Manufactured pleasures : psychological responses to design
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Manufactured pleasures : psychological responses to design
（Studies in design and material culture）
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1994
- : hardback
- : paperback
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-175) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"Manufactured Pleasures" examines the area of our psychological resonses to everyday objects and the environment in which we live, covering issues of good and bad taste, sexuality and gender. This book, which covers a wide range of examples, including Madonna and Simone de Beauvoir, cities and architecture, the home, landscape, pornography and fetishism, cars and fashion, aims to provide an accessible introduction to the psychology of responses to design.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: psychological responses to design
- psychological explanations. Part 1 Nature or culture?: biological explanations
- preferences for landscape
- personal spaces. Part 2 Form and design: formal laws of beauty
- the good gestalt
- complexity and familiarity - Berlyne's theory. Part 3 Meaning and design: meaning and emotion
- the unconscious meanings of objects
- the classification of meanings
- objects as symbols of the self. Part 4 Function and design: ergonomics and the effectiveness of design
- making sense of visual displays
- communicating with the computer. Part 5 Form, meaning, function: colour
- multi-model perception
- form, meaning and function
- conclusions.
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