The culture of design /

Julier, Guy,

The culture of design / - 3rd edition. - Los Angeles : Sage, 2014. - 1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations. 24cm. - Core textbook. .

Chapter 1: Design Culture
Design culture as an object of study

Beyond Visual Culture: Design Culture as an academic discipline

Models for studying Design Culture

Design Culture beyond discipline?

Chapter 2: Design and Production
The rise of design

Freelance, in-house and consultancy design

The establishment of design consultancy

The 1980s design consultancy boom

Neo-fordist design

Post-fordist design

Towards a brand ethos

Speeding up design and production

Design within disorganized capitalism

The new economy

Chapter 3: Designers and Design Discourse
Definitions of design

The word ‘design’ in history

The professional status of design

Designers as ‘Cultural Intermediaries’

Historicity and modernism in design discourse

Second modernity versus design management

Service design

Design Thinking

Chapter 4: The Consumption of Design
The culture of consumption

Design and consumer culture

Passive or sovereign consumers?

De-alienation and designing

Commodities and the aesthetic illusion

Systems of provision

Circuits of culture

Designers and the circuit of culture

Writing about things

Consumption and practice

Anomalous objects

Chapter 5: High Design
Design classics

Mediating production

Consuming postmodern high design: Veblen and Bourdieu

Historicity

Modern designers/modern consumers

Designers, risk and reflexivity

Critical design

Design art

Chapter 6: Consumer Goods
Images

Surfaces

Doing the Dyson

Product semantics

Mood boards

Lifestyles and design ethnography

Back to the workshop

Product semantics and flexible manufacture

Designing global products

Product designers and their clients

Products and brand image

Product use

The iPod: consumption, practice and contingency

Chapter 7: Branded Places
Evaluating place: beyond architectural criticism

The Barcelona paradigm

Cultural economies, regeneration and gentrification

Museums and postindustrial place-making

Beyond nation-states: cities and regions

The branding of city-regions and nations

Problematizing the branding of place

Chapter 8: Branded Leisure
From Fordist to disorganized leisure

Time-squeeze and packaged leisure

The Disney paradigm

Post-tourists

Naked and nowhere at Center Parcs

Televisuality and designing leisure experiences

Dedifferentiation/distinction

Chapter 9: On-screen Interactivity
Computers and graphic design

Technological development and consumer growth

Professional practices

Critical reflection

Authorship

Readership

Consuming interactivity

Cybernetic loss

Liberation and regulation: the bigger picture

Bytes and brands

Chapter 10: Communications, Management and Participation
Internal brand building

The end of advertising

Brand and communications consultancy

Employees as consumers

Aesthetic labour

Designing for creativity

Social participation and design activism

Chapter 11: Networks and Mobile Technologies
iPhones and smartphones

Cyborgs

Closed and open networks

Cultural relativism and technological change

The competition of monopolies

Scipts and metadata

Agencement

Assemblage

Articulation

Boundary objects and spaces

Chapter 12: Studying Design Culture
A design culture turn

Writing design culture

Scope

Closed and open conceptions of design

Reflexivity and historicity

Mediation

Density

Dynamics

Materiality

Concluding remarks

What is the social impact of design? How do culture and economics shape the objects and spaces we take for granted? How do design objects, designers, producers and consumers interrelate to create experience? How do new networks of communication and technology change the design process? Thoroughly revised, this new edition: explores the iPhone, digs deep into the digital with a new chapter on networks and mobile technologies, provides a new chapter on studying design culture, explores the relationship of design to management and the creative industries, supports students with a revamped website and all new exercises. This is an essential companion for students of design, the creative industries, visual culture, material culture and sociology.

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Communication and Media Studies.

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