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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299587803321

Autore

Chandra Sushil

Titolo

Aesthetics: Quantification and Deconstruction : A Case Study in Motorcycles / / by Sushil Chandra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

981-10-6235-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 233 p. 155 illus., 140 illus. in color.)

Collana

Design Science and Innovation, , 2509-5986

Disciplina

701.03

Soggetti

Engineering design

Industrial engineering

Production engineering

Automobile industry and trade

Aesthetics

Engineering Design

Industrial and Production Engineering

Automotive Industry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Sommario/riassunto

This book addresses a perennial challenge for product planners and designers alike: how to objectively specify and quantify the aesthetics of products. It provides automotive product planners with a framework for the grammar of aesthetics and a tool for quantifying the aesthetics of an intended product. Further, it equips styling designers with a tool for connecting engineering and aesthetics. Given the author’s extensive experience in motorcycle design, the motorcycle has been chosen as the frame of reference for automobiles. Specifically in the field of automobile design, where engineering and aesthetics go hand in hand, it also becomes important to clearly and objectively define the relationship between engineering design and aesthetics. Accordingly, this book (1) clearly establishes the objective parameters of aesthetics, (2) puts forward a method for quantifying aesthetics, (3) identifies the engineering design parameters affecting aesthetics, and (4) determines



the relationship between parameters of aesthetics and engineering design. As such, it offers a useful guide not only for design professionals, but also for students and researchers of design.