A History of Design Criticism
by Alice Twemlow
- Author(s)
- Alice Twemlow
- Publication, year
- Cambridge, Mass. ; London : The MIT Press, 2017
- Scope
- 302 Pages, illustrated, 23.5 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780262035989
When a designed product's usefulness is past, the public happily discards it to make room for the next new thing. Criticism rarely deals with how a product might be used, or not used, over time; it is more likely to play the enabler, encouraging our addiction to consumption.Twemlow explores five key moments over the past sixty years of product design criticism. From the mid-1950s through the 1960s, for example, critics including Reyner Banham, Deborah Allen, and Richard Hamilton wrote about the ways people actually used design, and invented a new kind of criticism. Through the years, Twemlow shows, critics either sifted the trash and assigned value or attempted to detect, diagnose, and treat the sickness of a consumer society.
- Location
- Cabinet 14 - 2: Vormgeving
- Remarks
- Incl. bibliographical references and Index.
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