Design Dictionary: Perspectives on Design Terminology
Softcover | 17.86 x 3.81 x 22.48 cm | 472 pp
Birkhäuser | 2008 | 9783764377397
This dictionary provides a stimulating and categorical foundation for a serious international discourse on design. It is a handbook for everyone concerned with design in career or education, who is interested in it, enjoys it, and wishes to understand it.
110 authors from Japan, Austria, England, Germany, Australia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the United States, and elsewhere have written over 260 original articles for this design dictionary. Their cultural differences perspectives provide for a shared understanding of central design categories and communicating about design.
The volume includes both the terms in use in current discussions, some of which are still relatively new, as well as classics of design discourse. A practical book, both scholarly and ideal for browsing and reading at leisure.
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Softcover | 17.86 x 3.81 x 22.48 cm | 472 pp
Birkhäuser | 2008 | 9783764377397
This dictionary provides a stimulating and categorical foundation for a serious international discourse on design. It is a handbook for everyone concerned with design in career or education, who is interested in it, enjoys it, and wishes to understand it.
110 authors from Japan, Austria, England, Germany, Australia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the United States, and elsewhere have written over 260 original articles for this design dictionary. Their cultural differences perspectives provide for a shared understanding of central design categories and communicating about design.
The volume includes both the terms in use in current discussions, some of which are still relatively new, as well as classics of design discourse. A practical book, both scholarly and ideal for browsing and reading at leisure.
