Design for Transport: A User-Centred Approach to Vehicle Design and Travel - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1409433250 ISBN 13: 9781409433255

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2012

Riassunto

The central premise of Design for Transport is that the designer's role is to approach design for transport from the point of view of the user. People have a collection of wants and needs and a significant proportion of them are to do with their requirements for mobility. The authors show how creative designers can take a user-focused approach for a wide range of types of transport products and systems. In so doing their starting point is one of creative dissatisfaction with what is currently available, and their specialist capability is in imagining and developing new solutions which respond to that opportunity. How this is tackled varies depending on the context, and the variety of solutions produced reflects the different aspirations and needs of the people they are designing for. The chapters cover user needs and transport, design and the transport system, transport design case studies, and the case for the automobile. A conclusion briefly signals what the future for transport design might be. Lavishly illustrated throughout in four-colour, Design for Transport, is an imaginative and rigorous guide to how designers can take a user-centred and socially responsible approach to tackling a range of types of transport, from systems to products and from bicycles to automobiles, demonstrating a rich array of solutions through case studies.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Michael Tovey is Professor of Industrial Design at Coventry University. He was responsible for the establishment and development of transport design. This has now achieved international prominence and centre of excellence status. He was Dean of the Coventry School of Art and Design for 18 years. He pioneered design research, contributing publications and holding a number of research council grants.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1409433250
• ISBN 13: 9781409433255
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 406
• Redattore: Tovey Mike
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania