Routledge Research in Design Studies
About the Book Series
Routledge Research in Design Studies is a new series focusing on the study of design and its effects using analytical and practical methods of inquiry. Proposals for monographs and edited collections on this topic are welcomed.
Towards a Cognitivist Understanding of Communication Design
1st Edition
By Phil Jones
June 12, 2024
This book demonstrates the relevance and importance of cognitive linguistics when applied to the analysis and practice of graphic design/communication design. Phil Jones brings together a diverse range of theory and organizes it in accordance with different stages in the design process. Using ...
The Ontology of Design Research
1st Edition
By Miguel Ángel Herrera Batista
January 09, 2023
This book seeks to establish the meaning of design research, its role in the field, and the characteristics that differentiate research in design from research in other fields. The author introduces a model to explain the relationship between the components of the ontological reality of design: the...
Design and Political Dissent: Spaces, Visuals, Materialities
1st Edition
Edited
By Jilly Traganou
August 01, 2022
This book examines, through an interdisciplinary lens, the relationship between political dissent and processes of designing. In the past twenty years, theorists of social movements have noted a diversity of visual and performative manifestations taking place in protest, while the fields of design,...
Storytelling in Luxury Fashion: Brands, Visual Cultures, and Technologies
1st Edition
Edited
By Amanda Sikarskie
May 30, 2022
This book examines the ways in which luxury fashion brands use their heritage in their digital storytelling and marketing. With chapters from authors in China and Macau (PRC), India, Romania, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States, covering British, Chinese, French, Japanese, Indian, ...
Contemporary Processes of Text Typeface Design
1st Edition
By Michael Harkins
May 28, 2020
This book addresses the paucity of published research specifically dealing with knowledge of text typeface design processes. Dr Michael Harkins uses a Grounded Theory Methodology to render a tripartite theory resulting in explanation and description of the processes of text typeface design based ...
Labor and Creativity in New York’s Global Fashion Industry
1st Edition
By Christina H. Moon
February 25, 2020
This book tells the story of fashion workers engaged in the labor of design and the material making of New York fashion. Christina H. Moon offers an illuminating ethnography into the various sites and practices that make up fashion labor in sample rooms, design studios, runways, factories, and...