Description: THE DESIGN PROCESS explores the route of a design through seven stages from the World of Imagination to the World of Objects, starting the journey at inspiration with production as the destination. Aspelund emphasizes the need to understand one's own creativity in order to develop and communicate ideas. He examines the designer's roles - artist, dreamer, performer, manager, coordinator, communicator, and problem solver. Supplementing the author's insights from his personal experience are the perspectives of other designers. The text features engaging illustrations to present concepts discussed in the text in memorable visual terms; perspectives of seven professional designers, who work in a variety of media but follow similar paths as they confront the issues posed by each stage of the design process; end-of-chapter exercises to help students move their own projects through the seven stages; and appendices recommending readings for further exploration and serving as "refreshers" on design elements and principles, notable designers, architects, and artists, trend analysis, and major movements of design, including aesthetic trends, technological breakthroughs , and zeitgeist-altering events from the mid-1800s onward. Karl Aspelund is Associate Director of the Honors Program at the University of Rhode Island and Associate Professor of Design and Design Theory in the TMD Dept. at URI’s College of Business. He is also Visiting Associate Professor in Ethnology and Museum Studies at the University of Iceland. After a 20-year career in design for theater, film, and public art, Karl completed a Ph.D. in Anthropology and Material Culture at Boston University in 2011 where he was awarded the Edmonds Prize for Best Dissertation. His research involves textiles, material culture and personal and national identity creation. On the 100-Year-Starship research team, he has investigated the needs and constraints of textiles for long-duration spaceflight, leading to current focus on the human element involved and on circular economies of textiles on Earth.
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Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 254
Topic: Design, Textiles, Interior Decorating, Material Culture, National Identity Creation, Spaceflight Textiles, Circular Economies of Textiles
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
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Book Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x .6 inches
Language: English
Publication Year: 2006
Book Title: The Design Process
Author: Karl Aspelund
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Fairchild Publications, Inc.
Genre: Art & Design
Art Director: Adam B. Bohannon
Interior Design: Emily Mitchell
