Victor Papanek, Path of a Design Prophet

by Al Gowan

Victor Papanek's 1970 book Design for the Real World infuriated professional designers. It it he said the best thing they could do was to stop designing. In particular, he attacked style driven industrial design and trickster advertising. He was thrown out of several professional societies, yet was invited back to be a keynote speaker, because he told the truth, that design was too often style and fluff. Whole populations were being ignored- the handicapped,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1939166721
• ISBN13: 9781939166722
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Susan Hunziker
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.0" x 8.0"