Designing with Aesthetic and Ethical Awareness
Ben Stopher, Royal College of Art and London College of Communication, UK, John Fass, London College of Communication, UK, Eva Verhoeven, London College of Communication, UK & Tobias Revell, London College of Communication, UK Through discussion with cutting-edge designers and thinkers and with international examples, the authors explain how we need an expanded aesthetic, critical and ethical awareness on the part of designers willing to act with sensitivity and understanding towards the people they design for. Included are interviews with leading practitioners and clear explanations of high-level concepts. UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 176 pages • 30 colour illus PB 9781350068278 • £29.99 / $40.95 ePub 9781350068292 • £26.99 / $33.25 ePdf 9781350068285 • £26.99 / $33.25 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Information Design for the Common Good Human-centric Approaches to Contemporary Design Challenges
Courtney Marchese, Quinnipiac University, USA This book explores the increasing altruistic impulse of the design community to address some of the world’s most difficult problems including social, political, environmental, and global health causes at the local, national, and global scale. Each chapter strategically combines theory and practice to examine how to identify causes and locate accurate data, truth and integrity in information design, the information design/data visualization process, understanding audiences, crafting meaningful narratives, and measuring the impact of a design. UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 256 pages • 200 colour illus PB 9781350117266 • £27.99 / $37.95 • HB 9781350117259 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350117273 • £25.19 / $32.02 ePdf 9781350117280 • £25.19 / $32.02 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Craft is Political
D Wood, Independent Scholar, Canada Throughout the 21st century, craft practices have garnered significant attention across the West, which these essays argue is a direct response to and critique of the economic, social and technological contexts in which we live. Just as Ruskin and Morris viewed craft and its ethos in the 1800s as a political opposition to the Industrial Revolution, Craft is Political contends that current craft activities are politically saturated when perspectives from the Global South, Indigenous ideology and even Western government policy are examined. Case studies consider craft and design in Turkey, craft markets in New Zealand, Indigenous practitioners in Taiwan and Finnish craft education. UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 256 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781350122260 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350122277 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350122284 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Storytelling Exhibitions Identity, Truth and Wonder
Philip Hughes, Ralph Appelbaum Associates, UK Storytelling Exhibitions describes the role and practice of modern ‘spatial storytellers’ and looks at the potential of exhibitions to shape our understanding of the world. It explains how curators, designers, artists and scientists combine to tell powerful stories through exhibitions that communicate ideas about identity, history, science and beyond. It also outlines how designers are utilising contemporary tools - from AR and VR to 3D scanning and digital archives – and how these new technologies interweave with traditional forms of informing, displaying and promoting in narrative spaces.
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Design and Digital Interfaces
UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 224 pages • 200 colour illus PB 9781350105935 • £35.00 / $47.95 ePub 9781350105942 • £31.50 / $39.41 ePdf 9781350105959 • £31.50 / $39.41 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Design Noir
The Secret Life of Electronic Objects Anthony Dunne, Dunne & Raby, UK & Fiona Raby, Dunne & Raby, UK In this classic work of speculative design thinking, Dunne and Raby explore the revolutionary impact of electronic technologies on our lives. Investigating the physical and cultural effects of the digital domain, Design Noir demonstrates that mobile phones, computers and televisions profoundly influence people's experience of their environment. UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 176 pages HB 9781350070639 • £21.99 / $29.95 ePub 9781350070646 • £19.79 / $24.63 ePdf 9781350070653 • £19.79 / $24.63 Series: Radical Thinkers in Design • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Designing Transformation
Jews and Cultural Identity in Central European Modernism Edited by Elana Shapira, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria By exploring how Jewish designers and architects played a key role in shaping the interwar architecture of Central Europe, this book sheds new light on the importance of integrating Jews into design and aesthetic history. Leading historians, curators, archivists and architects present their critical analyses further to 'design' the past and push forward a transformation in the historical consciousness of Central Europe. By reconsidering the seminal role of Central European émigré and exiled architects and designers in shaping today's global design cultures, this book further strengthens humanistic, progressive and pluralistic cultural trends in Europe today. UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 304 pages • 69 bw illus HB 9781350172272 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350172296 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350172319 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
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