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Culture is not always popular : fifteen years of Design observer

Bierut, Michael, editor, Helfand, Jessica, editor

Overview

Founded in 2003, 'Design Observer' inscribes its mission on its homepage: Writings about Design and Culture. Since its inception, the site has consistently embraced a broader, more interdisciplinary, and circumspect view of design's value in the world-one not limited by materialism, trends, or the slipperiness of style. Dedicated to the pursuit of originality, imagination, and close cultural analysis, 'Design Observer' quickly became a lively forum for readers in the international design community. Fifteen years, 6,700 articles, 900 authors, and nearly 30,000 comments later, this book is a combination primer, celebration, survey, and salute to a certain moment in online culture. This collection includes reassessments that sharpen the lens or dislocate it; investigations into the power of design idioms; off-topic gems; discussions of design ethics; and experimental writing, new voices, hybrid observations, and other idiosyncratic texts.

• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Subject: Design History 20th century. / Design History 21st century. / Design Social aspects History 20th century. / Design Social aspects History 21st century.
• ISBN: 9780262039109, 0262039109

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
NK1390.C85 2018	1	BOOK	ARTS