An Introduction to Design and Culture

An Introduction to Design and Culture

by Penny Sparke
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 01/10/2019

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An Introduction to Design and Culture provides a comprehensive guide to the changing relationships between design and culture from 1900 to the present day with an emphasis on five main themes:



  • Design and consumption

  • Design and technology

  • The design profession

  • Design theory

  • Design and identities.


This fourth edition extends the traditional definition of design as covering product design, furniture design, interior design, fashion design and graphic design to embrace its more recent manifestations, which include service design, user-interface design, co-design, and sustainable design, among others. It also discusses the relationship between design and the new media and the effect of globalisation on design.


Taking a broadly chronological approach, Professor Sparke employs historical methods to show how these themes developed through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century and played a role within modernism, postmodernism and beyond. Over a hundred illustrations are used throughout to demonstrate the breadth of design and examples – among them design in Modern China, the work of Apple Computers Ltd., and design thinking – are used to elaborate key ideas. The new edition remains essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of design studies, cultural studies and visual arts.

ISBN:
9781351023283
9781351023283
Category:
History of art / art & design styles
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
01-10-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Penny Sparke

Penny Sparke is Dean of the Faculty of Art, Design & Music and a Design History professor at Kingston University in London.

She has written extensively on historic and contemporary design and has curated exhibitions, including The Plastics Age at the V&A Museum in London.

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