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Translated into twenty-three languages, Design for the Real World is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In this edition, Victor Papanek examines the attempts by designers to combat the tawdry, the unsafe, the frivolous, the useless product, once again providing a blueprint for sensible, responsible design.

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Thoroughly provocative." — Time

"The book is wonderfully alive, and full of examples to instruct, amuse or horrify. The enthusiasm and verbal exuberance of Papanek as he rips away the pretensions, hypocrisises and vices of the real world are always stimulating." — Arthur Conway, New Scientist

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    A Paperback / softback by Victor Papanek

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      Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
      Publication Date: 30/08/2005
      ISBN13: 9780897331531, 978-0897331531
      ISBN10: 0897331532
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      Social and cultural anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Translated into twenty-three languages, Design for the Real World is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In this edition, Victor Papanek examines the attempts by designers to combat the tawdry, the unsafe, the frivolous, the useless product, once again providing a blueprint for sensible, responsible design.

      Trade Review
      Thoroughly provocative." — Time

      "The book is wonderfully alive, and full of examples to instruct, amuse or horrify. The enthusiasm and verbal exuberance of Papanek as he rips away the pretensions, hypocrisises and vices of the real world are always stimulating." — Arthur Conway, New Scientist

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