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Title
A John Heskett reader
Type
Text
Monograph
Contribution
Heskett, John (author)
Dilnot, Clive (editor)
Subject
Design--History (LCSH)
Design--Economic aspects (LCSH)
DESIGN / History & Criticism (BISACSH)
DESIGN / Industrial (BISACSH)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History (BISACSH)
Language
English (eng)
Classification
LCC: NK1175 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
DDC: 745.409 full (Assigner: dlc)(Source: 23)
DES008000 (Source: bisacsh)
DES009000 (Source: bisacsh)
BUS023000 (Source: bisacsh)
Content
text (txt)
Summary
"A John Heskett Reader brings together key selected writings from the work of the design historian John Heskett. It will be edited and introduced by Clive Dilnot. John Heskett was a pioneering design historian whose work was foundational for the study of industrial design and the relationship between design, design policy, and economic value. Heskett was British but lived and taught in the United States and Hong Kong for a number of years. The Reader represents the range of Heskett's contribution to the field of design history and key concerns in his work: the relationship between design and economic value; design in history and the history of design; design policy, and design and economics. The anthology includes unpublished, hard to access and out-of-print material as well as extracts from classic and foundational works by Heskett. Included are major extracts from two unpublished books: 'Crafts, Commerce and Industry' and 'Economic Value of Design', which show Heskett's interest in exploring design and making and their relationship to economic value across the entirety of human history. Extracts are grouped into thematic sections with editorial introductions written by Clive Dilnott and other leading design historians"-- Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
Machine generated contents note:
Introduction: Clive DilnotI. Key Themes
Introduction
1. What is Design?
2. Commerce or Culture? Industrialization and Design
3. Design from the Standpoint of Economics/Economics
from the Standpoint of DesignII. Design in History & the History of Design
Introduction
(A) Designing and Making in the Pre-Industrial World
4. Some Lessons of Design History
5. Crafts, Commerce, Industry
6. Chinese Design: What Can We Learn from the Past?
7. Three moments in the History of Making: Nomads, Traders, Slaves
(B) Designing in the Industrial World
8. The 'American System' and Mass Production
9. Writing the History of Design in the Industrial World
10. The Growth of Industrial Design in Japan
(C) Design in Germany 1870-1945
11. Government Policy & German Design 1870-1918
12. The Industrial Applications of Tubular Steel
13. Modernism and Archaism in Design in the Third Reich III. Design, Business, Economics
Introduction
(A) Corporate design strategies
Sharon Helmer Poggenpohl: Design between Economics and Practice
14. GM: The Price of Corporate Arrogance
15. Everything Changes, Nothing Alters
16. Design Management in Phillips in the 1980s
17. Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: How RCA is using
Design as a Strategic Tool
18. Current and Future Demands on Hong Kong Designers
(B) National Design Policies
Carlos Texeiria: John Heskett and design policy
19. National Design Policy and Economic Change
20. Learning from Germany's Integrated Design Policy
21. Design and Industry in China
22. A Design Policy for the UK: Three Suggestions
(C) Creating Value by Design
Tore Kristensen: John Heskett's contribution to the business
and economics of design
23. Creative Destruction: The Nature and Consequences
of Change through Design
24. Product Integrity
25. Cultural Human Factors
26: Creating Economic Value by DesignIV. Reflections
Introduction
27. Past, Present and Future in Design
28. Reflections on Design and Hong Kong
29. On WritingV. Last Words
30. Can the Centre Hold?List of acronyms
Contributors
Permissions and Acknowledgments
Appendix: A first bibliography of John Heskett's published work
Index
Authorized Access Point
Heskett, John A John Heskett reader
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Date: 2015-11-18
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