Although design has become eminently newsworthy among the general public in our society, there is very little understanding to be found of the values and implications that underlie it. Design generates much heat but little light: we live in a world that has much design consciousness, but little design awareness. Nigel Whiteley analyses design's role and status today, and discusses what our obsession with it tells us about our own culture. "Design for Society" is not an anti-design book; rather, it is an anti-consumerist-design book, in that it reveals what most people would agree are the socially and ecologically unsound values and unsatisfactory implications on which the system of consumerist design is constructed. In so doing, it prepares the ground for a more responsible and just type of design.
- ISBN10 1282795856
- ISBN13 9781282795853
- Publish Date 1 January 1997 (first published 1 September 1993)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 17 February 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Reaktion Books
- Edition Revised ed.
- Format eBook
- Pages 195
- Language English