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By Design: Why There Are No Locks on the Bathroom Doors in the Hotel Louis Xiv, and Other Object Lessons (Hardcover)

by Ralph Caplan (Author)
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By Design is easy to read, entertaining . . . and full of simple but profound insights about the design profession. -- Roberto Rengel, professor of professor of environment, textiles and design, University of Wisconsin-Madison

By Design is easy to read, entertaining . . . and full of simple but profound insights about the design profession. -- Roberto Rengel, professor of professor of environment, textiles and design, University of Wisconsin-Madison<br /><br />By Design is easy to read, entertaining . . . and full of simple but profound insights about the design profession. -- Roberto Rengel, professor of professor of environment, textiles and design, University of Wisconsin-Madison<br /><br />By Design is easy to read, entertaining . . . and full of simple but profound insights about the design profession. -- Roberto Rengel, professor of professor of environment, textiles and design, University of Wisconsin-Madison<br /><br />Ralph Caplan's By Design will probably change the way you look at your world, rendering it less common. -- Rob Forbes, Founder of Design Within Reach<br /><br />Ralph Caplan's writing on the subject of design is always both entertaining and profound. -- Milton Glaser<br /><br />This book is captivating! --Katherine Ankerson, associate professor of architecture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln<br /><br />Ralph Caplan's By Design will probably change the way you look at your world, rendering it less common. -- Rob Forbes, Founder of Design Within Reach<br /><br />Ralph Caplan's writing on the subject of design is always both entertaining and profound. -- Milton Glaser<br /><br />This book is captivating! --Katherine Ankerson, associate professor of architecture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln<br /><br />Ralph Caplan's By Design will probably change the way you look at your world, rendering it less common. -- Rob Forbes, Founder of Design Within Reach<br /><br />Ralph Caplan's writing on the subject of design is always both entertaining and profound. -- Milton Glaser<br /><br />This book is captivating! --Katherine Ankerson, associate professor of architecture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Ralph Caplan's By Design will probably change the way you look at your world, rendering it less common. -- Rob Forbes, Founder of Design Within Reach

Ralph Caplan's writing on the subject of design is always both entertaining and profound. -- Milton Glaser

This book is captivating! -- Katherine Ankerson, associate professor of architecture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln --This text refers to the Turtleback edition.

Product Description
An inspiring resource for design students, professionals, or anyone else who could benefit
from a fuller appreciation of the design process, By Design vividly shows how design affects
our most significant human activities. A network of engrossing stories illuminate the process
as it applies to architecture, industrial design, interior design, fashion design, graphic
design, and the design of business and social situations. It is the perfect accompaniment to
a broad area of foundation courses for designers-in-training. This new edition of the popular
classic features updated examples of timeless ideas, illustrated in full color. A concluding
chapter discusses what has, and has not, changed since the first edition, examining
design responses to radical technological development and shifting consumer demands. --This text refers to the Turtleback edition.

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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 208 pages
  • Publisher: St Martins Pr; 1st edition (October 1982)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0312110855
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312110857
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #837,086 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Book For Anyone in the Product Business, July 14, 2005
This outstanding book is said to be aimed at design students, professionals, or anyone else who could benefit from af uller appreciation of the design process. And yes, I have to agree, it is.

More important to me however is the presentation in this book of the essence of what design is all about. This is the kind of book that the financial people behind a new big hotel should read. It is the book that a product development engineer should read before he starts working with his industrial designer. This is the book that nearly any business manager from marketing, to engineering, to sales, should read.

The first time I travelled to Scandinavia I was struck with the simple elements of design that they do so much better than we do in this country. Simple things like the design of hotel doors, no more expensive than what we do here, just better.

And the sub-title, 'why there are no locks on the bathrobe doors in the Hotel Louis XIV' -that's a great story, it makes such eminent sense. A special problem, a great design, see page 179.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great introduction to the meaningful aspects of Design, November 26, 1998
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A must have for all Designers interested in understanding how products are ultimately judged within their context-by thier effectiveness and usefulness.The six levels of Design Caplan outlines is a great measuring stick for all disciplines of Design and Engineering.
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