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Design for the Real World
Victor Papanek
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Description for Design for the Real World
Paperback.
Design for the Real World has been translated into over twenty languages since it first appeared in 1971; it has become the world’s most widely read book on design and is an essential text in many design and architectural schools. This edition offers a blueprint for survival in the third millennium.
Victor Papanek’s lively and instructive guide shows how design can reduce pollution, overcrowding, starvation, obsolescence and other modern ills. He leads us away from ‘fetish objects for a wasteful society’ towards a new age of morally and environmentally responsible design.
Design for the Real World has been translated into over twenty languages since it first appeared in 1971; it has become the world’s most widely read book on design and is an essential text in many design and architectural schools. This edition offers a blueprint for survival in the third millennium.
Victor Papanek’s lively and instructive guide shows how design can reduce pollution, overcrowding, starvation, obsolescence and other modern ills. He leads us away from ‘fetish objects for a wasteful society’ towards a new age of morally and environmentally responsible design.
Product Details
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780500295335
SKU
V9780500295335
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Ref
99-11
About Victor Papanek
Victor Papanek was a highly distinguished designer, educator, lecturer and writer, widely acknowledged for his visionary ideas on design theory. He was J. L. Constant Distinguished Professor at the School of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Kansas at the time of his death in 1998.
Reviews for Design for the Real World
'Wonderfully alive, and full of examples to instruct, amuse and horrify' - New Scientist