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New Zealand by design : a history of New Zealand product design / Michael Smythe.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Auckland, N.Z. : Godwit, 2011Description: 511 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1869795741
  • 9781869795740
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 745.20993 22
Contents:
Introduction -- 1. Whakairo follows function -- 2. Empirical extraction -- 3. National selection -- 4. Settling in, settling up -- 5. Exportable enterprise -- 6. Products of protection -- 7. Instituting progress -- 8. Revolting baby boomers -- 9. Darwinian deep-end -- 10. Global positioning -- Epilogue.
Summary: "Product design is what we make of ourselves. It shapes and shows who we are. It is the manufactured manifestation of our culture. NEW ZEALAND BY DESIGN richly illustrates the way product design has been formed by the isolation of the country most recently inhabited by 'tool making animals'. It will inform, entertain, intrigue and surprise readers interested in Kiwi heritage, creativity, culture, economics, politics, technology, industry and the deeply driven needs for human beings to design better lives."--Back cover.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 745.20993 SMY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A492510B
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"The assistance of Creative New Zealand is gratefully acknowledged by the author."--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 482-488) and index.

Introduction -- 1. Whakairo follows function -- 2. Empirical extraction -- 3. National selection -- 4. Settling in, settling up -- 5. Exportable enterprise -- 6. Products of protection -- 7. Instituting progress -- 8. Revolting baby boomers -- 9. Darwinian deep-end -- 10. Global positioning -- Epilogue.

"Product design is what we make of ourselves. It shapes and shows who we are. It is the manufactured manifestation of our culture. NEW ZEALAND BY DESIGN richly illustrates the way product design has been formed by the isolation of the country most recently inhabited by 'tool making animals'. It will inform, entertain, intrigue and surprise readers interested in Kiwi heritage, creativity, culture, economics, politics, technology, industry and the deeply driven needs for human beings to design better lives."--Back cover.

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