Pretense Design : Surface over Substance

• Autore: Mollerup Per
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : MIT Press, , 2019; ©2019
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (219 pages)
• Disciplina: 745.4
• Soggetto topico: Design - Psychological aspects; Appearance (Philosophy)
• Nota di contenuto: Appearance first -- Object language -- Objects talk -- Objects deceit -- Bending the truth -- Product semantics -- Design rhetoric -- Objectives -- Modes -- Perceptibility -- Set-up -- Meanings -- A theory of deception -- Summing up -- Beautification -- Self-presentation -- Mother of deception -- A personal matter -- Body paint -- Tanning -- High heels -- Amusement -- Irrational otherness -- Architecture -- Columns -- Visual distoriction -- Façadism -- Ha-ha -- Funcationalism -- Tromp-l'oeil -- Simulacrascapes -- Furniture reclaimed -- Intrepid chic -- Skeuomorphism -- Fauxthenticity -- Steampunk -- New patina -- Eloquent packaging -- Trophies -- Adventurous clothing -- Travels in time, space, and fantasy -- Substitution -- Second choice -- Surface surrogates -- Who cartes? -- Placeholders -- Deception -- The truth suspended -- Masks -- Cartopgraphy -- Trojan horse -- Potemkin village -- Camouflage -- Emulation.
• Sommario/riassunto: How some design appears to be something that it is not--by beautifying, amusing, substituting, or deceiving.
• Altri titoli varianti: Pretense Design
• Titolo autorizzato: Pretense Design
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910956408203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Design Thinking, Design Theory Series