Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design

by Anthony Dunne

Book Overview

How design can improve the quality of our everyday lives by engaging the invisible electromagnetic environment in which we live.

As our everyday social and cultural experiences are increasingly mediated by electronic products--from "intelligent" toasters to iPods--it is the design of these products that shapes our experience of the "electrosphere" in which we live. Designers of electronic products, writes Anthony Dunne in Hertzian Tales,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262541998
• ISBN13: 9780262541992
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher