Design, Creativity & Culture: An Orientation to Design

Design, Creativity and Culture, Maurice Barnwell, Black Dog, October 2011, ISBN 978 1 907317 408 An accessible reader on the subject of design, culture and the creative processes active in society today. Design, Creativity, and Culture: An Orientation to Design is unique in offering a fresh and innovative approach to assessing the cross-cultural, multidisciplinary nature of design. This book is objective and free from overt bias. It references design history, design process, cultural studies, media studies, visual culture, political culture, and information technologies. It is inclusive, making reference to the full spectrum of design disciplines, providing examples from architecture, interior, product, graphic and fashion design, from a variety of cultures. Design, Creativity, and Culture provides examples and illustrations from a wide range of recognized topics from the Big Bang to The Matrix, cave wall drawings to Twitter and modernism to mass culture. Design, Creativity and Culture is an inclusive, cross-cultural study of design that will make readers question design and culture.