Design

Capitalism, Social Media and Commodification

Dawn Woolley, Leeds Arts University, UK Consuming the Body examines the relation between people and objects, and the impact that advertisements have to produce and disseminate social values. Author Dawn Woolley’s central argument is that commodity culture turns everything into advertisements. She uses ‘consume’ to mean both purchasing and eating, and examines how consumer culture shapes body ideals and notions of health. Woolley views social networking sites as the commercial space where commodity culture invades our social interactions, and explores these hypotheses through cultural case studies. Using Marxist and psychoanalytic theories, Woolley identifies how the consumer is specifically addressed and compelled to consume.

UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 240 pages • 16 bw illus HB 9781350225299 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350225312 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350225305 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Transnational Belonging and Female Agency in the Arts

Edited by Basia Sliwinska, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal & Catherine Dormor, Royal College of Art, UK Current nation-state narratives, rising new nationalisms and right wing politics demand that notions of space and the politics of access to space are reconsidered and renegotiated. The essays in this collection propose that to destabilize the politics of space is to consider afresh ways in which female agency disrupts borders and activates concerns around different forms of belonging, citizenship and transnationalisms. The book explores new visions of belonging and new articulations of place and space from a number of different perspectives, methodologies and geographies, including feminist art histories, art practice and performative activities.

UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 272 pages • 13 colour & 56 bw illus HB 9781501358753 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781501358746 • £85.90 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501358739 • £85.90 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Visual Arts A Study of the Museum and Popular Art Education

Mitchell Frank, Carleton University, Canada The Metropolitan Museum of Art went into business with the Book-of-the-Month Club in 1948, bringing art to a consumer market by sending mail-order publications directly into the homes of subscribers. Using never before published archival material, this book situates this commercial enterprise within the wider context of postwar America, charts both the history of the Met as an educational institution and the rise of art education in modern and contemporary settings, analyses the concurrent transformation of the home into a space that mediated familial privacy and the public sphere, and examines the complex relationship between cultural education to democracy in America.

UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 272 pages • 26 colour and 16 bw illus PB 9781350277311 • £28.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781350277274 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350277298 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350277281 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit

Art, Feminism, and Digital Technology

Judith K. Brodsky, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA Though a flurry of books have emerged in recent years on the absence of women in the digital world, this is the first to look at women and digital technology in the art world. A leading figure in the visual arts, Judith Brodsky documents the work of women and transgender artists who are transforming technology under the impact of feminist theory. She argues that their work differs from the work of male artists, because they are putting forth ideas that can lead to freeing technology from its heteronormative context.

UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 272 pages • 44 color illus PB 9781350243521 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350243484 ePub 9781350243507 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350243491 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Exhibitions Beyond Boundaries

Transnational Exchanges through Art, Architecture and Design from 1945-1985

Edited by Sarah A. Lichtman, Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA, Harriet Atkinson, University of Brighton, UK & Verity Clarkson, University of Brighton, UK With impressively global scope, this book explores approaches to the study of exhibitions within and beyond the disciplinary boundaries of art and design history. After World War II, exhibition spaces were increasingly used as locations for the exercise of "soft power", for displays of cultural diplomacy between nations and for addressing social and political contestation. Case studies include the presentation of African-American Art at FESMAN '66 and FESTAC '77, the US’s 1961 Small Industries Exhibition in Colombo, Israel's early appearances at the Venice Biennale, the Vatican Pavilion at the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair, and Hong Kong's Pavilion at Expo 70 in Tokyo.

UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 288 pages • 35 bw illus HB 9781350088481 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350088498 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350088504 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Domesticity Under Siege

Threatened Spaces of the Modern Home

Edited by Mark Taylor, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, Georgina Downey, University of Adelaide, Australia & Terry Meade Theories of the domestic stemming from the 19th century have focused on the home as a place of repose and safety. Under this conception, domestic space is positioned as a refuge which gave rise to theories of ‘home as haven’. Organised around four thematic sections, chapters provide approaches to the home which challenge notions of ‘haven’ and reflect major causes that have played an important role in undermining the modern home. Examples and case studies explore hoarding, hauntings, imprisonment, wartime interior art, the Hanover Merzbau and Wolfgang Staudte’s 1946 film Die Mörder sind unter uns (‘The Murderers are Among Us’).

