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Design for the Real World has, since its first appearance twenty-five years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In this edition, Victor Papanek examines the attempts by designers to combat the tawdry, the unsafe, the frivolous, the useless product, once again providing a blueprint for sensible, responsible design in this world which is deficient in resources and energy.

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  • Title Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change
  • Author Victor Papanek
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2 Revised
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Academy Chicago Publishers, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2005-08
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780897331531 / 0897331532
  • Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.44 x 5.69 x 0.84 in (21.44 x 14.45 x 2.13 cm)
  • Category Technology & Industrial Arts
  • Library of Congress subjects Human engineering, Design, Industrial
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 85018512
  • Dewey Decimal Code 745.2

About the author

Although most of Dr. Papanek's work had been in product design, his background included architecture and anthropology. He taught or chaired departments at universities in Canada, the United States, Denmark, Sweden and England. In recognition of his work to create a closer understanding between the impoverished Third World and technologically advanced countries, he was nominated for the Alternative Nobel Prize. In 1981 he received the ICSID/Kyoto Honours Award for his development of a communications device for the governments of Tanzania and Nigeria. He was also senior design consultant to Volvo of Sweden, to the government of Papua New Guinea and to a medical lighting firm in Australia. From 1981 he was permanent J.L. Constant Distinguished Professor at the School of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Dr. Papanek died in 1998.
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