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The Invention of Design
- A Twentieth-Century History
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Invention of Design af Maggie Gram, 9781541600638
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
336
ISBN-13:
9781541600638
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1541600630
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
26 jun 2025
Størrelse i cm:
24,2 x 16,3 x 3,0
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
26 jun 2025
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The Invention of Design

- A Twentieth-Century History
Engelsk
Hardback 2025
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A critical history of the idea of design-and its utopian promise

Design has penetrated every dimension of contemporary society, from classrooms to statehouses to corporate boardrooms. It''s seen as a kind of mega-power, one that can solve all our problems and elevate our experiences to make a more beautiful, more functional world.

But there''s a backstory here. In The Invention of Design, designer and historian Maggie Gram investigates how, over the twentieth century, our economic hopes, fears, and fantasies shaped the idea of "design"-then repeatedly redefined it. Nearly a century ago, resistance to New Deal-era government intervention helped transform design from an idea about aesthetics into one about function. And at century''s end, the dot-com crash brought us "design thinking": the idea that design methodology can solve any problem, small or large. To this day, design captures imaginations as a tool for fixing market society''s broken parts from within, supposedly enabling us to thrive within capitalism''s sometimes violent constraints.

A captivating critical history, The Invention of Design shows how design became the hero of many of our most hopeful stories-dreams, fantasies, utopias-about how we might better live in a modern world.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
336
ISBN-13:
9781541600638
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1541600630
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
26 jun 2025
Størrelse i cm:
24,2 x 16,3 x 3,0
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
26 jun 2025
Forfatter(e):
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