The Idea of Design: A Design Issues Reader

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995. xxii, 285 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. CONTENTS: Wicked problems in design thinking, by Richard Buchanan; Avatars of design: design before design, by Yves Deforge; Moholy-Nagy's design pedagogy in Chicago (1937-1946), by Alain Findeli; Graphic design: fine art or social science?, by Jorge Frascara; The future isn't what it used to be, by Victor Papanek; Sketching and the psychology of design, by Rudolf Arnheim; Myth and maturity: toward a new order in the decade of design, by Richard Buchanan; Semiotics in architecture and industrial/product design, by Martin Krampen; Shaping belief: the role of audience in visual communication, by Ann C. Tyler; The power of punctuation, by Martin Solomon; Design and order in everyday life, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi; Product symbolism of Gandhi and its connection with Indian mythology, by S. Balaram; The gift, by Clive Dilnot; On the essential contexts of artifacts or on the proposition that "design is making sense (of things)", by Klaus Krippendorf; Design, development, culture, and cultural legacies in Asia, by Rajeshwari Ghose; A geography of power: design history and marginality, by Tony Fry; The development of modern Japanese design: a personal account, by Takuo Hirano; Line, by A. Cheng; Untimely opinions (an attempt to reflect on design), by Gert Selle; The idea of comfort, by Toma s Maldonado; The Design Museum: form follows funding, by Barbara Usherwood; Design and immateriality: what of it in a post industrial society?, by Abraham A. Moles; Expanding the boundaries of design: the product environment and the new user, by Victor Margolin.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.