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It offers a clearly written, accessible, and compelling argument that semiotics continues to provide a dynamic, flexible model for making sense of a world increasingly saturated by visual signs today.  It is an excellent critical guide, the best written thus far, to the study of signs, which emerged in structural linguistics and anthropology of Ferdinand de Saussure and Claude Lévi-Strauss in the early twentieth century, and which evolved in the work of Charles Peirce and Roland Barthes. 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Towards an Ethical Framework for Civic AI  \u003ci\u003eMichael A. Madaio, Sarah Edmands Martin\u003c\/i\u003e   Design Possibilities and Responsibilities in Framing Well-being   \u003ci\u003eHeekyoung Jung \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e  THEORY AND COMMUNICATION\u003c\/b\u003e   Design and Emergent Ethical Crises   \u003ci\u003ePeter Buwert\u003c\/i\u003e   Designing Ourselves to Death: The Politics of Progress Versus an Ethics of Survival in a Diminishing World   \u003ci\u003eDavid Stairs\u003c\/i\u003e   Freedom and Communication Design: An Ethical Approach   \u003ci\u003eSara Velez Estêvão\u003c\/i\u003e   About an Ethics of Design Activism   \u003ci\u003eMaziar Rezai\u003c\/i\u003e   Ethics in Contemporary Civic Engagements: Towards an Ethics of a Minor Design Activism   \u003ci\u003eTau Ulv Lenskjold, Sissel Olander\u003c\/i\u003e   Graphic Design and Activism: Reflecting on Interactions   \u003ci\u003eAndréa Poshar\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eWORK AND PEDAGOGY\u003c\/b\u003e   \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWORK \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Designing Tools for Low-Income Community Organizing   \u003ci\u003eLuke Jordan\u003c\/i\u003e   Design and Sustainable Development: Beyond Aesthetic and Functional Qualities   \u003ci\u003eIván Asin\u003c\/i\u003e  Designing Ethics Tools for Self-Reflection, Collaboration, and Facilitation   \u003ci\u003eCiara Taylor, Samantha Dempsey\u003c\/i\u003e   Noto Project: Between Harmony and Homogeneity   \u003ci\u003eSuna Jeong\u003c\/i\u003e   The Role of Ethics Online and Among Social Media Designers   \u003ci\u003eMeredith James\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePEDAGOGY \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Caring for What We Leave Behind: Ethical Considerations in Social Innovation Pedagogy \u003ci\u003eMariana Amatullo\u003c\/i\u003e   Perpetuating Class Divide: The Reality of Graphic Design Internships   \u003ci\u003eKathryn Weinstein\u003c\/i\u003e   Highlighting Race Issues Through Mentoring and Design   \u003ci\u003eSabrina Hall, Anjali Menon\u003c\/i\u003e   The Design Process is a Research Process: Students and the Ethics of Inquiry   \u003ci\u003eDavid Gelb, Angela Norwood\u003c\/i\u003e   Home: The Ethics of Addressing In-Equal Design   \u003ci\u003ePeter Claver Fine\u003c\/i\u003e   Threading Ethics in a Design Curriculum   \u003ci\u003ePaul J. Nini \u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eIndex\u003c\/b\u003e   \u003cb\u003eAuthor Biographies\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738585608535,"sku":"9781350077041","price":24.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350077041.jpg?v=1720049559"},{"product_id":"design-futuring-9781350089952","title":"Design Futuring","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSustainability is now a buzzword both among professionals and scholars. However, though climate change and resource depletion are now widely recognized by business as major challenges, and while new practices like ''green design'' have emerged, efforts towards change remain weak and fragmented. Exposing these limitations, Design Futuring systematically presents ideas and methods for Design as an expanded ethical and professional practice. Design Futuring argues that responding to ethical, political, social and ecological concerns now requires a new type of practice that recognizes design''s importance in overcoming a world made unsustainable. Illustrated throughout with international case material, Design Futuring presents the author''s ground-breaking ideas in a coherent framework, focusing specifically on the ways in which concerns for ethics and sustainability can change the practice of Design for the twenty-first century. Design Futuring - a pathfinding text for the new era - exten\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDesign Futuring defines redirective practice as a critical new paradigm for design-a way of engaging design and sustainability as they are implicated in and essential to our very survival. Broad. Accessible. Timely. * Eli Blevis, Indiana University at Bloomington *\u003cbr\u003eA great introduction to the key concepts and contributions that Tony Fry has brought to the discourse of sustainability, alongside new concepts like redirective practice and practical suggestions for meaningful action. This is original thinking accessible to readers from all sectors. * Frances Whitehead, School of the Art Institute of Chicago *\u003cbr\u003eThis is an important book. One that is highly useful for designers, design educators and design students of any design area. * Aidan