Description:
This book deploys literature to explore the social lives of objects and places.
Review Quotes:
"An unusual and thought-provoking way to approach design studies."
- Elizabeth Guffey, SUNY Purchase
"This is an important and useful addition to the bibliography on contemporary design criticism and thinking. The book presents imaginative ways of thinking about design and, indeed, practising it."
- Guy Julier, University of Brighton/Victoria and Albert Museum
"...The premise of Thinking Design Through Literature is valuable, creative and surprising. ... Literature, like any other form of cultural production such as, for instance, design, should be understood in historical context(s), including their time of writing and the fictional time they occupy. Yelavich shows that those seeking to understand design will benefit from reading literature."
--Journal of Design History