What Design Can’t Do, 9789083350134
Paperback
Design’s blind spots exposed: humorously questioning what it can’t achieve.

What Design Can’t Do

essays on design and disillusion

$64.21

  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    17 November 2023

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Summary

Design Disillusion: When Optimism Meets Reality

A witty, tongue-in-cheek discussion of design’s potentials and pitfalls

In focusing on creating preferable conditions, the discipline of design is optimistic by default. And yet, vernacular manifestations of skepticism, dissatisfaction and even resentment toward design abound. Instead of systematically discarding them, can these “sad passions” shed a valuable light on the blind spots of the field? Can disillusi…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9789083350134
ISBN-10:9083350134
Author:Silvio Lorusso
Publisher:Set Margins' publications
Imprint:Set Margins' publications
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:17 November 2023
Weight:386g
Dimensions:36mm x 202mm x 131mm

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