Design Meets Disability

by Graham Pullin

Book Overview

How design for disabled people and mainstream design could inspire, provoke, and radically change each other.

Eyeglasses have been transformed from medical necessity to fashion accessory. This revolution has come about through embracing the design culture of the fashion industry. Why shouldn't design sensibilities also be applied to hearing aids, prosthetic limbs, and communication aids? In return, disability can provoke radical new directions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262516748
• ISBN13: 9780262516747
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher