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This book provides an introduction to the products and practices of today's international design world. It considers various influences on design and designing, including the anticipated users, the manufacturers and those who seek to synthesise the needs of both groups. A selection of chairs is used to illustrate key points.

Table of Contents:
Contents Introduction 5 Aims and learning outcomes 6 Study chart 7 1 What can we learn about design from our chairs? 10 1.1 Are you sitting comfortably? 10 1.2 The rationale for seating 11 2 The 'human factors' of seats 14 2.1 Body and brain 14 2.2 Seats and our anatomy 15 2.3 Seats and our mind: information and interpretation 21 3 Seats, culture and geography 31 3.1 Clues to culture 31 3.2 Culture, space and order 35 4 Seats as symbols 38 4.1 A process of interpretation 38 4.2 Symbols of status or wealth 38 4.3 Symbols of taste and identification 41 5 Seats and materials 44 5.1 The influence of materials 44 5.2 Bentwood 46 5.3 Plywood and laminated wood 48 5.4 Chromium-plated steel tube 54 5.5 Paper 56 6 Seats: manufacture and sustainability 62 6.1 Materials and manufacture 62 6.2 Parts and assemblies in a chair 63 6.3 What is sustainability? 65 6.4 Examples of sustainability in chairs 67 7 Design as product, designing as process 76 7.1 Introduction to Part 2 76 7.2 Defining design and designing 76 7.3 Designing as intervention 77 7.4 Industrial design and engineering design 82 8 Humans designing to designing of humans 84 8.1 When did designing begin? 84 8.2 Producers and consumers 87 8.3 Design and craft 91 8.4 Triggers of design activity 98 9 The designing process 101 9.1 Building a model of the process 101 9.2 Applying the model 103 9.3 Design problems 105 9.4 Phases in designing 107 10 Modelling for product design 110 10.1 Models as simplification 110 10.2 Designing as making and using models 112 10.3 Dangers of models 117 10.4 Developments in product modelling 117


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  • ISBN-13: 9780749259068
  • Publisher: OPEN UNIVERSITY WORLDWIDE
  • Publisher Imprint: Open University Worldwide
  • ISBN-10: 074925906X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2004
  • Binding: Paperback


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