Design

Intimate Interiors

Sex, Politics, and Material Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Bedroom and Boudoir

Edited by Tara Zanardi & Christopher M. S. Johns Intimate Interiors explores how a desire for privacy in domestic spaces led to interiors taking on more specific roles in the 18th century. It examines the importance of conceptions of intimacy, privacy, and sociability on the 18th-century boudoir and its material culture within a global context. Analyzing issues surrounding gender, politics, exoticism, imperialism, sensorial experiences, and modernity, the book shows how ideas of sociability played an integral role in architectural and material design of the period and emphasizes the ornate materiality and visual culture of these often highly performative "private" spaces.

UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 256 pages • 103 color & 4 bw illus HB 9781350277601 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781350277625 • £81.00 / $112.65 ePdf 9781350277618 • £81.00 / $112.65 Series: Material Culture of Art and Design • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Enlightened Animals in Eighteenth-Century Art

Sensation, Matter, and Knowledge

Sarah R. Cohen, University at Albany, USA Focusing on depictions of animals in eighteenthcentury art, this book studies the ways in which painters such as Chardin, as well as sculptors, porcelain modelers, and other decorative designers portrayed animals as sensing subjects who physically confirmed the value of material experience. Examining writings on sensory knowledge by La Mettre, Condillac, Diderot and other philosophers side by side with depictions of the animal in art, Cohen argues that artists promoted the animal as a sensory subject while also validating the material basis of their own professional practice.

UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 256 pages • 10 colour and 83 bw illus PB 9781350203624 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781350203587 ePub 9781350203600 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350203594 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Material Culture of Art and Design • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Moving Objects

A Cultural History of Emotive Design

Damon Taylor, University of Brighton, UK Moving Objects deals with emotive design: designed objects that demand to be engaged with rather than simply used. If postmodernism depended upon ironic distance, and Critical Design is all about questions, then emotive design runs hotter than this, confronting how designers are using feelings in what they make. This original study considers emotionally laden, highly authored works, often produced in limited editions and sold like art – objects such as a chair made from cuddly toys, a leather sofa that resembles a cow, and a jewellery box fashioned from human hair.

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 248 pages • 50 bw illus PB 9781350360006 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781350088610 ePub 9781350088627 • £81.00 / $112.65 ePdf 9781350088634 • £81.00 / $112.65 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Georges Rouault and Material Imagining

Jennifer Johnson, University of Oxford, UK Described as a difficult and dark painter, Georges Rouault’s oeuvre is deeply experimental. Images of the circus emerge from a plethora of chaotic marks, while landscapes appear as if ossified in thick paint. Georges Rouault and Material Imagining approaches Rouault in relation to contemporary theories about making and material, examining how Rouault’s oeuvre constructs a ‘material consciousness’ that departs from other modern painters. Ultimately, the process of making is revealed as both a search for understanding and a response to the problematic world of the 20th century.

UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 216 pages • 14 colour and 49 bw illus PB 9781350213814 • £21.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781501346095 ePub 9781501346101 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501346118 • £79.34 / $108.00 Series: Material Culture of Art and Design • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

The Material Culture of Tableware

Staffordshire Pottery and American Values

Jeanne Morgan Zarucchi, Professor of Art History, University Missouri-St Louis, USA This is a fascinating and authoritative study of patterned tableware in the USA. It undertakes a visual analysis of Johnson Brothers patterns of tableware pottery, with reference to comparable designs by other British companies, such as Spode and Adams. It examines how this practical genre reflected the aesthetic values, sense of identity and aspirations of American consumers, and how tableware designs reflected the cultural developments of American society during the 20th century. From status-seeking 1890s beaux-arts patterns and the nostalgic historical scenes of the 1930s, to whimsical 1960s patterns and contemporary 1970s motifs, it tells a compelling story about who 20th-century middle-class Americans were and wanted to be.

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 200 pages • 64 colour and 30 bw illus PB 9781350359925 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781350041271 ePub 9781350041264 • £90.00 / $125.02 ePdf 9781350041288 • £90.00 / $125.02 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Key Concepts and Skills for Making Sense in a Changing World

Sheila Pontis, Princeton University, USA & Michael Babwahsingh, Sense Information Design, USA A holistic view of information design, synthesizing decades of research, cross-disciplinary knowledge, and emerging practices. The book opens by laying a foundation of the field, then transitions from context to practice. A discussion of the various roles information designers play and how they work sets the stage for the information design process. Chapters then delve into each process step, from problem definition to design and evaluation. The final section of the book puts everything together, with detailed project walk-throughs in areas such as icon design, visual explanations, wayfinding, websites and apps.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 272 pages • 200 colour illus PB 9781350054134 • £29.99 / $39.95 ePub 9781350054158 • £26.99 / $37.08 ePdf 9781350054141 • £26.99 / $37.08 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

After Universal Design

The Disability Design Revolution

Edited by Elizabeth Guffey, State University of New York, Purchase College, USA How might we develop products made with and by disabled users rather than for them? Could we change living and working spaces to make them accessible rather than designing products that "fix" disabilities? How can we grow our capabilities to make designs more “bespoke” to each individual? After Universal Design brings together scholars, practitioners, and disabled users and makers to consider these questions and to argue for the necessity of a new user-centered design.

