Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social ChangeDesign for the Real World has, since its first appearance twenty-five years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In this edition, Victor Papanek examines the attempts by designers to combat the tawdry, the unsafe, the frivolous, the useless product, once again providing a blueprint for sensible, responsible design in this world which is deficient in resources and energy. |
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... Arthur Koestler ) was not fully grasped by Toffler . Schu- macher saw this more clearly and agreed with my own for- mulation that nothing big works . Maybe we learn best from disasters . Detroit is floundering in high unemployment , and ...
... Arthur Koestler ) was not fully grasped by Toffler . Schu- macher saw this more clearly and agreed with my own for- mulation that nothing big works . Maybe we learn best from disasters . Detroit is floundering in high unemployment , and ...
Page 153
... Arthur Koestler has explored such acts of innovative think- ing in his Insight and Outlook ( 1949 ) and later expanded this into possibly his most rigorous and definitive work The Act of Creation . Koestler finds similarities between ...
... Arthur Koestler has explored such acts of innovative think- ing in his Insight and Outlook ( 1949 ) and later expanded this into possibly his most rigorous and definitive work The Act of Creation . Koestler finds similarities between ...
Page 211
... Arthur Koestler's " collision " -can lead to the fulfilment of one of mankind's oldest dreams : human - powered flight . Greater London , with a population close to that of New York City and with an unbelievably primitive and leaky ...
... Arthur Koestler's " collision " -can lead to the fulfilment of one of mankind's oldest dreams : human - powered flight . Greater London , with a population close to that of New York City and with an unbelievably primitive and leaky ...
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Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change Victor J. Papanek No preview available - 1985 |
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