The Designer
Half a Century of Change in Image, Training, and Technique
Distributed for Intellect Ltd
144 pages
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32 halftones
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7 x 9
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
Part 1. Discussion
Introduction
Chapter 1: Changing attitudes, images and terminology
Chapter 2: The neglect of drawing
Chapter 3: Changes in the training of designers
Part 2. Wider perspectives
Introduction
Chapter 4: Design education in the last fifty years: a personal perspective
Jorge Frascara
Chapter 5: Musings about design
Sharon Helmer Poggenpohl
Chapter 6: Reflections on design education in Western Australia during the last quarter of the twentieth century and beyond
Paul Green-Armytage
Chapter 7: Oven-ready for employment?
Neil Barnett & Darren Raven
Part 3. By accident or design
Introduction
Chapter 8: Setting out
Chapter 9: Starting real life
Chapter 10: Packaging design
Chapter 11: Branching out
Chapter 12: Writing, teaching, research and typefaces
Index
Review Quotes
Design Arts Magazine
"A book that challenges many preconceptions and can be quite critical. . . but which recognises the pluses as well as the minuses of the current state of education and comes up along the way with many positive suggestions." – Design Arts Magazine
Form: The Making of Design Magazine
"Very enlightening. The book offers an interesting overview on traditional values, new ways of working and different teaching methods."
Aidan Rowe | www.adm.heacademy.ac.uk
"Designer: Half a Century of Change in Image, Training, and Techniques is an engaging and thoughtful collection, assembling personal memories and considered reflections from a variety of designers, design educators and theorists, enabling us to better understand the last half century of design."
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