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 224 pages • 23 bw illus PB 9781350241503 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350241510 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350241527 • £19.79 / $27.47 ePdf 9781350241534 • £19.79 / $27.47 Bloomsbury Visual Arts Understanding How Designers Think and Work

Nigel Cross Nigel Cross, one of design’s foremost scholars, explores through observation, analysis and reflection the often enigmatic elements of design thinking. This new edition expands on the previous book with more emphasis on teamwork and co-design, a new glossary and updated and expanded case studies.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 224 pages • 55 bw illus PB 9781350305069 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781350305021 • £55.00 / $75.00 ePub 9781350305076 • £16.19 / $23.34 ePdf 9781350305083 • £16.19 / $23.34 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Designing Cultures of Care

Edited by Laurene Vaughan, RMIT University, Australia Unique in its focus and disciplinary diversity, this volume of essays develops an expanded discourse on the role and contribution of design to broader social, cultural and material challenges. Based around a unifying critique of the proposition of care as a theoretical framework for undertaking design research in real world contexts, each chapter presents a case study of design research in action. Authors provide insights into the possibilities and challenges of designing cultures of care and offer perspectives from architecture, visual communication, participatory and social design, service design, critical and speculative design interventions and design ethnography.

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 264 pages • 57 bw illus PB 9781350353534 • £27.99 / $37.95 Previously published in HB 9781350055384 ePub 9781350055360 • £85.50 / $118.15 ePdf 9781350055377 • £85.50 / $118.15 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Edited by Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, Purdue University, USA, Victoria Rose Pass, Maryland Institute College of Art, USA & Christopher Wilson, Ringling College of Art and Design, USA This book explores a diverse selection of objects, spaces and media, ranging from high design to mass-produced and mass-marketed objects, as well as countercultural and sub-cultural material, and subverts the hierarchies of taste which have dominated traditional narratives of design history. Chapters highlight the often marginalized role of gender and racial identity in the production and consumption of design, the politics which underpins design practice and the role of designed objects as pathways of nostalgia and cultural memory. Organized into thematic sections, this book stretches beyond the traditional canon and looks to interdisciplinary methodologies to better understand the practice and consumption of design.

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 272 pages • 93 bw illus PB 9781350353473 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781350051584 ePub 9781350051591 • £85.50 / $118.15 ePdf 9781350051607 • £85.50 / $118.15 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Design, History and Time

New Temporalities in a Digital Age

Edited by Zoë Hendon, Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, Middlesex University, UK & Anne Massey, University for the Creative Arts, UK Brings together international scholars to address the nature of time in relation to crafts, design and architecture, in both historical and contemporary contexts. The contributors consider design practices in which time is key, the nature of memory and forgetting in relation to design, and the design of things that depend upon the passing of time, such as heritage and the archive.

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 216 pages • 45 b/w illustrations PB 9781350359918 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781350060654 ePub 9781350060661 • £85.50 / $118.15 ePdf 9781350060678 • £85.50 / $118.15 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Craft is Political

D Wood, Independent Scholar, Canada Throughout the 21st century, craft practices have garnered significant attention across the West, which these essays argue is a direct response to and critique of the economic, social and technological contexts in which we live. Just as Ruskin and Morris viewed craft and its ethos in the 1800s as a political opposition to the Industrial Revolution, Craft is Political contends that current craft activities are politically saturated when perspectives from the Global South, Indigenous ideology and even Western government policy are examined. Case studies consider craft and design in Turkey, craft markets in New Zealand, Indigenous practitioners in Taiwan and Finnish craft education.

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 280 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781350359949 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781350122260 ePub 9781350122277 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350122284 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Visual Arts Senezh Studio and the Communist Surround

Tom Cubbin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden This book explores the socialist design practice of ‘artistic projecteering’, which was developed by the USSR’s Senezh Experimental Studio in the 1960s. Tom Cubbin examines the studio as a site for the development of the design discipline and explores how designers adapted to the new realities of the Soviet Union, working on critical projects that highlighted how the state’s treatment of citizens, urban heritage and the environment was manifest in daily life. Drawing on extensive interviews and visual material, this book provides an insight into the creative strategies of designers and argues that artistic projecteering must be read as a utopian activity which privileged the political and ideological over the functional.

UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 248 pages • 48 bw illustrations PB 9781350353480 • £27.99 / $37.95 Previously published in HB 9781350021990 ePub 9781350021983 • £85.50 / $118.15 ePdf 9781350021976 • £85.50 / $118.15 Series: Cultural Histories of Design • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Craft Economies

Edited by Susan Luckman, University of South Australia, Australia & Nicola Thomas, University of Exeter, UK Craft Economies provides a wide-ranging exploration of contemporary craft production, situating practices of amateur and professional making within a wider creative economy. Contributors address a diverse range of practices, sites and forms of making in a wide range of regional and national contexts, from floristry to ceramics and from crochet to coding. The volume considers the role of digital practices of making and the impact of the maker's movement as part of larger trends around customization, ondemand production, and the possibilities of 3D printing and digital manufacturing.

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 248 pages • 30 bw illus PB 9781350353404 • £26.99 / $36.95 Previously published in HB 9781474259538 ePub 9781474259569 • £90.00 / $125.02 ePdf 9781474259552 • £90.00 / $125.02 Bloomsbury Visual Arts