Keeping it on the surface: design, surfaces and taste

Kelley, Victoria (2016) Keeping it on the surface: design, surfaces and taste. In: The Routledge Companion to Design Studies. Routledge, pp. 123-134. ISBN 9781138780507

Creators:
Kelley, Victoria
Description/Abstract:

This chapter is about surfaces. It will attempt to outline how surface relates to taste, and how both are important subjects in design. Surface and taste are big subjects that can be approached from many angles and in the context of many different disciplinary frameworks. Surface, for instance, involves consideration of materials, making, person-object interactions (including maintenance), as well as the huge fields of colour and pattern. Taste has an enormous literature in both sociology and philosophy. The aim is simply to explore the smaller field in which concern with surface, taste and design overlap: what do designers, or others interested in designed objects, need to know to start thinking about this subject?

Item Type:
Book Section
Date:
June 2016
Schools:
Other Departments > Research & Innovation
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Amy Robinson
Date Deposited:
09 Jun 2017 10:31
Last Modified:
01 Mar 2022 08:46
Kelley, Victoria:
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8392-8108
URI:
https://research.uca.ac.uk/id/eprint/3377

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