About the Book: Design For The Real World
Design for the Real World has been translated into over twenty languages since
it first appeared in 1971; it has become the worlds most widely read book on
design and is an essential text in many design and architectural schools. This
edition offers a blueprint for survival in the third millennium. Victor Papaneks
lively and instructive guide shows how design can reduce pollution,
overcrowding, starvation, obsolescence and other modern ills. He leads us away
from fetish objects for a wasteful society towards a new age of morally and
environmentally responsible design......