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Author:

Mollerup, Per, 1942- author.

Title:

Pretense design : surface over substance / Per Mollerup.

Publisher:

The MIT Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

213 pages ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Design--Psychological aspects.
Appearance (Philosophy)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Appearance first -- Object language -- Objects talk -- Objects deceit -- Bending the truth -- Product semantics -- Design rhetoric -- Objectives -- Modes -- Perceptibility -- Set-up -- Meanings -- A theory of deception -- Summing up -- Beautification -- Self-presentation -- Mother of deception -- A personal matter -- Body paint -- Tanning -- High heels -- Amusement -- Irrational otherness -- Architecture -- Columns -- Visual distoriction -- Façadism -- Ha-ha -- Funcationalism -- Tromp-l'oeil -- Simulacrascapes -- Furniture reclaimed -- Intrepid chic -- Skeuomorphism -- Fauxthenticity -- Steampunk -- New patina -- Eloquent packaging -- Trophies -- Adventurous clothing -- Travels in time, space, and fantasy -- Substitution -- Second choice -- Surface surrogates -- Who cartes? -- Placeholders -- Deception -- The truth suspended -- Masks -- Cartopgraphy -- Trojan horse -- Potemkin village -- Camouflage -- Emulation.

Series:

Design thinking, design theory

ISBN:

0262039486
9780262039482

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1038022406

LCCN:

2018024096

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)