Design Meets Disability

Name: Design Meets Disability
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ISBN: 9780262162555

ISBN-10: 0262162555

ISBN-13: 9780262162555

Edition: 2009

Authors: Graham Pullin

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Eyeglasses have been transformed from medical necessity to fashion accessory. This revolution has come about through embracing the design culture of the fashion industry. Why shouldn't design sensibilities also be applied to hearing aids, prosthetic limbs, and communication aids? In return, disability can provoke radical new directions in mainstream design. Charles and Ray Eames's iconic furniture was inspired by a molded plywood leg splint that they designed for injured and disabled servicemen. Designers today could be similarly inspired by disability. In Design Meets Disability,Graham Pullin shows us how design and disability can inspire each other. In the Eameses' work there was a…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/27/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Graham Pullin is a lecturer in Interactive Media Design at the University of Dundee. He has worked as a senior designer at IDEO, one of the world's leading design consultancies, and at the Bath Institute of Medical Engineering, a prominent rehabilitation engineering center in the United Kingdom. He has received international design awards for design for disability and for mainstream products.