Design for Society

Although design has become eminently newsworthy among the general public in our society, there is very little understanding to be found of the values and implications that underlie it. Design generates much heat but little light: we live in a world that has much design "consciousness," but little design "awareness." Nigel Whiteley analyses design's role and status today, and discusses what our obsession with it tells us about our own culture.
"Design for Society" is not an anti-design book; rather, it is an anti-consumerist-design book, in that it reveals what most people would agree are the socially and ecologically unsound values and unsatisfactory implications on which the system of consumerist design is constructed. In so doing, it prepares the ground for a more responsible and just type of design.

About the author

Nigel Whiteley (1953-2010) was Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Lancaster. He is the author of Pop Design (1987), and co-editor of The Lamp of Memory: Ruskin, Tradition and Architecture (1992).

Summary

Although design has become eminently newsworthy among the general public in our society, there is very little understanding to be found of the values and implications that underlie it. This book analyses design's role and status, and discusses what our obsession with it tells us about our own culture.

Product details

• Authors: Nigel Whiteley, Whiteley Nigel
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.1994
• EAN: 9780948462658
• ISBN: 978-0-948462-65-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Commercial & Corporate, Industrial / commercial art & design, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration