Interface

An approach to design

by Gui Bonsiepe


 SUMMARY:  The book provides a compilation of articles that have
           been published in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and
           German.


CONTENTS:
Preface
Introduction
The exotic and interests (1992)
The discomfort of design theory (1997)
Design: from material to digital and back (1992)
The chain of innovation (1993)
The interface design of computer programmes (1990)
The role of visuality: cognitive functions of CD-ROM (1994)
Infodesign: designing information (1993)
Semantic typography (1993)
Visual-verbal rhetoric (1965)
Industrialization without design (1991)
The environment in the North-South conflict (1992)
Aspects of design in the periphery (1991)
Depending the difference (1992)
Cultural identity and otherness (1989)
The invisible aspects of hfg ulm (1994)
The cartography of modernity (1992)
Forms and their purpose (1991)
Through language to design (1986)
Memo on design education in the nineties (1990)
Aesthetic micro-structures (1992)
Some virtues of design (1997)

Softcover, 168 pages
Price: USA $ 15
Published: June 1999
Publisher: Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
ISBN: 90 6617 212 6

Webpages about this book:
http://www.ds.fh-koeln.de/~bonsiepe/buchdeu.html (in German)
http://www.janvaneyck.nl/Pages/pub.des.html