By design : why there are no locks on the bathroom doors in the Hotel Louis XIV, and other object lessons / by Ralph Caplan.

Main entry:

Caplan, Ralph.

Title & Author:

By design : why there are no locks on the bathroom doors in the Hotel Louis XIV, and other object lessons / by Ralph Caplan.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
The possibilities of design, the misplaced art of making things right -- The professional emergence, where industrial designers came, and are coming, from -- The way things mean, what goes on between us and our artifacts -- The prop, what chairs are for -- A pride of camels, we are all designers -- Suitable for framing, is design art? -- The design of possibilities, the shift from object to situation -- Making connections: the designer as universal joint, object lessons in the work of Charles and Ray Eames.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0312110855
9780312110857

Subject:

Industrial design.
Design.
industrial design.
design (discipline)
Design, Industrial

Holdings:

Location: Library main 105390
Call No.: PO16555; ID:85-B16663
Status: Available

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