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Design for the Real World

by Victor Papanek
🎧 16 min listen Career & Business

Victor Papanek's radical call to design with conscience, not commerce, for the people who need it most.

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Chapter 1 Papanek called industrial design one of the most harmful pro…

Papanek called industrial design one of the most harmful professions ever invented. Most products are designed for the richest 10% and ignore everyone…

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Design for the Real World
Most design exists to sell things to people who don't need
them. Victor Papanek thought that was a moral failure. In
this landmark book, he argues that designers have a
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