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  • © 2008

Design Dictionary

Perspectives on Design Terminology

Birkhäuser
  • Covers and defines some 270 terms
  • Lively and informative, conceived for a broad audience
  • With bibliographic references

Part of the book series: Board of International Research in Design (BIRD)

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Table of contents (304 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-7
  2. A

    1. Acoustics

      Pages 11-11
    2. Added Value

      • Kathrin Spohr
      Pages 11-11
    3. Advertisement

      • Nancy Salvati
      Pages 11-15
    4. Aerodynamics

      • Paolo Tumminelli
      Pages 15-16
    5. Aesthetics

      • Thomas Wagner
      Pages 16-20
    6. Affordance

      • Terry Rosenberg
      Pages 20-22
    7. Agit Prop

      • Tim Marshall
      Pages 22-23
    8. Animation

      • Tanja Godlewsky
      Pages 23-23
    9. Anonymous Design

      • Volker Albus
      Pages 23-24
    10. Architectural Design

      • Benjamin Lieke
      Pages 24-25
    11. Art Deco

      • Petra Eisele
      Pages 25-26
    12. Art Direction

      • Kevin Finn
      Pages 26-27
    13. Artifact

      • Tim Marshall
      Pages 27-28
    14. Art Nouveau

      • Petra Eisele
      Pages 28-30
    15. Arts & Crafts

      • Michael Erlhoff
      Pages 30-32
    16. Aspen

      • Dirk Porten
      Pages 32-33
    17. Audiovisual Design

      • Björn Bartholdy
      Pages 33-34
    18. Auteur Design

      • Volker Albus
      Pages 34-35
    19. Automobile Design

      • Paolo Tumminelli
      Pages 35-38

About this book

This dictionary provides a stimulating and categorical foundation for a serious international discourse on design. It is a handbook for everyone concerned with design in career or education, who is interested in it, enjoys it, and wishes to understand it.

110 authors from Japan, Austria, England, Germany, Australia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the United States, and elsewhere have written original articles for this design dictionary. Their cultural differences provide perspectives for a shared understanding of central design categories and communicating about design. The volume includes both the terms in use in current discussions, some of which are still relatively new, as well as classics of design discourse. A practical book, both scholarly and ideal for browsing and reading at leisure.

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