Encountering Things

Leslie Atzmon is Professor of Graphic Design and Design History at Eastern Michigan University, USA.Prasad Boradkar is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Industrial Design Programme at Arizona State University, USA.

[The] in-depth discussion on the location of material culture (s) in human-thing relationships and thus in society makes the book extremely worth reading.

• IntroductionLeslie Atzmon and Prasad BoradkarChapter 1Filled with Wonder: Enchanting Androids from Cams to CodesBetti MarenkoChapter 2When Objects Fail: Unconcealing Things in Design Writing and Criticism Peter HallChapter 3What design tells us about objects and thingsG. De Michelis Chapter 4Visual Essay—The Boombox ProjectPrasad Boradkar and Lyle OwerkoChapter 5Theorizing the Hari KuyôChristine GuthChapter 6Making Things ThingsNina RappaportChapter 7Distributing Stresses: The Development and Use of the Eames Dining Chair MetalMichael J. GolecChapter 8The Practically Living Weight of Convenient ThingsCameron TonkinwiseChapter 9The Modern American Telephone as a Contested Technological Thing, 1920-1939Jan HadlawChapter 10Visual Essay—Montreal Signage ProjectMatt SoarChapter 11Connecting Things: Broadening Design To Include Systems, Platforms, And Product-Service EcologiesHugh Dubberly Chapter 12Things as "Poor" Substitutes Carl KnappettChapter 13 The Graphic Thing: Ambiguity, Dysfunction, and Excess in Designed ObjectsPhil JonesChapter 14 Nothingness in April Greiman’s “Does It Make Sense?” Elizabeth GuffeyChapter 15Visual Essay—Indian Copper ObjectsPrasad BoradkarAfterword Bill BrownBibliography Index