... Bank. My Folder (0). Advanced Search. Home List of Titles Wayshowing: a guide to environmenta... more ... Bank. My Folder (0). Advanced Search. Home List of Titles Wayshowing: a guide to environmental signage, principles and practices. Add to My Folder. Swinburne Research Bank permanent link: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/54344. ...
How some design appears to be something that it is not?by beautifying, amusing, substituting, or ... more How some design appears to be something that it is not?by beautifying, amusing, substituting, or deceiving. Pretense design pretends to be something that it is not. Pretense design includes all kinds of designed objects: a pair of glasses that looks like a fashion accessory rather than a medical necessity, a hotel in Las Vegas that simulates a Venetian ambience complete with canals and gondolas, boiler plates that look like steel but are vinyl. In this book, Danish designer Per Mollerup defines and describes a ubiquitous design category that until now has not had a name: designed objects with an intentional discrepancy between surface and substance, between appearance and reality. Pretense design, he shows us, is a type of material rhetoric; it is a way for physical objects to speak persuasively, most often to benefit users but sometimes to deceive them. After explaining the means and the meanings of pretense design, Mollerup describes four pretense design applications, providing a ...
Ulven kommer, ulven kommer, har det laenge lydt. De nye medier vil helt overflødiggøre den tradit... more Ulven kommer, ulven kommer, har det laenge lydt. De nye medier vil helt overflødiggøre den traditionelle bog. Nu er de to første skandinaviske elektroniske bøger udkommet. Nemlig Esseltes opslagsvaerk, Stora Focus og Elektronisk Ordbok. Per Mollerup, direktør for Designlab, har laest lidt i Stora Focus. En CD-ROM, Compact Disc-Read Only Memory, er opbygget CD-ROM = som en almindelig CD, og er som den en rund plastskive Compact med en diameter på 120 millimeter. Den afgørende forskel Disc-Read er, at en CD-ROM kan rumme mange forskellige typer Only information; tekst, stills, film, stereo lyd og andre former for Memory lyd over to kanaler. Forskellen mellem en CD-ROM og en fem-en-kvart tomme floppy disc eller mellem CD-ROM og en bog er, at en CD-ROM kan rumme meget mere. En almindelig CD-ROM rummer 560 megabytes (1 megabyte svarer til godt og vel en million tegn), eller lige så meget som 1.200 floppy discs eller 250.000 maskinskrevne A4 sider. Det svenske opslagsvaerk, Stora Focus fra Esselte, og Elektronisk Ordbok fra samme forlag er de første skandinaviske 'bøger' på CD-ROM. Stora Focus CD-ROM bygger på en papirudgave på 17 bind: Index, 13 tekstbind A-O, Tabeller, Visibler (gennemsigtige plancher af menneske-kroppen oa) og Atlas. Stora Focus CD-ROM omfatter bogvaerkets 35.000 artikler, ca 500 tabeller og ca 1.000 illustrationer (sort/hvide + farve) med tilhørende billedtekster. Videre er der blevet plads til Focus årbøger, 'Året i Focus', siden 1985. Endelig indeholder Stora Focus CD-ROM et saerligt søgeprogram.
In this video, Professor Josie Arnold interviews Professor Per Mollerup about Design principles i... more In this video, Professor Josie Arnold interviews Professor Per Mollerup about Design principles in writing. This is part of the PhD Training Hub series
Danish Ministry of Economics and Business Affairs Program for Eastern Europe, National Agency for Enterprises and Housing, and Estonian Ministry for Communications, 2003
"Jim King, Oonagh Cassel, Mary Mullins and Mortimer O'Shea, all of Kilkenny Design Works... more "Jim King, Oonagh Cassel, Mary Mullins and Mortimer O'Shea, all of Kilkenny Design Workshops, have been very helpful in collecting background material for this issue." [page 1]
Honesty is a time-honoured principle in professional design, an axiomatic element of conventional... more Honesty is a time-honoured principle in professional design, an axiomatic element of conventional design wisdom expressed in catchphrases like 'form follows function' and 'truth to materials.' However, not all design follows the honesty principle. This paper discusses <em>counterfactual design;</em> a class of design that intentionally appears to be something it is not. Counterfactual design bends the truth to varying degrees. This paper distinguishes between counterfactual design in which the truth is edited, on standby, and suspended. It discusses the intentions behind counterfactual design, which range from beautification and amusement, to ersatz and deception. These classes of counterfactual design deal with the improvement of something existing, a quest for otherness, a quest for likeness, and outright cheating respectively. The paper continues by discussing how the truth is bent: by overstatement, by fabrication, and by understatement, sometimes pra...
