Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime, a Musicomic Manifesto

What we make, makes us. This is the central tenet of Artful Design, a photorealistic comic book...
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Author: Ge Wang
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Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime, a Musicomic Manifesto by Wang, Ge

Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime, a Musicomic Manifesto

Dhs. 225.45

Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime, a Musicomic Manifesto

Dhs. 225.45
Author: Ge Wang
Format: Paperback
Language: English

What we make, makes us. This is the central tenet of Artful Design, a photorealistic comic book that examines the nature, purpose, and meaning of design. A call to action and a meditation on art, authenticity, and social connection in a world disrupted by technological change, this book articulates a fundamental principle for design: that we should design not just from practical needs but from the values that underlie those needs.

Artful Design takes readers on a journey through the aesthetic dimensions of technology. Using music as a universal phenomenon that has evolved alongside technology, this book breaks down concrete case studies in computer-mediated toys, tools, games, and instruments, including the best-selling app Ocarina. Every chapter elaborates a set of general design principles and strategies that illuminate the essential relationship between aesthetics and engineering, art and design.

Ge Wang implores us to both embrace and confront technology, not purely as a means to an end, but in its potential to enrich life. Technology is never a neutral agent, but through what we do with it--through what we design with it--it provides a mirror to our human endeavors and values. Artful Design delivers an aesthetic manifesto of technology, accessible yet uncompromising.



Author: Ge Wang
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 09/11/2018
Pages: 488
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 3.05lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781503600522


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/23/2018

About the Author
Ge Wang is a Stanford University Professor of music and computer science. He is a designer of instruments, toys, and games; inventor of the ChucK programming language; and director of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra. Ge was Co-Founder of Smule, a Silicon Valley startup that explores music-making via mobile devices, and designer of Magic Piano and Ocarina, an Apple Hall of Fame App.

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