The Spirit Of Design

Paperback / softback. New. Imaginative design will be a crucial factor in enacting sustainability in people's daily lives. Through fundamental design research, this title challenges a host of common assumptions about sustainability, progress, growth and globalization. It explores how understandings of human meaning affect design.

Earthscan, London 2011. 23.0 x 15.0cms, 258pp, very good+ paperback & cover This book covers: sustainability & meaningful objects; re-directing design through practice-based reseacrh; the power & prejudice of product appearance; seeing through design; argument & artefact for sustainability; artefacts of disciplined empathy; notes from the shakubachi flute; designing products for evolving permanence & enduring meaning; design, change… Read more about this item

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Earthscan / James & James, 2011. Paperback. New. 272 pages. 11.85x6.22x0.51 inches.