Rowe, University of Alberta *\u003cbr\u003eForceful, convincing, persuasive, and ultimately refreshing, leaving the reader with renewed investment in the role of designers for a sustain-able future. * Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture *\u003cbr\u003eIt has an easy reading style and an impressive bibliography and back up notes ... It's a reference book that could be used for core teaching right across the design and technology spectrum, with teachers being able to draw on concepts that can be easily explained at KS3, but also incorporating meatier offerings for those teaching at KS4 and A level. * just4Textiles *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents Introduction PART ONE: RETHINKING THE CONTEXT AND PRACTICE OF DESIGN 1. Understanding the Nature of 'Practice' 2. Understanding the Directional Nature of Design (as object and practice) 3. The Imperative of the Redirection of Design 4. Design as a Redirective Practice 5. Reviewing Two Key Redirective Practices 6. Futuring, Redirective Practice, Development and Culture PART TWO: STRATEGIC DESIGN THINKING 7. Unpacking Futuring in Relation to the Self, Community, Culture and Ethics 8. Methods of Change 1: Platforming, Return Briefs and New Teams 9. Methods of Change 2: Designing in time 10. Futuring and Learning the New from the Past 11. Designer as Redirective Practitioner: New Roles beyond Design PART 3: DESIGN, SUSTAINMENT AND FUTURES 12. Futuring Against Sustaining the Unsustainable 13. Sustainment and a New Epoch of Humanity 14. Picturing Economic and Cultural Futures 15. Sustainment by Design (as Redirective Practice): 'Dig Where You Stand' 16. Challenges of the Communication of Sustainment and Futuring Notes Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738586755415,"sku":"9781350089952","price":28.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350089952.jpg?v=1720049564"},{"product_id":"elegant-design-9781350174269","title":"Elegant Design","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVisual information is everywhere. We are constantly immersed in a flow of visual data that reshapes our social and inner world. Companies and individuals are competing to conquer the public's scarce attention by inventing distinctive visual formats to stand out from the crowd. How can designers, inventors, and product managers create designs that are quick to process as well as meaningful, unique and memorable in an age characterized by constant information overload?The answer is to think aesthetically. Research insights at the intersection between cognitive science and art studies demonstrate that our minds can effectively process visual complexity by using aesthetic pleasure and judgement as a guide. Analysing the work of great artists and designers from the perspective of how our mind appreciates beauty, \u003ci\u003eElegant Design\u003c\/i\u003e identifies actionable aesthetic strategies that will help you to design products and user experiences that are useful, beautiful and meaningful.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy exploring the tensions between simplicity and complexity, Luca Iandoli and Giuseppe Zollo, have masterfully developed a set of methods explaining the basic concepts of design through the analysis of art and psychological theories, leading to their application to produce innovative product design. * Yvette Chaparro, Parsons School of Design \/ The New School, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface Introduction The age of aesthetics Elegant decisions The art of simplicity Getting started  1. The Simplifying Machine Impressions Simple minds What do you see is what do you get? Understanding as pattern recognition The joy of guessing: ambiguity and emotions in understanding The role of aesthetic pleasure in understanding Too good to be true Creativity Lab: how the mind simplifies reality and compresses information  2. Beauty as Effective Complexity There is no recipe for creativity The hidden workflow of the creative process How does it feel? The roles of emotions in aesthetic experience When good is good enough? Beautify as effective complexity Strategies for effective complexity Conclusions: the necessity of art Creativity Lab: handling complexity in design  \u003cb\u003ePart One: Search for Unity Strategies\u003c\/b\u003e  3. Subtract Details The art of concision The case for abstraction Subtracting the obvious, adding the meaningful Small talks The science of brevity Conclusions Creativity Lab: subtracting details from your design without loosing meaningful performance  4. Symmetry Blood, sweat, and tears: what goes up, can't go down The invention of the point of view: symmetry in art Managing symmetry: checks and balances The science of symmetry Conclusions Creativity Lab: how to handle symmetry and asymmetry in your design  5. The Power of Grouping A stroll down the memory lane The power of grouping in art: seeking as creating What is your product? The danger of cognitive inertia and the wonders of creative categorization The science of grouping Conclusions Creativity Lab: Effectively grouping information in your design  6. Split Lizards, infinite lawns, and the invention of the hypertext The devil is in the detail The ergonomics of simplicity: the NEST thermostat