Whether furniture, hoardings, websites, clothing, pictograms, cars, or urban spaces: design is omnipresent. Only in philosophy has it up until now not received (almost) any consideration.
Daniel Martin Feige closes this gap by presenting a series of basic concepts that have to do with design, and presents design as an aesthetic praxis with its own rules. According to his thesis, in the praxis of design, function also becomes aesthetic. This book is a contribution to a philosophy...
Whether furniture, hoardings, websites, clothing, pictograms, cars, or urban spaces: design is omnipresent. Only in philosophy has it up until now not received (almost) any consideration.
Daniel Martin Feige closes this gap by presenting a series of basic concepts that have to do with design, and presents design as an aesthetic praxis with its own rules. According to his thesis, in the praxis of design, function also becomes aesthetic. This book is a contribution to a philosophy of design as much as it is an introduction to philosophical thought for designers and those interested in design in general.
»Without design everyday life would be colourless, would have no particular magic. Designers are magicians who give things another face. Daniel Martin Feige’s book sharpens our senses. It is a defence of beauty in a time that has ever less of a sense for the special.« Neue Zürcher Zeitung
»Good design allows for a good life, Feige believes. The wealth of his new ideas and brave theoretical twists fits our times, which are increasingly being drawn up by conscious design decisions.« DIE ZEIT
»Daniel Martin Feige has written a brilliant book on a concept which today is used in almost an inflationary manner.« prberghoff.de
»The book is both a contribution on the philosophy of design as well as an introduction into philosophical thought for designers and those interested in design.« Stadtzauber Kulturmagazin
»Without design everyday life would be colourless, would have no particular magic. Designers are magicians who give things another face. Daniel Martin Feige’s book sharpens our senses. It is a defence of beauty in a time that has ever less of a sense for the special.« Neue Zürcher Zeitung
»Good design allows for a good life, Feige believes. The wealth of his new ideas and brave theoretical twists fits our times, which are increasingly being...
Daniel Martin Feige is professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics with particular focus on design at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart.
Daniel Martin Feige is professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics with particular focus on design at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart.
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