... Bank. My Folder (0). Advanced Search. Home List of Titles Wayshowing: a guide to environmenta... more ... Bank. My Folder (0). Advanced Search. Home List of Titles Wayshowing: a guide to environmental signage, principles and practices. Add to My Folder. Swinburne Research Bank permanent link: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/54344. ...
How some design appears to be something that it is not?by beautifying, amusing, substituting, or ... more How some design appears to be something that it is not?by beautifying, amusing, substituting, or deceiving. Pretense design pretends to be something that it is not. Pretense design includes all kinds of designed objects: a pair of glasses that looks like a fashion accessory rather than a medical necessity, a hotel in Las Vegas that simulates a Venetian ambience complete with canals and gondolas, boiler plates that look like steel but are vinyl. In this book, Danish designer Per Mollerup defines and describes a ubiquitous design category that until now has not had a name: designed objects with an intentional discrepancy between surface and substance, between appearance and reality. Pretense design, he shows us, is a type of material rhetoric; it is a way for physical objects to speak persuasively, most often to benefit users but sometimes to deceive them. After explaining the means and the meanings of pretense design, Mollerup describes four pretense design applications, providing a ...
Ulven kommer, ulven kommer, har det laenge lydt. De nye medier vil helt overflødiggøre den tradit... more Ulven kommer, ulven kommer, har det laenge lydt. De nye medier vil helt overflødiggøre den traditionelle bog. Nu er de to første skandinaviske elektroniske bøger udkommet. Nemlig Esseltes opslagsvaerk, Stora Focus og Elektronisk Ordbok. Per Mollerup, direktør for Designlab, har laest lidt i Stora Focus. En CD-ROM, Compact Disc-Read Only Memory, er opbygget CD-ROM = som en almindelig CD, og er som den en rund plastskive Compact med en diameter på 120 millimeter. Den afgørende forskel Disc-Read er, at en CD-ROM kan rumme mange forskellige typer Only information; tekst, stills, film, stereo lyd og andre former for Memory lyd over to kanaler. Forskellen mellem en CD-ROM og en fem-en-kvart tomme floppy disc eller mellem CD-ROM og en bog er, at en CD-ROM kan rumme meget mere. En almindelig CD-ROM rummer 560 megabytes (1 megabyte svarer til godt og vel en million tegn), eller lige så meget som 1.200 floppy discs eller 250.000 maskinskrevne A4 sider. Det svenske opslagsvaerk, Stora Focus fra Esselte, og Elektronisk Ordbok fra samme forlag er de første skandinaviske 'bøger' på CD-ROM. Stora Focus CD-ROM bygger på en papirudgave på 17 bind: Index, 13 tekstbind A-O, Tabeller, Visibler (gennemsigtige plancher af menneske-kroppen oa) og Atlas. Stora Focus CD-ROM omfatter bogvaerkets 35.000 artikler, ca 500 tabeller og ca 1.000 illustrationer (sort/hvide + farve) med tilhørende billedtekster. Videre er der blevet plads til Focus årbøger, 'Året i Focus', siden 1985. Endelig indeholder Stora Focus CD-ROM et saerligt søgeprogram.
In this video, Professor Josie Arnold interviews Professor Per Mollerup about Design principles i... more In this video, Professor Josie Arnold interviews Professor Per Mollerup about Design principles in writing. This is part of the PhD Training Hub series
Danish Ministry of Economics and Business Affairs Program for Eastern Europe, National Agency for Enterprises and Housing, and Estonian Ministry for Communications, 2003
"Jim King, Oonagh Cassel, Mary Mullins and Mortimer O'Shea, all of Kilkenny Design Works... more "Jim King, Oonagh Cassel, Mary Mullins and Mortimer O'Shea, all of Kilkenny Design Workshops, have been very helpful in collecting background material for this issue." [page 1]
Honesty is a time-honoured principle in professional design, an axiomatic element of conventional... more Honesty is a time-honoured principle in professional design, an axiomatic element of conventional design wisdom expressed in catchphrases like 'form follows function' and 'truth to materials.' However, not all design follows the honesty principle. This paper discusses <em>counterfactual design;</em> a class of design that intentionally appears to be something it is not. Counterfactual design bends the truth to varying degrees. This paper distinguishes between counterfactual design in which the truth is edited, on standby, and suspended. It discusses the intentions behind counterfactual design, which range from beautification and amusement, to ersatz and deception. These classes of counterfactual design deal with the improvement of something existing, a quest for otherness, a quest for likeness, and outright cheating respectively. The paper continues by discussing how the truth is bent: by overstatement, by fabrication, and by understatement, sometimes pra...
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