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 224 pages • 32 bw illus HB 9781350166110 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350166127 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350166134 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Andrew Selby, Loughborough University, UK Internationally-recognised illustrator and educator Andy Selby takes you through the importance of context and content when responding to editorial illustration briefs, explaining how understanding of visual communication concepts leads to more successful illustrations. Covering ideation, development and execution, right through to professional conduct, self-promotion, responsibilities and plagiarism, this is the book you need to create strong, commercial illustrations.

UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 240 pages • 250 colour illus PB 9781350096868 • £27.99 / $37.95 ePub 9781350096875 • £25.19 / $35.71 ePdf 9781350096882 • £25.19 / $35.71 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Introduction to Digital Media Design

Transferable hacks, skills and tricks

David Leicester Hardy, James Madison University, USA This is a hands-on exploration of digital design methods and tools, providing enough information to quickly learn the basics across interaction, interface, user experience, augmented and virtual reality design, as well as animation, motion graphics and mixed reality. Mirroring real demands of the contemporary designer, this multidisciplinary approach arms readers with procedural building blocks, hacks and shortcuts to ensure they are able to work efficiently across software and projects.

UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 224 pages • 150 colour illus PB 9781350104938 • £21.99 / $29.95 ePub 9781350104945 • £19.79 / $27.47 ePdf 9781350104952 • £19.79 / $27.47 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Surviving the Creative Space

Teamwork techniques for designers

Sherry S. Freyermuth, Clark University, USA An essential guide to working as a designer in a creative team, whether hired by international clients, working freelance, or as the sole creative in a company. All aspects of working effectively with your colleagues, clients and stakeholders are covered, and candid interviews and case studies from large multinationals give a glimpse into the real world of creative practice.

UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 224 pages PB 9781350040502 • £21.99 / $29.95 ePub 9781350040526 • £19.79 / $27.47 ePdf 9781350040519 • £19.79 / $27.47 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Designing for Interdependence

A Poetics of Relating

Martín Ávila, Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Sweden In a time of ecological crisis, it is essential to challenge the dominant design paradigm that centres humanity. Martín Ávila puts forward an ecocentric mode of designing that supports a harmonious relationship between all life forms on our planet. He proposes a design practice that encompasses humans, artificial things and other-than-human species in a 'poetics of relating', which supports the rewilding necessary to maintaining cultural and biological diversity and the stabilization of planetary dynamics. Case studies illustrate the political and ecological implications of an ecocentric paradigm to help us to imagine alternative modes of relating to local environments and cohabitation.

UK October 2022 • US November 2022 • 208 pages • 41 bw illus PB 9781350337381 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781350183742 • £50.00 / $68.00 ePub 9781350183766 • £15.29 / $21.97 ePdf 9781350183759 • £15.29 / $21.97 Series: Designing in Dark Times • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Designing in Dark Times

Clive Dilnot, Parsons School for Design, USA; Eduardo Staszowski, Parsons School for Design, USA

Design and the Social Imagination

Matthew DelSesto, Boston College, USA Matthew DelSesto provides a compelling blueprint for a design practice that enables us to address the social, political and environmental challenges of today. By combining the creative, action-oriented sensibility of design with the reflective, analytical capacities of the social sciences, DelSesto offers models, ideas and strategies for shaping the future. Drawing on the work of C. Wright Mills, Patrick Geddes, Jane Addams and W. E. B. Du Bois, and exploring professional practices and discourses in a wide range of design fields, this book shows us how design and the social sciences can interact in a more productive way.

UK October 2022 • US November 2022 • 240 pages • 15 bw illus PB 9781350242944 • £14.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781350242951 • £45.00 / $61.00 ePub 9781350242968 • £13.49 / $19.22 ePdf 9781350242975 • £13.49 / $19.22 Series: Designing in Dark Times • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Everyday Acts of Design

Learning in a Time of Emergency

Zoy Anastassakis, Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil & Marcos Martins, Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil From 2016-2018, teachers and students at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil found themselves at the center of a crisis. A new rightwing government suspended payment of staff salaries and student scholarships and stopped funding basic maintenance. Through a multitude of voices, this book tells the story of how the university’s design school reacted to the crisis: not with despondency or despair, but by embracing hope and promoting a series of radical teaching experiments. Case histories provide alternatives to conventional forms of design teaching, proving that education can be a site for democracy and the practice of freedom.

UK October 2022 • US November 2022 • 240 pages • 52 bw illus PB 9781350162396 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781350162402 • £50.00 / $68.00 ePub 9781350162419 • £15.29 / $21.97 ePdf 9781350162426 • £15.29 / $21.97 Series: Designing in Dark Times • Bloomsbury Visual Arts World All Languages (except Portuguese)