choice of texts
I am going to choose 5 or so design writers... and critically analyse them. Look at the implications of their writing to Communication Design practice (a lot of them come out of Industrial Design or Architecture, or do not actually practice).
This critical review will form the start of this, my doctoral research project.
I have a list of writers to choose from, my shortlist needs to have certain characteristics:
- writings on communication design (or applicable to comm design)
- fairly recent theory - no, second thoughts, this is not important, and it may be better to go back to first principles
- seminal texts or key texts (OK if this is just for me, not everybody)
- contrasting opinions... will help to define the 'gap' for my own doctoral research
- theoretical writings, or writings which can be applied to design theory and thence back into practice
- by non-practitioners... and by practitioners
list at the moment is:
Buchanon
Margolin
Krippendorf
Dilnot
Schon
Baudrillard
Manzini
Rosenberg
Mason
Virillio
Barthes
and it's just started
next is, why am I looking at these writers and what do I want to get out of them?