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Christopher Dresser (1834-1904) was the first industrial designer of the modern era. A true radical, he favored form over ornament, and his stylish, spare, and astonishingly modern designs contrast sharply with the highly ornate work of his Victorian contemporaries. Believing that good design could be popularized through industry, Dresser worked with more than 50(...)
Shock of the old : Christopher Dresser's design revolution
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Christopher Dresser (1834-1904) was the first industrial designer of the modern era. A true radical, he favored form over ornament, and his stylish, spare, and astonishingly modern designs contrast sharply with the highly ornate work of his Victorian contemporaries. Believing that good design could be popularized through industry, Dresser worked with more than 50 manufacturers to produce an enormous variety of reasonably priced, widely available consumer products. This book is published to accompany the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to his career.
Design Monographs
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What good is design? In a world facing social unrest, political tribalism, and impending ecological doom, Tomás Maldonado poses philosophical inquiries into the role design plays during a moment of crisis and analyzes what “design” might mean as an ever-enlarging compass beyond stylization of specific objects. He discusses how design is both influenced by and central to(...)
Design, nature and revolution: towards a critical ecology
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What good is design? In a world facing social unrest, political tribalism, and impending ecological doom, Tomás Maldonado poses philosophical inquiries into the role design plays during a moment of crisis and analyzes what “design” might mean as an ever-enlarging compass beyond stylization of specific objects. He discusses how design is both influenced by and central to ecological crisis. Written as a kind of obituary to the Modern movement’s wave of failed “concrete utopias,” Maldonado combines philosophy, sociology, radical countercultural thought, and the ecological sciences into a polemic that recenters design in the human environment.
Design Theory
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The Funambulist 42 : Algerian independence and global revolution
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[Place of publication not identified] : Urbanomic, 2016.
Songs of Labour and Pleasure, from Postpaganism to Neoliberalism.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Urbanomic, 2016.
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199 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 28 cm
Madrid : La Fabrica, [2014]
El Lissitzky : the experience of totality / catalogue coordination, Miriam Querol ; translations, Philip Sutton.
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199 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 28 cm
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Madrid : La Fabrica, [2014]
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xi, 182 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2005., ©2003
Windows and mirrors : interaction design, digital art, and the myth of transparency / Jay David Bolter and Diane Gromala.
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xi, 182 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2005., ©2003
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240 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
London ; New York : Verso, 2013.
The village against the world / by Dan Hancox.
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240 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
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London ; New York : Verso, 2013.
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Profanity and the Financial Markets: A User’s Guide to Closing the Casino [electronic resource].
Hatje Cantz 2012
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Hatje Cantz 2012
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208 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
New York, N.Y. : Thames & Hudson, ©2002.
The Gothic revival / Michael J. Lewis.
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208 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
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New York, N.Y. : Thames & Hudson, ©2002.
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xii, 188 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 cm
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.
London underground : a cultural geography / David Ashford.
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xii, 188 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 cm
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Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.