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Design Culture or design culture?
Marquard Smith’s scarily ingenious article in the journal of visual culture (4, 2: 237-56) entitled, ‘Visual Studies, or the Ossification of Thought’ provides a number of provocative warnings to anyone concerned with emergent academic disciplines. He starts by picking apart W.J.T. Mitchell’s assertion that visual culture embodies both the academic study and the object of study. This conflation, he
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The Culture of Design
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2001
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The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Design Since 1900, Second Edition
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2004
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Economies of Design
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Design and Creativity: Policy, Management and Practice
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2009
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The Teapot: An Appreciation
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1999
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Design & Culture
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2012
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Design Culture: Objects and Approaches
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La Cultura del Diseño (GG Diseño)
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Spanien - Das neue Design
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The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Design Since 1900
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“In 1982 the British Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party, Margaret Thatcher, hosted a seminar at 10 Downing Street for designers and their advocates. She subsequently ‘wrote’ an article for Design in which she stated: ‘The profit potential of product design and development is considerable. Designers themselves should be more aggressive in selling themselves to industry as wealth creators’ (Thatcher, quoted in Whitely 1991: 196). In 1983, the UK’s Design Council launched its ‘Design for Profit’ slogan. Its 1986 Profit by Design pamphlet echoed Thatcher’s views, starkly pointing out that, ‘the design process is a planning exercise to maximize sales and profits’ (Design Council, quoted in Whitely 1991: 196).”
― The Culture of Design
― The Culture of Design
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