Wayfinding, Consumption, and Air Terminal Design

Wayfinding, Consumption, and Air Terminal Design
Author: Menno Hubregtse
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2020-02-20
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1000029689

This book investigates how international air terminals organize passenger movement and generate spending. It offers a new understanding of how their architecture and artworks operate visually to guide people through the space and affect their behaviour. Menno Hubregtse’s research draws upon numerous airport visits and interviews with architects and planners, as well as documents and articles that address these terminals’ development, construction, and renovations. The book establishes the main concerns of architects with respect to wayfinding strategies and analyzes how air terminal architecture, artworks, and interior design contribute to the airport’s operations. The book will be of interest to art historians, architectural historians, practising architects, urban planners, airport specialists, and geographers.

The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design

The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design
Author: Joseph Heathcott
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2022-01-31
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1000528634

The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design explores the multifaceted nature of infrastructure through the global lens of architectural history. Infrastructure holds the world together. Yet even as it connects some people, it divides others, sorting access and connectivity through varied social categories such as class, race, gender, and citizenship. This collection examines themes across broad spans of time, raises questions of linkage and scale, investigates infrastructure as phenomenon and affect, and traces the interrelation of aesthetics, technology, and power. With a diverse range of contributions from 33 scholars, this volume presents new research from regions including South and East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, North America, Western Europe, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union. This extraordinary group of authors bring close attention to the materials, functions, and aesthetics of infrastructure systems as these unfold within their cultural and political contexts. They provide not only new knowledge of specific artifacts, such as the Valens Aqueduct, the Hong Kong waterfront, and the Pan-American Highway, but also new ways of conceptualizing, studying, and understanding infrastructure as a worlding process. The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design provides richly textured, thoroughly evidenced, and imaginatively drawn arguments that deepen our understanding of the role of infrastructure in creating the world in which we live. It is a must-read for academics and students.

Airport Wayfinding

Airport Wayfinding
Author: Heike Nehl
Publisher: Niggli
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9783721210149

The past and present of environmental graphic design at airports worldwide.

Wayfinding and Signing Guidelines for Airport Terminals and Landside

Wayfinding and Signing Guidelines for Airport Terminals and Landside
Author:
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2011
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0309213460

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 52: Wayfinding and Signing Guidelines for Airport Terminals and Landside is designed to provide airports with the tools necessary to help passengers find their way in and around the airport.

Design and Political Dissent

Design and Political Dissent
Author: Jilly Traganou
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre: Design
ISBN: 135118797X

This book examines, through an interdisciplinary lens, the relationship between political dissent and processes of designing. In the past twenty years, theorists of social movements have noted a diversity of visual and performative manifestations taking place in protest, while the fields of design, broadly defined, have been characterized by a growing interest in activism. The book’s premise stems from the recognition that material engagement and artifacts have the capacity to articulate political arguments or establish positions of disagreement. Its contributors look at a wide array of material practices generated by both professional and nonprofessional design actors around the globe, exploring case studies that vary from street protests and encampments to design pedagogy and community-empowerment projects. For students and scholars of design studies, urbanism, visual culture, politics, and social movements, this book opens up new perspectives on design and its place in contemporary politics.

The Ontology of Design Research

The Ontology of Design Research
Author: Miguel Ángel Herrera Batista
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2020-11-23
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1000219593

This book seeks to establish the meaning of design research, its role in the field, and the characteristics that differentiate research in design from research in other fields. The author introduces a model to explain the relationship between the components of the ontological reality of design: the designed object, the designer, and the user. Addressing design research across disciplines, the author establishes a foundational understanding of research, and research paradigms, for the design disciplines. This will be crucial for the emerging field of design research to find its own identity and move forward, building its own knowledge base as it finds its positioning between science and art. The book will be of interest to scholars working in design history, design studies, graphic design, industrial design, interior design, architecture, fashion design, and service design.

Towards a Cognitivist Understanding of Communication Design

Towards a Cognitivist Understanding of Communication Design
Author: Phil Jones
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2024-06-12
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1040033326

This book demonstrates the relevance and importance of cognitive linguistics when applied to the analysis and practice of graphic design/communication design. Phil Jones brings together a diverse range of theory and organizes it in accordance with different stages in the design process. Using examples from contemporary communication design, as well as more familiar selections from the graphic design canon as case studies, this book provides an account of how meanings are made by users, and suggests new strategies for design practice. It seeks convergences between the ways that graphic/communication designers think and talk about their practice and the theories emerging from cognitive science. This book will be of interest to scholars working in design, graphic design, the philosophy of art and aesthetics, communication studies, and media and film studies.

Narrative Environments and Experience Design

Narrative Environments and Experience Design
Author: Tricia Austin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2020-04-15
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0429640676

This book argues narrative, people and place are inseparable and pursues the consequences of this insight through the design of narrative environments. This is a new and distinct area of practice that weaves together and extends narrative theory, spatial theory and design theory. Examples of narrative spaces, such as exhibitions, brand experiences, urban design and socially engaged participatory interventions in the public realm, are explored to show how space acts as a medium of communication through a synthesis of materials, structures and technologies, and how particular social behaviours are reproduced or critiqued through spatial narratives. This book will be of interest to scholars in design studies, urban studies, architecture, new materialism and design practitioners in the creative industries.

Contemporary Processes of Text Typeface Design

Contemporary Processes of Text Typeface Design
Author: Michael Harkins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2020-05-12
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1000059928

This book addresses the paucity of published research specifically dealing with knowledge of text typeface design processes. Dr Michael Harkins uses a Grounded Theory Methodology to render a tripartite theory resulting in explanation and description of the processes of text typeface design based upon the evidence of subject specific expert knowledge from world-leading practitioners, including Matthew Carter, Robin Nicholas, Erik Spiekermann, and Gerard Unger. The book will be of interest to scholars working in design research, design epistemology, design process, typography, type design, information design and graphic design.

Storytelling in Luxury Fashion

Storytelling in Luxury Fashion
Author: Amanda Sikarskie
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2020-11-22
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1000259684

This book examines the ways in which luxury fashion brands use their heritage in their digital storytelling and marketing. With chapters from authors in China and Macau (PRC), India, Romania, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States, covering British, Chinese, French, Japanese, Indian, Italian, and Turkish brands, this truly global collection is the first book of its kind devoted solely to the emerging study of digital heritage storytelling. This method of reaching potential consumers and perpetuating brand identity is a hugely important factor in the marketing of luxury brands and has yet to be studied comprehensively. The book will be of interest to scholars working in fashion studies, fashion history, design history, design studies, digital humanities, and fashion marketing.