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What Is a Designer: Things, Places, Messages (Paperback)

by Norman Potter (Author)

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Paperback: 184 pages
Publisher: Hyphen Press; 4Rev Ed edition (12 April 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0907259162
ISBN-13: 978-0907259169
Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 12.5 x 1.1 cm

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Combining a wide-ranging discussion of the major issues of design with detailed and practical information, Norman Potter explores the possibilities and limits of design, considers the designer as an artisan and as artist, and asks: "What is good design?" The volume seeks to prompt its readers to think and act for themselves. First published in 1969, it is reissued to present the enduring core of Potter's arguments. An afterword by Robin Kinross sets the work and its author in their contexts.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Pretentious Drivvel, 28 Aug 2009

By	Elbe "Elbe" (Brighton, UK) - See all my reviews

This book is needlessly long-winded, incredibly pretentious, glaringly irrelevant, and actually quite patronising.
I've only lasted unilt chapter 5 (although I intend to continue reading from cover to cover as it is on my Reading List for St. Martins) but if the book continues in this pointless way I will feel like I've wasted hours of my life being told what I already know in the longest, most achaic fashion possible.
Let's have a little taster:
"Even 'judgement', that wise old word, becomes ponderously inhuman unless fertilized by some order of creative spontaneity"
Want more of this?
Then by all means spend a tenner on this little gem of a book.
If like me, it's on your reading list... well I personally wouldnt bother, maybe there's some money in creating a synopsis of the points raised in the simplest wording possible?

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