Victor Margolin

Richard Buchanan

Discovering Design reflects the growing recognition that the design of the everyday world deserves attention not only as a professional practice but as a subject of social, cultural, and philosophic investigation. Victor Margolin, cofounder and an editor of the journal Design Issues, and Richard Buchanan, also an editor of the journal, bring together eleven essays by scholars in fields ranging from psychology, sociology, and political theory to technology studies, rhetoric, and philosophy. The essayists share the editors' concern, first made clear in Margolin's Design Discourse: History, Theory, Criticism, with the the development of design studies as a field of interdisciplinary research. The contributors (Gianfranco Zaccai, Albert Borgmann, Richard Buchanan, Augusto Morello, Tufan Orel, Nigel Cross, Victor Margolin, Langdon Winner, Carl Mitcham, Tony Fry, and Ezio Manzini) focus on three broad themes that form a sequence of fundamental issues: how to shape design as a subject matter, how to distinguish the activity of designing in the complex world of action, and how to address the basic questions of value and responsibility that persistently arise in the discussion and practice of design. The editors' introduction provides a useful overview of these questions and offers a multidisciplinary framework for design studies. The essays discuss such topics as the relation of aesthetics to technology, the place of design in social action, the role of the consumer in design decisions, and the need for ethical practice in contemporary design. Manzini's concluding essay shows how the issue of ethics should connect responsible behavior to decisions made every day in the manufacture of objects.

Explorations in Design Studies

Discovering Design

Introduction1. DESIGNThinking about Design at the End of the MillenniumDesign at the CrossroadsThe Experience of ProductsKen Isaacs: Matrix DesignerExpansion or Sustainability: Two Models of DevelopmentDesign for a Sustainable WorldThe Politics of the Artificial2. DESIGN STUDIESDesign History in the United States, 1977-2000Narrative Problems of Graphic Design HistoryMicky Wolfson's Cabinet of WondersDesign History and Design StudiesThe Two HerbertsThe Multiple Tasks of Design StudiesSourcesIllustration CreditsIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Essays on Design and Design Studies

The Politics of the Artificial

Professor of Design Management & Information Systems George Richard Buchanan

The Idea of Design is an anthology of essays that addresses the nature and practiceof product design and graphic design in the contemporary world. The essays, selected from volumes4-9 of the international journal Design Issues, focus on three themes: reflection on the nature ofdesign, the meaning of products, and the place of design in world culture. The authors aredistinguished scholars, historians, designers, and design educators. The diversity of their workillustrates the pluralistic and interdisciplinary dimensions of the idea of design in contemporaryculture.Contributors : Rudolf Arnheim. S. Balaram. Richard Buchanan. A. Cheng. MihalyCsikszentmihalyi. Yves Deforge. Clive Dilnot. Alain Findeli. Jorge Frascara. Tony Fry. RajeswariGhose. Takuo Hirano. Martin Krampen. Laus Krippendorf. Tomas Maldonado. Victor Margolin. AbrahamMoles. Victor Papanek. Gert Selle. Ann Tyler. Barbara Usherwood.A Design Issues Reader

The Idea of Design

Provides a comprehensive and detailed historical account of design from prehistory to the end of the twentieth century.

World History of Design Volume 2

Peter-Paul Verbeek

Guy Julier

Alastair Fuad-Luke

Alfredo Brillembourg Tamayo

This book is the culmination of ten years of critical reflection on engaged design and the relation between design and society. The publication marks the conclusion of five editions of Utrecht Manifest, the biennial event dedicated to the social aspects of design, which was launched in 2005. Against the background of the five biennials, an agenda for the future is laid out in essays and interviews by leading thinkers and practitioners in the field. In this book, Victor Margolin, pioneering scholar in the discourse of social design, calls on designers, architects and educators to emulate the work of utopian visionaries such as William Morris, Walter Gropius and Richard Buchminster-Fuller and dare to envision what it takes to design for the Good Society.

Design for the Good Society

Fedja Vukić

This is the first international book on Croatian design. It is written as a critical overview of Fedja Vukić and Victor Margolin, who are selectors and authors. More than 180 selected works of 60 different authors testifies that design and designers became the centre of the market communication in Croatia, and that this kind of book is essential for understanding the design in this region.This edition covers all aspects of design production (destination identity, corporation identity, packaging, advertising, industrial design, web design...) and is divided into 12 categories. Each work is represented with project details, photographs, and authors' comments on the project. All projects were created between 2005 and 2008. This book's content proves that this is an impressive insight of recent design production in Croatia.

Croatian Design Now

"Authored by pre-eminent design scholar Victor Margolin, World History of Design is an indispensable new multi-volume work, providing a comprehensive and detailed historical account of design from prehistory to the end of the twentieth century"--

World History of Design: Two-Volume Set

. Focusing on the difficult relationship between art and social change, Margolin brings important new insights to our understanding of the avant-garde's role in a period of great political complexity.

Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946

The Struggle for Utopia

Clive Dilnot

Stanley Tigerman

The Archeworks Papers

World History of Design

The editor has gathered together a body of writing in the emerging field of design studies. The contributors argue in different ways for a rethinking of design in the light of its cultural significance and its powerful position in today's society. The collection begins with a discussion of the various expressions of opposition to the modernists' purist approach toward design. Drawing on postmodernist theory and other critical strategies, the writers examine the relations among design, technology, and social organization to show how design has become a complex and multidisciplinary activity. The second section provides examples of new methods of interpreting and analysing design, ranging from rhetoric and semiotics to phenomenology, demonstrating how meaning is created visually. A final section related to design history shifts its emphasis to ideological frameworks such as capitalism and patriarchy that establish boundaries for the production and use of design.

Victor Margolin

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