The science of split Conclusions Creativity Lab: how to design effective information layers and hierarchy  \u003cb\u003ePart Two: Push for Variety Strategies\u003c\/b\u003e  7. The Power of the Center May the force be with you The power of the center in art: equilibrium as dynamic tension The power of obsession: how extreme focus can make your business thrive (or die) The science of split: the eye of the beholder Conclusion Creativity Lab: identifying attention-structuring centers in your design  8. Emphasize An umbrella on four wheels Emphasize in art Think different: emphasize in design and management The science of emphasizing Creativity Lab: how to make your design stand out by harnessing the power of emphasis  9. Remix Mission Impossible Metamorphosis or the Nature of Change What's your story? A chairman walks into a lab The science of remix Conclusions Creativity Lab: effectively reshuffling your design to search for novelty  10. Contrast and Balance Chess and balance Present, tense Lost in transition The science of contrast Conclusions: keep on moving Creativity Lab: How to creative effective visual weight dynamics  11. The Swinging Mind Black holes and supernovas: navigating the design continuum The critical role of granularity in design When good is good enough: the swinging mind Design as persuasion Creativity Lab: everyday exercises to cultivate a swinging mind  Conclusion Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738599895383,"sku":"9781350174269","price":29.13,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350174269.jpg?v=1720049608"},{"product_id":"after-universal-design-9781350241503","title":"After Universal Design","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow might we develop products made\u003ci\u003e with\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eby\u003c\/i\u003e disabled users rather than \u003ci\u003efor\u003c\/i\u003e them?  Could we change living and working spaces to make them accessible rather than designing products that fix disabilities?  How can we grow our capabilities to make designs more bespoke to each individual? \u003ci\u003eAfter Universal Design \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together scholars, practitioners, and disabled users and makers to consider these questions and to argue for the necessity of a new user-centered design. As many YouTube videos demonstrate, disabled designers are not only fulfilling the grand promises of DIY design but are also questioning what constitutes meaningful design itself. By forcing a rethink of the top-down professionalized practice of Universal Design, which has dominated thinking and practice around design for disability for decades, this book models what inclusive design and social justice can look like as activism, academic research, and everyday life practices today. 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Equations for Reducing Disability Stigma through Design Equity, \u003ci\u003eJosh Halstead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eArtCenter College of Design, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 10. Making Equity: How the Disability Community Met the Maker Movement,\u003ci\u003e Émeline Brulé (University of Sussex, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 11. Case Study: Shaping Inclusive and Equitable Makerspaces, \u003ci\u003eKatherine M. Steele (University of Washington, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 12. Case Study: A Study of Skilled Craftwork among Blind Fiber Artists, \u003ci\u003eMaitraye Das and Katya Borgos-Rodriguez (Northwestern University, USA), and Anne Marie Piper (University of California, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 13. Case Study: Towards Sensory Equity: A More Inclusive Museum Space Designed from Disability Experience, \u003ci\u003ePeter-Willem Vermeersch and Ann Heylighen (KU Leuven, Belgium) \u003c\/i\u003e 14. Case Study: The Politics of Friction: Designing a Sex Toy for Every Body, \u003ci\u003eDavid Serlin (UC San Diego, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 15. Case Study: The Face-Based Pain Scale: A Tool for Whom? \u003ci\u003eGabi Schaffzin (York University, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e 16. Case Study: Next Practice: Towards Equalities Design, \u003ci\u003eNatasha Trotman (RCA, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSection Three: Speculation\u003c\/b\u003e Section Introduction Key Points 17. Speculative Making, \u003ci\u003eSara Hendren (Olin College of Engineering, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 18. Speculating on Upstanding Norms, \u003ci\u003eAshley Shew (Virginia Tech, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 19. Case Study: M Eifler’s Prosthetic Memory as Speculative Archive, \u003ci\u003eLindsey D. Felt (Stanford University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 20. Case Study: The Way Ahead, \u003ci\u003eCaroline Cardus (Independent Artist, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 21. Case Study: Customizing Reading: Harvey Lauer’s “Reading Machine of the Future”, \u003ci\u003eMara Mills (New York University, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e 22. Case Study: “Captioning on Captioning” with Shannon Finnegan, \u003ci\u003eLouise