Sifting the Trash: A History of Design Criticism

by Alice Twemlow

How product design criticism has rescued some products from the trash and consigned others to the landfill.

Product design criticism operates at the very brink of the landfill site, salvaging some products with praise but consigning others to its depths through condemnation or indifference. When a designed product's usefulness is past, the public happily discards it to make room for the next new thing. Criticism rarely deals with how a product...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262035987
• ISBN13: 9780262035989
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher