num_pages: 256
description: From posters to cars design is everywhere. While we often discuss the aesthetics of design we don't always dig deeper to unearth the ways design can overtly and covertly convince us of a certain way of thinking. How Design Makes Us Think collects hundreds of examples across graphic design product design industrial design and architecture to illustrate how design can inspire provoke amuse anger or reassure us.Graphic designer Sean Adams walks us through the power of design to attract attention and convey meaning. The book delves into the sociological psychological and historical reasons for our responses to design offering practitioners and clients alike a new appreciation of their responsibility to create design with the best intentions. How Design Makes Us Think is an essential read for designers advertisers marketing professionals and anyone who wants to understand how the design around us makes us think feel and do things.
language: None
title: How Design Makes Us Think: And Feel and Do Things
publisher: Princeton Architectural Press