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Design for the Real World has been translated into over twenty languages since it first appeared in 1971; it has become the worldâs most widely read book on design and is an essential text in many design and architectural schools. This edition offers a blueprint for survival in the third millennium. Victor Papanekâs lively and instructive guide shows how design can reduce pollution, overcrowding, starvation, obsolescence and other modern ills. He leads us away from âfetish objects for a wasteful societyâ towards a new age of morally and environmentally responsible design.

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    A Paperback / softback by Victor Papanek

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      Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
      Publication Date: 11/07/2019
      ISBN13: 9780500295335, 978-0500295335
      ISBN10: 0500295336
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      Book Synopsis
      Design for the Real World has been translated into over twenty languages since it first appeared in 1971; it has become the worldâs most widely read book on design and is an essential text in many design and architectural schools. This edition offers a blueprint for survival in the third millennium. Victor Papanekâs lively and instructive guide shows how design can reduce pollution, overcrowding, starvation, obsolescence and other modern ills. He leads us away from âfetish objects for a wasteful societyâ towards a new age of morally and environmentally responsible design.

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      'Wonderfully alive, and full of examples to instruct, amuse and horrify' - New Scientist

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