Main entry:

Flusser, Vilém, 1920-1991.

Title & Author:

The shape of things : a philosophy of design / Vilém Flusser ; translated by Anthony Mathews.

Edition:

1st English ed.

Publication:

London : Reaktion, 1999.

Description:

1 online resource (126 pages)

Restrictions:

Use copy

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-125).
Cover; The Shape of Things A Philosophy of Design; Imprint Page; Contents; Introduction; About the Word Design; Form and Material; War and the State of Things; About Forms and Formulae; The Designer's Way of Seeing; The Factory; The Lever Strikes Back; Shelters, Screens and Tents; Design: Obstacle for/to the Removal of Obstacles; Why Do Typewriters Go 'Click'?; The Ethics of Industrial Design?; Design as Theology; Wittgenstein's Architecture; Bare Walls; With As Many Holes As a Swiss Cheese; The Non-Thing 1; The Non-Thing 2; Carpets; Pots; Shamans and Dancers with Masks; The Submarine; Wheels
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Translated from the German.

Summary:

This book presents for the first time in English an array of essays on design by the seminal media critic and philosopher, Vilém Flusser.

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ISBN:

9781780232362
1780232365
1861890559
9781861890559

Subject:

Design Philosophy.
Communication in design.
Aesthetics.
Philosophy.
Design Philosophie.
Communication en design.
Philosophie.
philosophy.
Vormgeving.
Theorieën.
Design.
Kunstteori.
Filosofi.
Formgivning Teori.
Industriell formgivning Filosofi.

Form/genre:

Discursive works.
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Added entries:

Mathews, Anthony (Translator)

Philosophy of design