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International design organizations : histories, legacies, values / edited by Jeremy Aynsley, Alison J. Clarke & Tania Messell.

Contributor(s): Material type: Computer fileComputer fileLanguage: English Publication details: USA, London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022Description: 1 online resource (353, pages) : color illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781350112513 (e-book)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • NK21  In8 2022
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Contents:
I. Professions – rules – institutions – personalities -- 1. Professional graphic design and Cold War politics : National and transnational design organizations -- 2. One step before organizations : Networks, actors and trajectories in Argentine design (1938–1962) -- 3. International design organizations and émigré identity : Peter Muller-Munk and American representation in ICSID, 1950–1967 -- 4. International design organizations as global design advocates: Romance, reality and relevance? -- II. National – international – transnational -- 5. Becoming the International Design Conference in Aspen -- 6. Aladi, a Latin American voice of design -- 7. Internationalizing Japanese graphic design: From the pre-war period to today -- 8. Shaping national and international design policies: The transnational trajectory of the Belgian policymaker Josine des Cressonnières (1926–1985) -- III. Design definitions – epistemologies – differences -- 9. Negotiating graphic design between national and international design organizations : The case of the Associazione per il Design Industriale in Milan -- 10. Tööstuskunsti komitee : a case study of an invisible design organization in Soviet Estonia -- 11. Design for development, ICSID and UNIDO: The anthropological turn in 1970s design -- 12. No good (design) would come of it : The International Design Conference in Aspen, 1977–2004 -- 13. XIN, A message with strategic vision – an analysis of the meaning of the 2009 Icograda Beijing Congress Yun Wang
Summary: "This innovative volume brings together international design scholars to address the history and present-day status of national and international design organizations, working across design disciplines and located in countries including Argentina, Turkey, Estonia, Switzerland, Italy, China and the USA. In the second half of the 20th century, many non-governmental organizations were created to address urgent cultural, economic and welfare issues. Design organizations set out to create an international consensus for the future direction of design. This included enhancing communication between professionals, educators and practitioners, raising standards for design, and creating communities of designers across linguistic, national and political borders. Shared needs and agendas were identified and categories of design constantly defined and re-defined, often with overt cultural and political intents. Drawing on an impressive range of original research, archival sources and oral testimony, this volume questions the aims and achievements of national and international design organizations in light of their subsequent histories and their global remits. The Cold War period is central to the book, while many chapters draw on post-colonial perspectives to interpret how transnational networks and negotiations took place at events and congresses, and through publication"--
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I. Professions – rules – institutions – personalities -- 1. Professional graphic design and Cold War politics : National and transnational design organizations -- 2. One step before organizations : Networks, actors and trajectories in Argentine design (1938–1962) -- 3. International design organizations and émigré identity : Peter Muller-Munk and American representation in ICSID, 1950–1967 -- 4. International design organizations as global design advocates: Romance, reality and relevance? -- II. National – international – transnational -- 5. Becoming the International Design Conference in Aspen -- 6. Aladi, a Latin American voice of design -- 7. Internationalizing Japanese graphic design: From the pre-war period to today -- 8. Shaping national and international design policies: The transnational trajectory of the Belgian policymaker Josine des Cressonnières (1926–1985) -- III. Design definitions – epistemologies – differences -- 9. Negotiating graphic design between national and international design organizations : The case of the Associazione per il Design Industriale in Milan -- 10. Tööstuskunsti komitee : a case study of an invisible design organization in Soviet Estonia -- 11. Design for development, ICSID and UNIDO: The anthropological turn in 1970s design -- 12. No good (design) would come of it : The International Design Conference in Aspen, 1977–2004 -- 13. XIN, A message with strategic vision – an analysis of the meaning of the 2009 Icograda Beijing Congress Yun Wang

"This innovative volume brings together international design scholars to address the history and present-day status of national and international design organizations, working across design disciplines and located in countries including Argentina, Turkey, Estonia, Switzerland, Italy, China and the USA. In the second half of the 20th century, many non-governmental organizations were created to address urgent cultural, economic and welfare issues. Design organizations set out to create an international consensus for the future direction of design. This included enhancing communication between professionals, educators and practitioners, raising standards for design, and creating communities of designers across linguistic, national and political borders. Shared needs and agendas were identified and categories of design constantly defined and re-defined, often with overt cultural and political intents. Drawing on an impressive range of original research, archival sources and oral testimony, this volume questions the aims and achievements of national and international design organizations in light of their subsequent histories and their global remits. The Cold War period is central to the book, while many chapters draw on post-colonial perspectives to interpret how transnational networks and negotiations took place at events and congresses, and through publication"--

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