Digital design : a history / Stephen J. Eskilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eskilson, Stephen, 1964- author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Design and technology.

Design--Technological innovations.

Design.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2023]

Summary:

A groundbreaking history of digital design from the nineteenth century to todayDigital design has emerged as perhaps the most dynamic force in society, occupying a fluid, experimental space where product design intersects with art, film, business, engineering, theater, music, and artificial intelligence. Stephen Eskilson traces the history of digital design from its precursors in the nineteenth century to its technological and cultural ascendency today, providing a multifaceted account of a digital revolution that touches all aspects of our lives.We live in a time when silicon processors, miniaturization, and CAD-enhanced 3D design have transformed the tangible world of cars and coffee makers as well as the screen world on our phones, computers, and game systems. Eskilson provides invaluable historical perspective to help readers better understand how digital design has become such a vibrant feature of the contemporary landscape. He covers topics ranging from graphic and product design to type, web design, architecture, data visualization, and virtual reality. Along the way, he paints compelling portraits of key innovators behind this transformation, from foundational figures such as Marshall McLuhan, Nam June Paik, and April Greiman to those mapping new frontiers, such as Sepandar Kamvar, Jeanne Gang, Karim Rashid, Neri Oxman, and Jony Ive.Bringing together an unprecedented array of sources on digital design, this comprehensive and richly illustrated book reveals how many of the digital practices we think of as cutting-edge actually originated in the analog age and how the history of digital design is as much about our changing relationship to forms as the forms themselves.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Introduction

One. The Visionaries

Two. The Machines

Three. Digital Type Design

Four. Games and Experiments

Five. Digital Print and Web 1.0

Six. Digital Architecture I: Origins

Seven. Digital Web 2.0

Eight. Digital Architecture II: Parametrics and 3D Printing

Nine. Digital Product Design: Sexy Plastic

Ten. Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence

Eleven. Data Visualization

Twelve. Virtual Reality

Coda. The Digital Future

Acknowledgments

Index

Picture Credits

Notes:

Includes index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691253244

0691253242

OCLC:

1535648807