The Culture of Design
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 2000
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-7619-6866-5 (ISBN)
Description
`Julier provides an important contemporary account of how design disciplines act and interact in the world. Furthermore, this exercise in cultural coordination is infused with academic import: he references classic thinkers in cultural and social studies such as Marx, Bourdieu, Baudrillard, Fiske, Hebdige, Williamson... to name only a few, and these `names' aren't merely mentioned; importantly, his critical analyses of these thinkers with respect to pertinent issues within contemporary design, are timely and interesting.... an important resource for the student of design... perfection as a cultural studies text' - European Journal of Cultural Studies
Aimed at students of design studies, design history, cultural studies and sociology, The Culture of Design, offers a unique overview of design practice in contemporary culture and society. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives, Julier nevertheless foregrounds the everyday business and professional context in which designers work.
The Culture of Design: establishes `design culture' as a distinct discipline; investigates the interactions of design producers and consumers; includes a series of illustrative case studies; and opens up design and design practice for critical interrogation.
Aimed at students of design studies, design history, cultural studies and sociology, The Culture of Design, offers a unique overview of design practice in contemporary culture and society. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives, Julier nevertheless foregrounds the everyday business and professional context in which designers work.
The Culture of Design: establishes `design culture' as a distinct discipline; investigates the interactions of design producers and consumers; includes a series of illustrative case studies; and opens up design and design practice for critical interrogation.
Reviews / Votes
`Julier provides an important contemporary account of how design disciplines act and interact in the world. Furthermore, this exercise in cultural coordination is infused with academic import: he references classic thinkers in cultural and social studies such as Marx, Bourdieu, Baudrillard, Fiske, Hebdige, Williamson... to name only a few, and these `names' aren't merely mentioned; importantly, his critical analyses of these thinkers with respect to pertinent issues within contemporary design, are timely and interesting.... an important resource for the student of design... perfection as a cultural studies text' - European Journal of Cultural Studies`meticulous, in-depth first-hand research is highly evident... Julier can fee safe in the knowledge that...The Culture of Design is destined to become a fixture on the A-list of recommended reading for design courses for many years to come' - The Design Journal
`It answers the need for a text that defends design practice from the types of postmodern critiques that attack the concept of authorship as superfluous' - Journal of Design History
`An excellent text, clear, well thought out and lucidly written; the balance between theoretical material, background information, and detailed analysis of examples, is very good; and it concerns an issue - design in the period of its deep convergence with advertising - which will be of interest not only to design specialists and students, but also to a broader readership in cultural studies and technology' - Andrew Wernick, Trent University, Ontario
`The Culture of Design offers both a very exciting critical overview and an innovative contribution to the field.... this should be a popular text book for art and design courses. It could also be an important text to support the increasingly visual turn influencing cultural studies, sociology and material and spatial culture courses' - Barrie Curtis, University of Middlesex
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 170 mm
Weight
689 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7619-6866-5 (9780761968665)
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The Culture of Design
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Guy Julier is Senior Lecturer in design at Leeds Metropolitan University.
Content
PART ONE: DESIGN PRODUCTION
Design Consultancy Reaches `Critical Mass'
Setting the Scene with Some Statistics
The Establishment of Design Consultancy
The 1980s Design Consultancy Boom
`Neo-Fordist' Design Consultancy
`Post-Fordist' Design Consultancy
The 1990s
Towards a Brand-Ethos
Concurrent Design
PART TWO: DESIGNERS AND DESIGN DISCOURSE
Definitions of Design
The Professionalization Debate
Professionalization and Differentiation
Historicity and Modernism in Design Discourse
Second Modernity versus Design Management
PART THREE: THE CONSUMPTION OF DESIGN
The Culture of Consumption
Design and Consumer Culture
Passive or Sovereign Consumers?