Hickman (University of Cambridge, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 23. Case Study: A Squishy House, \u003ci\u003eEmily Watlington (\u003c\/i\u003eArt in America, \u003ci\u003eUSA)\u003c\/i\u003e 24. Case Study: Black Disabled Joy as an Act of Resistance, \u003ci\u003eJen White-Johnson (Bowie State University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  List of Contributors Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738609201495,"sku":"9781350241503","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"material-literacy-in-18thcentury-britain-9781350282414","title":"Material Literacy in 18thCentury Britain","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 18th century has been hailed for its revolution in consumer culture, but \u003ci\u003eMaterial Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain\u003c\/i\u003e repositions Britain as a nation of makers. It brings new attention to 18th-century craftswomen and men with its focus on the material knowledge possessed not only by professional artisans and amateur makers, but also by skilled consumers. This book gathers together a group of interdisciplinary scholars working in the fields of art history, history, literature and museum studies to unearth the tactile and tacit knowledge that underpinned fashion, tailoring and textile production. It invites us into the workshops, drawing rooms and backrooms of a broad range of creators, and uncovers how production and manual knowledge extended beyond the factories and machines which dominate industrial histories.This book illuminates, for the first time, the material literacies learnt, enacted and understood by British producers and consumers. The skills required for sewing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection adds significant depth to consumer-focused histories of the eighteenth century, providing a valuable model of material literacy for future scholars. It challenges entrenched boundaries between producers and consumers, and moves our understanding of engagement with the material world beyond the shop counter to the varied and multiple spaces in which it might take place. This forms a vital step forward in histories of consumption, but the volume is of broader significance for scholars of the eighteenth century and beyond as it also speaks powerfully to gender and status hierarchies of knowledge, print culture, commerce, and colonial entanglements. * Cultural and Social History *\u003cbr\u003eThis book has much to recommend to anyone interested in the material culture of the eighteenth century. Individual chapters and groups of chapters will also make fascinating reading for scholars interested in the place of reconstruction in academic work, the status of craft and craft knowledge in Britain (and elsewhere), the textile, clothing and furnishing trades, shopping, and visual culture. * Journal of Dress History *\u003cbr\u003e[\u003ci\u003eMaterial Literacy in 18th-Century Britain\u003c\/i\u003e] is a beautifully illustrated, multi-perspective volume that will be essential reading for anyone working on material culture. * Women's Studies Group *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaterial Literacy\u003c\/i\u003e brings together a wealth of experienced and emerging talent that demonstrates the vitality and range of material culture studies and points to a vibrant future for further work […] That eighteenth-century Britain was a “nation of makers” is unquestionably demonstrated within this volume. […] With the range of essays and the diversity of expertise evident within them, \u003ci\u003eMaterial Literacy\u003c\/i\u003e will surely become a central and critical piece for readers and scholars at all levels who are interested in material culture studies. * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements                    1. Introduction, \u003ci\u003eSerena Dyer (De Montfort University, UK) and Chloe Wigston Smith (University of York, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  2. ‘Work’d pockets to my entire satisfaction’: Women and the Multiple Literacies of Making, \u003ci\u003eAriane Fennetaux (University of Paris, France)\u003c\/i\u003e  3. Needlework Verse, \u003ci\u003eCrystal B. Lake (Wright State University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  4. 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Learning to Craft, \u003ci\u003eBeth Fowkes Tobin (University of Georgia, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  Select Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738614444375,"sku":"9781350282414","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"design-thinking-9781350305021","title":"Design Thinking","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDesign thinking is the core creative process for any designer; this book explores and explains this apparently mysterious design ability. This new edition is a completely revised, updated and extended version of a classic text.Focusing on what designers actually do when they are designing, the book is structured around a series of in-depth case studies of the work of outstanding and expert designers, interwoven and developed with commentary and comparison. 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