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Thinking design / S. Balaram.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- (Singanapalli) Balaram.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial design.
- Industrial design--Social aspects--India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (284 p.) : ill.
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles, Calif. ; London : SAGE, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Thinking Design looks at 'design' in its broadest sense and shows how design originates in 'human need' which is not only physical but also psychological, socio-cultural, ecological and spiritual. The book calls for broad-based, socially integrated designs with a large global vision that offer creative solutions to a variety of subjects rather than providing multiplicity of objects. Exploring the course taken by design during the time of Gandhi and in the following era, the author advocates the need for service- or process-oriented designs in contrast to product-oriented designs. The book expl
- Contents:
- section 1. Design : nature and power
- section 2. Design : human perspectives and concerns
- section 3. Design : new dimensions and the future
- section 4. Design realisations : case studies.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612984563
- 9789351509349
- 9351509346
- 9788132112112
- 8132112113
- 9781282984561
- 128298456X
- 9788132106722
- 8132106725
- OCLC:
- 702135274
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