History of Design
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A common ground is emerging for social and cultural studies of design. Design history is exploring the socially constructed and networked nature of our material surroundings; at the same time, STS is investigating design as the interface... more
Review of T'ai Smith's Bauhaus Weaving Theory in The Journal of Modern Craft.
L'histoire du design en France présente une grande richesse mais paradoxalement aucun état des lieux n'a jamais été effectué. Les inventions se sont multipliées durant la révolution industrielle et les premières tentatives... more
More than 50 years have passed since the first international organisations of design were established to gather practitioners and professional associations worldwide. Among these, the International Council of Societies of Industrial... more
Arts and Crafts of Dutch Design is a core course of the MA Design Cultures at the VU University Amsterdam, which challenges assumptions of what constitutes ‘Dutchness’ and ‘Design’. For seven weeks, students do ethno- graphic research... more
Introduction The volume in which this essay sits explores the long and social relationship between humans and alcohol, but, of course, no one really orders a pint of alcohol to drink. As Michael Dietler (this volume, Chapter 8), Lewis... more
This monograph reconstructs the history of Fuller's first three models for the Dymaxion Car through detailed plans and archival photographs, and relates the production process of Dymaxion #4, a new prototype produced by Norman Foster,... more
in Lisa Godson and Joanna Brück (eds.), Making 1916: Material and Visual Cultures of the Easter Rising, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015, pp. 82-90.
Review of Design is One: Lella & Massimo Vignelli (Documentary, colour, 86' (USA, 2012; rest of the world, 2013-2014, Directors: Kathy Brew, Roberto Guerra)
Challenging distinctions between fine and decorative art, this book begins with a critique of the Rodin scholarship, to establish how the selective study of his oeuvre has limited our understanding of French nineteenth-century... more
Review of three books: Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics, by Elizabeth Otto Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective, by Elizabeth Otto and Patrick Rössler Bauhaus Bodies: Gender,... more
Review of T'ai Smith's Bauhaus Weaving Theory in The Journal of Modern Craft.
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Grace Lees-Maffei, ‘Introduction: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization’, in Kjetil Fallan, Grace Lees-Maffei, eds., Designing Worlds: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization, (New York: Berghahn Books, 2016),... more
Forging strategies. Gold and silversmiths in eighteenth-century Ghent between guild and art academy Faced by consumers’ new demand for fashionable, quality goods, design skills became increasingly important for manufacturers since the... more
Colección 'Yo me quedo en casa' https://libros.univalle.edu.co/index.php/programaeditorial/catalog/book/225 El inicio de la profesionalización académica del Diseño Industrial en Colombia se puede comprender como una cierta... more
(From the cover) Se è vero che da puro nutrimento il cibo si è presto trasformato in complessa e raffinata operazione che convoca gusti e intelligenze per assurgere allo status d’imprescindibile «linguaggio», il luogo domestico a esso... more
Mies van der Rohe şöyle demiş: "Sandalye çok zor bir objedir. Gökdelen neredeyse daha kolaydır. Chippendale bu nedenle ünlüdür."
Fuller's work has often suffered from lopsided treatment. Some laud him as a planetary prophet whose design science work foretold sustainable architecture and nanotechnology; others dismiss him as a "delirious technician" with a talent... more
Este artigo objetiva fazer um breve resumo da vida de John Chris Jones, apresentando e contextualizando suas contribuições para o campo dos métodos em Design. Jones foi responsável por introduzir nos requisitos projetuais pela primeira... more
Could an ‘iconic’ dress as worn by Marilyn Monroe, a taxidermy dwarf crocodile, and the nose cone of the Concorde be seen as an updated version of the Cabinet of curiosities, an taxonomy that combines cognitive dissonance with recognition... more
In the context of the documentation and reflection on the history of the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich (School of Arts and Crafts, Zurich), the field of graphic design assumes an important role. Within the history of the graphic design... more
אמת החומר הוא רעיון מנחה בעיצוב, באדריכלות ובאמנות הקובע שלכל חומר אופי מהותי וטבעי שצריך להיות גלוי ונוכח ביצירה. המאמר מתחקה אחר היווצרות הרעיון ותמורותיו בהיסטוריה של העיצוב מהמהפכה התעשייתית ועד ימינו. הטענה המרכזית במאמר היא שישנם... more