De-Alienation and Designing
The Aesthetic Illusion
Systems of Provision
Circuits of Culture
Designers and the Circuit of Culture
Writing about Things
PART FOUR: HIGH DESIGN
Anomalous Objects
High Design
`Design Classics'
Mediating Production
Consuming Postmodern High Design
Veblen and Bourdieu
Historicity
Modern Designers/Modern Consumers
Designers, Risk and Reflexivity
PART FIVE: CONSUMER GOODS
Images
Surfaces
Doing the Dyson
Product Semantics
Mood Boards
Lifestyles and Design Ethnography
Back to the Workshop
Product Semantics and Flexible Manufacture
Designing Global Products
Product Designers and Their Clients
Dyson Stories
Re-Doing the Dyson
PART SIX: BRANDED PLACES
Evaluating Place
Beyond Architectural Articism
The Barcelona Paradigm
Cultural Economies and Regeneration
Responses to Globalization I
Place-Making of City Regions through Design
Responses to Globalization II
The Branding of City-Regions and Nations
Problematizing the Branding of Place
PART SEVEN: BRANDED LEISURE
From `Fordist' to Disorganized Leisure
The Disney Paradigm
Post-Tourists
Naked and Nowhere at Center Parcs
Televisuality and Designing Leisure Experiences
Dedifferentiation/Distinction
PART EIGHT: ON-SCREEN INTERACTIVITY
Computers and Graphic Design
Technological Development and Consumer Growth
Professional Practices
Critical Reflection
Authorship
Readership
Consuming Interactivity
Cybernetic Loss
Liberation and Regulation
The Bigger Picture
Bytes and Brands
PART NINE: COMMUNICATIONS AND MANAGEMENT
Internal Brand Building
The End of Advertising
Brands and Communications Consultancy
Employees as Consumers
Design Consultancy Reaches `Critical Mass'
Setting the Scene with Some Statistics
The Establishment of Design Consultancy
The 1980s Design Consultancy Boom
`Neo-Fordist' Design Consultancy
`Post-Fordist' Design Consultancy
The 1990s
Towards a Brand-Ethos
Concurrent Design
PART TWO: DESIGNERS AND DESIGN DISCOURSE
Definitions of Design
The Professionalization Debate
Professionalization and Differentiation
Historicity and Modernism in Design Discourse
Second Modernity versus Design Management
PART THREE: THE CONSUMPTION OF DESIGN
The Culture of Consumption
Design and Consumer Culture
Passive or Sovereign Consumers?
De-Alienation and Designing
The Aesthetic Illusion
Systems of Provision
Circuits of Culture
Designers and the Circuit of Culture
Writing about Things
PART FOUR: HIGH DESIGN
Anomalous Objects
High Design
`Design Classics'
Mediating Production
Consuming Postmodern High Design
Veblen and Bourdieu
Historicity
Modern Designers/Modern Consumers
Designers, Risk and Reflexivity
PART FIVE: CONSUMER GOODS
Images
Surfaces
Doing the Dyson
Product Semantics
Mood Boards
Lifestyles and Design Ethnography
Back to the Workshop
Product Semantics and Flexible Manufacture
Designing Global Products
Product Designers and Their Clients
Dyson Stories
Re-Doing the Dyson
PART SIX: BRANDED PLACES
Evaluating Place
Beyond Architectural Articism
The Barcelona Paradigm
Cultural Economies and Regeneration
Responses to Globalization I
Place-Making of City Regions through Design
Responses to Globalization II
The Branding of City-Regions and Nations
Problematizing the Branding of Place
PART SEVEN: BRANDED LEISURE
From `Fordist' to Disorganized Leisure
The Disney Paradigm
Post-Tourists
Naked and Nowhere at Center Parcs
Televisuality and Designing Leisure Experiences
Dedifferentiation/Distinction
PART EIGHT: ON-SCREEN INTERACTIVITY
Computers and Graphic Design
Technological Development and Consumer Growth
Professional Practices
Critical Reflection
Authorship
Readership
Consuming Interactivity
Cybernetic Loss
Liberation and Regulation
The Bigger Picture
Bytes and Brands
PART NINE: COMMUNICATIONS AND MANAGEMENT
Internal Brand Building
The End of Advertising
Brands and Communications Consultancy
Employees as Consumers