{"product_id":"what-was-design","title":"What was design?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat was design? – Declarations and definitions from a century of creative quest\u003c\/em\u003e is a quick starter to one of modernity’s most contested terms. In its brief but meteoric career, “design” was subject to vast controversy. Celebrated as an engine of change, denounced as a driving force of commercialization, and regularly lamented as overused, design remains a concept whose true meaning is still being sought. While answers to the question “What is design?” are constantly shifting, the time has come for a retrospective. This book looks back, presenting a century of design thinking in its most compact form: a collection of bold quotes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat was design?\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eDeclarations and definitions from a century of creative quest\u003c\/em\u003e pits 87 historical one-sentence answers from practitioners, theorists, and philosophers against one another. The result is a web of radical short-form definitions that remain strikingly contradictory in their references. This selection is accompanied by an essay from \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/florianwalzel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eFlorian Walzel\u003c\/a\u003e, exploring the deeper reasons behind the conceptual ambiguity of design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSlanted Publishers is an internationally active publishing and media house founded by Lars Harmsen and Julia Kahl. They publish the award-winning print magazine Slanted, covering international developments in design and culture twice a year as well as other design-related projects and publications in the field of typography, contemporary art, and design.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Slanted","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57955025781000,"sku":null,"price":26.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1486\/2388\/files\/GUDBERG-NERGER_What-was-design_Declarations-and-definitions-from-a-century-of-creative-quest_Slanted.jpg?v=1780759949","url":"https:\/\/gudbergnerger.com\/products\/what-was-design","provider":"GUDBERG NERGER","version":"1.0","type":"link"}