Designing Designing
Designing Designing by John Chris Jones, published by Bloomsbury Academic on February 25, 2021, is a comprehensive exploration of design that spans 440 pages. Originally released in 1984 and reprinted in 1991, this edition reflects a decade of the author’s self-critique and experimentation in the field of design writing. The book challenges conventional views by proposing that design should be seen as a response to the entirety of life, rather than merely a product-oriented endeavor.
Readers will find a diverse array of content, including essays, interviews, reflections, and various artistic forms such as plays and poems. This multifaceted approach allows Jones to delve into the complexities of design thinking and the processes involved in creating meaning through design. The work also critiques the methods prevalent in advanced industrial societies, making it a significant contribution to discussions surrounding art, history, and graphic arts.
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designing designing is one of the most extraordinary books on design ever written. First published in 1984 and reprinted with this title and cover in 1991, the book was the product of ten years of auto-critique, reflection and experimentation on writing on designing.
Offering a savage auto-critique of his own work on “methods”, as well as of the wider methods and ends of advanced industrial societies as a whole, this book challenges the traditional product- and progress- orientated focus on design by insisting that the world now coming into being requires designing to be understood as ‘a response to the whole of life.’
But designing designing is also unique in modern design thinking in its exploration of what writing on designing might be. Combining essays, interviews, reflections, performances, plays, poems, chance procedures, photographs, collages and quotes, Jones experiments with both form and content in an attempt to make a book which ‘is not simply about designing but is instead itself an instance of the ideas and processes explored within it.’
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