Utility reassessed / edited by Judy Attfield.
Material type: TextSeries: Studies in design and material culture | Studies in design and material culturePublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1999.Description: 224p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780719052774 (hbk.) :
- 0719058449 (pbk.)
- Design -- History
- Design -- Philosophy
- Design -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- British Utility Design Scheme
- Functionalism in art
- Design -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Art and Design
- Theory of art
- History of art
- Industrial / commercial art & design
- Media studies
- Cultural studies
- Social & cultural history
- Philosophy: aesthetics
- 745.401 ATT
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 745.401 ATT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 114533 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Utility reassessed / Judy Attfield -- Utility prefigured : Ruskin and St George's Mill / Linda Coleing -- 'Pro arte utili' : the utility principle in Finnish textile design education / Marjo Wiberg -- An episode in post-Utility design management : the Council of Industrial Design and the Co-operative Wholesale Society / Jonathan M. Woodham -- 'Beauty, everyday and for all' : the social vision of design in Stalinist Poland / David Crowley -- 'The beauty of stark utility' : rational consumption in America - Consumer reports 1936-54 / Susie McKellar -- The design of Utility vehicles in wartime Britain / Jonathan Bell -- Utility furniture and the myth of Utility 1943-48 / Matthew Denney -- The Utility garment : its design and effect on the mass market 1942-45 / Helen Reynolds -- Fashion, feminity and 'frivolous' consumption in World-War-Two Britain / Pat Kirkham -- Utility forgot : shaping the future of the British pottery industry 1941-1945 / Graham McLaren -- Enid Marx : designing textiles for the Utility Furniture Design Advisory Panel / Cynthia R. Weaver -- Utility, design principles and the ethical tradition / Nigel Whiteley -- Freedom of design / Judy Attfield -- Utility and the politics of consumption / Patrick J. Maguire -- Fascinating fitness : the dangers of good design / Judy Attfield -- Design and the state : post-war horizons and pre-millennial aspirations / Jonathan M. Woodham.
Using the concept of utility as a touchstone for the consideration of the place of ethics in the recent history of design, this collection of essays offers a way into the issues which concern design decision-makers today.