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Articles and Papers

The Role and Significance of Design Exhibitions in the History of Industrial Design in Turkey: 1989-2008

Seda Özçetin

By Seda Özçetin 

Unpublished M.S. Thesis, Department of Industrial Design, Middle East Technical University, December 2008

Exhibitions have played a significant role within the dynamics that have been effective in the development of industrial design in the West. Similarly, exhibitions have recently become a significant issue in the history ...

15.12.2008

Understanding Changes and Future Orientations in Design

Orhan Irmak

By Orhan Irmak

A Thesis Submitted to the Deparrtment of Interior Architectureand Environmental Design and the Institute of Fine Arts of Bilkent University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Fine Arts; June, 2003

In this study, future orientations in design are proposed. Futures Studies ...

25.07.2007

The Presentation of Industrial Design in the Popular Media: A Research Study on Popular Home Style Magazines in the Post-1980 Period in Turkey

Özgün Tanglay

By Özgün Tanglay

Unpublished MA Thesis, Department of History of Architecture, Middle East Technical Univarsity, June 2007

This study aims to analyze how industrial design as a profession and discipline has been presented to the public in Turkey. The object of the study is constituted by the popular home style ...

15.06.2007

Industrial Design

The "American system" of mass production, successfully implemented during the mid-1800s, was characterized by the large-scale manufacture of standardized products with interchangeable parts. Much different than the individualized hand craftsmanship which preceded it, this method of production required artificially-powered machine tools and simplified operations, endowing products made from machine production ...
14.01.2004

The profession of industrial design in Turkey: the correspondence between education and practice

Fatma Korkut and Gulay Hasdogan Department of Industrial Design, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

This paper discusses the results of a survey conducted in Turkey to collect data on industrial design graduates' profile and employment history, and to investigate the correspondence between education and practice through a comparative study of ...

31.08.2003

Post-Cubist

How a hip, young, Turkish designer is breaking down the square American office system.
In the fall of 1996, Ayse Birsel came home to find one of those answering-machine messages that fill your spirit with joy and persuade you that your troubles are merely farcical misunderstandings that will soon be ...

11.07.2003

What is Cool?

The question is not, 'what do you think is cool?' The question is, 'what do you think "cool" is?' Cool. A fascinating word! Some designers love it while some hate its very utterance. "Stamp it out! It means transient fashion and trends-nothing to do with innovation." Before you go there ...

11.07.2003

Why Design

Written by Jan Michl. The following text was published in Scandinavian Newsletter [Groningen, Holland] 6/1991.


Perhaps the best way of learning what the phenomenon of design is about is to analyze what goes on in our heads when we buy new things. Why is it that we want our ...
21.06.1991
 
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