02993oam 2200409K 450 991031834400332120190624230341.00-262-35157-9(CKB)4100000007989116(OCoLC)1082521899(OCoLC-P)1082521899(MaCbMITP)11415(PPN)23607573X(EXLCZ)99410000000798911620190117d2019 uy 0engurcnu|||unuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPretense design surface over substance /Per MollerupCambridge :MIT Press,2019.1 online resource (224 pages)Design thinking, design theoryHow some design appears to be something that it is not--by beautifying, amusing, substituting, or deceiving. Pretense design pretends to be something that it is not. Pretense design includes all kinds of designed objects: a pair of glasses that looks like a fashion accessory rather than a medical necessity, a hotel in Las Vegas that simulates a Venetian ambience complete with canals and gondolas, boiler plates that look like steel but are vinyl. In this book, Danish designer Per Mollerup defines and describes a ubiquitous design category that until now has not had a name: designed objects with an intentional discrepancy between surface and substance, between appearance and reality. Pretense design, he shows us, is a type of material rhetoric; it is a way for physical objects to speak persuasively, most often to benefit users but sometimes to deceive them. After explaining the means and the meanings of pretense design, Mollerup describes four pretense design applications, providing a range of examples for each: beautification, amusement, substitution, and deception. Beautification, he explains, includes sunless tanning, high heels, and even sporty accessories for a family car. Amusement includes forms of irrational otherness--columns that don't hold anything up, an old building's façade that hides a new building, a new Chinese town that mimics an old European town. Substitution pretends to be a natural thing: plastic laminate is a substitute for wood, Corian a substitute for marble, and prosthetics substitute for human organs. Deception doesn't just bend the truth; it suspends it. Soldiers wear camouflage to hide; hunters use decoys to attract their prey; malware hides in a harmless program only to wreak havoc on a user's computer. With Pretense Design, Per Mollerup adds a new concept to design thinking.DesignPsychological aspectsAppearance (Philosophy)DesignPsychological aspects.Appearance (Philosophy)745.4Mollerup Per1942-1208155OCoLC-POCoLC-PBOOK9910318344003321Pretense design2787207UNINA01248nam a2200337 i 450099100069357970753620020507172341.0961031s1967 de ||| | eng b10744101-39ule_instLE01300821ExLDip.to Matematicaengengger511.42AMS 41-01AMS 41-XXAMS 65DMeinardus, Gunther104771Approximation of functions :theory and numerical methods /Gunter Meinardus ; translated by Larry L. SchumakerBerlin :Springer-Verlag,1967viii, 198 p. ;24 cm.Springer tracts in natural philosophy ;13Bibliography: p. [189]-196.Expanded translation of Approximation von Funktionen und ihre numerische BehandlungApproximation theoryNumerical analysis.b1074410123-02-1728-06-02991000693579707536LE013 41-XX MEI11 (1967)12013000064451le013-E0.00-l- 00000.i1083563528-06-02Approximation of functions81740UNISALENTOle01301-01-96ma -engde 01