globalisation, technology, the media and the need for a sustainable future are all part of contemporary product design. This comprehensive guide helps students and designers everywhere to incorporate these influences and more. Thinking Objects: Contemporary Approaches to Product Design provides an essential reference tool that will enable the reader to find their own style and succeed in the industry."--Publisher's website.
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"An AVA Academia advanced title".

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Perception -- 1.1 Design and politics -- 1.2 Value and the object -- 1.3 Reading form -- 2. Motivation -- 2.1 Conforming, reforming or contesting -- 2.2 Defining approaches -- 2.3 Aesthetic refinement -- 2.4 Collective memory and behaviour -- 2.5 Social inclusion -- 2.6 Materials and processes -- 2.7 Technological innovation -- 2.8 Ethics -- 2.9 Sustainability -- 2.10 Participation -- 2.11 Strategies and services -- 2.12 Design for debate -- 3. Process -- 3.1 The elusive design process -- 3.2 Design methodology -- 3.3 Thinking tools -- 3.4 Observation -- 3.5 Ideas generation -- 3.6 Drawing -- 3.7 Maquette and model-making -- 4. Context -- 4.1 Employment -- 4.2 Commission -- 4.3 Speculation -- 5. Sources.

"Thinking Objects: Contemporary Approaches to Product Design is an innovative, wide-ranging guide to great product design. This book reveals how designers can learn to read the signals an object sends, interpret meaning, discover historical context and use those messages in their own new product designs. Globalisation, technology, the media and the need for a sustainable future are all part of contemporary product design. This comprehensive guide helps students and designers everywhere to incorporate these influences and more. Thinking Objects: Contemporary Approaches to Product Design provides an essential reference tool that will enable the reader to find their own style and succeed in the industry."--Publisher's website.

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