Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction: Design and Culture revisited
PART I: Design and Modernity, 1900-1945
Consuming Modernity
The Impacts of Technology
The Designer for Industry
Modernism and Design
Designing Identities
PART II: Design and Post-modernity, 1945-1990
Consuming Post-modernity
Technology and Design, a New Alliance
Designer-culture
Post-modernism and Design
Redesigning Identities
PART III: Designing the New Century, 1990 to the present
Consumer Culture at the Millenium
Design in the Digital Age
New Designers
Theory and Practice in the New Century
Designing Identities in a Globalised World
