Tim Parsons

Thinking: Objects: Contemporary Approaches to Product Design (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Thinking: Objects: Contemporary Approaches to Product Design discusses influences on modern product design such as globalization, technology, the media and the need for a sustainable future, and demonstrates how readers can incorporate these influences into their own work. The book also discusses how readers can learn to read the signals an object sends, interpret meaning and discover historical context.

Thinking: Objects provides an essential reference tool that will enable you to find your own style and succeed in the industry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9782940439317
• Artikelnr.: 46760436

Autorenporträt

Tim Parsons is a product designer, writer and lecturer on design. He has worked with manufacturers in Britain and Europe and exhibited widely. He has contributed articles to publications including Blueprint and Phaidon's Design Classics. His London studio creates tableware, lighting, accessories, furniture, and more.

Inhaltsangabe

How to get the most out of this book. Introduction. Perception: Design and politics
Value and the object
Reading form. Motivation: Conforming, reforming or contesting
Defining approaches
Aesthetic refinement
Collective memory and behaviour
Social inclusion
Materials and processes
Technological innovation
Ethics
Sustainability
Participation
Strategies and services
Design for debate. Process: The elusive design process
Design methodology
Thinking tools
Observation
Ideas generation
Drawing
Maquette and model-making. Context: Employment
Commission
Speculation. Sources: Bibliography
Picture credits
Acknowledgements.