Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design (MIT Press)
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (627 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262541998 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Hertzian Tales explores the complex chemistry whereby industry, design, use, misuse, and marketing all combine to form product. Marvel at the secret lives of dreaming electronic objects and enjoy this fantastic odyssey. (Neil Spiller, Professor of Architecture and Digital Theory and Vice Dean, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London)This compact manifesto is essential reading for anyone who's ever used an electronic product. At last in an edition worthy of its role, Hertzian Tales offers provocations whose significance has only increased. But while products are often boring, Dunne sees the potential for them to offer the sorts of 'complicated pleasures' we get from film or litera
"Five Stars" according to Albor. A+. Shmeets said A classic. This tome has inspired generations of designers. It’s legendary for a reason. Design Noir is harder to find, but equally good.
Industrial design has the potential to enrich our daily lives -- to improve the quality of our relationship to the artificial environment of technology, and even, argues Dunne, to be subverted for socially beneficial ends.The cultural speculations and conceptual design proposals in Hertzian Tales are not utopian visions or blueprints; instead, they embody a critique of present-day practices, "mixing criticism with optimism." Six essays explore design approaches for developing the aesthetic potential of electronic products outside a commercial context--considering such topics as the post-optimal object and the aesthetics of user-unfriendliness -- and five proposals offer commentary in the form of objects, videos, and images. These include "Electroclimates," animations on an LCD screen that register changes in radio frequency; "When Objects Dream," consumer products that "dream" in electromagnetic waves; "Thief of Affection," which steals radio signals from cardiac pacemakers; "Tuneable Cities," which uses the car as it drives through overlapping radio environments as an interface of hertzian and physical space; and the "Fara
Anthony Dunne is Professor and Head of Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art. He is also a Partner in the design practice Dunne & Raby, London.Julian Paul Keenan is Director of the Cognitive Neuroimaging Laboratory and Associate Professor of Psychology at Montclair State University.