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This book tells the story of critical avant-garde design in Japan, which emerged during the 1960s and continues to inspire designers today. The practice communicates a form of visual and material protest drawing on the ideologies and critical theories of the 1960s and 1970s, notably feminism, body politics, the politics of identity, and ecological, anti-consumerist and anti-institutional critiques, as well as the concept of otherness. It also presents an encounter between two seemingly contradictory concepts: luxury and the avant-garde. The book challenges the definition of design as the production of unnecessary decorative and conceptual objects, and the characterisation of Japanese design in particular as beautiful, sublime or a product of 'Japanese culture'. In doing so it reveals the ways in which material and visual culture serve to voice protest and formulate a social critique.

Design --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Material culture --- Avant-garde. --- Comme des Garçons. --- Critical design. --- Digital design. --- Japan. --- Material culture. --- Mujirushi Ryohin. --- Postmodern design. --- Social design. --- Visual culture.

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World Wide Web --- Web sites --- Web site development industry --- Internet industry --- History. --- 24 Hours in Cyberspace. --- Flahs. --- Flash. --- IPO. --- Macromedia. --- Netscape. --- New Economy. --- UX. --- Virtual Reality (VR). --- Web 1.0. --- Web 2.0. --- World Wide Web. --- authoring software. --- commercial internet. --- commercial web. --- commercial websites. --- conjunctural analysis. --- cool site of day. --- critical design. --- cultural industry. --- cyberspace. --- displacement. --- dot-com boom. --- dot-com bubble. --- dot-com. --- e-commerce. --- information superhighway. --- interactive web. --- internet industry. --- media industries. --- media studies. --- mergers and acquisitions. --- new media. --- platform. --- production studies. --- rich internet applications. --- social media. --- user experience. --- user-generated content. --- web design. --- web history. --- website.

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A history of design that is often overlooked—until we need itHave you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used an ergonomic kitchen tool? Have you ever used curb cuts to roll a stroller across an intersection? If you have, then you’ve benefited from accessible design—design for people with physical, sensory, and cognitive disabilities. These ubiquitous touchstones of modern life were once anything but. Disability advocates fought tirelessly to ensure that the needs of people with disabilities became a standard part of public design thinking. That fight took many forms worldwide, but in the United States it became a civil rights issue; activists used design to make an argument about the place of people with disabilities in public life.In the aftermath of World War II, with injured veterans returning home and the polio epidemic reaching the Oval Office, the needs of people with disabilities came forcibly into the public eye as they never had before. The US became the first country to enact federal accessibility laws, beginning with the Architectural Barriers Act in 1968 and continuing through the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, bringing about a wholesale rethinking of our built environment. This progression wasn’t straightforward or easy. Early legislation and design efforts were often haphazard or poorly implemented, with decidedly mixed results. Political resistance to accommodating the needs of people with disabilities was strong; so, too, was resistance among architectural and industrial designers, for whom accessible design wasn’t “real” design.Bess Williamson provides an extraordinary look at everyday design, marrying accessibility with aesthetic, to provide an insight into a world in which we are all active participants, but often passive onlookers. Richly detailed, with stories of politics and innovation, Williamson’s Accessible America takes us through this important history, showing how American ideas of individualism and rights came to shape the material world, often with unexpected consequences.

Barrier-free design --- People with disabilities --- Universal design --- History. --- American National Standards Institute. --- Americans with Disabilities Act. --- Berkeley. --- Cuisinarts, Inc. --- Disability Rights movement. --- Disability Rights. --- GI Bill. --- Howard K. Rusk. --- Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. --- OXO Good Grips. --- People’s Park. --- Raymond Lifchez. --- Rolling Quads. --- Ronald K. Mace. --- Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act. --- Timothy J. Nugent. --- Toomey J Gazette. --- Universal Design. --- University of California. --- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. --- World War II. --- access. --- accessible design. --- activism. --- architecture. --- assistive devices. --- assistive technology. --- athletic design. --- automobiles. --- civil rights. --- contemporary design. --- critical design. --- curb cuts. --- design history. --- design. --- disabled veterans. --- home renovation. --- housing. --- inclusion. --- industrial design. --- material culture. --- polio. --- prosthetics. --- public transportation. --- rehabilitation medicine. --- rehabilitation. --- sidewalks. --- technology. --- urban design. --- wheelchair access.