A John Heskett Reader: Design, History, Economics
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (980 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01FA84ZC0 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Including both hard-to-access and previously unpublished material like Crafts, Commerce and Industry and Economic Value of Design, the book demonstrates Heskett's passionate interest in exploring the relationship of design and making with economic value across the entirety of human history.Featured texts include, What is Design, Chinese Design: what can we learn from the past?, The 'American System' and Mass Production, The Industrial Applications of Tubular Steel, Creative Destruction: the nature and consequences of change through design, Reflections on Design and Hong Kong, besides many others.. A John Heskett Reader brings together a selection of the celebrated design historian John Heskett's key works, introduced and edited by Clive Dilnot of Parsons, the New School, USA.Heskett, who passed away in early 2014, was a pioneering British-born writer and lecturer. This anthology represents well the great ra
Recent publications include Ethics? Design? (2005) and, as co-author, Design and the Question of History (Bloomsbury, 2014). Clive Dilnot is professor of Design Studies at Parsons The New School for Design, New York, USA.
In a remarkable collection, Dilnot has brought together essays that make Heskett's global and multidisciplinary reach evident. Dr Jeffrey L Meikle, Professor of American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, USA From design history's early years in the 1970s to governments worldwide reengaging with design in the 2000s, Heskett brought a clear, inimitable voice to design writing, thinking and practice and shaped how generations of designers and historians learnt to see design: embedded in economic and social structures, and having real social and economic impact. It is a pleasure to see Heskett's classic texts - along with some of his unpublished work - brought together in one marvellous book. The readings collected here underscore the importance of design for policymaking, past and present, and show how economics and policymaking benefit from a historian's eye. He later contributed insights into design economics, policy and manageme