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The Aesthetics of Design
In Fritz Allhoff, Jessica Wolfendale & Jeanette Kennett (eds.), Fashion - Philosophy for Everyone: Thinking with Style. Wiley. pp. 51–69 (2011)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Design as Problem‐Solving or Design as Fashion? The Rise of Design As a Profession: Is Design a Response to Consumerism? Consumerism, Self‐expression, and The “Invention” of Design Consumerism Is Not Essential to Design Were Neolithic Flint Tools Designed? Can We Avoid Designing? – The Idea of “Useless Work” The Function and Value of Fashion.Author's Profile
aesthetics of design, and London's Design Museum ‐ dispute on fashion, Dyson declaring, ruining the museum's reputation and betraying its purpose design, two sides solving functional problems ‐ improving look or feel of product, style, decoration, and embellishment design classics, as Henry Dreyfuss's classic black handset for the Bell telephone ‐ or Dieter Rams's austere but very practical clocks notion of design, problem solving ‐ notion of design, as style and fashion design, perceived, like fashion in clothes ‐ as ephemeral, rarely lasting beyond a single season designer products, classics because of aesthetic appeal ‐ the Umbra wastepaper basket's fluid shape, an example Pierre Boulanger's Citroën 2CV ‐ creativity of 2CV design, a matter of ingenuity more than aesthetics design as problem‐solving, or as fashion ‐ the claim that design, with an ineliminable aesthetic component, open to challenge consumerism, self‐expression, and “invention” of design ‐ individual taste, as
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