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Author Sassoon, Rosemary.

Title The designer : half a century of change in image, training, and techniques / Rosemary Sassoon.

Publication Info. Bristol : Intellect Books, 2008.

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Description 1 online resource (144 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part 1. Discussion. Introduction -- Chapter 1. -- Changing attitudes, images and terminology -- Chapter 2. -- The neglect of drawing -- Chapter 3. -- Changes in the training of designers -- Part 2. Wider perspectives. Introduction -- Chapter 4. -- Design education in the last fifty years: a personal perspective -- Chapter 5. -- Musings about design -- Chapter 6. -- Reflections on design education in Western Australia during the last quarter of the twentieth century and beyond -- Chapter 7. -- Oven-ready for employment? -- Part 3. By accident or design. Introduction -- Chapter 8. -- Setting out -- Chapter 9. -- Starting real life -- Chapter 10. -- Packaging design -- Chapter 11. -- Branching out -- Chapter 12. -- Writing, teaching, research and typefaces -- Index.
Summary Design is one of the most fast-paced fields in the art world, as professionals, students and teachers must reckon with new technologies before the older versions have much time to collect dust. In The Designer, Rosemary Sassoon surveys fifty years of change in the world of design, evaluating the skills that have been lost, how new techniques affect everyday work, and how training methods prepare students for employment. This indispensable volume reveals how design is both an art and a skill - one with a rich past and momentous relevance for the future. Along the way, Sassoon traces the fascinating trajectory of her career, from its beginning at art school and an early apprenticeship to her work as an established professional, with advice for designers at every stage of their own development. Weaving together biography and career advice, theory and practice, The Designer provides a unique history of the art form and looks ahead to an age of ever-changing attitudes to drawing, aesthetics, and artistic practice.
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Subject Graphic arts -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain.
Graphic arts -- Study and teaching.
Great Britain.
Design -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain.
Design -- Study and teaching.
Graphic arts -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Graphic arts.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Design -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Design.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Sassoon, Rosemary. Designer. Bristol [England] ; Chicago [Ill.] : Intellect, 2008 9781841501956 1841501956 (OCoLC)225875931
ISBN 9781841502304 (electronic book)
1841502308 (electronic book)
9781435653283 (electronic book)
1435653289 (electronic book)
1281442119
9781281442116
1841501956
9781841501956
9781841501956 (paperback)
1841501956 (paperback)
Standard No. 9786611442118